Better Than It Sounds / Video Games: D to F

Ah, video games. No other media allows Refuge in Audacity so often. And most of the time it works.

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• D: A woman has two hours to kill her father before her pocketwatch eats her.
  • Enemy Zero: Alien if it starred the woman.
  • D2: The Thing (1982) if it starred the woman. But it almost starred her son.
• Daemon X Machina: Hyper-advanced A.I. designed for logistics quits its job and decides to kill humans after smelling something nasty. Humans express their displeasure with Mini-Mecha.
• DanceDanceRevolution: You stomp in time to music and receive very corny compliments if you do well.
• Danganronpa:
  • Danganronpa: Trigger Happy Havoc:
    • A group of high school students are imprisoned inside of a school. The only way to graduate is by killing a fellow student and getting away with it. The principal of the school is an evil teddy bear.
    • Alternatively: Class of super-talented high schoolers experience extreme danger in their efforts to leave school.
    • Alternatively alternatively, A prestigious college tries to make itself look better by randomly selecting a poor kid to join its ranks. This leads to several murders.
    • School Mode: The students go on dates while building robots for the evil teddy bear via a management-heavy version of Minecraft. Their results are exactly what you'd expect from high schoolers trying to build advanced robots.
  • Danganronpa 2: Goodbye Despair:
    • Same as above, but on an ISLAND.
    • Island Mode: Same as above, only instead of death and despair, there's dates and Minecraft if it were a management game.
  • Danganronpa Another Episode: Ultra Despair Girls: A bunch of kids with sympathetic backstories are involved the weirdest and darkest game of Monster Hunter ever.
  • Danganronpa V3: Killing Harmony:
    • Same as the first two games, but in PRISON.
    • Love Across the Universe: Dangan Salmon Team: Realising everyone just plays the What If? modes for shipping material, the students are free to date each other without the Minecraft sim showing up.
• Dangun Feveron: A disco-themed Shoot 'Em Up with a secret playable cat. Also the bullets are fast this time around.
• Dante's Inferno: The Love Interest has been kidnapped by Satan! Are you a bad enough Renaissance poet to rescue the Love Interest?
  • Or: After cheating on your girlfriend she tells you to go to Hell. So you do.
• Darius: Mechanical marine life is attacking a planet.
• Dark Castle: A man prone to tripping over ledges confronts an Evil Overlord, who hurls mugs of substandard beer in his general direction.
• Dark Cloud: An ancient evil is let out of its jar and is ending the world, and the only people who can stop it are a race of bunnies who live on the moon. A boy and his cat set out to find them, rearranging cities into more convenient configurations for the residents as they go.
  • Dark Cloud 2: Another ancient evil in the form of a cute fluffy bunny is tampering with the past to destroy the future, so a mama's boy whose never left his home town before and a princess from the future who both possess magic stones have to stop him.
• Dark Messiah of Might and Magic: A magical trickster kicks orcs off to their falling deaths on his way to a powerful artifact.
• Darkest Dungeon: An heir to a family estate has to deal with the fallout of the previous tenant's very bad behavior. His specter, however, hangs around to constantly chastise or praise your performance.
  • Alternatively: A greedy and hedonistic old man accidentally a portal of otherwordly horrors. Now it's your problem to deal with.
• Dark Forces: Some guy is responsible for letting Luke Skywalker blow up the Death Star. This guy also did a lot of other stuff you've never even heard of, most of which involved shooting tons of stupid people.
  • Jedi Knight: Dark Forces II: The guy in question, surprise surprise, turns out to be a Jedi, and has to kill the seven Dark Jedi that killed his father. Stop me if this sounds familiar.
    • Jedi Knight: Mysteries Of The Sith The guy gets himself in serious trouble, and Luke Skywalker's future wife has to bail him out. She brings her friend back from The Dark Side by not fighting him. How original.
  • Jedi Knight II: Jedi Outcast: The guy decides he wants to be a Jedi again, because hey, what better way to get revenge for a loved one's death than the Force? I wonder how that works out for him.
  • Jedi Knight: Jedi Academy: The guy's apprentices squabble and go hunting for people worshipping a dead guy. In months they become more badass than he ever was.
• Darklands: Four random people group together to wander aimlessly around 15th-century Europe, and they may or may not end up defeating the devil.
• darkSector: You throw a lethal piece of your body at your enemies. Like a boomerang. May or may not be related to space ninjas in the future.
• Dark Seed: A man has to deal with a headache which comes as a result from him realising how horrible his new house (which he apparently never even looked at before buying) truly is.
  • Dark Seed II: Twin Peaks: The Videogame. Actually, Worse than it Sounds.
    • Alternately: A man gets swept up in an investigation into his high school girlfriend's death. Along the way he cheats at basic carnival games, learns his girlfriend had relations with everyone in town except for him, and has everything explained to him.
• Darksiders: A swordsman, framed for a crime he didn't commit, must battle waves of enemies and solve environmental puzzles to clear his name.
  • Or: Said swordsman has to clear his name because the Apocalypse didn't file the right paperwork.
  • Darksiders II: The swordsman's brother must battle waves of enemies and solve environmental puzzles to find out what really happened to the swordsman... and to clear the swordsman's name.
• Dark Souls: Most of the people in this game are undead. Even you. And this game is absurdly difficult.
  • Alternatively: A man murders the esteemed rulers of a nation to start a fire.
  • Alternatively: A sentient zombie goes on an epic journey to set themselves on fire, but might decide not to after all.
  • Dark Souls II: Some time in the future of the previous game (maybe, time is weird) another sentient zombie goes on an epic journey to light some fires so they can discover the mysteries behind why a large fire was lit.
  • Dark Souls III: It's the end of the world as we know it, and it's up to you to force a squadron of psychotic zealots, a gloomy old guy, a hallucinating cannibal who is worshiped by a cult, and a emo teenage boy who ran away with his older brother to set themselves on fire.
    • Ashes of Ariandel: A sentient zombie goes into a painting with intent to light it on fire from the inside.
    • The Ringed City: A sentient zombie goes to a forgotten city at the end of time looking for a man who is seeking a McGuffin. It turns out the McGuffin was inside him all along, so the zombie kills him.
• Darkstalkers: Public domain monster movie characters battle each other, a perpetually-burning alien, and a demon who attacks by cutting himself.
• Darwinia: A computer scientist's games console is a huge flop, so he networks them all together to make a virtual world. When it gets a virus, you lead the inhabitants in war. They die in droves, but you collect their souls to resurrect them.
• Dave the Diver: A portly beach bum is roped into being the supplier/maitre d' of a sushi bar. Despite making the place a five-star success, beating up sea monsters and ecoterrorists, and discovering a lost civilization, he gets no respect.
• Dead by Daylight: Work together to avoid being sacrificed to a giant space spider. Or try to sacrifice your friends to the giant space spider.
  • Or: An Eldritch Abomination kidnaps several people and serial killers including those from video games and movies for the deadliest game of Cat and Mouse ever made.
• Dead or Alive: Bouncy females (and some guys, too) fight to stop a corporation from creating a Super-Soldier.
  • Dead or Alive Xtreme: The girls go to an island, play games and give each other gifts.
• Dead Rising: Journalist who likes to boast that he's covered wars gets locked in a shopping mall for 72 hours, and passes the time by killing angry people with nearly anything he can pick up and thwarting a government conspiracy.
  • Alternatively, wasps sting people and make them very hungry.
  • Or: A journalist spends 72 hours killing zombies with various items while wearing a dress. Rumor has it the game actually has a plot.
• Dead Rising 2: A gameshow contestant takes the fall for a criminal, and works out his frustration by killing everyone around him and gambling to buy shots for his underage daughter.
• Dead Rising 3: A mechanic, frustrated with his living situation, takes it out on the local populace with extreme violence. It turns out he was instrumental to a terrorist plot the entire time.
• Dead Space: A repairman is attacked when he comes to fix the interstellar phone.
  • Dead Space 2: A schizophrenic space janitor tries to cleanse himself and others around him of the next evolutionary step of thetans, using improvised means.
  • Dead Space 3: Said engineer is recruited to go on a sightseeing tour of the planet where the whole catastrophe started, only to discover that the grand tour has been shut down for two-hundred years.
• Dead to Rights: In one of the greatest Sin City stories Frank Miller never wrote, a loose cannon ex-cop and his dog look for the murderer of the ex-cop's father. Brings down international crime ring.
  • Or: with his dog in tow, a man pays for his father's investigative meddling by escaping from a high-security prison, killing several policemen and politicians, then dismantling infrastructure-based labour unions and suggesting they take up their grievances with city hall. Also for some reason there are clowns.
  • Or: A police officer learns the hard way not to trust strippers.
  • Dead to Rights: Reckoning: A cop delivers street justice while reminding criminals of his name emphatically.
  • Dead to Rights: Retribution: A man is praised for his competence by people who have never seen him on the job.
• Deadly Creatures: Two brothers bicker over a hidden treasure. Instead of playing as either of them, you follow the everyday lives of a tarantula and a scorpion living in an American desert.
• Deadly Premonition: Man who talks to coffee embarks on a quest to stop trees from growing in a country town. Along the way he eats a cornflake, jam and turkey sandwich on the FBI's dollar and shoots some locals.
• Deadly Rooms of Death: A game where nothing moves unless you do, and everything has a predictable behavior with no randomness. Most of the game involves stabbing giant bugs.
  • King Dugans Dungeon: King hires exterminator to go into the dungeon and stab giant bugs.
  • Journey To Rooted Hold: Exterminator and his nephew return to dungeon to figure out why the giant bugs came back. Exterminator stabs giant bugs.
  • The City Beneath: Exterminator infiltrates the Evil Empire in order to Get back his nephew who joined them. Exterminator has to stab giant bugs just to get around.
  • Gunthro And The Epic Blunder: Exterminator's grandfather starts a war and fights in it by stabbing giant bugs, despite the war not being against the giant bugs.
  • The Second Sky: Exterminator gets mixed up in Time Travel while stabbing giant bugs in an attempt to stop a baby from rolling over in her sleep. After returning to his own time by stabbing giant bugs, he stabs more giant bugs in order to stop an Obstructive Bureaucrat from saving people's lives.
  • DROD RPG Tendry's Tale: The lone survivor of a war returns home, only to find that the enemy is kidnapping everyone in his hometown. Despite this game being a completely different genre from the rest, it still mostly involves stabbing giant bugs.
• Deadly Towers: A prince decides to save the world without actually doing anything worthwhile to prepare himself for it. Most of his enemies are bouncing balls and amorphous blobs.
• Dear Esther: A man walks across an island. There are no puzzles, enemies, or other characters.
• Death end re;Quest: Programmer is isekaied into unfinished MMO she helped make; ends up in absurd power struggle between a cult, people who can rewrite reality, and sentient AI. She and fellow programmer dodges more Bad Ends than you can shake a Visual Novel at.
  • Death end re;Quest 2: A creepy teenage girl goes to a boarding school in a town that turns into a hellscape (that looks suspiciously similar to the aforementioned unfinished MMO) at night. Everyone's parents die a horrible death.
    • Or: Person summons a demon by killing and reanimating children in incredibly gruesome ways because they really hate their sister's crush.
• Death Road to Canada: A bunch of strangers go on a terrible road trip.
  • Familiar Characters Mode: Your custom characters go on a terrible road trip.
• Death Smiles: Teenagers use artillery to stop the wrongdoings of a friend's abusive father. The Hero is the weakest character in the game.
  • Deathsmiles II: Teenagers save Christmas from not-quite Santa Claus.
• DeathSpank : Lantern-jawed Idiot Hero fights evil in his underwear.
• Death Stranding: A local postman travels the country with a baby, dodges physics breaking rain, evil ink, and goes to California at the behest of his mother, the President of the United States.
  • Alternatively: In a world where the boundary between life and death has shattered and abominations walk the earth... you play as the mailman.
• de Blob: A ball of paint must recolour an entire city in order to save it from a dictatorship and their army of ink blots and giant pens.
  • The object of the game is pretty much just to touch everything.
  • Guerrilla warrior fights Black-and-White Morality by rubbing his face on every available surface.
  • Four anarchists overthrow the world's biggest corporation because they won't let anyone party.
  • Is to colouring books what Minecraft is to Lego. If the hoverbikes don't get you, the jump controls will.
• Deception: You're told to bring Satan to this realm by killing people, but you can only be bothered to do so by being passive-aggressive.
• Deemo: Help a girl leave a castle through the ceiling with the power of piano playing.
• Deep Rock Galactic: Four stereotypical dwarves have a rough day at the mines.
• Deep Sleep Trilogy: Featureless Protagonist is chased by dark figures with two white pixels.
