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* [[spoiler:''VideoGame/FiveNightsAtFreddys2'']]: ** [[spoiler:''Videogame/FiveNightsAtFreddys2'']]: The night watchman comes back and has to watch even more animatronics... [[spoiler:except [[spoiler:[[StealthPrequel except not really]]really]]]].
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* [[spoiler:''VideoGame/{{Einhander}}'']]: The Moon hates the Earth, so a plane from the moon is sent down to wreak havoc on Earth. The plane fights a griffin, a dragon, a shrimp, a spider, a wall lizard, an amphibian, a thunderbird, a mad monkey, a vulture, a black ghost, and a couple of HumongousMecha.
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* [[spoiler:''VideoGame/{{Einhander}}'']]: The Moon hates the Earth, so a plane from the moon is sent down to wreak havoc on Earth. The plane fights a griffin, a dragon, a shrimp, a spider, a wall lizard, an amphibian, a thunderbird, an albatross, a mad monkey, a vulture, a black ghost, and a couple of HumongousMecha.
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** [[spoiler:''VideoGame/OsuTatakaeOuendan'']]: The people are not motivated. A squad of manly cheerleaders tries to alleviate this.
** [[spoiler: ''Moero Nekketsu Rhythm Tamashii! Osu! Tatakae! Ouendan 2'']]: Six years later, the people are still not motivated. The cheerleaders from across the river are [[{{Bishonen}} not as manly]].
** [[spoiler: ''{{VideoGame/Osu}}'']] A FanSequel of the series, with a load and loads of custom maps, along with a mode where you play the drums, catch fruit on a plate, and play the piano.
** [[spoiler: ''Moero Nekketsu Rhythm Tamashii! Osu! Tatakae! Ouendan 2'']]: Six years later, the people are still not motivated. The cheerleaders from across the river are [[{{Bishonen}} not as manly]].
** [[spoiler: ''{{VideoGame/Osu}}'']] A FanSequel of the series, with a load and loads of custom maps, along with a mode where you play the drums, catch fruit on a plate, and play the piano.
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** [[spoiler:''Frogger 2: Swampy's Revenge'']]: A platform from the original game really hates the frog, so he steals the frog's kids.
** [[spoiler:''Frogger Beyond'']]: As part of a birthday celebration, a young frog is required to go through various death courses.
** [[spoiler:''Frogger: Helmet Chaos'']]: The newest fashion trend turns out to be part of an evil plot.
** [[spoiler:''Frogger Beyond'']]: As part of a birthday celebration, a young frog is required to go through various death courses.
** [[spoiler:''Frogger: Helmet Chaos'']]: The newest fashion trend turns out to be part of an evil plot.
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*** [[spoiler:''VideoGame/{{Final Fantasy XIII-2}}'']]: A mysterious young man and his plucky female companion travel through time, fighting monsters and solving world-ending problems along the way. ...[[Series/DoctorWho Wait]].
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*** [[spoiler:''VideoGame/{{Final Fantasy XIII-2}}'']]: [[spoiler:''VideoGame/FinalFantasyXIII2'']]: A mysterious young man and his plucky female companion travel through time, fighting monsters and solving world-ending problems along the way. ...[[Series/DoctorWho Wait]].
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* [[spoiler:''DementiumTheWard'']]: A man who's just had a successful session of psychotherapy has to find his own way out of a hospital because the staff are busy dealing with some newfangled-type disease.
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* [[spoiler:''DementiumTheWard'']]: [[spoiler:''VideoGame/DementiumTheWard'']]: A man who's just had a successful session of psychotherapy has to find his own way out of a hospital because the staff are busy dealing with some newfangled-type disease.
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** [[spoiler:''VideoGame/FinalFantasyXV'']]: A LonelyRichKid and his [[FiveManBand metrosexual friends]] break the laws of physics and kill a horde of {{Mooks}} in a desperate bid to escape DevelopmentHell.
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* [[spoiler:''[[DefJamSeries Def Jam Vendetta]]'']]: A wrestling game. With ''rappers.''
** [[spoiler:''[[DefJamSeries Def Jam: Fight for NY]]'']]: Film/FightClub. With ''rappers'' and Danny Trejo.
** [[spoiler:''[[DefJamSeries Def Jam: Fight for NY]]'']]: Film/FightClub. With ''rappers'' and Danny Trejo.
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* [[spoiler:''[[DefJamSeries [[spoiler:''[[VideoGame/DefJamSeries Def Jam Vendetta]]'']]: A wrestling game. With ''rappers.''
**[[spoiler:''[[DefJamSeries [[spoiler:''[[VideoGame/DefJamSeries Def Jam: Fight for NY]]'']]: Film/FightClub. With ''rappers'' and Danny Trejo.
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** [[spoiler:''FarCry: Instincts'']]: A mad scientist and his triggery-happy mercenaries blow up a man's boat. The man gets a [[PowerFist mean right hook]].
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** [[spoiler:''VideoGame/FatalFrame 2'']]: Twin lolis take pictures of dead people who make grabby hands at them.
** [[spoiler:''VideoGame/FatalFrame 3'']]: A depressed photographer, alongside the depressed protagonist of the first game and a not-quite-as-depressed-as-everyone-else nonfiction writer wander around a dream manor and take pictures of dead people.
** [[spoiler:''VideoGame/FatalFrame 4'']]: A teenaged girl goes to an abandoned sanatorium to try and remember things, and ends up taking pictures of dead people. Two other teenaged girls go there too, and one of them takes pictures of dead people like the other girl. There is also a detective, and he shines a flashlight at dead people.
** [[spoiler:''VideoGame/FatalFrame 3'']]: A depressed photographer, alongside the depressed protagonist of the first game and a not-quite-as-depressed-as-everyone-else nonfiction writer wander around a dream manor and take pictures of dead people.
** [[spoiler:''VideoGame/FatalFrame 4'']]: A teenaged girl goes to an abandoned sanatorium to try and remember things, and ends up taking pictures of dead people. Two other teenaged girls go there too, and one of them takes pictures of dead people like the other girl. There is also a detective, and he shines a flashlight at dead people.
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** [[spoiler:''VideoGame/FatalFrame [[spoiler:''Fatal Frame 2'']]: Twin lolis take pictures of dead people who make grabby hands at them.
**[[spoiler:''VideoGame/FatalFrame [[spoiler:''Fatal Frame 3'']]: A depressed photographer, alongside the depressed protagonist of the first game and a not-quite-as-depressed-as-everyone-else nonfiction writer wander around a dream manor and take pictures of dead people.
**[[spoiler:''VideoGame/FatalFrame [[spoiler:''Fatal Frame 4'']]: A teenaged girl goes to an abandoned sanatorium to try and remember things, and ends up taking pictures of dead people. Two other teenaged girls go there too, and one of them takes pictures of dead people like the other girl. There is also a detective, and he shines a flashlight at dead people.
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** Or: A half-naked fusion of Sonin and Mario runs around killing spiders and gun-toting mice with a pencil.
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* [[spoiler:''{{Darklands}}'']]: Four random people group together to wander aimlessly around 15th-century Europe, and they ''may or may not'' end up [[DidYouJustPunchOutCthulhu defeating the devil]].
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* [[spoiler:''{{Darklands}}'']]: [[spoiler:''VideoGame/{{Darklands}}'']]: Four random people group together to wander aimlessly around 15th-century Europe, and they ''may or may not'' end up [[DidYouJustPunchOutCthulhu defeating the devil]].
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** [[spoiler:''Dark Cloud 2'']]: Another ancient evil in the form of a cute fluffy bunny is tampering with the past to destroy the future, so a mama's boy whose never left his home town before and a princess from the future who both possess magic stones have to stop him.
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** [[spoiler:''Dark [[spoiler:''[[VideoGame/DarkChronicle Dark Cloud 2'']]: 2]]'']]: Another ancient evil in the form of a cute fluffy bunny is tampering with the past to destroy the future, so a mama's boy whose never left his home town before and a princess from the future who both possess magic stones have to stop him.
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* [[spoiler:''VideoGame/DeadSpace2'']]: A schizophrenic space janitor tries to cleanse himself and others around him of the next evolutionary step of thetans, using improvised means.
* [[spoiler:''DeadToRights'']]: In one of the greatest ''Comicbook/SinCity'' stories Creator/FrankMiller never wrote, a loose cannon ex-cop and his dog look for the murderer of the ex-cop's father. Brings down international crime ring.
* [[spoiler:''DeadToRights'']]: In one of the greatest ''Comicbook/SinCity'' stories Creator/FrankMiller never wrote, a loose cannon ex-cop and his dog look for the murderer of the ex-cop's father. Brings down international crime ring.
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* [[spoiler:''[[Franchise/DotHack .hack//GU]]'']]: PlayerKilling in an MMORPG is SeriousBusiness.
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* [[spoiler:''[[Franchise/DotHack .hack]]'']]: Hacking in an MMORPG is SeriousBusiness.
** [[spoiler:''[[Franchise/DotHack .hack//GU]]'']]: PlayerKilling in an MMORPG is SeriousBusiness.
** [[spoiler:''[[Franchise/DotHack .hack//GU]]'']]: PlayerKilling in an MMORPG is SeriousBusiness.
** [[spoiler: ''VideoGame/{{Drakengard 3}}'']]: A humanoid [[Manga/RozenMaiden Kirakishou]] tries to kill her sisters and steal their powers for herself.
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* [[spoiler: ''VideoGame/{{Dustforce}}'']], you have tools for sweeping dust. You need to clean the floors, walls, ceilings and other objects.
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* [[spoiler:''VideoGame/DynastyWarriors'']]: The same story retold in slightly different ways seven times.
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* [[spoiler:''VideoGame/DynastyWarriors'']]: [[Literature/RomanceOftheThreeKingdoms The same story story]] retold in slightly different ways seven times.
** [[spoiler: ''Etrian Odyssey 4'']]: Explorers use an airship to make maps of the surrounding area.
** [[spoiler: ''Etrian Odyssey Untold'']]: An amnesiac girl, a mute highlander, and their companions make maps of the interior of the giant tree from the first game.
** [[spoiler: ''Etrian Odyssey Untold'']]: An amnesiac girl, a mute highlander, and their companions make maps of the interior of the giant tree from the first game.
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** [[spoiler:''VideoGame/{{Fable II}}'']]: A boy (or girl) and his dog grow up in a colourful fantasy world, and embark on a quest for revenge against a rich nobleman. He has the help of an inscrutable blind woman, a fat chick with a sledgehammer, a heavily-tattooed black guy, and a smug bisexual pirate.
** [[spoiler:''VideoGame/{{Fable III}}'']]: A boy (or girl) decides he can do a better job than his brother at politics, so he and his dog embark on a quest to start a revolution.
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** [[spoiler:''VideoGame/{{Fable II}}'']]: A boy (or girl) and his his/her dog grow up in a colourful fantasy world, and embark on a quest for revenge against a rich nobleman. He He/She has the help of an inscrutable blind woman, a fat chick with a sledgehammer, a heavily-tattooed black guy, and a smug bisexual pirate.
** [[spoiler:''VideoGame/{{Fable III}}'']]: A boy (or girl) decideshe he/she can do a better job than his his/her brother at politics, so he he/she and his his/her dog embark on a quest to start a revolution.
** [[spoiler:''VideoGame/{{Fable III}}'']]: A boy (or girl) decides
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* [[spoiler:'' VideoGame/{{D}}'']]: A woman has two hours to kill her father before her pocketwatch eats her.
** [[spoiler:'' VideoGame/EnemyZero'']]: ''Film/{{Alien}}'' if it starred the woman.
** [[spoiler:''D2'']]: ''Film/TheThing1982'' if it starred the woman. [[WhatCouldHaveBeen But it almost starred her son.]]
* [[spoiler:''VideoGame/DanceDanceRevolution'']]: You stomp in time to music and receive very corny compliments if you do well.
* [[spoiler:''VisualNovel/DanganRonpa'']]: A group of high school students are imprisoned inside of a school. The only way to graduate is by killing a fellow student and getting away with it. The principal of the school is an evil teddy bear.
** [[spoiler:''VisualNovel/SuperDanganRonpa2'']]: Same as above, but [[RecycledInSpace on an ISLAND.]]
* [[spoiler: ''VideoGame/DantesInferno'']]: The {{Love Interest|s}} has been kidnapped by {{Satan}}! Are you a bad enough Renaissance poet to rescue the {{Love Interest|s}}?
* [[spoiler:''VideoGame/{{Darius}}'']]: Mechanical marine life is attacking a planet.
* [[spoiler:''VideoGame/DarkCastle'']]: A man prone to tripping over ledges confronts an EvilOverlord, who hurls mugs of substandard beer in his general direction.
* [[spoiler:''VideoGame/DarkCloud'']]: An ancient evil is [[SealedEvilInACan let out of its jar]] and is [[TheEndOfTheWorldAsWeKnowIt ending the world,]] and the only people who can stop it are a race of [[spoiler: bunnies]] who live on the moon. A boy and his cat set out to find them, rearranging cities into more convenient configurations for the residents as they go.
** [[spoiler:''Dark Cloud 2'']]: Another ancient evil in the form of a cute fluffy bunny is tampering with the past to destroy the future, so a mama's boy whose never left his home town before and a princess from the future who both possess magic stones have to stop him.
* [[spoiler:''VideoGame/{{Dark Forces|Saga}}'']]: Some guy is responsible for letting [[Franchise/StarWars Luke Skywalker blow up the Death Star]]. This guy also did a lot of other stuff you've ''never even heard of'', most of which involved shooting tons of stupid people.
** [[spoiler:''Jedi Knight: Dark Forces II'']]: The guy in question, surprise surprise, turns out to be a Jedi, and has to kill the seven Dark Jedi that killed his father. Stop me if this sounds familiar.
*** [[spoiler:''Jedi Knight: Mysteries Of The Sith'']] The guy gets himself in serious trouble, and Luke Skywalker's future wife has to bail him out. She brings her friend back from TheDarkSide by not fighting him. How original.
** [[spoiler:''Jedi Knight II: Jedi Outcast'']]: The guy decides he wants to be a Jedi again, because hey, what better way to ''get revenge for [[spoiler:a loved one's death]]'' than TheForce? I wonder how that works out for him.
** [[spoiler:''Jedi Knight: Jedi Academy'']]: The guy's apprentices squabble and go hunting for people worshipping a dead guy. In months they become more badass than he ever was.
* [[spoiler:''{{Darklands}}'']]: Four random people group together to wander aimlessly around 15th-century Europe, and they ''may or may not'' end up [[DidYouJustPunchOutCthulhu defeating the devil]].
* [[spoiler:''VideoGame/DarkSector'']]: You throw a lethal piece of your body at your enemies. Like a boomerang.
* [[spoiler:''VideoGame/DarkSeed'']]: A man has to deal with a headache which comes as a result from him realising how horrible his new house (which he apparently never even looked at before buying) truly is.
** [[spoiler:''Darkseed II]]: Series/TwinPeaks: The Videogame''. Actually, [[DarthWiki/SoBadItsHorrible Worse than it Sounds.]]
* [[spoiler:''VideoGame/{{Darksiders}}'']]: A [[{{BFS}} swordsman]], framed for a crime he didn't commit, must [[VideoGame/GodOfWar battle waves of enemies]] and [[Franchise/TheLegendOfZelda solve environmental puzzles]] to clear his name.
** [[spoiler:''VideoGame/DarksidersII'']]: The swordsman's [[NotBloodSiblings brother]] must battle waves of enemies and solve environmental puzzles to find out what really happened to the swordsman... and to clear the swordsman's name.
* [[spoiler:''VideoGame/DarkSouls'']]: Most of the people in this game are undead. Even [[PlayerCharacter you]]. And this game is absurdly difficult.
** A man murders the esteemed rulers of a nation to start a fire.
* [[spoiler:''VideoGame/{{Darkstalkers}}'']]: Public domain monster movie characters battle each other, a perpetually-burning alien, and a demon who attacks by [[BloodyMurder cutting himself]].
* [[spoiler:''VideoGame/{{Darwinia}}'']]: A computer scientist's games console is a huge flop, so he networks them all together to make a virtual world. When it gets a virus, you lead the inhabitants in war. They [[WeHaveReserves die in droves]], but you collect their souls to resurrect them.
* [[spoiler:''VideoGame/DeBlob'']]: A ball of paint must recolour an entire city in order to save it from a dictatorship and their army of ink blots and giant pens.
** Better yet: The object of the game is pretty much just to touch everything.
* [[spoiler:''Franchise/DeadOrAlive'']]: [[JigglePhysics Bouncy]] females (and some guys, too) fight to stop a corporation from creating a SuperSoldier.
** [[spoiler:''Dead or Alive Xtreme'']]: The girls go to an island, play games and give each other gifts.
* [[spoiler:''VideoGame/DeadRising'']]: Journalist who likes to boast that he's covered wars gets locked in a shopping mall for 72 hours, and passes the time by killing angry people with [[ImprovisedWeapon nearly anything]] [[ImprobableWeaponUser he can pick up]] and thwarting a government conspiracy.
** Alternatively, wasps sting people and make them very hungry.
** Or: A journalist spends 72 hours killing zombies with [[ImprovisedWeapon various items]] while wearing a dress. Rumor has it the game actually has a plot.
* [[spoiler:''VideoGame/DeadRising2'']]: A gameshow contestant takes the fall for a criminal, and works out his frustration by killing everyone around him and gambling to buy shots for his underage daughter.
* [[spoiler:''VideoGame/DeadSpace'']]: A repairman is attacked when he comes to fix the interstellar phone.
* [[spoiler:''VideoGame/DeadSpace2'']]: A schizophrenic space janitor tries to cleanse himself and others around him of the next evolutionary step of thetans, using improvised means.
* [[spoiler:''DeadToRights'']]: In one of the greatest ''Comicbook/SinCity'' stories Creator/FrankMiller never wrote, a loose cannon ex-cop and his dog look for the murderer of the ex-cop's father. Brings down international crime ring.
* [[spoiler:''VideoGame/DeadlyCreatures'']]: Two brothers bicker over a hidden treasure. Instead of playing as either of them, you follow the everyday lives of a tarantula and a scorpion living in an American desert.
* [[spoiler:''VideoGame/DeadlyPremonition'']]: Man who talks to coffee embarks on a quest to stop trees from growing in a country town. Along the way he eats a cornflake, jam and turkey sandwich on the FBI's dollar and shoots some locals.
* [[spoiler:''VideoGame/DearEsther'']]: A man walks across an island. There are no puzzles, enemies, or other characters.
* [[spoiler:''VideoGame/DeathSmiles'']]: Teenagers use artillery to stop the wrongdoings of a friend's abusive father.
* [[spoiler:''VideoGame/DeathSpank'']]: [[LanternJawOfJustice Lantern-jawed]] IdiotHero fights evil in his underwear.
* [[spoiler:''VideoGame/{{Deception}}'']]: You're told to bring Satan to this realm by killing people, but you can only be bothered to do so by being passive-aggressive.
* [[spoiler:''[[DefJamSeries Def Jam Vendetta]]'']]: A wrestling game. With ''rappers.''
* [[spoiler:''VideoGame/{{DEFCON}}'']]: You play your part in conducting an unhurried nuclear holocaust depicted in simple wireframe graphics. Try to lose least. [[Film/WarGames Would you like to play a game?]]
* [[spoiler:''VideoGame/DefenderOfTheCrown'']]: In an effort to recover a stolen artifact, you conquer England. And then it's revealed that a thief took it.
* [[spoiler:''VideoGame/DejaVu'']]: You wake up in a bathroom and can't remember what happened last night.
* [[spoiler:''VideoGame/DelveDeeper'']]: [[ColorCodedMultiplayer Colorfully-dressed dwarves]] who can only dig in six directions go treasure-hunting, beating the crap out of anyone who gets in the way (including each other).
* [[spoiler:''DementiumTheWard'']]: A man who's just had a successful session of psychotherapy has to find his own way out of a hospital because the staff are busy dealing with some newfangled-type disease.
* [[spoiler:''VideoGame/DemonsSouls'']]: You die, and then the game becomes harder.
