History BetterThanItSounds / VideoGamesDToF

** [[spoiler:''VideoGame/DisgaeaHourOfDarkness'']]: Demon prince oversleeps, must reclaim kingdom with [[EverythingsBetterWithPenguins dead criminals]].

* [[spoiler:''DigimonStoryCyberSleuth'']]: After being turned into a literal video game character by a digital EldritchAbomination, a boy or a girl must solve a lot of cybercrime and find a way to restore their body. [[DarkerAndEdgier Then the game goes into Shin Megami Tensei territory.]]

* [[spoiler:''VideoGame/EtrianOdyssey'']]: Professional explorers team up to draw some maps. When cartography fails to kill them their boss tries to off them himself.
** Alternately, five hand-crafted adventurers are repeatedly murdered by the local wildlife for daring to draw maps.
** [[spoiler:''Etrian Odyssey 2'']]: Meanwhile, somewhere else, some more explorers draw different maps, except this time they climb ''up'' instead of ''down''. Nefarious!
** [[spoiler:''Etrian Odyssey 3'']]: Sibling rivalry and ancient evil interferes with the important business of drawing maps. Fortunately, the heroes own a boat.
** [[spoiler:''Etrian Odyssey 4'']]: Some explorers use an airship to draw maps, but this turns out to be part of a little kid's evil plan to kill a bunch of people, so they chop down a tree and leave.
** [[spoiler:''Etrian Odyssey Untold'']]: An amnesiac girl and a mute Highlander team up with a crazy doctor, an immature alchemist, and a Canadian, in order to draw some more maps.

** [[spoiler:''Etrian Odyssey 2 Untold'']]: Two old friends team up with a sheltered princess, a cynical knight, and a magician girl in order to obtain '''ULTIMATE DEMONIC POWER'''...which they will use to aid them in their noble quest to draw yet more maps.
** [[spoiler:''Etrian Odyssey 5'']]: Explorers once again climb up a tree while drawing maps, but with a twist: the top of the tree is unlike anything they've seen before, and unlike anything their fellows from previous adventures saw.
** [[spoiler:''Etrian Odyssey Nexus'']]: All good things have a beginning and an end, so explorers from all previous settings prepare a farewell adventure by revisiting familiar dungeons before venturing into the large tree one more time.

*** Alternately: Hardcore Economics: The MMORPG.

*** [[spoiler:''Book 1'']]: Royal Siblings and their commander summons you to help them form an army to fight and defeat their rival kingdoms.
*** [[spoiler:''Book 2'']]: Having seen a vision of someone needing your help, you and the royal siblings are going to an Ice World to fight the Fire Nation.
*** [[spoiler:''Book 3'']]: The daughter of the queen of the dead joins you to prevent your imminent demise.
*** [[spoiler:''Book 4'']]: You spend a year dreaming you're your best friend.
*** [[spoiler:''Book 5'']]: A family man is abducted, subject to inhumane experiments, and forced to become the adoptive brother of a psychotic {{Yandere}}. Instead of rescuing him, you kill him.

* [[spoiler:''VideoGame/DengekiBunkoFightingClimax'']]: The human form of a Dreamcast summons among others Creator/RieKugimiya [[LightNovel/ShakuganNoShana on fire]], a HappilyMarried [[LightNovel/SwordArtOnline MMORPG couple]], [[LightNovel/OreImo a cosplay fanatic]], [[LightNovel/ACertainMagicalIndex an electric tsundere]], Creator/RieKugimiya [[LightNovel/{{Toradora}} beating a non-delinquent]], [[LightNovel/{{Durarara}} the strongest man in Ikebukuro]], [[LightNovel/AccelWorld a gamer girl with a butterfly motif]], [[LightNovel/StrikeTheBlood a vampire hunter in love with a vampire]] and [[LightNovel/BlackBullet a gun wielding defender]] to fight an evil entity on several Sega games until he takes the form of either [[VideoGame/VirtuaFighter Sega's answer to Street Fighter's Ryu]] or [[VideoGame/ValkyriaChronicles a big-breasted human atom bomb.]]