• Def Jam Vendetta: A wrestling game. With rappers.
  • Def Jam: Fight for NY: Fight Club. With rappers and Danny Trejo.
• DEFCON: You play your part in conducting an unhurried nuclear holocaust depicted in simple wireframe graphics. Try to lose least. Would you like to play a game?
• Defender of the Crown: In an effort to recover a stolen artifact, you conquer England. And then it's revealed that a thief took it.
• Déjà Vu (1985): You wake up in a bathroom and can't remember what happened last night.
• Deltarune: Teenagers are assaulted by chess pieces.
  • Deltarune Chapter 1: A mute human and an anthropomorphic dinosaur fall down a hole, in which they meet a Snufkin cosplayer, experience racism, fight counters, and then get to go home.
  • Deltarune Chapter 2: Instead of fighting, the kids recruit more people, including but not limited to a deer and the Twitter bird, to recreate Animal Crossing.
• Delve Deeper: Colorfully-dressed dwarves who can only dig in six directions go treasure-hunting, beating the crap out of anyone who gets in the way (including each other).
• Dementium: The Ward: A man who's just had a successful session of psychotherapy has to find his own way out of a hospital because the staff are busy dealing with some newfangled-type disease.
• DemonCrawl: Minesweeper: Roguelike Edition.
• Demon's Souls: You die, and then the game becomes harder.
• Dengeki Bunko: Fighting Climax: The human form of a Dreamcast summons among others Rie Kugimiya on fire, a Happily Married MMORPG couple, a cosplay fanatic, an electric tsundere, Rie Kugimiya beating a non-delinquent, the strongest man in Ikebukuro, a gamer girl with a butterfly motif, a vampire hunter in love with a vampire and a gun wielding defender to fight an evil entity on several Sega games until he takes the form of either Sega's answer to Street Fighter's Ryu or a big-breasted human atom bomb.
• Dengeki Gakuen RPG: Cross of Venus: You and your BFS join forces with Rie Kugimiya on fire, an emotionless girl, a travelling girl, a nun girl, an otaku girl, a psychotic angel girl, Rie Kugimiya beating up a non-delinquent, and a ghost girl to save Japanese literature.
• Derrick the Deathfin: A shark made of paper goes on a rampage and tries to eat everything in sight.
• Desert Moon: Engineers stranded on a desert planet wait for rescue. Some aliens and zombies are involved.
• Destiny of the Doctors: It's up to a kludged robot who Casts From Hit Points to save the Oncoming Storm.
• Destroy All Humans!: A little gray man and Invader Zim steal people's brains and generally cause trouble in The '50s. The government tries to hush it up in increasingly desperate ways.
  • Destroy All Humans! 2: A little gray man who happens to be the president of the United states and Invader Zim, who happens to be dead, fight Dirty Communists and Crab People in The '60s.
  • Destroy All Humans! Path of the Furon: A little green gray man, who is no longer president, and Invader Zim, who is still dead, become the Unwitting Pawns to an exile's plan to depose their rotting alien emperor in The '70s.
• Detroit: Become Human: In the future, androids are real and purchaseable. One abducts a child, another investigates rogue androids, and the third instigates a revolution.
  • Watch both Blade Runner movies simultaneously in a single video game experience. Now featuring 100% less grimy future.
• Deus Ex: A man wears sunglasses at night, so he can fight crime. Then the government. Then conspiracy nuts.
  • Deus Ex: Invisible War: A person who doesn't know their last name gets their classes cancelled, and ends up dealing with how their dad kinda broke the world.
  • Deus Ex: Human Revolution: Before the other two games, a disabled man wearing sunglasses never asked for this game.
    • Alt: Guy shoots you in your face. Find out who shot you in your face.
• Devil Daggers: You rapidly toss bladed pointy things at skulls with your hand until you die. Very few people would be able to last at least 8 minutes of such onslaught.
• Devil May Cry:
  • Devil May Cry: Son of a demon kicks Satan's ass with style and confesses a desire to fill a soul WITH LIGHT.
  • Devil May Cry 2: Son of a demon kicks more ass. Strange girl shows up. A Corrupt Corporate Executive is involved. None of it makes any sense.
  • Devil May Cry 3: Dante's Awakening: Guy who eats pizza in slo-mo gets his shop ruined and goes after his Evil Twin who did it, climbing a "thick shaft that causes women to shudder" in the process. They are forced to team up against a bald guy with heterochromia who turns into a blob through their father's power. The Evil Twin falls off a cliff.
  • Devil May Cry 4: Pope-lookalike gets headshot and his underlings must find the murderer. Only it turns out that the murderer might have had good reason for doing so... oh, and the new character you play may be said murderer's nephew.
  • DmC: Devil May Cry: Because the above game totally needed to be re-imagined in the Modern Day Occult genre.
  • Devil May Cry 5: A man gains power by stabbing himself with his own sword and tries to prevent a demon from conquering the world by eating a fruit. This leads to an amputee reconnecting with his long-lost father.
    • Or: A punk, a goth and a metalhead go on a roadtrip to fight a giant demon tree.
    • An angry Club Punk Millennial and his goth friend helps his metalhead uncle cut down a tree and unexpectedly runs into his deadbeat emo rock father.
• Diablo: Defeat the Sealed Evil in a Can so you can jam a sharp glass shard into your face.
  • Diablo II: Defeat the hero from the last game, who became the Sealed Evil in a Can by jamming the sharp glass shard into his face. This involves travelling all around the world and killing loads of stuff.
    • Diablo II: Lord of Destruction: Defeat the Sealed Evil in a Can's brother who you totally forgot about at the end of the last game.
  • Diablo III: A man resigns from his job to help a collection of wandering badasses use a chunk of rock to fight The Legions of Hell. Along the way they rob body parts from graves, beat up a mouthy child, and set a whole bunch of things on fire.
  • Diablo IV: Two demagogues try to convince as many people as possible they're good while the other is an evil virus of satan. Featureless Protagonist stumbles into this conondrum by accident and with a help of a Jaded Professional, tries to stop only one of them by jamming a sharp glass shard into her face. The real Satanic Archetype then Wins by Doing Absolutely Nothing.
• Dicey Dungeons: A roguelike with RNG so absurdly blatant that you have to manipulate it if you want to get anywhere.
• Diddy Kong Racing: A tall punk, a peanut-lover, some guy in overalls, a goggle-lovin' Texan, a bird-lovin' Redneck, a drunken king, some guy with a shell, a Sailor Moon fanatic, a kid who inherited Hawaii, an over-sized Indian, and a sentient clock defend the world from a 50-foot tall alien and his brainwashed slaves...by RACING THEM! Lots and lots of balloons are required too.
  • Diddy Kong Racing DS: 14 years later, Hawaii is still being hollowed-out, the bird-lovin' Redneck and drunken king now work at Microsoft, the peanut-lover's fanservice-sisters take their places, said peanut-lover's island also becomes a racetrack, and all get to play with clouds and toys. Otherwise, it's still all about RACING and balloons.
• Die Anstalt: Serve as a psychotherapist to stuffed toys.
  • Alternatively: A paranoid wanderer, a mute autistic, a hot-tempered schizophrenic, an easily-distracted Manchild, a schedule-oriented pseudo-athlete and a psychologist are all in one room. You have to take each one and alternate between going into their dreams and watching them interact with objects for ten minutes.
• Dig Dug: A fragile guy with an air pump digs tunnels and blows up local wildlife.
  • Dig-Dug II: The guy can also destroy islands.
• Digimon Story Cyber Sleuth: After being turned into a literal video game character by a digital Eldritch Abomination, a boy or a girl must solve a lot of cybercrime and find a way to restore their body. Then the game goes into Persona 5 territory.
• Digimon Survive: A group of kids during a field trip are sent to an alternate dimension where they have to work together with mythical monsters to survive. Your choices will determine who lives and who dies. Also, the game goes into Devil Survivor territory fast.
• Digimon World: A boy is sent into the digital world and must find a way to save it with his partner. 90% of the game is focused on raising stats.
• Digimon World 3: Not being able to log out from an MMORPG turns people into pigs.
• Digimon World -next 0rder-: A boy or a girl find themselves into the digital world and must find a way to restore the digital world with their partners. 90% of the game is focused on raising stats.
• Dino Crisis: A girl who believes dyeing her hair bright red to be proper spy attire acts incredibly bored around living proof of Time Travel, when she's not killing it.
  • Dino Crisis 2: The girl gets into a bunch of arguments with an unrelated man until he learns that he's fathered a child.
  • Dino Crisis 3: Forget what you read about the first two; also, Freddy Krueger has successfully cross-bred with dinosaurs.
• Dino Run (Flash Game): Run away from impending doom, all while consuming smaller creatures on the food chain, stealing eggs and being a dick to everything you come across.
• Disco Elysium: A hardboiled police detective with a Multiple-Choice Past parties so hard that he forgot who he was and what he was doing. He quickly discovers stumbling his way through a murder investigation with a massive hangover and amnesia might not even be worth the aggravation it causes.
• Disgaea: Hell-as-designed-by-Tim-Burton isn't so bad, but "quirky" does not even begin to describe the folks who live there. A series wherein the cast of characters tends to be as Genre Savvy and medium aware as the player.
  • Disgaea: Hour of Darkness: Demon prince oversleeps, must reclaim kingdom with dead criminals.
    • Or: Angelic assassin teaches her target's son how to love. Violence ensues.
    • Disgaea Dimension 2 A Brighter Darkness: A few years later, said prince inducts a PR campaign and rids the countryside of flowers while spending time with his little sister.
  • Disgaea 2: Cursed Memories: Level 1 protagonist tries to fight final boss. He fails.
    • Alternatively, A human trying to summon a demonic overlord summons his daughter instead; Hilarity Ensues and at least two plot twists happen as they try to find the overlord himself.
  • Disgaea 3: Absence of Justice: Nerdy but dangerous White Hair, Black Heart wishes to become the protagonist in order to win the game. Alternatively, demon wishes to open his heart so he can turn to evil; chainsaws are considered but ultimately rejected as impractical.
  • Disgaea 4: A Promise Unforgotten: A Friendly Neighborhood Vampire who is obsessed with fish would rather kill the ruler of the humans than drink one drop of human blood.
    • The Fuka and Desco Show: Dead criminal tries to get pardoned by holding up a bank.
  • Disgaea 5: Alliance of Vengeance: A bunch of misfits want revenge against a tyrant for various reasons. The main character is the only one who isn't quirky, stupid, or an ass.
    • Alternatively, a tyrant owns most of the worlds. The only thing between him and galactic domination is a bunch of rebels lead by a wanderer, a princess, a dumbass, a war strategist, a curry addict, and a midget
  • Disgaea 6: Defiance of Destiny: A zombie tries to defeat an Almighty Idiot. He dies over and over again. In 3D!
  • Prinny: Can I Really Be the Hero?: Dead criminals search for food with the help of a scarf.
    • In an alternate story, the main character of a cancelled game seeks advice from dead criminals.
  • Prinny 2: Dawn Of Operation Panties, Dood: Dead criminals search for underwear with the help of a scarf.
    • Asagi Wars: The main character of a cancelled game is now a dead criminal.
  • Disgaea Infinite: A dead criminal travels through time and tries to prevent an assassination attempt against his overlord. Pudding is involved.
  • Disgaea RPG: The demon prince, the level 1 protagonist, the nerd, the Friendly Neighborhood Vampire, and the wanderer are trying to figure out who is the strongest. They decide the best way to do so is to kidnap you.
• Dishonored: Go from being an esteemed public figure to skulking around in the shadows, robbing or murdering people who are just trying to get by in the middle of a crisis, sending several people to fates worse than death, and willingly becoming the plaything of a dark god.
  • Dishonored 2: Take the above and add witches.
    • Alternatively: Take the above and make it so you can play as both the previous game's main character and his bastard daughter.
  • Dishonored: Death of the Outsider: A charming young man gives heroes the superpowers they need to save the Empire. HE MUST PAY!
• Distant Worlds: A space 4X game, except you can tell it to run itself if you don't feel like it. A bunch of your empire will still run itself even if you do.
• Divinity: Original Sin II: A member of lizard royalty, a gruff mercenary with a wolf motif, a bard possessed by many demons, an elven former slave, a dwarven pirate and an undead with an image problem are trying to kill an oppressive pope which leads to a series of events where they must save the world and probably become a god.
• Dizzy: A sentient egg saves his friends from the big bad by carrying random objects from one side of the land to another.
• DoDonPachi: A nameless pilot with a Big F'ing Laser slaughters his own troops. Then he fights a bee.