* [[spoiler:''Dengeki Gakuen RPG: Cross of Venus'']]: You and your {{BFS}} join forces with Creator/RieKugimiya [[LightNovel/ShakuganNoShana on fire]], [[LightNovel/IriyaNoSoraUFONoNatsu an emotionless girl]], [[LightNovel/KinosJourney a travelling girl]], [[LightNovel/ACertainMagicalIndex a nun girl]], [[LightNovel/NogizakaHarukaNoHimitsu an otaku girl]], [[LightNovel/BludgeoningAngelDokurochan a psychotic angel girl]], Rie Kugimiya [[LightNovel/{{Toradora}} beating up a non-delinquent]], and [[LightNovel/AsuraCryin a ghost girl]] to save [[LightNovels Japanese literature]].
* [[spoiler:''Derrick the Deathfin'']]: A shark made of paper goes on a rampage and tries to eat everything in sight.
* [[spoiler:''VideoGame/DesertMoon'']]: Engineers stranded on a desert planet wait for rescue. [[ZergRush Some]] aliens and zombies are involved.
* [[spoiler:''[[Series/DoctorWho Destiny of the Doctors]]'']]: It's up to a kludged robot who [[CastFromHitPoints Casts From Hit Points]] to save the Oncoming Storm.
* [[spoiler:''VideoGame/DestroyAllHumans'']]: A little gray man and WesternAnimation/{{Invader|Zim}} [[HeyItsThatVoice Zim]] steal people's brains and generally cause trouble in TheFifties. The government tries to hush it up in increasingly desperate ways.
** [[spoiler: ''VideoGame/DestroyAllHumans! 2'']]: A little gray man who happens to be the president of the United states and WesternAnimation/{{Invader|Zim}} [[HeyItsThatVoice Zim]], who happens to be dead, fight DirtyCommunists and [[WesternAnimation/SouthPark Crab People]] in TheSixties.
** [[spoiler: ''VideoGame/DestroyAllHumans! Path of the Furon'']]: [[strike: A little green gray man, who is no longer president, and WesternAnimation/{{Invader|Zim}} [[HeyItsThatVoice Zim]], who is still dead, become the {{Unwitting Pawn}}s to an exile's plan to depose their rotting alien emperor in TheSeventies.]]
* [[spoiler:''VideoGame/DeusEx'']]: A man wears [[CoolShades sunglasses]] [[SunglassesAtNight at night]], so he can fight crime. Then the government. Then [[ConspiracyKitchenSink conspiracy nuts]].
** [[spoiler:''VideoGame/DeusExInvisibleWar'']]: The man from the previous entry goes insane and moves to Antarctica until his son (or daughter) snaps him out of it. There are four endings, and all of them are bad.
** [[spoiler:''VideoGame/DeusExHumanRevolution'']]: Before the other two games, a disabled man wearing [[CoolShades sunglasses]] never asked for this game.
*** Alt: Guy shoots you in your face. Find out who shot you in your face.
* [[spoiler:''VideoGame/DevilMayCry'']]: Son of a demon kicks {{Satan}}'s ass with style and confesses a desire to [[{{Narm}} fill a soul WITH LIGHT]].
** [[spoiler:''Devil May Cry 2'']]: Son of a demon kicks more ass. Strange girl [[Horrible/VoiceActing who can't act and may or may not have an accent]] shows up. A CorruptCorporateExecutive is involved. None of it makes any sense.
** [[spoiler:''Devil May Cry 3'']]: Guy [[MundaneMadeAwesome who eats pizza in slo-mo]] gets his shop ruined and goes after his EvilTwin who did it, climbing a "[[DoesThisRemindYouOfAnything thick shaft]] [[DoubleEntendre that causes]] women to shudder" in the process. They are forced to team up against a bald guy with heterochromia who turns into a blob through their father's power. The EvilTwin falls off a cliff.
** [[spoiler:''Devil May Cry 4'']]: Pope-lookalike gets headshot and his underlings must find the murderer. Only it turns out that the murderer might have had [[ShootTheDog good reason]] [[WellIntentionedExtremist for doing so]]...
* [[spoiler:''VideoGame/{{Diablo}}'']]: Defeat the SealedEvilInACan so you can jam a sharp glass shard into your face.
** [[spoiler:''Diablo II'']]: Defeat the hero from the last game, who became the SealedEvilInACan by jamming the sharp glass shard into his face. This involves travelling all around the world and killing loads of stuff.
*** [[spoiler:''Diablo II: Lord of Destruction'']]: Defeat the SealedEvilInACan's brother who you totally forgot about at the end of the last game.
** [[spoiler:''VideoGame/DiabloIII'']]: Continue playing in the world of the last two games. The hero from the first game and all the interesting bosses are still dead.
* [[spoiler:''VideoGame/DiddyKongRacing'']]: A tall punk, a peanut-lover, some guy in overalls, a goggle-lovin' Texan, a bird-lovin' Redneck, a drunken king, some guy with a shell, a Sailor Moon fanatic, a kid who inherited Hawaii, an over-sized Indian, and a sentient clock defend the world from a 50-foot tall alien and his brainwashed slaves...by RACING THEM! Lots and lots of balloons are required too.
** [[spoiler:''Diddy Kong Racing DS'']]: 14 years later, Hawaii is still being hollowed-out, the bird-lovin' Redneck and drunken king now work at Microsoft, the peanut-lover's fanservice-sisters take their places, said peanut-lover's island also becomes a racetrack, and all get to play with clouds and toys. Otherwise, it's still all about RACING and balloons.
* [[spoiler:''VideoGame/DieAnstalt'']]: Serve as a psychotherapist to stuffed toys.
** Alternatively: A paranoid wanderer, a mute autistic, a hot-tempered schizophrenic, an easily-distracted {{Manchild}}, a schedule-oriented pseudo-athlete and a psychologist are all in one room. You have to take each one and alternate between going into their dreams and watching them interact with objects for ten minutes.
* [[spoiler:''VideoGame/DigDug'']]: A [[OneHitPointWonder fragile]] guy with an air pump digs tunnels and blows up local wildlife.
** [[spoiler:''Dig-Dug II'']]: The guy can also destroy islands.
* [[spoiler:''VideoGame/DigimonWorld3'']]: Not being able to log out from an MMORPG turns people into pigs.
* [[spoiler:''VideoGame/DinoCrisis'']]: A girl who believes dyeing her hair bright red to be proper spy attire acts incredibly bored around living proof of TimeTravel, when she's not killing it.
** [[spoiler:''DinoCrisis2'']]: The girl gets into a bunch of arguments with an unrelated man until he learns that he's fathered a child.
** [[spoiler:''DinoCrisis3'']]: Forget what you read about the first two; also, [[Franchise/ANightmareOnElmStreet Freddy Krueger]] has successfully cross-bred with dinosaurs.
* [[spoiler:''VideoGame/DinoRun (Flash Game)'']]: Run away from impending doom, all while consuming smaller creatures on the food chain, stealing eggs and being a dick to everything you come across.
* [[spoiler:''Franchise/{{Disgaea}}'']]: Hell-as-designed-by-Tim-Burton isn't so bad, but "quirky" does not even begin to describe the folks who live there. A series wherein the cast of characters tends to be as GenreSavvy and {{medium aware|ness}} as the player.
** [[spoiler:''VideoGame/DisgaeaHourOfDarkness'']]: Demon prince oversleeps, must reclaim kingdom with [[EverythingsBetterWithPenguins dead criminals]].
*** Or: Angelic assassin teaches her target's son how to love. Violence ensues.
*** [[spoiler:''VideoGame/DisgaeaDimension2'']]: A few years later, said prince inducts a PR campaign and rids the countryside of flowers while spending time with his little sister.
** [[spoiler:''VideoGame/Disgaea2CursedMemories'']]: Level 1 protagonist tries to fight final boss. He fails.
*** Alternatively, A human trying to summon a demonic overlord summons his daughter instead; HilarityEnsues and at least two plot twists happen as they try to find the overlord himself.
** [[spoiler:''VideoGame/Disgaea3AbsenceOfJustice'']]: [[BadassBookworm Nerdy but dangerous]] WhiteHairBlackHeart wishes to become the protagonist in order to win the game. Alternatively, demon wishes to open his heart so he can turn to evil; chainsaws are considered but ultimately rejected as impractical.
** [[spoiler:''VideoGame/Disgaea4APromiseUnforgotten'']]: A FriendlyNeighborhoodVampire who is obsessed with fish would rather kill the ruler of the humans than drink one drop of human blood.
*** [[spoiler:The Fuka and Desco Show]]: Dead criminal tries to get pardoned by holding up a bank.
** [[spoiler:''VideoGame/PrinnyCanIReallyBeTheHero'']]: Dead criminals search for food with the help of a scarf.
*** In an alternate story, the main character of a cancelled game seeks advice from dead criminals.
** [[spoiler:''[[VideoGame/PrinnyCanIReallyBeTheHero Prinny 2: Dawn Of Operation Panties, Dood]]'']]: Dead criminals search for underwear with the help of a scarf.
*** [[spoiler:Asagi Wars]]: the main character of a cancelled game is now a dead criminal.
** [[spoiler:''VisualNovel/DisgaeaInfinite'']]: A dead criminal travels through time and tries to prevent an assassination attempt against his overlord. Pudding is involved.
* [[spoiler:''VideoGame/{{Dishonored}}'']]: Go from being an esteemed public figure to skulking around in the shadows, robbing or murdering people who are just trying to get by in the middle of a crisis, sending several people to fates worse than death, and willingly becoming the plaything of a dark god.
* [[spoiler: ''VideoGame/{{Dizzy}}'']]: A sentient egg saves his friends from the big bad by carrying random objects from one side of the land to another.
* [[spoiler: ''[[VideoGame/DonPachi DoDonPachi]]'']]: A nameless pilot with a Big F'ing Laser slaughters his own troops. Then he fights a bee.
** Alternately: Kill thousands of innocent soldiers in a "training exercise". Then do it again, only harder.
** ''[[spoiler:[[VideoGame/DonPachi DoDonPachi dai-ou-jou]]]]'': A lunar doll fight.
** ''[[spoiler:[=DoDonPachi=] [=DaiFukkatsu=]]]'': Doll fighting in [[PresentDay 2008]].
** ''[[spoiler:[=DoDonPachi=] [=SaiDaiOuJou=]]]'': A sentient doll wants to produce more dolls.
* [[spoiler: ''VideoGame/{{Dogyuun}}'']]: An airplane pilots a [[HumongousMecha mecha]].
* [[spoiler: ''VideoGame/DokaponKingdom'']]: Miserly king offers his daughter's hand in marriage to backstabbers, looters and kill-stealers.
* [[spoiler: ''Doki Doki Majo Shinpan'']]: You must save the world from witches by feeling up underage girls.
** Or: God tells you to touch teenaged girls.
* [[spoiler: ''Don't Shoot the Puppy'']]: It gets harder and harder not to kill a dog.
* [[spoiler: ''VideoGame/DontStarve'']]: A mad scientist is stranded in a hostile wilderness. He passes the time with cookery, scientific research, and making dummies of himself out of meat and his own facial hair. Later, you get the ability to play as an adorable pyromaniac, a haunted girl, a {{hulk speak}}ing strong-man, a psychotic robot, an insomniac librarian, a lumberjack who talks to his axe, or a wimpy mime.
* [[spoiler:''VideoGame/DonkeyKong'']]: A carpenter climbs an unfinished tower in pursuit of a giant beast who has kidnapped his lover. Background music loops once to four times per second.
** [[spoiler:''Donkey Kong Junior'']]: A young lad must rescue his father from a carpenter.
** [[spoiler:''Donkey Kong 3'']]: A man must stop a giant animal from destroying his greenhouse, armed with nothing but a can of bug spray. He is never seen again.
** [[spoiler:''VideoGame/DonkeyKongCountry'']]: Apes go jump on banana-stealing crocodiles.
*** [[spoiler:''VideoGame/DonkeyKongCountry2DiddysKongQuest'']]: The crocodiles kidnap the big ape, so his little buddy, along with his girlfriend, goes to rescue him.
*** [[spoiler:''VideoGame/DonkeyKongCountry3DixieKongsDoubleTrouble'']]: The big ape and his little buddy are missing, so the little buddy's girlfriend and her infant cousin go looking for them.
*** [[spoiler:''VideoGame/DonkeyKong64'']]: The crocodiles prepare to blow up the gorillas' island and steal their bananas again to keep them distracted.
*** [[spoiler:''VideoGame/DonkeyKongCountryReturns'']]: Musical instruments steal the apes' bananas.
** [[spoiler:''VideoGame/DonkeyKonga'']]: Big monkeys play little drums along to popular music.
** [[spoiler:''Donkey Kong Jungle Beat'']]: You control a gorilla using bongos.
* [[spoiler:''VideoGame/{{Doom}}'']]: A military-industrial conglomerate's experiments with teleportation go wrong and pave the way for an invasion by TheLegionsOfHell. They are soundly defeated by a [[strike:[[OneManArmy berserker-packing MAN-AND-A-HALF]]]] lowly grunt.
** [[spoiler:''Doom II: Hell on Earth'']]: TheLegionsOfHell invade Earth. They are soundly defeated by a [[strike:[[OneManArmy berserker-packing MAN-AND-A-HALF]]]] lowly grunt. And then he destroys Hell. Purely out of revenge for the death of his pet rabbit.
*** [[spoiler:''Doom 64'']]: TheLegionsOfHell refuse to learn their lesson. The lowly grunt kills their leader, again, and then moves in to Hell.
** [[spoiler:''Doom III'']]: In an AlternateContinuity, a Satanist takes advantage of said teleportation experiments to create a demonic navy for the purposes of world conquest. The same [[strike:[[OneManArmy berserker-packing MAN-AND-A-HALF]]]] lowly grunt stops it.
** [[spoiler:''Videogame/DoomTheRoguelike'']]: A military-industrial conglomerate's experiments with teleportation go wrong and pave the way for an invasion by TheLegionsOfHell. They are soundly defeated by a [[strike:[[OneManArmy berserker-packing MAN-AND-A-HALF]]]] lowly grunt. Only this time, there's less graphics.
* [[spoiler:''[[Franchise/DotHack .hack//GU]]'']]: PlayerKilling in an MMORPG is SeriousBusiness.
* [[spoiler:''VideoGame/DoubleDragon'']]: Two brothers must rescue a damsel from the bad guys so that they can properly kung-fu fight each other for the right to date her.
** [[spoiler:''VideoGame/DoubleDragonNeon'']]: The brothers rescue the damsel again, this time from a [[WesternAnimation/HeManAndTheMastersOfTheUniverse1983 Skeletor]] clone. High-fives and {{air guitar}}s all around!
* [[spoiler:''Double Dungeons'']]: [[WithThisHerring Knights]] quest to defeat a lot of random baddies to collect alphabet tiles, presumably to play Scrabble with the biggest baddie. [[FragileSpeedster Also they zip around and make car noises]] and [[OneHitPointWonder explode just as spectacularly]] [[spoiler: [[DontExplainTheJoke specifically, the knights in the game would be clocked at over 230MPH based upon how fast they move through the dungeons' tiles and you gain about 2 HP each level but a LOT of attack.]]]]
* [[spoiler:''VideoGame/DragonAgeOrigins'']]: A hero's attempts to slay a dragon are delayed when everyone makes him/her solve their problems first.
** [[spoiler:''VideoGame/DragonAgeOriginsAwakening'']]: A hero's attempts to govern his/her lands are impeded by a surprisingly civilized MadScientist and a madwoman with way too many nipples.
** ''[[spoiler:Dragon Age: Origins - Darkspawn Chronicles DLC]]'': After the hero bites the big one his/her friend/boyfriend (respectively) has to be the new hero. He fails... HARD.
** ''[[spoiler:Dragon Age: Origins - Golems of Amgarrak DLC]]'': The hero works with two brothers to find out how to make magical piles of rocks and scrap metal.
** ''[[spoiler:Dragon Age: Origins - Witch Hunt DLC]]'': Two years after your girlfriend/ friend runs off with your/your friend/lover's future child she returns. Decide if you want to stab her or not.
** ''[[spoiler:Dragon Age: Origins - Leiliana's Song DLC]]'': A young French thief's idol doesn't turn out to be everything she is cracked up to be.
** ''[[spoiler:VideoGame/DragonAgeII]]'': An UnreliableNarrator pisses off an inquisitor during his interrogation.
* [[spoiler: ''VideoGame/DragonQuestI'']]: A random soldier searches for [[AncestralWeapon Ancestral Weaponry]] in order to fight a wizard who ran off with the king's daughter. [[ButThouMust Against his will]].
*** Alternatively: Random guy has to go fight a dragon on the other side of a river. But he can't swim and boats don't exist.
** [[spoiler: ''VideoGame/DragonQuestII'']]: Three random royal cousins run around gaining EXP and Phat Lewt in order to fight an exceptionally bored evil wizard.
** [[spoiler: ''VideoGame/DragonQuestIII'']]: Son of a hero sallies forth to kill the evil villain. He kills the wrong guy.
*** [[spoiler: ''VideoGame/DragonQuestIII'' for GameBoyColor]]: Same as above, but instead of correcting his mistake, he decides to [[TakeYourTime spend several years]] coin-collecting for the amusement of a bored deity he will probably never meet.
** [[spoiler: ''VideoGame/DragonQuestIV'']]: [[ADayInTheLimelight Random henchmen all have various quests]] that are immediately forgotten once the hero decides to stop hiding in a basement.
** [[spoiler: ''VideoGame/DragonQuestV'']]: Random guy runs around having adventures and gets married. He would kill the villain, but he can't -- he's not the hero, his son is.
** [[spoiler: ''VideoGame/DragonQuestVI'']]: The hero dies in the opening. His (not so) EvilTwin from an alternate reality takes up the quest.
** [[spoiler: ''VideoGame/DragonQuestVII'']]: Random fisherman's son discovers the entire world has been turned into SealedGoodInACan. Then he opens one too many cans.
** [[spoiler: ''VideoGame/DragonQuestVIII'']]: Random troll and his daughter, the horse, chase after an [[MonsterClown evil clown]] with a magic stick.
** [[spoiler: ''VideoGame/DragonQuestIX'']]: Random angel tries to get back into Heaven by collecting glowing fruit.
** [[spoiler: ''VideoGame/DragonQuestMonsters'']]: A furby kidnaps a young boy to make him fight in glorified dog fights to find his sister, who was kidnapped by an evil furby.
*** [[spoiler: ''Dragon Quest Monsters 2'']]: Two bored kids cause their island to start sinking, so they grab their father's [[RidiculouslyCuteCritter monstrous monster-farm farm hand]] and go participate in glorified dog fights to find a cork.
*** [[spoiler: ''Dragon Quest Monsters: Caravan Heart'']]: Creepy old man teleports spoiled rich kid to an oddly familiar alternate universe to be a bureaucrat.
*** [[spoiler: ''Dragon Quest Monsters: Joker'']]: Random punk is forced to enter a glorified dog fight because his dad wants him to, only to gain a [[NonHumanSidekick random animal buddy]] and discover that dog fights are ''SeriousBusiness.''
** [[spoiler: ''VideoGame/DragonQuestHeroesRocketSlime'']]: A village of the weakest monster type in the game is attacked by platypi. The one escapee sets out to get revenge. With a [[LostTechnology tomb]].
** [[spoiler: ''VideoGame/DragonQuestSwords: The Masked Queen and the Tower of Mirrors'']]: Son of a legendary swordsman performs amazing feats for a queen who doesn't want to talk to anyone.
* [[spoiler: ''VideoGame/DragonsCrown'']]: Physically disproportionate D&D characters goes on a quest to save a kingdom from orcs.
* [[spoiler: ''VideoGame/DragonsDogma'']]: A heartless hero must go on a quest to slay a dragon. It is accomplished by climbing and killing monsters. They are also helped by online avatars of sidekicks by other heartless heroes.
* [[spoiler: ''Dragon's Lair'']]: You follow flashes of light in order to watch an animated fantasy movie. Press the button at ''exactly'' the right moment or you can't watch the next bit.
