Better Than It Sounds / Video Games W To Z

• Wacky Wheels: Mario Kart WITH FUNNY[IER] ANIMALS!
• Wadanohara: A Cute Witch goes on an underwater adventure. Things get interesting in the third act.
• The Walking Dead: A black man teams up with a cast of quirky characters to wait out the latest disaster to hit the Deep South and makes some tough choices.
  • Episode 1: A New Day: Black man escapes police custody, bonds with a little girl and saves an elderly gentleman from a heart attack.
  • Episode 2: Starved For Help: Black man and friends hang out with some friendly dairy farmers.
  • Episode 3: Long Road Ahead: Black man investigates who broke a flashlight and teaches a young girl the finer points of murder.
  • Episode 4: Around Every Corner: Black man gets calls from a stranger over a radio and visits the local school.
  • Episode 5: No Time Left: The little girl Ensemble Dark Horse has been kidnapped by a mysterious radio man! Are you a bad enough black man to save her?
    • Or, black man spends his last days on Earth training a little girl to be a zombie-killing machine.
  • Episode 1: All That Remains: Little girl gets bit by dog, has to bandage bite on her own because other people won't try to prevent infection in case it's already infected.
  • Episode 2: A House Divided: Little girl joins people in quest to escape a Sociopath by going to a skiing lodge.
  • Episode 3: In Harms Way: Little girl and friends escape Hardware store by stealing radios, turning on music, and covering themselves with guts.
  • Episode 4: Amid The Ruins: Little girl and friends help a woman through labor by visiting historical monuments and stealing from a Russian.
  • Episode 5: No Going Back: Who do you side with? The madman who cares about you? Or the woman who proved he could go crazy by making him crazy?
• Wallace & Gromit's Grand Adventures: A clueless British inventor and his dog do stuff.
  • Fright of the Bumblebees: A clueless British inventor and his dog try to improve their latest business venture, which leads to them fighting giant bees.
  • The Last Resort: A clueless British inventor and his dog run a seaside resort out of their basement.
  • Muzzled!: A clueless British inventor and his dog invent fish-flavored ice cream and sabotage a fun fair.
  • The Bogey Man: A clueless British inventor and his dog join a golf club in order to get the inventor out of an unwanted engagement.
• Wandering Hamster: Hamster with mallet, a water mage, and a dancing canine end a war in the first chapter, conquer the invader's castle in the second chapter, and get eaten in the third. Currently in Development Hell.
• Wandersong: Solve everyone's problems and stop The End of the World as We Know It by singing.
• War of the Monsters: A fuel crisis causes immeasurable havoc.
• Warcraft: Immigration leads to a race war. The immigrants win.
  • WarCraft II: The Tides of Darkness: The race war expands. Farms make better barricades than guard towers. The natives win. Immigration is temporarily suspended.
    • WarCraft II: Beyond the Dark Portal: Immigration is possible again, but not for long.
  • WarCraft III: Reign of Chaos: War criminals and their descendants rediscover their heritage, and start immigrating again, emigrating from the last place they immigrated to. They are the good guys this time. The racial leaders don't stay dead anymore.
    • WarCraft III: The Frozen Throne: Win by immigrating northwards and creating a new Big Bad for the series.
  • World of Warcraft: Everyone is an immigrant and spends their time forcefully displacing the natives. The local government is powerless to stop it since the immigrants will just come back in greater numbers.
    • World of Warcraft: The Burning Crusade: The immigrants realize they'll have better opportunities in another country when they discover a hole in border security. A massive exodus soon follows. Displaced aristocrats and marooned space aliens decide they want in on that action.
    • World of Warcraft: Wrath of the Lich King: The immigrants realize they have yet to colonize the Arctic and surrounding areas. They seek to rectify the situation. Meanwhile, a group of natives become disgusted with anti-foreigner sentiment and decide to help the immigrants.
    • World of Warcraft: Cataclysm: The natives and immigrants resume their war. A senior official, formerly in exile because of his skin color, decides to return home. This causes property values to plummet. Furries and insane corporate executives join the grassroots campaign to kick him out of the country.
    • World of Warcraft: Mists of Pandaria: The immigrants discover the Far East and, ignoring the protests of the natives, proceed to fight over colonization rights. Almost all of the immigrants decide to learn new things from bears.
    • World of Warcraft: Warlords of Draenor: With time travel now possible, past and present fight to see who can immigrate to the other's period. Present wins, and this time you can actually build towns in your colonies.
