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| 9 | Ah, video games. No other media allows RefugeInAudacity so often. [[SugarWiki/BetterThanItSounds And most of the time it works]]. |
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| 11 | ''Please sort new titles alphabetically to avoid duplicate entries.'' |
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| 14 | * [[spoiler:''VideoGame/{{N}}'']]: A pacifist stickman ninja runs and jumps across simplistic monochrome landscapes, dodging killer drones and collecting lots of gold. |
| 15 | ** [[spoiler: ''N+'']]: The same thing, but on a smaller screen. |
| 16 | ** [[spoiler: ''N++'']]: The same thing, but on a larger screen. |
| 17 | * [[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 internet comic]] snuck his original characters into it. You can't even find this game on the original website it was made on, because it got deleted! |
| 18 | * [[spoiler: ''VideoGame/NancyDrew'']]: A series of games based on classic books that have nothing to do with the books. The best part is [[VideoGameCrueltyPotential repeatedly killing the protagonist, then taking the option of going back to kill them again.]] |
| 19 | ** ''[[spoiler:The Curse of Blackmoor Manor]]:'' A teenager travels to her friend's house and tries to rearrange its plumbing without anyone noticing. |
| 20 | ** ''[[spoiler:The White Wolf of Icicle Creek]]:'' An inquisitive maid, egotistical sportsman, [[StealthPun left-wing]] birdwatcher, superstitious janitor, elderly fisherman, lonely young girl, and a college student who plays with mud all share the same hotel and try to [[GambitPileup outwit each other]] in dealing with a pest problem. |
| 21 | ** ''[[spoiler:The Phantom of Venice]]:'' [[http://propmasterofdeath.tumblr.com/post/27184310896/nancy-drew-games-summarized A teenager solves a series of riddles and puzzles while dancing in a cat suit for money.]] |
| 22 | * [[spoiler: ''VisualNovel/{{Narcissu}}'']]: A car thief and his depressed friend wander around the countryside looking at flowers because they have nothing better to do. |
| 23 | ** [[spoiler: ''Narcissu -Side 2nd-'']]: The depressed friend from the first game spends her summer vacation tagging along with a jaded ex-Catholic. |
| 24 | ** [[spoiler: ''Narcissu 3rd: Die Dritte Welt'']]: A collection of stories vaguely related to the first two, now with a bigger price tag and probably NoExportForYou. |
| 25 | * [[spoiler:''VideoGame/NeedyStreamerOverload'']] Being an online influencer sucks: The game. |
| 26 | * [[spoiler: ''VideoGame/{{Nefarious}}'']]: A man witnesses a romantic breakup and decides to TakeOverTheWorld in response. |
| 27 | * [[spoiler:''VideoGame/NekoAtsume'']]: Indulge your inner cat lady by collecting pictures of cat butts. |
| 28 | * [[spoiler:''VisualNovel/NekoPara'']]: Your {{harem|Genre}} consists of your cats... and your [[BrotherSisterIncest sister]]. |
| 29 | * [[spoiler: ''VideoGame/NelsonTethersPuzzleAgent'']]: A government agent wanders a QuirkyTown in the dead of winter, chewing used gum and solving puzzles in order to break into a factory. A cult of lawn-gnome worshipers is somehow involved. |
| 30 | ** [[spoiler: ''Puzzle Agent 2'']]: The government agent goes back to the QuirkyTown to deal with some unfinished business. He chews more gum and solves more puzzles while running afoul of murderous astronauts. |
| 31 | * [[spoiler:''VideoGame/NeoGeoBattleColiseum'']]: Mascot characters of varying obscurity have to fight each other for five minutes in teams of two. Then you have to fight a cloned nihilist, an alien with a god complex, a BloodKnight and a ripoff of a certain someone. [[SNKBoss Good Luck]]. |
| 32 | * [[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.]] |
| 33 | * [[spoiler:''VideoGame/NeonWhite'']]: Move fast and shoot things to Music/MachineGirl. |
| 34 | ** Or according to a Steam comment: Horny assassin with zero self-esteem dragged into heaven and spends entire time searching for contraband to make his former crew like him again. |
| 35 | ** Or, Games Done Quick: The Game. |
| 36 | * [[spoiler:''VideoGame/{{Neptunia}}'']]: MediaNotes/ConsoleWars [[RecycledINSPACE AS A VIDEO GAME!]] |
| 37 | ** [[spoiler:''VideoGame/HyperdimensionNeptunia'']]: Spunky goddess banished to Earth by her three more famous rivals fights to prevent a witch from spreading the gospel of software piracy. |
| 38 | ** [[spoiler:''VideoGame/HyperdimensionNeptuniaMk2'']]: The goddesses get captured by some of the witch's newly-hired goons, leaving their apprentices to go and rescue them. [[ContinuityReboot Not a sequel.]] |
| 39 | *** Alternatively, video game consoles get kidnapped by piracy. They get saved by handheld consoles. |
| 40 | ** [[spoiler:''VideoGame/HyperdimensionNeptuniaVictory'']]: After defeating the witch, the spunky goddess gets teleported back to MediaNotes/TheGoldenAgeOfVideoGames, and has to fight to find a way back home. |
| 41 | ** [[spoiler:''VideoGame/HyperdimensionNeptuniaProducingPerfection'']]: The witch is nowhere to be seen, so the girls are left to fend for themselves against an unruly mob of...{{Idol Singer}}s. |
| 42 | ** [[spoiler:''VideoGame/HyperdevotionNoireGoddessBlackHeart'']]: The witch steals an alternate world run by the black-haired {{tsundere}} goddess, and the black-haired goddes has to enlist the help of her friends and ''actual video games'' to win it back. |
| 43 | * [[spoiler: ''VideoGame/NESRemix'']]: Simple tasks in 8-bit games in the style of ''VideoGame/WarioWare''. Known for its GameMod-esque stages. |
| 44 | * [[spoiler:''VideoGame/NetHack'']]: A single link [[spoiler:[[http://alt.org/nethack/topdeaths.html on NAO]]]] proves that there are over 5,000 ways to lose. And only one way to win. |
| 45 | * [[spoiler:''VideoGame/{{Neutopia}}'']]: A ROM hack of ''The Legend of Zelda'', featuring no nonlinearity and 90% of the secret hidden passageways don't give you anything. |
| 46 | ** [[spoiler:''Neutopia II'']]: A ROM hack of ''The Legend of Zelda: A Link to the Past'', featuring no dark world and the secret passageways still don't give you anything. The hero from the first game dies and leaves his son some of his defective equipment as inheritance. |
| 47 | * [[spoiler: ''VideoGame/NeverendingNightmares'']]: A boy walks down a series of hallways, pausing only to die horribly and wake up in bed. |
| 48 | * [[spoiler: ''VideoGame/TheNeverhood'']]: A guy made of clay must fulfill a quest in a deserted world; however, he has no idea what it is he's supposed to do. It turns out he was created to fix his world's interrupted creation myth. |
| 49 | ** Alternatively: A guy made of clay wanders around an abandoned island and finds his family members along the way. If you get the good ending, his brother gets shot and his father gives birth. |
| 50 | ** [[spoiler: ''VideoGame/{{Skullmonkeys}}'']]: The brother of the guy made of clay falls on a planet full of monkeys. Upon arrival, his first action is to skin a monkey alive. Then the guy made of clay has to turn off a machine. |
| 51 | * [[spoiler: ''VideoGame/NeverwinterNights'']]: Experienced, heroic champion of light hires a low-level adventurer and their henchmen to stop a plague. |
| 52 | ** [[spoiler: ''VideoGame/NeverwinterNights Hordes of the Underdark'']]: Hero gets lost underground, gets manipulated into helping some residents of the underground fight the rest, and beats up a giant red guy with wings. |
| 53 | ** [[spoiler: ''VideoGame/NeverwinterNights VideoGame/TheBastardOfKosigan'']]: French ([[BerserkButton Burgundian!]]) hero with serious family issues runs off to Germany. Then things get worse. |
| 54 | ** [[spoiler: ''VideoGame/NeverwinterNights VideoGame/ADanceWithRogues'']]: Spoiled princess gets deposed, her family destroyed, her city overrun with hostile soldiers out to kill her and her friends. This all in the prologue; there's worse to come. |
| 55 | * [[spoiler: ''VideoGame/NeverwinterNights2'']]: Main character runs errands and builds a castle with a RagtagBunchOfMisfits all willing to betray them for their own gain. |
| 56 | ** [[spoiler: ''VideoGame/NeverwinterNights2: Mask of the Betrayer'']]: Main character wakes up at the bottom of a ghost-infested cave as ThePunishment and sets out to find pieces of a mask. |
| 57 | * [[spoiler:''VideoGame/NiNoKuni'']]: KidHero tries to stop the BigBad from taking people's positive emotions by taking other people's positive emotions. |
| 58 | ** Or: A young boy who recently lost his mother is sent to a parallel world to save her alternate half. He fails. |
| 59 | * [[spoiler:''VideoGame/NiNoKuniIIRevenantKingdom'']]: The president of Not-America is sent to a parallel world to help a young catboy ending a mice rebellion and TakeOverTheWorld. They are the heroes. |
| 60 | * [[spoiler: ''VideoGame/NicktoonsUnite'']]: [[WesternAnimation/SpongeBobSquarePants Sentient sponge]], [[WesternAnimation/DannyPhantom spandex ghost]], [[WesternAnimation/TheAdventuresOfJimmyNeutronBoyGenius guy with bizarre hairdo]] and [[WesternAnimation/TheFairlyOddParents non-manly guy wearing pink]] battle Creator/TimCurry. |
| 61 | ** [[spoiler: ''Nicktoons: Battle for Volcano Island'']]: [[WesternAnimation/SpongeBobSquarePants Sentient sponge, unintelligent echinoderm, astronaut mammal, cranky six-armed octopus]], [[WesternAnimation/DannyPhantom spandex ghost, goth girl, technical wizard]], [[WesternAnimation/TheAdventuresOfJimmyNeutronBoyGenius guy with bizarre hairdo]] and [[WesternAnimation/TheFairlyOddParents non-manly guy wearing pink]] save an island of crabs. |
| 62 | ** [[spoiler: ''Nicktoons: Attack of the Toybots]]'': [[WesternAnimation/SpongeBobSquarePants Sentient sponge, unintelligent echinoderm]], [[WesternAnimation/DannyPhantom spandex ghost, goth girl]], [[WesternAnimation/TheAdventuresOfJimmyNeutronBoyGenius guy with bizarre hairdo]], [[WesternAnimation/TheFairlyOddParents non-manly guy wearing pink]], [[VideoGame/TakAndThePowerOfJuju little shaman]], [[WesternAnimation/TheRenAndStimpyShow gross kitty]], [[WesternAnimation/RockosModernLife wallaby wearing a Hawaiian shirt]], [[WesternAnimation/MyLifeAsATeenageRobot girl in blue and white]], and [[WesternAnimation/InvaderZim stupid hedonist]] battle Tim Curry's LivingToys. If you're playing on the DS, you get to fight with [[WesternAnimation/ElTigreTheAdventuresOfMannyRivera a 13-year old wrestler]], [[WesternAnimation/InvaderZim a green omnicidal maniac]] and [[WesternAnimation/{{Catscratch}} a vaguely cat-adjacent animal.]] |
| 63 | ** [[spoiler: ''Nicktoons: Globs of Doom'']]: [[WesternAnimation/SpongeBobSquarePants Sentient sponge, little cyclops]], [[WesternAnimation/DannyPhantom spandex ghost, not-Gilbert-Gottfried-honest]], [[WesternAnimation/TheAdventuresOfJimmyNeutronBoyGenius guy with bizarre hairdo, Tim Curry's daughter]], [[VideoGame/TakAndThePowerOfJuju little shaman, tall shaman]], [[WesternAnimation/InvaderZim green omnicidal maniac and conspiracy nut]] battle alien mucus older than time itself. |
| 64 | * [[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. |
| 65 | * [[spoiler: ''VideoGame/{{Nidhogg}}'']]: Two fencers fight to be eaten by a dragon. |
| 66 | * [[spoiler: ''VideoGame/NieR'']]: Single father '''or''' older brother goes looking for medicine to cure his daughter '''or''' younger sister from extreme graphophilia. Players [[TearJerker weep]]. |
| 67 | ** Or: The apocalypse happens twice. Both times it is your fault, but you don't find that out until later. |
| 68 | ** Or: The adventure to save a loved one ends up with all your friends dead. |
| 69 | ** Or: The world was already about to end, but you still somehow manage to make everything worse. |
| 70 | * [[spoiler: ''VideoGame/NierAutomata'']]: Likeable robots beat the crap out of each other to cope with existential crises. |
| 71 | ** Alternatively, a no-nonsense harijuku goth lolita robot lady and her chatty, analytical robot boy compatriot run around and tear apart adorable, bulbous-headed alien machines, all for an organization [[spoiler: founded on a great big sham.]] Revelations throughout each playthrough flip this flashy action game on its head and the robot boy [[BreakTheCutie doesn't take them]] [[SanitySlippage too well.]] Once again, players [[TearJerker weep.]] |
| 72 | ** Alternatively: Androids and robots continue fighting a war in the name of their creators despite both masters being dead for a long time. |
| 73 | * [[spoiler:''VideoGame/NightInTheWoods'']]: UsefulNotes/{{Furr|yFandom}}ies shoot the breeze in their sleepy town. ''Everyone'' is immensely more well-adjusted than you are. Also, Cthulhu might be involved. |
| 74 | * [[spoiler:''VideoGame/NightTrap'']]: The player helps a former child star fight vampires that are slightly less threatening than Count Chocula using tactics straight out of an episode of Franchise/ScoobyDoo. A very small number of the vampires can shoot lightning out of their hands for some inexplicable reason. |
| 75 | ** Or: A surveillance simulator where you save girls from vampires using booby traps. This created the ESRB rating system. |
| 76 | * [[spoiler:''VideoGame/NightsIntoDreams'']]: An androgynous creature enters the minds of children and absorbs their spirits into itself. And they're the ''good guy''. |
| 77 | ** [[spoiler: ''VideoGame/NiGHTSJourneyOfDreams'']]: 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. |
| 78 | * [[spoiler: ''VideoGame/NightsOfAzure'']]: A [[HalfHumanHybrid half human half demon woman]] has to choose between saving the world or her one true love. [[YuriGenre Yuri ensues.]] |
| 79 | * [[spoiler:''VideoGame/NinjaGaiden'' (original)]]: Everyone, good and bad, wants you dead, and all you want is your family heirloom, which inadvertently tries to destroy the world. |