** [[spoiler: ''Space Ace'']]: Largely the same thing as above, but [[RecycledInSPACE this time it's an animated science fiction movie]].
* [[spoiler: ''VideoGame/{{Drakengard}}'']]: A mute soldier [[ABoyAndHisX and his dragon]] go on a nightmarish quest to exact revenge upon a vicious Empire with the "aid" of several cursed people.
* [[spoiler: ''VisualNovel/DramaticalMurder'']]: A guy with nerves in his hair and a CompellingVoice, a guy who wears a [[GasMaskLongcoat gas mask and a lab coat]] and insists on calling the protagonist 'Master', a {{Lady Killer In Love}} with a sword, a stoic hacker with NoSocialSkills and a mysterious BadassBiker band together to save an island from MassHypnosis.
* [[spoiler: ''VideoGame/DrawnToLife'']]: Save the world from encroaching darkness by making it your personal sketchbook.
** [[spoiler: ''Drawn to Life: The Next Chapter (Wii)'']]: Fetch quests, and the villain can't remember what her husband looked like.
** [[spoiler: ''Drawn to Life: The Next Chapter (DS)'']]: God hides his true motive from himself, and fans wish they'd never asked about the {{Ensemble Darkhorse}}s' origins.
*** Alternately, The villain darns color just for there to be a world for him to rule. The ending proves a lot of people do not understand magic dreams.
* [[spoiler: ''VideoGame/DrillDozer'']]: A little girl in a tank spends her time stealing rocks.
* [[spoiler:''VideoGame/DriverSanFrancisco'']]: A cop goes into a coma, thinks he can possess people, and hunts down an escaped crime lord in his dreams. This is more effective than the entire real-world police force.
* [[spoiler:''VideoGame/DrMario'']]: A blue-collar repairman can cure any disease, but only if he administers the medications in exactly the right order.
** [[spoiler:''Dr. Mario 64'']]: Fat guy steals his pills.
** [[spoiler: ''Dr. Luigi'']]: The same, except the pills are L-shaped.
* [[spoiler:''VideoGame/{{Dubloon}}'']]: A crew of pirates search for a specific treasure chest.
* [[spoiler:''VideoGame/DuckHunt'']]: You are a weekend warrior. Your dog indulges in schadenfreude.
* [[spoiler:''VideoGame/DuckTales'']]: Money-grubbing duck travels the four corners of the world for more money. People just remember the Moon.
** [[spoiler:''VideoGame/DuckTales 2'']] In the lesser known sequel, the-money grabbing duck expands his horizon. One of the level names is also humorously an animal sound.
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** [[spoiler:''VideoGame/DuckTales Remastered'']]: Same game as the first, now everyone talks. They still remember the Moon. Also more emphasis on story.
* [[spoiler:''VideoGame/DukeNukemI'']]: Man in a pink vest goes after aspiring world conqueror for interrupting his favorite talk show.
** [[spoiler:''VideoGame/DukeNukemII'']]: The same pink-shirted man is kidnapped while on his favorite talk show by aliens who want to use his brain to formulate a plan to conquer the world. He escapes using a bomb in his molar.
** [[spoiler:''VideoGame/DukeNukem3D'']]: The man [[TookALevelInBadass takes a level in badass]] between games and shoots aliens and corrupt police officers in a quest to save the women of the world.
** [[spoiler:''VideoGame/DukeNukemManhattanProject'']]: The man, after said quest, finds out that a MadScientist is giving a strange substance to creatures in order to turn them into monstrosities. Asskicking ensues.
** [[spoiler:''VideoGame/DukeNukemForever'']]: The man spends [[DevelopmentHell over a decade]] searching for an alien toilet to park his bricks. He finally found one. In unrelated news, [[CueTheFlyingPigs porcine lifeforms are now airborne.]]
*** Alternatively: Fans have waited fourteen [[PrecisionFStrike fuckin']] years to see the Man live out their TwinThreesomeFantasy and [[MonumentalDamage blow up the Hoover Dam]].
* [[spoiler:''VideoGame/DungeonKeeper'']]: Being evil means maintaining an underground dungeon and defending it from daring heroes or other evil people with their own dungeon.
* [[spoiler:''Dungeon Maker'']]: To bring prosperity back to a dying town, an intrepid warrior must provide shelter for new inhabitants...and [[WhatMeasureIsANonHuman kill them in droves]].
* [[spoiler:''Dungeons'']]: A lover's quarrel leads a man to take his frustration out on random warriors totally unrelated to the conflict.
* [[spoiler:''VideoGame/DungeonsOfDredmor'']]: Some shmuck with BigOlEyebrows tries to keep an old man from escaping from prison. He ([[PurelyAestheticGender or she]]) gets [[YetAnotherStupidDeath repeatedly killed]] by [[MascotMook burrowing penguins]] in the process.
** [[spoiler:''[[VideoGame/DungeonsOfDredmor Dungeons of Dredmor: Realm of the Diggle Gods]]'']]: Some shmuck with BigOlEyebrows tries to keep an old man from escaping from a larger prison. He ([[PurelyAestheticGender or she]]) can also become an emo or a vegan, and there are inexplicable statues of penguin gods.
** [[spoiler:''[[VideoGame/DungeonsOfDredmor Dungeons of Dredmor: You Have to Name the Expansion Pack]]'']]: Some shmuck with BigOlEyebrows tries to keep an old man from escaping from the same prison as before. This expansion pack doesn't even have a name.
** [[spoiler:''[[VideoGame/DungeonsOfDredmor Dungeons of Dredmor: Conquest of the Wizardlands]]'']]: Some shmuck with BigOlEyebrows does the usual stuff, and can also visit randomly generated places where he ([[PurelyAestheticGender or she]]) can die even more easily. There are now vampire penguins and murderous magical vegetables, and our shmuck can use powers of communism.
* [[spoiler: ''VideoGame/{{Dustforce}}'']], you have tools for sweeping dust. You need to clean the floors, walls, ceilings and other objects.
* [[spoiler:''VideoGame/DwarfFortress'']]: A game with way outdated graphics for its time, yet with absurdly high system requirements. It has been released way [[PerpetualBeta before it's fully developed]] and can crash without warning. Gameplay has absurd physics, [[ArtificialStupidity AI is stupid]], and the game's actually {{unwinnable}}.
** Micromanage a collection of absent-minded, depressed, alcoholic midgets with beards into building an underground house in the middle of a hostile wilderness. The official motto of the game is "Losing is fun!"
*** A fantasy world generator/simulator pairing worryingly accurate down-to-the-atom realistic game mechanics with outdated, 3-decades-ago, unrealistic ASCII graphics.
** [[spoiler:Fortress Mode]]: A bunch of midgets that often refuse to listen to you build a fortress. The fortress will crumble. Then, build some more fortress. Repeat.
** [[spoiler:Adventure Mode]]: You're a person in a giant world. There's no story, no direction whatsoever and you get brutally murdered by everything.
* [[spoiler:''VideoGame/DynamiteHeaddy'']]: A puppet saves the world by headbutting everyone and everything he comes across.
* [[spoiler:''VideoGame/DynastyWarriors'']]: The same story retold in slightly different ways seven times.
* [[spoiler:''VideoGame/{{Earthbound}} (Mother 2)'']]: Four kids face such horrific monsters as moving traffic signs, violent hippies, animate cups of coffee, and living fire hydrants in order to stop a time-traveling facelike entity.
** [[spoiler:''VideoGame/{{MOTHER|1}}'']]: Three kids defeat the aforementioned time-traveling facelike entity ten years earlier (when he still had a body and wasn't a facelike entity) -- by singing to him.
** [[spoiler:''VideoGame/{{Mother 3}}'']]: An emotionally broken boy and his dog try to stop a fat old man who uses television and lightning to control an island, with the help of weird people (and their pets).
*** Or, as put on the series's fansite's forums: Transvestites defend the world by giving a giant dragon acupuncture.
* [[spoiler:''VideoGame/EarthDefenseForce2017'']]: Every '50s monster movie happens at once. Only you can save mankind.
* [[spoiler:''VideoGame/EarthwormJim'']]: A space suit falls onto an ordinary earthworm, who then saves a space princess from a giant queen termite...then [[DropTheCow a cow falls on the princess]].
* [[spoiler:''VideoGame/EatLeadTheReturnOfMattHazard'']]: The greatest video game hero you've never heard of tries to make his big comeback.
* [[spoiler:''VideoGame/EccoTheDolphin'']]: Magic dolphin travels through time to heal an ancient being by going to the past and smacking it in the balls. eh also fights aliens and doesnt afraid of anything.
** [[spoiler:''Tides of Time'']]: Magic dolphin follows flying magic dolphin to a time that doesn't exist yet to get orders from slain ancient being to reconstruct it in the present from body parts that have been scattered to a ''different'' time that doesn't exist yet. Then a dolphin army fights aliens. And you vanish. [[GainaxEnding Maybe.]]
** [[spoiler:''Ecco Jr.'']]: Magic dolphin takes time off from time travel and xenocide to play educational games with small children.
** [[spoiler:''Defender of the Future'']]: Aliens break time, magic dolphin makes it worse a few times before getting it right.
* [[spoiler:''Eco Fighters'']]: [[GreenAesop Save the world from pollution]]...by [[StuffBlowingUp blowing stuff up]], with help from [[VideoGame/MegaManClassic Dr. Wily]].
* [[spoiler:''VideoGame/EcoQuest'']]: A 10-year-old boy dives after a talking dolphin to discover ancient and heavily-littered Greek ruins at the bottom of the ocean, populated by talking fish who live in tenements. Everything is blamed on nuclear waste.
** [[spoiler:''Eco Quest 2'']]: Same boy is kidnapped by talking river otters in the deep (and heavily-littered) rainforest. He visits an English-speaking [[SmallSecludedWorld native village]] and (when it burns down) thwarts a [[ForTheEvulz single-minded]] poacher by planting a tree.
* [[spoiler:''VideoGame/{{Einhander}}'']]: The Moon hates the Earth, so a plane from the moon is sent down to wreak havoc on Earth. The plane fights a griffin, a dragon, a shrimp, a spider, a wall lizard, an amphibian, a thunderbird, a mad monkey, a vulture, a black ghost, and a couple of HumongousMecha.
* [[spoiler:''Franchise/TheElderScrolls'']]: The monarchy solves problems cheaply by sending [[ProtagonistWithoutAPast amnesiac]] convicts to tackle them.
** [[spoiler:''VideoGame/TheElderScrollsArena'']]: A convict must reconstruct a dismantled stick that the Emperor's advisor spitefully broke.
** [[spoiler:''VideoGame/TheElderScrollsIIDaggerfall'']]: With no convicts on hand, the monarchy sends a rare non-convict to perform an exorcism and inspect the mail system.
** [[spoiler:''VideoGame/TheElderScrollsIIIMorrowind'']]: Another convict fights a clingy former drinking buddy with a [[OrcusOnHisThrone serious sleep disorder]] over who gets to keep [[BeatStillMyHeart a dead guy's heart]].
*** [[spoiler:''The Elder Scrolls III: Tribunal'']]: That same convict reunites with his former girlfriend, and they have a disagreement.
*** [[spoiler:''The Elder Scrolls III: Bloodmoon'']]: The convict is then invited to a hunting trip, and ends up getting into fights with all the other hunters.
** [[spoiler:''VideoGame/TheElderScrollsIVOblivion'']]: Another convict delivers a necklace, then travels around the world closing doors whenever they find them.
*** [[spoiler:''The Elder Scrolls IV: Knights of the Nine'']]: That same convict takes a job guarding a church and beats up a very old man recently returned from retirement.
*** [[spoiler:''The Elder Scrolls IV: Shivering Isles'']]: That same convict goes into politics and eventually goes crazy.
** [[spoiler:''VideoGame/TheElderScrollsVSkyrim'']]: A convict [[SequelEscalation on death row]] learns to read and speak a new language, one word at a time, and then solves the world's problems by yelling at them.
*** [[spoiler:''The Elder Scrolls V: Dawnguard'']]: That same convict gets a job looking for inordinately heavy pieces of paper that apparently have the location of a mid-tier weapon written on them.
*** [[spoiler:''The Elder Scrolls V: Hearthfire'']]: That same convict builds a house and adopts a kid.
*** [[spoiler:''The Elder Scrolls V: Dragonborn'']]: That same convict enters a giant library and gets into a fight with some other guy who also solves his problems by shouting at them.
** [[spoiler:''The Elder Scrolls Legends: Battlespire'']]: A school student uses his skills to clear unwanted critters from his training grounds.
** [[spoiler:''The Elder Scrolls Adventures: Redguard'']]: A pirate looks for a lost sibling, damaging the growing hegemony in the process.
* [[spoiler:''VideoGame/{{Elebits}}'']]: A bitter young child neglected by his parents releases his anger by shooting ridiculously cute Pokemon-like creatures. This is rated E.
* [[spoiler: ''Electroplankton'']]: Microscopic underwater creatures...make music.
* [[spoiler: ''VideoGame/EliminateDown'']]: Shoot aliens. Save Earth. One of those games that almost nobody knows.
* [[spoiler:''VideoGame/EliteBeatAgents'']]: [[TheMenInBlack Men in Black]] solve everyone's problems through spontaneous song and dance numbers.
* [[spoiler:''[[VideoGame/{{Elvira}} Elvira II: Jaws of Cerberus]]'']]: Your girlfriend gets kidnapped by a dog. On your way to save her, you are assisted by a janitor, a priest and Dr. Frankenstein.
* [[spoiler:''VideoGame/EndWar'']]: Terrorists cause WorldWarIII. You can optionally use your voice to win it.
* [[spoiler:''VideoGame/EndlessOcean'']]: Your employer doesn't care how much time you waste; just so long as you eventually touch as many fish as possible, you're on their payroll.
* [[spoiler:''VideoGame/EpicBattleFantasy'']]: AuthorAvatar and MsFanservice kill a bunch of slimes before the game gets interesting. Features blatant copyright violations, and is an RPG that solely consists of battles.
** [[spoiler:''Epic Battle Fantasy 2'']]: After retconning the bad ending from the first game, the same two warriors go across a damaged planet and eventually defeat a Nazi, [[DefeatMeansFriendship who joins the party for the third game]].
** [[spoiler:''Epic Battle Fantasy 3'']]: First game in the series to introduce an overworld, the group of three from before try to kill a monster that they woke up by poking it.
** [[spoiler:''Epic Battle Fantasy 3.3: Bullet Heaven'']]: The same three people, their TeamPet, and [[EarlyBirdCameo a girl who hasn't appeared in the main series yet]] shoot at stuff. All of the bosses involve cats.
** [[spoiler:''Epic Battle Fantasy 4'']]: A forest ranger gets pissed off at the heroes of the first overworld game for stealing everything that's not nailed down, while doing the same thing herself, and seeks them to chew them out, ending up redeeming catkind.
*** Alternatively: CatsAreMean. Except the one following you.
* [[spoiler:''Escape Goat'']]: A purple goat tries to escape from the dungeon with an orange rat while rescuing sheep.
* [[spoiler: ''VideoGame/EternalChampions'']]: People from various parts of time are wrongfully murdered and must fight in a tournament held by a fluorescent purple deity for one of them to regain their lives.
** [[spoiler: ''Eternal Champions: Challenge From The Dark Side'']]: An evil fluorescent blue deity interferes and adds more competitors including wrongfully murdered animals and TheGrimReaper.
* [[spoiler: ''VideoGame/EternalDarkness'']]: Girl discovers a [[TomeOfEldritchLore scary book]] in a big creepy mansion. [[ThroughTheEyesOfMadness Insanity ensues]].
* [[spoiler:''VideoGame/EternalFighterZero'']]: The result of dumping characters from KeyVisualArts works into massive (fan-made) CharacterDerailment.
* [[spoiler:''VideoGame/EternalSonata'']]: Fredric Chopin's life flashes before his eyes as an anime-styled JRPG right before he dies.
* [[spoiler: ''VideoGame/EtrianOdyssey'']]: Explorers make maps of an underground forest.
** [[spoiler: ''Etrian Odyssey 2'']]: Explorers make maps of the interior of a giant tree.
** [[spoiler: ''Etrian Odyssey 3'']]: Explorers make maps of a basement beneath a giant tree and the ocean around it.
* [[spoiler: ''VideoGame/EuropaUniversalis'']] Try to keep inflation down for 400 years.
* [[spoiler:''VideoGame/EVEOnline'']]: The fanciest frontend to Microsoft Excel you'll ever see.
** Alternately: Play as one of elite space ship captains, most of which spend maybe a couple hours in space every day.
*** Alternately: Hardcore Economics: The MMORPG
* [[spoiler:''VisualNovel/{{Ever17}}'']]: Bored sleep-deprived people contemplate time travel, parallel dimensions and love. To understand what's really going on you have to beat the game at least five times.
* [[spoiler:''VideoGame/{{Eversion}}'']]: A cute, primitive Mario clone that requires you to change the look of the environment to progress. [[spoiler: To hell [[FromBadToWorse and beyond.]]]]
* [[spoiler:''VideoGame/EVOSearchForEden'']]: In his quest to meet a hot girl, a small fish learns to be a real boy, killing everybody and everything along the way, from sharks to bees to dinosaurs to yetis to giant cells. Only the aliens survive.
* [[spoiler:''VideoGame/EvilGenius'']]: Build your own [[SupervillainLair underground lair]], populate it with booby traps, and interrogate enemy agents by [[CoolAndUnusualPunishment sticking them in a mixing bowl]].
** Or, alternately, a ''Film/JamesBond'' villain's revenge fantasy.
* [[spoiler:''VideoGame/EyeOfTheBeholder'']]: A band of adventurers venture into the city sewers to fight an unknown evil. They forget to bring a map with them, and get lost.
** [[spoiler:''Eye Of The Beholder II'']]: The same band of adventurers visit the temple. They forget to bring a map with them, and get lost.
** [[spoiler:''Dungeon Hack'']]: A lone adventurer ventures into a castle to find a magic artifact. Unlike a certain band of adventurers, he brings a map with him, and doesn't get lost.
* [[spoiler:''VideoGame/{{Fable}}'' (general)]]: Watch as your virtual paper doll changes appearance based on whether you smash dudes, shoot dudes, blow up dudes with your mind, or some combination thereof.
** [[spoiler:''VideoGame/{{Fable|I}}'']]: A boy grows up in a colourful fantasy world, and embarks on a quest for revenge against a man in a party mask.
** [[spoiler:''VideoGame/{{Fable II}}'']]: A boy (or girl) and his dog grow up in a colourful fantasy world, and embark on a quest for revenge against a rich nobleman. He has the help of an inscrutable blind woman, a fat chick with a sledgehammer, a heavily-tattooed black guy, and a smug bisexual pirate.
** [[spoiler:''VideoGame/{{Fable III}}'']]: A boy (or girl) decides he can do a better job than his brother at politics, so he and his dog embark on a quest to start a revolution.
* [[spoiler:''VideoGame/{{Facade}}'']]: Amazing new text recognition technology allows you to communicate seamlessly with a couple of stuttering, maladjusted, insufferable idiots.
* [[spoiler:''VideoGame/FallenLondon'', née ''Echo Bazaar'']]: Some time ago, a major European city was stolen by bats. Well, maybe not stolen. Now, Cthulhu's human (ish) cousins rub shoulders with devils, golems, and foreigners while the player character decides what to do with himself/herself/none-of-the-above.
* [[spoiler:''VideoGame/{{Fallout}}'' (series)]]: An individual walks through hostile, often lonesome wasteland in the aftermath of a worldwide thermonuclear war. Also, everyone's still culturally in TheFifties.
** [[spoiler:''VideoGame/{{Fallout|1}}'']]: A youth is sent off to find replacement parts for the community's water purifier. The game starts with you walking out of a rat-infested cave [[QuicksandBox with little idea of where to go or what to do.]]
** [[spoiler:''VideoGame/{{Fallout 2}}'']]: A youth goes looking for something to help the family farm. The game starts with you running through a cave [[ExecutiveMeddling for flimsy reasons.]]
