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* [[spoiler:''VideoGame/CopyKitty'']]: A CatGirl with special powers received a military training simulator as her birthday present from her insectoid uncle. Chaos ensues.

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* [[spoiler:''VideoGame/CopyKitty'']]: A CatGirl with special powers received a military CatGirl's training simulator as her birthday present from her insectoid uncle. Chaos ensues.montage.
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*** [[spoiler: ''VideoGame/BioShockInfinite'']]: A man saves his daughter by preventing himself from getting baptized.

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*** ** [[spoiler: ''VideoGame/BioShockInfinite'']]: A man saves his daughter by preventing himself from getting baptized.
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** [[spoiler:''VideoGame/{{Bayonetta 2}}'']]: HotWitch must go in hell to find her friend while being accompanied by a MouthyKid who wanted to climb a mountain for some reason.
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* [[spoiler:''VisualNovel/AceAttorney'']]: A visual novel series set in a courtroom where you play as lawyers.

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* [[spoiler:''VisualNovel/AceAttorney'']]: [[spoiler:''Franchise/AceAttorney'']]: A visual novel series set in a courtroom where you play as lawyers.



** [[spoiler:''Phoenix Wright: Justice for All'']]: Said lawyer now has to beat down a girl nearly ten years younger than him and knows how to WhipItGood.

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** [[spoiler:''Phoenix Wright: Justice for All'']]: Said lawyer now has to beat down a girl nearly ten years younger than him and who knows how to WhipItGood.
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* [[spoiler:''VideoGame/CopyKitty'']]: A CatGirl with special powers received a military training simulator as her birthday present from her insectoid uncle. Chaos ensues.
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** [[spoiler:''VideoGame/BatmanArkhamOrigins'']]: Two years earlier, a guy who almost always wears a mask ''really'' doesn't like animal-cosplayers, so he asks people to kill the previously-mentioned animal-cosplayer. Those who take up the offer include a drug addict, a ninja, a man with a skin condition, a shemale with a reptile fetish, a trash talking electrical outlet, a professional wise cracking sniper, a corrupt cop, a member of a murderous cult, and a burn victim. The cosplayer's butler keeps talking about ham.

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** [[spoiler:''VideoGame/BatmanArkhamOrigins'']]: Two years earlier, a guy who almost always wears a mask ''really'' doesn't like animal-cosplayers, so he asks people to kill the previously-mentioned animal-cosplayer. Those who take up the offer include a drug addict, addicted Luchadore, a ninja, a man with a skin condition, a shemale with a reptile fetish, a trash talking electrical outlet, a professional wise cracking sniper, a corrupt cop, a member of a murderous cult, and a burn victim. The cosplayer's butler keeps talking about ham.
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** [[spoiler:''VideoGame/BatmanArkhamOrigins'']]: Two years earlier, a guy who almost always wears a mask ''really'' doesn't like animal-cosplayers, so he asks people to kill the previously-mentioned animal-cosplayer. Those who take up the offer include a drug addict, a ninja, a man with a skin condition, and a burn victim. The cosplayer's butler keeps talking about ham.

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** [[spoiler:''VideoGame/BatmanArkhamOrigins'']]: Two years earlier, a guy who almost always wears a mask ''really'' doesn't like animal-cosplayers, so he asks people to kill the previously-mentioned animal-cosplayer. Those who take up the offer include a drug addict, a ninja, a man with a skin condition, a shemale with a reptile fetish, a trash talking electrical outlet, a professional wise cracking sniper, a corrupt cop, a member of a murderous cult, and a burn victim. The cosplayer's butler keeps talking about ham.
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* [[spoiler:''Akiba's Trip: Undead and Undressed'']]: Otaku gets turned into energy vampire. To fight other energy vampires, he must strip them down to their underwear. Stealing the clothes takes tearing dozens of them first or reading books. Meanwhile, here's Akihabara, Japan for you to run around.

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*** [[spoiler: ''VideoGame/CastlevaniaLordsOfShadow: Mirror of Fate'']]: His son, his grandson, and his other son have issues with him.

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*** [[spoiler: ''VideoGame/CastlevaniaLordsOfShadow: Mirror of Fate'']]: ''VideoGame/CastlevaniaLordsOfShadowMirrorOfFate'']]: His son, his grandson, and his other son have issues with him.him.
*** [[spoiler: ''VideoGame/CastlevaniaLordsOfShadow2'']]: The man seeks to kill everyone responsible for his long and prosperous life.
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** [[spoiler: ''VideoGame/AmnesiaAMachineForPigs'']]: You walk around the bowels of a giant machine chasing ghost children and trying to remember what the machine is for.

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** Or: An adoption goes so horribly wrong, the only way to save the world is to go back in time and prevent it from ever happening.
** Or: An unhappily sheltered girl gains superpowers by losing a finger, then rewrites the fabric of the multiverse in order to have a better childhood.



*** Or: Girl seeks roundabout revenge on the private detective who decapitated her during her botched adoption.



** Or: An adoption goes so horribly wrong, it takes [[RealityWarper reality warping powers]] to sort out again.

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** *** Or: An adoption goes so horribly wrong, it takes [[RealityWarper reality warping powers]] to sort out again.Girl gives up cosmic powers in favor of setting up the downfall of Ayn Rand and TheMafia.
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* [[spoiler:''VideoGame/BattleBlockTheater'']]: A survivor of a shipwreck finds himself trapped in a theater which turns out to be a sadistic gladiator game run by cats.
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* [[spoiler:''VideoGame/BioShock'']]: Ayn Rand fights TheMafia, twenty thousand leagues under the sea. Then you show up and resolve the situation. With a magical hand that [[BeeBeeGun shoots bees]].

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* [[spoiler:''VideoGame/BioShock'']]: [[spoiler:''VideoGame/BioShock1'']]: Ayn Rand fights TheMafia, twenty thousand leagues under the sea. Then you show up and resolve the situation. With a magical hand that [[BeeBeeGun shoots bees]].
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** [[spoiler: ''CastlevaniaLegacyOfDarkness'']]: A werewolf murders the old man. It doesn't last. A kid comes up with the bright idea of bringing a gun and armor next time.

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** [[spoiler: ''CastlevaniaLegacyOfDarkness'']]: ''VideoGame/CastlevaniaLegacyOfDarkness'']]: A werewolf murders the old man. It doesn't last. A kid comes up with the bright idea of bringing a gun and armor next time.
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* [[spoiler:'' VideoGame/{{Awesomenauts}}'']]: [[VideoGame/TeamFortress2 Team Fortress 2]] IN SPACE!
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* [[spoiler: ''VideoGame/TheBindingOfIsaac'']]: There are lots of enemies. Cry on them to defeat them.

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* [[spoiler: ''VideoGame/TheBindingOfIsaac'']]: There are lots of enemies. Cry on them to defeat them. In-game items you can pick up let you vomit, urinate, or bleed on the enemies instead.
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*** [[spoiler:''BioShockInfinite/BurialAtSea Episode 1'']]: A girl helps the man who killed her fail to save an orphan and then get killed so he'll feel bad
*** [[spoiler:''BioShockInfinite/BurialAtSea Episode 2'']]: Girl realises she was a JerkAss, goes on suicide mission to make up for it and kill the man who will kill her.
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*** Or: A custody battle between a zombie and a cult leader UnderTheSea.
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** [[spoiler: ''{{VideoGame/Castlevania|1986}} I'']]: A strapping young man dresses in leather and enters an old family acquaintance's dungeon to {{whip|ItGood}} him mercilessly.

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** [[spoiler: ''{{VideoGame/Castlevania|1986}} I'']]: ''VideoGame/CastlevaniaI'']]: A strapping young man dresses in leather and enters an old family acquaintance's dungeon to {{whip|ItGood}} him mercilessly.

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* [[spoiler:''VideoGame/BreathOfDeathVII'']]: Four undead adventurers must bring crystals to the last man alive so that he can undo their very existence.



* [[spoiler:''Cosmo's Cosmic Adventure'']]: A naked green alien kid with chicken pox and plungers for hands wants to go to Disney World for his birthday. His ship crashes on a forbidden planet and, before he can find his missing parents, he gets eaten by a giant monster.

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* [[spoiler:''Cosmo's Cosmic Adventure'']]: [[spoiler:''VideoGame/CosmosCosmicAdventure'']]: A naked green alien kid with chicken pox and plungers for hands wants to go to Disney World for his birthday. His ship crashes on a forbidden planet and, before he can find his missing parents, he gets eaten by a giant monster.



* [[spoiler:''VideoGame/{{Counter-Strike}}'']]: Counter-terrorists attempt to thwart terrorists. That's about it.

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* [[spoiler:''VideoGame/{{Counter-Strike}}'']]: [[spoiler:''VideoGame/CounterStrike'']]: Counter-terrorists attempt to thwart terrorists. That's about it.


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* [[spoiler:''VideoGame/CthulhuSavesTheWorld'']]: An elder god sucks up to the narrator so that he can regain his eldritch powers.

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** [[spoiler:''VideoGame/AceCombat3Electrosphere'']]: A ShootEmUp for aircraft fetishists has plot-reduction surgery.
** [[spoiler:''VideoGame/AceCombat04ShatteredSkies'']]: An [[FeaturelessProtagonist unnamed pilot]] kills off a [[OrphansOrdeal war orphan's]] friends and only family one by one.

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** [[spoiler:''VideoGame/AceCombat3Electrosphere'']]: A An unnamed pilot and allies involve themselves in CorporateWarfare that includes about 600% more dogfighting.
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** [[spoiler:''VideoGame/AceCombat04ShatteredSkies'']]: An [[FeaturelessProtagonist unnamed pilot]] pilot kills off a [[OrphansOrdeal war orphan's]] friends and only family one by one.

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** Or: Two men start a small war in a floating city over paternity and custody issues, while the daughter in question tries to escape them.

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** Or: Two men start A cult leader, an ex-soldier, a small war mechanical bird, a reanimated dead woman, and a pair of MadScientist twins fight to the death in a floating city over paternity and a custody issues, while the daughter in question tries to escape them.dispute.



** Or: A lunatic buys his daughter from himself, kills himself, then has eight more of his daughters kill him again.

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** Or: A lunatic buys kidnaps his daughter from himself, kills then rescues her from himself by killing himself, then has eight more of his daughters kill him again. again.
** Or: An adoption goes so horribly wrong, it takes [[RealityWarper reality warping powers]] to sort out again.

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** Or: Two men start a small war in a floating city over paternity and custody issues, while the daughter in question repeatedly tries to escape.

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** Or: Two men start a small war in a floating city over paternity and custody issues, while the daughter in question repeatedly tries to escape.escape them.
** Or: A preacher's career is ruined when his resume is found to include extra-dimensional kidnapping.
** Or: Girl enlists a traumatized, alcoholic mercenary to kill everyone standing between her and her vacation.
** Or: A lunatic buys his daughter from himself, kills himself, then has eight more of his daughters kill him again.
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** [[spoiler: ''Animal Crossing: Wild World'']]: The same, however, there's more emphasis on online play.

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** [[spoiler: ''Animal Crossing: Wild World'']]: The same, however, there's more emphasis on the now-defunct online play.
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** [[spoiler:''VideoGame/AceCombatInfinity'']]: An unnamed pilot [[MythologyGag does stuff similar to all the above]] while his employers [[AllegedlyFreeGame force him to buy fuel himself]].

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** [[spoiler:''VideoGame/AceCombatInfinity'']]: An unnamed pilot [[MythologyGag does stuff similar to all the above]] while his employers [[AllegedlyFreeGame force him to buy worrying about his fuel himself]].supplies]].

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*** [[spoiler: ''VideoGame/BioShockInfinite'']]: A father changes his travel plans, making his daughter very angry.
** Or: A man saves his daughter by preventing himself from getting baptized.
** Or: A man attempts to save a woman imprisoned by her neglectful father, only to remember that everything is really his own fault.

