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- Mace: The Dark Age is Soul Edge meets Mortal Kombat.
- Mad Stalker: Full Metal Force is The Ninja Warriors Again meets Street Fighter II with mechas.
- MadWorld is The Running Man meets Battle Royale meets Manhunt meets Escape from New York meets God Hand meets No More Heroes meets Sin City meets Mystery Science Theater 3000.
- Mafia II: Grand Theft Auto meets Once Upon a Time in America.
- Magia Record: Puella Magi Madoka Magica Side Story is Puella Magi Madoka Magica meets Fate/Grand Order.
- Magical Doropie (The Krion Conquest) is Mega Man (Classic) meets Kiki's Delivery Service.
- The Magic Circle is Hack 'N' Slash meets Mogworld with a touch of The Stanley Parable.
- Data East's Arcade Game Mad Alien is Galaxian meets Monaco GP.
- Magician's Quest: Mysterious Times is Animal Crossing meets Harry Potter
- Magicka is Loom meets Left 4 Dead.
- Mago is Super Princess Peach meets Shovel Knight meets Gargoyle's Quest.
- Mahou Daisakusen is Aleste meets Dungeons & Dragons.
- Shippu Mahou Daisakusen is Armed Police Unit Gallop meets ANY Racing Game.
- Great Mahou Daisakusen is DoDonPachi meets The Tower of Druaga.
- Shippu Mahou Daisakusen is Armed Police Unit Gallop meets ANY Racing Game.
- Maldita Castilla is Amadis de Gaul meets Ghosts 'n Goblins meets Rygar meets Castlevania.
- Mana Khemia: Alchemists of Al-Revis is Harry Potter meets Persona 4 meets Haruhi Suzumiya.
- Manhunt is The Warriors meets The Running Man meets the Slasher Movie genre.
- Manhunt 2
is Manhunt meets Fight Club.
- Manhunt 2
- Maniac Mansion is The Rocky Horror Picture Show meets The Addams Family.
- Manifold Garden is Portal meets M.C. Escher.
- Man of Medan is Until Dawn meets Ghost Ship meets Captain Phillips, with a co-op gameplay style similar to A Way Out.
- The Marathon Game Mod Marathon: RED is Marathon 1 meets Aliens.
- Mariachi Legends is Blasphemous meets Guacamelee!
- Mario and Sonic at the Olympic Games is Super Mario Bros. meets Sonic the Hedgehog meets Laff-A-Lympics.
- Mario + Rabbids Kingdom Battle is Super Mario Bros. meets Raving Rabbids meets XCom.
- Mario + Rabbids Sparks of Hope is Mario + Rabbids Kingdom Battle meets Super Mario Galaxy.
- Mario's Mystery Meat is Vinesauce meets Super Mario World meets Yume Nikki.
- Marsupilami: Hoobadventure is Donkey Kong Country Returns meets Rayman Origins meets Marsupilami.
- The story of Marvel vs. Capcom: Infinite is Annihilation meets Ultron Forever meets Worlds Collide (1994).
- Mass Effect is Starship Troopers meets Rendezvous with Rama meets The Call of Cthulhu.
- Or Star Wars meets Star Trek meets Battlestar Galactica and a whole lot of tropes.
- To be a little more specific on the Star Wars part, it's Knights of the Old Republic meets Star Trek, with a little bit of the Cthulhu Mythos and Gears of War (combat-wise) thrown in., as well as Halo. Mass Effect has a lot of plot points taken from Halo.
- Alternatively it can be seen as a dark R-rated Star Trek: The Next Generation meets Babylon 5, meets Battlestar Galactica meets the Cthulhu Mythos.
- Or Star Wars meets Star Trek meets Battlestar Galactica and a whole lot of tropes.
- Massive Chalice has been pitched on Kickstarter as "XCOM: Enemy Unknown meets Game of Thrones".
- Master Detective Archives: Rain Code is Danganronpa meets Persona 5 meets a non-FPS Half-Life 2 (without the alien plot) meets Film Noir.
- Master of Magic is Civilization meets Magic: The Gathering by way of Master of Orion.
- Master Reboot is Remember Me meets TRON meets Slender.
- The Maw is A Boy and His Blob meets Kirby.
- Maximo: Ghosts to Glory is Ghosts 'n Goblins meets Devil May Cry meets MediEvil.
- Maximo vs. Army of Zin is Ghosts 'n Goblins meets Devil May Cry meets Wolfenstein 3-D or Half-Life.
- Max Payne 1 & 2 is the Heroic Bloodshed genre meets Film Noir meets Sin City meets The Matrix.
- Max Payne 3 is Man on Fire meets Heroic Bloodshed meets The Matrix.
- In-Universe, after Max first encounters heavily armed street gangs he refers to Sao Paol as "Baghdad with G-Strings."
- Max Payne 3 is Man on Fire meets Heroic Bloodshed meets The Matrix.
- McKids is Super Mario Bros. 2 meets Super Mario Bros. 3 meets McDonaldland.
- McPixel is WarioWare meets Leisure Suit Larry.
- Mechanized Attack is Operation Wolf meets Terminator.
- MechWarrior: Online is World of Tanks meets BattleTech.
- MediEvil is Ghosts 'n Goblins meets The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time meets The Nightmare Before Christmas.
- Megabyte Punch is Custom Robo meets Super Smash Bros.' Adventure mode.
- Mega City Force is RoboCop meets The Untouchables (1987).
- Mega Man:
- Mega Man (Classic) is Kikaider meets Astro Boy meets Neo Human Casshern meets Centurions.
- Mega Man & Bass is Mega Man (Classic) meets Super Mario Bros.: The Lost Levels.
- Mega Man 8-Bit Deathmatch is Mega Man meets Doom and Quake III: Arena.
- Mega Man Battle & Chase is Mega Man meets Mario Kart 64.
- Mega Man X is Mega Man (Classic) meets Blade Runner.
- Mega Man Battle Network is Mega Man meets ReBoot.
- Mega Man Zero is Mega Man X meets Berserk.
- Mega Man ZX is Mega Man Zero meets either Kamen Rider, Altered Beast (1988) or Ben 10.
- Gameplay-wise, it's Mega Man Zero meets Metroid
- Mega Man ZX Advent is Mega Man Zero meets Fate/stay night.
- Mega Man Legends is Mega Man meets The Legend of Zelda.
- Mega Mari is Touhou Project meets Mega Man (Classic) with the graphics aesthetic of RosenkreuzStilette.