** [[spoiler:''VideoGame/{{Fallout 3}}'']]: A youth goes looking for a missing parental unit. The game starts with you shooting out of your mom's vagina into the waiting arms of Creator/LiamNeeson.
*** [[spoiler: ''The Pitt'']]: Youth liberates a town's populace by becoming a baby-snatcher.
*** [[spoiler: ''Operation: Anchorage'']]: Youth plays TheMostDangerousVideoGame so a bunch of jerks can open a door.
*** [[spoiler: ''Mothership Zeta'']]: Youth is abducted by aliens who want to weaponize a children's toy.
*** [[spoiler: ''Broken Steel'']]: Youth is {{railroad|ing}}ed into blowing up a BaseOnWheels.
*** [[spoiler: ''Point Lookout'']]: Youth is attacked by rednecks, drugged and lobotomized.
** [[spoiler:''VideoGame/FalloutNewVegas'']]: A postal worker goes postal while looking for a missing package. The game starts with you getting shot in the face.
*** [[spoiler: ''Dead Money'']]: The postal worker teams up with a schizophrenic, a mute, and a lounge singer to get into a basement.
*** [[spoiler: ''Honest Hearts'']]: The postal worker goes hiking with the natives.
*** [[spoiler: ''Old World Blues'']]: The postal worker does science while two light switches, a robotic planter, and a scientist make sexual advances toward said worker.
*** [[spoiler: ''Lonesome Road'']]: The postal worker has a homecoming party with another coworker.
** [[spoiler:''VideoGame/FalloutTacticsBrotherhoodOfSteel'']]: A youth joins a techno-religious organization and looks for an ancient bomb shelter. The game starts with you immediately shoved into a mission with two useless teammates who keep shooting you in the back.
** [[spoiler:''VideoGame/FalloutBrotherhoodOfSteel'']]: A youth joins a techno-religious organization and is sent to Texas to find some lost soldiers. After fighting a {{Stripperiffic}} woman and a 10-foot-tall ghoul priest, you confront a super mutant who turns into a giant biomass, who you proceed to [[YouNukeEm nuke]].
* [[spoiler:''VideoGame/FancyPantsAdventures'']]: A man embarks on elaborate quests to wake up a penguin, get revenge on a rabbit for stealing his ice-cream, and save his sister from a band of pirates who want her as captain instead of their current wussy one. All of the above (except the sister) are better drawn than him.
* [[spoiler:''VideoGame/FarCry'']]: Ex-Special Forces fellow needs to save reporter from mercenaries and mutants on a tropical island.
** [[spoiler:''FarCry: Instincts'']]: A mad scientist and his triggery-happy mercenaries blow up a man's boat. The man gets a [[PowerFist mean right hook]].
** [[spoiler: ''VideoGame/{{Far Cry 2}}'']]: Some other guy attempts to kick [[AcceptableTargets African warlord]] ass despite a malaria infection.
** [[spoiler: ''VideoGame/{{Far Cry 3}}'']]: A [[ThisLoserIsYou douchebag twenty-something]] tries to save his douchebag twenty-something friends from a {{Ruthless Modern Pirate|s}} on a tropical island with a magic tattoo.
** [[spoiler: ''VideoGame/FarCry3BloodDragon'']]: 80's action movie: The game.
* [[spoiler:''Farm Simulator'']]:: You own a run down farm in Europe on some unnamed island and you need to modernize it, make it produce money, and work hard for it to work for you.
* [[spoiler: ''VideoGame/FatPrincess'']]: Two teams of SuperDeformed fantasy heroes test the old adage "fat people are harder to kidnap".
* [[spoiler:''VideoGame/FatalFrame'']]: A teenaged girl screams at rope and takes pictures of dead people.
** [[spoiler:''VideoGame/FatalFrame 2'']]: Twin lolis take pictures of dead people who make grabby hands at them.
** [[spoiler:''VideoGame/FatalFrame 3'']]: A depressed photographer, alongside the depressed protagonist of the first game and a not-quite-as-depressed-as-everyone-else nonfiction writer wander around a dream manor and take pictures of dead people.
** [[spoiler:''VideoGame/FatalFrame 4'']]: A teenaged girl goes to an abandoned sanatorium to try and remember things, and ends up taking pictures of dead people. Two other teenaged girls go there too, and one of them takes pictures of dead people like the other girl. There is also a detective, and he shines a flashlight at dead people.
* [[spoiler:''VideoGame/FatalFury'']]: Three men enter a city-wide fighting tournament. The last opponent is the sponsor. [[SNKBoss He can whup their asses.]]
** [[spoiler:''VideoGame/FatalFury 2'']]: The sponsor's half-brother foots the bill for the next tournament. Everyone plays the UpdatedRerelease instead.
** [[spoiler:''VideoGame/FatalFury 3'']]: The sponsor of the first tournament steals a book from twins who have a psychopath on their payroll. ''Bad move''.
** [[spoiler:''Real Bout VideoGame/FatalFury'']]: Several martial artists band together to break into corporate property and kill the CEO.
** [[spoiler:''Garou: Mark of the Wolves'']]: A young man has issues with his maternal uncle.
* [[spoiler: ''VisualNovel/FatalHearts'']]: A teenage girl has a nightmare and tries to get herself killed by acting too dumb to live. Also, there are vampires and werewolves involved. Wait, that sounds [[Literature/{{Twilight}} kind of familiar.]]
* [[spoiler:''VisualNovel/FateStayNight'']]: A bunch of dead guys fight over a cup.
** [[spoiler:''Fate'']]: An OrdinaryHighSchoolStudent falls in love with King Arthur and learns about mythology.
** [[spoiler:''Unlimited Blade Works'']]: Superhero from the future attempts to kill self, thwarted by self. Ancient king learns the value of fake weaponry.
** [[spoiler:''Heaven's Feel'']]: Nice girl goes insane and eats a town despite Medusa's best efforts. OrdinaryHighSchoolStudent decides that ethics suck and beats up a priest.
* [[spoiler:''[[VideoGame/FirstEncounterAssaultRecon F.E.A.R.]]'']]: Mom tells her son to go eat people she doesn't like. Her other son gets in the way, and she tries to make them get along.
** Alternatively: A battalion of soldiers made up entirely of clones of their commander go rogue because the commander's dead mother told him to. His mute, time-freezing twin brother murders them all while hallucinating a lot.
*** [[spoiler:''F.E.A.R.'' expansions]]: A dead psychic comes back as a poltergeist and decides he hates all his brother's new friends. A [[{{Expy}} bald-yet-otherwise-identical man]] looks for mercenaries in the sewers on Creator/SteveBlum's orders.
** ''[[spoiler: Project Origin]]'': A Delta Force operative becomes the object of affection for a ghost. [[{{Yandere}} She does not take 'no' for an answer]].
*** ''[[spoiler:F.E.A.R. 2: Reborn]]'': A clone soldier goes on a bad acid trip and murders his entire platoon.
** [[spoiler:''[[VideoGame/FirstEncounterAssaultRecon F.3.A.R]]'']]: The bickering sons, one of whom is dead, work together to kill their mother and kidnap their sister. The fate of the world is at stake.
* [[spoiler:''Feeding Frenzy'']]: Fish (and eventually, a mammal) eat their way to the top of the food chain.
** [[spoiler:''Feeding Frenzy 2: Shipwreck Showdown'']]: Fish save the sea from a strange fish, by eating each other.
* [[spoiler:''Feel the Magic: XY/XX'']]: Engage in bizarre, death-defying, or just plain stupid activities to try to impress a girl, with the help of performance artists in silly costumes. Also, there are villains, though their motives are unknown.
** [[spoiler:''The Rub Rabbits!'']]: Prequel to the above game, with similar storyline, though there are now other guys who are also in love with the girl that you're in love with, and the villain is female. At the end, you become the leader and founder of the eponymous troupe, and the other guys make up the rest of the troupe.
* [[spoiler:''VideoGame/FightersMegamix'']]: A game with no story features characters from many different games including a giant fighting bean, a bomb-throwing duck named Bean, and a standing, fighting car.
* [[spoiler:''Franchise/FinalFantasy'']]: Series of stories whose only common factors are a species of overgrown yellow birds, white teddy bears with wings, flying boats, and a bunch of guys with the same name...oh, and crystals. Lots of crystals.
** [[spoiler:''VideoGame/FinalFantasyI'']]: A group of fated warriors solve global warming through violence. Crystal balls figure heavily.
** [[spoiler:''VideoGame/FinalFantasyII'']]: Three friends join LaResistance and indulge in self-mutilation to become stronger. You spend half the game trying to check out a banned library book.
** [[spoiler:''VideoGame/FinalFantasyIII'']]: World's greatest magician forgets to do a background check on his apprentices.
*** Snubbed at his birthday party, an easily angered man attempts to destroy multiple worlds to slight the gift-giver.
** [[spoiler:''VideoGame/FinalFantasyIV'']]: Man meets his long last brother while being betrayed by his best friend. ''[[ChronicBackstabbingDisorder Twice]].'' A SpaceWhale eventually comes into play.
** [[spoiler:''TheAfterYears'']]: The people from the above game team up with their kids to stop a guy that also has a fortress on the moon and wields an army of little girls.
** [[spoiler:''VideoGame/FinalFantasyV'']]: Group of strangers become the protectors of the {{Cosmic Keystone}}s. They are ''incredibly'' bad at their job. Also, their arch enemy is [[WhenTreesAttack a tree]].
** [[spoiler:''VideoGame/FinalFantasyVI'']]: An amnesiac rebels against her former employers, one of whom is a [[MonsterClown clown.]]
*** Quoted directly from ''WebAnimation/ZeroPunctuation'': "There's a guy trying to destroy the world because he's a dick."
** [[spoiler:''VideoGame/FinalFantasyVII'']]: A celebrity stalker is lied to by his girlfriend, while a momma's boy has a temper tantrum. Side plots include racing birds, stealing motorcycles, the militant arm of Green Peace, and everyone feels bad because the [[KillTheCutie Cutie]] gets cut by a Ginsu knife.
*** [[spoiler:''[[VideoGame/CrisisCore Crisis Core: Final Fantasy VII]]'']]: A charming young soldier meets some interesting people, then gets killed by his employer.
*** Or...Gackt recites bad poetry while all hell breaks loose.
*** Or: You play as a PunchClockVillain working for the local MegaCorp while all your coworkers gradually die, go insane, or both, and eventually wind up on the receiving end of DeathByOriginStory.
*** [[spoiler: ''[[VideoGame/DirgeOfCerberus Dirge of Cerberus: Final Fantasy VII]]'']]: Undead gunman fights color-coded bad guys and angsts over his ex-girlfriend.
*** [[spoiler: ''[[VideoGame/BeforeCrisis Before Crisis: Final Fantasy VII]]'']]: A group of well-dressed youngsters beat up environmentalists.
** [[spoiler:''VideoGame/FinalFantasyVIII'']]: Teenage mercenaries use ThePowerOfFriendship to fight time-traveling sorceresses.
*** Alternatively, six brain-damaged friends attempt to save the world, only to ensure the villain's rise to power in the process.
*** Or: Robin Williams and Demi Moore decide to get a divorce, thousands of innocent people die as a result.
** [[spoiler:''VideoGame/FinalFantasyIX'']]: Thieves kidnap a young princess as part of a political coup. They're the good guys.
*** Alternatively, the angel of death and his friends have a heated discussion with the angel's estranged family on the ethics of [[{{Pun}} terraforming]] an occupied planet.
** [[spoiler:''VideoGame/FinalFantasyX'']]: A pro underwater ballplayer's [[DoomedHometown hometown is blown up]] by a giant SpaceWhale. One thousand years later, he goes on a quest to beat up his father [[spoiler:''who has become Satan'']].
*** [[spoiler:''VideoGame/FinalFantasyX2'']]: A young woman searches for her lost love by playing dress-up.
** [[spoiler:''VideoGame/FinalFantasyXI'']]: One person (But not really) does odd jobs for the nations of the world, which range from checking on miners to stopping an EvilOverlord born out of racism...and said miners.
*** [[spoiler:''VideoGame/FinalFantasyXI: Rise of The Zilart'']]: Same person (But again, not really) teams up with [[NinjaPirateZombieRobot Ninja/Samurai-Pirates]] and a big, angry non-human ScaryBlackMan to stop two rich and [[ReallySevenHundredYearsOld old]] [[{{Bishonen}} pretty boys]] from trying to go to Heaven, which could mean TheEndOfTheWorldAsWeKnowIt.
*** [[spoiler:''VideoGame/FinalFantasyXI: Chains of Promathia'']]: Again, same person (And ''again'', not really) snoops around some broken glass and begins having to fight everyone and their uncle to stop TheEndOfTheWorldAsWeKnowIt (Yes, again) while a JerkSue acts like she owns the show, although she helps you fight the BigBad at the end along with a birdman (Who is [[WesternAnimation/HarveyBirdmanAttorneyAtLaw certainly not a lawyer]]). Also, the resident abomination resembles fart gas.
*** [[spoiler:''VideoGame/FinalFantasyXI: Treasures of Aht Urhgan'']]: Person from all the others (''Still'' not really) goes to a eastern empire and gets forced to take orders from a bipolar talking cat. Ends up in a plot with TheGrimReaper and a HumongousMecha. This person [[IdiotBall seems to have lost some IQ points during the trip over.]]
*** [[spoiler:''VideoGame/FinalFantasyXI: Wings of the Goddess'']]: The person gets in adventure for the fifth time (And for the fifth time, not really solo), this time by getting eaten and spit out by giant mouths into a war, and has adventures with a showgirl and another cat.
** [[spoiler:''VideoGame/FinalFantasyXII'']]: A callow orphan joins a princess leading a resistance against an [[TheEmpire evil empire]]. Along the way, he's mentored by a wise older knight. They're joined by a charming scoundrel, his tall, furry partner, an excitable half-pint, a suave black dude, and a stuffy British person. A guy in black armor gets in the way a lot, as does his boss TheEmperor. There's twins and daddy issues too. [[SarcasmMode It's totally not based on]] ''Franchise/StarWars''. [[SuspiciouslySpecificDenial Really]].
*** Alternately, you must kill 10 people in cold blood to be able to wear your new leather hat.
*** [[spoiler:''[[VideoGame/FinalFantasyXII Final Fantasy XII: Revenant Wings]]'']]: The cast of ''Franchise/StarWars'' finds a FloatingContinent, and liberates angels from God. Meanwhile, a woman tries to kill everyone, whilst mourning her {{lost love|Montage}}r.
** [[spoiler:''VideoGame/FinalFantasyXIII'']]: Six people get matching tattoos and spend the game trying to figure out why before the tattoos turn them into crystals or ''Franchise/SilentHill'' residents.
*** Alternatively, six self-loathing bastards argue the meaning of friendship and their newly acquired mystical tattoos. Millions die in the process.
*** [[spoiler:''VideoGame/{{Final Fantasy XIII-2}}'']]: A mysterious young man and his plucky female companion travel through time, fighting monsters and solving world-ending problems along the way. ...[[Series/DoctorWho Wait]].
*** [[spoiler:''VideoGame/LightningReturnsFinalFantasyXIII'']]: The heroine of the first game returns to try and fix the TimeCrash the heroes of the previous game caused by [[NiceJobBreakingItHero achieving that game's]] ''[[NiceJobBreakingItHero "good" ending]]''.
**** [[spoiler:The ''Fabula Nova Crystallis'' series in-general]]: Square's attempt to create a meta-franchise spectacularly implodes after two thirds of the promised games fall into DevelopmentHell and emerge half a decade later stripped of their XIII's.
** [[spoiler:''VideoGame/FinalFantasyXIV'']]: One person (But not really) does odd jobs for the nations of the world, [[ObviousBeta then receives a personal apology from God]].
*** [[spoiler:''Final Fantasy XIV: A Realm Reborn'']]: The aforementioned apology.
** [[spoiler:''VideoGame/FinalFantasyXV'']]: A LonelyRichKid and his [[FiveManBand metrosexual friends]] break the laws of physics and kill a horde of {{Mooks}} in a desperate bid to escape DevelopmentHell.
** [[spoiler:''VideoGame/FinalFantasyCrystalChronicles'']]: Brave heroes join up to hunt down the source of the world's air pollution. They argue over who gets stuck with a bucket.
*** [[spoiler:''VideoGame/FinalFantasyCrystalChronicles: MyLifeAsAKing'']]: A prepubescent royal bureaucrat sends the children of his country's poor off to die in dungeons while he stays at home and consoles their families.
*** [[spoiler:''VideoGame/FinalFantasyCrystalChronicles: MyLifeAsADarklord'']]: Daughter of the above game's BigBad defends her floating tower from the prepubescent royal bureaucrat's [[TheChosenOne Chosen Ones]].
** [[spoiler:''VideoGame/{{Final Fantasy Type-0}}'']]: An average semester at the local WizardingSchool ends in [[BloodierAndGorier genocide]].
** [[spoiler:''VideoGame/FinalFantasyTactics'']]: Amongst a GambitPileup, a guy tries to save his sister from Jesus.
** [[spoiler:''VideoGame/FinalFantasyTacticsAdvance'']]: You and your little brother and friends get sucked into an idealized alternate world, and you don't think staying is healthy. [[InternetBackdraft Gamers go to war over whether this is right.]]
*** [[spoiler:''VideoGame/FinalFantasyTacticsA2'']]: You need to complete your schoolwork.
** [[spoiler:''VideoGame/FinalFantasyMysticQuest'']]: An EvilOverlord makes up a [[BecauseDestinySaysSo prophecy foretelling his defeat]] as a joke. It backfires.
** [[spoiler:''Final Fantasy Legend'']]: God plays a prank on you. You seek revenge through steroid use and cannibalism.
** [[spoiler:''Final Fantasy Legend II'']]: Four friends go treasure hunting for GreenRocks.
** [[spoiler:''Final Fantasy Legend III'']]: A guy, his girlfriend and two mutes travel through time and space to fix the local plumbing problem.
** [[spoiler:''VideoGame/FinalFantasyAdventure'']]: A boy meets a young woman standing over a dead body in the woods and goes to great lengths to protect her from the local authorities.
** [[spoiler:''Final Fantasy Fables: VideoGame/ChocobosDungeon'']]: An oversized chicken almost destroys the world by warping itself into peoples' brains and restoring their horrible memories.
** [[spoiler:''VideoGame/DissidiaFinalFantasy'']]: An ethereal girl tells a handful of adventurers [[{{Crossover}} from different worlds]] to collect stones so that they can beat up a giant four-armed demon.
*** [[spoiler:''[[VideoGame/DissidiaFinalFantasy Dissidia 012 [duodecim]: Final Fantasy]]'']]: The ethereal girl and four-armed demon take turns absolutely trolling everyone via a GroundhogDayLoop.
*** [[spoiler:''VideoGame/TheatrhythmFinalFantasy'']]: The ethereal girl tells the adventurers to travel long distances and slay enemies to power a stone. The four-armed demon shows up eventually.
* [[spoiler:''VideoGame/FinalFight'']]: [[AuthorityEqualsAsskicking City mayor]] and his buddies [[BeatEmUp beat up]] mobsters.
* [[spoiler:''Franchise/FireEmblem'']]: Stories of incest and power plays where everyone only has one life.
** [[spoiler:''[[VideoGame/FireEmblemAkaneia Shadow Dragon]]'']]: A blue-haired pants-less prince sets off to save the world from a evil priest who wants to resurrect a [[AlwaysChaoticEvil great dragon]]. Along the way, he'll meet a handful of [[EverythingsBetterWithPrincesses princesses]](only one of which he actually [[CannotSpitItOut pursues]]), a shapeshifting [[CuteMonsterGirl dragon girl]], and others who join up and kill the [[BigBad dragon]].
** [[spoiler:''Fire Emblem: Mystery of the Emblem'']]: The same blue-haired pants-less prince loses his kingdom again when an ally performs a FaceHeelTurn. He joins up with old friends to get back his kingdom. Also, the dragon from before is involved and the blue-haired wonder becomes king of the world.
