History BlackComedy / VideoGames

** Simon Belmont's reveal trailer has Luigi getting violently killed by death and turning into a ghost. At the end of the trailer, he's about to get back into his body before getting interrupted by Camilla.

** ''Anything'' [[http://www.cavejohnsonhere.com/ Cave Johnson says.]]

* ''VideoGame/{{Portal}}'' antagonist [=GLaDOS=] has a strong streak of black comedy. In fact, the entire world in which the game takes place is constructed of this. ''VideoGame/{{Portal 2}}'' and its promotional material ups the ante by showing a behind the scenes look at the insanity that is Aperture Science -- along with the inevitable tragic results which are themselves PlayedForLaughs.
** ''Anything'' [[http://www.cavejohnsonhere.com/ Cave Johnson says.]]
** Creator/{{Valve|Software}} in general seems to love this trope, albeit in a relatively subdued sense. [[VideoGame/{{Portal 2}} Brain-damaged woman used in dangerous experiments?]] Check. [[VideoGame/HalfLife2 Cats turned inside out by a malfunctioning teleporter?]] Yep. [[VideoGame/TeamFortress2 Exploding heads, live animals being sewn into patients and brutal beatings as part of a ridiculously pointless war?]] Naturally.
* Eggman's P.A. announcments from ''VideoGame/SonicColors'' sound like they could have easily been lifted from ''Portal'':
-->"We seem to be losing pressure on level seventeen. Please hold your breath against the harsh vacuum of space until you pass out from oxygen starvation. After that, you won't care. Enjoy the ride!"\\
"Next stop, the Tropical Resort. Here, you will find: breath-taking views from our giant Ferris wheel, amazing deals from our shopping mall, and [[BreadEggsMilkSquick constant risk of bodily harm.]]"
* ''VideoGame/{{Psychonauts}}'' is a black comedy in cartoony clothing -- it looks bright and G-rated, but every now and then something incredibly dark happens, like a suicide-bombing [[GirlScoutsAreEvil Girl Scout]]
* The cartoony, comically exaggerated bloodshed of ''VideoGame/TeamFortress2'' brings it to the edge of black comedy. The Meet the Cast videos push it over, and Meet the Pyro turns it UpToEleven.
* ''VideoGame/VampireTheMasqueradeBloodlines'', when not relying on reference comedy, revels in this trope. [[MultipleEndings The ending]] where the BigBad discovers the contents of the MacGuffin he's been trying to get his hands on [[spoiler:have been replaced with explosives by Smiling Jack]] is a particularly amusing example.
* The ''VideoGame/{{Fallout}}'' series depend heavily on this trope. The intro to the first game is a stellar example. Given that one of the games' major influences is ''Film/DrStrangelove'', this is hardly surprising.
** ''VideoGame/{{Fallout 3}}'': Most notably anything written on the terminals in the Nuka Cola Factory Mostly involving the testing of their Products which resulted in some deaths. Nuka Cola Quantum was finally cleared for release once the number of t=deaths was at ''acceptable'' levels. Said product includes radioactive isotopes.
*** Much of the humor does come from anything written on the terminals
** ''VideoGame/FalloutNewVegas'' DLC ''Old World Blues'' is so dripping with Black Comedy you'll forget that the Think Tank kinda forgot where they left your brain.
*** Like ''VideoGame/{{Portal}}'', however, ''Old World Blues''' humor becomes very subdued when you come across a bona-fide Death Camp.
** ''VideoGame/{{Fallout 4}}'' comes with a number of promotional short films explaining the [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yuo7AuDGNN8 S.]][[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vw21X2jKwCM P.]][[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=paYU1neP3xM E.]][[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X95lZ56ddj4 C.]][[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H6yt-43Vp1M I.]][[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bQ_okO2tLN0 A.]][[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bke9wvob8Ls L.]] system.. It also says a lot about Vault-Tec's sociopathic tendencies that they could pass off ''[[ImAHumanitarian cannibalism]]'' as a peachy survival tip.
* In a case of the [[GettingCrapPastTheRadar radar ops]] being asleep at the switch, the E-rated ''[[VideoGame/BanjoKazooie Banjo-Tooie]]'' is loaded with this. No less than three characters continue to inundate you with British humo(u)r despite varying stages of horrific undeath.
* The ''VideoGame/{{Worms}}'' computer game series. The more outlandish weapons involve exploding [[BaaBomb sheep]], exploding cows, exploding old ladies......
* ''VideoGame/MondayNightCombat'' has armies of clones dying for [[BloodSport entertainment]]. There are also references to [[LotteryOfDoom a population-control lottery]], assigned dwellings, government-mandated curfews, [[ArsonMurderAndJaywalking a section of the stands being under]] [[HilarityEnsues full coyote alert]]....