- Megabyte Punch is Custom Robo meets Super Smash Bros..
- Mega Twins (Chiki Chiki Boys) is Kid Icarus meets Wonder Boy in Monster Land meets Kaizō Chōjin Shubibinman.
- Men of Valor is Medal of Honor: Allied Assault meets Full Metal Jacket.
- The Messenger (2018) is Ninja Gaiden meets Samurai Jack meets Guacamelee!.
- Metal: Hellsinger is Doom (2016) meets Guitar Hero
- The Metal Gear series's formula is James Bond meets Escape from New York meets Rambo. The MSX games is this formula meets Rogue, while the Solid main series is the aforementioned formula meets Tom Clancy novels.
- Metal Gear Solid 2: Sons of Liberty is Metal Gear Solid meets Neon Genesis Evangelion.
- Metal Gear Solid 3: Snake Eater is Metal Gear Solid meets The Deer Hunter.
- Metal Gear Ac!d is Metal Gear meets Yu-Gi-Oh! meets Shiren the Wanderer.
- Metal Gear Arcade is Metal Gear meets Modern Warfare.
- Metal Gear Rising: Revengeance is Metal Gear Solid 2: Sons of Liberty meets Neo Human Casshern meets Shinobi meets [PROTOTYPE].
- Or it's Devil May Cry meets Ninja Gaiden meets Strider.
- Metal Gear Solid V:
- Destructoid described Mercenary Kings as Monster Hunter meets Metal Slug (although the sidescrolling gameplay is less Metal Slug's frantic run and gun but more to Metal Gear Solid: Peace Walker methodical movement and stealth).
- Metal Slug in general is Contra meets Ikari Warriors meets Apocalypse Now meets Rambo meets G.I. Joe meets Super Sentai.
- Metal Slug 2, X, and 3 is the above meets Mars Attacks! meets Independence Day
- Metal Slug 5 and 6 is the above meets H. P. Lovecraft
- Metal Slug 3D is Metal Slug meets Army Men, the 3D games, gameplay-wise.
- Metal Slug Defense and Metal Slug Attack are Metal Slug meets Plants vs. Zombies
- Metal Wolf Chaos has been described as "The West Wing meets Robotech meets Rampage", or "Tengen Toppa Gurren Lagann meets Air Force One meets Seven Days in May". Gameplay-wise, it's Armored Core meets Otogi: Myth of Demons in America.
- Metallic Child is Diablo meets Mega Man X.
- Metamorphic Force is Altered Beast (1988) meets Fist of the North Star.
- Or Altered Beast meets Golden Axe meets X-Men (1992)
- Metroid is Super Mario Bros. meets The Legend of Zelda IN SPACE! meets Alien.
- The Metroid Prime Trilogy = Metroid + Halo + System Shock + The Colour Out of Space
- Metroid: Other M = Metroid + Metal Gear Solid + Neon Genesis Evangelion
- Metroid Prime: Federation Force = Metroid + Halo + LEGO Adaptation Game
- Metroid Dread = Metroid: Samus Returns + Metroid Fusion + Doom Eternal + Blasphemous + Red Planet + Alien: Isolation + Event Horizon + Halo: Reach + Star Wars Jedi: Fallen Order + Castlevania: Lords of Shadow 2 + Mega Man Zero 3 + Devil May Cry 5 + SOMA + Samurai Jack + [PROTOTYPE 2] + Resident Evil 3: Nemesis + Logan + Transformers: Age of Extinction + Kamen Rider 1 + Kamen Rider Amazons + Ultraman Trigger: New Generation Tiga
- Middle-earth: Shadow of Mordor is the combat of the Batman: Arkham Series meets the Wide-Open Sandbox parkour of Assassin's Creed, and the hierarchy manipulation of The Godfather II...IN MIDDLE-EARTH!
- Midnight Club is Midtown Madness meets Need for Speed.
- Midnight Club: Street Racing is Midtown Madness meets Need for Speed with the gameplay of Grand Theft Auto.
- Midnight Club II is Midnight Club: Street Racing meets Need for Speed meets Grand Theft Auto III.
- Midnight Club 3: DUB Edition is Midnight Club meets DUB Magazine meets The Fast and the Furious with Need for Speed: Underground's customization features.
- Alternatively, it's Midnight Club meets Need for Speed: Underground 2.
- Or the 2003 unreleased The Fast and the Furious game meets Pimp My Ride.
- Midnight Club: Los Angeles is Midnight Club 3: DUB Edition meets Need for Speed meets Burnout Paradise meets the 2003 unreleased The Fast and the Furious game.
- Midnight Resistance is Contra meets Heavy Barrel.
- Might and Magic was Dungeons & Dragons meets Star Trek.
- Might and Magic: Clash of Heroes is Might And Magic meets Meteos.
- Mighty Gunvolt is Mega Man meets Mighty Final Fight, featuring a crossover of Azure Striker Gunvolt, Mighty No. 9, and Gal*Gun: Double Peace.
- Mighty No. 9 is Mega Man's platforming and Mega Man ZX's Power Copying meets Mega Man X's faster-paced action and Sonic Adventure 2's scoring hooks.
- RAY's gameplay is the above with Zero's melee-oriented combat meets Shinobi (2002).
- Miitopia is Tomodachi Life meets Dragon Quest IX, with thematics from Face Raiders.
- Mina the Hollower is Castlevania meets The Legend of Zelda: Link's Awakening meets Mouse Guard.
- Minecraft is Dwarf Fortress meets LEGO Island.
- Yahtzee described it as "Zelda" meets There Will Be Blood".
- Mini Robot Wars is Plants vs. Zombies meets Mega Man.
- Mistover is Darkest Dungeon meets Etrian Odyssey.
- Xbox Live shooter Monday Night Combat can best be summed up as Team Fortress 2 meets The Bigs meets Gears of War with a few elements of Defense of the Ancients mixed in. Yes, it's as good a combination as it sounds!
- ModNation Racers is Mario Kart meets LittleBigPlanet.
- Monolith is The Binding of Isaac meets ZeroRanger.
- Monster Girl Quest is Monster Girl Encyclopedia meets Dragon Quest.
- Monster Train is Slay the Spire meets The Divine Comedy meets Final Fantasy Crystal Chronicles: My Life as a Darklord.
- Moon Diver is Strider meets Ninpuu Sentai Hurricaneger.
- Mount & Blade is King's Field meets Crusader Kings meets Total War.
