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* ChristmasRushed: An EndlessRunningGame set in a shopping mart. You play parents (the gender is optional for the player) desperate to find all the gifts they need for Christmas. Obstacles include employees, other shoppers, stacks of toys and so on.
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* CosmicChessGame: A TabletopGame/Chess simulator play as either GodOfGood or the GodOfEvil playing chess against each other. Every move the player and the opponent makes features text prompts showing how the game effects the mortal world, with each piece taken off the world causing good or bad things to happen to humanity. If the good god wins, it's sunshine and rainbows for all. If the bad god wins, well...


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* TheOldGods: A ''VideoGame/LittleNightmares''-esq PuzzlePlatformer where you play Orpheus venturing into the Greek Underworld to find his lost lady-love, only to try and avoid being killed and/or damned by the monstrous things lurking there. Such threats include: Cerebrus guarding the gates, {{Vengeful Ghost}}s who would just loved to suck out your soul, Charon {{the Ferryman}} who doesn't want you on his boat, the Furies, the imprisoned Titans who would just love to eat you, and finally Hades.
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* WickedPretentious:
** You play a taste maker know for their garish tastes who abuses their staff and just generally makes everyone worse off because of their petty personally. Since it's set in a WorldOfJerkass where everyone is terrible, this is all PlayedForLaughs.
** A WideOpenSandbox Crime Simulator where you play an up-and-coming crimeboss who wants to become a member of the NebulousCriminalConspiracy. While the Conspiracy are made of Old Money high society criminals, the PlayerCharacter is NouveauRiche and comes from a low-class background, so a lot of the missions and objectives have the goal of legitimizing himself to high class society with pomp and pageantry, their failure of the attempt being PlayedForLaughs by the audience. Act II ends with them being rejected for their attempts and thus is now set to topple their criminal empire and laugh at their smug faces as their fortunes burn to nothing.
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* {{Phonymon}}: A ''Franchise/{{Pokemon}}''-parody based off of [[Anime/PokemonTheOriginalSeries the Original Series of the anime]]. You play as Ass Ketchup, who wants to be the Master... but he's a thirty-year old deadbeat who wants to be a Phonymon master and people typically start when they're ten. So Ketchup gets the idea of making bootleg Phonymons.
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* DigitalHorror: An indie-horror game that acts as a social-media simulator where the player gets cyberstalked.
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* MadMarbleMaze: A PuzzlePlatformer where you navigate an Escher-maze in a ''VideoGame/SuperMonkeyBall'' situation.
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* SceneryCensor: A short indie game where the player character has lost his clothes, and must navigate a building to find a spare pair of pants, all while carefully ensuring that there's always something obscuring his junk from the security cameras.
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* AliensInCardiff: An IndieGame where you play a [[TheGreys grey-alien]] living in a 50's style suburb, trying to live a normal life, often failing in hilarious ways.
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* QuoteMine: A game where you collect quotes from people and use ManipulativeEditing to condemn your enemies' reputation.
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* UltraSuperDeathGoreFestChainsawer3000: A {{Murder Simulator|s}} where you play an ActionHero fighting zombie-demon-nazis in {{Hell}} with a chainsaw-gun that transforms into a monster truck with spikes on its wheels. Bosses include a snuff film director, a pedophile pizza-man and Sean Hannity's giant head vomitting blood everywhere.
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* ComMons: A ''Franchise/{{Pokemon}}''-parody where you catch real life animals instead of made-up ones. Cats, dogs, pigeons, etc. One of the levle has you invade a zoo, the NPCs calling you insane for climbing into tiger cages to fight them. The Legendary mons are based on [[OurCryptidsAreMoreMysterious cryptids]], though their designs imply that they're just regular people in costumes.