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*** [[spoiler: ''VideoGame/BioShockInfinite'']]: A father changes his travel plans, making his daughter very angry.
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A man saves his daughter by preventing himself from getting baptized.
** Or: A man An [[FakeMemories amnesiac]] private investigator attempts to save a woman imprisoned by her neglectful father, only to remember that everything is really his own fault.


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** Or: Two men start a small war in a floating city over paternity and custody issues, while the daughter in question repeatedly tries to escape.
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** Or: Help a lost black floating cube find its way home, by doing the above.

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* [[spoiler: ''VideoGame/ChimeraBeast'']]: A HordeOfAlienLocusts destroy a planet. [[spoiler: [[VillainProtagonist You are one of the locusts]]]].


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* [[spoiler: ''VideoGame/ChildOfLight'']]: A young princess looks for celestial objects.
* [[spoiler: ''VideoGame/ChimeraBeast'']]: A HordeOfAlienLocusts destroy a planet. [[spoiler: [[VillainProtagonist You are one of the locusts]]]].
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* [[spoiler: ''VideoGame/Conception2ChildrenOfTheSevenStars'']]: A game about making babies by holding hands and using them to destroy monsters and save the world.
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Ah, video games. No other media allows RefugeInAudacity so often. [[SugarWiki/BetterThanItSounds And most of the time it works]].