  • Alternately: Kill thousands of innocent soldiers in a "training exercise". Then do it again, only harder.
  • DoDonPachi dai-ou-jou: A lunar doll fight.
    • Death Label: Fight every boss in a row. And two bees. Then do it again.
  • DoDonPachi DaiFukkatsu: Doll fighting in 2008.
    • KetsuiPachi: The above game with different music, mechanics, and a butterfly.
  • DoDonPachi SaiDaiOuJou: A sentient doll wants to produce more dolls.
• Dogyuun: An airplane pilots a mecha.
• Dokapon Kingdom: Miserly king offers his daughter's hand in marriage to backstabbers, looters and kill-stealers.
• Doki Doki Literature Club!: A side character gains Medium Awareness and edits the game she's in. Badly.
  • Alternatively, a dating sim supporting character decides that she's fed up with not being a love interest and takes matters into her own hands.
  • Alternatively alternatively, a dating simulator where you write poems. You always get the same route.
• Doki Doki Majo Shinpan: You must save the world from witches by feeling up underage girls.
  • Or: God tells you to touch teenage girls.
• Don't Escape: Your job is to make it physically impossible for you to break curfew.
  • Don't Escape 2: Wander around town doing time-consuming chores. Butchering your best friend with an axe is generally a good idea.
  • Don't Escape 3: You're going to die no matter what.
  • Don't Escape: 4 Days to Survive: Manage every minute of each day wisely as you and your snarky, hotheaded female companion with an agenda travel around the map, collect various items, defuse four major threats, help as many side characters as you can, get up to the moon, go back in time...hey, wait a minute.
• Don't Shit Your Pants: Potty Failure: The Game
• Don't Shoot the Puppy: It gets harder and harder not to kill a dog.
• Don't Starve: An evil stage magician takes a mad scientist camping and leaves him stranded in the wilderness. He passes the time with cookery, scientific research, and making dummies of himself out of meat and his own facial hair. Later, you get the ability to play as an adorable pyromaniac, a haunted girl, a hulk speaking strong-man, a psychopathic robot, an insomniac librarian, a lumberjack who talks to his axe, a wimpy mime, or the exact same evil stage magician who stranded you there in the first place.
  • Don't Starve: Reign of Giants adds a Lost in Character actress playing a Valkyrie and a child who has merged with the spider that once attempted to eat him. Chief among the new features are the seasonal selection of oversized hybrid animals that show up to wreck your campsite, the addition of deserts and a new type of forest, and the ability to get heatstroke and die.
• Donkey Kong: A carpenter climbs an unfinished tower in pursuit of a giant beast who has kidnapped his lover. Background music loops once to four times per second.
  • Donkey Kong Junior: A young lad must rescue his father from a carpenter.
  • Donkey Kong 3: A man must stop a giant animal from destroying his greenhouse, armed with nothing but a can of bug spray. He is never seen again.
  • Donkey Kong Country: Apes go jump on banana-stealing crocodiles.
    • Donkey Kong Country 2: Diddy's Kong Quest: The crocodiles kidnap the big ape, so his little buddy, along with his girlfriend, goes to rescue him.
    • Donkey Kong Country 3: Dixie Kong's Double Trouble!: The big ape and his little buddy are missing, so the little buddy's girlfriend and her infant cousin go looking for them.
    • Donkey Kong 64: The crocodiles prepare to blow up the gorillas' island and steal their bananas again to keep them distracted.
    • Donkey Kong Country Returns: Musical instruments steal the apes' bananas.
    • Donkey Kong Country: Tropical Freeze: Climate change drives the apes to go jump on penguins and walruses.
  • Donkey Konga: Big monkeys play little drums along to popular music.
  • Donkey Kong Jungle Beat: You control a gorilla using bongos.
• Doom: A military-industrial conglomerate's experiments with teleportation go wrong and pave the way for an invasion by The Legions of Hell. They are soundly defeated by a lowly grunt.
  • Alternately: Space Marine gets mad, kills everything, and goes to bed.
  • Doom II: Hell on Earth: The Legions of Hell invade Earth. They are soundly defeated by a lowly grunt. And then he destroys Hell. Purely out of revenge for the death of his pet rabbit.
    • Final Doom: The Legions of Hell realize the lowly grunt is more agile than they originally envisioned and step their game up accordingly.
    • Doom 64: The Legions of Hell refuse to learn their lesson. The lowly grunt kills their leader, again, and then moves in to Hell.
  • Doom³: In an Alternate Continuity, a Satanist takes advantage of said teleportation experiments to create a demonic navy for the purposes of world conquest. At least a lowly grunt, an engineer, and a slightly more elite personnel stops it in separate places and times.
  • DRL: A military-industrial conglomerate's experiments with teleportation go wrong and pave the way for an invasion by The Legions of Hell. They are soundly defeated by a lowly grunt. Only this time, there's less graphics. Also, it's illegal to call it "Doom".
  • Doom (2016): A multinational energy corporation wants to use Hell's fire to help humanity. One exec has another idea. A certain insomniac with anger issues is not a fan of either option.
    • Alternatively: A multinational corporation made a stupid and greedy decision. It's up to you, a large man who never talks, to fix the corporation's dumb mistake.
  • Doom Eternal: The Legions of Hell invade Earth again. They are soundly defeated by a certain insomniac with anger issues that is revealed to be the same lowly grunt eons ago. And then Heaven gets involved.
    • Alternatively, Heaven tries to use Hell to ensure their inhabitants' immortality. The insomniac with anger issues isn't a fan.
    • Doom Eternal: The Ancient Gods Part 1 & 2: After he finally beats back Heaven and Hell's invasion, the insomniac takes a short road trip back to where he grew up, reconnects with old friends, and finds himself.
• Dota 2: Fantasy heroes and villains all based of WarCraft III characters fight each other to destroy sentient rocks. Also features angry Russians.
• .hack: Hacking in an MMORPG is Serious Business.
  • .hack//G.U.: Player Killing in an MMORPG is Serious Business.
• Double Dragon: Two brothers must rescue a damsel from the bad guys so that they can properly kung-fu fight each other for the right to date her.
  • Double Dragon Neon: The brothers rescue the damsel again, this time from a Skeletor clone. High-fives and air guitars all around!
• Double Dungeons: Knights quest to defeat a lot of random baddies to collect alphabet tiles, presumably to play Scrabble with the biggest baddie. Also they zip around and make car noises and explode just as spectacularly specifically, the knights in the game would be clocked at over 230MPH based upon how fast they move through the dungeons' tiles and you gain about 2 HP each level but a LOT of attack.
• Dragalia Lost: A prince with sibling rivalries moves into a castle where he invites a bunch of random strangers to live with him. Also, people turn into dragons.
• Dragon Age: Origins: A hero's attempts to slay a dragon are delayed when everyone makes them solve their problems first.
  • Dragon Age: Origins – Awakening: A hero's attempts to govern their lands are impeded by a surprisingly civilized Mad Scientist and a madwoman with way too many nipples.
  • Dragon Age: Origins - Darkspawn Chronicles DLC: After the hero bites the big one their friend/boyfriend (respectively) has to be the new hero. He fails... HARD.
  • Dragon Age: Origins - Golems of Amgarrak DLC: The hero works with two brothers to find out how to make magical piles of rocks and scrap metal.
  • Dragon Age: Origins - Witch Hunt DLC: Two years after your girlfriend/ friend runs off with your/your friend/lover's future child she returns. Decide if you want to stab her or not.
  • Dragon Age: Origins - Leiliana's Song DLC: A young French thief's idol doesn't turn out to be everything she is cracked up to be.
  • Dragon Age II: An Unreliable Narrator pisses off an inquisitor during his interrogation.
  • Dragon Age: Inquisition: An Innocent Bystander became the most important person in the world after picking up the Big Bad's keys and getting a Right Hand of Doom for their troubles. The aforementioned Big Bad spends half the game trying to get the keys back before just deciding to kick down the door.
    • The Jaws of Hakkon: The protagonist journeys into the wild and, with the help of some not-Barbarians, finishes an errand left unfinished by the last guy in their position.
    • The Descent: The protagonist teams up with Solid Snake and enters a deep hole to figure out why earthquakes happen. The answer may surprise you!
    • Trespasser: Two years after the protagonist saved the world, the people they saved forgot why they were such a big deal and hold a fantasy version of Judge Judy to figure out what to do next. The proceedings are interrupted by a dead guy. Also, the protagonist's Right Hand of Doom finally remembers the "of Doom" part of its title.
• Dragon Project: Gacha Monster Hunter about hunting giant monsters and making weapons and armor out of them. The twist? They're created by the curse of a Draconic Abomination.
• Dragon Quest: A random soldier searches for Ancestral Weaponry in order to fight a wizard who ran off with the king's daughter. Against his will.

  • Alternatively: Random guy has to go fight a dragon on the other side of a river. But he can't swim and boats don't exist.

  • Dragon Quest II: Three random royal cousins run around gaining EXP and Phat Lewt in order to fight an exceptionally bored evil wizard.
  • Dragon Quest III: Son of a hero sallies forth to kill the evil villain. He kills the wrong guy.
    • Dragon Quest III for Game Boy Color: Same as above, but instead of correcting his mistake, he decides to spend several years coin-collecting for the amusement of a bored deity he will probably never meet.
  • Dragon Quest IV: Random henchmen all have various quests that are immediately forgotten once the hero decides to stop hiding in a basement.
  • Dragon Quest V: Random guy runs around having adventures and gets married. He would kill the villain, but he can't — he's not the hero, his son is.
  • Dragon Quest VI: It was All Just a Dream. Or Was It a Dream?? Answer: yes and no.
  • Dragon Quest VII: Random fisherman's son discovers the entire world has been turned into Sealed Good in a Can. Then he opens one too many cans.
  • Dragon Quest VIII: Random troll and his daughter, the horse, chase after an evil clown with a magic stick.
  • Dragon Quest IX: Random angel tries to get back into Heaven by collecting glowing fruit.
  • Dragon Quest Monsters: A Furby kidnaps a young boy to make him fight in glorified dog fights to find his sister, who was kidnapped by an evil furby.
    • Dragon Quest Monsters 2: Two bored kids cause their island to start sinking, so they grab their father's monstrous monster-farm farm hand and go participate in glorified dog fights to find a cork.
    • Dragon Quest Monsters: Caravan Heart: Creepy old man teleports spoiled rich kid to an oddly familiar alternate universe to be a bureaucrat.
    • Dragon Quest Monsters: Joker: Random punk is forced to enter a glorified dog fight because his dad wants him to, only to gain a random animal buddy and discover that dog fights are Serious Business.
  • Dragon Quest Heroes: Rocket Slime: A village of the weakest monster type in the game is attacked by platypi. The one escapee sets out to get revenge. With a tomb.
  • Dragon Quest Swords: The Masked Queen and the Tower of Mirrors: Son of a legendary swordsman performs amazing feats for a queen who doesn't want to talk to anyone.
  • Dragon Quest Heroes: The World Tree's Woe and The Blight Below: Two royal guardsmen, their king, and a machinist team up with a boxing princess, an exasperated cleric, a money-loving dancer, an archer and a shy magician who are betrothed to the same guy, an arrogant lone-wolf swordsman, a sexy magician and a thief-turned-would-be-hero to slay a dragon and the Evil Sorcerer trying to summon him. With some effort, you can also recruit the demon lord that the princess, cleric, and dancer fought against in their world.
  • Dragon Quest Builders: Legenday hero makes poor real estate decisions. Dead guy cleans up his mess by playing Minecraft.
    • Dragon Quest Builders 2: Different dead guy decides he wants to stop playing pretend. Perpetually-smiling Manchild cleans up his mess by teaching cultists how to play Minecraft.
  • Dragon Quest XI: Random villager turns out to be The Chosen One only to have this trope and other RPG tropes to kick him in the dick.
• Dragon's Crown: Physically disproportionate D&D characters goes on a quest to save a kingdom from orcs.
• Dragon's Dogma: A heartless hero must go on a quest to slay a dragon. It is accomplished by climbing and killing monsters. They are also helped by online avatars of sidekicks by other heartless heroes.
• Dragon's Lair: You follow flashes of light in order to watch an animated fantasy movie. Press the button at exactly the right moment or you can't watch the next bit.
  • Space Ace: Largely the same thing as above, but this time it's an animated science fiction movie.
• Dragonstomper: A small white dot needs to slay a dragon in order to retrieve a necklace. Most common objects feel weird.
• Dragonvale: Dragons have lots of G-Rated Sex and give you money so you can set up a zoo in the sky.