- Monster Hunter is Phantasy Star Online meets Cabela's Big Game Hunt.
- Mortal Kombat:
- The original games made by Midway Games:
- Mortal Kombat = Street Fighter II + Splatterhouse + Violence Jack + Mobile Suit Gundam + Journey to the West + Highlander + Bloodsport
- Mortal Kombat II = Mortal Kombat + Fist of the North Star + Escape from New York + Mad Max 2: The Road Warrior
- Mortal Kombat 3 = Mortal Kombat II + Super Metroid + Dragon Ball Z + Mobile Suit Zeta Gundam + Stargate
- Mortal Kombat 4 = Mortal Kombat 3 + Virtua Fighter + Street Fighter Alpha + Mobile Suit Gundam ZZ
- Mortal Kombat: Deadly Alliance = Mortal Kombat 4 + Soulcalibur + Super Smash Bros + Metroid Prime + Neon Genesis Evangelion
- Mortal Kombat: Deception = Mortal Kombat: Deadly Alliance + Soulcalibur II + Capcom vs. SNK 2: Mark of the Millennium + Metroid: Zero Mission + Mobile Suit Gundam: Char's Counterattack + Event Horizon
- Mortal Kombat: Armageddon = Mortal Kombat: Deception + Street Fighter III: Third Strike + Soulcalibur III + Marvel vs. Capcom 2 + SNK vs. Capcom: SVC Chaos + The Legend of Zelda: Majora's Mask + Metroid Prime 2: Echoes + Devil May Cry 3: Dante's Awakening + The Transformers: The Movie + Space Runaway Ideon + Mobile Suit Victory Gundam + Now and Then, Here and There + Texhnolyze + Threads + End of Days
- The Nether Realm Studios games:
- Mortal Kombat 9 = Mortal Kombat + Mortal Kombat 2 + Soulcalibur IV + Super Smash Bros. Melee + Resident Evil 2 + Back to the Future + Mobile Suit Gundam SEED + Infinite Crisis + Watchmen + Devilman + Saw + Kamen Rider + God of War + A Nightmare on Elm Street
- Mortal Kombat X = Mortal Kombat 9 + Mortal Kombat 4 + Tekken 5 + Super Smash Bros. Brawl + Call of Duty: Black Ops II + God of War II + Mobile Suit Gundam SEED Destiny + Puella Magi Madoka Magica + The Empire Strikes Back + Game of Thrones + Kamen Rider BLACK + Kamen Rider 555 + Ultraman Nexus + Alien + Predator + Friday the 13th + The Texas Chain Saw Massacre
- Mortal Kombat 11 = Mortal Kombat X + Mortal Kombat: Armageddon + Injustice: Gods Among Us + JoJo's Bizarre Adventure: Eyes of Heaven + Super Smash Bros. Ultimate + Street Fighter V + Dead or Alive 5 + Soulcalibur V + Tekken 7 + Metroid Prime 3: Corruption + God of War III + Call of Duty: Black Ops III + Resident Evil 4 + Resident Evil 6 + Far Cry 2 + Metal Gear Solid 3: Snake Eater + Drakengard + Hotline Miami 2: Wrong Number + Mobile Suit Gundam 00 + Mobile Suit Gundam: Iron-Blooded Orphans + Puella Magi Madoka Magica The Movie: Rebellion + Dragon Ball Z: Battle of Gods + Yu-Gi-Oh! 5Ds + Yu-Gi-Oh! ARC-V + Avengers: Infinity War + X-Men: Days of Future Past + Punisher: War Zone + Transformers: Dark of the Moon + Back to the Future Part II + Superman II + Starship Troopers + RoboCop + Terminator 2: Judgment Day + Rambo + Irredeemable + Spawn + Flashpoint + Batman: The Dark Knight Returns + Final Crisis + Old Man Logan + Ruins + Attack on Titan + Berserk + Elfen Lied + Hellsing + Ultraman Gaia + Ultraseven X + Ultraman Geed + Kamen Rider Decade + Kamen Rider Gaim + Kamen Rider Build + Kamen Rider Amazons
- Mortal Kombat 1 = Mortal Kombat 11 + Mortal Kombat (2021) + Injustice 2 + Devil May Cry 5 + Soulcalibur VI + Street Fighter 6 + MultiVersus + Invincible + The Boys + Peacemaker + Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness + Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse + Kamen Rider: The First + Kamen Rider Zi-O + Kamen Rider BLACK SUN + Kamen Rider Geats + Kamen Rider Outsiders + Shin Kamen Rider + Ultraman Trigger: New Generation Tiga + Dragon Ball Super + Rebuild of Evangelion
- The original games made by Midway Games:
- Monster Tale is Henry Hatsworth in the Puzzling Adventure meets Shantae meets Monster World IV crossed with any Mons series.
- Mother 3 = EarthBound + Mega Man Zero + The Legend of Zelda: Majora's Mask + Highlander + Unforgiven + The Secret of NIMH + Batman Beyond: Return of the Joker
- M.U.G.E.N is Super Robot Wars meets the Fighting Game genre.
- MultiVersus is Brawlhalla meets Batman: The Brave and the Bold.
- The Mummy Demastered is Castlevania meets Metroid meets Hollow Knight meets The Mummy (2017).
- The Munchables: The Maw meets Katamari Damacy.
- Murder by Numbers (2020) is Ace Attorney meets Picross.
- Musou Stars is Warriors Orochi meets Super Smash Bros..
- Muramasa: The Demon Blade: Ninja Gaiden meets Odin Sphere.
- MÚSECA is a wild one, seeming to draw from several BEMANI games that came before it: SOUND VOLTEXnote meets pop'n musicnote meets beatmanianote meets drummanianote meets jubeat note .
- Muscle March: Cho Aniki meets Hole in the Wall
- Mushihime-sama is Touhou Project meets DoDonPachi or Touhou Project meets Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind, story-wise.
- Mushroom Kingdom Fusion is Super Mario Bros. 3 meets Super Mario Bros. Crossover meets Super Smash Bros. Brawl 's Subspace Emissary meets Super Smash Bros. Ultimate 's World Of Light meets Boll Deluxe.
- Mutant Rampage: Bodyslam is Madworld meets Mutation Nation meets Link: The Faces Of Evil/Zelda: Wand of Gamelon.
- MySims is The Sims meets Animal Crossing.
- Mystic Warriors is Shinobi meets Contra meets Sunset Riders.
- My Friend Pedro is Hotline Miami meets BLEED.