| 80 | ** [[spoiler:''VideoGame/NinjaGaiden'' (Xbox game)]]: A {{Ninja}} finds much of his extended family dead after he returns from a visit to his uncle's and goes after TheEmpire responsible. |
| 81 | ** [[spoiler:''VideoGame/NinjaGaiden II'' (Xbox 360 game)]]: A {{Ninja}} travels the world to get back a statue. In the meantime he fights giant spiders, a big deathmachine with a sad face, dogs, a four-armed werewolf, ninjas with automatic rocket launchers, the devil who rephrases Shakespeare and [[NinjaPirateZombieRobot Zombie Ninjas]]. Also, did I mention the one who took the statue is a butterfly? |
| 82 | * [[spoiler:''VideoGame/{{Ninjala}}'']]: {{Highly Visible Ninja}}s are here to chew bubblegum and kick ass...and they've got plenty of gum. |
| 83 | * [[spoiler:''VideoGame/TheNinjaWarriors'']]: Two robots kill a fat dictator. |
| 84 | ** [[spoiler:''VideoGame/TheNinjaWarriorsAgain'']]: Three robots kill a fat dictator. |
| 85 | ** [[spoiler:''[[VideoGame/TheNinjaWarriorsAgain The Ninja Saviors: Return of the Warriors]]'']]: Five robots kill a fat dictator. |
| 86 | * [[spoiler:''VideoGame/NintendoBadgeArcade'']]: A skill crane simulator that's nothing but ProductPlacement. It also uses {{Microtransactions}} and is very blatant about it. |
| 87 | * [[spoiler:''Nintendo Puzzle Collection'']]: An Italian man does double-duty as a medical doctor and baker along with his reptilian buddy. Meanwhile, a fairy reunites her friends after a devil's curse splits them apart by smashing everything with colorful blocks |
| 88 | * [[spoiler:''VideoGame/NintendoWars'']]: The four major nations of World War II, or at least two of them, have a friendly rivalry with each other but constantly end up warring due to a series of misunderstandings. |
| 89 | *** Alternatively: Go to war, and have fun with it! War in its nicest, funniest way, rarely taking itself seriously. |
| 90 | ** [[spoiler:''Famicom Wars'']]: In World War I, the two of those four nations battle each other on various territories. [[Franchise/{{Metroid}} Samus Aran]] and a few other cameos are commanders around certain territories. |
| 91 | ** [[spoiler:''Super Famicom Wars'']]: World War I is retold. This time, all 4 nations participate. Also, [[CoolTrain trains]] are involved. |
| 92 | ** [[spoiler:''Game Boy Wars 1/2/Turbo'']]: In these 3 games for the price of 3, World War I takes place on various territories. The second of the two nations uses a different color. |
| 93 | ** [[spoiler:''Game Boy Wars 3'']]: World War I takes place on various territories, with the second of the two nations again using the same different color. [[VideoGame/{{Nectaris}} Military Madness]] occurs. |
| 94 | ** [[spoiler:''Advance Wars'']]: World War II starts when Russia invades America, except it's all a BatmanGambit by an evil alien robot [[Franchise/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. |
| 95 | ** [[spoiler:''Advance Wars 2: Black Hole Rising'']]: The evil alien robot (who is no longer a Snifit) decides to go with the direct approach, stealing military resources through a series of tubes. As subcommanders, he hires a man dumber than the Hulk, a 12 year old PerkyGoth MadScientist, a possibly gay man who wears blush and has no useful abilities whatsoever, and a frighteningly competent and collected lieutenant. Hiring the last one was a mistake. |
| 96 | ** [[spoiler:''Advance Wars: Dual Strike'']]: Military commanders discover that by taking turns leading a single army, they can rend the very fabric of time. The hero shoots an old man's wheelchair. |
| 97 | ** [[spoiler:''Advance Wars: Days of Ruin'']]: Survivors of an apocalypse fight over what's left of Earth. This all falls away to focus on the most [[ArtisticLicenseBiology biology-failing]] clone family this side of [[VideoGame/MetalGearSolid Solid Snake]]. |
| 98 | * [[spoiler:''VideoGame/{{Nintendogs}}'']]: Take care of familiar creatures that never grow up, learn a limited number of tricks, and get freaked out by various things. |
| 99 | * [[spoiler: ''VideoGame/{{Nioh}}'']]: A HistoricalDomainCharacter who looks a lot like [[VideoGame/TheWitcher Geralt of Rivia]] travels to Japan to hunt down demons while the east and the west are about to go on a war. You're gonna die... a lot. |
| 100 | * [[spoiler: ''Creator/{{Nitrome}} Must Die'']]: Two kids get real angry about losing a video game, then enter the headquarters of the company who made that game and shoot everyone dead. |
| 101 | * [[spoiler: ''VideoGame/NoOneHasToDie'']]: At least twelve people horrifically burn to death so you can go back in time to make the fire extinguishers work properly. |
| 102 | * [[spoiler:''VideoGame/NoMoreHeroes'']]: A shameless {{anime}} {{otaku}} wins a LaserBlade in an online auction, and uses it to carve his way up the leaderboard of an assassins' guild. |
| 103 | ** [[spoiler:''VideoGame/NoMoreHeroes2DesperateStruggle'']]: Shameless {{anime}} {{otaku}}, now hellbent for revenge, carves his way up another leaderboard of an assassins' guild. Along the way, he's helped by his Irish twin brother and a female Anime/AfroSamurai. |
| 104 | ** [[spoiler:''VideoGame/NoMoreHeroesIII'']]: Shameless {{anime}} {{otaku}} carves his way up yet another leaderboard... but this time from intergalactic assassins. The top-ranked alien also presents himself to his rival by obliterating a big part of the otaku's homeland. |
| 105 | * [[spoiler:''VideoGame/NobyNobyBoy'']]: A giant snake eats people then takes a huge dump. |
| 106 | * [[spoiler:''VideoGame/{{Noita}}'']]: A greedy apprentice witch tries looking for gold and spells in an overly fragile mountain. |
| 107 | * [[spoiler:''VideoGame/NoituLove'']]: A small child stops an elderly man from inaccurately reversing evolution by beating the hell out of everything that moves. |
| 108 | ** [[spoiler:''VideoGame/NoituLove2Devolution'']]: A young woman finds her city is turning into a historical tourist attraction and responds by beating the hell out of everything that moves. |
| 109 | * [[spoiler:''VideoGame/NostalgiaRedEntertainment'']]: British swordsman inherits his father's [[CoolAirship sweet ride]] and travels the world ([[AlternateUniverse or something like it]]) to find him. |
| 110 | * [[spoiler:''VideoGame/NoStraightRoads'']]: Two rock-and-rollers get mad about an energy crisis and being rejected from a record label, and proceed to beat up a bunch of electronic musicians. |
| 111 | * [[spoiler:''VideoGame/NotForBroadcast'']]: A Janitor working in a news studio gets an unexpected promotion at work. Their new job? Propaganda Minister for a tyrannical regime headed by a lawyer and a drunk TV personality. |
| 112 | * [[spoiler:''VideoGame/NotTetris'']]: Tetris with a MediaNotes/PhysicsEngine. |
| 113 | ** [[spoiler:''Not Pac-Man'']]: Pac-Man with the ability to tilt the maze. |
| 114 | * [[spoiler:''Nova Drift'']]: VideoGame/{{Asteroids}} but it's a roguelike. |
| 115 | * [[spoiler:''VideoGame/{{Obduction}}'']]: A giant flying pinecone teleports you to an alien planet. To get back home, you must water some trees. |
| 116 | * [[spoiler:''VideoGame/{{Observation}}'']]: On the International Space Station, a young woman and her AI companion find themselves again and again. |
| 117 | * [[spoiler:''VideoGame/{{Octodad}}'']]: A Standard50sFather goes through his morning routine. By the way, [[FunnyOctopus he's an octopus]]. |
| 118 | ** [[spoiler:''Octodad: Dadliest Catch'']]: A Standard50sFather 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. |
| 119 | * [[spoiler:''VideoGame/OctopathTraveler'']]: Eight people solve their own personal problems, usually through murder. Seeing as they're on a roll, they attack and dethrone god as well. |
| 120 | ** [[spoiler:Ophelia]]: A young cleric teaches her sister the value of life by committing murder. |
| 121 | ** [[spoiler:Cyrus]]: A scholar attempts to return the Necronomicon to his local library, as it was overdue. |
| 122 | ** [[spoiler:Tressa]]: A young merchant goes on a road trip, but the real treasure was the friends she made along the way. |
| 123 | ** [[spoiler:Olberic]]: A knight from a fallen kingdom reconciles [[HoYay his feelings]] for a traitorous friend by killing his boss. |
| 124 | ** [[spoiler:Primrose]]: A belly dancer avenges her fallen law-enforcement father by becoming a serial killer. |
| 125 | ** [[spoiler:Alfyn]]: An apothecary learns that if medicine fails to cure evil, murder works pretty well as a second opinion. |
| 126 | ** [[spoiler:Therion]]: A young thief steals balls from his jilted gay lover. He learns the value of not committing murder, only for [[KarmicDeath the murder to happen 5 seconds later]] anyway. |
| 127 | ** [[spoiler:H'annit]]: A huntress who speaks like a rennaisance faire actor attempts to hunt the most dangerous prey. [[WasOnceAMan Turns out it's man]]. |
| 128 | * [[spoiler:''OctopathTravelerII'']]: Eight more people go on a road trip to solve their personal problems. They do not dethrone god, but they do attack her right as she's trying to get comfy in the chair. |
| 129 | ** [[spoiler:Ochette]]: [[LittleBitBeastly The local furry]] attempts to collect legendary pokemon to stave off an alien invasion, eating the wildlife as she goes. |
| 130 | ** [[spoiler:Castti]]: Surviving her near-death experience with [[BloodKnight a newfound bloodlust]], the local [[FanNickname harmicist]] attempts to save lives by committing murder. |
| 131 | ** [[spoiler:Temenos]]: A young gay cleric who moonlights as an ace detective attempts to solve the pope's murder by committing several more. |
| 132 | ** [[spoiler:Osvald]]: Not satisfied with breaking out of prison, a black mage goes on a murderous revenge against his [[DepravedHomosexual jilted gay admirer.]] [[PowerOfLove The power of love]] turns out to be a laser beam. |
| 133 | ** [[spoiler:Partitio]]: A venture socialist cowboy starts the industrial revolution. He cannot suplex a train, but he can bribe it to take the day off. |
| 134 | ** [[spoiler:Agnea]]: Rural country dancer aspires to be a star, no matter how many people she has to beat up in the process. |
| 135 | ** [[spoiler:Throné]]: Attempting to leave the mafia, a young thief/assassin takes the phrase "over my dead body" very literally. Her family turns out to be amazingly messed up. |
| 136 | ** [[spoiler:Hikari]]: A young samurai prince realizes too late that "I'm level 50" is a valid claim to the throne, and goes on a powerleveling trip to murder his way back into power. |
| 137 | * [[spoiler:''VideoGame/{{Odama}}'']]: Feudal Japan is at war. Talk to one side while playing pinball to achieve victory. |
| 138 | * [[spoiler:''VideoGame/{{Oddworld}}: Abe's Odyssey'']]: Slave frees his race from [[ImAHumanitarian being turned into food]]. |
| 139 | ** [[spoiler:''VideoGame/{{Oddworld}}: Abe's Exoddus'']]: Slave is told to free race from becoming beer by ghosts. Leeches hang from trees. |
| 140 | ** [[spoiler:''VideoGame/{{Oddworld}}: Munch's Oddysee'']]: One legged wheelchair fish electrocutes doctors and Nurses, frees Hairy meatballs with teeth. |
| 141 | *** Alternatively, Slave and One-legged wheelchair fish work together to destroy the economy. This is a good thing. |
| 142 | ** [[spoiler:''VideoGame/OddworldStrangersWrath'']]: Bounty hunting centaur attempts to bring down water bottling company by throwing animals at it. |
| 143 | * [[spoiler:''VideoGame/OdinSphere'']]: Once upon a time, five strangers took up gardening. There were no survivors. |
| 144 | * [[spoiler:''VideoGame/{{OFF}}'']]: A religious man goes on a world-wide killing spree. Shortly before he causes everyone remaining to die, [[OmnicidalManiac including himself,]] you have the option of helping a smiling cat beat him to death. |
| 145 | ** A JerkAss, a bird, and a fat guy get their asses wrecked at baseball. Then a guy goes home and beats up his family. |
| 146 | ** [[spoiler:''[[VideoGame/HOME2013 HOME]]'']]: You help the cat beat up the religious man, as well as the same people the religious man was targeting, ''most of whom were friends with said cat''. |
| 147 | * [[spoiler:''Offspring Fling'']]: A cute woodland creature, separated from her many children, picks them up and tosses them into walls to get them home safely. |
| 148 | * [[spoiler:''VideoGame/OkageShadowKing'']]: A family sells their son's soul to a demon in order to free their daughter from a curse causing her to speak PigLatin. |
| 149 | * [[spoiler:''VideoGame/{{Okami}}'']]: A magical wolf paints her way to victory. |
| 150 | ** Alternatively: A dog and a bug go stargazing and practice calligraphy. They are insulted by everyone. |
| 151 | ** Said duo then fights a [[GiantSpider giant spider-lady]], [[DemBones a cow skeleton in armor]], a multiheaded snake who you must get drunk, a [[CoolSword sword]] inside [[WombLevel a sleeping rulers' stomach]], a [[CunningLikeAFox fox with alot of tails]] who [[CreepyCrossdresser dresses up as a priestess]], [[HighClassGlass two]] [[ClockworkCreature aristocrat]] [[OminousOwl owls]], and [[AnticlimaxBoss a giant metal ball with a fish fetus inside it.]] |
| 152 | ** [[spoiler:''VideoGame/{{Okamiden}}'']]: A wolf pup gains many friends, populates a small town and saves the world. |
| 153 | ** Or, a young god that teams up with a {{coward|lyLion}} 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. |
| 154 | ** Or, a wolf hits monsters with a mirror, scatters paint everywhere and [[spoiler:goes away in a spaceship]]. |
| 155 | * [[spoiler: ''{{VideoGame/OMGWTFOTL}}'']]: [[SchmuckBait DON'T GENUFLECT. EVER.]] Other than that... [[MindScrew good luck figuring this one out]]. |
| 156 | * [[spoiler:''VideoGame/{{Omori}}'']]: Boy attempts to reconnect with old friends. |