• Drakengard: A mute soldier and his dragon go on a nightmarish quest to exact revenge upon a vicious Empire with the "aid" of several cursed people.
  • Drakengard 3: A humanoid Kirakishou tries to kill her sisters and steal their powers for herself.
    • Weeding is hard work, especially when you're an ex-prostitute with a pet dragon.
• DRAMAtical Murder: A guy with nerves in his hair and a Compelling Voice, a guy who wears a gas mask and a lab coat and insists on calling the protagonist 'Master', a Lady Killer In Love with a sword, a stoic hacker with No Social Skills and a mysterious Badass Biker band together to save an island from Mass Hypnosis.
  • Or: Poorly dressed boy with strange hair has to choose one of four other poorly dressed boys with slightly less strange hair to save the world and have sex with.
• Drawn to Life: Save the world from encroaching darkness by making it your personal sketchbook.
  • Drawn to Life: The Next Chapter (Wii): Fetch quests, and the villain can't remember what her husband looked like.
  • Drawn to Life: The Next Chapter (DS): God hides his true motive from himself, and fans wish they'd never asked about the Ensemble Darkhorses' origins.
    • Alternately, the villain drains color to create a world for him to rule. The ending proves a lot of people do not understand magic dreams.
    • Or, a being of shadow steals his world's color to prevent a comatose Christian boy from regaining consciousness and killing everyone.
  • Drawn to Life: SpongeBob SquarePants Edition: A cheap tie-in involving a SpongeBob doodle.
• Dream Daddy: A single father gets back into the dating game. Dad jokes ensue.
• Drill Dozer: A little girl in a tank spends her time stealing rocks.
• Driver: San Francisco: A cop goes into a coma, thinks he can possess people, and hunts down an escaped crime lord in his dreams. This is more effective than the entire real-world police force.
• Dr. Mario: A blue-collar repairman can cure any disease, but only if he administers the medications in exactly the right order.
  • Dr. Mario 64: Fat guy steals his pills.
  • Dr. Luigi: The same, except the pills are L-shaped.
  • Dr. Mario World: Viral epidemic forces a kingdom to field promote everyone into the medical profession. Funding themselves, of course.
• Dubloon: A crew of pirates search for a specific treasure chest.
• Duck Hunt: You are a weekend warrior. Your dog indulges in schadenfreude.
  • VS Duck Hunt: Alternate between blasting waterfowl and blasting discus pairs. Even after paying the price for its schadenfreude, the dog still clings to the Jerkass Ball.
• Duck Season: Take the classic hunting game with an annoying dog, and now play it for horror.
• DuckTales: Money-grubbing duck travels the four corners of the world for more money. People just remember the Moon.
  • DuckTales 2 The money-grabbing duck expands his horizon. One of the level names is also humorously an animal sound.
  • DuckTales Remastered: Same game as the first, now everyone talks. They still remember the Moon. Also more emphasis on story.
• Duke Nukem: Man in a pink vest goes after aspiring world conqueror for interrupting his favorite talk show.
  • Duke Nukem II: The same pink-shirted man is kidnapped while on his favorite talk show by aliens who want to use his brain to formulate a plan to conquer the world. He escapes using a bomb in his molar.
  • Duke Nukem 3D: The man takes a level in badass between games and shoots aliens and corrupt police officers in a quest to save the women of the world.
  • Duke Nukem: Manhattan Project: The man, after said quest, finds out that a Mad Scientist is giving a strange substance to creatures in order to turn them into monstrosities. Asskicking ensues.
  • Duke Nukem Forever: The man spends over a decade searching for an alien toilet to park his bricks. He finally found one. In unrelated news, porcine lifeforms are now airborne.
    • Alternatively: Fans have waited fourteen fuckin' years to see the Man live out their Twin Threesome Fantasy and blow up the Hoover Dam.
• Dungeon Encounters: Adventurers literally crunch numbers on the world's largest unfinished Crossword Puzzle.
• Dungeon Keeper: Being evil means maintaining an underground dungeon and defending it from daring heroes or other evil people with their own dungeon.
• Dungeon Maker: To bring prosperity back to a dying town, an intrepid warrior must provide shelter for new inhabitants...and kill them in droves.
  • Dungeon Maker II: The Hidden War: Trickery and murder, for world peace!
• Dungeons: A lover's quarrel leads a man to take his frustration out on random warriors totally unrelated to the conflict.
• Dungeons of Dredmor: Some shmuck with Big Ol' Eyebrows tries to keep an old man from escaping from prison. They get repeatedly killed by burrowing penguins in the process.
  • Dungeons of Dredmor: Realm of the Diggle Gods: Some shmuck with Big Ol' Eyebrows tries to keep an old man from escaping from a larger prison. They can also become an emo or a vegan, and there are inexplicable statues of penguin gods.
  • Dungeons of Dredmor: You Have to Name the Expansion Pack: Some shmuck with Big Ol' Eyebrows tries to keep an old man from escaping from the same prison as before. This expansion pack doesn't even have a name.
  • Dungeons of Dredmor: Conquest of the Wizardlands: Some shmuck with Big Ol' Eyebrows does the usual stuff, and can also visit randomly generated places where they can die even more easily. There are now vampire penguins and murderous magical vegetables, and our shmuck can use powers of communism.
• Dungeon of the Endless: An Escape Pod crashes into a planet. Now get the survivors out of there.
  • Endless Legend: The climate is changing, the world is dying, and in a few short years all life as we know it will be extinct. Perfect time to start a new empire!
  • Endless Space: Rummage through the interstellar ruins of bastard Precursors for all the magic money they left lying around, then pick fights with aliens over the same money.
  • Endless Space 2: Find out more about these bastard Precursors and how they died off, while still rummaging their corpses and fighting even more aliens for the same magic money. Now with extra Politics.
• Dustforce: You have tools for sweeping dust. You need to clean the floors, walls, ceilings and other objects.
• Dwarf Fortress: A game with way outdated graphics for its time, yet with absurdly high system requirements. It has been released way before it's fully developed and can crash without warning. Gameplay has absurd physics, AI is stupid, and the game's actually unwinnable.
  • Micromanage a collection of absent-minded, depressed, alcoholic midgets with beards into building an underground house in the middle of a hostile wilderness. The official motto of the game is "Losing is fun!"
    • A fantasy world generator/simulator pairing worryingly accurate down-to-the-atom realistic game mechanics with outdated, 3-decades-ago, unrealistic ASCII graphics.
  • Fortress Mode: A bunch of midgets that often refuse to listen to you build a fortress. The fortress will crumble. Then, build some more fortress. Repeat.
  • Adventure Mode: You're a person in a giant world. There's no story, no direction whatsoever and you get brutally murdered by everything.
• Dynamite Headdy: A puppet saves the world by headbutting everyone and everything he comes across.
• Dynasty Warriors: The same story retold in slightly different ways nine times.
• EarthBound (1994): Four kids face such horrific monsters as moving traffic signs, violent hippies, animate cups of coffee, and living fire hydrants in order to stop a time-traveling facelike entity.
  • EarthBound Beginnings: Three kids defeat the aforementioned time-traveling facelike entity ten years earlier (when he still had a body and wasn't a facelike entity) — by singing to him.
    • Or: Child assembles a music group so he can annoy his great-uncle. Slightly complicated by the fact everyone involved is a psychic.
  • Mother 3: An emotionally broken boy and his dog try to stop a fat old man who uses television and lightning to control an island, with the help of weird people (and their pets). Quite possibly one of the most heartrending games of all time.
    • Or, as put on the series's fansite's forums: trans women defend the world by giving a giant dragon acupuncture.
• Earth Defense Force 2017: Every '50s monster movie happens at once. Only you can save mankind.
  • Alternatively: Godzilla as told from the point of view of the hapless military forces Godzilla usually steps on. Also, Godzilla himself is on vacation or something. Good luck!
• Earthworm Jim: A space suit falls onto an ordinary earthworm, who then saves a space princess from a giant queen termite...then a cow falls on the princess.
  • Alternatively: A pin-headed guy journeys across the land to save a cute girl, only for his efforts to be thwarted by a Monty Python joke.
• Eat Lead: The Return of Matt Hazard: The greatest video game hero you've never heard of tries to make his big comeback.
• Ecco the Dolphin: Magic dolphin travels through time to heal an ancient being by going to the past and smacking it in the balls. eh also fights aliens and doesnt afraid of anything.
  • Tides of Time: Magic dolphin follows flying magic dolphin to a time that doesn't exist yet to get orders from slain ancient being to reconstruct it in the present from body parts that have been scattered to a different time that doesn't exist yet. Then a dolphin army fights aliens. And you vanish. Maybe.
  • Ecco Jr.: Magic dolphin takes time off from time travel and xenocide to play educational games with small children.
  • Defender of the Future: Aliens break time, magic dolphin makes it worse a few times before getting it right.
• Echo: A space woman ventures deep into the palace populated by girls that look (and think) like her to turn her literal Companion Cube back into human.
• Eco Fighters: Save the world from pollution...by blowing stuff up, with help from Dr. Wily.
• EcoQuest: A 10-year-old boy dives after a talking dolphin to discover ancient and heavily-littered Greek ruins at the bottom of the ocean, populated by talking fish who live in tenements. Everything is blamed on nuclear waste.
  • Eco Quest 2: Same boy is kidnapped by talking river otters in the deep (and heavily-littered) rainforest. He visits an English-speaking native village and (when it burns down) thwarts a single-minded poacher by planting a tree.
• Einhänder: The Moon hates the Earth, so a plane from the moon is sent down to wreak havoc on Earth. The plane fights a griffin, a dragon, a shrimp, a spider, a wall lizard, an amphibian, an albatross, a mad monkey, a vulture, a black ghost, and a couple of Humongous Mecha.
• El Paso, Elsewhere: A folklore student goes to a hotel to break up with a vampire girl.
• Elden Ring: You are back from the dead in order to find pieces of a ring so you can pray to a tree and ascent as a god. The world is filled with hand-based worldbuilding, rolling sheep, tortoise and things that will kill you... a lot.
• The Elder Scrolls: The monarchy solves problems cheaply and effectively by sending anonymous convicts to tackle them.
  • The Elder Scrolls: Arena: A convict must reconstruct a dismantled stick that the Emperor's advisor spitefully broke.
  • The Elder Scrolls II: Daggerfall: The monarchy sends an agent—who may or may not be another convict—to perform an exorcism and inspect the mail system.
  • The Elder Scrolls III: Morrowind: Another convict fights a clingy former drinking buddy with a serious sleep disorder over who gets to keep a dead guy's heart.
    • The Elder Scrolls III: Tribunal: That same convict reunites with his ex-wife and goes to extreme lengths to reconcile with her, only for the two to have a massive fight because she's angry about not being worshipped enough.
    • The Elder Scrolls III: Bloodmoon: The convict is then invited to a hunting trip, and ends up getting into fights with all the other hunters.
  • The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion: Another convict delivers a necklace, then travels around the world closing doors whenever they find them.
    • The Elder Scrolls IV: Knights of the Nine: That same convict takes a job guarding a church and beats up a very old man recently returned from retirement.
    • The Elder Scrolls IV: Shivering Isles: That same convict gets into politics and eventually goes crazy.
  • The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim: A convict on death row learns to read and speak a new language, one word at a time, and then solves the world's problems by shouting at them.
    • Alternatively: A convict gets caught in a conflict between Romans, Vikings and Proto-Nazis. Giant lizards, cat-people and mummies are involved.
    • The Elder Scrolls V: Dawnguard: That same convict gets a job looking for inordinately heavy pieces of paper that apparently have the location of a mid-tier weapon written on them.
    • The Elder Scrolls V: Hearthfire: That same convict builds a house and adopts a kid.
    • The Elder Scrolls V: Dragonborn: That same convict enters a giant library and gets into a fight with some other guy who also solves his problems by shouting at them.
  • The Elder Scrolls Legends: Battlespire: A school student uses his skills to clear unwanted critters from his training grounds.
  • The Elder Scrolls Adventures: Redguard: A pirate looks for a lost sibling, damaging the growing hegemony in the process.
  • The Elder Scrolls Online: A literal army of undead convicts scheme to return to life, remove some anchors lying around the land, and fight each other in border disputes that will be rendered meaningless in a few centuries.
• Elebits: A bitter young child neglected by his parents releases his anger by shooting ridiculously cute Pokémon-like creatures. This is rated E.
• Electroplankton: Microscopic underwater creatures...make music.
• Eliminate Down: Shoot aliens. Save Earth. One of those games that almost nobody knows.
• Elite Beat Agents: Men in Black solve everyone's problems through spontaneous song and dance numbers.