    • World of Warcraft: Legion: It's the biggest immigration crisis yet, though mostly in a few islands no one cared about before. The local governments are unwilling to do anything about it, preferring to fight over a lamp or to ration their citizens' wine, so trade unions and a group of disabled people take arms against the immigrants. The disabled people's leader, after killing some Bible-thumping windchimes, solves the crisis by forcing the natives to emigrate back to the invaders' home.
• Warframe: A bunch of ninjas are awakened to shoot and slash their way through the Solar System to beat up the bunch of evil clones, a mega-corp that worships money, and some zombies, all for the sake of building shit and becoming the most fashionable killing machines in the universe, with a Mission Control who the ninjas have adopted as Space Mom.
  • Warframe: Natah: Space Mom's dad wakes up, and he's not happy about her choice of career.
  • Warframe: The Second Dream: Turns out the ninjas are a bunch of teenagers with attitude. Space Mom's dad is too lazy to deal with them himself, so he gets some angsty dude to handle it.
  • Warframe: Octavia's Anthem: Space Mom's dad hijacks a local AI. The ninjas defeat him through the power of music.
  • Warframe: Chains of Harrow: Local goth cult holds seance for autistic child via haunted fidget spinner; ghostbusting ensues.
  • Warframe: Plains of Eidolon: Now the ninjas ran around a big field where some big weird creatures wake up every night and walk around aimlessly. Currently the most awesome way to go fishing.
  • Warframe: Apostasy Prologue: Space Mom runs off with her new/old (it's very confusing) boyfriend. The space ninjas are bummed out about it.
  • Warframe: The Sacrifice: The ninjas try to track down Space Mom's boyfriend and end up making a new friend along the way. Space Mom runs off to visit her mother.
  • Warframe: Chimera Prologue: Space Mom's boyfriend got dumped and he's angry and depressed about it.
  • Warframe: The New War: Space Mom's family returns with a vengeance. Space Ninjas, Space Mom, and Space Mom's Space Boyfriend reenact a space Docudrama worthy of Space-Investigation Discovery while the Space Boyfriend tries to eat the sun. IN SPACE!
  • Warframe: Veilbreaker: Formerly evil clone recovers from brainwashing and turns against his masters because they never sent backup; teams up with a snarky Ill Girl to form a ragtag bunch of freedom-fighters alongside the Space Ninjas.
  • Warframe: The Duviri Paradox: Abandoned child is stuck in a recursive nightmare; Space Mom lends a hand. Abandoned child meets a Space Samurai and the two turn the whole situation into a really fucked up therapy session.
• Warhammer 40,000: Dawn of War: A bunch of red-armoured Super Soldiers land on a planet to help the local Redshirt Army fight off an invasion of Different Orcs. A Church Militant shows up, looking for an invasion of The Legions of Hell. It's also licensed.
  • Warhammer 40000: Dawn of War: Winter Assault: A Humongous Mecha was wrecked on an icy planet some years ago. The Redshirt Army, reluctantly aided by Space Elves, fight against Space Orcs and The Legions of Hell to get to the 'mech, only to find Terminator-wannabes with pyramids waiting.
  • Warhammer 40000: Dawn of War: Dark Crusade: A planet belonging to greyskins weak in melee gets invaded by Different Orcs and The Legions of Hell. The Redshirt Army arrives to conquer the planet but attack their Super-Soldier "allies" in the process. Terminator-wannabes wake up from a long sleep and Space Elves arrive to stop them.
  • Warhammer 40000: Dawn of War: Soulstorm: A system with four planets develops a Negative Space Wedgie and The Legions of Hell show up. The Different Orcs get a stronger leader and try fighting against the human Super Soldiers and greyskins weak in melee. The Redshirt Army gets another leader to replace the one the greyskins shot dead, but has to face the Church Militant Amazon Brigade. Terminator-wannabes wake up from a long sleep and Space Elves arrive to stop them. The Space Dark Elves arrive to take slaves and torture people.
• Wario Land: After brief stints of villainy with questionable results, a Fat Man decides to be more practical by embarking on dangerous treasure hunts.
  • Wario Land: Super Mario Land 3: Fat man does a Heel–Face Turn, travels through lands named after food, blows up Pirate's gothic tower, and gives his nemesis a priceless object. And there's a Genie involved, who also does a Heel–Face Turn and gives a castle... if you give him enough money.