| 157 | ** Alternatively, you spend the majority of the game [[spoiler:playing as TheAntagonist]]. |
| 158 | * [[spoiler:''VideoGame/{{Onechanbara}}'']]: [[ActionGirl Hot chicks with swords]] fight zombies while trying not to get their clothes dirty. |
| 159 | * [[spoiler:''VideoGame/OneChance'']]: Choose to either save the world from a cell-devouring pathogen you created or spend the rest of your time in peace with your family. |
| 160 | * [[spoiler:''VideoGame/OneNightAtFlumptys'']]: Play a deadly game of hide-and-seek against a giant egg and his cartoon gang. |
| 161 | * [[spoiler:''VisualNovel/OneNightHotSprings'']]: Three girls go to the hot springs. |
| 162 | * [[spoiler:''VideoGame/OneShot'']]: [[LightBulbJoke A lightbulb has gone out; rather than replacing it]], you tell a small child how to. |
| 163 | * [[spoiler:''VideoGame/OneWayHeroics'']]: A hero has to keep moving forward, lest he/she get swallowed by the darkness destroying the world. |
| 164 | ** Or: [[Theatre/SeventeenSeventySix To the right, ever to the right, never to the left, forever to the right]]. |
| 165 | * [[spoiler:''VideoGame/{{Oni}}'']]: [[Franchise/GhostInTheShell Motoko Kusanagi]] [[CaptainErsatz ersatz]] fights terrorists and her former employers, mostly with her bare hands. |
| 166 | * [[spoiler:''VideoGame/OnimushaWarlords'']] A samurai in a quest to rescue a princess gets chosen by some good monsters to fight against evil monster, collecting souls on his way to beat gigantic wasps and humongous snakes only to have another one take the snake's place as EvilOverlord. |
| 167 | ** Or: The princess has been kidnapped by demons. Are you a bad enough samurai to save the princess? |
| 168 | ** [[spoiler:''VideoGame/Onimusha3DemonSiege'']]: Samurai from medieval Japan ends up in today's Paris, a policeman from today ends up in medieval Japan. Timetravel extraordinaire to beat even more monsters and the EvilOverlord from the previous game. Again. |
| 169 | * [[spoiler:''VideoGame/{{Onmyoji|2016}}'']]: 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]]. |
| 170 | * [[spoiler:''VideoGame/OperationFlashpoint'']]: You're fighting to prevent WorldWarIII and liberate {{Ruritania}}s at the ass end of nowhere. You can drive anything, including tractors. Oh, and you die in two shots. |
| 171 | * [[spoiler:''VideoGame/{{Orbiter}}'']]: The Free Spaceflight Simulator. First, you study ''loooong'' instruction manuals. Then, you finally fly various missions. Most of them are mundane hard work. Piloting a spacecraft is not an easy job. |
| 172 | * [[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. |
| 173 | ** [[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. |
| 174 | ** [[spoiler: ''VideoGame/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. |
| 175 | * [[spoiler:''VideoGame/TheOregonTrail'']]: Five men travel west. Everyone dies of dysentery or a broken leg, and [[GraveHumor the leader gets a silly epitaph]]. |
| 176 | * [[spoiler:''VideoGame/OreshikaTaintedBloodlines'']]: Your clan has been executed as a futile way to appease the gods. Luckly, they bring you and your siblings to life. Sadly, you will die in a short period of time. Luckly, the gods will help you making babies to secure your legacy. |
| 177 | * [[spoiler: ''ORION: Prelude'']]: Hundreds of dinosaurs, including herbivores, are trying to kill you and your team. There is no reason why they do this, or why you are here, or why you have [[VideoGame/TeamFortress2 ridiculous hats]]. |
| 178 | * [[spoiler:''VideoGame/OurDarkerPurpose'']]: Following a riot at a boarding school, a CuteMute goes around setting people and things on fire, stealing people's toys, and [[NintendoHard getting killed repeatedly]]. |
| 179 | * [[spoiler:''VideoGame/AnOutcry'']]: Harass your neighbors because you MustHaveNicotine, then be insulted by talking {{Feathered Fiend}}s. |
| 180 | * [[spoiler:''VideoGame/OuterWilds'']]: You're a new space cadet assinged a job to discover the remnants of a lost {{Precursor|s}} 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]]. |
| 181 | * [[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. |
| 182 | * [[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. |
| 183 | ** [[spoiler:''Whistleblower'']]: An escaping inmate soon discovers the meaning of true love with another inmate. |
| 184 | ** [[spoiler:''VideoGame/OutlastII'']]: A different journalist crash lands in the middle of a town in Arizona. His wife gets pregnant, and one particular cultist develops an... [[RapeAsDrama attraction]] to the journalist. |
| 185 | * [[spoiler:''VideoGame/Outpost2'']]: God drops an asteroid on the Earth ... has a novella backstory. |
| 186 | * [[spoiler:''VideoGame/OutZone'']]: Two [[OneHitPointWonder fragile]] cyborgs on [[StalkedByTheBell limited fuel supply]] destroy aliens. |
| 187 | * [[spoiler:''VideoGame/{{Overcooked}}'']]: Too many cooks spoil ''everything''. |
| 188 | * [[spoiler:''VideoGame/{{Overlord}}'']]: [[VillainWithGoodPublicity The world's most benevolent]] EvilOverlord and his goofy sidekicks seek revenge on a morbidly obese hobbit, a lecherous knight, a lazy elf, a gold-crazed dwarf, a self-hating thief, a possessed wizard, and a barbarian with anger management issues. |
| 189 | ** [[spoiler:''VideoGame/OverlordII'']]: His son goes up against [[TheEmpire the Roman Empire]]. |
| 190 | * [[spoiler:''VideoGame/{{Overwatch}}'']]: A multiplayer FirstPersonShooter with all sorts of weird characters [[MultinationalTeam from all over the world]] in a Creator/{{Pixar}}-inspired universe fight each other to death in objective-based games. The story is AllThereInTheManual. A skeleton wears a hoodie. |
| 191 | * [[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. |
| 192 | * [[spoiler:''VideoGame/PacMan'']]: All-consuming glutton shaped like pizza takes illicit substances to consume ghosts. |
| 193 | ** Alternatively, a lone man is lost in an endless labyrinth, haunted by the ghosts of his past. He constantly pops pills to keep the ghosts away, but, as he builds up a tolerance, the effect of the pills lasts for less and less time. In the end, the very walls of reality come crashing down, and there is only meaningless chaos. |
| 194 | ** A third interpretation: A man enters a haunted house to try to eat all of the ghosts' snacks they leave lying around everywhere. Sometimes, fruits randomly appear in a corridor. |
| 195 | ** [[spoiler:''[[VideoGame/PacMan Ms. Pac-Man]]'']]: Love interest does same. |
| 196 | ** [[spoiler:''Super VideoGame/PacMan'']]: All-consuming glutton takes growth hormones. |
| 197 | ** [[spoiler:''VideoGame/PacMan 2: The New Adventures'']]: All-consuming glutton settles down, becomes overemotional and can't do the simplest tasks unless you hit stuff with a slingshot. |
| 198 | * [[spoiler:''VideoGame/PacManWorld series'']]: All-consuming glutton [[VideoGame3DLeap enters the third dimension]]. |
| 199 | ** [[spoiler:''VideoGame/PacManWorld'']]: All-consuming glutton's [[MilestoneCelebration birthday]] is cancelled by a robot that sorta looks like said all-consuming glutton. |
| 200 | ** [[spoiler:''Pac-Man World 2'']]: All-consuming glutton tries to bury a ghost under a tree. |
| 201 | ** [[spoiler:''Pac-Man World 3'']]: Extraterrestrial being makes life for spirits miserable. All-consuming glutton and said spirits try to kill the extraterrestrial being. |
| 202 | * [[spoiler:''VideoGame/{{Painkiller}}'']]: Guy in Purgatory gets told he'll get to see his wife in Heaven again if he kills {{Satan}}. With a weaponized weed whacker and a whole lot of other weird-ass guns. |
| 203 | ** Alternatively: That game with [[WebAnimation/ZeroPunctuation SHURIKENS AND LIGHTNING!]] |
| 204 | * [[spoiler:''VideoGame/PajamaSam: There's No Need to Hide When it's Dark Outside'']]: A kid who can't sleep with the lights off falls into his closet armed with a mask, lunchbox and flashlight. Everything talks. ''Everything''. And the kid wants to kidnap a black guy. |
| 205 | ** [[spoiler:''Pajama Sam: Thunder and Lightening Aren't so Frightening'']]: The same kid goes into the attic and gets involved in office politics. |
| 206 | ** [[spoiler:''Pajama Sam: You Are What You Eat From Your Head to Your Feet'']]: The kid is kidnapped by a box of cookies and tasked with averting a war. |
| 207 | * [[spoiler:''VideoGame/PanelDePon'']]: A fairy princess frees her friends from brainwashing by dropping blocks of garbage on them. Today, the game is best known for a flower that appeared in [[VideoGame/SuperSmashBros a more famous video game]]. |
| 208 | ** [[spoiler:''Tetris Attack''/''Pokémon Puzzle League'']]: Developers decide [[DolledUpInstallment this plot won't sell in America, so they let]] [[VideoGame/YoshisIsland a dinosaur]] and [[Franchise/{{Pokemon}} an animal trainer]] save the day instead. |
| 209 | * [[spoiler:''VideoGame/{{Pangya}}'']]: Players celebrate the exploits of an island hero by playing golf. |
| 210 | * [[spoiler:''VideoGame/{{Panic}}'']]: A kid and his dog have to press random buttons to make sure a computer virus doesn't destroy the world. All because the U.N. was busy. |
| 211 | * [[spoiler:''VideoGame/PanzerDragoon'']]: The {{Precursors}} learned how to control evolution and the environment, but this ended up leading to a CrapSackWorld, so it's up to a failsafe program that [[UnpredictableResults randomly activates]] in some animals to save the day from their mistake. |
| 212 | ** [[spoiler:''Panzer Dragoon Saga'']]: You fall in LoveAtFirstSight, then you're murdered, and then everybody else spends the rest of the game using your reanimated corpse. |
| 213 | ** [[spoiler:''Panzer Dragoon Orta'']]: Sega found a way to turn KickTheDog into a rail shooter. |
| 214 | * [[spoiler:''VideoGame/{{Paperboy}}'']]: A boy bikes down the street and delivers the morning paper, [[EverythingTryingToKillYou dodging a small army of unlikely obstacles.]] |
| 215 | ** [[spoiler:''Paperboy 2'']]: Same as above, but now girls can do it too. |
| 216 | * [[spoiler:''VideoGame/PaperMario64'']]: [[TheEveryman Everyman]] tries saving a land of sentient fungi from a dragon turtle. The characters are flat. |
| 217 | ** [[spoiler:''VideoGame/PaperMarioTheThousandYearDoor'']]: [[TheEveryman Everyman]] hunts down keys for a door, while his love interest gets [[StalkingIsLove stalked]] [[WhatIsThisThingYouCallLove by a computer]] on the Moon, his brother goes on an unseen adventure, and the villain of the previous game parodies the first ever game the four appeared in. |
| 218 | *** [[spoiler:''VideoGame/BookOfMarioThousandsOfDoors'']]: A RecursiveTranslation produces enough strange consistencies to turn AlternativeCharacterInterpretation into an Olympic sport. |
| 219 | ** [[spoiler:''VideoGame/SuperPaperMario'']]: The wedding of the FanPreferredCouple nearly causes TheEndOfTheWorldAsWeKnowIt. [[TheEveryman Everyman]] fixes things by repeatedly breaking the third wall. |
| 220 | *** Or: A turtle marries a princess and dooms the whole universe. The day is saved when a man in a top hat marries a digital butterfly. |
| 221 | *** Or: The story of how true love [[ThePowerOfLove saved all of existence]]. Mind you, it's that very same love [[LoveMakesYouEvil that doomed it in the first place]], but that's besides the point. |
| 222 | *** Or: A blue rectangle who stole [[VideoGame/KirbysAdventure Nightmare's]] cape tries to suck the world into a hole because his GF went missing, only for a purple clown to steal said hole and turn into a plumber jack-in-the-box. |
| 223 | ** [[spoiler:''VideoGame/PaperMarioStickerStar'']]: [[TheEveryman Everyman]] fights alone against the corrupting influence of a beloved treasure using the power of adhesives and... things. |
| 224 | *** Or: Villain from the first game terrorizes three continents after getting a new crown. Everyman fixes things with non-flat objects and by repeatedly breaking the ''fourth'' wall. |
| 225 | ** [[spoiler:''VideoGame/PaperMarioColorSplash'']]: Villain from the first game, for completely non-villainous purposes, attempts to invent new forms of cosmetics. By accident, these cosmetics wind up dooming the people of a densely-populated island to BodyHorror and extensive damage to the environment. Also, lots of [=NPCs=] get drunk, and peeling tape is SeriousBusiness. |
| 226 | *** Or: [[TheEveryman Everyman]] saves an island and its population by painting everything. |
| 227 | ** [[spoiler:''VideoGame/PaperMarioTheOrigamiKing'']]: An emo takes up arts and crafts, and convinces the populace to try it out. The emo's sister is not a fan, nor is the [[TheEveryman Everyman]]. |
| 228 | *** Or: Angsty teen (or someone who looks and acts like one) rebels against his father by attempting a genocide; if not for the teen's sister's actions, he would've succeeded. Meanwhile, a bunch of office supplies spend their days bullying people. Peeling tape is still SeriousBusiness, which works out because one of those office supplies is a roll of tape. |
| 229 | *** Or: A guy made of origami becomes Hitler because he can't read. |
| 230 | * [[spoiler:''VideoGame/PapersPlease'']]: |
| 231 | ** Bureaucracy-simulator, where the player is a border inspector. |
| 232 | ** Investigate the banality of evil via paperwork. |
| 233 | ** A video game where the objective is to stamp passports. |
| 234 | * [[spoiler:''VideoGame/ParaParaParadise'']]: Wave your hands to the tune of fast-paced eurobeat music. |
| 235 | * [[spoiler:''VideoGame/ParappaTheRapper'']]: A dog repeats what people around town say in order to court a flower. Along the way, [[NintendoHard he repeatedly makes a fool of himself and earns the scorn of everyone around him]]. |
| 236 | ** OR: Rapping can solve all your problems. |
| 237 | ** [[spoiler:''VideoGame/ParappaTheRapper 2'']]: A dog stops a brat with an afro from turning the universe into noodles using the power of cake. |