  • Osu! Tatakae! Ouendan: The people are not motivated. A squad of manly cheerleaders tries to alleviate this.
  • Moero Nekketsu Rhythm Tamashii! Osu! Tatakae! Ouendan 2: Six years later, the people are still not motivated. The cheerleaders from across the river are not as manly.
  • osu! A Fan Sequel of the series, with loads and loads of custom maps, along with a mode where you play the drums, catch fruit on a plate, and play the piano.
• Elvira II: Jaws of Cerberus: Your girlfriend gets kidnapped by a dog. On your way to save her, you are assisted by a janitor, a priest and Dr. Frankenstein.
• The End Is Nigh: Think Knytt Underground minus the open-world exploration and detailed graphics.
  • Horribly disfigured man is dismayed to find that he can no longer play a video game. He sets out to find and have sex with someone.
• EndWar: Terrorists cause World War III. You can optionally use your voice to win it.
• Endless Ocean: Your employer doesn't care how much time you waste; just so long as you eventually touch as many fish as possible, you're on their payroll.
  • Endless Ocean: Blue World: Your employer's son died. This leads to incredible archaeological discovery.
• English Country Tune: A floppy rectangle pushes around balls and cubes in a type of Block Puzzle. Nonetheless, you are informed that it's actually about a spaceship rescuing alien larva and freeing aquatic creatures.
• Enter the Gungeon: A group of people with dark pasts are going to a dungeon filled with guns and gun-related things to find an artifact to kill their said pasts.
• Epic Battle Fantasy: Author Avatar and Ms. Fanservice kill a bunch of slimes before the game gets interesting. Features blatant copyright violations, and is an RPG that solely consists of battles.
  • Epic Battle Fantasy 2: After retconning the bad ending from the first game, the same two warriors go across a damaged planet and eventually defeat a Nazi, who joins the party for the third game.
  • Epic Battle Fantasy 3: First game in the series to introduce an overworld, the group of three from before try to kill a monster that they woke up by poking it.
  • Epic Battle Fantasy 3.3: Bullet Heaven: The same three people, their Team Pet, and a girl who hasn't appeared in the main series yet shoot at stuff. All of the bosses involve cats.
  • Epic Battle Fantasy 4: A forest ranger gets pissed off at the heroes of the first overworld game for stealing everything that's not nailed down, while doing the same thing herself, and seeks them to chew them out, ending up redeeming catkind.
    • Alternatively: Cats Are Mean. Except the one following you.
• Epic Mickey: Two cartoon animals settle an 82-year-old grudge.
  • Epic Mickey 2: The Power of Two: Having settled their grudge, the two cartoon animals repair damaged infrastructure following an earthquake.
• Eryi's Action: A fairy tries to track down a petty thief and dies repeatedly, in many unfair ways.
• Escape Goat: A purple goat tries to escape from the dungeon with an orange rat while rescuing sheep.
• Eschatos: A Bullet Hell where you need to save The Moon from Grey Goo. Plays like a Wonderswan game, looks like a Naomi game, and sounds like a Genesis game. Playing for score means either not dying at all, or not using your bombs.
• Espgaluda: 2 siblings with Psychic Powers go out and destroy a Tyke-Bomb Super-Soldier project created by their father. And use Super Gender-Bender magic for Bullet Time. Yes. Bullet Time in a Bullet Hell.
• Eternal Champions: People from various parts of time are wrongfully murdered and must fight in a tournament held by a fluorescent purple deity for one of them to regain their lives.
  • Eternal Champions: Challenge From The Dark Side: An evil fluorescent blue deity interferes and adds more competitors including wrongfully murdered animals and The Grim Reaper.
• Eternal Darkness: Girl discovers a scary book in a big creepy mansion. Insanity ensues.
  • Alternatively: Girl goes to her grandpa's house and reads a depressing book for a few hours.
• Eternal Fighter Zero: The result of dumping characters from Key/Visual Arts works into massive (fan-made) Character Derailment.
• Eternal Sonata: Fredric Chopin's life flashes before his eyes as an anime-styled JRPG right before he dies.
• Etrian Odyssey: Five hand-crafted adventurers are repeatedly murdered by the local wildlife for daring to draw maps of their environment.
  • Etrian Odyssey: Professional explorers team up to draw some maps. When cartography fails to kill them, their boss tries to off them himself.
    • Etrian Odyssey Untold: The Millennium Girl: An amnesiac girl and a mute Highlander team up with a crazy doctor, an immature alchemist, and a Canadian, in order to draw some more maps.
  • Etrian Odyssey II: Heroes of Lagaard: Meanwhile, somewhere else, some more explorers draw different maps, except this time they climb up instead of down. Nefarious!
    • Etrian Odyssey 2 Untold: Two old friends team up with a sheltered princess, a cynical knight, and a magician girl in order to obtain ULTIMATE DEMONIC POWER...which they will use to aid them in their noble quest to draw yet more maps.
  • Etrian Odyssey III: The Drowned City: Sibling rivalry and ancient evil interferes with the important business of drawing maps. Fortunately, the heroes own a boat.
  • Etrian Odyssey IV: Legends of the Titan: Some explorers use an airship to draw maps, but this turns out to be part of a little kid's evil plan to kill a bunch of people, so they chop down a tree and leave.
  • Etrian Mystery Dungeon: You know what? Let's just not bother with the maps this time. Instead let's just build forts.
  • Etrian Odyssey V: Beyond the Myth: Explorers once again climb up a tree while drawing maps, but with a twist: the top of the tree is unlike anything they've seen before, and unlike anything their fellows from previous adventures saw.
  • Etrian Odyssey Nexus: All good things have a beginning and an end, so explorers from all previous settings prepare a farewell adventure by revisiting familiar dungeons before venturing into the large tree one more time.
• Europa Universalis Try to keep inflation down for 400 years.
• EVE Online: The fanciest frontend to Microsoft Excel you'll ever see.
  • Alternately: Play as one of elite space ship captains, most of which spend maybe a couple hours in space every day.
  • Alternately: Hardcore Economics: The MMORPG.
• Ever17: Bored sleep-deprived people contemplate time travel, parallel dimensions and love. To understand what's really going on you have to beat the game at least five times.
• Everhood: Unfathomable beings throw you into an incomplete wooden puppet that must engage in lethal dance-offs with everyone to get its arm back. Not killing literally everyone is the bad ending.
• Eversion: A cute, primitive Mario clone that requires you to change the look of the environment to progress. To hell and beyond.
• Every Extend: You have no weapon, so you explode yourself. Over and over again.
• Everybody Edits: Jumping heads with single expressions fill empty areas with objects.
• Evil Genius: Build your own underground lair, populate it with booby traps, and interrogate enemy agents by sticking them in a mixing bowl.
  • Or, alternately, a James Bond villain's revenge fantasy.
• Evil Zone: Anime stereotypes fight and battle against each other for the right to see on whose anime TV series will be created and made in the near future.
• Evolve: Four people hunt a monster. Or are hunted by it.
• E.V.O.: Search for Eden: In his quest to meet a hot girl, a small fish learns to be a real boy, killing everybody and everything along the way, from sharks to bees to dinosaurs to yetis to giant cells. Only the aliens survive.
• Exist Archive: A goddess realizes she messed up killing an evil god, nukes the twelve people he ended up in, and wants to call it a day. The people she nuked are having none of this shit.
• Extermination (2001): Everything is mutated and trying to kill you, even the water.
• Eye of the Beholder: A band of adventurers venture into the city sewers to fight an unknown evil. They forget to bring a map with them, and get lost.
  • Eye Of The Beholder II: The same band of adventurers visit the temple. They forget to bring a map with them, and get lost.
  • Dungeon Hack: A lone adventurer ventures into a castle to find a magic artifact. Unlike a certain band of adventurers, he brings a map with him, and doesn't get lost.
• Fable (general): Watch as your virtual paper doll changes appearance based on whether you smash dudes, shoot dudes, blow up dudes with your mind, or some combination thereof.
  • Fable: A boy grows up in a colourful fantasy world, and embarks on a quest for revenge against a man in a party mask.
  • Fable II: A boy (or girl) and his/her dog grow up in a colourful fantasy world, and embark on a quest for revenge against a rich nobleman. He/She has the help of an inscrutable blind woman, a fat chick with a sledgehammer, a heavily-tattooed black guy, and a smug bisexual pirate.
  • Fable III: A boy (or girl) decides he/she can do a better job than his/her brother at politics, so he/she and his/her dog embark on a quest to start a revolution that's actually a coup.
• Façade (2005): Amazing new text recognition technology allows you to communicate seamlessly with a couple of stuttering, maladjusted, insufferable idiots.
• Factorio: Man crash-lands into alien planet, decides it's the perfect time to become a one-man industrial revolution, complete with ruining the planet before leaving.
• Fairy Fencer F: Idiot Hero removes a sword who contains a fairy. They travel the world to find swords to ressurect a goddess, or a dark god or an evil goddess.
• FAITH: The Unholy Trinity: Marvel at the terror that is Atari 2600 graphics!
  • Alternatively: A blue guy points a cross at objects until they give items, or people until they die.
• The Fall (2014): A robot is bad at chores.
  • The Fall 2: Unbound: The same robot distracts other robots from their chores.
• Fallen London, née Echo Bazaar: Some time ago, a major European city was stolen by bats. Well, maybe not stolen. Now, Cthulhu's human (ish) cousins rub shoulders with devils, golems, and foreigners while the player character decides what to do with himself/herself/none-of-the-above.
  • Seeking Mr Eaten's Name: One possible path to follow in the above game. It involves giving up all of your items, achievements, many hours of grinding, and eventually your account itself, in exchange for a few bits of cryptic text. A large subset of players think this is the epitome of fun.
• Falling Fred: An immortal kid tries not to get impaled by death traps while descending. He fails.
  • Running Fred: An immortal kid is chased by The Grim Reaper across the world. He is also far more athletic than usual.
  • Skiing Fred: An immortal kid is chased by the grim reaper in a snow setting.
  • Clicker Fred: An immortal kid is sent to hell and forced to collect money. The Multiverse is involved.
  • Football Fred: Build yourself a stadium by winning as many soccer matches as possible. An immortal kid is your trainer.
• Fallout (series): An individual walks through hostile, often lonesome wasteland in the aftermath of a worldwide thermonuclear war. Also, everyone's still culturally in The '50s.
  • Fallout: A youth is sent off to find replacement parts for the community's water purifier. The game starts with you walking out of a rat-infested cave with little idea of where to go or what to do.
  • Fallout 2: A youth goes looking for something to help the family farm. The game starts with you running through a cave for flimsy reasons.
  • Fallout 3: A youth living in a community has to go out after their daddy. The game starts with you shooting out of your mom's vagina into the waiting arms of Liam Neeson.
    • The Pitt: Youth liberates a town's populace by becoming a baby-snatcher.
    • Operation: Anchorage: Youth plays The Most Dangerous Video Game so a bunch of jerks can open a door.
    • Mothership Zeta: Youth is abducted by aliens who want to weaponize a children's toy.
    • Broken Steel: Youth is railroaded into blowing up a Base on Wheels.
    • Point Lookout: Youth is attacked by rednecks, drugged and lobotomized.
  • Fallout: New Vegas: A postal worker goes postal while looking for a missing package. The game starts with you getting shot in the face.
    • Dead Money: The postal worker teams up with a schizophrenic, a mute, and a lounge singer to get into a basement.
    • Honest Hearts: The postal worker goes hiking with the natives, dodging giant bugs and learning to appreciate the works of John M. Browning and John T. Thompson.
    • Old World Blues: The postal worker does science while two light switches, a robotic planter, and a scientist make sexual advances toward said worker.
    • Lonesome Road: The postal worker has a homecoming party with another coworker.
  • Fallout Tactics: Brotherhood of Steel: A youth joins a techno-religious organization and looks for an ancient bomb shelter. The game starts with you immediately shoved into a mission with two useless teammates who keep shooting you in the back.
  • Fallout: Brotherhood of Steel: A youth joins a techno-religious organization and is sent to Texas to find some lost soldiers. After fighting a Stripperiffic woman and a 10-foot-tall ghoul priest, you confront a super mutant who turns into a giant biomass, who you proceed to nuke.
  • Fallout 4: Boston family takes a trip after local newscaster predicts bad weather to come. Things get worse from there.
  • Fallout 76: A group of people got kicked out from their homes so they can catch some clean air. You and your friends decided lead, and eventually nuclear warhead, are instrumental in defeating the hostile and dangerous wildlife so you can carve yourself a nice, new home.