** [[spoiler:''[[VideoGame/FireEmblemJugdral Fire Emblem: Genealogy of the Holy War]]'']]: A hero goes to rescue a captured princess and gets caught up in a plot that has his wife brainwashed and made to breed with her half brother to resurrect a dark god. Oh, and he gets killed as soon as he learns of this.
*** [[spoiler:''Fire Emblem: Thracia 776'']]: Two girls are kidnapped by a [[TheQuisling traitorous]] Duke. This all leads to a 15 year old boy and a RagtagBunchOfMisfits killing a religious leader.
** [[spoiler:''[[VideoGame/FireEmblemElibe Fire Emblem: Sword of Seals]]'']]: Red haired child Casanova needs to go stop a militant country from crushing the world, as well as its ruler, who made a soulless dragon girl his bitch.
*** [[spoiler:''Fire Emblem: Blazing Sword'']]: The father of the hero of the prequel which is actually the sequel goes off on a journey to find his dad with the help of two musical dragons. Then he has to go stop a {{Gonk}} from destroying the world and sucking out everyone's soul in the universe.
** [[spoiler:''VideoGame/FireEmblemTheSacredStones'']]: A guy's dad dies. This results in global war and nearly ends the world. Comes with the usual side order of [[CuteMonsterGirl dragons]].
** [[spoiler:''[[VideoGame/FireEmblemTellius Fire Emblem: Path of Radiance]]'']]: A mercenary leads a war against the kingdom whose top general [[YouKilledMyFather killed his father]]. He has the help of [[{{Animorphism}} a race of people who can change into animals]].
*** [[spoiler:''Fire Emblem: Radiant Dawn'']]: A holy goddess decides to punish her creations for going to war too much by [[KillAllHumans killing them all]]. The mercenary in the previous game teams up with a side character from the previous game, his girlfriend and the goddess's "Evil" counterpart to kill the holy goddess first.
** [[spoiler:''Videogame/FireEmblemAwakening'']]: A thousand or so years after the first game, another blue haired prince learns that love can bloom on the battlefield and meets his KidFromTheFuture. He can also summon heroes from other worlds... [[DownloadableContent for a price.]]
* [[spoiler: ''VideoGame/FireShark'']]: A biplane burns everything to the ground.
* [[spoiler:''The Firemen'']]: A Dynamic Duo of everyday heroes fight flamigerous demons in a world where thermodynamics have gone completely haywire and do as they please.
* [[spoiler:''Fish Fillets'']]: Two fish push objects. In one year after the game was published, only six people finished it.
* [[spoiler:''VideoGame/FlatOut'']]: You race. [[WreakingHavok Almost]] [[ShowsDamage everything]] [[RagdollPhysics breaks]] [[DieChairDie when you crash into them]].
* [[spoiler:''VideoGame/{{Flower}}'']]: You mainly just open flowers. You can't lose. The environment is your only enemy but cannot beat you anyway.
* [[spoiler:''VideoGame/{{Folklore}}'']]: Amnesiac Irish girl and occult magazine reporter attempt to solve a murder mystery connected to her past.
* [[spoiler:''Food Fight'']]: Eat ice cream before it melts. If you fail, tons of food throws itself at you.
* [[spoiler:''VideoGame/TheForceUnleashed'']]: Guy founds his master's future undoing. He performs [[CrowningMomentOfAwesome many awesome feats]] on the way.
** [[spoiler:''VideoGame/TheForceUnleashed II'']]: The guy from the first game dies. His masters clone him back and try to make him evil. It doesn't work and he kills himself multiple times to attempt to get revenge on them.
* [[spoiler:''Forgotten Worlds'']]: Two flying, shirtless guys armed with guns go on a quest to kill a deity.
* [[spoiler:''VideoGame/ForumWarz'']]: Lay waste to a copy of the Internet.
* [[spoiler:''VideoGame/FragileDreamsFarewellRuinsOfTheMoon'']]: A boy tries to find a girlfriend AfterTheEnd.
* [[spoiler:''VideoGame/{{Freelancer}}'']]: SpaceIsAnOcean that appears to be [[SpaceCompression approximately the size of Rhode Island.]] You fight evil blue aliens determined to wipe out humanity, and a bunch of German stereotypes.
* [[spoiler: ''VideoGame/FreeSpace: The Great War'']]: Quasi-fascist human military state teams up with philosophy-spouting desert-dwelling aliens to drive off evil space bugs intent on killing anyone who is not an evil space bug and a doomsday cult with spaceships. FeaturelessProtagonist pilot single-handedly leads the quasi-fascists to victory in his SpaceFighter.
** [[spoiler: ''[=FreeSpace 2=]'']]: The humans and aliens have merged into the United Nations [[RecycledInSpace IN SPACE!]] They fight evil space racists and then the evil space bugs show up and start killing people again. FeaturelessProtagonist pilot amasses an enormous body count and the space bugs blow up a star and leave for no apparent reason.
* [[spoiler:''VideoGame/{{Frogger}}'']]: An amphibian tries to return to his home in the river. [[SuperDrowningSkills He can't swim.]]
* [[spoiler:''VideoGame/FTLFasterThanLight'']]: Spaceship crew attempts to outrun an ever-expanding rebel pursuit force in order to scuttle their forces, steal their parts, and eventually destroy their mothership.
* [[spoiler:''VideoGame/FullThrottle'']]: A GeniusBruiser BadassBiker wanders the desert and makes a WrenchWench the president of a car company.
* [[spoiler:''Fuzion Frenzy'']]: Four people compete with each other in minigame competitions to dominate the universe. All to the tune of an ingratiating narrator.
* [[spoiler:''VideoGame/FZero'']]: Aliens and monsters race in cars that have no wheels. These cars will explode if they hit the sides of the tracks. And you listen to butt-rock.
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* [[spoiler:'' VideoGame/{{D}}'']]: A woman has two hours to kill her father before her pocketwatch eats her.
** [[spoiler:'' VideoGame/EnemyZero'']]: ''Film/{{Alien}}'' if it starred the woman.
** [[spoiler:''D2'']]: ''Film/TheThing1982'' if it starred the woman. [[WhatCouldHaveBeen But it almost starred her son.]]
* [[spoiler:''VideoGame/DanceDanceRevolution'']]: You stomp in time to music and receive very corny compliments if you do well.
* [[spoiler:''VisualNovel/DanganRonpa'']]: A group of high school students are imprisoned inside of a school. The only way to graduate is by killing a fellow student and getting away with it. The principal of the school is an evil teddy bear.
** [[spoiler:''VisualNovel/SuperDanganRonpa2'']]: Same as above, but [[RecycledInSpace on an ISLAND.]]
* [[spoiler: ''VideoGame/DantesInferno'']]: The {{Love Interest|s}} has been kidnapped by {{Satan}}! Are you a bad enough Renaissance poet to rescue the {{Love Interest|s}}?
* [[spoiler:''VideoGame/{{Darius}}'']]: Mechanical marine life is attacking a planet.
* [[spoiler:''VideoGame/DarkCastle'']]: A man prone to tripping over ledges confronts an EvilOverlord, who hurls mugs of substandard beer in his general direction.
* [[spoiler:''VideoGame/DarkCloud'']]: An ancient evil is [[SealedEvilInACan let out of its jar]] and is [[TheEndOfTheWorldAsWeKnowIt ending the world,]] and the only people who can stop it are a race of [[spoiler: bunnies]] who live on the moon. A boy and his cat set out to find them, rearranging cities into more convenient configurations for the residents as they go.
** [[spoiler:''Dark Cloud 2'']]: Another ancient evil in the form of a cute fluffy bunny is tampering with the past to destroy the future, so a mama's boy whose never left his home town before and a princess from the future who both possess magic stones have to stop him.
* [[spoiler:''VideoGame/{{Dark Forces|Saga}}'']]: Some guy is responsible for letting [[Franchise/StarWars Luke Skywalker blow up the Death Star]]. This guy also did a lot of other stuff you've ''never even heard of'', most of which involved shooting tons of stupid people.
** [[spoiler:''Jedi Knight: Dark Forces II'']]: The guy in question, surprise surprise, turns out to be a Jedi, and has to kill the seven Dark Jedi that killed his father. Stop me if this sounds familiar.
*** [[spoiler:''Jedi Knight: Mysteries Of The Sith'']] The guy gets himself in serious trouble, and Luke Skywalker's future wife has to bail him out. She brings her friend back from TheDarkSide by not fighting him. How original.
** [[spoiler:''Jedi Knight II: Jedi Outcast'']]: The guy decides he wants to be a Jedi again, because hey, what better way to ''get revenge for [[spoiler:a loved one's death]]'' than TheForce? I wonder how that works out for him.
** [[spoiler:''Jedi Knight: Jedi Academy'']]: The guy's apprentices squabble and go hunting for people worshipping a dead guy. In months they become more badass than he ever was.
* [[spoiler:''{{Darklands}}'']]: Four random people group together to wander aimlessly around 15th-century Europe, and they ''may or may not'' end up [[DidYouJustPunchOutCthulhu defeating the devil]].
* [[spoiler:''VideoGame/DarkSector'']]: You throw a lethal piece of your body at your enemies. Like a boomerang.
* [[spoiler:''VideoGame/DarkSeed'']]: A man has to deal with a headache which comes as a result from him realising how horrible his new house (which he apparently never even looked at before buying) truly is.
** [[spoiler:''Darkseed II]]: Series/TwinPeaks: The Videogame''. Actually, [[DarthWiki/SoBadItsHorrible Worse than it Sounds.]]
* [[spoiler:''VideoGame/{{Darksiders}}'']]: A [[{{BFS}} swordsman]], framed for a crime he didn't commit, must [[VideoGame/GodOfWar battle waves of enemies]] and [[Franchise/TheLegendOfZelda solve environmental puzzles]] to clear his name.
** [[spoiler:''VideoGame/DarksidersII'']]: The swordsman's [[NotBloodSiblings brother]] must battle waves of enemies and solve environmental puzzles to find out what really happened to the swordsman... and to clear the swordsman's name.
* [[spoiler:''VideoGame/DarkSouls'']]: Most of the people in this game are undead. Even [[PlayerCharacter you]]. And this game is absurdly difficult.
** A man murders the esteemed rulers of a nation to start a fire.
* [[spoiler:''VideoGame/{{Darkstalkers}}'']]: Public domain monster movie characters battle each other, a perpetually-burning alien, and a demon who attacks by [[BloodyMurder cutting himself]].
* [[spoiler:''VideoGame/{{Darwinia}}'']]: A computer scientist's games console is a huge flop, so he networks them all together to make a virtual world. When it gets a virus, you lead the inhabitants in war. They [[WeHaveReserves die in droves]], but you collect their souls to resurrect them.
* [[spoiler:''VideoGame/DeBlob'']]: A ball of paint must recolour an entire city in order to save it from a dictatorship and their army of ink blots and giant pens.
** Better yet: The object of the game is pretty much just to touch everything.
* [[spoiler:''Franchise/DeadOrAlive'']]: [[JigglePhysics Bouncy]] females (and some guys, too) fight to stop a corporation from creating a SuperSoldier.
** [[spoiler:''Dead or Alive Xtreme'']]: The girls go to an island, play games and give each other gifts.
* [[spoiler:''VideoGame/DeadRising'']]: Journalist who likes to boast that he's covered wars gets locked in a shopping mall for 72 hours, and passes the time by killing angry people with [[ImprovisedWeapon nearly anything]] [[ImprobableWeaponUser he can pick up]] and thwarting a government conspiracy.
** Alternatively, wasps sting people and make them very hungry.
** Or: A journalist spends 72 hours killing zombies with [[ImprovisedWeapon various items]] while wearing a dress. Rumor has it the game actually has a plot.
* [[spoiler:''VideoGame/DeadRising2'']]: A gameshow contestant takes the fall for a criminal, and works out his frustration by killing everyone around him and gambling to buy shots for his underage daughter.
* [[spoiler:''VideoGame/DeadSpace'']]: A repairman is attacked when he comes to fix the interstellar phone.
* [[spoiler:''VideoGame/DeadSpace2'']]: A schizophrenic space janitor tries to cleanse himself and others around him of the next evolutionary step of thetans, using improvised means.
* [[spoiler:''DeadToRights'']]: In one of the greatest ''Comicbook/SinCity'' stories Creator/FrankMiller never wrote, a loose cannon ex-cop and his dog look for the murderer of the ex-cop's father. Brings down international crime ring.
* [[spoiler:''VideoGame/DeadlyCreatures'']]: Two brothers bicker over a hidden treasure. Instead of playing as either of them, you follow the everyday lives of a tarantula and a scorpion living in an American desert.
* [[spoiler:''VideoGame/DeadlyPremonition'']]: Man who talks to coffee embarks on a quest to stop trees from growing in a country town. Along the way he eats a cornflake, jam and turkey sandwich on the FBI's dollar and shoots some locals.
* [[spoiler:''VideoGame/DearEsther'']]: A man walks across an island. There are no puzzles, enemies, or other characters.
* [[spoiler:''VideoGame/DeathSmiles'']]: Teenagers use artillery to stop the wrongdoings of a friend's abusive father.
* [[spoiler:''VideoGame/DeathSpank'']]: [[LanternJawOfJustice Lantern-jawed]] IdiotHero fights evil in his underwear.
* [[spoiler:''VideoGame/{{Deception}}'']]: You're told to bring Satan to this realm by killing people, but you can only be bothered to do so by being passive-aggressive.
* [[spoiler:''[[DefJamSeries Def Jam Vendetta]]'']]: A wrestling game. With ''rappers.''
* [[spoiler:''VideoGame/{{DEFCON}}'']]: You play your part in conducting an unhurried nuclear holocaust depicted in simple wireframe graphics. Try to lose least. [[Film/WarGames Would you like to play a game?]]
* [[spoiler:''VideoGame/DefenderOfTheCrown'']]: In an effort to recover a stolen artifact, you conquer England. And then it's revealed that a thief took it.
* [[spoiler:''VideoGame/DejaVu'']]: You wake up in a bathroom and can't remember what happened last night.
* [[spoiler:''VideoGame/DelveDeeper'']]: [[ColorCodedMultiplayer Colorfully-dressed dwarves]] who can only dig in six directions go treasure-hunting, beating the crap out of anyone who gets in the way (including each other).
* [[spoiler:''DementiumTheWard'']]: A man who's just had a successful session of psychotherapy has to find his own way out of a hospital because the staff are busy dealing with some newfangled-type disease.
* [[spoiler:''VideoGame/DemonsSouls'']]: You die, and then the game becomes harder.
* [[spoiler:''Dengeki Gakuen RPG: Cross of Venus'']]: You and your {{BFS}} join forces with Creator/RieKugimiya [[LightNovel/ShakuganNoShana on fire]], [[LightNovel/IriyaNoSoraUFONoNatsu an emotionless girl]], [[LightNovel/KinosJourney a travelling girl]], [[LightNovel/ACertainMagicalIndex a nun girl]], [[LightNovel/NogizakaHarukaNoHimitsu an otaku girl]], [[LightNovel/BludgeoningAngelDokurochan a psychotic angel girl]], Rie Kugimiya [[LightNovel/{{Toradora}} beating up a non-delinquent]], and [[LightNovel/AsuraCryin a ghost girl]] to save [[LightNovels Japanese literature]].
* [[spoiler:''Derrick the Deathfin'']]: A shark made of paper goes on a rampage and tries to eat everything in sight.
* [[spoiler:''VideoGame/DesertMoon'']]: Engineers stranded on a desert planet wait for rescue. [[ZergRush Some]] aliens and zombies are involved.
* [[spoiler:''[[Series/DoctorWho Destiny of the Doctors]]'']]: It's up to a kludged robot who [[CastFromHitPoints Casts From Hit Points]] to save the Oncoming Storm.
* [[spoiler:''VideoGame/DestroyAllHumans'']]: A little gray man and WesternAnimation/{{Invader|Zim}} [[HeyItsThatVoice Zim]] steal people's brains and generally cause trouble in TheFifties. The government tries to hush it up in increasingly desperate ways.
** [[spoiler: ''VideoGame/DestroyAllHumans! 2'']]: A little gray man who happens to be the president of the United states and WesternAnimation/{{Invader|Zim}} [[HeyItsThatVoice Zim]], who happens to be dead, fight DirtyCommunists and [[WesternAnimation/SouthPark Crab People]] in TheSixties.
** [[spoiler: ''VideoGame/DestroyAllHumans! Path of the Furon'']]: [[strike: A little green gray man, who is no longer president, and WesternAnimation/{{Invader|Zim}} [[HeyItsThatVoice Zim]], who is still dead, become the {{Unwitting Pawn}}s to an exile's plan to depose their rotting alien emperor in TheSeventies.]]
* [[spoiler:''VideoGame/DeusEx'']]: A man wears [[CoolShades sunglasses]] [[SunglassesAtNight at night]], so he can fight crime. Then the government. Then [[ConspiracyKitchenSink conspiracy nuts]].
** [[spoiler:''VideoGame/DeusExInvisibleWar'']]: The man from the previous entry goes insane and moves to Antarctica until his son (or daughter) snaps him out of it. There are four endings, and all of them are bad.
** [[spoiler:''VideoGame/DeusExHumanRevolution'']]: Before the other two games, a disabled man wearing [[CoolShades sunglasses]] never asked for this game.
*** Alt: Guy shoots you in your face. Find out who shot you in your face.
* [[spoiler:''VideoGame/DevilMayCry'']]: Son of a demon kicks {{Satan}}'s ass with style and confesses a desire to [[{{Narm}} fill a soul WITH LIGHT]].
** [[spoiler:''Devil May Cry 2'']]: Son of a demon kicks more ass. Strange girl [[Horrible/VoiceActing who can't act and may or may not have an accent]] shows up. A CorruptCorporateExecutive is involved. None of it makes any sense.
** [[spoiler:''Devil May Cry 3'']]: Guy [[MundaneMadeAwesome who eats pizza in slo-mo]] gets his shop ruined and goes after his EvilTwin who did it, climbing a "[[DoesThisRemindYouOfAnything thick shaft]] [[DoubleEntendre that causes]] women to shudder" in the process. They are forced to team up against a bald guy with heterochromia who turns into a blob through their father's power. The EvilTwin falls off a cliff.
** [[spoiler:''Devil May Cry 4'']]: Pope-lookalike gets headshot and his underlings must find the murderer. Only it turns out that the murderer might have had [[ShootTheDog good reason]] [[WellIntentionedExtremist for doing so]]...
* [[spoiler:''VideoGame/{{Diablo}}'']]: Defeat the SealedEvilInACan so you can jam a sharp glass shard into your face.
** [[spoiler:''Diablo II'']]: Defeat the hero from the last game, who became the SealedEvilInACan by jamming the sharp glass shard into his face. This involves travelling all around the world and killing loads of stuff.
*** [[spoiler:''Diablo II: Lord of Destruction'']]: Defeat the SealedEvilInACan's brother who you totally forgot about at the end of the last game.
** [[spoiler:''VideoGame/DiabloIII'']]: Continue playing in the world of the last two games. The hero from the first game and all the interesting bosses are still dead.
* [[spoiler:''VideoGame/DiddyKongRacing'']]: A tall punk, a peanut-lover, some guy in overalls, a goggle-lovin' Texan, a bird-lovin' Redneck, a drunken king, some guy with a shell, a Sailor Moon fanatic, a kid who inherited Hawaii, an over-sized Indian, and a sentient clock defend the world from a 50-foot tall alien and his brainwashed slaves...by RACING THEM! Lots and lots of balloons are required too.
** [[spoiler:''Diddy Kong Racing DS'']]: 14 years later, Hawaii is still being hollowed-out, the bird-lovin' Redneck and drunken king now work at Microsoft, the peanut-lover's fanservice-sisters take their places, said peanut-lover's island also becomes a racetrack, and all get to play with clouds and toys. Otherwise, it's still all about RACING and balloons.
* [[spoiler:''VideoGame/DieAnstalt'']]: Serve as a psychotherapist to stuffed toys.