- My Friendly Neighborhood is a combo of Sesame Street meets Resident Evil meets Poppy Playtime
- My House is Going Down meets The Beginner's Guide, House of Leaves, and Gone Home.
- Or Doom meets House of Leaves meets Silent Hill 4: The Room meets The Backrooms.
- My Summer Car is Automation meets DayZ meets Postal 2
- Mystik Belle is Milon's Secret Castle meets Harry Potter meets the Dizzy series.
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- Namu Amida Butsu! -UTENA-: Bungo to Alchemist meets Buddhism.
- Buddha to Alchemist (仏陀とアルケミスト)?
- Naughty Bear is Care Bears meets Manhunt.
- Need for Speed:
- In general, Need for Speed is Super Smash Bros. as a Wacky Racing game with licensed Cool Cars and Hot Pursuit.
- Need for Speed: High Stakes is Need for Speed II or Need for Speed III: Hot Pursuit with Kattobi Tune's tuning systems.
- Need for Speed: Underground is Need for Speed: High Stakes meets The Fast and the Furious.
- Need for Speed: Underground 2 is Need for Speed: Underground meets The Fast and the Furious meets Pimp My Ride.
- Need for Speed: Most Wanted is the Need for Speed: Underground games meets the Need for Speed: Hot Pursuit games.
- Need for Speed: Carbon is Need for Speed: Most Wanted meets 24.
- Need for Speed: ProStreet is Need for Speed II meets Forza Motorsport.
- Need for Speed: Undercover is Need for Speed: Most Wanted meets Need for Speed: Carbon meets The Transporter meets Gone in 60 Seconds (2000) meets police crime dramas.
- Need for Speed: Shift is Need for Speed: ProStreet meets Gran Turismo meets Forza Motorsport.
- Need for Speed: Nitro is Need for Speed: High Stakes meets Mario Kart.
- The Wii version of Need for Speed: Hot Pursuit (2010) is the Criterion version of the game meets Need for Speed: Nitro.
- Shift 2: Unleashed is Need for Speed: Shift meets Gran Turismo 5 meets Forza Motorsport 3.
- Need for Speed: The Run is The Need for Speed meets Need for Speed: Hot Pursuit (2010) meets The Transporter meets James Bond.
- Need for Speed: Most Wanted (2012) is the 2005 game meets Burnout Paradise.
- Need for Speed Rivals is Need for Speed: Hot Pursuit (2010) with undertones of Need for Speed: Carbon.
- Need for Speed (2015) is Need for Speed: High Stakes meets Need for Speed: Underground meets Need for Speed: World (due to it being online-only).
- Need for Speed Payback is Need for Speed: Undercover meets Need for Speed: The Run meets Fast Five meets The Transporter meets The Italian Job (1969).
- Need for Speed Heat is the combination of Need for Speed: Most Wanted, Need for Speed: Carbon, Need for Speed: ProStreet, meets Miami Vice.
- Need for Speed Unbound is Need for Speed: Underground meets Need for Speed Heat meets Need for Speed: Nitro.
- NEEDY STREAMER OVERLOAD is Princess Maker meets Youtubers Life meets Doki Doki Literature Club!.
- Nehrim is Morrowind (not Oblivion oddly enough, despite being a mod for it.) meets Gothic (Adding the Deadly Reflex mod adds "meets Dark Messiah").
- Enderal by the same team can be described as Skyrim meets The Witcher if said games were written by Yoko Taro.
- Nelson Tethers: Puzzle Agent is Professor Layton in Fargo.
- Or, given some of the Mind Screw in the games, Professor Layton meets Twin Peaks
- Neon Drive is OutRun meets Audio Surf meets Super Hexagon.
- NeonXSZ can be described in the broad sense of gaming history as Descent meets TRON, although in a more modern sense, it is perhaps better described as Retrovirus meets Diablo.
- Neptunia is essentially the Console Wars Moe-fied meets the Tales Series's gameplay and Disgaea's constant 4th wall breaking, and ShoutOuts. Which may or may not be on crack.
- NES Remix is WarioWare meets Nintendo World Championships.
- NetHack is Dungeons & Dragons meets the alphabet.
- Neverwinter Nights module The Bastard of Kosigan is Medieval Burgundy meets Dungeons & Dragons. Yes, the King of France has a pet dragon. And the Inquisition has actual witches to worry about. And the ruling house of the Barony of Velan are elves.
- A Dance with Rogues is A Song of Ice and Fire meets the Trickster's Duet with a whole lot more explicit sex.
- Neverwinter Nights 2 is Forgotten Realms meets Slayers.
- The New Order: Last Days of Europe is Hearts of Iron IV meets the live-action adaptation of The Man in the High Castle meets Wolfenstein: The New Order meets DEFCON meets Kaiserreich: Legacy of the Weltkrieg crossed with the dark tone of Warhammer 40,000 and Nineteen Eighty-Four.note
- New Super Marisa Land is Touhou Project meets Super Mario Bros..
- Nexomon is Pokémon meets the Deconstructor Fleet aspects of The Amazing World of Gumball.
- NFL Blitz: Tecmo Bowl meets NBA Jam.
- Nickelodeon All-Star Brawl: Super Smash Bros. Melee meets Nicktoons, with a dash of Slap City and a side order of Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Smash Up.
- Nier is Drakengard meets The Legend of Zelda meets Metal Gear Solid 2: Sons of Liberty meets Shadow of the Colossus meets I Am Legend.
- NieR: Automata is Nier meets Metal Gear Rising: Revengeance.
- Or Ergo Proxy meets Neon Genesis Evangelion meets Transformers: War for Cybertron meets Land of the Lustrous, Drakengard 3, and Undertale.
- NieR: Automata is Nier meets Metal Gear Rising: Revengeance.
- Night Cry is Clock Tower meets Resident Evil: Revelations.
- Night in the Woods is Persona 4 meets Oxenfree.
- Alternatively, it's Animal Crossing meets Life Is Strange meets American Rust meets Lovecraft Lite.
- Night Slashers is Resident Evil meets Final Fight meets Castlevania meets Streets of Rage.
- Nights of Azure is Revolutionary Girl Utena meets Castlevania meets The Miko's Words and the Witch's Incantations
- Nights of Azure 2: Bride of the New Moon is Nights of Azure meets Asellus' storyline from Sa Ga Frontier.
- Night Striker is Knight Rider meets Space Harrier.
- Nine Hours, Nine Persons, Nine Doors is the original Saw in the Ace Attorney and Professor Layton universe.