• Fancy Pants Adventures: A man embarks on elaborate quests to wake up a penguin, get revenge on a rabbit for stealing his ice-cream, and save his sister from a band of pirates who want her as captain instead of their current wussy one. All of the above (except the sister) are better drawn than him.
  • Or: A half-naked fusion of Sonic and Mario runs around killing spiders and gun-toting mice with a pencil.
• Fantasy Life: Your quest to destroy mysterious evil meteorite fragments takes a backseat to Item Crafting.
• Fantavision: Blow up fireworks. That's it.
• Far Cry: Ex-Special Forces fellow needs to save reporter from mercenaries and mutants on a tropical island.
  • Far Cry: Instincts: A mad scientist and his trigger-happy mercenaries blow up a man's boat. The man gets a mean right hook.
  • Far Cry 2: Some other guy attempts to kick African warlord ass despite a malaria infection.
  • Far Cry 3: A douchebag twenty-something tries to save his douchebag twenty-something friends from a Ruthless Modern Pirate on a tropical island with a magic tattoo.
  • Far Cry 3: Blood Dragon: '80s action movie: The game.
  • Far Cry 4: A native returns to the Himalayas to scatter mother's ashes, Civil War and selfies ensue.
  • Far Cry Primal: A caveman returns to his tribe after his hunt group was killed by a sabertooth tiger. There, he must regroup his clan by taming beasts and throwing spears at enemies.
  • Far Cry 5: Fundamentalists do their thing in Montana. A lone deputy reacts by going on a one-man/woman Waco siege.
  • Far Cry: New Dawn: Turns out the fundamentalists from the last game were right. A local security guard gets caught in a train crash, does drugs, and fights a pair of orphans and their colorful friends with corn-powered vehicles.
  • Far Cry 6: Actually the Fundamentalists were wrong. Or just never did their thing. At any rate, a not-Cuban in not-Cuba fights to depose not-Castro, while simultaneously befriending not-Castro's son. It doesn't end well for anyone involved.
• Farm Simulator: You own a run down farm in Europe on some unnamed island and you need to modernize it, make it produce money, and work hard for it to work for you.
• Fat Princess: Two teams of Super-Deformed fantasy heroes test the old adage "fat people are harder to kidnap".
• Fatal Frame: A teenaged girl screams at rope and takes pictures of dead people.
  • Fatal Frame II: Twin lolis take pictures of dead people who make grabby hands at them.
  • Fatal Frame III: A depressed photographer, alongside the depressed protagonist of the first game and a not-quite-as-depressed-as-everyone-else nonfiction writer wander around a dream manor and take pictures of dead people.
  • Fatal Frame: Mask of the Lunar Eclipse: A teenaged girl goes to an abandoned sanatorium to try and remember things, and ends up taking pictures of dead people. Two other teenaged girls go there too, and one of them takes pictures of dead people like the other girl. There is also a detective, and he shines a flashlight at dead people.
• Fatal Fury: Three men enter a city-wide fighting tournament. The last opponent is the sponsor. He can whup their asses.
  • Fatal Fury 2: The sponsor's half-brother foots the bill for the next tournament. Everyone plays the Updated Re-release instead.
  • Fatal Fury 3: The sponsor of the first tournament steals a book from twins who have a psychopath on their payroll. Bad move.
  • Real Bout Fatal Fury: Several martial artists band together to break into corporate property and kill the CEO.
  • Garou: Mark of the Wolves: A young man has issues with his maternal uncle.
• Fatal Hearts: A teenage girl has a nightmare and tries to get herself killed by acting too dumb to live. Also, there are vampires and werewolves involved. Wait, that sounds kind of familiar.
• Fate/stay night: A bunch of dead guys fight over a cup so it can intentionally misconstrue their wish.
  • Fate: An Ordinary High-School Student falls in love with King Arthur and learns about mythology.
  • Unlimited Blade Works: Superhero from the future attempts to kill self, thwarted by self. Ancient king learns the value of fake weaponry.
  • Heaven's Feel: Nice girl goes insane and eats a town despite Medusa's best efforts. Ordinary High-School Student decides that ethics suck and beats up a priest.
• Fate/EXTRA: A young boy (or young girl) works together with their choice of a Moe-fied Emperor Nero, a Future Badass from the original series, or Foxy Tamamo no Mae to fight other dead historical figures for dominion over the moon, which is The Matrix.
  • Fate/EXTRA CCC: The Heaven's Feel route on the moon. And the original story now with the king of assholes added for fanservice.
  • Fate/Extella: The Umbral Star: Emperor Nero and Tamamo no Mae fight each other for complete rule over the moon (and to find out who is the better waifu) while Attila the Hun prepares an alien invasion. No, you're not high.
• Fate/Grand Order: A young boy (or young girl) and the best kohai a senpai could have are travelling around time to prevent the future ending, which they accomplish by killing evil dead historical figures (and demons) with the help of other dead historical figures, including a female Leonardo da Vinci.
  • Observer on Timeless Temple: Man with ten rings and seventy-two problems drops seven cups in time to burninate everything simultaneously.
  • Epic of Remnant: Four of the problems escaped from the man with ten rings; hunt them down. The kohai has to stay home.
  • Cosmos in the Lostbelt: Seven people, annoyed for unknown reasons (but probably related to the year-long coma), go off and play a game of "whose Alternate Universe is best". The boy/girl and kohai are now homeless, along with female da Vinci (now a Token Mini-Moe), Sherlock Holmes, and a Sheltered Aristocrat.
  • Ordeal Call: One of the wills of the planet doesn't like the fact that the boy/girl is willing to take literally any assistance they can get, so banishes them from space and time (read: Antartica) until they repent. This does not deter them from continuing to take assistance from anyone willing.
• F.E.A.R.: Mom tells her son to go eat people she doesn't like. Her other son gets in the way, and she tries to make them get along.
  • Alternatively: A battalion of soldiers made up entirely of clones of their commander go rogue because the commander's dead mother told him to. His mute, time-freezing twin brother murders them all while hallucinating a lot.
    • F.E.A.R. expansions: A dead psychic comes back as a poltergeist and decides he hates all his brother's new friends. A bald-yet-otherwise-identical man looks for mercenaries in the sewers on Steve Blum's orders.
  • Project Origin: A Delta Force operative becomes the object of affection for a ghost. She does not take 'no' for an answer.
    • F.E.A.R. 2: Reborn: A clone soldier goes on a bad trip and murders his squad, then kills the rest of his battalion trying to go to church to ask for forgiveness.
  • F.3.A.R: The bickering sons, one of whom is dead, work together to kill their mother and kidnap their sister. The fate of the world is at stake.
    • Alternatively: A pair of siblings take part in a custody battle that somehow involves a former employer transforming from a tech corporation to COBRA.
• Feeding Frenzy: Fish (and eventually, a mammal) eat their way to the top of the food chain.
  • Feeding Frenzy 2: Shipwreck Showdown: Fish save the sea from a strange fish, by eating each other.
• Feel the Magic: XY/XX: Engage in bizarre, death-defying, or just plain stupid activities to try to impress a girl, with the help of performance artists in silly costumes. Also, there are villains, though their motives are unknown.
  • The Rub Rabbits!: Prequel to the above game, with similar storyline, though there are now other guys who are also in love with the girl that you're in love with, and the villain is female. At the end, you become the leader and founder of the eponymous troupe, and the other guys make up the rest of the troupe.
• Fight Knight: A knight does everything with punches, from fighting monsters to talking to people.
• Fighters Megamix: A game with no story features characters from many different games including a giant fighting bean, a bomb-throwing duck named Bean, and a standing, fighting car.
• Final Fantasy: Series of stories whose only common factors are a species of overgrown yellow birds, white teddy bears with wings, flying boats, and a bunch of guys with the same name...oh, and crystals. Lots of crystals.
  • Final Fantasy: A group of fated warriors solve global warming through violence. Crystal balls figure heavily.
    • Or: Four heroes break a time loop.
    • Stranger of Paradise: Final Fantasy Origin: Perpetually angry man says "Chaos" a lot, listens to not-Limp Bizkit, and quests to save the world in a Henley.
    • Or: Edgelord protagonist wants to kill Chaos only to be revealed that he is Chaos.
  • Final Fantasy II: Three friends join La Résistance and indulge in self-mutilation to become stronger. You spend half the game trying to check out a banned library book.
    • Or: Star Wars where the Emperor dies and then comes back as the Devil and then dies again and then comes back as God and then gets killed by Obi-Wan.
  • Final Fantasy III: World's greatest magician forgets to do a background check on his apprentices.
    • Snubbed at his birthday party, an easily angered man attempts to destroy multiple worlds to slight the gift-giver.
    • Or: Four orphans fight a man who threw a hissy fit over his inheritance.
  • Final Fantasy IV: Man meets his long last brother while being betrayed by his best friend. Twice. A Space Whale eventually comes into play.
    • Or: Star Wars but the Emperor is a space ghost on the moon.
  • Final Fantasy IV: The After Years: The people from the above game team up with their kids to stop a guy that also has a fortress on the moon and wields an army of little girls.
  • Final Fantasy V: Group of strangers become the protectors of the Cosmic Keystones. They are incredibly bad at their job. Also, their arch enemy is a tree.
    • Or: Evil Giving Tree and his gay lover fight a confused harem protagonist and his princesses.
  • Final Fantasy VI: An amnesiac rebels against her former employers, one of whom is a clown.
    • Quoted directly from Zero Punctuation: "There's a guy trying to destroy the world because he's a dick."
    • Or: Star Wars but the Emperor is killed and replaced by the Joker halfway through. Also, racism is bad.
  • Final Fantasy VII: A celebrity stalker is lied to by his girlfriend, while a momma's boy has a temper tantrum. Side plots include racing birds, stealing motorcycles, the militant arm of Green Peace, and everyone feels bad because the Cutie gets cut by a Ginsu knife.
    • Or: A blonde amnesiac drag queen pretending to be his dead best friend must save the world from a man who discovered his mom was a monster in a jar.
    • Or (ripped straight from the game's Wikipedia page): A mercenary joins an eco-terrorist organization to stop a world-controlling MegaCorp from using the planet's life essence as an energy source.
    • Or: Young man files a complaint with the electric company. Explosively.
    • Or: Eco-terrorists recruit man with padded resume, discover corporate greed has caused a giant meteor to be elected, and hold a recount.
    • Crisis Core: Final Fantasy VII: A charming young soldier meets some interesting people, then gets killed by his employer.
    • Or...Gackt recites bad poetry while all hell breaks loose.
    • Or: You play as a Punch-Clock Villain working for the local MegaCorp while all your coworkers gradually die, go insane, or both, and eventually wind up on the receiving end of Death by Origin Story.
    • Or: Young man fatally misunderstands the terms and conditions of his employment.
    • Dirge of Cerberus: Final Fantasy VII: Undead gunman fights color-coded bad guys and angsts over his ex-girlfriend.
    • Before Crisis: Final Fantasy VII: A group of well-dressed youngsters beat up environmentalists.
    • Final Fantasy VII Remake: The hype! The prelude! The nostalgia! The mission! The promise! The sauce! The mayor! The fuck?!?
    • Another one for Final Fantasy VII Remake: A bunch of ghosts try to railroad the plot so things go as they did the first time the game was made. Everyone takes issue with this.
    • Or: A man kills several power company employees. It is never explained who this man is or why you should care about him.
  • Final Fantasy VIII: Teenage mercenaries use The Power of Friendship to fight time-traveling sorceresses.
    • Alternatively, six brain-damaged friends attempt to save the world, only to ensure the villain's rise to power in the process.
    • Or: Robin Williams and Demi Moore decide to get a divorce, thousands of innocent people die as a result.
    • Or: A group of cadets find out they all lived at the same orphanage. Amnesia is to blame, and the lead may be dead.
  • Final Fantasy IX: Thieves kidnap a young princess as part of a political coup. They're the good guys.
    • Alternatively, the angel of death and his friends have a heated discussion with the angel's estranged family on the ethics of terraforming an occupied planet.
    • Alternatively: Star Wars but the main characters are either clones or princesses.
  • Final Fantasy X: A pro underwater ballplayer's hometown is blown up by a giant Space Whale. One thousand years later, he goes on a quest to beat up his father who has become Satan.
    • Alternatively: You have roughly one week in game time to change a way of thinking that existed for well over 1,000 years.
    • Alternatively: Daddy Issues: The Real Sports Story, with special guest Christian Guilt Complex.
    • Final Fantasy X-2: A young woman searches for her lost love by playing dress-up.
  • Final Fantasy XI: One person (But not really) does odd jobs for the nations of the world, which range from checking on miners to stopping an Evil Overlord born out of racism...and said miners.
    • Alternatively: Giraffe and friends stop the writer from erasing this game.