  • Virtual Boy Wario Land: The Fat Man falls into a hole and has to climb his way back out in what is the most riveting game for a failed handheld.
  • Wario Land II: After being robbed by a Pirate, fat man sets out to kick her ass.
  • Wario Land 3: Fat man gets sucked inside a music box. There he finds a being who tells him to find a bunch of music boxes, bribing him with the treasure. He then proceeds to desecrate an entire community, kills the locals, only to discover that he was working for an evil clown.
  • Wario Land 4: Fat man desecrates ancient ruins for money. A cat turns out to be a princess. An insane "diva" tries to kill them both. And there's Mr. Game & Watch involved.
  • Wario World: Fat man gets his castle destroyed out of greed. Goes through a lot of crap to get a treasure, only to discover that it is an evil sentient jewel, and it destroyed his castle.
  • Wario: Master of Disguise: Fat man becomes the star of a show and start the quest for a tablet fragmented into pieces to have his wish for money fulfilled once again. But as usual, he won't be the only one wanting the tablet.
  • Wario Land: Shake It! / The Shake Dimension: Fat man gets sucked into a globe and helps the Pirate mentioned above shake the crap out of everything so he can beat up a different pirate.
  • WarioWare, Inc.: Mega Microgame$: Fat man goes into game development. Despite zero experience, it proves a huge success.
    • WarioWare, Inc.: Mega Party Game$!: Fat man recommends playing said games with more people. He is fine if you choose to play by yourself.
    • WarioWare: Twisted!: Fat man predicts tilting random objects is the newest craze. He is right.
    • WarioWare: Touched!: Fat man tries drawing things. He turns out to be pretty good at it.
    • WarioWare: Snapped!: Fat man takes private photographs of you.
    • WarioWare: Smooth Moves: Fat man steals ancient artifact to make more games.
    • WarioWare: D.I.Y.: Fat man calls it quits with game design. He becomes an even better illustrator.
    • Game & Wario: Fat man tries to recommend playing said games with more people a second time. Again, he is fine if you choose to play by yourself.
    • WarioWare Gold: Fat man hosts a video game tournament. One child is not happy about it.
    • WarioWare: Get It Together!: Fat man develops a game so glitchy that it breaks the laws of reality, and once again recommends playing it with more people.
    • WarioWare: Move It!: Fat man eats a ton of burgers and wins a vacation to an island that has ancient artifacts.
• Warriors All-Stars: Furries summon 27 heroes from numerous times and worlds so they can solve a succession crisis and save their world from their mother/aunt turned demon goddess.
  • Tamaki is Queen ending: Little sister's victory means her eventual death and a return to square one.
  • Shiki is King ending: Big brother's victory means no more spring and, eventually, no more world.
  • Setsuna is King ending: The darkhorse's victory means his eventual death and a return to square one.
  • "Protecting those that matter" ending: Petite but stern woman, young mage and demon slayer joins big brother to protect little sister from herself.
  • The Amnesiacs ending: Time traveller and sentient book simply cannnot avoid amnesia as they attack demon goddess mother earlier than they should.
  • Team Deception ending: Do not let mass murderers who can produce traps ex-nihilo run amok in a fragile world.
  • Nobunyaga's ending: "Conquering the other world is booooring, can we go home now?"
  • Idols ending: Casino employee, schoolgirl and girl in provocative outfit all become idols of the other world.
  • Naotora & Ayane ending: Well-endowed daimyo decides to become a ninja.
  • Mitsunari & Team Haruka: Guy with handfan teams up with visual novel pretty boys to give the furries a lesson in unity.
  • Eternal Parting ending: Samurai, Ninja and Irishman finds out that the mother is the demon goddess much earlier than anticipated.
  • Monsters & Heroes ending: Stalwart hero, speedster and robot discovers that you shouldn't try to defeat demon goddess mother by themselves.
  • Lu Bu's ending: Strongest man in China overachieves in the other world.
• Warriors Orochi: Giant snake man is revived by fox-girl and merges Ancient China with Warring States period Japan to kick their collective butts. Of course, the ones to stop him are what remains of the armies of both periods.
  • Warriors Orochi 2: Same giant snake man has to be revived by his old and new lackeys. No one is able to stop them but they do get to beat the tar out of his powered up form.
    • Warriors Orochi 2, Orochi's story mode: We actually get to see the giant snake man's rampage. He also kicks a few gods' asses as well.