* ''VideoGame/PlanescapeTorment'' revels in black comedy, much of it based around the protagonist and his immortality. You can win an argument with a man espousing the glories of the afterlife by ''snapping your own neck'', dropping dead, then standing up minutes later and saying, "All right, now it's your turn." Or hit on a female zombie and then bicker with your [[TheLancer Lancer]] about which of the pair of you she was most into.
** You can also order an NPC to crack open your skull to look if there is anything inside. You then write into your journal "there wasn't".
* ''VideoGame/ConkersBadFurDay'': The BossBattle takes place inside a mountain of excrement, [[http://sloprano.ytmnd.com/ the Great Mighty Poo.]] Warning, link swears.
** The [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G4YePD6B9Qw recreation of the D-Day scene from Saving Private Ryan]] or the dead baby humour when you [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sEGvmRu7Ez4 squish a baby dinosaur that thinks you are its mummy (because you helped it hatch) to sacrifice it to some crocodile god.]]
* ''VideoGame/BatmanArkhamAsylum'' has The Riddler provide a black comedy example of the riddle of the Sphinx:
--> '''Riddle''': What walks on four legs in the morning, two in the afternoon and three in the night?
--> '''Answer''': A baby. Cut off its legs and it'll still have its arms. Give it a crutch and it will hobble on three.
:: Followed by this line:
-->'''Therapist''': How can you even joke about that?
-->'''Riddler''': Easy, doctor: It's not my baby.
* ''VideoGame/BatmanArkhamCity'' tops it right after the final boss battle, with the Joker's last words.
-->'''Batman''': Want to hear something funny? Even after everything you've done, I still would've saved you.
-->'''Joker''': Heh, that's actually... pretty funny! *cackles*
* ''VideoGame/BatmanArkhamKnight'' manages to take Joker's black comedy UpToEleven even after he dies, [[spoiler:as Bruce Wayne's split personality, created as an unexpected side effect of Joker's Titan-infused blood poisoning]]. Every joke from the 'AI' insults the characters Batman comes across, while Batman plays the straight man by pretending he can't hear them. You get to hear these messages throughout the entire game and after side-quests (or until Batman destroys the source in the ending by [[NotSoStoic furiously punching it to stuff it in a box]]).
* While the mutated fetus enemy in ''Franchise/DeadSpace'' isn't played for laughs, it's hard to think anything ''but'' humour was going through the heads of the animators when animating your grapple kill against them: Isaac yanks the baby from his head, and ''kicks it across the room''. One has to wonder why they didn't go the whole hog and add a crowd cheering.
** To wit, there is an achievement/trophy for doing said grapple kill ten times. The achievement's title? ''Kickin' It''
* Visceral games apparently has a thing for this trope; there's an achievement in ''VideoGame/DantesInferno'' for killing enough undead babies.
* ''VideoGame/{{Penumbra}}: Black Plague'' features Clarence - a disembodied voice in your head from a virus that ''runs'' on this trope.
* ''VideoGame/DwarfFortress'' : The whole game, really. Mixed with a lot of Slapstick, if you are similarly inclined.
** Babies make excellent ablative armor. In a pinch, they make decent bludgeons, too.
** Toady's dev logs can be a gold mine for this kind of stuff.
---> ... then his guts popped out and another guy came along and severed his exposed guts, [[DissonantSerenity so that's all working]].
** The community ''thrives'' on this sort of schadenfreude.
---> My fort became successful to the point of boredom, so I armed my favorite death trap, put on the Macarena in my music player, and began cycling through my units list in time with the music, and [[VideoGameCrueltyPotential threw someone in the death trap]] every time the guys went "eey, Macarena!".
* [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kG2EQEsGFCc This mod]] for ''[[VideoGame/TheSims The Sims 2]]''. Several of the comments on the video count as well.
* A bit of overheard dialogue during the City Elf origin in ''VideoGame/DragonAgeOrigins'', when a guard is grumbling about having to have killed a pretty elf woman while she was trying to escape, which is followed with [[ILoveTheDead "She's still warm. How picky are you?"]].
* The ''VideoGame/DukeNukemForever'' level "The Hive". As Duke progresses through the level (an alien hive located underneath the Duke Dome), he comes across several cocooned women tearfully moaning and crying as Octoroid babies graphically burst from their rapidly-expanding stomachs - the next-gen elements make the visuals and their anguished cries plain disturbing. Duke attempts to make light of the situation after he comes across the Holsom Twins, who have also been impregnated. Duke replies, "Looks like you're... fucked" and soon after, their stomachs burst open (this happens after he expressed audible rage when they're kidnapped from his high-rise condo) in an earlier level. Some [[http://www.destructoid.com/review-duke-nukem-forever-203658.phtml online reviews]] noted that this was an [[BlackComedyRape attempt]] to push the Mature rating for all it was worth, but made Duke look like a cold, callous psychopath instead.
* ''VideoGame/HeroicArmiesMarching'' likes this trope, allowing you to send goblin babies into battle. The lore describes them as being so weak, their skin peels off like wet paper.