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* ComMons: A ''Franchise/{{Pokemon}}''-parody where you catch real life animals instead of made-up ones. Cats, dogs, pigeons, etc. One of the levle levels has you invade a zoo, the NPCs [=NPCs=] calling you insane for climbing into tiger cages to fight them. The Legendary mons are based on [[OurCryptidsAreMoreMysterious cryptids]], though their designs imply that they're just regular people in costumes.
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* KingKoopaCopy: A ''Franchise/SuperMarioBros''[=-fangame=] where [[Franchise/DonkeyKong King K. Rool]], [[VideoGame/SonicLostWorld Zavok]], [[VideoGame/RingFitAdventure Dragaux]], and [[VideoGame/WarioLandShakeIt the Shake King]], all of whom are {{Big Bad}}s who have lost popularity and influence over the years, band together and overthrow [[Characters/SuperMarioBrosBowser Bowser]] and take control of [[Characters/SuperMarioBrosTheKoopaKingdom The Koopa Kingdom]] and drink in Bowser's unbreakable star-power. Now Bowser has to traverse through his many vassal-kingdoms, free the [[Characters/SuperMarioBrosTheKoopalings The Koopalings]] and take back his empire before Mario and the others find out and lose respect for him.
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* DisasterDominoes: Make the craziest domino contraptions you can imagine and watch them fall!


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* TheGreatExterminator: Action FPS. You are an exterminator who goes into peoples' houses and must seek out and kill all of the pests to win the level.


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* UnconventionalFoodOrder: Cooking game where you make a variety of strange recipes with unusual ingredients.
* VampireVords: Parody TypingGame where you must type sentences in FangThpeak.
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* ComMons: A ''Franchise/{{Pokemon}}''-parody where you catch real life animals instead of made-up ones. Cats, dogs, pigeons, etc. One of the levle has you invade a zoo, the NPCs calling you insane for climbing into tiger cages to fight them. The Legendary mons are based on [[OurCryptidsAreMoreMysterious cryptids]], though their designs imply that they're just regular people in costumes.
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* SkeletonCrew: A MassivelyMultiplayerOnlineRolePlayingGame where you play a pirate who dies and is offered a chance at glory in the dead ocean of Davy Jones' Locker.
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* QuickDraw: An old LightGunGame from the arcade era where you play a sheriff gunning down outlaws in TheWildWest.
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* FetchQuest: You play a delivery boy in a smal, unassuming town tasked with delivering packages and gifts for the neighbors. Much of the game's popularity doesn't come from the game itself, but the twistedl dark fan theories people have made based on subtext; the neighborhood is full of body-snatching aliens, the nice old lady is making pies out of missing neighborhood pets, etc.
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* PlatformHell: An AffectionateParody of old-school 2D platformer games. The game begins as a standard ''VideoGame/SuperMarioBros1''-knockoff and the PlayerCharacter falls down a {{Bottomless Pit|s}} and winds up in {{Hell}}. {{Satan}} mockingly tells you that you'll spend an eternity in Hell unless they find the 1-Up he keeps in his personal castle and gives you the chance to take it and revive in the living world. The game itself is a NintendoHard platformer known for its {Troll}}ish sense of humor.