  • Warriors Orochi 3: Giant snake man is replaced by an actual giant snake. Everybody dies besides the Justice Freak Horseman, the lazy Ruler and an also lazy Strategist, who are then sent back by the Moon Princess to save everyone.
    • Warriors Orochi 3: Ultimate: It's revealed that a different fox-girl caused a dragon god to become the giant snake man.
  • Warriors Orochi 4: A middle-aged thunder god decides to bring everyone back to the giant snake man's world so they can duke it out with a bunch of god trinkets, beat the tar out of his kids to straighten them up and eventually stop a psychotic All-Father from killing everything. Meanwhile, a certain trickster god stirs the pot further in the guise of a certain hero so he can summon his boss. Obviously, the giant snake man has to come in somehow.
    • Warriors Orochi 4: Ultimate: The god of the underworld hijacks the plot by being behind the All-Father's plot to destroy everything while you reassemble the hero from detached pieces.
• War Zone 2100: A crazy AI nukes the world, and you take on other factions to steal their stuff and stop said Crazy AI from nuking the world again. And you design your own units, too.
• Watch_Dogs: A socially-unskilled man uses Hollywood Hacking to discover the masterminds of the death of his niece.
  • Watch_Dogs 2: A plucky band of San Francisco hipsters use Hollywood Hacking to clear their friend of a crime he was framed for by committing arguably worse crimes.
  • Watch Dogs: Legion: British rebels use Hollywood Hacking to fight the power in cyberpunk dystopian London.
• Waxworks (1992): Go inside sculptures to get killed horribly.
• Way of the Samurai: A wandering swordsman arrives in a town in the middle of a huge conflict. His choices will affect whether or not he and others will die.
• Weapon Shop de Omasse: An NPC crafts weapons for other NPCs before a live(?) studio audience.
• We Happy Few: A wimpy office worker, a single mother, and a Violent Glaswegian all plot to escape from a town full of happy British people.
• Welcome to Ponyville: In a universe full of horses, a Naïve Newcomer moves in while dealing with Jump Scares, people interrupting him, and nightmares almost every night.
• Welcome to the Game: Browse on the Deep Web. And also avoid Russian kidnappers!
  • Alternatively, an asshole tries to find new ways to get off and never locks the door or windows when they're gonna die.
  • Welcome to the Game II: Browse on the Deep Web again. Now featuring more plot and more ways to die!
• WET: Game-ified exploitation movie.
• Wetrix: You create pools of water.
• Whack Your...: Find all the different ways to horribly murder your boss, your teacher, thieves, perverts, or your computer.
• What Remains of Edith Finch: A teenage girl visits her old family home to figure out how all her relatives died.
• Where's My Water?: An alligator takes a bath.

  • Cranky's Story: An alligator hates eating vegetables.

  • Where's My Mickey: A black mouse attempts to make lemonade while dealing with a clusterfuck water system.
  • Where's My Perry: The same, except is a Licensed Game.
• the white chamber: Regretting your actions gives you a better ending.
• White Knight Chronicles: Mentally Deficient Farm Boy protagonist repeatedly fails to do anything actually heroic despite gaining the power to transform into an indestructible 20-foot tall walking tank whenever he feels like it. Dozens of innocent people die along the way.
  • White Knight Chronicles II: Mentally Deficient Farm Boy protagonist falls into coma for half the game, allowing the rest of the party to try to clean up his various messes from the first game. He comes back just in time to turn into the final boss by accident.
• Wii Fit: You find yourself in a world where working out is Serious Business. Your Arch-Enemy is metabolic syndrome. Your sidekicks are a piggy bank, a talking scale, and a fitness trainer who may or may not be an android. During the course of your adventure, you will avoid panda heads, be turned into a pool ball, and attempt to meditate while an insane sensei screams at you if you don't sit still. It's not a Quirky Work.
  • Wii Fit Plus: Pursue further physical fitness by leading a marching band, flying in a chicken costume, and/or chasing robot moles on a Segway.
• Wii Sports: Play simplified versions of baseball, golf, bowling, boxing, and tennis by swinging the controller around.
  • Wii Sports Resort: Play simplified versions of swordplay, wakeboarding, Frisbee, archery, basketball, table tennis, power cruising, canoeing, cycling, and air sports by swinging the controller around more precisely. The world is more developed and cohesive, and golf and bowling make a return, too.
  • Wii Sports Club: The same, except there's more emphasis on online play. There's even more emphasis on Downloadable Content.