** Alternatively: A paranoid wanderer, a mute autistic, a hot-tempered schizophrenic, an easily-distracted {{Manchild}}, a schedule-oriented pseudo-athlete and a psychologist are all in one room. You have to take each one and alternate between going into their dreams and watching them interact with objects for ten minutes.
* [[spoiler:''VideoGame/DigDug'']]: A [[OneHitPointWonder fragile]] guy with an air pump digs tunnels and blows up local wildlife.
** [[spoiler:''Dig-Dug II'']]: The guy can also destroy islands.
* [[spoiler:''VideoGame/DigimonWorld3'']]: Not being able to log out from an MMORPG turns people into pigs.
* [[spoiler:''VideoGame/DinoCrisis'']]: A girl who believes dyeing her hair bright red to be proper spy attire acts incredibly bored around living proof of TimeTravel, when she's not killing it.
** [[spoiler:''DinoCrisis2'']]: The girl gets into a bunch of arguments with an unrelated man until he learns that he's fathered a child.
** [[spoiler:''DinoCrisis3'']]: Forget what you read about the first two; also, [[Franchise/ANightmareOnElmStreet Freddy Krueger]] has successfully cross-bred with dinosaurs.
* [[spoiler:''VideoGame/DinoRun (Flash Game)'']]: Run away from impending doom, all while consuming smaller creatures on the food chain, stealing eggs and being a dick to everything you come across.
* [[spoiler:''Franchise/{{Disgaea}}'']]: Hell-as-designed-by-Tim-Burton isn't so bad, but "quirky" does not even begin to describe the folks who live there. A series wherein the cast of characters tends to be as GenreSavvy and {{medium aware|ness}} as the player.
** [[spoiler:''VideoGame/DisgaeaHourOfDarkness'']]: Demon prince oversleeps, must reclaim kingdom with [[EverythingsBetterWithPenguins dead criminals]].
*** Or: Angelic assassin teaches her target's son how to love. Violence ensues.
*** [[spoiler:''VideoGame/DisgaeaDimension2'']]: A few years later, said prince inducts a PR campaign and rids the countryside of flowers while spending time with his little sister.
** [[spoiler:''VideoGame/Disgaea2CursedMemories'']]: Level 1 protagonist tries to fight final boss. He fails.
*** Alternatively, A human trying to summon a demonic overlord summons his daughter instead; HilarityEnsues and at least two plot twists happen as they try to find the overlord himself.
** [[spoiler:''VideoGame/Disgaea3AbsenceOfJustice'']]: [[BadassBookworm Nerdy but dangerous]] WhiteHairBlackHeart wishes to become the protagonist in order to win the game. Alternatively, demon wishes to open his heart so he can turn to evil; chainsaws are considered but ultimately rejected as impractical.
** [[spoiler:''VideoGame/Disgaea4APromiseUnforgotten'']]: A FriendlyNeighborhoodVampire who is obsessed with fish would rather kill the ruler of the humans than drink one drop of human blood.
*** [[spoiler:The Fuka and Desco Show]]: Dead criminal tries to get pardoned by holding up a bank.
** [[spoiler:''VideoGame/PrinnyCanIReallyBeTheHero'']]: Dead criminals search for food with the help of a scarf.
*** In an alternate story, the main character of a cancelled game seeks advice from dead criminals.
** [[spoiler:''[[VideoGame/PrinnyCanIReallyBeTheHero Prinny 2: Dawn Of Operation Panties, Dood]]'']]: Dead criminals search for underwear with the help of a scarf.
*** [[spoiler:Asagi Wars]]: the main character of a cancelled game is now a dead criminal.
** [[spoiler:''VisualNovel/DisgaeaInfinite'']]: A dead criminal travels through time and tries to prevent an assassination attempt against his overlord. Pudding is involved.
* [[spoiler:''VideoGame/{{Dishonored}}'']]: Go from being an esteemed public figure to skulking around in the shadows, robbing or murdering people who are just trying to get by in the middle of a crisis, sending several people to fates worse than death, and willingly becoming the plaything of a dark god.
* [[spoiler: ''VideoGame/{{Dizzy}}'']]: A sentient egg saves his friends from the big bad by carrying random objects from one side of the land to another.
* [[spoiler: ''[[VideoGame/DonPachi DoDonPachi]]'']]: A nameless pilot with a Big F'ing Laser slaughters his own troops. Then he fights a bee.
** Alternately: Kill thousands of innocent soldiers in a "training exercise". Then do it again, only harder.
** ''[[spoiler:[[VideoGame/DonPachi DoDonPachi dai-ou-jou]]]]'': A lunar doll fight.
** ''[[spoiler:[=DoDonPachi=] [=DaiFukkatsu=]]]'': Doll fighting in [[PresentDay 2008]].
** ''[[spoiler:[=DoDonPachi=] [=SaiDaiOuJou=]]]'': A sentient doll wants to produce more dolls.
* [[spoiler: ''VideoGame/{{Dogyuun}}'']]: An airplane pilots a [[HumongousMecha mecha]].
* [[spoiler: ''VideoGame/DokaponKingdom'']]: Miserly king offers his daughter's hand in marriage to backstabbers, looters and kill-stealers.
* [[spoiler: ''Doki Doki Majo Shinpan'']]: You must save the world from witches by feeling up underage girls.
** Or: God tells you to touch teenaged girls.
* [[spoiler: ''Don't Shoot the Puppy'']]: It gets harder and harder not to kill a dog.
* [[spoiler: ''VideoGame/DontStarve'']]: A mad scientist is stranded in a hostile wilderness. He passes the time with cookery, scientific research, and making dummies of himself out of meat and his own facial hair. Later, you get the ability to play as an adorable pyromaniac, a haunted girl, a {{hulk speak}}ing strong-man, a psychotic robot, an insomniac librarian, a lumberjack who talks to his axe, or a wimpy mime.
* [[spoiler:''VideoGame/DonkeyKong'']]: A carpenter climbs an unfinished tower in pursuit of a giant beast who has kidnapped his lover. Background music loops once to four times per second.
** [[spoiler:''Donkey Kong Junior'']]: A young lad must rescue his father from a carpenter.
** [[spoiler:''Donkey Kong 3'']]: A man must stop a giant animal from destroying his greenhouse, armed with nothing but a can of bug spray. He is never seen again.
** [[spoiler:''VideoGame/DonkeyKongCountry'']]: Apes go jump on banana-stealing crocodiles.
*** [[spoiler:''VideoGame/DonkeyKongCountry2DiddysKongQuest'']]: The crocodiles kidnap the big ape, so his little buddy, along with his girlfriend, goes to rescue him.
*** [[spoiler:''VideoGame/DonkeyKongCountry3DixieKongsDoubleTrouble'']]: The big ape and his little buddy are missing, so the little buddy's girlfriend and her infant cousin go looking for them.
*** [[spoiler:''VideoGame/DonkeyKong64'']]: The crocodiles prepare to blow up the gorillas' island and steal their bananas again to keep them distracted.
*** [[spoiler:''VideoGame/DonkeyKongCountryReturns'']]: Musical instruments steal the apes' bananas.
** [[spoiler:''VideoGame/DonkeyKonga'']]: Big monkeys play little drums along to popular music.
** [[spoiler:''Donkey Kong Jungle Beat'']]: You control a gorilla using bongos.
* [[spoiler:''VideoGame/{{Doom}}'']]: A military-industrial conglomerate's experiments with teleportation go wrong and pave the way for an invasion by TheLegionsOfHell. They are soundly defeated by a [[strike:[[OneManArmy berserker-packing MAN-AND-A-HALF]]]] lowly grunt.
** [[spoiler:''Doom II: Hell on Earth'']]: TheLegionsOfHell invade Earth. They are soundly defeated by a [[strike:[[OneManArmy berserker-packing MAN-AND-A-HALF]]]] lowly grunt. And then he destroys Hell. Purely out of revenge for the death of his pet rabbit.
*** [[spoiler:''Doom 64'']]: TheLegionsOfHell refuse to learn their lesson. The lowly grunt kills their leader, again, and then moves in to Hell.
** [[spoiler:''Doom III'']]: In an AlternateContinuity, a Satanist takes advantage of said teleportation experiments to create a demonic navy for the purposes of world conquest. The same [[strike:[[OneManArmy berserker-packing MAN-AND-A-HALF]]]] lowly grunt stops it.
** [[spoiler:''Videogame/DoomTheRoguelike'']]: A military-industrial conglomerate's experiments with teleportation go wrong and pave the way for an invasion by TheLegionsOfHell. They are soundly defeated by a [[strike:[[OneManArmy berserker-packing MAN-AND-A-HALF]]]] lowly grunt. Only this time, there's less graphics.
* [[spoiler:''[[Franchise/DotHack .hack//GU]]'']]: PlayerKilling in an MMORPG is SeriousBusiness.
* [[spoiler:''VideoGame/DoubleDragon'']]: Two brothers must rescue a damsel from the bad guys so that they can properly kung-fu fight each other for the right to date her.
** [[spoiler:''VideoGame/DoubleDragonNeon'']]: The brothers rescue the damsel again, this time from a [[WesternAnimation/HeManAndTheMastersOfTheUniverse1983 Skeletor]] clone. High-fives and {{air guitar}}s all around!
* [[spoiler:''Double Dungeons'']]: [[WithThisHerring Knights]] quest to defeat a lot of random baddies to collect alphabet tiles, presumably to play Scrabble with the biggest baddie. [[FragileSpeedster Also they zip around and make car noises]] and [[OneHitPointWonder explode just as spectacularly]] [[spoiler: [[DontExplainTheJoke specifically, the knights in the game would be clocked at over 230MPH based upon how fast they move through the dungeons' tiles and you gain about 2 HP each level but a LOT of attack.]]]]
* [[spoiler:''VideoGame/DragonAgeOrigins'']]: A hero's attempts to slay a dragon are delayed when everyone makes him/her solve their problems first.
** [[spoiler:''VideoGame/DragonAgeOriginsAwakening'']]: A hero's attempts to govern his/her lands are impeded by a surprisingly civilized MadScientist and a madwoman with way too many nipples.
** ''[[spoiler:Dragon Age: Origins - Darkspawn Chronicles DLC]]'': After the hero bites the big one his/her friend/boyfriend (respectively) has to be the new hero. He fails... HARD.
** ''[[spoiler:Dragon Age: Origins - Golems of Amgarrak DLC]]'': The hero works with two brothers to find out how to make magical piles of rocks and scrap metal.
** ''[[spoiler:Dragon Age: Origins - Witch Hunt DLC]]'': Two years after your girlfriend/ friend runs off with your/your friend/lover's future child she returns. Decide if you want to stab her or not.
** ''[[spoiler:Dragon Age: Origins - Leiliana's Song DLC]]'': A young French thief's idol doesn't turn out to be everything she is cracked up to be.
** ''[[spoiler:VideoGame/DragonAgeII]]'': An UnreliableNarrator pisses off an inquisitor during his interrogation.
* [[spoiler: ''VideoGame/DragonQuestI'']]: A random soldier searches for [[AncestralWeapon Ancestral Weaponry]] in order to fight a wizard who ran off with the king's daughter. [[ButThouMust Against his will]].
*** Alternatively: Random guy has to go fight a dragon on the other side of a river. But he can't swim and boats don't exist.
** [[spoiler: ''VideoGame/DragonQuestII'']]: Three random royal cousins run around gaining EXP and Phat Lewt in order to fight an exceptionally bored evil wizard.
** [[spoiler: ''VideoGame/DragonQuestIII'']]: Son of a hero sallies forth to kill the evil villain. He kills the wrong guy.
*** [[spoiler: ''VideoGame/DragonQuestIII'' for GameBoyColor]]: Same as above, but instead of correcting his mistake, he decides to [[TakeYourTime spend several years]] coin-collecting for the amusement of a bored deity he will probably never meet.
** [[spoiler: ''VideoGame/DragonQuestIV'']]: [[ADayInTheLimelight Random henchmen all have various quests]] that are immediately forgotten once the hero decides to stop hiding in a basement.
** [[spoiler: ''VideoGame/DragonQuestV'']]: Random guy runs around having adventures and gets married. He would kill the villain, but he can't -- he's not the hero, his son is.
** [[spoiler: ''VideoGame/DragonQuestVI'']]: The hero dies in the opening. His (not so) EvilTwin from an alternate reality takes up the quest.
** [[spoiler: ''VideoGame/DragonQuestVII'']]: Random fisherman's son discovers the entire world has been turned into SealedGoodInACan. Then he opens one too many cans.
** [[spoiler: ''VideoGame/DragonQuestVIII'']]: Random troll and his daughter, the horse, chase after an [[MonsterClown evil clown]] with a magic stick.
** [[spoiler: ''VideoGame/DragonQuestIX'']]: Random angel tries to get back into Heaven by collecting glowing fruit.
** [[spoiler: ''VideoGame/DragonQuestMonsters'']]: A furby kidnaps a young boy to make him fight in glorified dog fights to find his sister, who was kidnapped by an evil furby.
*** [[spoiler: ''Dragon Quest Monsters 2'']]: Two bored kids cause their island to start sinking, so they grab their father's [[RidiculouslyCuteCritter monstrous monster-farm farm hand]] and go participate in glorified dog fights to find a cork.
*** [[spoiler: ''Dragon Quest Monsters: Caravan Heart'']]: Creepy old man teleports spoiled rich kid to an oddly familiar alternate universe to be a bureaucrat.
*** [[spoiler: ''Dragon Quest Monsters: Joker'']]: Random punk is forced to enter a glorified dog fight because his dad wants him to, only to gain a [[NonHumanSidekick random animal buddy]] and discover that dog fights are ''SeriousBusiness.''
** [[spoiler: ''VideoGame/DragonQuestHeroesRocketSlime'']]: A village of the weakest monster type in the game is attacked by platypi. The one escapee sets out to get revenge. With a [[LostTechnology tomb]].
** [[spoiler: ''VideoGame/DragonQuestSwords: The Masked Queen and the Tower of Mirrors'']]: Son of a legendary swordsman performs amazing feats for a queen who doesn't want to talk to anyone.
* [[spoiler: ''VideoGame/DragonsCrown'']]: Physically disproportionate D&D characters goes on a quest to save a kingdom from orcs.
* [[spoiler: ''VideoGame/DragonsDogma'']]: A heartless hero must go on a quest to slay a dragon. It is accomplished by climbing and killing monsters. They are also helped by online avatars of sidekicks by other heartless heroes.
* [[spoiler: ''Dragon's Lair'']]: You follow flashes of light in order to watch an animated fantasy movie. Press the button at ''exactly'' the right moment or you can't watch the next bit.
** [[spoiler: ''Space Ace'']]: Largely the same thing as above, but [[RecycledInSPACE this time it's an animated science fiction movie]].
* [[spoiler: ''VideoGame/{{Drakengard}}'']]: A mute soldier [[ABoyAndHisX and his dragon]] go on a nightmarish quest to exact revenge upon a vicious Empire with the "aid" of several cursed people.
* [[spoiler: ''VisualNovel/DramaticalMurder'']]: A guy with nerves in his hair and a CompellingVoice, a guy who wears a [[GasMaskLongcoat gas mask and a lab coat]] and insists on calling the protagonist 'Master', a {{Lady Killer In Love}} with a sword, a stoic hacker with NoSocialSkills and a mysterious BadassBiker band together to save an island from MassHypnosis.
* [[spoiler: ''VideoGame/DrawnToLife'']]: Save the world from encroaching darkness by making it your personal sketchbook.
** [[spoiler: ''Drawn to Life: The Next Chapter (Wii)'']]: Fetch quests, and the villain can't remember what her husband looked like.
** [[spoiler: ''Drawn to Life: The Next Chapter (DS)'']]: God hides his true motive from himself, and fans wish they'd never asked about the {{Ensemble Darkhorse}}s' origins.
*** Alternately, The villain darns color just for there to be a world for him to rule. The ending proves a lot of people do not understand magic dreams.
* [[spoiler: ''VideoGame/DrillDozer'']]: A little girl in a tank spends her time stealing rocks.
* [[spoiler:''VideoGame/DriverSanFrancisco'']]: A cop goes into a coma, thinks he can possess people, and hunts down an escaped crime lord in his dreams. This is more effective than the entire real-world police force.
* [[spoiler:''VideoGame/DrMario'']]: A blue-collar repairman can cure any disease, but only if he administers the medications in exactly the right order.
** [[spoiler:''Dr. Mario 64'']]: Fat guy steals his pills.
** [[spoiler: ''Dr. Luigi'']]: The same, except the pills are L-shaped.
* [[spoiler:''VideoGame/{{Dubloon}}'']]: A crew of pirates search for a specific treasure chest.
* [[spoiler:''VideoGame/DuckHunt'']]: You are a weekend warrior. Your dog indulges in schadenfreude.
* [[spoiler:''VideoGame/DuckTales'']]: Money-grubbing duck travels the four corners of the world for more money. People just remember the Moon.
** [[spoiler:''VideoGame/DuckTales 2'']] In the lesser known sequel, the-money grabbing duck expands his horizon. One of the level names is also humorously an animal sound.
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** [[spoiler:''VideoGame/DuckTales Remastered'']]: Same game as the first, now everyone talks. They still remember the Moon. Also more emphasis on story.
* [[spoiler:''VideoGame/DukeNukemI'']]: Man in a pink vest goes after aspiring world conqueror for interrupting his favorite talk show.
** [[spoiler:''VideoGame/DukeNukemII'']]: The same pink-shirted man is kidnapped while on his favorite talk show by aliens who want to use his brain to formulate a plan to conquer the world. He escapes using a bomb in his molar.
** [[spoiler:''VideoGame/DukeNukem3D'']]: The man [[TookALevelInBadass takes a level in badass]] between games and shoots aliens and corrupt police officers in a quest to save the women of the world.
** [[spoiler:''VideoGame/DukeNukemManhattanProject'']]: The man, after said quest, finds out that a MadScientist is giving a strange substance to creatures in order to turn them into monstrosities. Asskicking ensues.
** [[spoiler:''VideoGame/DukeNukemForever'']]: The man spends [[DevelopmentHell over a decade]] searching for an alien toilet to park his bricks. He finally found one. In unrelated news, [[CueTheFlyingPigs porcine lifeforms are now airborne.]]
*** Alternatively: Fans have waited fourteen [[PrecisionFStrike fuckin']] years to see the Man live out their TwinThreesomeFantasy and [[MonumentalDamage blow up the Hoover Dam]].
* [[spoiler:''VideoGame/DungeonKeeper'']]: Being evil means maintaining an underground dungeon and defending it from daring heroes or other evil people with their own dungeon.
* [[spoiler:''Dungeon Maker'']]: To bring prosperity back to a dying town, an intrepid warrior must provide shelter for new inhabitants...and [[WhatMeasureIsANonHuman kill them in droves]].
* [[spoiler:''Dungeons'']]: A lover's quarrel leads a man to take his frustration out on random warriors totally unrelated to the conflict.
* [[spoiler:''VideoGame/DungeonsOfDredmor'']]: Some shmuck with BigOlEyebrows tries to keep an old man from escaping from prison. He ([[PurelyAestheticGender or she]]) gets [[YetAnotherStupidDeath repeatedly killed]] by [[MascotMook burrowing penguins]] in the process.
** [[spoiler:''[[VideoGame/DungeonsOfDredmor Dungeons of Dredmor: Realm of the Diggle Gods]]'']]: Some shmuck with BigOlEyebrows tries to keep an old man from escaping from a larger prison. He ([[PurelyAestheticGender or she]]) can also become an emo or a vegan, and there are inexplicable statues of penguin gods.
** [[spoiler:''[[VideoGame/DungeonsOfDredmor Dungeons of Dredmor: You Have to Name the Expansion Pack]]'']]: Some shmuck with BigOlEyebrows tries to keep an old man from escaping from the same prison as before. This expansion pack doesn't even have a name.
** [[spoiler:''[[VideoGame/DungeonsOfDredmor Dungeons of Dredmor: Conquest of the Wizardlands]]'']]: Some shmuck with BigOlEyebrows does the usual stuff, and can also visit randomly generated places where he ([[PurelyAestheticGender or she]]) can die even more easily. There are now vampire penguins and murderous magical vegetables, and our shmuck can use powers of communism.