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* [[spoiler:''[[VideoGame/TwelveThirteen 1213]]]]'': A clone busts out of a prison in a laboratory complex in space, finds out he shouldn't even have bothered. Note: This also perfectly describes [[spoiler:''VideoGame/MysteryOfTimeAndSpace'']].
* [[spoiler:''VideoGame/ThreeDDotGameHeroes'']]: A ''Franchise/TheLegendOfZelda'' {{homage}} InAWorld [[{{Retraux}} made of billions of tiny cubes]].
* [[spoiler:''VideoGame/ThreeInThree'']]: A personified number 3 has to fix the computer she lives in by solving puzzles.
* [[spoiler:''3-on-3 NHL Arcade'']]: Bobbleheads play hockey.
* [[spoiler:''720°'']]: A skateboarder tries to raise enough money to keep skateboarding. This annoys the local insects.
* [[spoiler:''8 Eyes'']]: In a post-apocalyptic future, a falconer defeats and has tea with the world's royalty in a grand effort to solve a logic puzzle.
* [[spoiler:''99 Spirits'']]: A wandering samurai kills ghosts masquerading as everyday objects.
* ''[[spoiler:[[VisualNovel/NineHoursNinePersonsNineDoors 9 Hours, 9 Persons, 9 Doors]]]]'': The Pyro from ''VideoGame/TeamFortress2'' with an odd number fetish kidnaps a group of anime stereotypes to an ocean cruiser where they have to solve first grade math problems - or die a very gruesome death. A lot of debate is had over the solutions of said problems. This may eventually lead them to screw up the spacetime continuum with the dramatic use of pseudoscience. Or everyone dies. Also, mummies are involved.
** Did we mention that you're reading text for most of the game?
* [[spoiler:''VideoGame/AaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaARecklessDisregardForGravity'']]: You go BASE jumping. It's a ''very'' long way to the ground.
* [[spoiler:''VideoGame/AbobosBigAdventure'']]: A bunch of NES characters has kidnapped your son. Are you a bad enough [[spoiler: Abobo]] to rescue him?
* [[spoiler:''VisualNovel/AceAttorney'']]: A visual novel series set in a courtroom where you play as lawyers.
** [[spoiler:''VisualNovel/PhoenixWrightAceAttorney'']]: A lawyer with spiky hair defends the innocent through {{courtroom antic}}s and [[GivingSomeoneThePointerFinger really dramatic pointing]], beating down an old friend and said friend's mentor in the process. His old boss sticks around to help from beyond the grave.
** [[spoiler:''Phoenix Wright: Justice for All'']]: Said lawyer now has to beat down a girl nearly ten years younger than him and knows how to WhipItGood.
** [[spoiler:''Phoenix Wright: Ace Attorney: Trials and Tribulations'']]: Said lawyer now has to beat down a sick blind guy who MustHaveCaffeine.
** [[spoiler: ''VisualNovel/ApolloJusticeAceAttorney'']]: A different lawyer with slightly less spiky hair and a bracelet that makes him a LivingLieDetector defends the innocent through {{courtroom antic}}s and [[GivingSomeoneThePointerFinger really dramatic pointing]], all the while going up against TheRockStar. The lawyer from the first game sticks around to help.
** [[spoiler: ''[[VisualNovel/AceAttorneyInvestigations Ace Attorney Investigations Miles Edgeworth]]'']]: The aforementioned old friend of the first lawyer gets hysterically laughed at, mistaken for a drunk, tied up, repeatedly accused of murder, and even assaulted by a badger in the course of [[AmateurSleuth solving crimes]] though the use of logic and [[GivingSomeoneThePointerFinger really dramatic pointing]]. Out of the advertised 15 hours of gameplay, the last ten are spent arguing with a human laugh track, a wolf and a tree.
** [[spoiler: ''[[VisualNovel/AceAttorneyInvestigations Gyakuten Kenji 2]]]]'': Aforementioned old friend takes on a series of new cases involving ice cream salesmen, clowns, chefs, old ladies, and Godzilla knockoffs. His middle-aged dad gets in on the action with the chefs in a flashback. Meanwhile, a teenager with IdiotHair tries to solve crimes despite having a complete and utter inability to do so while managing [[EnsembleDarkhorse to gather an English fanbase]] in the process. This is all suddenly stopped dead by NoExportForYou.
** [[spoiler: ''VisualNovel/PhoenixWrightAceAttorneyDualDestinies]]'': The first lawyer can practice law again. He and the second lawyer are joined by a third who has really good hearing and a talking necklace that can track people's emotions. Together, they all go up against a bird-loving wannabe samurai who is ChainedByFashion.
* [[spoiler:''VideoGame/AceCombat'' series]]: {{Shoot Em Up}}s for aircraft fetishists.
** [[spoiler:''VideoGame/AirCombat'']]: [[BlingOfWar Extremely flashy war planes]] bomb the hell out of an entire country of rebels.
** [[spoiler:''VideoGame/AceCombat2'']]: An [[FeaturelessProtagonist unnamed pilot]] frees a country from [[NGOSuperpower absurdly-equipped rebel factions]] by blowing everything up.
** [[spoiler:''VideoGame/AceCombat3Electrosphere'']]: A ShootEmUp for aircraft fetishists has plot-reduction surgery.
** [[spoiler:''VideoGame/AceCombat04ShatteredSkies'']]: An [[FeaturelessProtagonist unnamed pilot]] kills off a [[OrphansOrdeal war orphan's]] friends and only family one by one.
** [[spoiler:''VideoGame/AceCombat5TheUnsungWar'']]: An unnamed pilot and his squad are tricked by old Germans into killing scores of Russians.
** [[spoiler:''VideoGame/AceCombatZeroTheBelkanWar'']]: An unnamed pilot and his buddy screw up the lives of their German adversaries.
** [[spoiler:''VideoGame/AceCombat6FiresOfLiberation'']]: An unnamed pilot single-handedly rescues Canada from occupation by Yugoslavia while his wingman starts the lamest meme ever.
** [[spoiler:''VideoGame/AceCombatXSkiesOfDeception'']]: An unnamed pilot fights a South American-style guerrilla war...with a fighter plane.
** [[spoiler:''VideoGame/AceCombatXiSkiesOfIncursion'']]: A [[HeroOfAnotherStory different]] unnamed pilot fights the exact same war the exact same way, on the iPhone.
** [[spoiler:''VideoGame/AceCombatAssaultHorizon'']]: A SuddenlyVoiced pilot with a face saves the InvadedStatesOfAmerica from {{Renegade Russian}}s and their [[NuclearWeaponsTaboo not-nukes]] with vigorous {{fistpump}}ing.
** [[spoiler:''VideoGame/AceCombatAssaultHorizonLegacy'']]: An unnamed pilot frees a country from absurdly-equipped rebel factions by blowing everything up, [[VideoGameRemake again.]]
** [[spoiler:''VideoGame/AceCombatInfinity'']]: An unnamed pilot [[MythologyGag does stuff similar to all the above]] while his employers [[AllegedlyFreeGame force him to buy fuel himself]].
* [[spoiler: ''VideoGame/Action52Owns'']]: Remakes of 52 of the [[VideoGame/{{Action52}} most horrible games ever made]].
** [[spoiler: ''Jigsaw'']]: A man saves his girlfriend from workbench tools. [[spoiler: And kills her.]]
** [[spoiler: ''Illuminator'']]: Save your sister from monsters... with nothing but a torchlight.
** [[spoiler: ''Meong'']]: A GentlemanThief explores a dungeon.
** [[spoiler: ''Non-Human'']]: A HumongousMecha that lacks the ability to turn around fights organic horrors.
** [[spoiler: ''Streemerz'']]: A guy with rope avoids clowns.
* [[spoiler:''VideoGame/ActRaiser'']]: God and his sycophantic sidekick lead the people to salvation. [[VideoGameCrueltyPotential Or destruction.]]
** [[spoiler:''Act Raiser II'']]: God TookALevelInBadass. Unfortunately, [[NintendoHard so did his enemies.]]
* [[spoiler:''VideoGame/AdventureIsland'']]: A fat, diabetic man wearing nothing but a grass skirt and a baseball cap kills animals and eats lots of fruit in order to rescue his girlfriend.
** [[spoiler:''Adventure Island II'']]: Same as above, except now he enlists dinosaurs to help carry him around.
** [[spoiler:''Super Adventure Island II'']]: Fat diabetic man suffers from amnesia. He forgets about his malady and starts wearing clothes.
* [[spoiler: ''Adventure Of Valkyrie'']]: Some guy drops the keys to his house; you play an angel who is sent by God to help him pick them up. The entire population of the world conspires to stop you.
* [[spoiler: ''VideoGame/AdventuresOfLolo'']]: To save his girlfriend, a furball steals hearts from demons and traps them in eggs. When a [[VideoGame/{{Kirby}} more marketable puffball]] comes along, the couple make a FaceHeelTurn.
* [[spoiler:''VideoGame/AdventuresToGo!'']]: Freelance warriors become real heroes by going on simulated quests.
* [[spoiler: ''VideoGame/AeroFighters'']]: A dolphin, baby, mother and daughter, SteamPunk-style cyborg, J-pop idol, ninja, viking, gender-confused punk rocker, among others are recruited to stop an alien menace.
* [[spoiler: ''VideoGame/AgarestSenki'']]: A man dies in the first few minutes. He gets revived, ends a war, and bangs one of three chicks. [[GenerationXerox Rinse and repeat four more times.]]
** [[spoiler: ''VideoGame/AgarestSenki 2'']]: [[DidYouJustPunchOutCthulhu You kill a god in the opening.]] Turns out it was a bad idea.
** [[spoiler: ''VideoGame/AgarestSenki Zero'']]: An ancestor of the man from above also dies in the first few minutes. He also gets revived and bangs one of three chicks. [[GenerationXerox Rince and repeat one more time.]]
* [[spoiler: ''VideoGame/AgeOfEmpires'']]: Reenact historical battles with a mouse, three times over.
** [[spoiler: ''VideoGame/AgeOfMythology'']]: Stop one-eyed guy from releasing ancient god-monster.
*** [[spoiler: ''Age Of Mythology: The Titans'']]: [[NiceJobBreakingItHero Break said god-monster free]], then put it back together again.
** [[spoiler: ''VideoGame/AgeOfEmpiresIII'']]: OC {{Mighty Whitey}}s fight in historical battles to stop an AncientConspiracy.
*** [[spoiler: ''The Warchiefs'']]: Native Americans defeat their enemies with the Power of Dance.
*** [[spoiler: ''The Asian Dynasties'']]: Things take a turn for the CrazyAwesome as samurai, Shaolin monks, and elephants join the fun.
* [[spoiler:''VideoGame/AIWarFleetCommand'']]: Wipe out a [[TheComputerIsACheatingBastard cheating AI]] who can stomp you flat at any point and often will.
* [[spoiler:''VideoGame/AlanWake'']]: An author with writer's block fights off creatures from a book he wrote last week and tries to save his wife with a flashlight. A rock concert is a viable weapon.
** [[spoiler:''Alan Wake's American Nightmare'']]: An author in Arizona runs around a small-town rest stop, looks at the stars in an observatory, and tries to watch a movie. The movie doesn't work, so he does it all again. And again.
* [[spoiler:''VideoGame/AlienSoldier'']]: A tiger tries to kill a bird.
* [[spoiler:''Alley Cat'']]: A homeless tries to impress his love interest by engaging into acts of vandalism. Brooms try to prevent this.
* [[spoiler:''VideoGame/AllPointsBulletin'']]: A massive group of [[VirtualPaperDoll Virtual Paper Dolls]] play cops and robbers.
* [[spoiler:''Videogame/AloneInTheDark1992'']]: Guy or gal gets stuck in a house and cannot leave.
** [[spoiler:''Videogame/AloneInTheDark2'']]: Guy gets stuck in another house and cannot leave. Pirates.
** [[spoiler:''Videogame/AloneInTheDark3'']]: Guy goes looking for gal from first game, gets stuck in town and cannot leave. Cowboys.
* [[spoiler:''VideoGame/AlphaProtocol'']]: Secret agent has been sent to assassinate a terrorist. Turns out said terrorist has received assistance from said agent's own agency. Lots of people are going to die.
** Alternately: A betrayed secret agent's mission of revenge leads him to shoot-outs with cape-wearing spies, crotchety old men, and a Russian gangster wearing a ''really'' tacky jacket. At the end of the story, he surrenders, has a long talk with a man with poor fashion taste, and hundreds of people get killed.
* [[spoiler:''VideoGame/AlteredBeast'']]: Two guys come back from the dead as [[{{Animorphism}} lycanthropes]] to rescue the daughter of a god who [[ElmuhFuddSyndwome kinda sounds like Elmer Fudd]].
** Seven word summary: The Great Steroid Scandal of Ancient Greece.
* [[spoiler:''VideoGame/AmericanMcGeesAlice'']]: [[Literature/AliceInWonderland When returning to a place she visited]], girl discovers it became DarkerAndEdgier. To fix it, the girl brutally murders playing cards and chess pieces with toys and commits regicide. This makes her more sane.
** [[spoiler:''VideoGame/AliceMadnessReturns'']]: Girl discovers that the fire that killed her family wasn't accidental and goes through her memories to see who started it.
* [[spoiler:''VideoGame/AmericanMcGeesGrimm'']]: A sarcastic, unhygienic, SophisticatedAsHell dwarf [[{{Grimmification}} fouls up classic fairy tales]] [[WalkingWasteland wherever he goes]].
* [[spoiler:''VideoGame/AmnesiaTheDarkDescent'']]: You walk around in the dark trying to remember why you're walking around in the dark.
* ''[[spoiler: VideoGame/{{Amorphous}}+]]'': A guy goes around whacking {{Blob Monster}}s while [[TheManyDeathsOfYou getting killed a million times]].