• Wild ARMs 3: Amnesiac environmentalists fight against the users of a demonically-possessed science wiki.
• Will: A Wonderful World: Amnesiac goddess fixes problems by giving the middle finger to context and making events that happened to one person happen to an entirely different person. Surprisingly dark.
• Windom XP: Humongous Mecha that are the "incarnations" of Windows OSes blow each other up. Can be a ridiculous Massive Multiplayer Crossover with the plethora of sound-only user add-ons.
• Wing Commander: Mark Hamill flies a fighter in the Pacific theater of World War II IN SPACE with 7-foot-tall alien furries standing in for the Japanese. There are a lot of cutscenes.
• Wipe Out: You pull the finger to gravity in rocket ships with missiles.
• Witch and Hero: A squishy knight throws himself at enemies to protect an even squishier wizard.
  • Witch and Hero II: The squishy knight and wizard from before are dead, so a younger squishy knight and wizard team go on the same adventures. The young-but-squishy-wizard can now move, but not as fast as the young-but-squishy knight.
• The Witch and the Hundred Knight: A witch who wants to spread her love of slime tries to summon a monster that can shoot fire out of its crotch. Instead, she gets a midget in a helmet.
• The Witcher: A monster hunter sleeps with women while engaging in custody battles and looking for stolen goods.
  • The Witcher 2: Assassins of Kings: You're an outcast who was falsely accused of killing a sovereign. You prove your innocence by killing those responsible while being given the chance to bang girls.
  • The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt: The monster hunter searches for both his missing lover and daughter, but keeps getting distracted by a collectable card game.
• The Witch's House: Surprise! You were playing as the Big Bad all along! Also, a father calls his mangled daughter a monster and shoots her in the face twice.
• Within a Deep Forest: A ball rebels against its creator.
• The Witness: Click circles and solve mazes. Repeat several hundred times.
• Wizard101: An MMORPG where you attend Wizarding School.
  • Pirate101: A sister game taking place at approximately the same time, where you play as someone else learning to be a pirate.
• Wizball: A cat and a bouncing ball work together to bring color to the world.
• Wiz 'n' Liz: You must collect "wabbits" before they explode so you can spell nonsense words.
• WizOrb: An old man uses his magical staff to break blocks in order to defeat monsters and save a Dying Town.
• The Wolf Among Us: The Big Bad Wolf's quest to be a nice police officer and solve a murder-mystery consist of beating the tar out of several fairy-tale and folklore characters.
  • Episode 1: Faith: The Big Bad Wolf found a decapitated head in the front of his apartment lot. He and Snow White tries to find whodunnit.
  • Episode 2: Smoke and Mirrors: The Big Bad Wolf found another decapitated head in the front of his apartment lot. He goes to a strip club and finds out that the culprit has a Snow White fetish.
  • Episode 3: A Crooked Mile: The Big Bad Wolf finally found the fake culprit, only to find himself into something bigger than just killing prostitutes.
  • Episode 4: In Sheep's Clothing: The Big Bad Wolf discovers that the town was actually in the middle of a war and he tries to prevent it.
  • Episode 5: Cry Wolf The Big Bad Wolf finally found the true culprit and reenact the Landsmeet scene in Dragon Age: Origins in order to see what they should do to him.
• Wolfenstein 3-D: You have a knife. They are wearing chaingun-equipped Powered Armor. Good luck!
  • Return to Castle Wolfenstein: The Nazis invent hand-held miniguns, a lightning gun, cybernetic Super Soldiers who are Immune to Bullets, and raise an army of zombies commanded by a 20-foot-tall guy with a sword, and lose the war anyway.
  • Wolfenstein RPG: Like the previous games, but with turn-based combat and chickens. Oh, and it's for cell phones.
  • Wolfenstein: The New Order: Angry soldier wakes up from a coma and finds out he missed the war by 16 years, decides to work off some of his troubles by becoming a terrorist.
  • Wolfenstein The New Colossus: Angry terrorist soldier wakes up from a coma and finds out he is now a parapalegic and his girlfriend is pregnant, decides to work off some of his troubles by killing his dad.
• The Wonderful 101: A large team of superheroes fight aliens by using each other as weapons.
• WorldBox: Turns out playing God is a lot like watching tiny people murder each other for no real reason.
• The World Ends with You: For dead people, fashion is incredibly Serious Business. They overcome difficulties and learn to love. And kill people with Myspace Flare.