* ''VideoGame/{{Tropico}} 4''. The entire game. You see, it's a Cold War. You're the dictator of a Banana Republic, and you're ultimately a pawn in a much larger game between the US and the USSR. Your people aren't exactly cooperative, nor they are very bright. You can't stay in power (for long) lest you Kick the Dog on regular basis. This culminates when you sell your island to the US to test nuclear bombs: your Announcer Chatter will say that "according to the scientists, the big shiny mushroom is harmless, and it's good for the skin tone", your history involves the worst in people (Being the only true graduate of every Harvard Grad in your class, where you have to be a pathetic banana republic dictator, your buddies go on to be POTUS).
* ''VideoGame/TalesOfTheAbyss'' towards Guy's fear of women. During a good portion of the game, whenever a girl comes very close to him (especially if they touch him) he recoils in fear and starts screaming. ''Hilarious'', and becomes a RunningGag But then we learn why he's so afraid of contact with women... When he was young, his home, Hod, was being attacked by Duke fon Fabre's men. Guy was hidden inside a (thankfully extinguished) fireplace by his older sister and the house maids, and then the soldiers came in. In order to protect him, Guy's sister and the maids threw themselves onto Guy as the soldiers killed them all. He passed out, but when he came to, he was smothered in a pile of dead women. Suffice to say, nobody was laughing after that.
* ''VideoGame/FruitMystery'' is all about feeding zoo animals human foods and reading about the often fatal consequences.
* ''[[VideoGame/AaaaaAAaaaAAAaaAAAAaAAAAAARecklessDisregardForGravity AaaaaAAaaaAAAaaAAAAaAAAAA!!! - A Reckless Disregard for Gravity]]'' particularly likes this style of humor.
* In early-1990s classic ''VideoGame/{{Lemmings}}'', it was possible- and in fact intentional- for the player to [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1GzF6vm9fwY&feature=related blow up all their own lemmings in order to abort a level]] for whatever reason. After the timers above their head ran out, each lemming would go "Oh no!" in a cartoonish voice, shake a bit, and then go "pop!" in a firework-like explosion.
* In ''VideoGame/FiveNightsAtFreddys'' you are a security guard in a building full of murderous animatronics and all you have to defend yourself with is security cameras, two doors and limited electricity to power the cameras and the doors... And it begins with a [[MoodWhiplash bored sounding security guard reading out legal information to you]], telling you some odds and ends, and basically ends the conversation with an offhand mention about how someone in the past had their frontal lobe torn out by the animatronics, which is why they aren't allowed to walk around during the day anymore, how the animatronics are likely to kill ''you'' by forcing you into an animatronic suit and how there are blind spots [[ParanoiaFuel all around your office]]. It's hard not to chuckle, in a twisted way.