* [[spoiler:''Angband'']]: In order to become powerful enough to defeat the BigBad, you must kill color-coded monsters and acquire items, most of which are named based on obscure passages in ''Literature/TheSilmarillion''.
* [[spoiler:''VideoGame/AngryBirds'']]: Some eggs get stolen, so the victims retaliate by [[DisproportionateRetribution going kamikaze on their houses.]]
** Or: An extremist group takes offense at a nearby civilization's eating habits and stages a long series of suicide-bombing attacks with the goal of total annihilation.
* [[spoiler:''VideoGame/AnimalCrossing'']]: You become the indentured servant of a raccoon. Your neighbors randomly hand out pianos, computers, and beds as rewards for completing minor chores.
** Alternatively: You move into a town inhabited by talking animals who give you big screen [=TVs=] and works of art for asking another animal to return a mundane item they borrowed.
** [[spoiler: ''Animal Crossing: Wild World'']]: The same, however, there's more emphasis on online play.
** [[spoiler: ''Animal Crossing: City Folk'']]: The same, except you have the new feature of going to a city. Most of the people you see there are OutOfCharacter when it comes to thier personality.
** [[spoiler: ''Animal Crossing: New Leaf'']]: You accidentally get elected mayor of a small town of eccentric talking animals. You have to pay for municipal improvements mostly out of pocket.
* [[spoiler:''VideoGame/{{Antichamber}}]]: Escape a minimalist labyrinth of AlienGeometries (and learn some life lessons) by shooting cubes out of a gun in the right place, at the right time, in the right way.
* [[spoiler:''VideoGame/ApeEscape'']]: Monkeys with magic helmets steal time machines, and you have to catch them.
** [[spoiler:''Ape Escape 2'']]: More monkeys try to TakeOverTheWorld. The first hero's cousin tries to catch them, aided by a HeadPet.
** [[spoiler:''Ape Escape 3'']]: This time the monkeys just want to make you watch crappy television. Their leader is aided by a man with a FunnyAfro. Two kids try to catch them this time; one is an IdolSinger.
* [[spoiler:''VideoGame/{{Aquaria}}'']]: A young girl embarks on a voyage of self discovery, finds love and [[DidYouJustPunchOutCthulhu murders an entire pantheon]]. She also makes a hell of a pierogi.
* [[spoiler:''ArTonelico: Melody of Elemia'']]: The stupidest psychologist who ever lived fights computer viruses on the magical island of Shining Sky.
** Alternatively: SealedEvilInACan causes computer problems. Among the people trying to stop this are a moron, a teenager with self-esteem issues, and the world's oldest woman.
** [[spoiler:''Ar Tonelico II'']]: A more competent psychologist and a mage who can't use magic escort a bitchy priestess around a different magical island while two factions try to either save or destroy it.
*** Alternatively: Girl throws tantrum upon being separated from BFF. The entire world is dragged into it.
** [[spoiler:''Ar tonelico Qoga: Knell of Ar Ciel'']]: Hot female singers with multiple personalities strip down to their underwear during combat. A thirteen year-old does a favor for the first game's BigBad.
* [[spoiler:''VideoGame/ArcAngle'']]: A program that can't attack at all faces foes that fire ''loads of bullets''.
* [[spoiler: ''VideoGame/ArcTheLad'']]: TheChosenOne tries to stop TheEndOfTheWorldAsWeKnowIt by becoming the MagicKnight version of Bin Laden; three sequels deal with new heroes trying to clean up his mess.
* [[spoiler:''VideoGame/ArcanaHeart'']]: High-School girls beat the crap out of each other with ElementalPowers for no apparent reason. [[WesternAnimation/CaptainPlanetAndThePlaneteers Ma-Ti's]] equivalent of the game kills an evil angel.
** [[spoiler:''Arcana Heart 2'']] More girls beat the crap out of each other. The evil angel's younger sister wants you dead.
*** [[spoiler:''Arcana Heart 3'']] Even more girls beat the crap out of each other. A {{Yandere}} tries to blow Japan sky high.
* [[spoiler:''VideoGame/ArcanumOfSteamworksAndMagickObscura'']]: Magic and technology coexist by canceling each other out. Someone uses this to open his [[SealedEvilInACan can]].
* [[spoiler:''VideoGame/AreaFlat'']]: Origami shoots other origami IN SPACE!
** [[spoiler:''VideoGame/AreaFlat 2'']]: Origami shoots other origami IN SPACE with better bosses!
** [[spoiler:''VideoGame/AreaFlat 3'']]: Origami shoots other origami with much better graphics and gameplay!
* [[spoiler:''VideoGame/{{Arkanoid}}'']]: An evil facelike entity intercepts the escape pod of a doomed starship. To escape, the pilot allows the vessel to be struck repeatedly by a destructive projectile.
** [[spoiler:''Break Quest'']]: To foil an evil corporation's plan, you have to destroy a few thousand bricks.
** [[spoiler:''Arkanoid DS'']]: [[strike:[[KatamariDamacy the Prince's cousins]]]] Alien {{Sentai}} must fight off a [[strike:lawsuit from Namco]] invading hoard of blocks.
** [[spoiler:''Block Breaker Deluxe'']]: Breaking blocks is SeriousBusiness.
* [[spoiler:''VideoGame/ArmoredCore'']]: Two {{MegaCorp}}s take the term "hostile takeover" a little too seriously.
** [[spoiler:''Armored Core: Project Phantasma'']]: A BattleCouple fight to stop a crazy man from hooking himself up to a computer.
** [[spoiler:''Armored Core: Master of Arena'']]: A young man takes time off from a RoaringRampageOfRevenge to compete in giant robot cage matches.
** [[spoiler:''Armored Core 2'']]: A retelling of the American Revolution [[RecycledInSpace on Mars]] only everyone is [[ChronicBackstabbingDisorder Benedict Arnold]].
** [[spoiler:''Armored Core 2: Another Age'']]: A mercenary travels the world doing odd-jobs for various employers. He accidentally allows a terrorist to gain access to a space elevator. [[SarcasmMode It's really quite boring]].
** [[spoiler:''Armored Core 3'']]: A conspiracy nut makes REALLY good case for destroying society.
** [[spoiler:''Silent Line: Armored Core'']]: Three {{MegaCorp}}s blatantly ignore the world's most obvious '''KEEP OUT''' sign.
** [[spoiler:''Armored Core: Nexus'']]: A corporation wants to make the world a better place, yet ends up [[TheEndOfTheWorldAsWeKnowIt destroying it]].
** [[spoiler:''Armored Core: Nine Breaker'']]: Learn how to play the last eight games you just finished playing.
** [[spoiler:''Armored Core: Last Raven'']]: An endangered social class exterminates itself.
** [[spoiler:''Armored Core 4'']]: A young idealist and her boyfriend inadvertently a society-collapsing war. [[TheObiWan Their elderly mentor]] [[GambitRoulette may or may have wanted this happen]].
** [[spoiler:''Armored Core for Answer'']]: A faceless, voiceless, personality-less character somehow manages to come across as a [[YouBastard complete asshole]].
** [[spoiler:''Armored Core V'']]: A mercenary joins LaResistance against {{Big Brother|IsWatching}} right after intentionally murdering its leader.
* [[spoiler:''VideoGame/ArmyOfTwo'']]: A bickering couple of HeterosexualLifePartners run around in painted ski masks, complain about the military, and blow all their money on shiny guns.
* [[spoiler:''VideoGame/ArtOfFighting'']]: Martial artists seek to pimp-slap a pimp for kidnapping one of the martial artist's sister.
** [[spoiler:''Art Of Fighting 2'']] Martial artists and the one martial artist's sister and father seek to pimp-slap a pimp in a tournament run by a [[VideoGame/FatalFury familiar sponsor]].
** [[spoiler:''Art Of Fighting 3'']] The other martial artist's friend is kidnapped by a rich guy who wants to be [[Comicbook/IncredibleHulk The Hulk]]. A young girl who tells people to "grow up" is the only memorable and most successful new character.
* [[spoiler:''VideoGame/AssassinsCreedI'']]: A bartender pretends to be the world's greatest assassin on a quest to steal the power of God, who was an alien from Earth.
** [[spoiler:''VideoGame/AssassinsCreedII'']]: Same bartender pretends to be a guy in Renaissance Italy, who is on a twenty year quest to avenge the death of most of his family. Said quest ultimately leads him into a fistfight with ThePope.
** [[spoiler:''VideoGame/AssassinsCreedBrotherhood'']]: A childish hacker, a snarky British man, a psychotic blond, and a confused bartender are the world's last hope.
*** Alternately: [[Creator/{{Tobuscus}} Nod at the bird and PEOPLE DIE. Everywhere PEOPLE DIE.]]
** [[spoiler:''VideoGame/AssassinsCreedRevelations'']]: The confused bartender finally figures everything out with the help of his imaginary friend and pretending to be the two aforementioned men. May or may not have intentional symbolism from the Christian Bible in the title.
** [[spoiler:''VideoGame/AssassinsCreedIII'']]: After the bartender stabs his girlfriend (not by choice) he must pretend to be a crotchety British man and his hot blooded but warm hearted Native American son to help his friends and his dad open a door. The fate of the world hangs in the balance.
** [[spoiler:''VideoGame/AssassinsCreedIVBlackFlag'']]: You have to pretend to be the pirate ancestor of a dead bartender so that your boss can make video games.
* ''[[spoiler:VideoGame/{{Asteroids}}]]'': Break rocks into smaller rocks. Try to shoot anyone else who enters this field of rocks.
* [[spoiler: ''VideoGame/AsurasWrath'']]: '''UnstoppableRage''': The Game.
** Alternate: The angriest father in the history of the universe sets out on a quest to save his daughter by applying his fist with great force to every single face he can find. He succeeds.
** Alternate: A Hindu cyborg is framed for treason, his wife is killed, his daughter kidnapped, and then he's thrown from orbit to Earth. [[{{Determinator}} He comes back]] '''[[RoaringRampageOfRevenge pissed]]'''. [[LikeABadassOutOfHell And every time they kill him, it just makes him angrier.]]
** Alternate: A man with breathtaking anger-management issues punches a large man in the finger until he dies from it. He then punches a masked guy in the face, then an old man in the face, then another old man, then an entire fleet. It culminates in him punching a third old man in the face, followed by the planet. Then, after some impromptu heart surgery, he punches God in the face. Then he finally calms down.
* [[spoiler:''VideoGame/AtelierIrisEternalMana'']]: A male WhiteMage and his fairy companion attempt to explain video game mechanics. The world is threatened by evil balloons and a guy with a ponytail.
** [[spoiler:''Atelier Iris 2: The Azoth of Destiny'']]: Excalibur can talk. Turns out to be a total {{Jerkass}}. Also turns out to have an EvilCounterpart.
** [[spoiler:''Atelier Iris 3: Grand Phantasm'']]: A madman tricks [[UnwittingPawn three innocent teenagers]] into almost nullifying the world's most powerful defense so that an immortal serpent could destroy everything, but this is all secondary to inventing a new dessert, taking orders from a lecherous fairy and fixing a clock.
** [[spoiler:''VideoGame/AtelierAnnieAlchemistsOfSeraIsland'']]: In order for a lazy young girl to fulfill her dream of living in paradise, she has to help build one.
** [[spoiler:''VideoGame/AtelierRoronaTheAlchemistOfArland'']]: Snarky and lazy alchemist leaves her shop in the charge of her bumbling apprentice.
** [[spoiler:''VideoGame/AtelierTotoriTheAdventurerOfArland'']]: Bumbling apprentice from the previous game adopts bumbling apprentice of her own, who wants to be an adventurer.
** [[spoiler:''Atelier Ayesha: The Alchemist of Dusk'']]: Medicine-maker keeps a diary about her journey to find her missing sister.
* [[spoiler:''VideoGame/{{Athena}}'']]: The Goddess of War gets bored and takes a walk. There are no survivors.
** [[spoiler:''VideoGame/PsychoSoldier'']]: A young girl who looks just like the heroine of the first game gets psychic powers, teams up with a kid who looks like Franchise/{{Rambo}}, and goes out to kill things. Several years later the Rambo look-alike changes his look and they join [[VideoGame/TheKingOfFighters a major fighting tournament]].
** [[spoiler:''VideoGame/{{Crystalis}}'']]: The girl and kid pose as shapeshifting sages, one more effectively than the other, in a post-apocalyptic world. They help an amnesiac find his friend and destroy TheEmpire. Then they die.
* [[spoiler:''VideoGame/{{Audiosurf}}'']]: Pilot a ship listening to music through an [[AmazingTechnicolorBattlefield amazing Technicolor highway]] and grab the blocks.
* [[spoiler:'' VideoGame/AvalonCode'']]: [[ApocalypseHow The world is going to end]], and you're the one charged with [[RewritingReality writing the epilogue]].
* [[spoiler:''VideoGame/AzureDreams'']]: Your [[DisappearedDad dad goes missing]] after climbing a very steep {{mon}}ster-infested tower. Naturally, the proper thing for you to do is go there yourself and rescue him.
* [[spoiler: ''VideoGame/BackToTheFuture'']]: The long awaited sequel to everyone's favorite [[Film/BackToTheFuture trilogy]].