- Ninja Gaiden (NES trilogy) is Shinobi meets Castlevania meets Valis.
- Ninja Gaiden (Arcade) is Shinobi meets Double Dragon.
- Ninja Gaiden (Modern) is Shinobi meets Devil May Cry.
- Yaiba: Ninja Gaiden Z is Ninja Gaiden meets God of War meets a Zombie Apocalypse.
- Ninjala is Splatoon meets Naruto.
- Ninja Spirit is The Legend of Kage meets Rygar.
- Ni no Kuni Wrath of the White Witch is Dragon Quest IV meets Mother 3.
- Or Brave Story meets Pokémon.
- Ni no Kuni II: Revenant Kingdom is Ni no Kuni meets Final Fantasy Crystal Chronicles: My Life as a King.
- Nioh is Dark Souls meets Onimusha.
- Cliff Bleszinski described the freeware racing game Nitronic Rush as "WipEout meets TRON."
- Noita: Spelunky meets the falling-sand gamenote
- No More Heroes: Kill Bill meets Scott Pilgrim.
- Alternatively, Afro Samurai meets Scott Pilgrim meets Grand Theft Auto III meets Spaceballs.
- No More Heroes III is Avengers: Infinity War meets The Suicide Squad meets Saints Row IV.
- No Man's Sky is Elite meets Minecraft and after the addition of recruiting settlers, Fallout 4
- No Place for Bravery is Sekiro: Shadows Die Twice meets Blasphemous meets Hyper Light Drifter.
- Not for Broadcast is the perspective of Papers, Please meets the gameplay of Night Trap meets the comedic tone of The Day Today and occasionally the dramatic tone of Eastenders.
- NullpoMino is Tetris meets M.U.G.E.N.
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- Octodad: QWOP meets the Chicken Boo sketches from Animaniacs.
- Android Police calls it "a mix of the goofy premise of Goat Simulator and the awful controls of QWOP."
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- Octopath Traveler is Bravely Default meets Final Fantasy VI meets Trials of Mana.
- Oddworld: Sonic the Hedgehog meets Myst.
- Odin Sphere is Princess Crown meets Norse Mythology meets The End of Evangelion.
- Odyssey: The Legend of Nemesis is Ultima meets The Legend of Zelda: Link's Awakening meets Riven.
- Off is Mother 3 meets Yume Nikki meets Drakengard.
- Oh...Sir!! The Insult Simulator is Cards Against Humanity meets Monty Python.
- Ōkami is The Legend of Zelda meets Japanese Mythology.
- Okhlos is Katamari Damacy meets Diablo meets God of War in the style of Rock of Ages.
- Old World is Civilization meets Crusader Kings.
- Omega Boost is Macross meets Panzer Dragoon.
- Omega Five: R-Type meets Forgotten Worlds.
- Omega Quintet is Symphogear meets Neptunia meets Love Live! with a dash of Senran Kagura.
- Omerta: City of Gangsters is XCOM: Enemy Unknown meets The Untouchables.
- OMORI is Yume Nikki meets Anohana: The Flower We Saw That Day.
- Or Undertale meets EarthBound meets Yume Nikki.
- or EarthBound meets Yume Nikki meets Five Nights at Freddy’s 4
- Onechanbara is a zombie B-Movie meets Devil May Cry meets Dynasty Warriors.
- The sequels Z: Kagura & Z2: Chaos are Bayonettanote meets Devil May Cry meets God of War.
- One Finger Death Punch is Kung Fu Master meets Xiao Xiao.
- One Step From Eden is Slay the Spire meets Mega Man Battle Network.
- Oni is Ghost in the Shell meets Marathon meets Final Fight.
- Onimusha is Soul of the Samurai meets Devil May Cry.
- Onimusha Blade Warriors is Onimusha meets Super Smash Bros..
- Only Up!: Getting Over It with Bennett Foddy meets Mirror's Edge.
- Onmyōji (2016): Summoners War: Sky Arena meets Jidaigeki and Japanese folklore.
- Ooblets is Stardew Valley meets Monster Rancher meets Adventure Time.
- Organ Trail is The Oregon Trail meets The Walking Dead.
- Ori and the Blind Forest is Big Hero 6 meets Rayman Legends meets Child of Light with the heartbreaking beginning of Up.
- Ori and the Will of the Wisps's story is Ferngully The Last Rainforest meets The Lion King (1994) with the Heroic Sacrifice ending of The Iron Giant, while the gameplay is Hollow Knight meets The Legend of Zelda.
- Otomedius is Gradius meets Kamen Rider...IN A World of Action Girls!
- Our Darker Purpose is The Binding of Isaac as imagined by Tim Burton.
- Outer Wilds is No Man's Sky meets The Legend of Zelda: Majora's Mask. Matthew Castle of Rock, Paper, Shotgun also describes it in this video as being Interstellar meets Groundhog Day.
- The Outer Worlds is Fallout: New Vegas meets Wing Commander: Privateer with the comedy style of both Firefly and Idiocracy.
- Outland is Metroid meets Prince of Persia meets Ikaruga.
- Outlaws of the Lost Dynasty: Street Fighter II meets The Water Margin.
- Outlast: Metal Gear Solid meets Amnesia: The Dark Descent meets The Blair Witch Project.
- Overlord: Pikmin meets The Lord of the Rings.
- Overwatch is Team Fortress 2 meets League of Legends meets The Incredibles meets Big Hero 6 meets The Avengers meets World of Warcraft meets Street Fighter.
- Alternately, Warframe meets Team Fortress 2 meets Monday Night Combat, with a healthy dose of Pixar.
- Or Team Fortress 2 meets Justice League.
- Big Hero 6 meets Team Fortress 2 is a common description.
- Or simply Team Fortress 2 meets League of Legends.
- Oxygen Not Included is Don't Starve meets Rimworld.
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- Paca Plus is Fruits Basket meets Hatoful Boyfriend (Genderflipped of course).
- Pacific Drive is Beware meets The X-Files.
- Or My Summer Car meets S.T.A.L.K.E.R. and The Left Right Game.
- Yahtzee describes it as "the point where Jalopy meets S.T.A.L.K.E.R.: Shadow of Chernobyl, if they used Subnautica as a condom".
- Pac-Man World is Pac-Man meets Super Mario 64 meets Sonic Adventure.
- Painkiller could be described as Serious Sam meets Devil May Cry.
- Paladins is League of Legends meets Team Fortress 2.
