History BetterThanItSounds / VideoGamesNToR

* [[spoiler:''VideoGame/{{Neptunia}}'']]: UsefulNotes/ConsoleWars [[RecycledINSPACE AS A VIDEO GAME!]]

** [[spoiler: ''My Pokémon Ranch'']]: In a game with graphics that resemble the UsefulNotes/Nintendo64, you're able to transfer creatures to a farm and play with them. You get more creatures the more you play the game.

* [[spoiler:''VideoGame/RetroCityRampage'']]: Relive The80s by playing ''VideoGame/GrandTheftAuto'' through an [[UsefulNotes/NintendoEntertainmentSystem NES]] filter.

* [[spoiler:''VideoGame/RhythmHeaven'']]: Depending on the console, [[UsefulNotes/GameBoyAdvance tap a]] [[UsefulNotes/NintendoWii couple]] [[UsefulNotes/Nintendo3DS buttons]] in time with [[QuirkyWork unexplainable things]] or [[UsefulNotes/NintendoDS tap and flick your stylus]] in time with [[QuirkyWork unexplainable things]].

* [[spoiler:''VideoGame/PowerStone'']]: An AcePilot, a [[TheCutie cute]] {{kunoichi}}, a [[Franchise/DragonBall Goku]]-esque martial artist, a [[FortuneTeller fortune telling]] BellyDancer, a {{ronin}} {{samurai}}, a [[TheGambler gambling]] miner, a MagicalNativeAmerican, a masked SerialKiller, a {{gonk}} {{pirate}}, and a SocialDarwinist {{Pro|WrestlingIsReal}} {{Wrestler|InAllOfUs}} all get together to have some fun from within a {{MacGuffin}} treasure hunting game.

* [[spoiler:''VideoGame/{{Octodad}}'']]: A StandardFiftiesFather goes through his morning routine. By the way, [[FunnyOctopus he's an octopus]].
** [[spoiler:''Octodad: Dadliest Catch'']]: A StandardFiftiesFather who is secretly an octopus goes grocery shopping, is tricked into a trip to the aquarium, and befriends a PTSD-ridden sushi chef who wants him dead.

* [[spoiler:''VideoGame/RetroCityRampage'']]: Relive TheEighties by playing ''VideoGame/GrandTheftAuto'' through an [[UsefulNotes/NintendoEntertainmentSystem NES]] filter.

* [[spoiler:''VideoGame/PerfectVermin'']]: A news reporter berates you while you smash fake office supplies [[DropTheHammer with a sledgehammer]].

* [[spoiler:''VideoGame/QPShooting'']]: ''Franchise/TouhouProject'', but with a pudding-obsessed dog girl and lots of [[WidgetSeries widgety-ness]].

* [[spoiler:''VideoGame/RhythmHeaven'']]: Depending on the console, [[UsefulNotes/GameBoyAdvance tap a]] [[UsefulNotes/NintendoWii couple]] [[UsefulNotes/Nintendo3DS buttons]] in time with [[WidgetSeries unexplainable things]] or [[UsefulNotes/NintendoDS tap and flick your stylus]] in time with [[WidgetSeries unexplainable things]].

* [[spoiler:''VisualNovel/NekoPara'']]: Your [[HaremGenre harem]] consists of your cats... and your [[BrotherSisterIncest sister]].

* [[spoiler: ''VideoGame/NicktoonsMLB'']]: [[WesternAnimation/SpongeBobSquarePants Sentient sponge]], [[WesternAnimation/DannyPhantom spandex ghost]], [[WesternAnimation/TUFFPuppy secret agent dog]], [[WesternAnimation/AvatarTheLastAirbender bald kid]], [[WesternAnimation/InvaderZim green omnicidal maniac]], [[WesternAnimation.TheRenAndStimpyShow gross kitty]] and more face-off against real baseball players. No, you are not high.

* [[spoiler:''VideoGame/NightInTheWoods'']]: [[UsefulNotes/FurryFandom Furries]] shoot the breeze in their sleepy town. ''Everyone'' is immensely more well-adjusted than you are. Also, Cthulhu might be involved.

* [[spoiler:''Videogame/{{Noita}}'']]: A greedy apprentice witch tries looking for gold and spells in an overly fragile mountain.

* [[spoiler:''Nova Drift'']]: Videogame/{{Asteroids}} but it's a roguelike.
* [[spoiler:''Videogame/{{Obduction}}'']]: A giant flying pinecone teleports you to an alien planet. To get back home, you must water some trees.

** Or, a young god that teams up with a [[CowardlyLion coward]] with a sword, a mermaid, an actress, a magical flying boy from the moon and a fat kid uses calligraphy to rid the world of demons.

* [[spoiler: ''Videogame/OrcsMustDie!'']]: A cheerful idiot watches his old mentor die, and then genocides millions of [[FailedASpotCheck incredibly oblivious]] orcs and other fantasy creatures running down hallways, for fun and profit.
** [[spoiler: ''Videogame/OrcsMustDie! 2'']]: The lady responsible for sending the aforementioned orcs to their aforementioned genocide joins the aforementioned idiot for more aforementioned genocide, while the old mentor (who isn't really dead) approves.
** [[spoiler: ''OrcsMustDieUnchained'']]: The aforementioned orcs get even more genocided, as a pile of new heroes join the aforementioned lady and idiot and old man join in the trap-based violence-party.