** [[spoiler: ''Episode 1: It's about time.'']]: A teenager goes back to the prohibition era to prevent his MadScientist friend to die against a gangster. It is acomplish by befriending his friend's younger self.
* [[spoiler:''VideoGame/BackyardSports'']]: 30+ neighborhood kids play sports in sand and mud.
* [[spoiler:''VideoGame/BadDudes'']]: Find RonaldReagan so he'll buy you lunch.
* [[spoiler:''VideoGame/BadMojo'']]: A man embezzling funds from a government grant tries to get out of his apartment building. Household pests and an heirloom from his late mother complicate things.
* [[spoiler:''VideoGame/BaldursGate'']]: Siblings argue over how to inherit their father's legacy.
** [[spoiler:''VideoGame/BaldursGate: Tales Of The Sword Coast'']]: Filler.
** [[spoiler:''VideoGame/BaldursGate II: Shadows Of Amn'']]: An interloper who otherwise has nothing to do with the dispute tries to steal said legacy.
** [[spoiler: ''VideoGame/BaldursGate II: Throne Of Bhaal'']]: Siblings argue over how to inherit their father's legacy.
* [[spoiler: ''VideoGame/BalloonFight'']]: Up to two fighter pilots whose flight patterns are difficult to maneuver kill birds.
* [[spoiler:''VideoGame/BanjoKazooie'']]: A redneck and a snarky girl team up to crush an old woman under a boulder and do jigsaw puzzles. Redneck's sister narrowly escapes transformation into an ogre. Lots of shameless dirty jokes. Rated E.
** [[spoiler: ''Banjo-Tooie'']]: Redneck and snarky girl team up to blow up animated skeleton of old woman and do jigsaw puzzles. Redneck's sister mysteriously vanishes forever. Numerous direct references to porn, masturbation, and vag-hair; a gay bar with a tranny waitress; and you murder a loving husband and wife for the sake of [[GottaCatchEmAll collectibles]]. Rated E.
** [[spoiler: ''Banjo-Kazooie: Grunty's Revenge'']]: Redneck and snarky girl [-[[RecycledInSpace IN THE PAST!]]-] Bee lady gives you an extension. Rated E.
** [[spoiler: ''Banjo-Pilot'']]: Redneck and snarky girl team up to play Diddy Kong Racing, but find their copy is defective, only having airplanes available to race.
** [[spoiler: ''Banjo-Kazooie Nuts And Bolts'']]: Redneck and snarky girl team up to play Grand Theft Auto, but find their copy is defective, being [[RunningGag rated E]] and having some assembly required.
** Alternatively, a bear comes out of retirement to stop his home being redeveloped into tower blocks and malls. To end the struggle, a capricious higher power engineers a bear/witch showdown through worlds of the imagination...[[RecycledInSPACE IN VEHICLES!]]
* [[spoiler:''VideoGame/TheBardsTale'']]: Snarky musician seeks coin and cleavage, while maybe saving the world, and all the while bickering with the narrator.
* [[spoiler:''VideoGame/BarkleyShutUpAndJamGaiden'']]: In a post-apocalyptic world, a retired basketball player runs from the police on a quest to rescue his son and save the world.
* [[spoiler:''VideoGame/{{Bastion}}'']]: A kid, an old guy, a homeless girl and a former ambassador try to rebuild a floating society AfterTheEnd. There are complications.
* [[spoiler:''VideoGame/BatenKaitos'']]: {{Winged Humanoid}}s use cards to save a WorldInTheSky with no ocean.
** [[spoiler:''VideoGame/BatenKaitos: Eternal Wings and the Lost Ocean'']]: Winged Humanoids with terrible voices search for shiny cards.
** [[spoiler:''VideoGame/BatenKaitos Origins'']]: Two Winged Humanoids and a sarcastic puppet stop the Industrial Revolution.
* [[spoiler:''VideoGame/BatmanArkhamAsylum'']]: An animal-cosplayer spends a night visiting a hospital, beating up patients and the personnel currently in charge, and hiding on statues.
** Alternatively, billionaire dresses up and punches the criminally insane.
** [[spoiler:''VideoGame/BatmanArkhamCity'']]: Several months later, the same animal-cosplayer is thrown into a ghetto prison and helps a clown with a terminal illness. Many accurate comparisons to Adolf Hitler are made.
** [[spoiler:''VideoGame/BatmanArkhamOrigins'']]: Two years earlier, a guy who almost always wears a mask ''really'' doesn't like animal-cosplayers, so he asks people to kill the previously-mentioned animal-cosplayer. Those who take up the offer include a drug addict, a ninja, a man with a skin condition, and a burn victim. The cosplayer's butler keeps talking about ham.
* [[spoiler:''VideoGame/BattleChess'']]: A popular board game with deaths thrown in.
** [[spoiler:''VideoGame/BattleChess II: [[TabletopGame/{{Xiangqi}} Chinese Chess]]'']]: The same [[RecycledInSpace IN CHINA]].
* [[spoiler:''VideoGame/BattleCity'']]: A tank has to protect a bird surrounded by bricks from enemy tanks. Was only popular in places it wasn't officially released.
** [[spoiler:''Tank Force'']]: An obscure sequel of the game above which only saw arcade release.
* [[spoiler:''VideoGame/TheBattleOfOlympus'']]: A musician brings his girlfriend back from the dead using brute force, taking credit for the actions of his contemporaries along the way.
* [[spoiler:''[[VideoGame/{{Battlefield}} Battlefield 1942]]'']]: Fight over a bunch of meaningless flags with outdated weaponry.
** [[spoiler:''Battlefield Vietnam'']]: Fight over a bunch of meaningless flags with slightly less outdated weaponry.
** [[spoiler:''Battlefield 2'']]: Fight over a bunch of meaningless flags with modern, present day weaponry.
** [[spoiler:''VideoGame/BattlefieldBadCompany'']]: Same as above, but [[StuffBlowingUp stuff blows up]] here.
*** [[spoiler:''Battlefield: Bad Company 2'']]: ''VideoGame/ModernWarfare 2'' if the developers were aware of how silly the premise was and stopped taking it seriously so they could focus on making stuff blow up.
*** [[spoiler:''Bad Company 2: Vietnam'']]: As above, but with ''VideoGame/CallOfDutyBlackOps''.
** [[spoiler:''Battlefield 2142'']]: 200 years later and they're still fighting over a bunch of meaningless flags, with [[RecycledINSPACE futuristic weapon]], [[CoolAirship flying fortresses]] and [[HumongousMecha giant mechs]] this time.
** [[spoiler:''VideoGame/{{Battlefield 3}}'']]: Fight over the second bunch of meaningless flags with modern, present day weaponry again. Also stuff blows up.
** [[spoiler:''VideoGame/{{Battlefield 4}}'']]: Fight over the second bunch of meaningless flags with slightly different modern, present day weaponry again, again. Stuff still blows up.
* [[spoiler:''VideoGame/{{Battletoads}}'']]: Three anthropomorphic frogs must defeat a dominatrix by ramming their bikes into drywall. [[NintendoHard Nobody ever gets past the third stage]].
* [[spoiler:'' VideoGame/BattleTanx'']]: Blow up a post-apocalyptic America with tanks while stealing women from other people with tanks.
** [[spoiler:''Battletanx: Global Assault'']]: Same as above, though add tanks that shoot lasers, tanks that hover, and most of northwest Europe to blow up with them.
* [[spoiler:''VideoGame/{{Bayonetta}}'']]: Witch with amnesia kills angels. Lots of {{Fanservice}} ensues.
** Or: a stripper wearing nothing but glasses and her own hair bumbles around a phantom dimension killing angels with guns on her feet and finding herself in impromptu photoshoots.
* [[spoiler:'' VideoGame/BeatHazard'']]: Shoot a bunch of random ships and asteroids until you have a seizure.
* [[spoiler: '' VideoGame/{{beatmania}}'']]: Make musical sound effects by pressing buttons and turning a plastic disc.
* [[spoiler: '' VideoGame/{{Berzerk}}'']]: Green man kills robots and is stalked by bouncy smiley face in electric maze.
* [[spoiler: ''VideoGame/BetrayalAtKrondor'']]: A WellIntentionedExtremist starts a war so that he can study a big gemstone in peace.
** Or, ''[[Creator/RobertLouisStevenson Kidnapped]]'' meets High Fantasy.
* ''[[spoiler: VideoGame/BeyondTwoSouls]]:'' A StupidEvil caricature of the American government decides to enslave a little girl and her guardian angel. This does not end well.
* [[spoiler:''VideoGame/BeyondGoodAndEvil'']]: A sassy [[CameraFiend photographer]], a [[FunnyAnimal talking pig]], and a rule-obsessed [[BunnyEarsLawyer soldier]] save the world with propaganda.
* [[spoiler:'' VideoGame/BigBangMini'']]: KillItWithFire...works.
* [[spoiler: ''Bikini Karate Babes'']]: A large group of attractive women leave themselves abandoned on an uninhabited island, all but one wearing nothing but bikinis, and proceed to lightly tap the crap out of each other. The Sub-Boss has the amazing ability to remove bikini tops and likes it so much she uses it on everyone INCLUDING HERSELF.
* [[spoiler: ''VideoGame/BillyHatcherAndTheGiantEgg'']]: A boy and his three friends get transported to a land of chickens, dress in chicken suits, then proceed to spend game rolling around eggs. Oh, and they make the eggs hatch into creatures/hats/items by feeding them fruit. Oh, and all the enemies in the game are lots of crows clumped together.
* [[spoiler:''VideoGame/BillyVsSNAKEMAN'']]: You are a ninja. The god of luck '''hates''' ninjas.
** [[spoiler:''Reaper'' plotline]]: Collect flower petals to lose strength.
** [[spoiler:''The Trade'' plotline]]: Collect apples to lose stamina.
** [[spoiler:''Monochrome'' plotline]]: You have pants. Mr. T '''hates''' pants.
** [[spoiler:''Wasteland'' plotline]]: Lose stamina to collect junk.
** [[spoiler:''Burger Ninja'' plotline]]: You flip burgers. Your boss '''hates''' ninjas.
** [[spoiler:''r00t'' plotline]]: Collect time to lose rare equipment.
** [[spoiler:''Pizza Witch'' plotline]]: You deliver pizza. The god of luck '''hates''' pizza.
** [[spoiler:''Hero's Quest'' plotline]]: You are in the god of luck's hometown. Mr. T '''hates''' the god of luck.
* [[spoiler: ''VideoGame/TheBindingOfIsaac'']]: There are lots of enemies. Cry on them to defeat them.
** Alternatively: Crybaby attempts to stop a HumanSacrifice by [[SelfMadeOrphan killing his mom]].
** Or, to quote the ''WebVideo/VideoGamesAwesome'' pals: "There's [[{{Gorn}} blood]] and [[ToiletHumour shit]] everywhere!" "[[Literature/TheBible Oh my God!]]"
* [[spoiler:''VideoGame/BioHazardBattle'']]: [[AttackOfThe50FootWhatever Giant]] organic creatures have taken over a planet. Exterminate them with...another giant organic creature!
* [[spoiler:''Bio Menace'']]: Guy with a mullet and mustache runs around shooting mutants. One level requires him to rescue someone from [[VideoGame/CommanderKeen a completely different game]].
* [[spoiler: ''BioMetal'']]: The galaxy is under attack by [[MechanicalLifeforms metal aliens]]! Exterminate them!
* [[spoiler:''VideoGame/BionicCommando'']]: One-armed soldier must defeat thousands of well-armed troops. Without the ability to jump.
* [[spoiler:''VideoGame/BioShock'']]: Ayn Rand fights TheMafia, twenty thousand leagues under the sea. Then you show up and resolve the situation. With a magical hand that [[BeeBeeGun shoots bees]].
** Or: A mysterious man investigates an underwater city and kills a man who resembles Walt Disney with a golf club, which was all part of The Mafia's plan.
** [[spoiler:''VideoGame/BioShock2'']]: About ten years later, a man in a diving suit stabs people with a drill in order to save a girl from an evil altruist.
*** [[spoiler: ''[=BioShock=] 2 Multiplayer'']]: About eleven years earlier, a football player with an obsession with winning, a southern CorruptCorporateExecutive, a man wearing goggles named after a MemeticBadass, a deranged housewife, Amelia Earheart, a sociopathic psychic, [[Film/WhateverHappenedToBabyJane Blance]], Captain Ahab, a prison inmate who knew [[Franchise/SonicTheHedgehog Knuckles the Echidna]], and a black guy with a love of cats fight for either Ayn Rand or TheMafia, ultimately going insane in the process.
*** [[spoiler: ''VideoGame/BioShockInfinite'']]: A father changes his travel plans, making his daughter very angry.
** Or: A man saves his daughter by preventing himself from getting baptized.
** Or: A man attempts to save a woman imprisoned by her neglectful father, only to remember that everything is really his own fault.
** Or: A man growing a beard and finding religion drives his daughter to destroy the world.
** Or: Girl saves the multiverse by helping her father commit suicide and turning herself back into a baby.
* [[spoiler:''[[BitTrip BIT.TRIP BEAT]]'']]: VideoGame/{{Pong}}...[[RecycledINSPACE AS A]] [[RhythmGame RHYTHM GAME!]] [[WhatDoYouMeanItWasntMadeOnDrugs On drugs!]]
** [[spoiler:''BIT.TRIP CORE'']]: Zapping little squares with laser beams while high on acid is a metaphor for dealing with peer pressure. [[MindScrew Or maybe not. I don't know.]]
** [[spoiler:''BIT.TRIP VOID'']]: Collect the black dots. Avoid the white dots.
** [[spoiler: ''BIT.TRIP RUNNER'']]: [[VideoGame/MegaMan8 Jump Jump Slide Slide...]]
** [[spoiler: ''BIT.TRIP FATE'']]: A [[LightGunGame rail shooter]]. [[LogicalExtreme Literally]].
** [[spoiler: ''BIT.TRIP FLUX'']]: [[NowDoItAgainBackwards Play Pong again backwards]] as you AscendToAHigherPlaneOfExistence.
* [[spoiler:''VideoGame/BlackAndWhite'']]: It's you and your magical pet against God.