** [[spoiler:Then you find out ''why'' [[HauntedTechnology the animatronics]] are [[DisproportionateRetribution doing what they're doing]], and then ''[[SerialKiller the man]] who caused it'' appears, and things take [[CerebusSyndrome a massive turn for]] the ''[[TheHeroDies worst.]]'']]
* ''VideoGame/GrandTheftAutoIV'' has a Radio/GTARadio talk show called ''Integrity 2.0'' that's almost based around this.
* From ''VideoGame/DustFiveOneFour'':
--> "Suicide in public areas is strictly prohibited."
* ''VideoGame/WildStar'' pretty much ''runs'' on this trope. A few examples include:
** The [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lmCyPXv5APY official "Paths" flick,]] where pretty much everyone but Agent Voxine is killed, injured, or horribly traumatized in some way, shape, or form.
** The "Mammodin of Mass Destruction" mission in Deradune, where you strap high-explosives into mind-controlled rhinos then direct them into poacher camps. Failure comes in two ways: angering other Mammodins, or [[OutWithABang attracting other Mammodins who want to mate with yours,]] thus causing an explosion of LudicrousGibs.
** A Mechari explaining that they ''do'' have a sense of humour--it's just hard to laugh along when your head's in a sack.
* ''VideoGame/{{Borderlands}}'' had a fair bit of this. ''VideoGame/{{Borderlands 2}}'' absolutely ''revels'' in it, to the point where it qualifies for both DenserAndWackier and DarkerAndEdgier.
** There's a mission where a man makes constant sexist remarks against the female leader of his town. You then [[spoiler: use a mortar to bomb his house, knocking it off a cliff, and send him screaming to his death at the bottom of a chasm.]]
** Midway through the game, [[{{Troll}} Handsome Jack]] kills [[spoiler: Bloodwing]] and then starts complaining that he was going to play a violin "all sarcastically" over the corpse. A few minutes later he finds a violin and actually starts playing a terrible off-key song on it just to rub the salt in the wounds. And it manages to still somehow be hilarious, [[CrossesTheLineTwice perhaps because of how over the top it is.]]
* The Nintendo DS game ''Mizuiro Blood'' has this, when the main character gets sliced horizontally.
* The joke endings for the ''Franchise/SilentHill'' series, after ''VideoGame/SilentHill4'' anyway, fall nicely into this. That said the joke ending for ''VideoGame/SilentHillBookOfMemories'' is by far the darkest as it takes shots at every single convention, and character, in the series. I.e., one character accidentally sneezes on Mary Sunderland, she says it's cool, but James remarks she has to be more careful or else she might catch something. Also Alex Shepard teaching his brother how to swim.
* ''VideoGame/SouthParkTheStickOfTruth'', much like the show, runs on this. At one point you fight a giant aborted Nazi zombie fetus.
* ''VideoGame/JoJosBizarreAdventureAllStarBattle'' has Josuke from Part 4 heal his opponent back to full health when he uses his Great Heat Attack. Johnny from Part 7 is handicapped; specifically, his legs are paralyzed. When Josuke uses his GHA on Johnny, he stands up, his legs working again... and then Josuke beats him ''back'' into paraplegia. ("If I heal you first, it's not cheating, right? DORADORADORADORADORAAA!")