- Pandora's Tower is essentially Castlevania, meets Shadow of the Colossus, meets The Legend of Zelda.
- Palworld is Pokémon crossed with Panzer Dragoon, ARK: Survival Evolved, Grand Theft Auto, PlayerUnknown's Battlegrounds and Saints Row (2022), with a dash of Minecraft and Rust.
- Panel de Pon is Puyo Puyo meets Rainbow Brite meets My Little Pony.
- Panzer Dragoon is Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind meets Space Harrier meets RayForce.
- PARANORMASIGHT: The Seven Mysteries of Honjo is Spirit Hunter meets Calendula.
- Parasite Eve is (gameplay-wise) Resident Evil meets Chrono Trigger.
- ParaWorld: Age of Empires III meets The Lost World.
- The Pathless is Journey (2012) meets The Path meets The Last Guardian.
- Path of Exile is Diablo meets the founding of Australia, featuring Final Fantasy X's stat progression and Final Fantasy VII's skill equipping.
- Pathologic can be described as the lovechild of Diesel Punk and Dostoevsky, raised by Gabriel García Márquez and made to run on Unity.
- Patriot Dark is DoDonPachi meets Ketsui meets Espgaluda. (In other words, it's what happens when you throw Cave's games into a blender.)
- Pax Britannica is The New Order Last Days Of Europe meets Code Geass (but with less Britwank) meets Iron Harvest with some story elements of Skullgirls with a dash of BioShock and Dishonored.
- Peace, Death! is Papers, Please meets Afterlife (1996).
- Peggle is Puzzle Bobble meets pachinko.
- Perfect Dark is Ghost in the Shell meets The X-Files, with the gameplay of GoldenEye.
- Perfect Tides is Story of Seasons meets Emily Is Away, Night in the Woods, Eighth Grade and Lady Bird.
- Phantom Brave is Disgaea meets Valkyrie Profile.
- Phantom Breaker is Asuka 120% meets Melty Blood. Its spin-off, Phantom Breaker: Battle Grounds, is Phantom Breaker meets Panzer Bandit with the art and music style of Scott Pilgrim vs. The World: The Game.
- Phantasy Calradia is Mount & Blade meets Forgotten Realms.
- Phantasy Star Online 2 is the original Phantasy Star Online meets Dynasty Warriors (due to faster movement pace).
- The Scion classes is the above meets Devil May Cry (due to most Scion class higher emphasis on combo attacks despite playing differently each other)
- Phix: The Adventure is Bubsy 3D meets Super Magnetic Neo.
- Phoenix Point is XCOM: Enemy Unknown meets many, many H. P. Lovecraft works, meets Fallout.
- Phoenotopia is Cave Story meets The Legend of Zelda.
- PHOGS! is Snake Pass meets CatDog (or rather "DogDog").
- Pikmin is SimAnt meets Katamari Damacy.
- Pirate101 is Wizard101 meets One Piece.
- Pixel Privateers is Pixel Piracy meets Mass Effect.
- Pixel Gun 3D is Call of Duty gameplay meets "Minecraft'' graphics.
- Pizza Tower is Wario Land 4 meets Earthworm Jim meets Bob's Burgers, with some of the gameplay elements of Sonic the Hedgehog and the zany cartoon aethetics of The Ren & Stimpy Show and Ed, Edd n Eddy.
- Or BurgerTime meets PO'ed meets Cuphead meets Rocko's Modern Life.
- Planescape: Torment is Planescape meets Baldur's Gate meets Fallout meets Vampire: The Masquerade meets Neon Genesis Evangelion by way of Shin Megami Tensei.
- Planet Explorers: World of Warcraft meets Star Trek meets Minecraft.
- Plants vs. Zombies series:
- Plants vs. Zombies 2: It's About Time is Plants vs. Zombies meets Back to the Future.
- Plants vs Zombies: Garden Warfare is Plants vs. Zombies meets Call of Duty.
- Plants vs. Zombies: Heroes is Plants vs. Zombies meets Hearthstone.
- PlayerUnknown's Battlegrounds is Call of Duty meets Battle Royale.
- Playstation All Stars Battle Royale: Super Smash Bros. meets Thrill Kill note
- Plumbers Don't Wear Ties is Monty Python's Flying Circus meets Softcore Porn.
- Or Fifty Shades of Grey meets The Stanley Parable, except coming before either of them and being a lot less funny than you'd expect from that premise.
- The iOS/Android game Pocket Mortys is Pokémon meets Rick and Morty.
- Police 911 is Lethal Enforcers 3 meets Time Crisis meets ParaParaParadise's sensors.
- Pong is tennis meets television.
- pop'n music is Bishi Bashi Championship meets beatmania.
- Poppy Playtime is Bendy and the Ink Machine meets Child's Play.
- Alternatively, it's Bendy and the Ink Machine meets Five Nights at Freddy's due to the focus on children's entertainment gone wrong.
- Portal is Narbacular Drop meets Half-Life 2 meets System Shock meets Fallout meets Tomb Raider.
- Portal 2 is the first game meets Tag The Power Of Paint meets System Shock 2 meets WALL•E.
- Postal
- The first game is Grand Theft Auto (Classic) meets Panorama of Hell.
- Postal 2 is Deus Ex meets South Park.
- Or Duke Nukem 3D meets Johnny the Homicidal Maniac.
- The SNK arcade and NES game P.O.W. Prisoners of War is Double Dragon meets The Great Escape.
- Power Blade is Mega Man (Classic) meets Castlevania meets Terminator 2: Judgment Day.
- The Precursors is Deus Ex meets Freelancer.
- The Pretty Soldier Sailor Moon beat 'em up by Banpresto is Sailor Moon meets Final Fight with the magic system of Golden Axe.
- Prey (2017) is Parasite Eve meets BioShock meets Metroid Prime with elements of both System Shock 2 and Resident Evil 4.
- Primal Carnage is Team Fortress 2 meets Left 4 Dead meets Jurassic Park.
- Primal Rage is Mortal Kombat meets Dinosaurs. Or Mortal Kombat meets Ray Harryhaussen.
- Prince of Persia is Karateka meets The Thief of Bagdad (1940) meets The Adventures of Robin Hood
- Prince of Persia 3D is Prince of Persia meets the earlier Tomb Raider games.
- Prince of Persia: Warrior Within is Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time meets Resident Evil 3: Nemesis with slight dashes of The Scorpion King and The Mask.