| 238 | ** [[spoiler:''VideoGame/UmJammerLammy'']]: One of his friends from around town fronts an all-girl garage band. |
| 239 | *** Or: Woman spends a long fifteen minutes trying to go to work and then dies. |
| 240 | * [[spoiler:''VideoGame/{{Paradroid}}'']]: The player uses the power of MindRape to clear a spaceship of cleaners, [[BattleButler battle butlers]] and even [[Series/DoctorWho daleks]]. |
| 241 | * [[spoiler:''VideoGame/ParasiteEve'']]: Genetic warfare breaks out at the opera. Your organelles hate you. |
| 242 | ** [[spoiler:''VideoGame/ParasiteEve2'']]: StrawNihilist cultists create genetic abominations. Your heroine has wonderful powers thanks to an eye transplant she received as a child. |
| 243 | ** [[spoiler:''VideoGame/The3rdBirthday'']]: The daughter you never gave birth to tries to stop you and your fiance from dying. She fails. Then she tries again. [[NiceJobBreakingItHero This is what causes killer aliens to be born in the first place.]] At the end of it all your daughter and fiance end up not married although for all practical purposes she is actually you. |
| 244 | * [[spoiler:''VideoGame/{{Patapon}}'']]: As God, you command dancing eyeballs with weapons to war. You cannot control them directly so you have to use commands more complex than they need to be and be forced to wait after each command. |
| 245 | * [[spoiler:''VideoGame/ThePath'']]: An adaptation of Little Red Riding Hood in which following the game's instructions means GameOver. |
| 246 | * [[spoiler:''VideoGame/PathwaysIntoDarkness'']]: The talking corpses of your friends give you tips on helping an alien get back to sleep. |
| 247 | * [[spoiler: ''VideoGame/PaydayTheHeist'']]: [[Film/TheDarkKnight Joker's bank robbery scene]] if it relied on teamwork rather than betrayal. |
| 248 | ** [[spoiler:''VideoGame/PAYDAY2'']]: Four masked robbers in tuxedos constantly scream for aid and yell at shitty equipment. |
| 249 | * [[spoiler:''VideoGame/ThePedestrian2020'']]: You travel across public signs. That’s it. |
| 250 | * [[spoiler:''Videogame/{{Peggle}}'']]: Various creatures, including a unicorn, a dragon, a cat, and a ''flower'' have a school dedicated to teaching the player how to [[ToBeAMaster become a master]] at shooting balls at orange pegs. |
| 251 | ** [[spoiler:''Peggle Nights'']]: The teachers of the above school have [[WishFulfillment wish-fulfilling]] dreams. |
| 252 | * [[spoiler:''VideoGame/PennyPunchingPrincess'']]: An angry princess takes down hordes of monsters with her fists and a magic 10-key calculator. |
| 253 | * [[spoiler:''VideoGame/PerfectVermin'']]: A news reporter berates you while you smash fake office supplies [[CarryABigStick with a sledgehammer]]. |
| 254 | * [[spoiler:''VideoGame/PeterJacksonsKingKong'']]: A HUD-less first-person shooter based on a major film by a big-name director where the player uses guns and other environmental objects to kill dinosaurs while exploring a tropical island. |
| 255 | * [[spoiler:''VideoGame/{{Phantasmagoria}}'']]: A couple's marriage becomes so utterly chaotic that they eventually try to kill each other; the wife succeeds. |
| 256 | ** [[spoiler:''VideoGame/PhantasmagoriaAPuzzleOfFlesh'']]: Bisexual half-human hybrid cubicle dweller has both his prospective girlfriend and boyfriend stalked by an evil plant counterpart from another dimension. |
| 257 | * [[spoiler:''VideoGame/PhantasyStarI'']]: A girl completely overthrows an interplanetary government because her brother died. |
| 258 | ** [[spoiler:''VideoGame/PhantasyStarII'']]: A man is charged with terrorism just for doing his job. Earthlings are all villains. |
| 259 | ** [[spoiler:''VideoGame/PhantasyStarIII'']]: Centuries of racist conflict are finally solved by a hotheaded prince's grandson. |
| 260 | ** [[spoiler:''VideoGame/PhantasyStarIV'']]: It turns out these particular planets exist to physically barricade ''evil itself''. The man who discovers this is scared to rummage through cabinets. |
| 261 | * [[spoiler:''VideoGame/PhantasyStarOnline'']]: You're hired to find out what happened to the daughter of the head of the spaceship you live on. You commit genocide on the planet you're trying to colonize only to discover [[spoiler:the daughter's been absorbed by the EldritchAbomination.]] |
| 262 | ** [[spoiler:''VideoGame/PhantasyStarOnline'': Episode 3:]] Later, you use trading cards to discover [[spoiler:everything's a government conspiracy]]. |
| 263 | * [[spoiler: ''VideoGame/PhantomBrave'']]: [[ThePollyanna Incredibly cheery]] young necromancer raises the dead to fight and kill for money. [[HeroWithBadPublicity Her clients are extremely stingy.]] |
| 264 | * [[spoiler:''VideoGame/{{Phasmophobia}}'']]: {{Series/GhostHunters}}: The Game - TheFourthWallWillNotProtectYou Edition |
| 265 | * [[spoiler: ''VideoGame/{{Photopia}}'']]: A classic AuthorAvatar story where everyone talks about how much they love the ParodySue who later dies a tragic death. |
| 266 | * [[spoiler:''VideoGame/{{Pikmin}}'']]: |
| 267 | ** [[spoiler:''VideoGame/Pikmin2001'']]: A cargo deliveryman escapes from being stranded on an alien world with a poisonous atmosphere with the help of an army of carrot-creatures. |
| 268 | ** [[spoiler:''VideoGame/Pikmin2'']]: The cargo deliveryman and a fellow employee return to the planet from the last game, and enslave the carrot-creatures to dig for "treasure" that is actually worthless junk. |
| 269 | ** [[spoiler:''VideoGame/Pikmin3'']]: New explorers from a planet of {{Big Eater}}s use the carrot-creatures to get fruit. The cargo deliveryman and employee from before now sleep very often. |
| 270 | ** [[spoiler:''VideoGame/Pikmin4'']]: The cargo deliveryman has shipwrecked on the planet along with the people who were supposed to rescue him along with people who weren't supposed to be there. [[VideoGame/BadDudes Are you a bad enough dude to rescue the cargo deliveryman, the people who were supposed to rescue him, and the people who weren't supposed to be there?]] |
| 271 | * [[spoiler:''VideoGame/PillarsOfEternity'']]: Nietzschean philosophy, the game. |
| 272 | * [[spoiler:''VideoGame/PizzaTower'']]: Anxious Italian man runs for his life from a giant pizza to save his restaurant from ultimate destruction. |
| 273 | * [[spoiler:''VideoGame/PlagueInc'']]: [[HelloInsertNameHere Oddly-named disease]] tries to destroy humanity by evolving. |
| 274 | * [[spoiler:''VideoGame/PlanescapeTorment'']]: An amnesiac resolves to find out how to kill himself in a game based almost entirely on talking. |
| 275 | ** Alternatively: Update Your Journal: the Game |
| 276 | ** Alternatively: A game so dark, that dying and going to hell is the GoldenEnding |
| 277 | * [[spoiler:''VideoGame/{{Planetside}}'']]: Law-abiding oppressors, anarcho-capitalist freedom fighter terrorists, and machine-worshipping cultists slug it out across an entire planet. Because of nanomachines, no one ever dies and [[ForeverWar the war never ends.]] |
| 278 | * [[spoiler:''VideoGame/PlantsVsZombies'']]: Gardening is your only hope of surviving the ZombieApocalypse. |
| 279 | ** [[spoiler: ''VideoGame/PlantsVsZombies2ItsAboutTime'']]: the ZombieApocalypse knows time travel too. Thankfully, your friend does as well. |
| 280 | *** Alternatively: Your neighbour disrupts the space-time continuum by attempting to eat a taco. |
| 281 | ** [[spoiler: ''VideoGame/PlantsVsZombiesGardenWarfare'']]: Vegetation and the walking dead are at war. |
| 282 | ** [[spoiler: ''Plants Vs Zombies: Garden Warfare 2'']]: The zombies have won. Their enemies are not accepting it. |
| 283 | ** [[spoiler:''VideoGame/PlantsVsZombiesHeroes'']]: The zombies and their enemies cosplay and fight with playing cards. |
| 284 | * [[spoiler:''VideoGame/PlaqueAttack'']]: The game of dental hygiene. |
| 285 | * [[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. |
| 286 | * [[spoiler:''VideoGame/{{Plok}}'']]: Narcissist asserts his authority by killing a bunch of fleas. [[AwesomeMusic/TimAndGeoffFollin The soundtrack is listenable.]] |
| 287 | ** [[spoiler:''Plok The Exploding Man'']]: Narcissist gets into wacky hijinks. [[spoiler:[[CerebusSyndrome He is then tried in a court of law for forgery and homicide and found guilty by unanimous jury consensus.]]]] |
| 288 | * [[spoiler:''VisualNovel/PlumbersDontWearTies'']]: A random assortment of photographs involving a heterosexual relationship have been dubbed over. |
| 289 | * [[spoiler:''Pochi and Nyaa'']]: Raining cats and dogs--literally. |
| 290 | * [[spoiler:''VideoGame/PocketCardJockey'']]: CARD GAMES ON HORSEBACK! |
| 291 | * [[spoiler:''VideoGame/PocketGod'']]: Be a dick to some islanders. |
| 292 | * [[spoiler:''VideoGame/PocketTanks'']]: Tiny vehicles with guns destroy the world with ridiculous weapons yet always come out unharmed. Fireworks ensue. |
| 293 | * [[spoiler:''Franchise/{{Pokemon}}'']]: The player takes on the role of a child in a world where [[FreeRangeChildren kids are allowed to leave the house at 10 years of age and traverse the world,]] capture, befriend, and battle with special [[{{Mon}} animals]], causing them to metamorphose from adorable pets into grotesque oversized monsters, and beat up the local crime syndicate. |
| 294 | ** Alternatively: Step into a world where pets are SeriousBusiness. |
| 295 | ** Alternatively: Explore a magical region where mutated animals with bladed arms and powers thrive, the civilians have no cars, the police have no guns, the hospitals have free all-in-one healing machines, and animal cage-fighting with kids, adults, and criminals is mandatory to enter the next room or city. You're also 10 years old. |
| 296 | ** [[spoiler:''VideoGame/PokemonRedAndBlue'']]: A young man defeats a gang of ruthless criminals while trying ToBeAMaster. |
| 297 | *** [[spoiler:''VideoGame/PokemonYellow'']]: The same, except a yellow mouse follows you around. |
| 298 | ** [[spoiler:''[[VideoGame/PokemonGoldAndSilver Pokémon Gold, Silver, and Crystal]]'']]: A young man or woman defeats the same gang of ruthless criminals while trying ToBeAMaster. Then they meet the guy who crippled said gang the first time. |
| 299 | *** [[spoiler:''VideoGame/PokemonVietnameseCrystal]]'': The same, except it's very badly translated and riddled with crash-causing bugs. |
| 300 | ** [[spoiler:''[[VideoGame/PokemonRubyAndSapphire Pokémon Ruby, Sapphire, and Emerald]]'']]: Defeat extremist ecological teams who hope to better the ecology of the region in convoluted ways. |
| 301 | *** [[spoiler:''Delta Episode'' (from ''Omega Ruby'' and ''Alpha Sapphire'')]]: A mysterious stranger searches the land for magical orbs in order to call upon a green serpent and save the world. [[Franchise/DragonBall Wait a minute...]] |
| 302 | *** Alternatively: A girl nearly causes TheEndOfTheWorldAsWeKnowIt in order to prevent TheEndOfTheWorldAsWeKnowIt. Then she beats up people and steals their belongings, ruins the plan to save the world, and then is surprised when her new plan doesn't work. |
| 303 | ** [[spoiler:''[[VideoGame/PokemonDiamondAndPearl Pokémon Diamond, Pearl, and Platinum]]'']]: Defeat a terrorist organization and [[OlympusMons bend the ruler of time/space/antimatter to your will]] in the process. |
| 304 | *** Alternatively, completing a set of metal pins now requires interdimensional travel. |
| 305 | *** Or, a man tries to end the world because he is sad. |
| 306 | ** [[spoiler:''VideoGame/PokemonBlackAndWhite'']]: A slightly older young man or woman embarks on a journey through New York City and its surroundings to foil an old man's plan to use his son's ability to talk to animals to take over the world. |
| 307 | *** A socially maladjusted teenager repeatedly harasses you over the course of your quest to become the best in your field. After you beat up (in order) most of his minions, him, and his dad, he finally gets the message and leaves you alone. |
| 308 | *** Or: [[AnimalWrongsGroup A group that, legally, is not PETA]] tries to destroy society. |
| 309 | ** [[spoiler: ''VideoGame/PokemonBlack2AndWhite2'']]: The old man and not-PETA return with a new scheme. The slightly older young man/woman isn't available, so another one has to help. |
| 310 | ** [[spoiler:''VideoGame/PokemonXAndY'']]: In France, orange-dressed people want to make the world beautiful. This is bad, and so a young-but-older-looking boy or girl must stop this. |
| 311 | *** Alternatively: a young teenager methodically eliminates an organization that was formed in order to combat worldwide overpopulation and economic scarcity, and is rewarded by being allowed to enter a gargantuan and extravagant castle that houses, at most, five people. |
| 312 | *** [[spoiler:''The Tale of AZ'']]: Man loses a flower; reacts by killing everyone in France. |
| 313 | *** Or: A fairy convinces a really tall hobo to unleash death and destruction upon the world. |
| 314 | ** [[spoiler:''VideoGame/PokemonSunAndMoon'']]: A young boy/girl sets out on a quest through Hawaii to beat up wild animals, gangbangers, and {{Eldritch Abomination}}s to earn {{Power Crystal}}s. |
| 315 | *** Alternatively: Outsider interrupts a ''Anime/KillLaKill'' reenactment while learning ridiculous dances. |
| 316 | *** Or: Pacifist who keeps smoke in her bag learns that all of life's problems can be solved with violence. |
| 317 | *** Or: Completing a set of metal ores ''also'' requires interdimensional travel. |
| 318 | *** Or: An immigrant uses animals and inanimate objects to stop a perfectionist from bringing illegal immigrants to their region. |
| 319 | ** [[spoiler:''VideoGame/PokemonSwordAndShield'']]: A young boy/girl tries to win the World Cup of cockfighting in Great Britain. Meanwhile, the local CEO's attempts to fix a looming energy crisis go horribly wrong. |