** Alternatively: God's pet simulator.
* [[spoiler:''Blast Chamber'']]: Four suicide bombers fight for their lives.
* [[spoiler:''VideoGame/BlastCorps'']]: A group of demolition experts clear a path for an [[EveryCarIsAPinto extremely volatile]] missile carrier by [[RewardingVandalism destroying buildings]] that are in its way.
* [[spoiler:''VideoGame/BlasterMaster'']]: A boy commandeers a military vehicle while searching for his irradiated pet frog.
* [[spoiler:''Blast Works'' (originally ''TUMIKI Fighters'')]]: Ships are made of building blocks.
* [[spoiler:''VideoGame/BlazBlue'']]: Three orphans do the same thing again and again whether they like it or not. The player will have a hankering for meat buns. Meanwhile, a snooty vampire lolita tries to stop a VillainSue with both employing endless {{plan}}s.
* [[spoiler:''VideoGame/BlazingStar'']]: Will you destroy the evil organism that has taken over mankind, or will [[MemeticMutation YOU FAIL IT]]?
* [[spoiler:''VideoGame/{{Blood}}'']]: DeadpanSnarker zombie from the Wild West runs around lighting cultists and zombies on fire.
** [[spoiler:''Blood II'']]: DeadpanSnarker zombie from the Wild West runs around lighting business executives and leeches from the sixth dimension on fire TwentyMinutesIntoTheFuture.
** [[spoiler:''Blood II: The Nightmare Levels'']]: DeadpanSnarker zombie from the Wild West and his buddies camp out in the sixth dimension and dream of the times they ran around lightning cultists and zombies on fire.
* [[spoiler:''VideoGame/BloodyRoar'']]: Furries beat the crap out of each other; the boss is a little girl who turns first into an older floating woman and then into a really buff devil.
** [[spoiler:''Bloody Roar 2'']]: More furries beat the crap out of each other in an extended racism allegory. The boss from the last game is now a cute CatGirl, and the new boss is a clone of a character from the last game.
** [[spoiler:''Bloody Roar 3'']]: Furries find magic tattoos on their bodies that will eventually kill them. They decide to fix this by beating the crap out of each other. The boss this time is a WhiteHairBlackHeart who turns into a beast with prehensile spikes all over its body.
*** [[spoiler:''Bloody Roar: Primal Fury/Extreme'']]: Same as above, but [[NintendoGameCube for non]]-[[{{Xbox}} Sony consoles]]. The boss is a pint-sized effeminate penguin, unless he is on fire, or his mother.
** [[spoiler:''Bloody Roar 4'']]: A furry SpotlightStealingSquad shows up. The other furries decide to beat them up. The boss is an [[SNKBoss overpowered dragon]].
* [[spoiler:''VideoGame/BlueDragon'']]: A bunch of kids put the balls in their mouths, scare the crap out of monsters ([[ToiletHumour literally]]), [[ItMakesSenseInContext get excited over nothing,]] and try to stop a dude from killing people ForTheEvulz. There's also a giant robot ostrich. [[BigLippedAlligatorMoment Just because.]]
* [[spoiler:''Blueberry Garden'']]: Run around a garden throwing seeds while the local wildlife overpopulates.
* [[spoiler:''Bob Came In Pieces'']]: Affix your ship with pipes and magnets to fly around unhindered in tunnels.
* [[spoiler: ''Bombastic'']]: Five cousins attempt to stay alive in the [[StuffBlowingUp deadliest game of Yahtzee]] ever created.
* ''[[spoiler: VideoGame/{{Boktai}}]]'': The only game series able to actively cause cancer in its players.
** [[spoiler: ''Lunar Knights'']]: The cancer part is now optional.
* [[spoiler:''VideoGame/{{Bomberman}}'']]: Robot whose only ability is blowing things up goes through mazes to stop mad scientists.
** [[spoiler:''Saturn VideoGame/{{Bomberman}}'']]: A mad cyborg scientist, a musclebound man with no pants, and their gang of robots [[SealedEvilInACan release an ancient monster]], take control of it, and attempt to TakeOverTheWorld. Two demolitions experts set off to stop them with the help of [[EverythingsBetterWithDinosaurs dinosaurs]]. Anything else that moves, no matter how cute and innocuous-looking, is [[EverythingTryingToKillYou deadly on contact]].
** [[spoiler:''VideoGame/{{Bomberman}} 64'']]: A OneHitPointWonder must save his home planet from a PlanetEater...who has a CoolShip...with {{Floating Continent}}s anchored to it.
** [[spoiler:''VideoGame/{{Bomberman}} 64: The Second Attack!'']]: A demolitions expert who is thankfully no longer a OneHitPointWonder kidnaps a RidiculouslyCuteCritter before it hatches, and is taken prisoner when the story begins. He eventually [[DidYouJustPunchOutCthulhu kills God.]]
* [[spoiler:''VideoGame/BoomBlox'']]: Jenga with flying bowling balls and [[StuffBlowingUp explosions]].
* [[spoiler:''VideoGame/{{Boppin}}'']]: Angular figures throw objects around to clear the field in such locations as a sheet of paper and a Go board. When they lose all their lives, they commit suicide in [[FamilyUnfriendlyViolence an uncharacteristically graphic fashion]].
* [[spoiler:''VideoGame/{{Borderlands}}'']]: [[ImportedAlienPhlebotinum Alien technology]] can be yours if you can survive a deserted planet. Be sure to bring [[GunPorn plenty of ammo]]!
** Alternately: Fight with your friends over who gets the best gun.
** [[spoiler: ''Borderlands: The Zombie Island of Doctor Ned'']]: Zombies. Guns. Also, a doctor with a mustache.
** [[spoiler: ''Borderlands: Mad Moxxi's Underdome'']]: A lady with [[GagBoobs heavy armaments]] and a love for violence throws a gladiatorial combat.
** [[spoiler: ''Borderlands: The Secret Armory of General Knoxx'']]: A general who really doesn't want to invade a deserted planet brings his army of Helghast-lookalikes. You interrupt his attempt to commit suicide after an argument with a five-year-old.
** [[spoiler: ''Borderlands: Claptrap's Robo-lution'']]: An angry robot tries to TakeOverTheWorld. Bullets and badasses are needed to stop him.
* ''[[spoiler: Videogame/{{Borderlands 2}}]]'': A {{Jerkass}} in a mask takes over a deserted planet. The only hope to stop him is a lunatic commando, a bookworm with superpowers, a heavily-armed midget, [[InexplicablyAwesome a really weird ninja-thing no one knows anything about]], a runaway high school student, and '''"THE CONDUCTOR OF THE POOP TRAIN!"'''
** [[spoiler: ''Borderlands 2: Captain Scarlet and Her Pirate's Booty'']]: Pirates search for hidden treasure, and plot to betray you. Also, you blow up a perverted hermit.
** [[spoiler: ''Borderlands 2: Mister Torgue's Campaign of Carnage'']]: '''EXPLOOOOOSSSSIONS: The DLC'''
** [[spoiler: ''Borderlands 2: Sir Hammerlock's Big Game Hunt'']]: A GentlemanAdventurer sends you out to kill big, scary things. A loser and his army of savages get in the way.
** [[spoiler: ''Borderlands 2: Tiny Tina's Assault on Dragon Keep'']]: A friendly game devolves into psycho-analysis, force-feeding a thirteen-yearold girl a salad, and shotguns that shoot swords that explode into smaller swords which also explode.
* [[spoiler:''VideoGame/ABoyAndHisBlob'']]: A kid tries to dethrone an [[BigBad evil emperor]] by going on a treasure hunt to purchase jelly beans and multivitamins for his friend.
** [[spoiler:''A Boy and His Blob (Wii)'']] Same thing, but the {{Anvilicious}} health message doesn't apply anymore because the [[DeathIsASlapOnTheWrist kid is immortal]] and already has an infinite supply of jelly beans. Before the kid challenges the evil emperor, he takes a nap in his EvilTowerOfOminousness.
* [[spoiler:''VideoGame/{{Braid}}'']]: A guy does jigsaw puzzles in his efforts to track down his ex-girlfriend. When he finally touches her, she explodes.
** Alternately: Retcon: The Game.
** Alternately: How one man loved the bomb and learned to start worrying.
* [[spoiler:''VideoGame/BrainAge'']]: High school [=SATs=] as a video game. May make you remember what you said you had for breakfast a few days ago.
** [[spoiler:''Brain Age 2'']]: Same as the above, but now it forces you to [[ScrappyLevel do acrostics or connect dots]] first and to get embarrassed as it does better than you. A twist on a [[VideoGame/DrMario familiar puzzle game]] is also available.
* [[spoiler:''VideoGame/BrainLord'']]: A dragon rider in a world with no dragons learns to loathe his enemies' big balls. Many puzzles get in the way, and tiny fairies don't help a lot.
* [[spoiler:''VideoGame/BreathOfFire'']]: Several identically named dragon boys and bird girls team up with various furries and attempt to kill God.
* [[spoiler:''BRINK'']]: Either commit terrorist acts or be a racist.
* [[spoiler:''VideoGame/BrokenSword: Shadow of the Templars'']]: The only man in the entire world who wants to shake your hand also wants to kill you.
* [[spoiler:''Brutal: Paws of Fury'']]: Furries use martial arts to beat the crap out of a llama who pit them against each other.
* [[spoiler:''VideoGame/BrutalLegend'']]: An [[BornInTheWrongCentury escapist]] {{metalhead}} rounds up a bunch of friends to beat the bloody shit out of (mostly harmless) HairMetal fans, {{goth}}s, and BDSM addicts with an [[AxCrazy axe]] and an [[ThePowerOfRock E-guitar]].
** With [[Music/{{Motorhead}} Lemmy]], Creator/TimCurry, and [[Music/JudasPriest Rob Halford]].
** Alternatively, ''[[ActorAllusion Jack Black: The Video Game]]''.
* [[spoiler: ''VideoGame/BubbleBobble'']]: A curse [[BalefulPolymorph transformed two human boys into cute little dragons]]. They defeat enemies by blowing bubbles and jumping on them to rescue their girlfriends from a drunken giant.
** [[spoiler: ''Rainbow Islands'']]: Two boys who [[OneHitPointWonder die easily]] because they suffered under the curse throw rainbows and climb islands.
*** [[spoiler: ''Parasol Stars'']]: Two boys who [[OneHitPointWonder die easily]] because they suffered under the curse use [[ParasolOfPain umbrellas to beat up stuff]]. [-[[RecycledInSpace IN SPACE.]]-]
** [[spoiler: ''[[NonLinearSequel Bubble Bobble]] '''[[TitleConfusion Part]]''' [[TitleConfusion 2]]'']]: A boy (or two boys) get cursed and must rescue his/their friend(s) from a skull by blowing bubbles and inflating himself/themselves.
** [[spoiler: ''Bubble Symphony'' aka ''[[TitleConfusion Bubble Bobble II]]'']]: Two boys and [[BetaCouple two girls]] get cursed by a relative of the aforementioned drunken giant, then get banished and must get back home by blowing bubbles.
*** [[spoiler: ''Bubble Memories'']]: Two boys get cursed and blow bubbles while climbing up a tower.
** [[spoiler: ''Bubble Bobble Plus'']]: Four cute little dragons who [[OneHitPointWonder die easily]] blow bubbles and jump on them.
** [[spoiler: ''Rainbow Islands: Towering Adventure'']]: Two boys race a MadScientist up a tower to meet a comet. [[MoeAnthropomorphism Or rather, a comet girl]].
** [[spoiler: ''[[VideoGame/BubbleBobble Puzzle Bobble]]'' aka ''Bust-A-Move'']]: Two duplicate cute little dragons must run a machine that shoots bubbles at bubbles to pop them and prevent them from building up too much. Letting that happen [[CriticalExistenceFailure kills them]] like in the series this has spun off of.
*** [[spoiler: ''Puzzle Bobble 2'']]: The duplicate twins are no more, and a cute little dragon leaves the machine running to you and watches your progress. This time, letting bubbles build up too much makes him very panicky or [[SparklingStreamOfTears really upset]].
*** [[spoiler: ''Bust-A-Move Again'']]: Same as the above but [[AC:[[CulturalTranslation two hands]]]] replace the cute little dragon. Since they are ''NOT'' [[VideoGame/SuperSmashBros Master Hand or Crazy Hand]], ''failure ensues.''
*** [[spoiler: ''Puzzle Bobble 2'', VS CPU mode]]: Go around the world picking shoot-bubble duels with random strangers, [[RubberbandAI some of which cheat]].
*** [[spoiler: ''Puzzle Bobble 3'' aka ''Bust-A-Move 3'']]: Same as the above, but the cute little dragon looks more like he's from an anime, and the DescendingCeiling is replaced by hovering flashing dots.
*** [[spoiler: ''Puzzle Bobble 3'', VS CPU mode]]: Go inside a bunch of arcade machines to pick shoot-bubble duels with their characters. First you have to face yourself.
*** [[spoiler: ''Puzzle Bobble 4'' aka ''Bust-A-Move 4'']]: Same as the above, but the [[strike:boy]] cute little dragon looks normal again, and pulleys join the flashing dots. A bunch of random characters join in on the fun. This time, letting bubbles build up makes them [[CirclingBirdies very dizzy]] or something, and dropped bubbles automatically fly back up to pop other bubbles.
*** [[spoiler: ''Puzzle Bobble 4'', VS CPU mode]]: Go [-[[RecycledInSpace IN SPACE]]-] to pick shoot-bubble duels with others to get all of an implied PlotCoupon.
** [[spoiler: ''Puzzle Bobble DS'']]: Same as the above but on a Nintendo DS and [[NoExportForYou only Japan got this one]].
*** [[spoiler: ''Space Puzzle Bobble / Space Bust-A-Move'']]: Two cute little dragons take off towards [[AC:[[RecycledInSpace space]]]] to get sidetracked by a bunch of people and defeat a devil dragon. [[TheyChangedItNowItSucks They can't retry on]] [[ContinuingIsPainful the stage they lost at.]]
** [[spoiler: ''Bust-A-Move DS / Hippatte Puzzle Bobble'']]: Same as the above but the duplicate twins (of the cute little dragons and other random characters) are back with a huge ribbon slingshot.
* [[spoiler: ''VideoGame/BubbleTanks'']]: Everything is bubbles. Pop or be popped.