  • Alternatively: Dead people kill things and eat food in order to dress the most macho of them in the girliest clothing ever.
  • Alternatively: Emo dead kid plays LARPing game show in order to come back to life.
  • Alternatively: Character Development saves the world.
  • NEO: The World Ends with You: New group of cross-dressers try to stop expatriates from turning their hometown inside out. They fail horribly, and God is forced to bail them out.
• World Heroes: Historical figures duke it out against each other, and then a shapeshifting alien.
• World in Conflict: Uh oh, the Cold War didn't end and the Soviets invade. Already sounds propagandic...
• World of Goo: Make bridges and towers with gooey balls.
• World of Tanks: Slow-moving steel monsters duke it out, without a single human being in sight.
  • World of Warships: More slow-moving steel monsters duke it out, without a single human being in sight but this time it's on water.
• Worms: Lacking opposable thumbs, invertebrates use heavy artillery to kill each other instead.
  • The standard weapon is a bazooka, and the most iconic weapon is an exploding sheep. That's all you have to know.
• X-COM: Aliens invade Earth. The only way to defeat them is to send waves of disposable troops at them, capture their equipment, and execute a large, helpless brain on another planet.
  • X-COM: Terror From the Deep: Aliens invade from twenty thousand leagues under the sea. The only way to defeat them is to throw waves of disposable troops in diving suits at them, steal their equipment, and execute another helpless brain.
    • Alternatively: If you thought the aliens were unfair in the first game, wait until you get a load of this.
  • X-COM: Apocalypse: Aliens invade a very large city and try to take over its leaders. The only way to defeat them is to throw waves of disposable troops in absurd-looking suits of armor at them, steal their equipment, and blow up helpless buildings in an alternate dimension.
  • XCOM: Enemy Unknown: Aliens invade an Earth that's built entirely in 90-degree angles (and to strict height specifications). The only way to defeat them is to throw a single group of about 4-6 highly-trained and non-expendable troops in absurd-looking suits of armor at them, steal their equipment, and destroy their cloaked mothership.
  • X-COM Enemy Within DLC: In addition to aliens you must stop a paramilitary group from taking over the world by turning your soldiers into amputees or genetic abominations.
  • XCOM 2: The game automatically assumes you lost the first game horribly and is giving you a second chance to save the 90-degree angled and height specified Earth by leading La Résistance against the alien occupiers.
• Xenogears: You are simultaneously the two-most powerful beings on the planet and the biggest whiner in the galaxy.
  • Alternatively, Adam's metaphysical soul reincarnates into a DID-suffering teenager. He fights God with kung-fu.
  • Or if you prefer, Kung-fu Jesus attempts to live peacefully with his girlfriend, only to discover too late that his universe is inspired by Evangelion. Billions die in the name of world peace.
  • Xenosaga: You watch the prequel movie. Occasionally, there are interactive parts.
    • Xenosaga Episode I: A hot scientist builds a hot robot, Jesus rides a spaceship, and a Psychopathic Manchild severs his body parts to frighten a little girl.
    • Xenosaga Episode II: A little girl's mind becomes an interactive playground, The Pope tries out his new Humongous Mecha, and a psychotic mass murderer is killed by his brother and ascends to Heaven.
    • Xenosaga Episode III: After an intense final confrontation with the Big Bad, the heroes decide to just let the universe die. This is a good thing.
  • Xenoblade Chronicles 1: A zombie engineer goes on a quest to save the world from giant robots using a red plastic lightsaber while a computer tells him cryptic stuff.
  • Alternatively: Blonde guy gets a sword who can allow him to see the future. He recruits people by altering their fate and has to fight lots of tormenting villains.
  • Xenoblade Chronicles X: A group of Ridiculously Human Robots try to remember where they left their real bodies while fighting aliens on a strange planet.
  • Xenoblade Chronicles 2: A scuba diver finds a hot sword (literally and figuratively) and tries to climb a tree.
    • Torna: The Golden Country DLC: The Pope visits the world's most disappointing amusement park. His souvenirs kill thousands.
  • Xenoblade Chronicles 3: Computer virus attempts to prevent crossover between two beloved JRPGs.
    • Alternatively: The world sucks so much that a group of people in their late teens try to destroy the world.
    • Alternatively: Child Soldiers travel the world in order to get a sex ed class.
• Xevious: You are the commander of a spaceship on a search-and-destroy mission.