| 320 | *** Or: A country is set to run out of energy. The local superhero decides to let the people of the future deal with it instead, and it's the protagonist's job to convince everyone else of the same. |
| 321 | ** [[spoiler:''VideoGame/PokemonLegendsArceus'']]: A 15-year old boy/girl gets isekai'd by the world's TopGod to a historical era of Hokkaido. |
| 322 | ** [[spoiler:''VideoGame/PokemonScarletAndViolet'']]: A younger boy/girl attends school in Spain and can try ToBeAMaster, beat up giant animals for ingredients, and fight delinquents in no particular order. |
| 323 | *** Or: A country's ecosystem is in peril--and only [[ABoyAndHisX a younger boy/girl and their]] [[TrademarkFavoriteFood sandwich-loving]] dinosaur/robot that loves pretending to be a motorcycle can set things right. In order to do so, the child must get pieces of metal from 8 specific people, help a young man make the perfect sandwich (which is ''not'' for the dinosaur/robot), and beat up people who were already getting bullied at school. |
| 324 | ** [[spoiler:''Pokémon Box'']]: A game that allows you to save creatures on a card. |
| 325 | ** [[spoiler:''VideoGame/PokemonMysteryDungeon: Red'' and ''Blue Rescue Teams'']]: A human gets turned into a monster after a personality test and is roped into rescuing other monsters in randomly generated dungeons. Said human nearly distracts a giant sky dragon from saving the world. |
| 326 | *** [[spoiler:''VideoGame/PokemonMysteryDungeonExplorers 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. |
| 327 | *** Two heroes embark on a plan to save the world, only for one of them to be waylaid for weeks on end by the nicest bunch of adventurers you ever met. If the villain hadn't tried to pit them against each other, they would probably have never reforged their partnership. Despite all this, ''neither'' of them turn out to be TheChosenOne. Also you can miss [[TrueFinalBoss the entire second half of the story]] if you don't talk to a trivial [=NPC=] who just shows up a few days after the credits roll. |
| 328 | *** To stop time from freezing in the future, you must freeze time in the present. |
| 329 | *** [[spoiler:''Pokémon Mystery Dungeon: Explorers of Sky'']]: Pay $30 extra just to see the fan-favorite character from the previous game live instead of die. |
| 330 | ** [[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. |
| 331 | *** Alternatively: In one of the most famous children's game series ever, [[CrapsackWorld literally everything]] [[WhatDoYouMeanItsForKids is awful]]. |
| 332 | ** [[spoiler:''VideoGame/PokemonSuperMysteryDungeon'']]: A different human in the body of a monster meets a guy, who knows a guy, who knows a guy, who knows a guy, who knows a guy, who knows a guy, who knows a guy, [[OverlyLongGag who knows a guy, who knows a guy, who knows a guy, who knows a guy, who knows a guy, who knows a guy...]] |
| 333 | ** [[spoiler:''VideoGame/PokemonRanger'']]: You befriend monsters by drawing circles around them. |
| 334 | *** [[spoiler:''Pokémon Ranger: Shadows of Almia'']]: You must prevent an oil company from finding a renewable energy source by drawing circles around monsters. |
| 335 | *** [[spoiler:''Pokémon Ranger: Guardian Signs'']]: Bad guys go around waking up birds, and EvilOldFolks blow up an island using a giant pinecone. You stop them by drawing circles around monsters. |
| 336 | ** [[spoiler:''VideoGame/PokemonSnap'']]: In the same world of exotic animals, a boy takes photographs of them to give to an old man. |
| 337 | *** [[spoiler:''VideoGame/NewPokemonSnap'']]: In a different region of said world, a child takes photographs of exotic animals to give to a slightly younger man, who is joined by two children and the now-grown-up boy from the previous game. Also, glowing flowers are somehow related to an ancient meteor strike. |
| 338 | ** [[spoiler:''VideoGame/PokemonStadium'']]: A SpinOff that heavily relies on OldSaveBonus. Its only purpose is to see sprites converted into 3D models. There's no story whatsoever. |
| 339 | *** A minigame compilation with a ''free'' battle simulator! |
| 340 | ** [[spoiler:''VideoGame/PokemonColosseum'']]: In a desert wasteland, an older boy takes villains' monsters in order to perform therapy for them. |
| 341 | *** [[spoiler:''Pokémon XD: Gale of Darkness'']]: The same villains turn a seagull purple. Therapy is now done by a computer. |
| 342 | ** [[spoiler:''VideoGame/PokemonTradingCardGame'']]: The player takes on the role of a different child in a world where card games are SeriousBusiness. |
| 343 | *** [[spoiler:''VideoGame/PokemonTradingCardGame: Here comes Team Rocket!'' (2001 video game)]]: [[Franchise/YuGiOh The original world where card games are]] SeriousBusiness inspires a game [[NoExportForYou that is not IN AMERICA]]. |
| 344 | ** [[spoiler:''VideoGame/HeyYouPikachu'']]: In this same world, a child must befriend a mouse by yelling at it through a cheap microphone. |
| 345 | *** [[spoiler:''VideoGame/PokemonChannel'']]: Another mouse must be befriended by a second child. They bond by watching television. |
| 346 | *** [[spoiler:''VideoGame/PokeParkWii'']]: A third mouse saves a theme park from being destroyed by a flying cat's home crashing into it, through ThePowerOfFriendship. |
| 347 | *** [[spoiler:''[=PokéPark=] 2'']]: Higher-quality minigames brainwash the masses and nearly destroy the universe. |
| 348 | *** [[spoiler:''VideoGame/DetectivePikachu'']]: Another mouse that [[TalkingAnimal can talk]] and [[SacrificedBasicSkillForAwesomeTraining not much else]] solves crimes with the help of a boy. |
| 349 | ** [[spoiler:''VideoGame/PokemonRumble'']]: A rodent that isn't a mouse desires to win a tournament. He fails, so he finds others to do it for him. |
| 350 | *** [[spoiler:''VideoGame/PokemonRumble Blast'']]: Large groups of creatures counteract oxidation by charging at it headfirst. |
| 351 | *** [[spoiler:''VideoGame/PokemonRumble World'']]: The fate of a kingdom rests on breakfast foods and who has the most toys. The player is tempted to spend money at every turn. |
| 352 | ** [[spoiler: ''VideoGame/PokemonConquest'']]: Answers the age old question of what Feudal Japan would've been like if it had electric rodents. |
| 353 | ** [[spoiler: ''My Pokémon Ranch'']]: In a game with graphics that resemble the Platform/Nintendo64, you're able to transfer creatures to a farm and play with them. You get more creatures the more you play the game. |
| 354 | ** [[spoiler: ''Pokémon Bank'']]: Transfer your creatures and store them in the cloud. |
| 355 | ** [[spoiler: ''Pokémon HOME'']]: Pay $16 a year so that the guys who made the franchise will store your creatures, 297 of whom you can do nothing with besides stuff them in a box and let them collect dust, even though you probably have the technology to just do it on your own. |
| 356 | ** [[spoiler: ''VideoGame/PokkenTournament'']]: Creatures beat each other up in [[VideoGame/{{Tekken}} a familiar fighting game format]]. |
| 357 | ** [[spoiler: ''VideoGame/PokemonTrozei'']]: Save creatures from giant vehicles by matching four or more of them via sliding. |
| 358 | *** [[spoiler: ''Pokémon Battle Trozei'']]: Same as above, only you swap them instead of sliding, and there's no plot. |
| 359 | *** [[spoiler: ''Pokémon Shuffle'']]: Same as above, but with {{Microtransactions}}. |
| 360 | ** [[spoiler: ''VideoGame/PokemonGo'']]: Players constantly drain their mobile data as they look for creatures while walking around aimlessly. |
| 361 | *** OR: Use a smartphone to view the world as...exactly how you'd normally see it, except with a lot more bad guys traveling around in hot air balloons. |
| 362 | ** [[spoiler: ''VideoGame/PokemonMasters'']]: Instead of training teams of exotic creatures, you train teams of people who train exotic creatures. |
| 363 | ** [[spoiler: ''VideoGame/PokemonCafeMix'']]: Exotic creatures are lured into the food service industry while being paid chicken feed. |
| 364 | ** [[spoiler: ''Pokemon'' Nuzlocke runs]]: Like the above, but with more level-grinding and (depending on how into it you get) more emotional tragedy. |
| 365 | *** [[spoiler: ''Webcomic/NuzlockeComics'']]: Share the above online, so everyone can join in the emotional tragedy! Yaaaaaaay! |
| 366 | * [[spoiler: ''VideoGame/PokerNightAtTheInventory'']]: An anthropomorphic rabbit, a shirtless luchador, a Russian army man, a nerd, and a faceless mute play Texas Hold 'Em |
| 367 | ** [[spoiler: ''VideoGame/PokerNight2'']]: A bodyguard, a robot, a zombie hunter, an anthropomorphic dog, and the same faceless mute play Texas and Omaha Hold 'Em while an insane supercomputer watches. |
| 368 | * [[spoiler:''VideoGame/PopNMusic'']]: Press big colorful buttons to create musical effects. |
| 369 | * [[spoiler:''VideoGame/{{Pong}}'']]: Two numbers, three lines, and a dot. |
| 370 | * [[spoiler:''VideoGame/PonyIsland'']]: A game designed by {{Satan}}, full of glitches and corrupted areas. |
| 371 | ** Alternatively: Satan wants you to beta-test his video game. |
| 372 | * [[spoiler:''VideoGame/{{Portal}}'']]: Break the laws of physics repeatedly while being carted around a desolate laboratory by an insane computer. |
| 373 | ** Alternatively: A computer runs some tests. |
| 374 | ** [[spoiler: ''VideoGame/{{Portal 2}}'']]: Hundreds of years later, you team up with a potato to stop an idiot. |
| 375 | *** Alt: Solve puzzles by shooting at walls while your former friend struggles with addiction and withdrawal. |
| 376 | ** Keep in mind, this is a first person shooter, but has only one weapon which can't kill anyone. |
| 377 | *** Alt: ''VideoGame/TeamFortress2'', except with only one class and only one weapon, and no one else is playing. |
| 378 | *** Alt: Creator/EllenMcLain and Creator/StephenMerchant take turns trying to get you to kill one another while Creator/JKSimmons rants about lemons. |
| 379 | * [[spoiler:''VideoGame/{{Postal}}'']]: A guy who resembles a disgruntled Grunge musician responds to being evicted from his home by picking a fight with the law enforcement (and very likely [[VideoGameCrueltyPotential the local populace while at it]].) |
| 380 | ** [[spoiler:''VideoGame/Postal2'']]: A dude goes around on his weekly life in [[CrapsackWorld a town]] [[WorldOfJerkass so crapsack]] (he would very likely [[VideoGameCrueltyPotential shoot its populace up]].) |
| 381 | ** [[spoiler:''VideoGame/PostalIII'']]: ......does this installment even deserve to be in this page when [[CreatorBacklash even the developers of the rest of this series]] consider [[BTeamSequel this one]] to be a misfire? |
| 382 | ** [[spoiler:''VideoGame/Postal4NoRegerts'']]: The dude spends a week trying to find a new job in another town that is also [[RunningGag so crapsack he would likely end up shooting it up]]. |
| 383 | ** [[spoiler:''VideoGame/PostalBrainDamaged'']]: The dude ends up picking a fight with [[BattleInTheCenterOfTheMind his own imagination.]] |
| 384 | * [[spoiler:''VideoGame/PotionPermit'']]: Cure patients by putting Tetris blocks in their medicine. |
| 385 | * [[spoiler:''VideoGame/PowerInstinct'']]: A family feud is settled in the fastest possible way. |
| 386 | ** [[spoiler:''Power Instinct Matrimelee'']]: The family beats the hell out of each other for the right to break age-of-consent laws. |
| 387 | * [[spoiler:''VideoGame/PowerPete'']]: As Creator/OrsonWelles said of his role in ''WesternAnimation/{{Transformers|TheMovie}}'', you "play a big toy who attacks a bunch of smaller toys." In a toystore. |
| 388 | * [[spoiler:''VideoGame/PowerStone'']]: An AcePilot, a [[TheCutie cute]] {{kunoichi}}, a [[Franchise/DragonBall Goku]]-esque martial artist, a [[FortuneTeller fortune telling]] SultryBellyDancer, 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. |
| 389 | ** [[spoiler:''Power Stone 2'']]: With the exception of the {{gonk}} {{pirate}} and the SocialDarwinist [[ProWrestlingIsReal Pro]] [[WrestlerInAllOfUs Wrestler]], the eight remaining characters return to have more fun from within another {{MacGuffin}} treasure hunting game, this time being joined by a [[TheGunslinger gunslinging]] {{cowboy}}, a ProperLady with a SplitPersonality, a young LivingToy boy, a FatBastard ChefOfIron, the AcePilot's father (who's both an AcePilot himself and an AdventurerArchaeologist), and a [[RoseHairedSweetie young female shopkeeper]]. A [[HumongousMecha huge Egyptian-esque robot]] and a [[OurGiantsAreBigger giant doctor]] also want to take part in and have much fun from within the {{MacGuffin}} treasure hunting game as well. |
| 390 | * [[spoiler:''VideoGame/PresentableLiberty'']]: Stand around and wait to receive letters you can't respond to because you're in prison. |
| 391 | * [[spoiler:''VideoGame/Prey2006'']]: Cherokee Guy makes the ''VideoGame/{{Doom}}'' Guy proud. Now with more GravityScrew (and [[MemeticMutation sphincters]]!) |
| 392 | * [[spoiler:''VideoGame/Prey2017'']]: Following a workplace accident, a shapeshifting alien that thinks it's the vice president of a tech company kills dozens of its brethren in the quest to read some email. |
| 393 | * [[spoiler:''VideoGame/{{Primal}}'']]: A girl searches for her lost boyfriend while a gargoyle tries to convince her to save the world. |
| 394 | * [[spoiler:''VideoGame/PrimalRage'']]: ''Franchise/MortalKombat'' [-[[RecycledInSpace WITH]] DINOSAURS AND GORILLAS!-] |
| 395 | * [[spoiler:''VideoGame/PrinceOfPersia1'']]: You are a beggar who is in love with a princess and cannot survive a twenty-foot drop. Except the one that threw you in jail. You must fight through a crumbling, [[EverythingTryingToKillYou trap-filled palace brimming with guards]] and fight the evil vizier. In an hour. |