* [[spoiler:''VideoGAme/{{Outpost}}'']]: God drops an asteroid on the Earth. Your onboard Windows 95 computer won't let you take the off ramp to Mars so you spend about a hundred years flying to the next equally barren rock where you build an <ahem> outpost of civilization.

* [[spoiler:''Videogame/OxygenNotIncluded'']]: Colonize far-off asteroids using a bunch of tiny, mentally imbalanced idiots and a machine to clone more tiny idiots. Make sure the idiots don't run out of oxygen, the air's nasty (and complex) in there.

*** [[spoiler: ''WebComic/NuzlockeComics'']]: Share the above online, so everyone can join in the emotional tragedy! Yaaaaaaay!

* [[spoiler:''VideoGame/PowerStone'']]: An AcePilot, a [[TheCutie cute]] {{kunoichi}}, a [[Franchise/DragonBall Goku]]-esque martial artist, a [[FortuneTeller fortune telling]] BellyDancer, a {{ronin}} {{samurai}}, a [[TheGambler gambling]] miner, a MagicalNativeAmerican, a masked SerialKiller, a {{gonk}} {{pirate}}, and a SocialDarwinist [[ProWrestlingIsReal Pro]] [[WrestlerInAllOfUs Wrestler]] all get together to have some fun from within a {{MacGuffin}} treasure hunting game.

** [[spoiler:''VideoGame/PuyoPuyoTsu'']]: Satan sets up a tower to woo little girl and get his pet back.

* [[spoiler: ''Videogame/{{Rimworld}}'']]: Literature/RobinsonCrusoe, but InSpace and with way more [[VideogameCrueltyPotential warcrimes]].

* [[spoiler: ''Videogame/RiseAndDestroy'']]: You are a giant monster that must rampage through the city.

* [[spoiler: ''Videogame/RiskOfRain'']]: ''Film/CastAway'' InSpace with way more violence, ''way'' more random shipping crates and an angry zookeeper that won't let you leave.
** [[spoiler: ''Videogame/RiskOfRain2'']]: Investigators/looters return to the crash site and find more violence, ''even more'' random shipping crates and an even angrier zookeeper's brother that won't let them leave.

*** [[spoiler:''VideoGame/ResidentEvil2Remake]]: As above but with more angst and gore.

* [[spoiler:''VideoGame/{{Onmyoji}}'']]: A multiplayer game featuring terribly inaccurate portrayal of Japanese history, where your success depends entirely on luck and [[BribingYourWayToVictory how much real-life money you are willing to spend]].

* [[spoiler: ''VideoGame/NicktoonsMLB'']]: [[WesternAnimation/SpongeBobSquarePants Sentient sponge]], [[WesternAnimation/DannyPhantom spandex ghost]], [[WesternAnimation/TUFFPuppy secret agent dog]], [[WesternAnimation/AvatarTheLastAirbender bald kid]], [[WesternAnimation/InvaderZim green omnicidal maniac]], [[WesternAnimation.TheRenAndStimpyShow gross kitty]] and more face-off against real baseball players. [[WhatDoYouMeanItWasntMadeOnDrugs No, you are not high.]]

*** [[spoiler:''VideoGame/BookOfMarioThousandsOfDoors'']]: A RecursiveTranslation produces enough strange consistencies to turn AlternateCharacterInterpretation into an Olympic sport.

** [[spoiler:''VideoGame/Pikmin4'']]: The cargo deliveryman has shipwrecked on the planet along with the people who were supposed to rescue him. [[VideoGame/BadDudes Are you a bad enough dude to rescue the cargo deliveryman?]]

** [[spoiler: ''VideoGame/{{Skullmonkeys}}'']]: The big brother of the guy made of clay falls on a planet full of monkeys. His first action is to skin a monkey alive and wear its flayed skin. Then the guy made of clay has to turn off a machine.

** [[spoiler:''VideoGame/HeyYouPikachu'']]: In this same world, a child must befriend a mouse with the help of buggy voice-recognition technology.

* [[spoiler:''VideoGame/{{Pushmo}}'']]: A little guy removes children from voxel statues by meticulously pulling them apart.[[note]][[JustForFun/IThoughtItMeant The statues,]] [[AnArmAndALeg you sicko.]]]][[/note]]

* [[spoiler:''VideoGame/{{Pushmo}}'']]: A little guy removes children from voxel statues by meticulously pulling them apart.[[note]][[JustForFun/IThoughtItMeant The statues, [[AnArmAndALeg you sicko.]]]][[/note]]

** [[spoiler:''VideoGame/{{Phantasmagoria 2}}'']]: Bisexual half-human hybrid cubicle dweller has both his prospective girlfriend and boyfriend stalked by an evil plant counterpart from another dimension.

* [[spoiler:''VideoGame/ThePedestrian'']]: You travel across public signs. That’s it.

* [[spoiler:''VideoGame/OctopathTraveler'']]: Eight people solve their own personal problems. Then they have to stop the god of evil from engulfing the world.