** ''[[spoiler:''VideoGame/EndlessSpace'']]:'' Rummage through the interstellar ruins of bastard {{Precursors}} for all the [[PracticalCurrency magic money]] they left lying around, then pick fights with aliens over the same money.
** ''[[spoiler:''VideoGame/EndlessSpace2'']]:'' Find out more about these bastard {{Precursors}} and how they died off, while still rummaging their corpses and fighting even more aliens for the same magic money. Now with extra Politics.

** ''[spoiler:''VideoGame/EndlessSpace'']]:'' Rummage through the interstellar ruins of bastard {{Precursors}} for all the [[PracticalCurrency magic money]] they left lying around, then pick fights with aliens over the same money.
** ''[spoiler:''VideoGame/EndlessSpace2'']]:'' Find out more about these bastard {{Precursors}} and how they died off, while still rummaging their corpses and fighting even more aliens for the same magic money. Now with extra Politics.

* [[spoiler:''VideoGame/DeathSmiles'']]: Teenagers use artillery to stop the wrongdoings of a friend's abusive father. TheHero is [[TierInducedScrappy the weakest character in the game]].

*** Alternately: Follow the story of a main character who refuses to do sidequests unless he's deliberately killec off most of his allies.

* [[spoiler:''VideoGame/DigimonSurvive'']]: A group of kids during a field trip are sent to an alternate dimension where they have to work together with mythical monsters to survive. [[AnyoneCanDie Your choices will determine who lives and who dies.]]

* [[spoiler:''Videogame/DistantWorlds]]'': A space 4X game, except you can tell it to run itself if you don't feel like it. A bunch of your empire will still run itself even if you do.

*** Or: Young man files a complaint with the electric company.

*** [[spoiler:Azure Gleam]]: Prince kills his uncle to take the crown, then forms an alliance with a fugitive pope again the princess' empire and the cult leader who wants to kill ''all'' of them, the princess included.

*** [[spoiler:''Book 2'']]: Having see a vision of someone needing your help, you and the royal siblings are going to an Ice World to fight the Fire Nation.

*** Alternatively: Mercenary keeps getting thrown in to increasingly more important jobs, all of which they are extremely unqualified for.

*** [[spoiler:Azure Moon]]: A young, virtuous prince finds out that one of his fellows classmates he used to have a crush on was the evil mastermind all along. [[GoMadFromTheRevelation He doesn't take it well.]]

** [[spoiler:''Fire Pro Wrestling World: Fighting Road'']]: You are a young wrestler who joins the hottest wrestling promotion not named WWE and fight alongside the John Cena of this promotion, a group of heel lead by the Randy Orton of the promotion, a group of ForeignWrestlingHeel, japanese luchadores heels or a group of evil old men.

** [[spoiler:''VideoGame/FiveNightsAtFreddysSecurityBreach'']]: In the TotallyRadical '80s, a kid gets trapped in a mega mall after hours and mall security spends all night trying to take him out.

** [[spoiler:''VideoGame/DarkSeedII'']]: Series/TwinPeaks: The Videogame''. Actually, [[DarthWiki/SoBadItsHorrible Worse than it Sounds.]]

** [[spoiler:''VideoGame/Doom3'']]: In an AlternateContinuity, a Satanist takes advantage of said teleportation experiments to create a demonic navy for the purposes of world conquest. At least a lowly grunt, an engineer, and a slightly more elite personnel stops it in separate place and time.

* [[spoiler:''VisualNovel/FateStayNight'']]: A bunch of dead guys fight over a cup.

* [[spoiler:''VideoGame/FateExtra'']]: A young boy (or young girl) works together with a Moe-fied Emperor Nero (or FutureBadass from the original series or Foxy Tamamo no Mae) to fight other dead historical figures for dominion over the moon, which is Film/TheMatrix.

*** ''[[spoiler:F.E.A.R. 2: Reborn]]'': A clone soldier tries to get to church to ask for forgiveness after he goes on a bad acid trip and murders his entire platoon.

** ''[[spoiler:Don't Escape: 4 Days to Survive]]'': Manage every minute of each day wisely as you and your hotheaded female companion travel the area, collect resources, defuse various threats, choose which side characters to help, [[spoiler:get up to the moon, go into a dream world, go back in time]]...hey, [[VideoGame/TheLegendOfZeldaMajorasMask wait a minute.]]