| 396 | ** Or: Penniless beggar finds love, wealth and power by killing a Disney character. |
| 397 | ** [[spoiler:''VideoGame/PrinceOfPersia2'']]: Similar concept as above, only now you have to die to solve some of the puzzles and it takes ''two'' hours. |
| 398 | ** [[spoiler:''VideoGame/PrinceOfPersiaTheSandsOfTime'']]: Much like the earlier games, only now there's no time limit and you're armed with a VCR. Or [=TiVo=]/Sky+ to younger tropers. |
| 399 | *** Alternatively, a man who can't decide what sword he likes best and likes ripping up his shirt joins forces with the woman he kidnapped to save the world from a tuberculosis-suffering politician (who has recently changed political parties) after the man breaks a clock. All this is a story told by someone with an incredibly bad memory. |
| 400 | ** [[spoiler:''VideoGame/PrinceOfPersiaWarriorWithin'']]: Much like the previous game, only now [[DarkerAndEdgier your main character reached puberty]]. |
| 401 | *** Alternatively, a sleep-deprived man armed with a VCR fights empresses in metal swimsuits. |
| 402 | ** [[spoiler:''VideoGame/PrinceOfPersiaTheTwoThrones'']]: Like the last two games, but the main character now has [[SuperpoweredEvilSide multiple-personality disorder]]. |
| 403 | *** Alternatively, a no-longer-dead politician (who doesn't have tuberculosis and never changed parties) kills an ex-empress who used to wear metal swimsuits to create lots of sand. To set things right, the man from the previous two games joins forces with the princess he had kidnapped, who no longer remembers him. They have conversations in elevators about the man's favorite color and he finds his old VCR. |
| 404 | *** The main character learns that there's no point trying to correct your mistakes. |
| 405 | ** [[spoiler:''VideoGame/PrinceOfPersia2008'']]: An environmentalist and a guy with a Freddy Krueger glove run around trying to save a tree for someone who's been gone for a thousand years. |
| 406 | * [[spoiler:''VideoGame/PrincessConnectReDive'']] The hero, after failing to defeat the FinalBoss, became amnesiac. He joins a BigEater StockShonenHero, a pious elf child and a [[TokenEvilTeammate shady]] cat mage to defeat it again while dealing with his UnwantedHarem. |
| 407 | * [[spoiler:''VisualNovel/PrincessDebut'']]: You have thirty days to learn to dance from a furry. {{Bishonen}} princes want to screw you, but won't, because the game is rated E. There's a flying hamster. |
| 408 | * [[spoiler: ''VideoGame/PrincessMaker 2'']]: As a reward for saving a kingdom from the armies of Satan, God gives you a ten-year-old girl. |
| 409 | ** You can then have said 10-year-old girl kill the god of war and become the new Satan. |
| 410 | ** Alternatively: Make your underage daughter work at a sleazy bar to pay for her breast enlargement. |
| 411 | * [[spoiler: ''VisualNovel/PrincessWaltz'']] A bunch of princesses compete in a royal battle royale where cardgames are SeriousBusiness. The prize is a prince who secretly turns into a princess through a DBZ fusion-move to compete in the tournament as well, because he doesn't want to marry any of the competitors since he prefers men. Besides, he really was a princess all along, anyway. |
| 412 | * [[spoiler: ''VideoGame/ProfessorLayton'']]: Barraged by puzzles, two Brits, a professor and his apprentice, solve mysteries. Plot twists ensue. |
| 413 | ** [[spoiler:''VideoGame/ProfessorLaytonAndTheCuriousVillage'']]: Two Brits are trapped in a town where puzzles are SeriousBusiness. |
| 414 | ** Alternatively: The consequences for not being able to arrest for Obstruction of Justice. |
| 415 | ** [[spoiler:''VideoGame/ProfessorLaytonAndTheDiabolicalBox'']]: Two Brits take a train ride, and spend the second half of the game wandering an old mining town completely stoned. Puzzles are still SeriousBusiness. Then they get caught up in a sort of [[DoesThisRemindYouOfAnything vampire love story.]] |
| 416 | ** [[spoiler:''VideoGame/ProfessorLaytonAndTheUnwoundFuture'']]: Two Brits wind up in the future where fighting against the Mafia is done by solving their puzzles, which, by the way, are still SeriousBusiness. |
| 417 | ** [[spoiler:''VideoGame/ProfessorLaytonAndTheLastSpecter'']]: ''Three'' Brits go to a small country village to stop a Frenchman from opening a garden. Unsurprisingly, puzzles are deathly SeriousBusiness. |
| 418 | ** [[spoiler:''VideoGame/ProfessorLaytonAndTheMiracleMask'']]: Three Brits go to a carnival to keep people from getting stoned. Puzzles enter a new dimension of SeriousBusiness. |
| 419 | ** [[spoiler:''VideoGame/ProfessorLaytonAndTheAzranLegacy'']]: '''Four''' Brits plus an milennial girl travel around the world to complete a collection of magical eggs. In every land they visit, puzzles are SeriousBusiness, so it's likely a worldwide trait by this point. |
| 420 | ** [[spoiler:''VideoGame/LaytonsMysteryJourneyKatrielleAndTheMillionairesConspiracy'']]: The offspring of one of the Brits joins the fun of solving mysteries, with the help of another Brit and a talking dog. Her view of puzzles as SeriousBusiness is only surpassed by her voracious appetite. |
| 421 | ** [[spoiler:''VideoGame/ProfessorLaytonVsPhoenixWrightAceAttorney'']]: A baker and a scholar counter accusations of witchcraft in a medieval society that does things by the book. |
| 422 | * [[spoiler:''VideoGame/{{Progear}}'']]: ChildSoldiers have to overthrow an immortal senate with UsefulNotes/WorldWarII-era planes. While collecting gems. |
| 423 | * [[spoiler: ''VideoGame/ProjectWingman'']]: An unnamed pilot takes the idea of being a ButterflyOfDoom a bit ''too'' literally. The BigBad gets angry at the pilot, the pilot's friends, and possibly the pilot's [[GuyInBack WSO]] because they existed in front of him; one of the pilot's friends gives him a BigShutUp, to the cathartic amusement of players everywhere. |
| 424 | * [[spoiler:''VideoGame/ProtectMeKnight'']]: A [[RagtagBunchOfMisfits ragtag bunch of]] [[FantasyCharacterClasses JRPG misfits]] tries to protect a happy-go-lucky princess. Retro video game and Japanese pop-culture parodies galore. |
| 425 | * [[spoiler:''VideoGame/{{Prototype}}'']]: A man in a hoodie has lunch in New York despite the army's best attempts to stop him. |
| 426 | ** [[spoiler: ''VideoGame/Prototype2'']]: The man in the hoodie welcomes a very upset man into his family. The angry man shows his appreciation by waging war on ''everyone''. |
| 427 | * [[spoiler:''VideoGame/PsychicForce'']]: It's ''ComicBook/XMen''...[[RecycledInSpace with]] PsychicPowers! |
| 428 | * [[spoiler:''VideoGame/{{Psychonauts}}'']]: A kid runs ''away'' from the circus, learns PsychicPowers by [[GottaCatchEmAll collecting random junk]] to earn merit badges, and must save the world from an angry midget and a mad dentist. |
| 429 | ** Alternatively: CircusBrat [[SubvertedTrope runs away from home]] in hopes of becoming a [[TeenSuperspy pre-teen superspy]]. As he works his way towards an insane asylum, he is eaten by a fish, causes a guy to awaken his love for dairy, and sneezes out his brain in the end. His dad is ''not'' balding and doesn't hate him. Meanwhile, a Brazilian mourns, people go off their meds, and a short guy dresses like a tokusatsu hero. |
| 430 | ** Alternatively: A boy goes to summer camp to learn how to be a government-funded therapist. |
| 431 | ** [[spoiler:''VideoGame/PsychonautsInTheRhombusOfRuin'']]: CircusBrat and some of his friends go for an impromptu swim and have [[ThroughTheEyesOfMadness a really bad trip]]. Then he takes a bath with a dentist. |
| 432 | ** [[spoiler:''VideoGame/Psychonauts2'']]: Grandma did some war crimes and then forgot about them. A guy with a big hat wants to make her remember her war crimes. Meanwhile, the CircusBrat gives his superior a gambling addiction, causes a guy to have panic attacks and learns his childhood hero made some mistakes in his youth and gets really mad about it. |
| 433 | * ''[[spoiler:VideoGame/PsychoWaluigi]]'': A DastardlyWhiplash type character takes a nasty fall from a hot air balloon and develops psychic powers from the knock on his head. He then uses these powers to go on a spree of conquest across the new land he crashed onto, doing battle with the militaristic government and literally overthrowing puppet rulers along the way. |
| 434 | * [[spoiler:''VideoGame/{{Pulse}}'']]: A blind girl must find her brother, who is lost in a cave system. |
| 435 | * [[spoiler:''VideoGame/PunchOut'']]: Scrawny kid works his way to the top of the boxing circuit. Many of his opponents are blatant cheaters. |
| 436 | ** Alternatively: A New Yorker beats up racial stereotypes. |
| 437 | ** [[spoiler:''VideoGame/PunchOut Wii - Title Defense Mode'']]: Scrawny kid defends his title from his previous opponents, who are now even worse and even more blatant cheaters, even the ones who weren't. |
| 438 | ** [[spoiler:''Super Punch Out'']]: Scrawny kid with no name works his way to the top of the boxing circuit. Many of his opponents are blatant cheaters, some aren't even boxers. |
| 439 | * [[spoiler:''Pursuit Force'']]: You fight crime by hijacking vehicles while someone else is driving them. |
| 440 | * [[spoiler:''VideoGame/{{Pushmo}}'']]: A little guy removes children from voxel statues by meticulously pulling them apart.[[note]][[AnArmAndALeg The statues,]] [[JustForFun/IThoughtItMeant you sicko.]][[/note]] |
| 441 | * [[spoiler:''Push-Over'']]: An anthropomorphic dog trips while dancing and simultaneously drops ten bags of potato chips from his pocket down an anthole. A friendly ant goes to look for them but instead gets distracted playing with his toy dominoes. His journey takes him to many places including Ancient Greece, Japan, a medieval dungeon, a tower of tinker-toys, and outer space. |
| 442 | * [[spoiler:''VideoGame/PuyoPuyo'']]: Stacking and killing cute little blobs is a sport. |
| 443 | ** Or: A girl discovers a spell powered by the genocide of multicolored blobs. She uses this power to beat {{Satan}}, who wants to marry her. |
| 444 | ** [[spoiler:''VideoGame/PuyoPuyo2'']]: Satan sets up a tower to woo little girl and get his pet back. |
| 445 | ** [[spoiler:''VideoGame/PuyoPuyoSun'']]: Satan causes global warming to tan his skin, all because of a magazine he read. The girl finds it too hot and goes out to stop him. |
| 446 | ** [[spoiler:''VideoGame/PuyoPuyoFever/Puyo Pop Fever'']]: A different little girl attends an academy, and competes in a competition to find her teacher's flying cane. |
| 447 | ** [[spoiler:''VideoGame/PuyoPuyo15thAnniversary'']]: A bunch of anime boys, girls, and creatures compete in a tournament based around destroying cute, harmless blobs. The winner gets to make a wish. |
| 448 | ** [[spoiler:''VideoGame/PuyoPuyo7'']]: Another different little girl, taught by the first girl, has to stop WeirdWeather flooding the school she attends. |
| 449 | ** [[spoiler:''VideoGame/PuyoPuyoTetris'']]: All of the girls (but mainly the third one) investigate more WeirdWeather making multicolored blocks fall from the sky. |
| 450 | ** [[spoiler:''VideoGame/PuyoPuyoTetris2'']]: A PsychopathicManchild merges two dimensions together so he can separate them back. All of the girls, plus a boy about their age, team up to give him psychiatric counseling. |
| 451 | ** [[spoiler:''VideoGame/DoctorRobotniksMeanBeanMachine'']]: A mad doctor kidnaps a race of multicolored blobs to turn into robots. You have to stop him. Totally not related to the above entries. |
| 452 | ** [[spoiler:''VideoGame/KirbysAvalanche'']]: A pink puffball makes the genocide of multicolored blobs a sport. The puffball is also uncharacteristically more of a jerk. |
| 453 | * [[spoiler:''VideoGame/PuzzleQuest'']]: Warriors fight for the fate of the world with Match-Three Puzzle battles. |
| 454 | * [[spoiler:''VideoGame/{{Pyre}}'']]: You and your fellow travelers are stuck in a hellish realm, and the only way out is to play sacred 3-on-3 hoops. |
| 455 | * [[spoiler: ''VideoGame/QBert'']]: Jump on blocks in order to change their color while avoiding anything red or purple (lest you drop the Simlish equivalent of the F-bomb). |
| 456 | * [[spoiler: ''VideoGame/{{Qix}}'']]: Draw lots of quadrilaterals while sparkly things chase you around. Avoid the color-changing lines. |
| 457 | * [[spoiler:''VideoGame/QPShooting'']]: ''Franchise/TouhouProject'', but with a pudding-obsessed dog girl and lots of [[QuirkyWork widgety-ness]]. |
| 458 | * [[spoiler: ''VideoGame/{{Quake}}'']]: A single SpaceMarine must traverse numerous monotonously decorated Gothic buildings in order to reach a boss who doesn't move or attack at all. |
| 459 | ** [[spoiler: ''VideoGame/QuakeII'']]: A single soldier fights a bunch of guys who all have prosthetic limbs. |
| 460 | ** [[spoiler: ''VideoGame/QuakeIIIArena'']]: A bunch of people kill each other over and over again. |
| 461 | ** [[spoiler: ''VideoGame/QuakeIV'']]: A bunch of soldiers invade the home of the aforementioned prosthetic limb users. |
| 462 | ** [[spoiler: ''VideoGame/EnemyTerritoryQuakeWars'']]: A bunch of soldiers and a bunch of prosthetic limb users wage war in the soldiers' home planet. |
| 463 | * [[spoiler:''VideoGame/QuantumConundrum'']]: Travel through your uncle's mad house, ''through dimensions'' in order to get him out of a giant pocket. |
| 464 | * [[spoiler: ''The Queen of Heart '99'']]: The result of dipping ''VisualNovel/ToHeart'' into massive (fan-made) CharacterDerailment. |
| 465 | * [[spoiler: ''VideoGame/QuestForGlory'']]: A guy wants to be a hero. |
| 466 | ** [[spoiler: ''VideoGame/QuestForGloryII'']]: Same as the above...[[RecycledINSPACE IN THE DESERT!]] |
| 467 | ** [[spoiler: ''VideoGame/QuestForGloryIII'']]: Same as the above...[[RecycledINSPACE IN THE JUNGLE!]] |