* [[spoiler: ''VideoGame/{{Bug}}!'']]: An insect is a movie star.
** [[spoiler: ''Bug Too!'']]: Three insects play movie stars, and have to finish filming ''six movies in a day''.
* [[spoiler:''VideoGame/{{Bugdom}}'']]: An [[TheEveryman everyman]] saves the kingdom from a tyrannical despot by kicking everything. Also, you're all bugs.
* ''[[spoiler: VideoGame/{{Bulletstorm}}]]'': Two angry mercenaries end up on a vacation resort island. [[VideoGameCrueltyPotential Many people die in incredibly horrible ways.]]
* [[spoiler: ''VideoGame/{{Bully}}'']]: The good guy out-bullies those school bullies.
* [[spoiler:''VideoGame/BunnyMustDie'']]: A little girl really hates her ears.
** [[spoiler:''Chelsea and the 7 Devils'']]: [[AnotherSideAnotherStory But here's how it]] ''[[Film/{{Clue}} really]]'' [[AnotherSideAnotherStory happened...]]
* [[spoiler:''VideoGame/BurgerTime'']]: Armed only with [[ImprobableWeaponUser pepper shakers and his own ingredients,]] a chef who makes enormous sandwiches must ward off homicidal foodstuffs.
* [[spoiler: ''VideoGame/{{Burnout}}'']]: Drivers use their cars as weapons and completely ignore the rules of the road.
* [[spoiler:''VideoGame/BushidoBlade'']]: [[OneHitPointWonder Easily-killed]] assassins fight to keep one of their number from leaving. It's impossible to tell when exactly this is supposed to be taking place.
* [[spoiler: VideoGame/CallOfCthulhuDarkCornersOfTheEarth]]: While investigating the disappearance of a grocery store clerk, a man angers some alien fish who then try to kill him. May or may not involve blue lights.
* [[spoiler: ''VideoGame/CallOfDuty'' series]]: Yet another series of UsefulNotes/WorldWarII simulations.
** ''[[spoiler: Call of Duty: World at War]]'': You and your friends are trapped in a house surrounded by slow VideoGame/NaziZombies. And other WWII events happen before that [[SidetrackedByTheGoldSaucer but no one cares about those]].
** [[spoiler: ''VideoGame/CallOfDutyBlackOps'']]: The same guys are fighting more zombies. Oh, there's also a side-game with [[MemeticBadass Sgt Reznov]] and some other guys that aren't as awesome.
** [[spoiler:''VideoGame/CallOfDutyBlackOps2'']]: A group of four people go on a road trip across a zombie-infected United States. Meanwhile, an old Nicaraguan [[KneeCapping shoots out a bunch of people's knees]], which Joint Special Operations Command tries to stop by shooting everyone in a nuclear testing site over and over.
* ''[[spoiler: Call of Duty 4: VideoGame/ModernWarfare]]'': An angry old Russian causes trouble in a sandbox.
** ''[[spoiler: Modern Warfare 2]]'': One man singlehandedly saves Burger Town from Russian Commandos, [[MemeticMutation while doing everything]]. Almost everyone else dies.
*** Or: A brave young man averts disaster by stabbing someone with a knife. He then calls the person a "noob" and teabags him.
** ''[[spoiler: Modern Warfare 3]]'': WorldWarIII: [[ProductPlacement Endorsed by Remington Arms™!]]
*** Or: Man starts World War III because he thinks Russia isn't big enough.
* [[spoiler: ''VideoGame/CallOfJuarez'']]: An [[PreacherMan elderly preacher]] looks for a young {{delinquent}} who ran away from home.
** [[spoiler: ''VideoGame/CallOfJuarezBoundInBlood'']]: [[PowerTrio Three brothers]] argue over family planning.
** [[spoiler: ''VideoGame/CallOfJuarezTheCartel'']]: Three [[DirtyCop bad cops]] on a crusade.
** [[spoiler: ''VideoGame/CallOfJuarezGunslinger'']]: An old man entertains fellow drunkards with {{tall tale}}s.
* [[spoiler: ''VideoGame/CaptainRainbow'']]: A washed-up superhero from Eagleland heads to an island where he can beat people up to make kids watch a television show about him. Along the way, he must help [[WholesomeCrossdresser a transgendered dinosaur]] pick-up some men, help a lazy army become volleyball superstars, and aid a samurai-in-training in controlling his urges around women.
* [[spoiler: ''VideoGame/{{Carmageddon}}'']]: A racing game that puts the "laughter" back in "vehicular manslaughter".
** Alternatively: demolition derby in population-dense area.
* [[spoiler: ''Franchise/CarmenSandiego'']]: Fight a gang of thieves with [[PunnyName silly names]], led by an ImpossibleThief in highly visible clothing, with the power of social studies, literacy, or basic math.
* [[spoiler: ''VideoGame/CastleCrashers'']]: The [[KnightInShiningArmor heroes]] actually get some. Then get {{rickroll}}ed.
* [[spoiler: ''Franchise/{{Castlevania}}'']]: Family tradition dictates the murder of an old man in his own home. He gets better.
** [[spoiler: ''{{VideoGame/Castlevania|1986}} I'']]: A strapping young man dresses in leather and enters an old family acquaintance's dungeon to {{whip|ItGood}} him mercilessly.
** [[spoiler: ''Vampire Killer'']]: Same strapping young man hunts for keys.
** [[spoiler: ''VideoGame/CastlevaniaIISimonsQuest'']]: Same strapping lad resurrects the old man and kills him again just to make himself feel better.
** [[spoiler: ''VideoGame/CastlevaniaIIIDraculasCurse'']]: Just like the first one, but somehow, pirates are involved.
** [[spoiler: ''VideoGame/HauntedCastle'']]: The strapping young man gets himself a DamselInDistress. [[TheGrimReaper The old man's friend]] [[NintendoHard actually does his job for once]].
** [[spoiler: ''CastlevaniaTheAdventure'']]: Just like the first one, but without as many stairs.
** [[spoiler: ''VideoGame/CastlevaniaIIBelmontsRevenge'']]: The previous family member's son won't kill the old man. His father straightens him out using violence, then leaves him behind and kills the old man again himself.
** [[spoiler: ''VideoGame/CastlevaniaBloodlines'']]: Two friends try to visit the old man and end up going on a world tour instead.
** [[spoiler: ''VideoGame/CastlevaniaRondoOfBlood'']]: The latest member of the family must murder the old man with the aid of a 12 year old girl. The girl is stronger.
** [[spoiler: ''VideoGame/CastlevaniaSymphonyOfTheNight'']]: The old man's son hunts down his father's murderer...then hunts down and murders his father instead.
** [[spoiler: ''VideoGame/CastlevaniaLegends'']]: A woman whips her boyfriend and kills his father. [[CanonDiscontinuity Or does she?]]
*** [[spoiler: ''VideoGame/CastlevaniaResurrection'']]: The woman has a descendant who [[RefusalOfTheCall doesn't want to kill the old man]]. [[{{Cancellation}} So they don't]].
** [[spoiler: ''VideoGame/{{Castlevania 64}}'']]: A distant relative of the family and a 12 year old girl murder the wrong old man. They are then told to pick on someone their own age.
** [[spoiler: ''CastlevaniaLegacyOfDarkness'']]: A werewolf murders the old man. It doesn't last. A kid comes up with the bright idea of bringing a gun and armor next time.
** [[spoiler: ''VideoGame/CastlevaniaCircleOfTheMoon'']]: A boy doesn't get to murder the old man like he wanted, so he helps him instead.
** [[spoiler: ''VideoGame/CastlevaniaHarmonyOfDissonance'']]: A ninja tries to get rid of the old man for good. This backfires. Interior decorating is involved.
** [[spoiler: ''VideoGame/CastlevaniaLamentOfInnocence'']]: An immortal [[{{Bishonen}} pretty boy]] kidnaps a knight's girlfriend and makes him run around his castle looking for her, for fun. The knight is not amused.
** [[spoiler: ''VideoGame/CastlevaniaCurseOfDarkness'']]: 3 years after one of the old man's deaths, one of his ex-underlings goes after another of his ex-underlings. There's also a lady who looks suspiciously like the first underling's late girlfriend and a chap with odd fashion sense.
*** Or: A member of the family is shown up by a disgruntled former employee of the old man, who massacres his former boss and coworkers using his Franchise/{{Pokemon}} skills.
** [[spoiler: ''[[VideoGame/CastlevaniaChroniclesOfSorrow Castlevania: Aria of Sorrow]]'']]: Former mass murderer goes on a killing spree to keep himself from relapsing.
** [[spoiler: ''[[VideoGame/CastlevaniaChroniclesOfSorrow Castlevania: Dawn of Sorrow]]'']]: He hunts down his fanclub. Two of them end up killing themselves first, and the third runs away like a little girl.
*** [[spoiler: ''Julius Mode'']]: An old man and his companions murder a strapping young lad in his own home. Wait, what? Now I'm confused.
** [[spoiler: ''VideoGame/CastlevaniaPortraitOfRuin'']]: Two friends step in to resolve a property dispute and a custody battle. None of the property owners or legal guardians survive.
*** Along the way, this young man and young woman figure out how to operate a whip.
** [[spoiler: ''VideoGame/CastlevaniaOrderOfEcclesia'']]: A scantily-clad woman forgets her purpose and sets out on a quest to not kill herself. Two old men die as a result.
** [[spoiler: ''VideoGame/KidDracula'']]: The old man's son hunts down the guy who ran off with his father's servants. Aliens are involved.
** [[spoiler: ''VideoGame/CastlevaniaJudgment'']]: Everyone beats each other up in an effort to ''save the old man's life''.
** [[spoiler: ''VideoGame/CastlevaniaHarmonyOfDespair'']]: Everyone gets sucked into a book to kill stuff.
** [[spoiler: ''VideoGame/CastlevaniaLordsOfShadow'']]: A man searches for a way to resurrect his dead wife. This story is completely unrelated to the previous ones.
*** [[spoiler: ''VideoGame/CastlevaniaLordsOfShadow: Mirror of Fate'']]: His son, his grandson, and his other son have issues with him.
* [[spoiler: ''VideoGame/CatPlanet'']]: Girl with wings talks to disembodied cat heads who speak broken English.
* [[spoiler: ''VideoGame/{{Catherine}}'']]: An [[TheEveryman everyman]] cheats on his girlfriend. Puzzles ensues.
** Or: Get drunk and push blocks.
** Or: Man who can't keep his damn mouth shut and digs himself deep with every word has to sort out long term life goals and face the perverted manifestations of his fear of commitment.
* [[spoiler: ''VideoGame/TheCave'']]: Seven complete strangers form groups of three and go spelunking.
* [[spoiler: ''VideoGame/CaveStory'']]: Amnesiac soldier steals a sleeping old man's gun and [[OneManArmy blasts his way]] through a cave [[FloatingContinent in the sky]]. His only friends are bunnies.
** Or: Amnesiac soldier carries dogs and his girlfriend on his back. He saves the world by abandoning a mortally wounded old man, then euthanizing an even older man.
** Or: Ten years ago, there was a war over a hat. This is the aftermath.
* [[spoiler:''Cell Craft'']]: Space platypi save their species from extinction with the help of molecular biology and an extremely bored robot.
* [[spoiler:''VideoGame/{{Centipede}}'']]: You kill centipedes.
** [[spoiler:''Millipede'']]: You kill millipedes, which are apparently longer and [[PaletteSwap differently colored.]]
* [[spoiler:''VideoGame/TheChaosEngine'']]: You and a teammate (it's obligatory) must shoot additional pylons.
* [[spoiler: ''VisualNovel/ChaosHead'']]: An anime fan daydreams a lot.
* [[spoiler: ''VideoGame/CherryTreeHighComedyClub'']]: Hyperactive funny-girl runs around town trying to force her friends to join a new school club to deny her snobby StudentCouncilPresident rival from shutting it down before it gets started.
* [[spoiler: ''VideoGame/ChibiRobo'']]: A sentient android who is also a HeroicMime discovers alien life, travels through time, and saves the world from evil robot spiders. Does that sound a bit too normal for SugarWiki/BetterThanItSounds? Highlight that spoiler tag.
* [[spoiler: ''VideoGame/ChimeraBeast'']]: A HordeOfAlienLocusts destroy a planet. [[spoiler: [[VillainProtagonist You are one of the locusts]]]].
* [[spoiler: ''VideoGame/ChildOfEden'']]: In the 23rd century, a virus is attacking the [[BrainUploading virtual projection]] of the first girl born in space. You are the antivirus. On your quest you'll battle a giant whale, a giant flower, and a giant satellite.
* [[spoiler:''VideoGame/{{Chromehounds}}'']]: A mercenary pilots a WalkingTank across three [[{{Ruritania}} fictional countries]]. Everyone he meets expresses their hope that war doesn't erupt. [[NiceJobBreakingItHero War erupts anyway]].
* [[spoiler: ''VideoGame/ChronoTrigger'']]: A teenage boy goes to a fair. [[TheEndOfTheWorldAsWeKnowIt Apocalypse ensues.]]