- Prismatic Solid is iS - internal section meets Radiant Silvergun minus a story or plot.
- Princess Connect! Re:Dive is KonoSuba meets .hack.
- Alternatively, it's Sakura Wars meets Granblue Fantasy meets KonoSuba meets Re:Zero.
- Prison Architect is Theme Hospital meets Prison Tycoon.
- Prisoner of War is The Great Escape meets The Legend of Zelda: Majora's Mask.
- Project U-Ta-Hi-Me is Ichigo Citron's HECTOR '39 meets Symphony.
- PropNight is Dead by Daylight meets Prop Hunt.
- Protect Me Knight is Gauntlet meets Dynasty Warriors meets Tower Defense games meets 80's Japanese pop culture and retro video games.
- [PROTOTYPE]: The Incredible Hulk: Ultimate Destruction meets the game of Spider-Man 2 meets Assassin's Creed meets a big bucket of blood.
- Psychonauts: EarthBound meets mid-to-late-'90s Nickelodeon.
- Or EarthBound meets Invader Zim in terms of wackiness.
- Or Super Mario Galaxy meets Persona 4.
- Yahtzee also described Psychonauts as "It's kinda like if Tim Burton knocked up David Lynch in Willy Wonka's chocolate factory and he did meth right up until the birth."
- And in terms of gameplay, Super Mario Galaxy (because of levels like Sasha's Shooting Gallery and The Milkman Conspiracy, and the interactive title screen), meets Sonic Adventure 2 (because of the rail grinding).
- Psychonauts 2 is Super Mario Odyssey meets Persona 5 and Spy Kids.
- Psycutlery is described by Cruise Elroy as a blend of Yoshi's Island and Kirby, with dashes of Super Mario Bros. 2, Metroid, and a slew of obscure SNES titles.
- Alternatively, it's Psycho Waluigi and the Toad Strikes Back duology meet Spark the Electric Jester.
- Pulseman is Sonic the Hedgehog meets Mega Man with Pokémon's art style
- Pump It Up Pro is In the Groove meets Pump It Up.
- Pumpkin Jack is MediEvil meets Jak and Daxter: The Precursor Legacy.
- Punch-Out!! is Rocky meets Hajime no Ippo meets Rabbit Punch.
- Punishing: Gray Raven is Honkai Impact 3rd meets Arknights meets NieR: Automata
- Puppeteer (2013) is Dynamite Headdy meets LittleBigPlanet.
- Puzzle & Dragons is Puzzle Quest meets Pokémon
- Puzzle Craft is Cradle of Rome meets Minecraft.
- Puzzle Quest: Bejeweled meets Warlords.
- Puzzle Quest 2: Bejeweled meets World of Warcraft
- PQ:Galatrix: Puzzle Quest meets Hexic meets EVE Online.
- Puzzle Kingdoms: Bejeweled meets Fire Emblem.
- Puzzle Chronicles: Super Puzzle Fighter II Turbo meets Conan the Barbarian.
Q
- QP Shooting is Touhou Project meets Pani Poni Dash!.
- Quake is Doom meets Warhammer 40,000.
- The first game is Doom meets Heretic and At the Mountains of Madness.
- Quake IV is Doom³ meets Aliens
- Or Doom meets The Texas Chain Saw Massacre (1974) meets Contra III: The Alien Wars.
- Quantum Break is Fringe meets Looper with elements of 12 Monkeys.
- The Quarry is Friday the 13th meets An American Werewolf in London.
R
- Rabbids Go Home is Over the Hedge meets Katamari Damacy with a little bit of Untitled Goose Game.
- Radiant Silvergun is the RAY Series meets Neon Genesis Evangelion.
- Radical Heights is Fortnite meets Far Cry 3: Blood Dragon
- Rage (2011) is Doom meets Mad Max meets Fallout 3
- Rainbow Six Siege is Rainbow Six meets Counter-Strike.
- Raiden Fighters is Raiden meets Super Smash Bros..
- Raiden V is Raiden Fighters meets Undertale meets R-Type Tactics.
- Rainbow Islands Evolution: Kid Icarus meets the Z-axis and Samba de Amigo.
- Rampage has been described as Godzilla meets The Three Stooges.
- Rampart is Missile Command meets Tetris, with a nautical theme.
- Ratchet & Clank is Spyro the Dragon meets Lilo & Stitch meets Futurama meets Impossibly Cool Weapons.
- Ravenfield is Battlefield meets Call of Duty meets Garry's Mod.
- Raven's Cry is Risen 2: Dark Waters meets Ride to Hell: Retribution.
- Rayman Origins is Super Meat Boy meets Looney Tunes meets Paper Mario.
- Razing Storm is Ghost Squad (2004) meets Time Crisis.
- Ready 2 Rumble Boxing is Punch-Out!! meets Mortal Kombat meets NBA Jam.
- Receiver is the dystopian sci-fi FPS child of QWOP and Rogue.
- Recettear: An Item Shop's Tale is essentially Atelier Series meets Animal Crossing.
- Red Alert 3: Paradox is Warhammer 40,000 meets the Cold War.
- Red Dead Redemption is Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas meets The Wild Bunch meets Unforgiven meets Shane meets A Fistful of Dollars meets The Count of Monte Cristo.
- Red Dead Redemption II is Red Dead Redemption meets Grand Theft Auto V meets The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt meets Fallout: New Vegas meets Blood Meridian meets The Catcher in the Rye meets Young Guns II meets Tombstone meets The Hateful Eight meets The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford meets The Good, the Bad and the Ugly meets Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid.
- Redfall is Dead Island meets Slayer Shock.
- Red Flood is Kaiserreich: Legacy of the Weltkrieg meets The New Order Last Days Of Europe meets several doses of crack.
- Redneck Rampage is Duke Nukem 3D meets The Dukes of Hazzard and Beavis And Butthead.
- Red Steel 2 is XIII meets Shadow Warrior (2013).
- Remember Me is Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind meets The Fifth Element, with sprinklings from across the entire work of Luc Besson.
- Remnant: From the Ashes is Dark Souls meets Darksiders meets Destiny.
- Renegade Ops is Jackal meets Just Cause meets Robotron: 2084.
- Resident Evil:
- Resident Evil is S.W.A.T. (1975) meets Night of the Living Dead (1968) meets Warning Signs (+ genetic experiments involving mutant monsters) meets Sweet Home (1989) meets Alone in the Dark.
- Resident Evil 2 is Resident Evil meets Dawn of the Dead (1978) meets Aliens.