• Xexyz: Fairies, girls in bathtubs, and crazy robots all come together for jump-and-shoot action in a kingdom whose name resembles a poor attempt to make up an exotic word in Scrabble.
• X-Men Legends 2: Rise of Apocalypse: Non-humans battle Egyptian man.
• X-Men vs. Street Fighter: Non-humans battle martial artists in a tag team match.
  • Marvel Super Heroes vs. Street Fighter: Non-humans, humans with skill, humans with super powers, a cyborg, a demon and an obscure octopus creature battle martial artists and a creepy fanboy in a tag team match.
  • Marvel vs. Capcom: Clash of the Superheroes: Non-humans, humans with skill, humans with super powers and a human with power armor battle martial artists, a monster, robots, a mech pilot, an assassin, and another human with power armor in a tag team match. There is occasional outside interference.
  • Marvel vs. Capcom 2: The same characters from one side of all the previous games plus more non-humans, another human with power armor, a non-human-hunting robot, and a space alien battle the same characters from the other side of all the previous games plus more martial artists, more monsters, a monster-hunting bounty hunter, more robots, a pirate, a fat walking cactus, a transforming monkey girl, a human with skills and guns and zombies, and a futuristic swordsman in a 3-on-3 tag team match.
  • Marvel vs. Capcom 3: Super powered humans, human mercenaries, a tentacle alien, demons, a Norse god, a wolf goddess, a giant head, and a couple of robots team up to stop a platinum blonde Neo and a man in lightning-shooting armor that plan to rule the world and accidentally wake up a giant Planet Eater. They still fight in 3-on-3 tag team matches.
  • Marvel vs. Capcom: Infinite: Non-living beings seek to destroy living beings by hijacking an already-existing Crisis Crossover. They are thwarted via a return to 2-on-2 tag team matches. The non-humans who began the whole franchise are nowhere to be seen.
• X-Wing: Slaughter thousands upon thousands of relatively unarmored people just doin' their jobs in your quest to overthrow a perfectly legal government. You Bastard!.
  • TIE Fighter: You fly a foil can armed with laser pointers against the good guys.
  • X-Wing vs. TIE Fighter: You and your friends can pick which side to fight on, all to prolong an ongoing war.
  • X-Wing vs. TIE Fighter: Balance of Power: Continue to pick which side to fight on and prolong an ongoing war—with a storyline this time! Both endings are somehow the canon ending.
  • X-Wing Alliance: Join the guy from the first game because of daddy issues. Continue to be a terrorist.
• Yakuza: A Japanese gangster travels around Tokyo's red light district to protect a young girl while dicking around in hostess clubs and pachinko parlors, and beating the ever living crap out of other Japanese gangsters. One of his friends/rivals is a Crazy Is Cool Psycho Knife Nut who is the most popular character in the series.
  • Yakuza 0: In Tokyo, a Japanese gangster quits the yakuza, gets a job as a real estate agent, and is almost murdered over a useless 3' by 3' patch of dirt. Meanwhile, in Osaka, a one-eyed cabaret manager risks his life to protect a blind massage therapist, who is being hunted by the yakuza because she is, unknowingly, the legal owner of a useless 3' by 3' patch of dirt.
  • Yakuza: A Japanese gangster goes to prison to protect his best friend. Said best friend returns the favour by turning evil and murdering a bunch of people. Ten years later, everyone tries to kill each other over a nine-year-old girl.
  • Yakuza 4: Young woman goes looking for her brother.
• Yandere Simulator: Dating sim where you can't actually date anyone.
• Yo-kai Watch: In a world where invisible monsters play tricks on people, a young boy (or girl) tries to feed as many as they can to try to get them to work for them.
• Yoku's Island Express: A platformer in which a dung beetle who can't jump makes personal deliveries.
• Yomawari: Night Alone: In a world of deadly spirits, the most evil thing in the game is the tutorial.
  • Yomawari: Midnight Shadows: The tutorial somehow became even more evil.
  • Yomawari: Lost in the Dark: A girl's life is in danger and the only thing that can save her are her memories. It's just too bad that she had to have amnesia. And yes, the tutorial is still evil.
• Yoshi's Woolly World: A wizard butchers a bunch of dinosaurs. Two dinosaurs who survived the genocide of their kind take revenge on the wizard, retrieving the scattered flesh of their comrades to restore them along the way. It's a cute, light-hearted game.