* ''VideoGame/TheWitchsHouse'': The many, many deaths you can suffer throughout the game - while horrific - can elicit a chuckle or two, due to how creative or suddenly they happen; especially after [[spoiler:you know the AwfulTruth [[GrandTheftMe behind the game]], and just ''who'' it is [[VillainProtagonist you're playing as]]]].
* ''VideoGame/CrusaderKings'' tends to run into this. You spend most of the game attempting to murder people, steal titles, start wars and maneuvering your favored heir into a position of power, [[DeliberateValuesDissonance while entirely disregarding anything resembling anything resembling modern morality]] [[PragmaticVillainy if you expect to survive]] . Except every other character in the game is trying to do the exact same thing. The resulting GambitPileup usually [[HilarityEnsues ends in comedy.]] [[ShaggyDogStory Then you catch tuberculosis and die, leaving your inbred son in charge.]]

* ''VideoGame/SurgeonSimulator2013'' involves you trying to do organ transplants to save a patient's life and you can screw up to the point of killing them. You perform the surgery with just one hand, grip and grab tools in the most awkward ways, and cut and poke things out in a way that would have gotten you jailed if done in real life. You can cause the patient to lose so much blood that he should have died, but as long as he has just that one milliliter of blood left, he'll live! To make things even more dark and comedic, you can inject yourself with a syringe that makes you hallucinate and perform the surgery in that state.
* ''Dr. Mal: Practice of Horror'' involves playing solitaire in order to "diagnose" your patients' various wacky complaints. The "doctor" himself is a wild-haired chainsaw-wielding cross between a MadScientist and an EvilClown, the patients are similar caricatures and the card illustrations and icons for "bone," "blood" &etc. examinations are often ludicrously gruesome.
* ''Franchise/MortalKombat'', whenever there's humor, there's high chance it will be BloodyHilarious. Characters like Johnny Cage are particularily known for being humorous even during the [[FinishingMove Fatalities]] (for example, using his hands to open a rip in his opponent's torso just to peek through it and yell [[Film/TheShining "Heeeeere's Johnny!"]]
* Steam game ''[[VideoGame/WhosYourDaddy Who's Your Daddy?]]'' has dark humor in the form of killing a baby. One player plays as the father trying to protect his son from the dangers of the house (electrical outlets, sharp objects, chemicals, etc.) while the other player plays as the baby trying to get themselves killed. The baby "wins" if it dies, but the father wins if he can keep the baby alive for a few minutes. The idea of playing as a baby trying to get killed CrossesTheLineTwice.
* ''VideoGame/LegacyOfKain'', being a series that could very well be one of the best examples of BlackAndGrayMorality, pretty much runs away with this whenever humorous and [[DeadpanSnarker snarky]] components come up in dialogue. Some of Kain's descriptions of the various items he comes across in Blood Omen are just rife with dark, snarky observations.
--> '''Kain''': (describing the Heart of Darkness) "Reputed to have been ripped from the chest of the greatest vampire to have ever existed, Janos Audron, the Heart of Darkness restores vampiric unlife. Life is precious, Janos discovered - as it was torn throbbing and bleeding from his own body."
* Most Adult Swim online games http://games.adultswim.com/, which frequently cross the line. Examples include:
** [=HRmaggedon=]
** Floater
** Meowcenaries
** VideoGame/AmateurSurgeon
** Candy Mountain Massacre
** Five Minutes To Kill Yourself
** Gigolo Assassin
** Schizo-phrenzy
** VideoGame/VivaCaligula
** Orphan Feast
** Kill Thy Neighbor
** Sausage Factory
* ''VideoGame/TheJackboxPartyPack'' gives us ''Bomb Corp'' and ''Trivia Murder Party'', where death is treated by the games' hosts as a bit of a joke. The former game because its host is used to seeing his coworkers get blown up, and in the latter the host is a trivia-obsessed murderer.
* In ''VideoGame/TheSexyBrutale'', this is primarily provided by the staff, who carry out their murders with the phlegmatic, casual attitude they might have towards washing dishes. MoodWhiplash is also used to full effect.
* ''VideoGame/RandalsMonday'': The game is full with it. From Matt's increasingly bloody and unlikely deaths to [[spoiler: Randal's past self getting the Wolverine treatment]], there is a lot of black comedy to be had.
* ''VideoGame/GraveyardKeeper'' positively ''thrives'' on this, as its tutorial guide cheerfully advises you to ''carve flesh from a corpse and sell it to the innkeeper'' in order to buy said guide a beer.
* ''VideoGame/ThemeHospital'' is a darkly comical look at healthcare. The diseases are very silly, but patients can still drop dead if not treated in time (or treated incorrectly). The game in particular skewers the notion of healthcare as a profit-making industry, with the intro movie showing a doctor halting an operation (which he is performing with a chainsaw) and dropping the patient into a BottomlessPit when he fails to pass a credit check.
** Its SpiritualSuccessor ''VideoGame/TwoPointHospital'' has a lighter tone, but still features some darkly comedic elements.
* ''VideoGame/SuperSmashBrosUltimate'' has a surprising amount of this, both in the trailers and the game itself:

** The spirit for [[VideoGame/MetalGear Paz Ortega Andrade]] gives the special ability to start with a Bomb-Omb equipped. This is likely a reference to ''VideoGame/MetalGearSolidVGroundZeroes'', where [[spoiler: she dies by having a bomb detonate inside what is implied to be her vagina.]]
** The spirit for Ness's Dad is represented by a telephone, and [[TheFaceless requires fighting an invisible Snake.]] In addition, the ability for it is [[ParentalAbandonment "Running Start".]]