- Resident Evil 3: Nemesis is Dawn of the Dead (1978) meets The Terminator meets Clock Tower (a near invincible pursuer chasing the main character down to kill her).
- Resident Evil – Code: Veronica is Resident Evil meets Parasite Eve (Alexia Ashford is an expy of Eve).
- Resident Evil 4 is Night of the Living Dead (1968) meets The Wicker Man (1973) meets The Thing (1982).
- Or The Puppet Masters meets The Wicker Man (1973) meets 24 meets Dagon.
- Or Resident Evil meets Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom.
- Resident Evil 5 is The Constant Gardener meets The Puppet Masters meets Blackhawk Down
- Resident Evil 6 is Night of the Living Dead (1968) meets Call of Duty: Modern Warfare/Black Ops meets Resident Evil 2 and 5 with HEAVY doses of John Woo and Michael Bay tropes.
- Resident Evil 7: Biohazard is Ultra Q meets Sweet Home (1989) meets Silent Hill meets Resident Evil meets Resident Evil: Gun Survivor meets F.E.A.R.
- Alternatively, Resident Evil 7: Biohazard is Outlast meets The Texas Chainsaw Massacre (2003) and The Blair Witch Project.
- Or Far Cry 3 meets Outlast II and a bit of Silent Hills.
- Not a Hero DLC is Gun Survivor meets Resident Evil 4 meets Call of Duty.
- End of Zoe DLC is Resident Evil 4 meets Condemned: Criminal Origins meets Man vs. Wild.
- Resident Evil Village is Resident Evil 7: Biohazard meets Resident Evil 4 meets Dracula (1931) meets Underworld.
- Alternatively, it's Resident Evil 7: Biohazard meets Bloodborne.
- It's also Resident Evil 4 meets Resident Evil 7: Biohazard meets Frankenstein's Army meets Modern Warfare meets Underworld meets Asura's Wrath.
- Shadows of Rose DLC is Silent Hill 3 meets The Evil Within.
- Resident Evil: Revelations is Cold Fear with Resident Evil characters.
- Resident Evil: Revelations 2 is SAW with Resident Evil characters and zombies. Or also Resident Evil: Revelations meets Resident Evil – Code: Veronica meets The Evil Within meets The Last of Us.
- Retro City Rampage: If the original Grand Theft Auto and Bad Street Brawler threw a party and invited every NES-era game and pop culture reference they could think of.
- Returnal is Dead Space meets Risk of Rain and the Metroid Prime Trilogy, with a sprinkling of Re:Zero.
- In his review of the game, Yahtzee Croshaw described Returnal as playing like "a Rogue-lite version of Metroid Prime by way of the movie Prometheus."
- Resogun is Defender meets Super Stardust HD
- Revenge of the Sunfish can best be summed up as WarioWare meets Hong Kong '97 if the developer took every psychedelic known to mankind.
- Re-Volt is, going by the game's Excuse Plot, Pinocchio meets Mario Kart meets Toy Story (if R.C. was the only character).
- Rez is RayCrisis (both its setting and the lock-on mechanic!) meets Star Blade.
- Alternatively: Space Harrier meets TRON with a helping of synesthesia.
- Alternatively: Space Harrier meets TRON with a helping of synesthesia
- Rhythm Heaven is WarioWare meets Elite Beat Agents.
- Rhythm Thief & the Emperor's Treasure is Professor Layton meets Lupin III meets Elite Beat Agents and Rhythm Heaven.
- Riff Racer is Trackmania meets Vib-Ribbon
- Rigid Force Alpha is Dariusburst meets Gradius V meets R-Type meets Zero Wing.
- Rigs of Rods is BeamNG (which is its very own successor) meets the SpinTires series (which it predates, too) with a side of Driver 2.
- RiME is ICO meets Journey (2012) in the style of The Legend of Zelda: The Wind Waker
- RimWorld is Dwarf Fortress meets Firefly.
- Ring Fit Adventure is the gameplay of Paper Mario meets Wii Fit.
- Riptide GP is Jet Moto meets Hydro Thunder.
- Rise of Nations is Age of Empires II meets Civilization.
- Ristar is Sonic the Hedgehog meets Bionic Commando.
- Rival Megagun is Change Air Blade meets Twinkle Star Sprites
- Rival Schools is Street Fighter meets Choujuu Sentai Liveman meets Kousoku Sentai Turboranger meets GaoGaiGar meets Last Bronx.
- The sequel, Project Justice, is Rival Schools meets Denji Sentai Megaranger meets Naruto.
- Rivals of Aether is Super Smash Bros. meets Dust: An Elysian Tail.
- Road 96 is Life Is Strange 2 meets Odd Taxi meets a Rogue Like.
- Road Avenger is Dragon's Lair meets Road Blasters (The game was called "Road Blaster EX" in Japan)
- Road Rage is Road Rash meets Ride to Hell: Retribution.
- Roboquest is Borderlands meets Doom (2016) and Risk of Rain 2, according to Bricky.
- A Robot Named Fight! is Super Metroid meets The Binding of Isaac.
- Roblox is LEGO meets Unity.
- Piggy is Peppa Pig meets Granny meets The Walking Dead.
- Rock Band is Guitar Hero meets Drum Mania meets Karaoke Revolution.
- Rock of Ages is Marble Madness meets Rampart, as animated by Terry Gilliam.
- Rodea the Sky Soldier is NiGHTS into Dreams… meets Sonic the Hedgehog meets Mega Man.
- Rogue Stormers is Warhammer 40,000: Space Marine meets 20XX with a pinch of Metal Slug.
- Romancelvania is Castlevania meets Tokimeki Memorial meets Monster Prom, with The Bachelor as a framing device.
- Rose & Camellia was described by WayForward's Voldi Way as Downton Abbey meets Punch-Out!!.
- RosenkreuzStilette is Mega Man (Classic) meets Castlevania meets Fate/stay night, with some elements of Mega Man X sprinkled in-between.
- Roundabout is Crazy Taxi meets Kuru Kuru Kururin.
- Rule of Rose: Lord of the Flies meets Silent Hill, except that they are all girls.
- Rune is Unreal meets Die by the Sword meets Norse Mythology.
- Rune Factory: A Fantasy Harvest Moon is Dungeon Siege meets Monster Rancher. A lot of official sources will all but state this.
- Rusty is Super Castlevania IV meets Vampire Killer with a storyline similar to Castlevania: Rondo of Blood.