* [[spoiler: ''VideoGame/{{Dustforce}}'']], you have tools for sweeping dust. You need to clean the floors, walls, ceilings and other objects.
* [[spoiler:''VideoGame/DwarfFortress'']]: A game with way outdated graphics for its time, yet with absurdly high system requirements. It has been released way [[PerpetualBeta before it's fully developed]] and can crash without warning. Gameplay has absurd physics, [[ArtificialStupidity AI is stupid]], and the game's actually {{unwinnable}}.
** Micromanage a collection of absent-minded, depressed, alcoholic midgets with beards into building an underground house in the middle of a hostile wilderness. The official motto of the game is "Losing is fun!"
*** A fantasy world generator/simulator pairing worryingly accurate down-to-the-atom realistic game mechanics with outdated, 3-decades-ago, unrealistic ASCII graphics.
** [[spoiler:Fortress Mode]]: A bunch of midgets that often refuse to listen to you build a fortress. The fortress will crumble. Then, build some more fortress. Repeat.
** [[spoiler:Adventure Mode]]: You're a person in a giant world. There's no story, no direction whatsoever and you get brutally murdered by everything.
* [[spoiler:''VideoGame/DynamiteHeaddy'']]: A puppet saves the world by headbutting everyone and everything he comes across.
* [[spoiler:''VideoGame/DynastyWarriors'']]: The same story retold in slightly different ways seven times.
* [[spoiler:''VideoGame/{{Earthbound}} (Mother 2)'']]: Four kids face such horrific monsters as moving traffic signs, violent hippies, animate cups of coffee, and living fire hydrants in order to stop a time-traveling facelike entity.
** [[spoiler:''VideoGame/{{MOTHER|1}}'']]: Three kids defeat the aforementioned time-traveling facelike entity ten years earlier (when he still had a body and wasn't a facelike entity) -- by singing to him.
** [[spoiler:''VideoGame/{{Mother 3}}'']]: An emotionally broken boy and his dog try to stop a fat old man who uses television and lightning to control an island, with the help of weird people (and their pets).
*** Or, as put on the series's fansite's forums: Transvestites defend the world by giving a giant dragon acupuncture.
* [[spoiler:''VideoGame/EarthDefenseForce2017'']]: Every '50s monster movie happens at once. Only you can save mankind.
* [[spoiler:''VideoGame/EarthwormJim'']]: A space suit falls onto an ordinary earthworm, who then saves a space princess from a giant queen termite...then [[DropTheCow a cow falls on the princess]].
* [[spoiler:''VideoGame/EatLeadTheReturnOfMattHazard'']]: The greatest video game hero you've never heard of tries to make his big comeback.
* [[spoiler:''VideoGame/EccoTheDolphin'']]: Magic dolphin travels through time to heal an ancient being by going to the past and smacking it in the balls. eh also fights aliens and doesnt afraid of anything.
** [[spoiler:''Tides of Time'']]: Magic dolphin follows flying magic dolphin to a time that doesn't exist yet to get orders from slain ancient being to reconstruct it in the present from body parts that have been scattered to a ''different'' time that doesn't exist yet. Then a dolphin army fights aliens. And you vanish. [[GainaxEnding Maybe.]]
** [[spoiler:''Ecco Jr.'']]: Magic dolphin takes time off from time travel and xenocide to play educational games with small children.
** [[spoiler:''Defender of the Future'']]: Aliens break time, magic dolphin makes it worse a few times before getting it right.
* [[spoiler:''Eco Fighters'']]: [[GreenAesop Save the world from pollution]]...by [[StuffBlowingUp blowing stuff up]], with help from [[VideoGame/MegaManClassic Dr. Wily]].
* [[spoiler:''VideoGame/EcoQuest'']]: A 10-year-old boy dives after a talking dolphin to discover ancient and heavily-littered Greek ruins at the bottom of the ocean, populated by talking fish who live in tenements. Everything is blamed on nuclear waste.
** [[spoiler:''Eco Quest 2'']]: Same boy is kidnapped by talking river otters in the deep (and heavily-littered) rainforest. He visits an English-speaking [[SmallSecludedWorld native village]] and (when it burns down) thwarts a [[ForTheEvulz single-minded]] poacher by planting a tree.
* [[spoiler:''VideoGame/{{Einhander}}'']]: The Moon hates the Earth, so a plane from the moon is sent down to wreak havoc on Earth. The plane fights a griffin, a dragon, a shrimp, a spider, a wall lizard, an amphibian, a thunderbird, a mad monkey, a vulture, a black ghost, and a couple of HumongousMecha.
* [[spoiler:''Franchise/TheElderScrolls'']]: The monarchy solves problems cheaply by sending [[ProtagonistWithoutAPast amnesiac]] convicts to tackle them.
** [[spoiler:''VideoGame/TheElderScrollsArena'']]: A convict must reconstruct a dismantled stick that the Emperor's advisor spitefully broke.
** [[spoiler:''VideoGame/TheElderScrollsIIDaggerfall'']]: With no convicts on hand, the monarchy sends a rare non-convict to perform an exorcism and inspect the mail system.
** [[spoiler:''VideoGame/TheElderScrollsIIIMorrowind'']]: Another convict fights a clingy former drinking buddy with a [[OrcusOnHisThrone serious sleep disorder]] over who gets to keep [[BeatStillMyHeart a dead guy's heart]].
*** [[spoiler:''The Elder Scrolls III: Tribunal'']]: That same convict reunites with his former girlfriend, and they have a disagreement.
*** [[spoiler:''The Elder Scrolls III: Bloodmoon'']]: The convict is then invited to a hunting trip, and ends up getting into fights with all the other hunters.
** [[spoiler:''VideoGame/TheElderScrollsIVOblivion'']]: Another convict delivers a necklace, then travels around the world closing doors whenever they find them.
*** [[spoiler:''The Elder Scrolls IV: Knights of the Nine'']]: That same convict takes a job guarding a church and beats up a very old man recently returned from retirement.
*** [[spoiler:''The Elder Scrolls IV: Shivering Isles'']]: That same convict goes into politics and eventually goes crazy.
** [[spoiler:''VideoGame/TheElderScrollsVSkyrim'']]: A convict [[SequelEscalation on death row]] learns to read and speak a new language, one word at a time, and then solves the world's problems by yelling at them.
*** [[spoiler:''The Elder Scrolls V: Dawnguard'']]: That same convict gets a job looking for inordinately heavy pieces of paper that apparently have the location of a mid-tier weapon written on them.
*** [[spoiler:''The Elder Scrolls V: Hearthfire'']]: That same convict builds a house and adopts a kid.
*** [[spoiler:''The Elder Scrolls V: Dragonborn'']]: That same convict enters a giant library and gets into a fight with some other guy who also solves his problems by shouting at them.
** [[spoiler:''The Elder Scrolls Legends: Battlespire'']]: A school student uses his skills to clear unwanted critters from his training grounds.
** [[spoiler:''The Elder Scrolls Adventures: Redguard'']]: A pirate looks for a lost sibling, damaging the growing hegemony in the process.
* [[spoiler:''VideoGame/{{Elebits}}'']]: A bitter young child neglected by his parents releases his anger by shooting ridiculously cute Pokemon-like creatures. This is rated E.
* [[spoiler: ''Electroplankton'']]: Microscopic underwater creatures...make music.
* [[spoiler: ''VideoGame/EliminateDown'']]: Shoot aliens. Save Earth. One of those games that almost nobody knows.
* [[spoiler:''VideoGame/EliteBeatAgents'']]: [[TheMenInBlack Men in Black]] solve everyone's problems through spontaneous song and dance numbers.
* [[spoiler:''[[VideoGame/{{Elvira}} Elvira II: Jaws of Cerberus]]'']]: Your girlfriend gets kidnapped by a dog. On your way to save her, you are assisted by a janitor, a priest and Dr. Frankenstein.
* [[spoiler:''VideoGame/EndWar'']]: Terrorists cause WorldWarIII. You can optionally use your voice to win it.
* [[spoiler:''VideoGame/EndlessOcean'']]: Your employer doesn't care how much time you waste; just so long as you eventually touch as many fish as possible, you're on their payroll.
* [[spoiler:''VideoGame/EpicBattleFantasy'']]: AuthorAvatar and MsFanservice kill a bunch of slimes before the game gets interesting. Features blatant copyright violations, and is an RPG that solely consists of battles.
** [[spoiler:''Epic Battle Fantasy 2'']]: After retconning the bad ending from the first game, the same two warriors go across a damaged planet and eventually defeat a Nazi, [[DefeatMeansFriendship who joins the party for the third game]].
** [[spoiler:''Epic Battle Fantasy 3'']]: First game in the series to introduce an overworld, the group of three from before try to kill a monster that they woke up by poking it.
** [[spoiler:''Epic Battle Fantasy 3.3: Bullet Heaven'']]: The same three people, their TeamPet, and [[EarlyBirdCameo a girl who hasn't appeared in the main series yet]] shoot at stuff. All of the bosses involve cats.
** [[spoiler:''Epic Battle Fantasy 4'']]: A forest ranger gets pissed off at the heroes of the first overworld game for stealing everything that's not nailed down, while doing the same thing herself, and seeks them to chew them out, ending up redeeming catkind.
*** Alternatively: CatsAreMean. Except the one following you.
* [[spoiler:''Escape Goat'']]: A purple goat tries to escape from the dungeon with an orange rat while rescuing sheep.
* [[spoiler: ''VideoGame/EternalChampions'']]: People from various parts of time are wrongfully murdered and must fight in a tournament held by a fluorescent purple deity for one of them to regain their lives.
** [[spoiler: ''Eternal Champions: Challenge From The Dark Side'']]: An evil fluorescent blue deity interferes and adds more competitors including wrongfully murdered animals and TheGrimReaper.
* [[spoiler: ''VideoGame/EternalDarkness'']]: Girl discovers a [[TomeOfEldritchLore scary book]] in a big creepy mansion. [[ThroughTheEyesOfMadness Insanity ensues]].
* [[spoiler:''VideoGame/EternalFighterZero'']]: The result of dumping characters from KeyVisualArts works into massive (fan-made) CharacterDerailment.
* [[spoiler:''VideoGame/EternalSonata'']]: Fredric Chopin's life flashes before his eyes as an anime-styled JRPG right before he dies.
* [[spoiler: ''VideoGame/EtrianOdyssey'']]: Explorers make maps of an underground forest.
** [[spoiler: ''Etrian Odyssey 2'']]: Explorers make maps of the interior of a giant tree.
** [[spoiler: ''Etrian Odyssey 3'']]: Explorers make maps of a basement beneath a giant tree and the ocean around it.
* [[spoiler: ''VideoGame/EuropaUniversalis'']] Try to keep inflation down for 400 years.
* [[spoiler:''VideoGame/EVEOnline'']]: The fanciest frontend to Microsoft Excel you'll ever see.
** Alternately: Play as one of elite space ship captains, most of which spend maybe a couple hours in space every day.
*** Alternately: Hardcore Economics: The MMORPG
* [[spoiler:''VisualNovel/{{Ever17}}'']]: Bored sleep-deprived people contemplate time travel, parallel dimensions and love. To understand what's really going on you have to beat the game at least five times.
* [[spoiler:''VideoGame/{{Eversion}}'']]: A cute, primitive Mario clone that requires you to change the look of the environment to progress. [[spoiler: To hell [[FromBadToWorse and beyond.]]]]
* [[spoiler:''VideoGame/EVOSearchForEden'']]: In his quest to meet a hot girl, a small fish learns to be a real boy, killing everybody and everything along the way, from sharks to bees to dinosaurs to yetis to giant cells. Only the aliens survive.
* [[spoiler:''VideoGame/EvilGenius'']]: Build your own [[SupervillainLair underground lair]], populate it with booby traps, and interrogate enemy agents by [[CoolAndUnusualPunishment sticking them in a mixing bowl]].
** Or, alternately, a ''Film/JamesBond'' villain's revenge fantasy.
* [[spoiler:''VideoGame/EyeOfTheBeholder'']]: A band of adventurers venture into the city sewers to fight an unknown evil. They forget to bring a map with them, and get lost.
** [[spoiler:''Eye Of The Beholder II'']]: The same band of adventurers visit the temple. They forget to bring a map with them, and get lost.
** [[spoiler:''Dungeon Hack'']]: A lone adventurer ventures into a castle to find a magic artifact. Unlike a certain band of adventurers, he brings a map with him, and doesn't get lost.
* [[spoiler:''VideoGame/{{Fable}}'' (general)]]: Watch as your virtual paper doll changes appearance based on whether you smash dudes, shoot dudes, blow up dudes with your mind, or some combination thereof.
** [[spoiler:''VideoGame/{{Fable|I}}'']]: A boy grows up in a colourful fantasy world, and embarks on a quest for revenge against a man in a party mask.
** [[spoiler:''VideoGame/{{Fable II}}'']]: A boy (or girl) and his dog grow up in a colourful fantasy world, and embark on a quest for revenge against a rich nobleman. He has the help of an inscrutable blind woman, a fat chick with a sledgehammer, a heavily-tattooed black guy, and a smug bisexual pirate.
** [[spoiler:''VideoGame/{{Fable III}}'']]: A boy (or girl) decides he can do a better job than his brother at politics, so he and his dog embark on a quest to start a revolution.
* [[spoiler:''VideoGame/{{Facade}}'']]: Amazing new text recognition technology allows you to communicate seamlessly with a couple of stuttering, maladjusted, insufferable idiots.
* [[spoiler:''VideoGame/FallenLondon'', née ''Echo Bazaar'']]: Some time ago, a major European city was stolen by bats. Well, maybe not stolen. Now, Cthulhu's human (ish) cousins rub shoulders with devils, golems, and foreigners while the player character decides what to do with himself/herself/none-of-the-above.
* [[spoiler:''VideoGame/{{Fallout}}'' (series)]]: An individual walks through hostile, often lonesome wasteland in the aftermath of a worldwide thermonuclear war. Also, everyone's still culturally in TheFifties.
** [[spoiler:''VideoGame/{{Fallout|1}}'']]: A youth is sent off to find replacement parts for the community's water purifier. The game starts with you walking out of a rat-infested cave [[QuicksandBox with little idea of where to go or what to do.]]
** [[spoiler:''VideoGame/{{Fallout 2}}'']]: A youth goes looking for something to help the family farm. The game starts with you running through a cave [[ExecutiveMeddling for flimsy reasons.]]
** [[spoiler:''VideoGame/{{Fallout 3}}'']]: A youth goes looking for a missing parental unit. The game starts with you shooting out of your mom's vagina into the waiting arms of Creator/LiamNeeson.
*** [[spoiler: ''The Pitt'']]: Youth liberates a town's populace by becoming a baby-snatcher.
*** [[spoiler: ''Operation: Anchorage'']]: Youth plays TheMostDangerousVideoGame so a bunch of jerks can open a door.
*** [[spoiler: ''Mothership Zeta'']]: Youth is abducted by aliens who want to weaponize a children's toy.
*** [[spoiler: ''Broken Steel'']]: Youth is {{railroad|ing}}ed into blowing up a BaseOnWheels.
*** [[spoiler: ''Point Lookout'']]: Youth is attacked by rednecks, drugged and lobotomized.
** [[spoiler:''VideoGame/FalloutNewVegas'']]: A postal worker goes postal while looking for a missing package. The game starts with you getting shot in the face.
*** [[spoiler: ''Dead Money'']]: The postal worker teams up with a schizophrenic, a mute, and a lounge singer to get into a basement.
*** [[spoiler: ''Honest Hearts'']]: The postal worker goes hiking with the natives.
*** [[spoiler: ''Old World Blues'']]: The postal worker does science while two light switches, a robotic planter, and a scientist make sexual advances toward said worker.
*** [[spoiler: ''Lonesome Road'']]: The postal worker has a homecoming party with another coworker.
** [[spoiler:''VideoGame/FalloutTacticsBrotherhoodOfSteel'']]: A youth joins a techno-religious organization and looks for an ancient bomb shelter. The game starts with you immediately shoved into a mission with two useless teammates who keep shooting you in the back.
** [[spoiler:''VideoGame/FalloutBrotherhoodOfSteel'']]: A youth joins a techno-religious organization and is sent to Texas to find some lost soldiers. After fighting a {{Stripperiffic}} woman and a 10-foot-tall ghoul priest, you confront a super mutant who turns into a giant biomass, who you proceed to [[YouNukeEm nuke]].
* [[spoiler:''VideoGame/FancyPantsAdventures'']]: A man embarks on elaborate quests to wake up a penguin, get revenge on a rabbit for stealing his ice-cream, and save his sister from a band of pirates who want her as captain instead of their current wussy one. All of the above (except the sister) are better drawn than him.
* [[spoiler:''VideoGame/FarCry'']]: Ex-Special Forces fellow needs to save reporter from mercenaries and mutants on a tropical island.
** [[spoiler:''FarCry: Instincts'']]: A mad scientist and his triggery-happy mercenaries blow up a man's boat. The man gets a [[PowerFist mean right hook]].
** [[spoiler: ''VideoGame/{{Far Cry 2}}'']]: Some other guy attempts to kick [[AcceptableTargets African warlord]] ass despite a malaria infection.
** [[spoiler: ''VideoGame/{{Far Cry 3}}'']]: A [[ThisLoserIsYou douchebag twenty-something]] tries to save his douchebag twenty-something friends from a {{Ruthless Modern Pirate|s}} on a tropical island with a magic tattoo.
** [[spoiler: ''VideoGame/FarCry3BloodDragon'']]: 80's action movie: The game.
* [[spoiler:''Farm Simulator'']]:: You own a run down farm in Europe on some unnamed island and you need to modernize it, make it produce money, and work hard for it to work for you.
* [[spoiler: ''VideoGame/FatPrincess'']]: Two teams of SuperDeformed fantasy heroes test the old adage "fat people are harder to kidnap".
* [[spoiler:''VideoGame/FatalFrame'']]: A teenaged girl screams at rope and takes pictures of dead people.
** [[spoiler:''VideoGame/FatalFrame 2'']]: Twin lolis take pictures of dead people who make grabby hands at them.
** [[spoiler:''VideoGame/FatalFrame 3'']]: A depressed photographer, alongside the depressed protagonist of the first game and a not-quite-as-depressed-as-everyone-else nonfiction writer wander around a dream manor and take pictures of dead people.
** [[spoiler:''VideoGame/FatalFrame 4'']]: A teenaged girl goes to an abandoned sanatorium to try and remember things, and ends up taking pictures of dead people. Two other teenaged girls go there too, and one of them takes pictures of dead people like the other girl. There is also a detective, and he shines a flashlight at dead people.
* [[spoiler:''VideoGame/FatalFury'']]: Three men enter a city-wide fighting tournament. The last opponent is the sponsor. [[SNKBoss He can whup their asses.]]
** [[spoiler:''VideoGame/FatalFury 2'']]: The sponsor's half-brother foots the bill for the next tournament. Everyone plays the UpdatedRerelease instead.
** [[spoiler:''VideoGame/FatalFury 3'']]: The sponsor of the first tournament steals a book from twins who have a psychopath on their payroll. ''Bad move''.
** [[spoiler:''Real Bout VideoGame/FatalFury'']]: Several martial artists band together to break into corporate property and kill the CEO.
** [[spoiler:''Garou: Mark of the Wolves'']]: A young man has issues with his maternal uncle.
* [[spoiler: ''VisualNovel/FatalHearts'']]: A teenage girl has a nightmare and tries to get herself killed by acting too dumb to live. Also, there are vampires and werewolves involved. Wait, that sounds [[Literature/{{Twilight}} kind of familiar.]]
* [[spoiler:''VisualNovel/FateStayNight'']]: A bunch of dead guys fight over a cup.
** [[spoiler:''Fate'']]: An OrdinaryHighSchoolStudent falls in love with King Arthur and learns about mythology.
** [[spoiler:''Unlimited Blade Works'']]: Superhero from the future attempts to kill self, thwarted by self. Ancient king learns the value of fake weaponry.