** Taken UpToEleven during VideoGame/BanjoKazooie's showcase, where Creator/MasahiroSakurai refers to all the background characters in Spiral Mountain as "poor souls", and proceeds to joke about their horrible fates, such as Bottles' death at the beginning of ''VideoGame/BanjoTooie'', Gruntila being [[AndIMustScream trapped under a boulder]] for two years, and Tootie's fate in the first game's GameOver sequence.

* In ''VideoGame/LuigisMansion3'', after rescuing [[spoiler: E. Gadd, who's been sealed in a portrait shortly before the events of the game]], E. Gadd tries to suggest to Luigi that [[ScrewThisImOuttaHere they escape the hotel immediately]], only for Luigi to point out that the rest of his friends are still trapped inside. He responds with visible annoyance that Luigi wants to stay behind and rescue his friends and treats [[AndIMustScream Luigi's friends' potential fates of being stuck in paintings to be hung on King Boo's wall for the rest of eternity]] as just another inconvenience blocking their escape.

** [[spoiler:Then you find out ''why'' [[HauntedTechnology the animatronics]] are [[DisproportionateRetribution doing what they're doing]], and then ''[[SerialKiller the man]] who caused it'' appears, and things take [[CerebusSyndrome a massive turn for] the]] ''[[TheHeroDies worst.]]'']]

** In [[VideoGame/FatalFury Terry Bogard's]] reveal trailer, a bunch of Creator/{{SNK}} characters are shown reaching for the ''Smash'' invitation as a reference to ''VideoGame/TheKingOfFighters''. The main antagonist of ''Fatal Fury'', Geese Howard, is one of them. But unlike the others, he doesn't just miss the invitation. He jumps over the ledge of his skyscraper while reaching for it, and ends up [[DisneyVillainDeath falling to his death]], just like in ''Fatal Fury''.

** In [[VideoGame/FatalFury Terry Bogard's]] reveal trailer, a bunch of Creator/{{SNK}} characters are shown reaching for the ''Smash'' invitation as a reference to ''VideoGame/TheKingOfFighters''. The main antagonist of ''Fatal Fury'', Geese Howard is one of them, but unlike the others, he doesn't just miss the invitation. He jumps over the ledge of his skyscraper while reaching for it, and ends up [[DisneyVillainDeath falling to his death]], just like in ''Fatal Fury''.

* In [[VideoGame/FatalFury Terry Bogard's]] reveal trailer, a bunch of Creator/SNK characters are shown reaching for the ''Smash'' invitation as a reference to ''VideoGame/TheKingOfFighters''. The main antagonist of ''Fatal Fury'', Geese Howard is one of them, but unlike the others, he doesn't just miss the invitation. He jumps over the ledge of his skyscraper while reaching for it, and ends up [[DisneyVillainDeath falling to his death]], just like in ''Fatal Fury''.

** Taken UpToEleven during VideoGame/BanjoKazooie's showcase, where Creator/MasahiroSakurai refers to all the background characters in Spiral Mountain as "poor souls", and proceeds to joke about their horrible fates, such as Bottles' death at the beginning of ''VideoGame/BanjoTooie'', Gruntila being [[AndIMustScream trapped under a boulder]] for two years, and Tootie's fate in the first game's GameOver sequence.

** The Palutena's Guidance conversation for the Pokémon Trainer has Viridi wonder about all the weak Pokémon that get left in their balls and forgotten. Pit then suddenly worries about "[=PikaPit=]" before Palutena assures him that "I'm sure all those abandoned Pokémon are all playing in a farm upstate."

** [[spoiler:Then you find out ''[[AvertedTrope why]]'' [[InfantImmortality the]] [[HauntedTechnology animatronics]] are [[DisproportionateRetribution doing what they're doing,]] and then ''[[SerialKiller the]] [[PurpleIsPowerful man]] [[SealedInAPersonShapedCan who]] [[ArtificialZombie caused]] [[IronicHell it]]'' appears, and things take [[CerebusSyndrome a massive turn]] [[BloodierAndGorier for]] [[BodyHorror the]] ''[[TheHeroDies worst.]]'']]