    • Final Fantasy XI: Rise of The Zilart: Same person (But again, not really) teams up with Ninja/Samurai-Pirates and a big, angry non-human Scary Black Man to stop two rich and old pretty boys from trying to go to Heaven, which could mean The End of the World as We Know It.
    • Final Fantasy XI: Chains of Promathia: Again, same person (And again, not really) snoops around some broken glass and begins having to fight everyone and their uncle to stop The End of the World as We Know It (Yes, again) while a Jerk Sue acts like she owns the show, although she helps you fight the Big Bad at the end along with a birdman (Who is certainly not a lawyer). Also, the resident abomination resembles fart gas.
    • Final Fantasy XI: Treasures of Aht Urhgan: Person from all the others (Still not really) goes to a eastern empire and gets forced to take orders from a bipolar talking cat. Ends up in a plot with The Grim Reaper and a Humongous Mecha. This person seems to have lost some IQ points during the trip over.
    • Final Fantasy XI: Wings of the Goddess: The person gets in adventure for the fifth time (And for the fifth time, not really solo), this time by getting eaten and spit out by giant mouths into a war, and has adventures with a showgirl and another cat.
    • Final Fantasy XI: Seekers of Adoulin: The person goes on a sixth adventure (probably mostly solo this time thanks to Game-Breaker gear and a new kind of Summon Magic usable by anyone) where he makes friends with the Only Sane Princess, everyone fails to notice a sword halfway through the story, and ultimately you prove democracy is bad.
    • Final Fantasy XI: Rhapsodies of Vana'diel: The person who did all this stuff prior is shuffled through a Framing Device aimed at newbies for all the previous stories after the fact, then beats up recycled final bosses.
  • Final Fantasy XII: A callow orphan joins a princess leading a resistance against an evil empire. Along the way, he's mentored by a wise older knight. They're joined by a charming scoundrel, his tall, furry partner, an excitable half-pint, a suave black dude, and a stuffy British person. A guy in black armor gets in the way a lot, as does his boss The Emperor. There's twins and daddy issues too. It's totally not based on Star Wars. Really.
    • Alternately, you must kill 10 people in cold blood to be able to wear your new leather hat.
    • Alternately: Star Wars but half the bad guys aren't actually that bad. Except Judge Bergan. That guy is a dick.
    • Final Fantasy XII: Revenant Wings: The cast of Star Wars finds a Floating Continent, and liberates angels from God. Meanwhile, a woman tries to kill everyone, whilst mourning her lost lover.
  • Final Fantasy XIII: Six people get matching tattoos and spend the game trying to figure out why before the tattoos turn them into crystals or Silent Hill residents.
    • Alternatively: Being The Chosen One will kill your dating life.
    • Final Fantasy XIII-2: A mysterious young man and his plucky female companion travel through time, fighting monsters and solving world-ending problems along the way. ...Wait.
    • Lightning Returns: Final Fantasy XIII: The heroine of the first game returns to try and fix the Time Crash the heroes of the previous game caused by achieving that game's "good" ending.
    • The Final Fantasy XIII series in-general: Woman tries to be "strong female character"; ruins life.
    • Alternatively: Multi-billion dollar company spends three games worth trying to tell players which game is the definitive Final Fantasy XIII.
  • Final Fantasy XIV: One person (But not really) does odd jobs for the nations of the world, then receives a personal apology from God.
    • Alternatively: Heroes save the world from bad gameplay and bugs.
    • Final Fantasy XIV: A Realm Reborn: The aforementioned apology.
    • Alternatively: The Hero gets conscripted by a bunch of college graduates into being their bodyguard against indigenous people's religions.
    • Final Fantasy XIV: Heavensward: The Hero-turned-The Exile solves a millennium-long feudal dispute between neighbors while waiting for a pardon. People die for it.
    • Alternatively: Spend the winter at your Ambiguously Gay Best Friend's house.
    • Final Fantasy XIV: Stormblood: The Hero goes to not!Japan to liberate another country.
    • Alternatively: Hamilton as an MMO.
    • Final Fantasy XIV: Shadowbringers: The Hero travels to an Alternate Universe to bring back night time.
    • Alternatively: Get Isekai'd and spontaneously gain four stalkers, two of whom want to turn you into an Angelic Abomination for similarly tragic (on their part) reasons.
    • Final Fantasy XIV: Endwalker: The Hero tries to prevent a prince who likes fighting and not!Kefka from setting The Hero's place on fire.
    • Alternatively: Anthropological studies make everyone sad, and people die because of this.
  • Final Fantasy XV: A Lonely Rich Kid and his metrosexual friends set out on a road trip to try and escape Development Hell.
    • Or: A Prince's plan to get hitched is canceled so he can go on a road trip with his bros to defeat an empire. Oh, and he have to save the world or some shit...
    • Or: A video game that takes to task how really annoying it is to be ambushed and assaulted by a country that wants you dead.
    • Or: A bachelor party goes very badly.
  • Final Fantasy XVI: Former prince goes on a quest to defeat the monster who killed his brother in a world full of bloodshed, depravity, bird horse hybrids and cute cat/rabbit mascots.
    • Or: The Antichrist commits fratricide and promptly swears revenge on himself. Also, racism is still bad.
  • Final Fantasy Crystal Chronicles: Brave heroes join up to hunt down the source of the world's air pollution. They argue over who gets stuck with a bucket.
    • Final Fantasy Crystal Chronicles: My Life as a King: A prepubescent royal bureaucrat sends the children of his country's poor off to die in dungeons while he stays at home and consoles their families.
    • Final Fantasy Crystal Chronicles: My Life as a Darklord: Daughter of the above game's Big Bad defends her floating tower from the prepubescent royal bureaucrat's Chosen Ones.
  • Final Fantasy Type-0: An average semester at the local Wizarding School ends in genocide.
  • Final Fantasy Tactics: Amongst a Gambit Pileup, a guy tries to save his sister from Jesus.
  • Final Fantasy Tactics Advance: You and your little brother and friends get sucked into an idealized alternate world, and you don't think staying is healthy. Gamers go to war over whether this is right.
    • Final Fantasy Tactics A2: You need to complete your schoolwork.
  • Final Fantasy Mystic Quest: An Evil Overlord makes up a prophecy foretelling his defeat as a joke. It backfires.
  • Final Fantasy Legend: God plays a prank on you. You seek revenge through steroid use and cannibalism.
  • Final Fantasy Legend II: Four friends go treasure hunting for Green Rocks.
  • Final Fantasy Legend III: A guy, his girlfriend and two mutes travel through time and space to fix the local plumbing problem.
  • Final Fantasy Adventure: A boy meets a young woman standing over a dead body in the woods and goes to great lengths to protect her from the local authorities.
  • Final Fantasy Fables: Chocobo's Dungeon: An oversized chicken almost destroys the world by warping itself into peoples' brains and restoring their horrible memories.
  • Dissidia Final Fantasy: An ethereal girl tells a handful of adventurers from different worlds to collect stones so that they can beat up a giant four-armed demon.
    • Dissidia 012 [duodecim]: Final Fantasy: The ethereal girl and four-armed demon take turns absolutely trolling everyone via a "Groundhog Day" Loop.
    • Dissidia Final Fantasy (2015): Tired of the trolling, everyone decides to beat the shit out of the troll.
    • Theatrhythm Final Fantasy: The ethereal girl tells the adventurers to travel long distances and slay enemies to power a stone. The four-armed demon shows up eventually.
• Final Fight: City mayor and his buddies beat up mobsters.
• Fire Emblem: Stories of incest and power plays where everyone only has one life.
  • The world's first war-themed dating sim.
  • Fire Emblem: Shadow Dragon & the Blade of Light: A blue-haired pants-less prince sets off to save the world from a evil priest who wants to resurrect a great dragon. Along the way, he'll meet a handful of princesses (only one of which he actually pursues), a shapeshifting dragon girl, and others who join up and kill the dragon.
    • Alternately: Pantsless man reclaims kingdom from angry mud lizard.
  • Fire Emblem Gaiden: Bickering couple learn self-reliance. Nearly thwarted by boats, deserts and swamps.
    • Or: Romeo and Juliet with dragons, wizards and a happy ending earned through lots of hardships.
  • Fire Emblem: Mystery of the Emblem: The same blue-haired pants-less prince loses his kingdom again when an ally performs a Face–Heel Turn. He joins up with old friends to get back his kingdom. Also, the dragon from before is involved and the blue-haired wonder becomes king of the world.
    • Alternately: Spurned husband decides to conquer half a continent.
  • Fire Emblem: Genealogy of the Holy War: A hero goes to rescue a captured princess and gets caught up in a plot that has his wife brainwashed and made to breed with her half brother to resurrect a dark god. Oh, and he gets killed as soon as he learns of this.
    • Alternately: A persecuted religious group helps a lonely bachelor find love, simultaneously solving the succession crisis of the most powerful country on the continent and helping said bachelor create a world without discrimination. They're the bad guys.
    • Alternately: A tragedy in two acts. Love, loss, and many dead horses.
    • Alternately: One man's marriage with a woman he barely met ends up creating a huge mess which results in his army either constantly on the run or dead. His son has to clean up his mess.
  • Fire Emblem: Thracia 776: Two girls are kidnapped by a traitorous Duke. This all leads to a 15 year old boy and a Ragtag Bunch of Misfits killing a religious leader.
    • Alternately: Rebel prince embarks on a game long sidequest.
  • Fire Emblem: The Binding Blade: Red haired child Casanova needs to go stop a militant country from crushing the world, as well as its ruler, who made a soulless dragon girl his bitch.
    • Alternately: Dude with daddy issues thinks everybody sucks and becomes friends with a lizard. His sister then steals his favorite toy and gives it to a redheaded dude who dates five girls at once.
    • Alternately: Boy ferried across an entire continent to stab a dragon and sit on some chairs.
  • Fire Emblem: The Blazing Blade: The father of the hero of the prequel which is actually the sequel goes off on a journey to find his dad with the help of two musical dragons. Then he has to go stop a Gonk from destroying the world and sucking out everyone's soul in the universe.
    • Alternately: Trio of lords can't escape the fate of being in a prequel.
  • Fire Emblem: The Sacred Stones: A guy's dad dies. This results in global war and nearly ends the world. Comes with the usual side order of dragons.
    • Alternately: Two twins wage a war to stop their friend from breaking some rocks.
    • Alternately: Wonder twins kill a Demon King for ruining a perfectly good friendship.
  • Fire Emblem: Path of Radiance: A mercenary leads a war against the kingdom whose top general killed his father and whose king seeks to awaken a dark goddess. He has the help of a race of people who can change into animals.
    • Alternately: Guy tries to reform society using a piece of burning jewelry. A teenaged boy stops him.
    • Alternately: Mercenaries retake a country while learning that racism is kinda bad.
  • Fire Emblem: Radiant Dawn: A holy goddess decides to punish her creations for going to war too much by killing them all. Turns out that the dark goddess isn't really evil, so the mercenary, along with a side character from the previous game, and said character's girlfriend team up with her to kill the holy goddess first.
    • Alternately: Young woman puts the wrong guy on the throne, fights the good guys of the previous game and releases a dark goddess by singing.
    • Alternately: A depressed bird wants to destroy the world.
    • Alternately: Furries goes to war against The Empire. This causes the gods to end the world.
    • Alternately: A buff dude, some children, and a horde of cats kill God.
    • Alternately: Girl with special powers looks important, seems important, acts important, feels important, but is not important until she gets possessed by her bird.
  • Fire Emblem: Shadow Dragon: It's the first one again, but with pants and giant chins.
    • Alternately: Follow the story of a main character who refuses to do sidequests unless he's deliberately killed off most of his allies.
  • Fire Emblem: New Mystery of the Emblem: It's the third one again, but with a self-insert. A remake of a remake.
  • Fire Emblem: Awakening: A thousand or so years after the first game, another blue haired prince learns that love can bloom on the battlefield and meets his Kid from the Future. He can also summon heroes from other worlds... for a price.
    • Alternately: Eugenics: The Video Game.
    • Alternately: Vagrant tactician and Future Trunks fight to rewrite history.
  • Fire Emblem Fates: A young noble has to decide which of two families he/she will fight alongside with. Seeing what would happen if he/she picked the other family (or neither of them) requires some extra cash.
    • Alternately: Carve your path and choose your story. Thrice the game, half the plot.
    • Birthright: Young noble sides with not-Japan to overthrow a villain that looks like Santa. There's a lot of routing.
    • Conquest: Young noble sides with not-Europe to try to talk the villain into being a good guy. Battles are fought without killing anyone.
