History BetterThanItSounds / VideoGamesNToR

** [[spoiler: ''VideoGame/{{Skullmonkeys}}'']]: The villain of the previous game (the original Adam of his world, corrupted through his own choice) isn't dead, but merely landed on another world. He enlists the natives to build a warship capable of obliterating his homeworld, so a tech-savvy local enlists the help of the first game's hero to save the day. [[GenreShift The two games are of completely different genres]].

* [[spoiler:''VideoGame/ProfessorLaytonVsAceAttorney'']]: A baker and a scholar counter accusations of witchcraft in a medieval society that does things by the book.

* [[spoiler:''VideoGame/OuterWilds'']]: You're a new space cadet assinged a job to discover the remnants of a lost {{Precursor}} civilization. You have exactly 22 minutes to figure everything out before the [[ApocalypseHow sun goes kaboom]], but don't worry, [[DeathIsCheap you still get to keep everything you've found]], [[GroundhogDayLoop and you have all the time you need in the grand scheme of things]].

* [[spoiler:''VideoGame/RomCheckFail'']]: What happens when the ship from ''VideoGame/SpaceInvaders'' faces [[Franchise/SuperMarioBrothers Goombas]] or VideoGame/PacMan faces [[VideoGame/{{Asteroids}} asteroids]]?

* [[spoiler:''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:''Outpost 2'']]: God drops an asteroid on the Earth ... has a novella backstory.

* [[spoiler:''Overcooked'']]: Too many cooks spoil ''everything''.

** [[spoiler:''Pac-Man World'']]: All-consuming glutton's [[MilestoneCelebration birthday]] is cancelled by a robot that sorta looks like said all-consuming glutton.

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

** Alt: CircusBrat [[SubvertedTrope runs away from home]] in hopes of becoming a [[TeenSuperspy pre-teen superspy]]. As he works his way to the top of an asylum, he is mistaken for a lake monster, eaten by a fish and sneezes out his brain. His dad is ''not'' balding and doesn't hate him.
** Meanwhile, a Brazilian mourns, people go off their meds, and a guy breaks a lot of lamps.

** [[spoiler:''VideoGame/PokemonSwordAndShield'']]: A young boy/girl tries to win the World Cup of cockfighting. Meanwhile, the local CEO's attempts to fix a looming energy crisis go horribly wrong.

* [[spoiler:''VideoGame/NamcoHigh'']]: After you get stuck in detention, you decide to romance the potentially unstable weirdos that landed in there with you. People only like it because the creator of [[Webcomic/{{Homestuck}} some dumb comic]] snuck his original characters into it.

* [[spoiler:''VideoGame/NamcoHigh'']]: After you get stuck in detention, you decide to romance the potentially unstable weirdos that landed in there with you. People only like it because the creator of [[Webcomic{{Homestuck}} some dumb comic]] snuck his original characters into it.

** [[spoiler:''VideoGame/{{Rayman 2}}: The Great Escape'']]: Limbless man must eat a lot of yellow flies on a quest to awaken an omnipotent voodoo doll.

** [[spoiler: ''Nights: Journey Of Dreams'']]: Same androgynous creature does the same thing again, this time with different children, and also manages to confuse everyone by having [[ViewerGenderConfusion a woman's voice]]. Also, an Owl constantly reminds them to collect [[GottaCatchEmAll Dream]][[CollectionSidequest Drops]], which if done, results in a cameo of the two children from the first game.

*** The main character learns that [[FamilyUnfriendlyAesop there's no point trying to correct your mistakes.]]