** [[spoiler: ''VideoGame/ChronoCross'']]: A teenage boy is made to fight a cat and the local gods in between two timelines in order to free a girl from an alien parasite monster. Beating the final boss triggers the bad ending.
* [[spoiler: ''VideoGame/ChuChuRocket'']]: You place arrows on a flat surface, causing numbers to go up and down.
* [[spoiler: ''VideoGame/{{Chulip}}'']]: Kiss everybody in town!
* [[spoiler: ''VideoGame/{{Chuzzle}}'']]: Matching three or more puffballs of the same color in order to make a potion of some sort.
* [[spoiler: ''VideoGame/ChzoMythos'']]: A GentlemanThief, a construction inspector and a fake psychiatrist fight against an insane murderer, a deranged cult and a Lovecraft reject, two centuries apart from one another.
** Alternately: An adventure game series with a stealth platformer spin-off.
* [[spoiler: ''VideoGame/CityOfHeroes'']]: Go. Hunt. Kill Skuls.
** [[spoiler: ''CityOfVillains'']]: Start your new life in a tropical island nation.
* [[spoiler: ''VideoGame/{{Civilization}}'']]: The main character is the leader of a small band of primitive nomads. He is told that he must either conquer the world or take his people to another. He is given a very long lifespan in order to do so.
* [[spoiler: ''VideoGame/{{Clayfighter}}'']]: Circus freaks mutated by a meteor from space beat the crap out of each other.
* [[spoiler:''The Cliffhanger Edward Randy'']]: Shameless ripoff character misses a date with his girlfriend.
* [[spoiler:''VideoGame/ClockTower'']]: Girl runs away from a midget who wields a pair of hedge-trimmers.
** [[spoiler:''Clock Tower 2'']]: Girl, guardian and cop run away from the midget's brother. Psychiatrist and assistant dress up in an attempt at self-therapy.
** [[spoiler: ''Clock Tower: Ghost Head'']]: Girl with a manly voice shoots her own niece, then repeatedly beats her father over the head with a fire extinguisher.
** [[spoiler: ''Clock Tower 3'']]: An old man comes up with an [[GambitRoulette overly convoluted scheme]] to murder his own granddaughter, never realising that she never would've suspected him if he had just greeted her normally.
* [[spoiler: ''VideoGame/CloudberryKingdom'']]: Embittered platform hero jumps through [[PlatformHell death traps galore]] to rescue a princess he's already saved hundreds of times before.
* [[spoiler: ''The Clue!'']]: A young man wins a free taxi pass, and proceeds to pursue a life of crime.
* [[spoiler: ''VideoGame/CodeOfPrincess'']]: Princess with a [[{{BFS}} giant sword]] and a [[ChainmailBikini tiny metal bra]] attempts to save her kingdom from a queen running a MonsterProtectionRacket.
* [[spoiler: ''VideoGame/CodeNameViper'']]: An agent is sent to destroy a South American drug cartel...by the guy who runs it.
* [[spoiler:''VideoGame/TheCombatribes'']]: Remember: Cyborgs ain't ladies.
* [[spoiler:''VideoGame/ComixZone'']]: A starving artist breaks the fourth wall.
* [[spoiler:''VideoGame/CommandAndConquer'']]: The UN takes issue with a bald man who likes [[GreenRocks rocks]].
** [[spoiler: ''Command and Conquer: Tiberian Sun'']] The bald guy's cult and the UN - led by [[Franchise/StarWars Darth Vader]] and that guy from ''Film/{{Aliens}}'' - fight over an alien floppy disc.
** [[spoiler: ''Command and Conquer: Tiberian Sun: Firestorm'']] The bald guy's computer goes [[AIIsACrapshoot crazy as hell]] when the UN tries to use it to read the alien floppy disk.
** [[spoiler: ''Command and Conquer: Tiberium Wars'']]: The bald guy's cult kicks the UN in the crotch so Lando Calrissian will shoot him with their space lasers. [[ScaryDogmaticAliens Alien crack addicts]] show up and are angry at the kids on their lawn.
** [[spoiler: ''Command and Conquer: Kane's Wrath'']]: The bald guy and an artificial intelligence plot more {{evil plan}}s than you can shake a stick at. The chick from Species [[SpannerInTheWorks throws a wrench in the works]].
** [[spoiler: ''VideoGame/CommandAndConquerGenerals'']]: The United States fights the War on Terror with [[KillSat space lasers]]. China butts in on the action.
** [[spoiler:''VideoGame/CommandAndConquerRedAlert'']]: Einstein causes World War II by [[HitlersTimeTravelExemptionAct trying to prevent it]]. Soviets show up with Tesla Coils, Americans - with teleporter.
** [[spoiler:''VideoGame/CommandAndConquerRedAlert2'']]: World War III. Soviet Russia invades America with blimps, tank-eating spiderbots, psychics, and giant squid. America fights back with dolphins, teleporting time commandos, and weather control machines.
** [[spoiler:''Command and Conquer: Red Alert 2: Yuri's Revenge'']] Crazy psychic tries to take over the world. America and/or Soviet Russia create a time paradox to stop this.
** [[spoiler:''VideoGame/CommandAndConquerRedAlert3'']] World War III is [[CosmicRetcon temporal-retconned]] by Creator/TimCurry and Peter Stormare into being fought with [[IncredibleShrinkingMan shrink]]/FreezeRay[[DualModeUnit -equipped helicopters]] and [[BearsAreBadNews parachuting armored bears]]. Japan joins the fun with TransformingMecha and scary psychic school girls.
** [[spoiler:''VideoGame/CommandAndConquerRenegade'']]: A muscley man must stop a creepy lady and a bald guy from creating a race of super muscley men.
* [[spoiler:''VideoGame/CommanderKeen 1-3'']]: Boy genius fights aliens who intend to destroy the world. He uses stuff he made out of crap in his dad's garage and his mom's fridge. A classmate was behind it the whole time.
** [[spoiler:''Keen Dreams'']]: Boy genius refuses to eat his dinner and is transported to a land of evil talking vegetables. He fights them with flowers.
** [[spoiler:''Commander Keen 4-5'']]: Boy genius fights meaner aliens who intend to destroy the galaxy. He uses stuff he made out of crap in his dad's garage and his mom's fridge. A classmate was behind it the whole time.
** [[spoiler:''Commander Keen 6'']]: Boy genius fights meaner aliens who intend to eat his babysitter. He uses stuff he made out of crap in his dad's garage and his mom's fridge. A classmate was behind it the whole time.
** [[spoiler:''Commander Keen: The Universe is Toast'']]: Stymied by the inability of the boy genius to continue his tale, [[FanSequel the internet]] sets out to defeat the classmate once and for all. People are all right with this.
* [[spoiler: ''VideoGame/CompanyOfHeroes'']]: A WWII game...if that doesn't worry you already, you're too [[SlidingScaleOfIdealismVersusCynicism idealistic]].
** Alternately: Get pinned down by MG fire, then blown to pieces by mortars.
* [[spoiler:''VideoGame/{{Condemned}}: Criminal Origins'']] Although he's chasing a serial killer AND on the run from a Crime He Didn't Commit, a Federal Agent spends most of his time beating homeless people to death with a lead pipe.
** [[spoiler:''Condemned 2: Bloodshot'']]: A Federal Agent turned hobo fights against the ancient conspiracy whose sonic devices cause crime and paranoia among men. Now Special Forces on top of the homeless face his lead pipe wrath. [[spoiler:Later [[MakeMeWannaShout he beats them to death by yelling at them]].]]
* [[spoiler:''VideoGame/ConkersBadFurDay'']]: Lost squirrel tries to get home.
** Or: A sociopathic rodent with an accent that likes to change regularly tries to find his way home after getting drunk and ends up becoming king.
** You fight a literal piece of shit.
** A drunk FunnyAnimal gets lost, insults and kills random people, and makes an ass out of himself. Everybody agrees he would make a good king.
* [[spoiler:''VideoGame/{{Contact}}'']]: A boy battles a band for GreenRocks before turning his sights on you.
* [[spoiler:''VideoGame/{{Contra}}'']]: Two supermuscled (but [[OneHitPointWonder fragile]]) soldiers, equipped with nothing but a wimpy rifle and a pair of pants, shoot up alien baddies from an army base to the [[WombLevel insides of some giant red alien.]]
** [[spoiler:''Contra: Shattered Soldier'']]: One of the soldiers is framed for global mass murder in an effort to cover up another soldier's death. Once the first soldier finds out, he decides to kill the other soldier again. By entering his body.
* [[spoiler:''VideoGame/CookieClicker'']]: Baked goods become life, the universe, and everything. Just [[NeverMessWithGranny don't anger the grandmas.]] Seriously, [[EldritchAbomination we mean it.]]
* [[spoiler:''VideoGame/CookingMama'']]: You prepare various exotic dishes for your diminutive starry-eyed mother.
** [[spoiler:''Cooking Mama 2: Dinner with Friends'']]: Same as the above but her friends come to visit and [[NintendoHard demand good preparation in one go]].
* [[spoiler:''VideoGame/CorpseParty'']]: High School students are trapped in a hellish dimension. Escape or die trying.
* [[spoiler:''VideoGame/CortexCommand'']]: Make a base, then defend it against hordes of idiots with heavy weaponry and the ability to headbutt through solid steel.
* [[spoiler:''Cosmo's Cosmic Adventure'']]: A naked green alien kid with chicken pox and plungers for hands wants to go to Disney World for his birthday. His ship crashes on a forbidden planet and, before he can find his missing parents, he gets eaten by a giant monster.
* [[spoiler:''Videogame/CostumeQuest'']]: Candy-stealing goblins and trolls are no match for a kid in his/her cardboard robot suit.
* [[spoiler:''VideoGame/{{Counter-Strike}}'']]: Counter-terrorists attempt to thwart terrorists. That's about it.
** [[spoiler:''Counter-Strike Source'']]: Counter-terrorists attempt to thwart terrorists with physics and bloom effects.
* [[spoiler:''Videogame/CrashBandicoot1996'']]: An anthropomorphic marsupial exacts revenge on the balding scientist who granted him sentience.
** [[spoiler:''Videogame/CrashBandicoot2CortexStrikesBack'']]: The same marsupial collects purple crystals for said scientist as a ruse to collect gems to destroy his space station.
** [[spoiler:''Videogame/CrashBandicoot3Warped'']]: A giant mask escapes from a mountain to collect crystals through time with the help of a man holding a giant tuning fork.
** [[spoiler:''Videogame/CrashTeamRacing'']]: An alien challenges eight of Earth's defenders, including a cat from Ancient China and a polar bear to a race with go-karts with the fate of the world at stake. Racing is serious business!
* [[spoiler:''VideoGame/CrazyTaxi'']]: The world's worst drivers are hired as chauffeurs.
* [[spoiler:''VideoGame/CreaVures'']]: '''''[[AC: BioluminescenceIsCool:]]''''' ''[[AC:THE GAME!]]''
* [[spoiler:''VideoGame/{{Creatures}}'']]: Breed a bunch of complex aliens.
* [[spoiler:''The Crimson Room'']]: You have to break out of a suicidal man's bedroom. How you got in there is never addressed.
** [[spoiler:''The Viridian Room'']]: To escape the apartment, you have to appease the guy's ghost. Fortunately, his life was so dull that this is easy to do.
* [[spoiler:''VisualNovel/CrossChannel'']]: A group of cliche anime characters are deemed unable to adapt to society. Then they're forced to repeat the same things over again unless the pervert intervenes.
** [[spoiler:''VideoGame/NanacaCrash'']]: The pervert gets hit with a bike. HilarityEnsues.
* [[spoiler:''VideoGame/CrossEdge'']]: A [[TriggerHappy gun-wielding]] [[{{Jerkass}} delinquent]] and his mellow childhood friend team up with [[VideoGame/{{Darkstalkers}} characters]] [[Franchise/{{Disgaea}} from other]] [[Franchise/{{Atelier}} parallel universes]] to find their way back to their respective home worlds.
* [[spoiler:''VideoGame/{{Crusader}}: No Remorse'']]: After he and two co-workers are terminated, a corporation's star employee sets about getting payback.
** [[spoiler:''Crusader: No Regret'']]: A mute conquers the moon in about a week.
* [[spoiler:''VideoGame/CrusaderKings'']]: Family deals with inheritance, marriage and trips to foreign parts.
** Alternately: Many bad things happen to your kingdom. Then your 2-year old son inherits everything.
* [[spoiler:''VideoGame/CrusaderOfCenty'']]: Bright up-and-coming RPG hero is proven guilty of mass murder.
* [[spoiler:''VideoGame/{{Crysis}}'']]: A special forces soldier in a futuristic catsuit battles the [[RedScare Red Menace]] and robotic squids that spew ice.
* [[spoiler:''VideoGame/CrystalQuest'']]: A six-legged Space Cow in a flying saucer vacuums up some crystals, then moans erotically. In the sequel, she alternates crystal collecting with destroying fine art and doing four-piece jigsaw puzzles.
* [[spoiler:''VideoGame/{{Cubivore}}: Survival of the Fittest'']]: Blocks eat and mate with other blocks. NobodyPoops is averted.
* [[spoiler:''VideoGame/CursedTreasure'']]: You are a villain trying to keep your stuff out of the heroes' hands.
* [[spoiler:''VideoGame/CustomRobo'']]: Children are encouraged to compete with each other using action figures modified to fight in warfare.
* [[spoiler: ''VideoGame/CutTheRope'']]: A monster wants candy.
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