** [[spoiler:''Heaven's Feel'']]: Nice girl goes insane and eats a town despite Medusa's best efforts. OrdinaryHighSchoolStudent decides that ethics suck and beats up a priest.
* [[spoiler:''[[VideoGame/FirstEncounterAssaultRecon F.E.A.R.]]'']]: Mom tells her son to go eat people she doesn't like. Her other son gets in the way, and she tries to make them get along.
** Alternatively: A battalion of soldiers made up entirely of clones of their commander go rogue because the commander's dead mother told him to. His mute, time-freezing twin brother murders them all while hallucinating a lot.
*** [[spoiler:''F.E.A.R.'' expansions]]: A dead psychic comes back as a poltergeist and decides he hates all his brother's new friends. A [[{{Expy}} bald-yet-otherwise-identical man]] looks for mercenaries in the sewers on Creator/SteveBlum's orders.
** ''[[spoiler: Project Origin]]'': A Delta Force operative becomes the object of affection for a ghost. [[{{Yandere}} She does not take 'no' for an answer]].
*** ''[[spoiler:F.E.A.R. 2: Reborn]]'': A clone soldier goes on a bad acid trip and murders his entire platoon.
** [[spoiler:''[[VideoGame/FirstEncounterAssaultRecon F.3.A.R]]'']]: The bickering sons, one of whom is dead, work together to kill their mother and kidnap their sister. The fate of the world is at stake.
* [[spoiler:''Feeding Frenzy'']]: Fish (and eventually, a mammal) eat their way to the top of the food chain.
** [[spoiler:''Feeding Frenzy 2: Shipwreck Showdown'']]: Fish save the sea from a strange fish, by eating each other.
* [[spoiler:''Feel the Magic: XY/XX'']]: Engage in bizarre, death-defying, or just plain stupid activities to try to impress a girl, with the help of performance artists in silly costumes. Also, there are villains, though their motives are unknown.
** [[spoiler:''The Rub Rabbits!'']]: Prequel to the above game, with similar storyline, though there are now other guys who are also in love with the girl that you're in love with, and the villain is female. At the end, you become the leader and founder of the eponymous troupe, and the other guys make up the rest of the troupe.
* [[spoiler:''VideoGame/FightersMegamix'']]: A game with no story features characters from many different games including a giant fighting bean, a bomb-throwing duck named Bean, and a standing, fighting car.
* [[spoiler:''Franchise/FinalFantasy'']]: Series of stories whose only common factors are a species of overgrown yellow birds, white teddy bears with wings, flying boats, and a bunch of guys with the same name...oh, and crystals. Lots of crystals.
** [[spoiler:''VideoGame/FinalFantasyI'']]: A group of fated warriors solve global warming through violence. Crystal balls figure heavily.
** [[spoiler:''VideoGame/FinalFantasyII'']]: Three friends join LaResistance and indulge in self-mutilation to become stronger. You spend half the game trying to check out a banned library book.
** [[spoiler:''VideoGame/FinalFantasyIII'']]: World's greatest magician forgets to do a background check on his apprentices.
*** Snubbed at his birthday party, an easily angered man attempts to destroy multiple worlds to slight the gift-giver.
** [[spoiler:''VideoGame/FinalFantasyIV'']]: Man meets his long last brother while being betrayed by his best friend. ''[[ChronicBackstabbingDisorder Twice]].'' A SpaceWhale eventually comes into play.
** [[spoiler:''TheAfterYears'']]: The people from the above game team up with their kids to stop a guy that also has a fortress on the moon and wields an army of little girls.
** [[spoiler:''VideoGame/FinalFantasyV'']]: Group of strangers become the protectors of the {{Cosmic Keystone}}s. They are ''incredibly'' bad at their job. Also, their arch enemy is [[WhenTreesAttack a tree]].
** [[spoiler:''VideoGame/FinalFantasyVI'']]: An amnesiac rebels against her former employers, one of whom is a [[MonsterClown clown.]]
*** Quoted directly from ''WebAnimation/ZeroPunctuation'': "There's a guy trying to destroy the world because he's a dick."
** [[spoiler:''VideoGame/FinalFantasyVII'']]: A celebrity stalker is lied to by his girlfriend, while a momma's boy has a temper tantrum. Side plots include racing birds, stealing motorcycles, the militant arm of Green Peace, and everyone feels bad because the [[KillTheCutie Cutie]] gets cut by a Ginsu knife.
*** [[spoiler:''[[VideoGame/CrisisCore Crisis Core: Final Fantasy VII]]'']]: A charming young soldier meets some interesting people, then gets killed by his employer.
*** Or...Gackt recites bad poetry while all hell breaks loose.
*** Or: You play as a PunchClockVillain working for the local MegaCorp while all your coworkers gradually die, go insane, or both, and eventually wind up on the receiving end of DeathByOriginStory.
*** [[spoiler: ''[[VideoGame/DirgeOfCerberus Dirge of Cerberus: Final Fantasy VII]]'']]: Undead gunman fights color-coded bad guys and angsts over his ex-girlfriend.
*** [[spoiler: ''[[VideoGame/BeforeCrisis Before Crisis: Final Fantasy VII]]'']]: A group of well-dressed youngsters beat up environmentalists.
** [[spoiler:''VideoGame/FinalFantasyVIII'']]: Teenage mercenaries use ThePowerOfFriendship to fight time-traveling sorceresses.
*** Alternatively, six brain-damaged friends attempt to save the world, only to ensure the villain's rise to power in the process.
*** Or: Robin Williams and Demi Moore decide to get a divorce, thousands of innocent people die as a result.
** [[spoiler:''VideoGame/FinalFantasyIX'']]: Thieves kidnap a young princess as part of a political coup. They're the good guys.
*** Alternatively, the angel of death and his friends have a heated discussion with the angel's estranged family on the ethics of [[{{Pun}} terraforming]] an occupied planet.
** [[spoiler:''VideoGame/FinalFantasyX'']]: A pro underwater ballplayer's [[DoomedHometown hometown is blown up]] by a giant SpaceWhale. One thousand years later, he goes on a quest to beat up his father [[spoiler:''who has become Satan'']].
*** [[spoiler:''VideoGame/FinalFantasyX2'']]: A young woman searches for her lost love by playing dress-up.
** [[spoiler:''VideoGame/FinalFantasyXI'']]: One person (But not really) does odd jobs for the nations of the world, which range from checking on miners to stopping an EvilOverlord born out of racism...and said miners.
*** [[spoiler:''VideoGame/FinalFantasyXI: Rise of The Zilart'']]: Same person (But again, not really) teams up with [[NinjaPirateZombieRobot Ninja/Samurai-Pirates]] and a big, angry non-human ScaryBlackMan to stop two rich and [[ReallySevenHundredYearsOld old]] [[{{Bishonen}} pretty boys]] from trying to go to Heaven, which could mean TheEndOfTheWorldAsWeKnowIt.
*** [[spoiler:''VideoGame/FinalFantasyXI: Chains of Promathia'']]: Again, same person (And ''again'', not really) snoops around some broken glass and begins having to fight everyone and their uncle to stop TheEndOfTheWorldAsWeKnowIt (Yes, again) while a JerkSue acts like she owns the show, although she helps you fight the BigBad at the end along with a birdman (Who is [[WesternAnimation/HarveyBirdmanAttorneyAtLaw certainly not a lawyer]]). Also, the resident abomination resembles fart gas.
*** [[spoiler:''VideoGame/FinalFantasyXI: Treasures of Aht Urhgan'']]: Person from all the others (''Still'' not really) goes to a eastern empire and gets forced to take orders from a bipolar talking cat. Ends up in a plot with TheGrimReaper and a HumongousMecha. This person [[IdiotBall seems to have lost some IQ points during the trip over.]]
*** [[spoiler:''VideoGame/FinalFantasyXI: Wings of the Goddess'']]: The person gets in adventure for the fifth time (And for the fifth time, not really solo), this time by getting eaten and spit out by giant mouths into a war, and has adventures with a showgirl and another cat.
** [[spoiler:''VideoGame/FinalFantasyXII'']]: A callow orphan joins a princess leading a resistance against an [[TheEmpire evil empire]]. Along the way, he's mentored by a wise older knight. They're joined by a charming scoundrel, his tall, furry partner, an excitable half-pint, a suave black dude, and a stuffy British person. A guy in black armor gets in the way a lot, as does his boss TheEmperor. There's twins and daddy issues too. [[SarcasmMode It's totally not based on]] ''Franchise/StarWars''. [[SuspiciouslySpecificDenial Really]].
*** Alternately, you must kill 10 people in cold blood to be able to wear your new leather hat.
*** [[spoiler:''[[VideoGame/FinalFantasyXII Final Fantasy XII: Revenant Wings]]'']]: The cast of ''Franchise/StarWars'' finds a FloatingContinent, and liberates angels from God. Meanwhile, a woman tries to kill everyone, whilst mourning her {{lost love|Montage}}r.
** [[spoiler:''VideoGame/FinalFantasyXIII'']]: Six people get matching tattoos and spend the game trying to figure out why before the tattoos turn them into crystals or ''Franchise/SilentHill'' residents.
*** Alternatively, six self-loathing bastards argue the meaning of friendship and their newly acquired mystical tattoos. Millions die in the process.
*** [[spoiler:''VideoGame/{{Final Fantasy XIII-2}}'']]: A mysterious young man and his plucky female companion travel through time, fighting monsters and solving world-ending problems along the way. ...[[Series/DoctorWho Wait]].
*** [[spoiler:''VideoGame/LightningReturnsFinalFantasyXIII'']]: The heroine of the first game returns to try and fix the TimeCrash the heroes of the previous game caused by [[NiceJobBreakingItHero achieving that game's]] ''[[NiceJobBreakingItHero "good" ending]]''.
**** [[spoiler:The ''Fabula Nova Crystallis'' series in-general]]: Square's attempt to create a meta-franchise spectacularly implodes after two thirds of the promised games fall into DevelopmentHell and emerge half a decade later stripped of their XIII's.
** [[spoiler:''VideoGame/FinalFantasyXIV'']]: One person (But not really) does odd jobs for the nations of the world, [[ObviousBeta then receives a personal apology from God]].
*** [[spoiler:''Final Fantasy XIV: A Realm Reborn'']]: The aforementioned apology.
** [[spoiler:''VideoGame/FinalFantasyXV'']]: A LonelyRichKid and his [[FiveManBand metrosexual friends]] break the laws of physics and kill a horde of {{Mooks}} in a desperate bid to escape DevelopmentHell.
** [[spoiler:''VideoGame/FinalFantasyCrystalChronicles'']]: Brave heroes join up to hunt down the source of the world's air pollution. They argue over who gets stuck with a bucket.
*** [[spoiler:''VideoGame/FinalFantasyCrystalChronicles: MyLifeAsAKing'']]: A prepubescent royal bureaucrat sends the children of his country's poor off to die in dungeons while he stays at home and consoles their families.
*** [[spoiler:''VideoGame/FinalFantasyCrystalChronicles: MyLifeAsADarklord'']]: Daughter of the above game's BigBad defends her floating tower from the prepubescent royal bureaucrat's [[TheChosenOne Chosen Ones]].
** [[spoiler:''VideoGame/{{Final Fantasy Type-0}}'']]: An average semester at the local WizardingSchool ends in [[BloodierAndGorier genocide]].
** [[spoiler:''VideoGame/FinalFantasyTactics'']]: Amongst a GambitPileup, a guy tries to save his sister from Jesus.
** [[spoiler:''VideoGame/FinalFantasyTacticsAdvance'']]: You and your little brother and friends get sucked into an idealized alternate world, and you don't think staying is healthy. [[InternetBackdraft Gamers go to war over whether this is right.]]
*** [[spoiler:''VideoGame/FinalFantasyTacticsA2'']]: You need to complete your schoolwork.
** [[spoiler:''VideoGame/FinalFantasyMysticQuest'']]: An EvilOverlord makes up a [[BecauseDestinySaysSo prophecy foretelling his defeat]] as a joke. It backfires.
** [[spoiler:''Final Fantasy Legend'']]: God plays a prank on you. You seek revenge through steroid use and cannibalism.
** [[spoiler:''Final Fantasy Legend II'']]: Four friends go treasure hunting for GreenRocks.
** [[spoiler:''Final Fantasy Legend III'']]: A guy, his girlfriend and two mutes travel through time and space to fix the local plumbing problem.
** [[spoiler:''VideoGame/FinalFantasyAdventure'']]: A boy meets a young woman standing over a dead body in the woods and goes to great lengths to protect her from the local authorities.
** [[spoiler:''Final Fantasy Fables: VideoGame/ChocobosDungeon'']]: An oversized chicken almost destroys the world by warping itself into peoples' brains and restoring their horrible memories.
** [[spoiler:''VideoGame/DissidiaFinalFantasy'']]: An ethereal girl tells a handful of adventurers [[{{Crossover}} from different worlds]] to collect stones so that they can beat up a giant four-armed demon.
*** [[spoiler:''[[VideoGame/DissidiaFinalFantasy Dissidia 012 [duodecim]: Final Fantasy]]'']]: The ethereal girl and four-armed demon take turns absolutely trolling everyone via a GroundhogDayLoop.
*** [[spoiler:''VideoGame/TheatrhythmFinalFantasy'']]: The ethereal girl tells the adventurers to travel long distances and slay enemies to power a stone. The four-armed demon shows up eventually.
* [[spoiler:''VideoGame/FinalFight'']]: [[AuthorityEqualsAsskicking City mayor]] and his buddies [[BeatEmUp beat up]] mobsters.
* [[spoiler:''Franchise/FireEmblem'']]: Stories of incest and power plays where everyone only has one life.
** [[spoiler:''[[VideoGame/FireEmblemAkaneia Shadow Dragon]]'']]: A blue-haired pants-less prince sets off to save the world from a evil priest who wants to resurrect a [[AlwaysChaoticEvil great dragon]]. Along the way, he'll meet a handful of [[EverythingsBetterWithPrincesses princesses]](only one of which he actually [[CannotSpitItOut pursues]]), a shapeshifting [[CuteMonsterGirl dragon girl]], and others who join up and kill the [[BigBad dragon]].
** [[spoiler:''Fire Emblem: Mystery of the Emblem'']]: The same blue-haired pants-less prince loses his kingdom again when an ally performs a FaceHeelTurn. He joins up with old friends to get back his kingdom. Also, the dragon from before is involved and the blue-haired wonder becomes king of the world.
** [[spoiler:''[[VideoGame/FireEmblemJugdral Fire Emblem: Genealogy of the Holy War]]'']]: A hero goes to rescue a captured princess and gets caught up in a plot that has his wife brainwashed and made to breed with her half brother to resurrect a dark god. Oh, and he gets killed as soon as he learns of this.
*** [[spoiler:''Fire Emblem: Thracia 776'']]: Two girls are kidnapped by a [[TheQuisling traitorous]] Duke. This all leads to a 15 year old boy and a RagtagBunchOfMisfits killing a religious leader.
** [[spoiler:''[[VideoGame/FireEmblemElibe Fire Emblem: Sword of Seals]]'']]: Red haired child Casanova needs to go stop a militant country from crushing the world, as well as its ruler, who made a soulless dragon girl his bitch.
*** [[spoiler:''Fire Emblem: Blazing Sword'']]: The father of the hero of the prequel which is actually the sequel goes off on a journey to find his dad with the help of two musical dragons. Then he has to go stop a {{Gonk}} from destroying the world and sucking out everyone's soul in the universe.
** [[spoiler:''VideoGame/FireEmblemTheSacredStones'']]: A guy's dad dies. This results in global war and nearly ends the world. Comes with the usual side order of [[CuteMonsterGirl dragons]].
** [[spoiler:''[[VideoGame/FireEmblemTellius Fire Emblem: Path of Radiance]]'']]: A mercenary leads a war against the kingdom whose top general [[YouKilledMyFather killed his father]]. He has the help of [[{{Animorphism}} a race of people who can change into animals]].
*** [[spoiler:''Fire Emblem: Radiant Dawn'']]: A holy goddess decides to punish her creations for going to war too much by [[KillAllHumans killing them all]]. The mercenary in the previous game teams up with a side character from the previous game, his girlfriend and the goddess's "Evil" counterpart to kill the holy goddess first.
** [[spoiler:''Videogame/FireEmblemAwakening'']]: A thousand or so years after the first game, another blue haired prince learns that love can bloom on the battlefield and meets his KidFromTheFuture. He can also summon heroes from other worlds... [[DownloadableContent for a price.]]
* [[spoiler: ''VideoGame/FireShark'']]: A biplane burns everything to the ground.
* [[spoiler:''The Firemen'']]: A Dynamic Duo of everyday heroes fight flamigerous demons in a world where thermodynamics have gone completely haywire and do as they please.
* [[spoiler:''Fish Fillets'']]: Two fish push objects. In one year after the game was published, only six people finished it.
* [[spoiler:''VideoGame/FlatOut'']]: You race. [[WreakingHavok Almost]] [[ShowsDamage everything]] [[RagdollPhysics breaks]] [[DieChairDie when you crash into them]].
* [[spoiler:''VideoGame/{{Flower}}'']]: You mainly just open flowers. You can't lose. The environment is your only enemy but cannot beat you anyway.
* [[spoiler:''VideoGame/{{Folklore}}'']]: Amnesiac Irish girl and occult magazine reporter attempt to solve a murder mystery connected to her past.
* [[spoiler:''Food Fight'']]: Eat ice cream before it melts. If you fail, tons of food throws itself at you.
* [[spoiler:''VideoGame/TheForceUnleashed'']]: Guy founds his master's future undoing. He performs [[CrowningMomentOfAwesome many awesome feats]] on the way.
** [[spoiler:''VideoGame/TheForceUnleashed II'']]: The guy from the first game dies. His masters clone him back and try to make him evil. It doesn't work and he kills himself multiple times to attempt to get revenge on them.
* [[spoiler:''Forgotten Worlds'']]: Two flying, shirtless guys armed with guns go on a quest to kill a deity.
* [[spoiler:''VideoGame/ForumWarz'']]: Lay waste to a copy of the Internet.
* [[spoiler:''VideoGame/FragileDreamsFarewellRuinsOfTheMoon'']]: A boy tries to find a girlfriend AfterTheEnd.
* [[spoiler:''VideoGame/{{Freelancer}}'']]: SpaceIsAnOcean that appears to be [[SpaceCompression approximately the size of Rhode Island.]] You fight evil blue aliens determined to wipe out humanity, and a bunch of German stereotypes.
* [[spoiler: ''VideoGame/FreeSpace: The Great War'']]: Quasi-fascist human military state teams up with philosophy-spouting desert-dwelling aliens to drive off evil space bugs intent on killing anyone who is not an evil space bug and a doomsday cult with spaceships. FeaturelessProtagonist pilot single-handedly leads the quasi-fascists to victory in his SpaceFighter.
** [[spoiler: ''[=FreeSpace 2=]'']]: The humans and aliens have merged into the United Nations [[RecycledInSpace IN SPACE!]] They fight evil space racists and then the evil space bugs show up and start killing people again. FeaturelessProtagonist pilot amasses an enormous body count and the space bugs blow up a star and leave for no apparent reason.
* [[spoiler:''VideoGame/{{Frogger}}'']]: An amphibian tries to return to his home in the river. [[SuperDrowningSkills He can't swim.]]
* [[spoiler:''VideoGame/FTLFasterThanLight'']]: Spaceship crew attempts to outrun an ever-expanding rebel pursuit force in order to scuttle their forces, steal their parts, and eventually destroy their mothership.
* [[spoiler:''VideoGame/FullThrottle'']]: A GeniusBruiser BadassBiker wanders the desert and makes a WrenchWench the president of a car company.
* [[spoiler:''Fuzion Frenzy'']]: Four people compete with each other in minigame competitions to dominate the universe. All to the tune of an ingratiating narrator.
* [[spoiler:''VideoGame/FZero'']]: Aliens and monsters race in cars that have no wheels. These cars will explode if they hit the sides of the tracks. And you listen to butt-rock.
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