    • Revelation: Young noble tells their family to jump off a cliff to get the Golden Ending of the game.
    • Hidden Truths DLC: Characters from the previous game finds out important plot points. For a price.
    • Heirs of Fate DLC: The kids from the main game tries to stop the villain from beating the other games. For a price.
  • Fire Emblem Echoes: Shadows of Valentia: Bickering couple kill God and classism. It doesn't last.
    • Alternately: It's the second one again, but with an optional story that explains the origin of the Big Bad of a previous game.
  • Fire Emblem Heroes: Play the slots, win a Bartre, and try not to fall prey to Gacha Games.
    • Alternatively: Kidnap heroes who were probably in the middle of saving their world and force them to fight an evil empire, participate in completely unrelated tournaments, and possibly make friends with their mortal enemies.
    • Book I: Royal Siblings and their commander summons you to help them form an army to fight and defeat their rival kingdoms.
    • Or: Man tries to find cure for his genetic disease while his sister bullies everyone.
    • Book II: Having seen a vision of someone needing your help, you and the royal siblings are going to an Ice World to fight the Fire Nation.
    • Or: Girl gives herself pneumonia to stop dictator's out-of-hand barbecue party.
    • Book III: The daughter of the queen of the dead joins you to prevent your imminent demise.
    • Or: Gambling addict shoots granny in the chest to stop homicidal death metal band.
    • Book IV: You spend a year dreaming you're your best friend.
    • Or: Acid trip causes multiple identity crises and deaths of two child-snatching goats.
    • Book V: A family man is abducted, subject to inhumane experiments, and forced to become the adoptive brother of a psychotic Yandere. Instead of rescuing him, you kill him.
    • Or: Sassy fun-sized nationalist turns man into lizard and restores the monarchy.
    • Book VI: Bat infestation sparks outbreak of OC Death Syndrome and little girl gets traumatized for 13 chapters straight.
    • Book VII: A directionally challenged goddess seeks to stop a snake infestation, then gets an identity crisis.
  • Fire Emblem: Three Houses: Mercenary gets a job at a military school where they are tasked with teaching one-third of the student body how to fight in wars. Five years later their students go to war against the rest of the school.
    • Alternatively: A Goddess sends a mute professor to teach three kids how to kill each other as well as her daughter.
    • Alternately: Professor is five years late for class. Students decide they are legally allowed to kill each other.
    • Alternatively: Mercenary keeps getting thrown into increasingly more important jobs, all of which they are extremely unqualified for.
    • Alternatively: Three kids and a pope are incapable of keeping any semblance of mental stability without a mute, emotionless teacher to assist them.
    • Crimson Flower: Professor joins The Empire to defeat the religion of a corrupted goddess who happens to be a dragon.
    • Alternately: Woman launches terrorist attacks on a church, attempts to assassinate two innocent heirs so she can conquer the continent, and is an accomplice to a kidnapping, a massacre of innocent villagers For Science!, and the cold-blooded murder of your father. She's the good guy.
    • Silver Snow: Professor betrays their student to join the church of the goddess even though working with their father's killers can be a good reason why.
    • Alternately: Woman spends over a thousand years establishing a shadow dictatorship over the continent, systematically oppressing people who don't have divine superpowers, and trying to resurrect her dead mother, the latter of which will most likely destroy your individuality. She's the good guy.
    • Alternately: All of an abuse victim's friends abandon her because her professor didn't attend her coronation.
    • Azure Moon: A young, virtuous prince finds out that one of his fellow classmates he used to have a crush on was the evil mastermind all along. He doesn't take it well.
    • Alternately: Man becomes a hobo-pirate-murderer, tortures people for fun, his actions force his teacher to become a child murderer, and he wants to kill a woman who is trying to end systematic oppression on the continent. He's the good guy.
    • Alternatively: Professor joins the side of the corrupted goddess, but manages to save the day anyways because said corrupted goddess decides tyranny is overrated and steps down after being kidnapped, and the Big Bad was killed by accident in the crossfire late in the war.
    • Verdant Wind: Man kills zombie bandit by giving a speech about friendship.
    • Or: A Ragtag Bunch of Misfits want to discover the secrets their world hide. They end a war as an additional perk.
    • Or: A man must win a war due to it getting in the way of his endeavors to end racism.
    • "Cindered Shadows": Professor wanders underground and fights a man who is so in love with their dead mother that he merges with her corpse. In a tangentially related subplot, the terrorist struggles to maintain control of her employees.
  • Fire Emblem Warriors: Three Hopes: A mercenary possessed by a deity kills tens of thousands of soldiers, bandits, and cultists for a chance to kill another mercenary possessed by an opposing deity.
    • Scarlet Blaze: Princess kicks a cult leader out of her empire, and then sets half the country on fire looking for him and his followers.
    • Azure Gleam: Prince kills his uncle to take the crown, then forms an alliance with a fugitive pope against the princess' empire and the cult leader who wants to kill all of them, the princess included.
    • Golden Wildfire: Sibling rivalry leads to a massive border dispute and the eventual dissolution of a nation whose leaders spend too much time bickering with one another.
    • Or: The man who killed a zombie bandit last time copies the terrorist's homework.
  • Fire Emblem Engage: A dragon with funky hair wakes up from an extremely long nap to collect rings containing the spirits of the previous main characters.
    • "Fell Xenologue": The funky-haired dragon goes on a road trip to help their half-brother get over his daddy issues.
• Fire Pro Wrestling: Create everything from your favorite wrestlers to what your imagination demands and make your own league.
  • Super Fire Pro Wrestling Special: You are a young wrestler who has to go to the top and fight a murderous Ric Flair.
  • Fire Pro Wrestling World: Fighting Road: You are a young wrestler who joins the hottest wrestling promotion not named WWE and fight alongside the John Cena of this promotion, a group of heel lead by the Randy Orton of the promotion, a group of Foreign Wrestling Heel, Japanese luchadores heels or a group of evil old men.
• The Firemen: A Dynamic Duo of everyday heroes fight flamigerous demons in a world where thermodynamics have gone completely haywire and do as they please.
• Fire Shark: A biplane burns everything to the ground.
• Fish Fillets: Two fish push objects. In one year after the game was published, only six people finished it.
• Five Nights at Freddy's: An underpaid night watchman at a run-down family pizza joint has to keep an eye on malfunctioning animatronics.
  • Five Nights at Freddy's 2: The night watchman comes back and has to watch even more animatronics... except not really.
  • Five Nights at Freddy's 3: 30 years after the pizza joint shut down, it is revived as a horror attraction - complete with one nightmarish animatronic rabbit.
  • Five Nights at Freddy's 4: The animatronics, now looking more nightmarish, decide to remake Home Alone. The child who plays Kevin McCallister never asked for this.
  • Five Nights at Freddy's: Sister Location: An underpaid repairman has to maintain oddly-talkative malfunctioning animatronics.
  • Five Nights at Fuckboy's: In an Alternate Universe, the animatronics embark on a quest for a night of debauchery. Swearing, camera abuse and enragement children ensue.
  • Freddy Fazbear's Pizzeria Simulator: An underpaid night watchman and a scorned mechanical engineer gets the band back together for one last hurrah and sends the entire mythos out in a blaze of glory.
  • Ultimate Custom Night: Almost every animatronic comes back to torment you, who may or may not be in a personal hell. You watch anime cutscenes when you win.
  • Five Nights At Freddys VR Help Wanted: The company behind the previous games plays the mythos off as an urban legend from the mind of a madman. The sentient virus in the VR headset waiting to bodyjack you disagrees.
  • Five Nights at Freddy's: Security Breach: In the Totally Radical '80s, a kid gets trapped in a mega mall after hours and mall security spends all night trying to find him.
• FlatOut: You race. Almost everything breaks when you crash into them.
• Flight: Throw a paper plane to deliver a letter.
• The Floor is Jelly: You jump around a lot, then the world collapses.
• Flower: You mainly just open flowers. You can't lose. The environment is your only enemy but cannot beat you anyway.
• Flying Warriors: Five proto-Power Rangers travel around the world beating up demons in elephant tusk masks. The one in red does all the dirty work.
• Folklore: Amnesiac Irish girl and occult magazine reporter attempt to solve a murder mystery connected to her past.
• Food Fight: Eat ice cream before it melts. If you fail, tons of food throws itself at you.
• The Force Unleashed: Guy founds his master's future undoing. He performs many awesome feats on the way.
  • The Force Unleashed II: The guy from the first game dies. His masters clone him back and try to make him evil. It doesn't work and he kills himself multiple times to attempt to get revenge on them.
• Forgotten Worlds: Two flying, shirtless guys armed with guns go on a quest to kill a deity.
• Fortnite: The world is threatened by a cosmic storm who could destroy the universe. Then it became the real life equivalent of Ready Player One.
• Fortune Street: Dragon-slaying adventurers ruthlessly exploit the real estate industry, occasionally joined by plumbers.
• Forum Warz: Lay waste to a copy of the Internet.
• Forza Motorsport: Microsoft's answer to a certain Sony racing sim. Download all sorts of ridiculous decals for your car!
  • Forza Horizon: Said racing sim becomes an arcade racer set in a Wide-Open Sandbox based around a music festival.
• Fragile Dreams: Farewell Ruins of the Moon: A boy tries to find a girlfriend After the End.
• Fran Bow: A little girl is looking for her cat while tripping on pills.
• Freedom Planet: An alien attempts to leave Space China because he can't stand the place. Only a teenage dragon, her cat companion that rides a motorcycle, and a stray dog can stop him from escaping.
• Freedom Wars: Criminals condemned to life in prison just for existing are forced to fight skeletal robots in order to get their sentences commuted.
• Freelancer: Space Is an Ocean that appears to be approximately the size of Rhode Island. You fight evil blue aliens determined to wipe out humanity, and a bunch of German stereotypes.
• FreeSpace: The Great War: Quasi-fascist human military state teams up with philosophy-spouting desert-dwelling aliens to drive off evil space bugs intent on killing anyone who is not an evil space bug and a doomsday cult with spaceships. Featureless Protagonist pilot single-handedly leads the quasi-fascists to victory in his Space Fighter.
  • FreeSpace 2: The humans and aliens have merged into the United Nations IN SPACE! They fight evil space racists and then the evil space bugs show up and start killing people again. Featureless Protagonist pilot amasses an enormous body count and the space bugs blow up a star and leave for no apparent reason.
• Friday the 13th: The Game: Camp counselors are forced to play a lethal game of Hide and Seek against an iconic hockey mask-wearing serial killer/zombie.
• Friday Night Funkin': A guy doesn't want you to date his daughter, so you must sing at him until he relents. In the meantime, you can also sing at various other people who are uninvolved with this whole thing until they too relent.
• Frog Detective: A second-place amphibian with a magnifying glass solves mysteries with trading sequences until he's caught up in a conspiracy of unwearable hats.
• Frogger: An amphibian tries to return to his home in the river. He can't swim.
  • Frogger 2: Swampy's Revenge: A platform from the original game really hates the frog, so he steals the frog's kids.
  • Frogger Beyond: As part of a birthday celebration, a young frog is required to go through various death courses.
  • Frogger: Helmet Chaos: The newest fashion trend turns out to be part of an evil plot.
• Frostpunk: The Industrial Revolution accidentally causes a very chilly apocalypse. Best of luck surviving it without making everyone despise you.
• Fruit Ninja: An old man teaches four children how to cut flowering plants as a martial art. Bombs are involved.
• FTL: Faster Than Light: Spaceship crew attempts to outrun an ever-expanding rebel pursuit force in order to scuttle their forces, steal their parts, and eventually destroy their mothership.
  • Play out the entirety of A New Hope except this time the Empire are the good guys and the Rebels are the evil guys with the Death Star. Now featuring 100% less space wizards.
• Full Throttle: A Genius Bruiser Badass Biker wanders the desert and makes a Wrench Wench the president of a car company.
• Fuga Melodies Of Steel series: French furry children ride a tank with the power to melt one of its pilots.
  • Alternatively: Child Murder Simulator: Ghibli Edition.
  • Fuga: Melodies of Steel: French furry children fight back against their Nazi oppressors because a computer was upset about being buried underground.
  • Fuga: Melodies of Steel 2: French furry children fight back against a vulgar teenage bully by again riding a tank that can insta-win a fight by melting one of its pilots. This time, the leader of said furry kids starts dealing with moral choices.
• Fuzion Frenzy: Four people compete with each other in minigame competitions to dominate the universe. All to the tune of an ingratiating narrator.
• F-Zero: Aliens and monsters race in cars that have no wheels. These cars will explode if they hit the sides of the tracks. And you listen to butt-rock.

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