A surprising amount of it, both in the trailers and the game itself.

** Its SpiritualSuccessor ''VideoGame/TwoPointHospital'' has a lighter tone, but still features some darkly comedic elements.

* ''VideoGame/ThemeHospital'' is a darkly comical look at healthcare. The diseases are very silly, but patients can still drop dead if not treated in time (or treated incorrectly). The game in particular skewers the notion of healthcare as a profit-making industry, with the intro movie showing a doctor halting an operation (fwhich he is performing with a chainsaw) and dropping the patient into a BottomlessPit when he fails to pass a credit check.

* ''VideoGame/GraveyardKeeper'' positively ''thrives'' on this, as its tutorial guide cheerfully advises you to ''carve flesh from a corpse and sell it to the innkeeper'' in order to buy said guide a beer.

* ''VideoGame/RandalsMonday'': The game is full with it. From Matt's increasingly bloody and unlikely deaths to [[spoiler: Randal's past self getting the Wolverine treatment]], there is a lot of black comedy to be had.

* In ''VideoGame/TheSexyBrutale'', this is primarily provided by the staff, who carry out their murders with the phlegmatic, casual attitude they might have towards washing dishes. MoodWhiplash is also used to full effect.

-->"We seem to be losing pressure on level seventeen. Please hold your breath against the harsh vacuum of space until you pass out from oxygen starvation. After that, you won't care. Enjoy the ride!"

* ''VideoGame/{{H|eroicArmiesMarching}}AM'' likes this trope, allowing you to send goblin babies into battle. The lore describes them as being so weak, their skin peels off like wet paper.

* Eggman's PA announcements in ''VideoGame/SonicColors'' are absolutely full of this. To quote one example:
--> "Next stop, the Tropical Resort. Here, you will find: breath-taking views from our giant Ferris wheel, amazing deals from our shopping mall, and [[BreadEggsMilkSquick constant risk of bodily harm.]]"

* VideoGame/SouthParkTheStickOfTruth, much like the show, runs on this. At one point you fight a giant aborted Nazi zombie fetus.

* ''VideoGame/JojosBizarreAdventureAllStarBattle'' has Josuke from Part 4 heal his opponent back to full health when he uses his Great Heat Attack. Johnny from Part 7 is handicapped; specifically, his legs are paralyzed. When Josuke uses his GHA on Johnny, he stands up, his legs working again... and then Josuke beats him ''back'' into paraplegia. ("If I heal you first, it's not cheating, right? DORADORADORADORADORAAA!")

** Creator/{{Valve|Software}} in general seems to love this trope, albeit in a relatively subdued sense. [[VideoGame/{{Portal 2}} Brain-damaged woman used in dangerous experiments?]] Check. [[VideoGame/{{Half-Life 2}} Cats turned inside out by a malfunctioning teleporter?]] Yep. [[VideoGame/TeamFortress2 Exploding heads, live animals being sewn into patients and brutal beatings as part of a ridiculously pointless war?]] Naturally.

* ''VideoGame/LegacyofKain'', being a series that could very well be one of the best examples of BlackAndGrayMorality, pretty much runs away with this whenever humorous and [[DeadpanSnarker snarky]] components come up in dialogue. Some of Kain's descriptions of the various items he comes across in Blood Omen are just rife with dark, snarky observations.

* ''VideoGame/TheJackboxPartyPack'' gives us ''Bomb Corp'' and ''Trivia Murder Party'', where death is treated by the games' hosts as a bit of a joke. The former game because its host is used to seeing his coworkers get blown up, and in the latter the host is a trivia-obsessed murderer.

* The ''VideoGame/{{Worms}}'' computer game series.

** AmateurSurgeon

* Steam game ''Who's Your Daddy?'' has dark humor in the form of killing a baby. One player plays as the father trying to protect his son from the dangers of the house (electrical outlets, sharp objects, chemicals, etc.) while the other player plays as the baby trying to get themselves killed. The baby "wins" if it dies, but the father wins if he can keep the baby alive for a few minutes. The idea of playing as a baby trying to get killed CrossesTheLineTwice.