| 468 | ** [[spoiler: ''VideoGame/QuestForGloryIV'']]: Same as the above...[[RecycledINSPACE IN TRANSYLVANIA!]] |
| 469 | ** [[spoiler: ''VideoGame/QuestForGloryV'']]: Same as the above...[[RecycledINSPACE IN ANCIENT GREECE!]] |
| 470 | * [[spoiler: ''VideoGame/{{QWOP}}'']]: An aspiring athlete for an underdog nation runs 100 meters. |
| 471 | * [[spoiler: ''VideoGame/RType'']]: Humanity fights off artificial {{Eldritch Abomination}}s using ships equipped with OrganicTechnology made from said abominations. [[TrialAndErrorGameplay You'll spend most of your time with the abominations dying]]. |
| 472 | * [[spoiler: ''VideoGame/RabiRibi'']]: A bunny girl has to track down another bunny girl while being chased by yet another bunny girl. |
| 473 | ** Alternatively: Woman uses telepathy ineffectively. |
| 474 | ** Alternatively: A whole bunch of good people fight each other over pure misunderstandings. |
| 475 | * [[spoiler: ''VideoGame/RadiantHistoria'']]: SaveScumming: The Game. |
| 476 | * [[spoiler:''VideoGame/RadiantSilvergun'']]: Ancient artifact is killing everyone, [[AnachronicOrder wander around the timeline]] to find out why. |
| 477 | ** Alternately: You have seven weapons. They level up separately. Winning means using these seven weapons well. Playing for score means using these seven weapons frequently and evenly to destroy only a third of the enemy forces. |
| 478 | * [[spoiler:''VideoGame/RadiataStories'']]: You and everyone you've ever met including your bumbling mentor and quiet girlfriend wage war against whoever's side you don't take. |
| 479 | * [[spoiler:''VideoGame/{{Raft}}'']]: In a flooded post-apocalyptic world, a young adult builds a boat/farm and [[LateToTheTragedy struggles with their bad habit of just missing all the other human survivors]]. |
| 480 | * [[spoiler:''Rally Trophy'']]: You struggle with the steering wheel of your old 60s car. You start your racing career in the middle of nowhere in northwest Russia. Your co-driver is a bossy JerkAss and panics when seeing cows. |
| 481 | * [[spoiler: ''Rama'']]: Creator/ArthurCClarke teaches an astronaut octal and hexadecimal math. |
| 482 | * [[spoiler:''VideoGame/{{Rampage}}'']]: You punch buildings until either they collapse or you fall and turn into a naked person. |
| 483 | * [[spoiler:''VideoGame/RaptorCallOfTheShadows'']]: An '''''[[MadeOfIron extremely durable]]''''' plane shoots down enemies. |
| 484 | * [[spoiler:''VideoGame/RainbowSix'']]: [[VideoGame/TeamFortress2 Have a plan to kill everyone you and your friends meet.]] [[OneHitPointWonder Be prepared to lose those friends if your plan doesn't go off without a hitch.]] |
| 485 | ** [[spoiler:''Rainbow Six 3: Raven Shield'']]: An old man gives Neo-Nazis some money to go get themselves killed. |
| 486 | ** [[spoiler:''Rainbow Six: Vegas'']]: A Texan and the two dumbest special forces operators ever shoot up Las Vegas. |
| 487 | ** [[spoiler:''Rainbow Six: Vegas 2'']]: A {{featureless|Protagonist}} training instructor and the aforementioned dumbest SF operators ever shoot up Las Vegas the day before the Texan arrives. The plot is revealed to be orchestrated by the most incompetent special forces operator ever. |
| 488 | ** [[spoiler: ''VideoGame/RainbowSixSiege'']]: There is a new wave of global organized terrorism, and to counter them, worldwide special forces are organized... to kill each other instead. Although sometimes fight terrorists. |
| 489 | * [[spoiler:''VideoGame/RakenzarnTales'']]: ''Franchise/KingdomHearts'' meets ''VideoGame/SuperSmashBros'' meets ''VideoGame/SuperRobotWars'' mixed with [[OriginalCharacter a few OCs]]. What we get is an [[MassiveMultiplayerCrossover insanely, huge crossover]]. |
| 490 | * [[spoiler:''VideoGame/RakenzarnFrontierStory'']]: Music/TheUltimateShowdownOfUltimateDestiny: The RPG. |
| 491 | * [[spoiler:''[[VideoGame/RatchetAndClank2002 Ratchet & Clank]]'']]: Vaguely catlike repairman acquires factory-rejected robot and saves the galaxy from people who are just trying to make a new home for themselves. |
| 492 | ** [[spoiler:''VideoGame/RatchetAndClankGoingCommando'']]: Vaguely catlike repairman and factory-rejected robot travel to another galaxy and save it from an adorable fuzzy monster. |
| 493 | ** [[spoiler:''VideoGame/RatchetAndClankUpYourArsenal'']]: Vaguely catlike repairman and factory-rejected robot return to the first galaxy and save it from a mad scientist and his sarcastic butler. But they need the help of one of their old enemies to do so. |
| 494 | ** [[spoiler:''VideoGame/RatchetDeadlocked'']]: Vaguely catlike repairman must win a game show [[DeadlyGame or die trying.]] |
| 495 | ** [[spoiler:''VideoGame/RatchetAndClankSizeMatters'']]: Vaguely catlike repairman and factory-rejected robot get interviewed by a young girl working on her school project and end up finding tiny aliens. |
| 496 | ** [[spoiler:''VideoGame/SecretAgentClank'']]: Vaguely catlike repairman gets sent to prison, while factory-rejected robot tries on various costumes, sends the repairman cakes, and plays poker for an empty crate. Meanwhile, [[TheDitz stupid]] green-wearing superhero tells a bunch of far-fetched tales, and tiny robots help defeat cheating robots. |
| 497 | ** [[spoiler:''VideoGame/RatchetAndClankFutureToolsOfDestruction'']]: Vaguely catlike repairman and factory-rejected robot save a different galaxy from a pipsqueak emperor and his army of goldfish. They also find the ultimate weapon of a lost civilization: a hat. |
| 498 | ** [[spoiler:''Ratchet & Clank Future: Quest for Booty'']]: Vaguely catlike repairman faces two pirates with the intent of finding where his factory-rejected robot friend is working. |
| 499 | ** [[spoiler:''VideoGame/RatchetAndClankFutureACrackInTime'']]: Vaguely catlike repairman finds out he isn't the [[LastOfHisKind only one]]. In the meantime, factory-rejected robot is now employed in the exact center of the universe, give or take fifty feet. |
| 500 | ** [[spoiler:''VideoGame/RatchetAndClankAll4One'']]: Vaguely catlike repairman, his factory-rejected robot friend, stupid green-wearing president, and mad scientist [[EnemyMine work together]] to stop a man [[spoiler:in search of his lost pet]]. |
| 501 | ** [[spoiler:''VideoGame/RatchetAndClankFullFrontalAssault'']]: Vaguely catlike repairman, factory-rejected robot friend, and stupid green-wearing former president have to defend a sector of the galaxy from an evil nerd. It's more intended for multiplayer. |
| 502 | ** [[spoiler:''VideoGame/RatchetAndClankIntoTheNexus'']]: Vaguely catlike repairman and factory-rejected robot friend go on a gravity-lacking adventure to stop a witch and her brother from summoning spooky scary space ghosts and a mechanical eye. |
| 503 | ** [[spoiler:''VideoGame/RatchetAndClank2016'']]: Stupid green-wearing superhero retells story of vaguely catlike repairman acquiring factory-rejected robot and saving the galaxy from people who are just trying to make a new home for themselves. |
| 504 | ** [[spoiler:''VideoGame/RatchetAndClankRiftApart'']]: Vaguely catlike repairman and mad scientist accidentally break reality and are transported into an alternate dimension where the mad scientist always wins; to resolve this, they have to interact with their (more imposing but equally sassy) dimensional counterparts in an emotionally healthy and thoughtful manner. |
| 505 | * [[spoiler:''[[VideoGame/RAYSeries RayForce]]'']]: Humanity destroys the Earth after a supercomputer goes insane when connected to a clone. |
| 506 | ** [[spoiler:''[=RayStorm=]'']]: Defend the Earth from a space colony mutiny. No mention of the supercomputer anywhere. |
| 507 | ** [[spoiler:''[=RayCrisis=]'']]: Humanity tries to hack aformentioned supercomputer to destroy it from the inside. [[spoiler: It doesn't work.]] |
| 508 | * [[spoiler:''VideoGame/{{Rayman}}'' series]]: Limbless man fights evil despite disability. |
| 509 | ** [[spoiler:''Rayman'' (1995 game)]]: Limbless man must rescue dozens of his fangirls before he can confront the villain, who lives in a fortress made of candy and cake. There, he defeats the reassembled body parts of all the game's bosses, then lets the villain go free. |
| 510 | ** [[spoiler:''VideoGame/Rayman2TheGreatEscape'']]: Limbless man must eat a lot of yellow flies on a quest to awaken an omnipotent voodoo doll. |
| 511 | ** [[spoiler:''VideoGame/Rayman3HoodlumHavoc'']]: Limbless man has trouble getting his shoes to stay on. He saves the world by making a googly face at a wise-cracking black fly. |
| 512 | ** [[spoiler:''Rayman VideoGame/RavingRabbids'']]: Limbless man is forced to play bizarre sports with screaming bunnies. |
| 513 | ** [[spoiler:''Rayman Raving Rabbids 2'']]: Shrieking rabbits [[SpotlightStealingSquad divert the attention away from limbless man]] and play more bizarre games. [[TheyChangedItNowItSucks Everyone rages at the attention-diverting]]. |
| 514 | ** [[spoiler:''Rayman Raving Rabbids: TV Party'']]: Noisy lapines [[TrappedInTVLand get stuck in the limbless man's television set]] and annoy him by playing yet more bizarre games. |
| 515 | ** [[spoiler:''Rabbids Go Home'']]: Cacophonous lagomorphs decide to finally go home. Except that they've forgotten where home is, and decide it's the moon, and build a tower consisting of random junk on the streets and clothing stolen directly off people in order to get there. The limbless man is now apparently absent, considering the rabbits are doing his job for him. |
| 516 | ** [[spoiler:''VideoGame/RaymanOrigins'']]: Limbless man, blue frog, and big-nosed fancily-dressed blue people have a nap that drives a grandma to send the legions of Hell upon them. They all set out to rescue the fangirls, some [[FairySexy fairies]], and beat up a few giant animals (and a plant). |
| 517 | ** [[spoiler: ''VideoGame/RaymanLegends'']]: One long nap later, the limbless man, blue frog, and big-nosed fancily-dressed blue people go on adventures inside a bunch of paintings, rescuing big-nosed fancily-dressed people and warrior princesses from whatever is in the paintings. |
| 518 | * [[spoiler: ''VideoGame/RazingStorm'']]: Two commandos and their squad kill an evil dictator. And ''lots'' of HumongousMecha. |
| 519 | * [[spoiler: ''VideoGame/TheReap'']]: Aliens invade earth and destroy its defences. [[VillainProtagonist You play as one of them]]. |
| 520 | * [[spoiler:''VideoGame/{{Receiver}}'']]: GunPorn: The Game...except you only get three dinky pistols and are up against {{Killer Robot}}s. |
| 521 | * [[spoiler:''VideoGame/RecettearAnItemShopsTale'']]: In a world full of adventurers, you play as the shopkeeper. |
| 522 | ** Alternatively: Learn to love capitalism and hate little girls buying groceries. |
| 523 | * [[spoiler:''VideoGame/RedDeadRedemption'']]: VideoGame/GrandTheftAuto...[[RecycledInSpace IN THE WILD WEST!]] |
| 524 | ** [[spoiler:''VideoGame/RedDeadRedemptionUndeadNightmare'']]: [[AndThenJohnWasAZombie ...and then John Marston was a zombie.]] |
| 525 | * [[spoiler:''VideoGame/RedDeadRedemption2'']]: Broken Home Simulator 2018 |
| 526 | ** Or: A cowboy gets sick and dies. |
| 527 | * [[spoiler:''VideoGame/RedFaction'']]: A man in mars voices a complaint against his employer by blowing up walls. |
| 528 | * [[spoiler:''Franchise/ResidentEvil'']]: Biopharmaceutical company creates zombie apocalypses by the dozen. Everyone has to deal with the fallout. |
| 529 | ** [[spoiler:''VideoGame/ResidentEvil1'']]: Cops break into a house and kill everyone inside. |
| 530 | *** [[spoiler: ''Jill's story'']]: A policewoman who is the MasterOfUnlocking and an awesome man work together to find out what happened to their captain who wears SunglassesAtNight and their partner, a policeman before he gets his gorilla arms mods. |
| 531 | *** [[spoiler: ''Chris' Story'']]: A policeman, before he gets roid up, finds a rookie police officer while finding out what happened to his captain who wears SunglassesAtNight and his kinda, sorta LoveInterest, the policewoman who unlocks things. |
| 532 | ** [[spoiler:''VideoGame/ResidentEvil2'']]: A policeman arrives in a town and starts shooting its residents. Meanwhile, an evil corporation conspires to invent skin cream. |
| 533 | *** Or, a policeman who arrives late on his first day on the job after being ditched by his girlfriend got a hell of a welcoming party and falls in love with a scheming, sultry, morally ambigous woman. Meanwhile, a young woman, who found out her brother has left the city for some "forced" vacation, has to protect a little girl from an evil chief of police and an [[MonsterIsAMommy incestuous]] cancer monster. |
| 534 | *** [[spoiler:''VideoGame/ResidentEvil2Remake'']]: As above but with more angst and gore. |
| 535 | ** [[spoiler:''VideoGame/ResidentEvil3Nemesis'']]: A gal in a miniskirt spends the entire game running away from a tentacle monster. |
| 536 | *** Or: Something big, angry and nasty is coming after you because FUCK YOU! |
| 537 | ** [[spoiler:''VideoGame/ResidentEvilCodeVeronica'']]: A girl protects a boy only slightly younger than she is because her older brother isn't around to protect ''her'' until the very end. |
| 538 | ** [[spoiler:''VideoGame/ResidentEvil4'']]: The President's daughter has been kidnapped by Spaniards! Are you a bad enough dude to rescue the President's daughter? |
| 539 | *** Or: An American goes to Spain to rescue the president's daughter and meets a man who is eventually killed by a cult leader and his demon penis. |
| 540 | *** Or: The policeman from the second game arrives in a village in Europe and starts shooting its residents. Meanwhile, Napoleon is digging for ancient parasites under his house. |
| 541 | *** Or: Big Bad explains plan to protagonist and spends several days trying to kill him, when unlocking all the doors and taking a nap would have assured him world domination. |