  • Poochy & Yoshi's Woolly World: The game's remake adds a canine character who gets first billing, appears in every cutscene, and breaks the game with his mere presence. Despite his name, players were not on the Internet in minutes, registering their disgust throughout the world.
  • Yoshi's Crafted World: The wizard uses his magic and a great artifact to recreate the world at his whim in an effort to stave off a spoiled brat's tantrums.
• Yosumin!: You force smiling shapes to kill themselves in order to repair a stained-glass window.
• You Don't Know Jack: A video game version of a Game Show, except the questions are reworded to be more hilarious (and harder).
• You Have to Burn the Rope: An egg creature is given direct instructions by the game to progress. The game finishes.
• The You Testament: Jesus teaches you the Force. You can thank him by kicking him in the jimmies.
  • The Making of a Prophet: Muhammad argues with Snidely Whiplash as an eleven foot tall nightmare given flesh uses his mystical powers to blow people up, steal the devil's face and still get kicked around a lot.
• Ys: A red-haired young man winds up far from home. Now it's up to him to sort out the problems of all the locals.
• Yume Nikki: A girl travels through her own dreams to collect goodies. Said dreams are completely and totally disturbing.
  • Alternatively, a young girl sleeps all day to while the time away. Said girl should really get out more.
  • Yume 2kki: A different young girl travels through her own dreams to collect goodies. Said dreams are surreal, disturbing, beautiful and weird.
  • .flow: Another young girl travels through her dreams to collect goodies. Everything is covered in blood.
• Yuppie Psycho: Don't forget to Read the Fine Print when signing up to work for a MegaCorp.
• Zack & Wiki: Quest for Barbaros' Treasure: A ten-year-old chocoholic pirate and a flying monkey turn their foes into tools in their quest to reassemble a dead guy made out of jewelry.
  • (Alternatively): A kid shakes his best friend to solve puzzles.
• Zen Koi: A fish eats things and turns into a dragon. This process then repeats 991 more times.
• Zen Koi 2: The sequel to the fish game, only now there are playable dragons and has new patterns to collect.
• Zeno Clash: Travel through a fascinating world, meet interesting characters, and smash their faces in with your bare fists. Also, the voice acting is unique.
• Zero Escape: Deadly Room Escape Games that force you to both endure long-winded exposition about scientific concepts and repeatedly die.
  • Nine Hours, Nine Persons, Nine Doors: A twelve-year-old uses time travel to solve a sudoku puzzle.
    • Or: Our protagonist flirts with her kidnap victim for several hours, intending to kill him if he doesn't 'become one' with her. In the best ending, she succeeds.
  • Virtue's Last Reward: To stop the spread of a virus, a deadly game with puzzles takes place long after it would do any good.
  • Zero Time Dilemma: A bunch of test subjects get themselves killed in multiple gruesome ways so they can all win a coin toss.
    • Or: A history buff monologues about snails. Meanwhile, a kidnapper wonders why her victim became distrustful of people, their companion tries to ship them, a sociopath prevents her boyfriend from abusing a child, and a pair of corporate employees ponder philosophy with a nurse.
    • Or: A game which structures itself around player choice, yet which can only continue after a certain point if the player renders all their previous choices - no matter how profitable or altruistic - inconsequential.
• Zero Wing: As the good side's last remaining soldier, you save the universe from certain destruction. All that's left of your epic journey is a tired meme.
• Z.H.P.: Unlosing Ranger vs. Darkdeath Evilman: You are recruited to stand in for a guy who got killed on his way to the longest Final Boss battle in the history of mankind.
• Zettai Zetsumei Toshi: Inclement weather cancels your plans, so you decide to leave.
• Ziggurat: It's Finals week at wizard school, hope you're ready to get absolutely and genuinely murdered.
• zOMG!: A guy has daddy issues, so you have to use jewelry to kill his pets.
• Zone of the Enders: A boy and his not-girlfriend ride inside of a Visual Pun. The onboard GPS unit turns out to be a better-developed character than either of them.
  • Zone of the Enders: The Second Runner: An ex-soldier rides inside of a Visual Pun that is acting as a replacement for his heart.
• Zork: You explore a dungeon with a total of about five enemies. The evil parser remains undefeated.
  • Zork: Grand Inquisitor: An anonymous vacuum cleaner salesman takes a crash course in sorcery in order to help a talking lamp overthrow a bald, magic-hating tyrant.
• Zuma: Shoot marbles to appease the Aztec Frog God. Requirements: Pot.