History BetterThanItSounds / VideoGamesNToR

* [[spoiler: ''SugarWiki/RobotUnicornAttack'']]: Horse collects fairies and makes friends with dolphins on a journey amongst the stars. [[HaveIMentionedIAmHeterosexualToday Men love it.]]

* [[spoiler:''VideoGame/NotTetris'']]: Tetris with a PhysicsEngine.

* [[spoiler:''Plaque Attack'']]: The game of dental hygiene.
* [[spoiler: ''VideoGame/PlaystationAllStarsBattleRoyale'']]: An insane entity with godlike powers gathers up a number of misfits and outcasts to fight each other, plus a few seasoned warriors, [[VideoGame/GravityRush a girl and her cat,]] [[VideoGame/ParappaTheRapper a happy amateur musician,]] and [[VideoGame/{{LittleBigPlanet}} an even happier sentient toy.]] Likely cause of [=YouTube=] hiding video tags from the public.

** [[spoiler:''Advance Wars'']]: World War II starts when Russia invades America, except it's all a BatmanGambit by an evil alien robot [[SuperMarioBros Snifit]] to take over the world. A key part of his plan is making robotic doubles of an American officer who is 15 and doesn't know what an airport is. When the plan falls apart, he drops meteors on the troops.

* [[spoiler:''VideoGame/PaperMario'']]: [[TheEveryman Everyman]] tries saving a land of sentient fungi from a dragon turtle. The characters are flat.

* [[spoiler:''VideoGame/{{Outlast}}]]: Journalist tries to document story of a defunct mental asylum, but the residents don't want to be filmed. Oh, and a ghost is involved.

* [[spoiler:''VideoGame/RhythmHeaven'']]: Depending on the console, [[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:''Pokémon Mystery Dungeon: Explorers of Time''/''Darkness'']]: A different human in the body of a monster must help stop time from freezing by causing time to freeze. There's a scene where all of your closest companions try to kill you, and it's PlayedForLaughs.
*** There's also a set of scenes where the villain tries to drive the heroes to suicide. In a kid's game.

*** [[spoiler:''VideoGame/PokemonMysteryDungeonGatesToInfinity'']]: A different human in the body of a monster (no personality tests this time) is roped into saving the world, and has to [[VideoGame/{{Portal}} think with dimensional gates]] in order to destroy a snowflake. Why? Because a zombie dragon can see into the future.

*** There's also a set of scenes where the villain tries to drive the heroes to suicide. In a kid's game.

*** Alternatively: In one of the most famous children's game series ever, [[CrapsackWorld literally EVERYTHING]] [[WhatDoYouMeanItsForKids is awful]].

** [[spoiler:''VideoGame/HyperdimensionNeptuniaProducingPerfection'']]: The witch is nowhere to be seen, so the girls are left to fend for themselves against an unruly mob of...IdolSingers.

* [[spoiler: ''VideoGame/NESRemix'']]: Simple tasks in 8-bit games in the style of VideoGame/WarioWare. Known for its GameMod-esque stages.*

* [[spoiler: ''VideoGame/RivalSchools: United By Fate'']]: A young man's plans to fulfill his dead father's last wish is ruined by his classmates.

* [[spoiler: ''VideoGame/RivalSchools: United By Fate'']]: High school kids are disappearing and coming back BrainwashedAndCrazy. The only obvious solution is to beat the crap out of one another to find the culprit.
** [[spoiler: ''Project Justice'']]: A lunatic in tight clothing and extendable claws sets out to take over all the schools. The obvious solution from the last game is again the only option.

*** Or: Completing a set of metal ores ''still'' requires interdimensional travel.

** Keep in mind, this is a first person shooter, but has only one weapon that can't kill anyone.

* ''[[spoiler:VisualNovel/ZeroEscape'']]:
** [[spoiler:''VisualNovel/NineHoursNinePersonsNineDoors'']]: A twelve year old uses time travel to solve a sudoku puzzle.
*** Or: Our protagonist flirts with her kidnap victim for several hours, intending to kill him if he doesn't 'become one' with her. In the best ending, she succeeds.
** [[spoiler:''VisualNovel/VirtuesLastReward'']]: To stop the spread of a virus, a deadly game with puzzles takes place long after it would do any good.
** [[spoiler:''VisualNovel/ZeroTimeDilemma'']]: A bunch of test subjects get themselves killed in multiple gruesome ways so they can all win a coin toss.
*** Or: A history buff monologues about snails. Meanwhile, a kidnapper wonders why her victim became distrustful of people, their companion tries to [[ShipperOnDeck ship]] them, a sociopath prevents her boyfriend from abusing a child, and a pair of corporate employees ponder philosophy with a nurse.
*** Or: A game which structures itself around player choice, yet which can only continue after a certain point if the player renders all their previous choices- no matter how profitable or altruistic- inconsequential.

* [[spoiler:''VideoGame/NotTetris'']]: Tetris with a PhysicsEngine.
** [[spoiler:''Not Pac-Man'']]: Pac-Man with the ability to tilt the maze.
* [[spoiler: ''VideoGame/NEOScavenger'']]: You control an amnesic wiki curator who wakes up in a crappier version of Michigan. You then live as a traveling hobo while [[EverythingTryingToKillYou cannibals, cultists, evil spirits, diseases, and the weather tries to kill you.]]