| 542 | *** Or: American guns down hundreds of Spaniards because he doesn't want to be like them. |
| 543 | *** [[spoiler:''Resident Evil 4: Separate Ways'']]: A woman uses a GrapplingHookPistol to help out the above American behind the scenes while working for the villain behind the first three games, but in reality is a {{chessmaster}} who is doing it all for own nefarious schemes. |
| 544 | *** [[spoiler:''VideoGame/ResidentEvil4Remake'']]: As above but the President's daughter is [[RescuedFromTheScrappyHeap a good character now.]] And the awesome Spaniard gets a more dignified death then getting dicked by a monster. |
| 545 | ** [[spoiler:''VideoGame/ResidentEvil5'']]: A [[MagnificentBastard very stylish and clever villain]] who [[LargeHam speaks in a huge, bombastic tone]] plots to [[TakeOverTheWorld control the world]] while wearing SunglassesAtNight. He is stopped by a heavily-muscled international police officer and his [[WaifFu small, slender female partner.]] |
| 546 | *** Alternatively, the first recipient of a gorilla-human arm transplant punches his way through Africa with the support of a local in order to stop Neo from controlling worms. In the end, he fistfights a boulder in a volcano. |
| 547 | ** [[spoiler:''VideoGame/ResidentEvilOutbreak'']]: A group of people completely unrelated to all of the above have to put up with the aftermath. |
| 548 | ** [[spoiler:''VideoGame/ResidentEvil6'']]: The ex-policeman, his partner with a DarkAndTroubledPast, heavily muscled international police officer, his military partner, son of the stylish bombastic villain, daughter of the cancer monster and chessmaster woman walk into a city. |
| 549 | ** [[spoiler:''VideoGame/ResidentEvil0'']]: Rookie police officer from the first game and death row prisoner escaped from a train and then, from a training facility while bombastic villain and future cancer monster watches. Also, the BigBad is a ''Franchise/FinalFantasy'' villain reject. |
| 550 | ** [[spoiler:''VideoGame/ResidentEvilRevelations'']]: Gal in a miniskirt who is also policewoman from the first game is stranded on a ship alongside evil goo monsters. Her partner, the heavily muscled international police officer tries to find her. |
| 551 | ** [[spoiler:''VideoGame/ResidentEvilRevelations2'']]: Sister of the heavily muscled international police officer and daughter of [[EnsembleDarkhorse everyone's favorite man from the first game]] are stranded on an island to be experimented about the effect of fear. The awesome man goes to their search and works with a mysterious girl. The BigBad is the sister of the stylish bombastic villain. |
| 552 | ** [[spoiler:''VideoGame/ResidentEvilTheMercenaries3D'']]: The gorilla-man, the miniskirt gal, the rookie police officer, the gorilla-man's younger sister, a corporate samurai, the ex-policeman's old comrade turned enemy, the awesome man, and the stylish villian decide "screw plot, let's just go shoot zombies". |
| 553 | ** [[spoiler:''VideoGame/ResidentEvil7Biohazard'']]: Man meets his wife's family for dinner and ends up getting picked on by her parents and bossed around by her siblings while spending most of the night getting rid of a mold problem for them, watching their home videos, and repeatedly mistaking his own new daughter for his grandmother-in-law. |
| 554 | *** [[spoiler: ''Not a Hero'' DLC]]: Gorilla man has to find the remaining family member and rescue his men. He succeeds in the former, not so much in the latter. |
| 555 | *** [[spoiler: ''End of Zoe'' DLC]]: Last surviving family member is dying from her mold infection and has to be rescued by her [[RememberTheNewGuy previously unmentionned uncle]] who has to deal with her father who has become ComicBook/SwampThing. |
| 556 | ** [[spoiler:''VideoGame/ResidentEvilVillage'']]: The same man heads on down to Romania, and meets some asshole nobles and a lady who really likes crows. He then has to gather a baby's body parts to stop the lady who likes crows from trying to save her child. |
| 557 | *** Alternatively, Average man has to go in Romania to find out why his friend, the Gorilla man, shot his wife. |
| 558 | *** [[spoiler:''Shadows of Rose'' DLC]]: The baby, now grown up, learns to embrace her toxic mold infestation. |
| 559 | * [[spoiler:''VideoGame/{{Resistance}}: Fall of Man'']]: You must stop a bunch of aliens that are digging up funny looking towers and trying to destroy humanity for some reason. |
| 560 | ** [[spoiler:''Resistance 2'']]: A soldier infected by TheVirus refuses treatment in favor of blowing up more funny looking towers. This does nothing to help humanity's situation. |
| 561 | * [[spoiler:''VideoGame/RetroCityRampage'']]: Relive The80s by playing ''VideoGame/GrandTheftAuto'' through an [[Platform/NintendoEntertainmentSystem NES]] filter. |
| 562 | * [[spoiler:''VideoGame/RetroGameChallenge'']]: Game show host has become a disembodied evil head and sends you back in time to play Nintendo, so his 10-year old self can help you defeat himself. |
| 563 | * [[spoiler:''VideoGame/ReturnoftheObraDinn'']]: You wander around an abandoned ship under the full moon and constantly check your pocket-watch. |
| 564 | * [[spoiler:''Revengers of Vengeance'']]: ''Roleplay/RecordOfLodossWar''-expies fight each other and a great evil. |
| 565 | * [[spoiler:''VideoGame/RevolutionX'']]: Rescue Music/{{Aerosmith}} from an [[CulturePolice evil government]] by shooting [=CDs=] at its troops. |
| 566 | * [[spoiler:''VideoGame/{{Rez}}'']]: You have to fix an AI that's not working well by shooting stuff to techno music. |
| 567 | ** Alternatively, an AI gets depressed, and you shoot stuff to make it feel better. |
| 568 | * [[spoiler:''VideoGame/RhythmHeaven'']]: Depending on the console, [[Platform/GameBoyAdvance tap a]] [[Platform/NintendoWii couple]] [[Platform/Nintendo3DS buttons]] in time with [[QuirkyWork unexplainable things]] or [[Platform/NintendoDS tap and flick your stylus]] in time with [[QuirkyWork unexplainable things]]. |
| 569 | * [[spoiler:''VideoGame/RhythmThiefAndTheEmperorsTreasure'']]: Red-headed GentlemanThief dances his way around UsefulNotes/{{Paris}} while facing off against the minions of zombie UsefulNotes/{{Napoleon|Bonaparte}}. |
| 570 | * [[spoiler: ''VideoGame/{{Rift}}'']]: Six [[OurDragonsAreDifferent large reptilian]] ''[[EldritchAbomination things]]'' decide to cause trouble. [[RashomonStyle Either]] {{Mad Scientist}}s or [[GodIsInept the gods themselves]] are to blame. |
| 571 | * [[spoiler: ''Rift Wizard'']]: Amnesiac wizard wakes up past the end of the universe, decides to jog his memory, kill another wizard and go back to sleep. |
| 572 | * [[spoiler: ''VideoGame/{{Rimworld}}'']]: Literature/RobinsonCrusoe, but InSpace and with way more [[VideogameCrueltyPotential warcrimes]]. |
| 573 | * [[spoiler: ''VideoGame/RingFitAdventure'']]: A person with flaming hair must stop a dragon via exercising. Their only ally is a ring that spouts [[AccidentalInnuendo Accidental Innuendos]] and makes [[VideoGame/TheLegendOfZeldaOcarinaOfTime Navi]] seem tolerable. |
| 574 | * [[spoiler: ''VideoGame/RingOfRed'']]: What if the Korean War was fought with HumongousMecha? |
| 575 | * [[spoiler: ''VideoGame/RiseAndDestroy'']]: You are a giant monster that must rampage through the city. |
| 576 | * [[spoiler: ''VideoGame/RiseOfTheTriad'']]: Five special forces agents must stop a cult whose ranks include the former head of a movie studio. Among your weapons are a magical baseball bat and the ability to turn into a dog. |
| 577 | * [[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. |
| 578 | ** [[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. |
| 579 | * [[spoiler: ''VideoGame/{{Ristar}}'']]: A star defeats invading aliens by grabbing them. |
| 580 | * [[spoiler: ''VideoGame/RivalSchools: United By Fate'']]: A young man's plans to fulfill his dead father's last wish is ruined by his twin brother and his classmates. |
| 581 | ** [[spoiler: ''Project Justice'']]: Another young man's plans to make new friends with the same students goes horribly awry. |
| 582 | * [[spoiler: ''VideoGame/RiverCityRansom'']]: Two high school {{delinquents}} beat up an entire city worth of gangsters for the sake of one guy's girlfriend. |
| 583 | ** Or: Beat up people to hear them barf. |
| 584 | ** Or: Steal oodles and oodles of lunch money ForGreatJustice. |
| 585 | * [[spoiler: ''VideoGame/RivieraThePromisedLand'']]: A fallen angel and his harem attempt to stop his old companions from bringing about TheEndOfTheWorldAsWeKnowIt. |
| 586 | ** [[spoiler: ''VideoGame/YggdraUnion'']]: Princess with a [[{{BFS}} big sword]] and a deck of cards has to reclaim her kingdom from an empire with larger numbers (and, obviously, more cards). |
| 587 | *** [[spoiler: ''VideoGame/YggdraUnison'']]: Empire captures fortress; [[LighterAndSofter very cutesy]] world war between twelve countries, each armed with a deck of cards, ensues. |
| 588 | *** [[spoiler: ''VideoGame/BlazeUnion'']]: Demonic [[MessianicArchetype Christ figure]] gathers [[UnwantedHarem many allies]] and a large deck of cards in order to save the Empire. |
| 589 | *** [[spoiler: ''VideoGame/GloriaUnion'']]: Wannabe pirate and a robot who fell from the sky look for treasure, armed with a deck of cards. Also, political intrigue! |
| 590 | ** [[spoiler: ''VideoGame/KnightsInTheNightmare'']]: Ghost calls on the spirits of the dead to protect him from monsters, even though it can't be killed. |
| 591 | ** [[spoiler: ''VideoGame/{{Gungnir}}'']]: Boy with the ability to summon (but not control) powerful demons VS mundane racism. |
| 592 | * [[spoiler: ''VideoGame/{{Roblox}}'']]: A platform for fledgeling game designers to flex their creative muscles and get their creations out into the world. |
| 593 | * [[spoiler: ''VideoGame/RobotAlchemicDrive'']]: Super robots save the world while you stand around and watch. And try to avoid collateral damage from their battles. |
| 594 | * [[spoiler: ''VideoGame/RobotUnicornAttack'']]: Horse collects fairies and makes friends with dolphins on a journey amongst the stars. [[HaveIMentionedIAmHeterosexualToday Men love it.]] |
| 595 | * [[spoiler: ''VideoGame/RoboWarrior'']]: Saving the world from an alien-engineered ecological disaster by blowing up trees on your way. |
| 596 | * [[spoiler:''VideoGame/RockBand'']]: Tapping buttons on what looks like a plastic toy guitar/bass, hitting plastic drums, making an arrow follow a line with your voice. Making an ass of yourself in the process, of course, but at least you can do it with more friends. |
| 597 | ** [[spoiler:''Rock Band Unplugged'']]: Tapping buttons while potentially making an ass of yourself in the process. Unfortunately, you can't do it with friends. |
| 598 | ** [[spoiler:''Rock Band Blitz'']]: Twiddle your index fingers to rock stardom while shooting for a high score and potentially making an ass of yourself. Again, you can't do it with friends. |
| 599 | * [[spoiler:''VideoGame/RockOfAges'']]: Various historical and mythological figures decide the best way to solve their disputes is to throw rocks at each other's houses. |
| 600 | * [[spoiler:''VideoGame/RocketKnightAdventures'']]: Rescue a princess from pig men with a sword that undresses its victims. |
| 601 | * [[spoiler:''VideoGame/RockysBoots'']]: A prismatic electrical generator builds machines to kick certain specified geometrics so that a non-camouflaged raccoon can appear to do a short dance. |
| 602 | * [[spoiler:''VideoGame/RocoKingdom'']]: People living in a fantasy world fight each other with pets that have all sorts of ElementalPowers and can undergo transformations into stronger versions of themselves. No, this isn't [[Franchise/{{Pokemon}} the one you're most likely thinking of]]. |
| 603 | * [[spoiler:''VideoGame/RogueLegacy'']]: A family attempts to venture into an ever-changing castle to rescue the king. When you die, your kids go into the castle in your stead. |
| 604 | * [[spoiler:''VideoGame/RomancingSaga3'']]: A villager, his childhood friend and her sister, a merchant, a prince and his sister, the prince's bodyguard and a mercenary are travelling the world while probably working together to destroy four elemental demons in any order possible. |
| 605 | * [[spoiler:''VideoGame/RomCheckFail'']]: What happens when the ship from ''VideoGame/SpaceInvaders'' faces [[Franchise/SuperMarioBros Goombas]] or VideoGame/PacMan faces [[VideoGame/{{Asteroids}} asteroids]], all because the computer is glitching? |
| 606 | * [[spoiler:''VideoGame/{{Rosenkreuzstilette}}'']]: A witch from the military fights against her eight friends to stop a rebellion from devastating her country. Said witch fights suspiciously like [[VideoGame/MegaManClassic a certain automaton]] who would live centuries after her time. |
| 607 | ** [[spoiler:''Rosenkreuzstilette Freudenstachel'']]: The military witch gets kidnapped by five evil witches, and her best friend fights the other seven friends (and a newcomer) before going off to rescue her. |
| 608 | * [[spoiler:''VideoGame/{{Roundabout}}'']]: A silent chauffeur ferries passengers in the world's only perpetually spinning limousine. |
| 609 | * [[spoiler:''VideoGame/RPGShooterStarwish'']]: A SpacePirate makes friends with genies. |
| 610 | * [[spoiler:''VideoGame/{{RType}}'']]: Improper disposal of OrganicTechnology causes much grief. |
| 611 | * [[spoiler:''VideoGame/{{RuneScape}}'']]: After being taught very basic skills on an island your goal is to do everything. |
| 612 | * [[spoiler:''VideoGame/{{Rygar}}'']]: An ambiguously Greek man hits the local fauna with an oversized yo-yo. He enjoys watching sunsets. |
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