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* PlatformHell: An AffectionateParody of old-school 2D platformer games. The game begins as a standard ''VideoGame/SuperMarioBros1''-knockoff and the PlayerCharacter falls down a {{Bottomless Pit|s}} and winds up in {{Hell}}. {{Satan}} mockingly tells you that you'll spend an eternity in Hell unless they find the 1-Up he keeps in his personal castle and gives you the chance to take it and revive in the living world. The game itself is a NintendoHard platformer known for its {Troll}}ish {{troll}}ish sense of humor.
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* PlatformHell: An AffectionateParody of old-school 2D platformer games. The game begins as a standard ''VideoGame/SuperMarioBros1''-knockoff and the PlayerCharacter falls down a {{Bottomless Pit|s}} and winds up in {{Hell}}. {{Satan}} mockingly tells you that you'll spend an eternity in Hell unless they find the 1-Up he keeps in his personal castle and gives you the chance to take it and revive in the living world. The game itself is a NintendoHard platformer known for its {Troll}}ish sense of humor.
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* TwilightOfTheSupers: A WideOpenSandbox game set in a superhero world in the later of the SuperheroPrevalenceStages. You play an OccultDetective (a deliberate homage to [[Characters/HellblazerJohnConstantine John Constantine]]) who is hired by the US Government to find out who and how a thought-to-be-unkillable SupermanSubstitute was murdered in a back-alley with stab wounds. The player can do side-missions where they investigate other crimes committed by long-time supervillains and do other general hero stuff. The later stages of the plot reveal the origins of how superheroes started popping up and a conspiracy believed to have caused it, with the CentralTheme of the story being about the ending of an era, older generations fearing the new and the dangers of sacrificing the future to try and preserve an idealized past.
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* KungFuKid: A BeatEmUp game where you play a kid (boy or girl) who arrives at a martial arts school where he/she has to fight their classmates to reach the top martial arts fighter in school.
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* KingKoopaCopy: A ''Franchise/SuperMarioBros''[=-fangame=] where [[Franchise/DonkeyKong King K. Rool]], [[VideoGame/SonicLostWorld Zavok]], [[VideoGame/RingFitAdventure Dragaux]], and [[VideoGame/WarioLandShakeIt the Shake King]], all of whom are {{Big Bad}}s who have lost popularity and influence over the years, band together and overthrow [[Characters/SuperMarioBrosBowser Bowser]] and take control of [[Characters/SuperMarioBrosTheKoopaKingdom The Koopa Kingdom]] and drink in Bowser's unbreakable star-power. Now Bowser has to traverse through his many vassal-kingdoms, free the [[Characters/SuperMarioBrosTheKoopalings The Koopalings]] and take back his empire before Mario and the others find out and lose respect for him.
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* {{Gashadokuro}}: A PuzzlePlatformer set in Japan where the PlayerCharacter has to traverse an empty village, hiding in the shadows to avoid being noticed by a Gashadokuro's spotlight gaze. Should the player get caught in its sight, the Gashadokuro grabs and eats them.
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* ThePawnsGoFirst: A TabletopGame/{{Chess}}-themed PlatformGame where you're given the option of being Black or White. Whichever color you pick, the other becomes the theme of the enemies, where you jump on and attack the enemies not unlike how you would in ''VideoGame/SuperMarioBros1''. When your character dies, another piece from the board takes their place and that it how the live's system works. Each different playing piece (Pawns, Knights, Bishops, etc.) moves differently, not unlike ''VideoGame/SuperMarioBros2''. The final boss is the opposing team's King, and should you run out of pieces and have to play as your King and you lose that piece, it's GameOver.

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* ThePawnsGoFirst: A TabletopGame/{{Chess}}-themed TabletopGame/{{Chess}}[=-themed=] PlatformGame where you're given the option of being Black or White. Whichever color you pick, the other becomes the theme of the enemies, where you jump on and attack the enemies not unlike how you would in ''VideoGame/SuperMarioBros1''. When your character dies, another piece from the board takes their place and that it how the live's system works. Each different playing piece (Pawns, Knights, Bishops, etc.) moves differently, not unlike ''VideoGame/SuperMarioBros2''. The final boss is the opposing team's King, and should you run out of pieces and have to play as your King and you lose that piece, it's GameOver.
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* ThePawnsGoFirst: A TabletopGame/{{Chess}}-themed PlatformGame where you're given the option of being Black or White. Whichever color you pick, the other becomes the theme of the enemies, where you jump on and attack the enemies not unlike how you would in ''VideoGame/SuperMarioBros1''. When your character dies, another piece from the board takes their place and that it how the live's system works. Each different playing piece (Pawns, Knights, Bishops, etc.) moves differently, not unlike ''VideoGame/SuperMarioBros2''. The final boss is the opposing team's King, and should you run out of pieces and have to play as your King and you lose that piece, it's GameOver.
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* {{Murder Simulator|s}}: You play a passionate game-designer who wants to create the most realistic game ever and winds up involved in an underground FightClubbing in order to do research. Despite its grim name and premise, it's actually a [[DenserAndWackier Dense and Wacky]] game because Creator/Suda51 was given creative control over the project.
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* SuperTitle64Advance: An online-multiplayer PartyGame with graphics purposefully done to evoke the UsefulNotes/Nintendo64.
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* ButWaitTheresMore: A MinigameGame consisting of different {{Endless Game}}s.


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* OrganAutonomy: Time management simulation game where you control a group of anthropomorphic organs that you must switch between to ensure a human's body is running smoothly.
* PleaseSubscribeToOurChannel: SimulationGame where you play as an aspiring Website/{{YouTube}}r, and must use annoying and intrusive measures to get views and subscribers.


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* TalkToTheFist: Aggressively manly and macho 2D sidescrolling beat 'em up.


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* ViolentlyProtectiveGirlfriend: Open-world action-comedy game. You play as a {{Yandere}} who must be on the lookout for anyone who could even be ''considering'' harming your boyfriend, and you murder them in BloodyHilarious ways.
* WhamShot: An E-rated FirstPersonSnapshooter. You play as a professional photographer who must take photos worthy of being on the front page of the newspaper.
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* ManOnFire: A ''VideoGame/DoodleJump''-ripoff cell-phone game of a man hysterically running on fire. The player has to make sure to avoid obstacles so that they can make it to the large puddle of water at the end.
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Here's a JustForFun list of Tropes that would make a cool title for a video game (any kind), with a brief description of what the resulting show would be like.

To any game-designers who may be reading this, you are free to help yourself to these pitches (or turn them into FictionalVideoGame examples in your projects) under these conditions:
# No changing the titles (unless, of course, you really, REALLY want to).
# No {{Screw|ed By The Network}}ing.

Compare JustForFun/TropeTitleShows, JustForFun/TropeNamesAsEpisodeTitles, JustForFun/TropeNamesForABand, SugarWiki/TVTropesSuperheroTeam, DarthWiki/TVTropesSupervillainTeam and JustForFun/TVTropesNeutralTeam.

%%As per Administrivia/NoLewdnessNoPrudishness, please do not pitch ideas for graphic pornographic works, though works about sex are permitted.
%%If a trope is renamed or moved, it can stay here; just remove the link, and specify "(now defunct)" if needed.

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* ChristmasTown: A CollectAThonPlatformer set in the North Pole where you play a {{Christmas El|ves}}f trying to save Christmas after TheKrampus steals all of Santa's gifts.
* FantasticVermin: A SurvivalHorror game made to be an AffectionateParody of {{Simulation Games}} where you're hired to exterminate rats in an old house, only to uncover a labyrinth in the basement invested with rabid RatMen.
* HotelHellion: A CollectAThonPlatformer where you play a child who loses their trading cards all across the titular hotel and have to get them back by doing favors to hotel staff and patrons, uncovering a malicious plot in the process.
* LandShark: A side-scroller on Steam where you play a shark that had evolved to swim through the ground. Your enemies are animal control with guns and you regain health by eating innocent bystanders.
* QuirkyWork: A SimulationGame where you run a desk-job in Japan. Since it's made by Americans, it portrays every day office work in Japan as incredibly weird.
* RidiculouslyAverageGuy: A LifeSimulationGame where you play a suburban dad who is secretly a SerialKiller, tasked with paying the bills and ensuring their family is happy while at the same time finding new and creative ways to out your insatiable bloodlust without getting caught.
* TechnicolorDeath: An ActionRPG where you play TheGrimReaper, assigned by [[{{God}} Management]] to reap the corrupt CEO of MegaCorp when their plan will result in TheEndOfTheWorldAsWeKnowIt. The game includes robots, critiques of Crony-Capitalism, and [[CyberpunkWithAChanceOfRain lots and lots of rain]].
* UltimateShowdownOfUltimateDestiny: A MascotFighter where you can play any and every character ever put to fiction. They get around copyright laws by licensing it as a ''VideoGame/{{Fortnite}}'' spinoff.
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