Here's a Just for Fun 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 Fictional Video Game examples in your projects) under these conditions:
- No changing the titles (unless, of course, you really, REALLY want to).
- No Screwing.
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- Aliens in Cardiff: An Indie Game where you play a grey-alien living in a 50's style suburb, trying to live a normal life, often failing in hilarious ways.
- Analog Horror: A series of episodic levels where the Player Character has to traverse various random locations (the woods, a conspicuously empty neighborhood, etc.) and avoid various Monstrous Humanoids, ghosts, and aliens hunting you down, the whole game is done in a polygonal style with VHS screen effects. The collectibles are videotapes that play unusual PSAs and home movies of the people who supposedly lived there, creating a very dedicated fandom online that dedicates themselves to understanding the game's lore.
- Audience Participation: A wacky platformer game. Players take turns trying to beat a level, while spectators can induce effects such as obscuring the camera, changing the character's movement speed, or flipping the screen around.
- But Wait, There's More!: A Minigame Game consisting of different Endless Games.
- Christmas Rushed: An Endless Running Game 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.
- Christmas Town: A Collect-a-Thon Platformer set in the North Pole where you play a Christmas Elf trying to save Christmas after The Krampus steals all of Santa's gifts.
- Com Mons: A Pokémon-parody where you catch real life animals instead of made-up ones. Cats, dogs, pigeons, etc. One of the levels has you invade a zoo, the NPCs calling you insane for climbing into tiger cages to fight them. The Legendary mons are based on cryptids, though their designs imply that they're just regular people in costumes.
- Cosmic Chess Game: A Chess simulator play as either God of Good or the God of Evil 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...
- Depending on the Artist: A party game for multiple players. One player, called the commissioner, requests a piece from the rest of the players, the artists. One artist draws a picture first, and the rest draw their own version of it. The commissioner must guess which piece the original artist drew.
- Digital Horror: An indie-horror game that acts as a social-media simulator where the player gets cyberstalked.
- Disaster Dominoes: Make the craziest domino contraptions you can imagine and watch them fall!
- Disney School of Acting and Mime: A Rhythm Game on the Kinect where various Disney Channel actors teach the game's tween demographic how to dance.
- Fantastic Vermin: A Survival Horror game made to be an Affectionate Parody 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 Rat Men.
- Fetch Quest: 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.
- Gashadokuro: A Puzzle Platformer set in Japan where the Player Character 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.
- Go Mad from the Apocalypse: A Borderlands-esq Hero Shooter set many decades after the Zombie Apocalypse ended society. With all the weird wacky stuff going on (zombies exploding in confetti, other survivors acting like clowns, etc) combined with the game's title, gamers theorize that it's actually a bleak Walking Dead-esq post-apocalypse and that everything is so stylized and cartoonish because the protagonist snapped and now looks at the world like it's a fun adventure because they couldn't cope with the reality of the situation. Word of God confirms this to be true, with a cut secret ending revealing that the protagonist has been killing innocent people in the Acropolis surrounded by zombies in a bleak, dirty "real world".
- The Great Exterminator: 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.
- The Greys: An indie-Mascot Horror set in a civilian suburb undergoing a power-outage and the protagonist has to avoid being abducted by aliens.
- Hollywood Satanism: An Idle Game where you play as Satan building his "brand" (Satanic Cult). The game has two different currencies; faith and souls. Use faith to upgrade faith-building enterprises (ranging from basement altars to policies pushing evil on a judicial level), and for every 100+ faith points you get a soul point. Use soul points to upgrade access to more powerful forms of faith gathering.
- Hotel Hellion: A Collect-a-Thon Platformer 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.
- Inaction Video: An Idle Game about movie production. Hire staff members to get money to make movies, they wait longer and hire more staff to make sequels and get more money.
- Kung-Fu Kid: A Beat 'em Up 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.
- Land Shark: 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.
- Mad Marble Maze: A Puzzle Platformer where you navigate an Escher-maze in a Super Monkey Ball situation.
- Magical Minority Person: A Fighting Game series features battle of the mages from each theme;
- Magical Asian: The Magical Girls from various Asian countries fight in the tournament. You can choose one heroine for your playable character.
- Magical Jew: A Jewish American Princess who becomes a Magical Girl and has to fight the Biblical figures to make a wish from the god.
- Magical Native American: A Native American sorcerer who fights the indigenous mythical creatures and the spirits.
- Magical Negro: Similar to Magical Asian, but African, and with group battles, and you can form your own tribe for the battles.
- Magical Queer: A Super Drags or Zsazsa Zaturnnah-style battle game features the Camp Gay Drag Queen heroine who happens to fight the Heteronormative Crusader, Straw Feminist, and Armored Closet Gay villains.
- Magical Romani: A Romani fortuneteller who fights the tarot-theme enemies to turn his/her fates into the better ways.
- Man on Fire: A Doodle Jump-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.
- Many Questions Fallacy: A Quiz Game featuring insane, illogical, and user-submitted questions.
- The Modern Gods: A GTA-clone where a street preacher, having undergone a drug-induced spirit quest, accidentally creates a new pantheon of gods that represent modern concepts (smartphones, street-food, street-crime, etc) from his genuine belief in them. With only one believer, they decide to set out and expand the cult to increase their base of power, being forced to contend with the believers and gods of the already established faiths who see them as a threat. After the third act, the new pantheon manages to establish a stranglehold over the city, but the God of Street-Crime (who took charge in order to help expand their cult into sustainability) starts inciting civil war within the city amongst his believers to feed off of the chaos and the rest of the pantheon has to stop him before it ends in their annihilation.
- Murder Simulator: You play a passionate game-designer who wants to create the most realistic game ever and winds up involved in an underground Fight Clubbing in order to do research. Despite its grim name and premise, it's actually a Dense and Wacky game because Suda51 was given creative control over the project.
- The Old Gods: A Little Nightmares-esq Puzzle Platformer 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 Ghosts 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.
- Organ Autonomy: 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.
- The Pawns Go First: A Chess-themed Platform Game 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 Super Mario Bros.. 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 Super Mario Bros. 2. 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 Game Over.
- Phonýmon: A Pokémon-parody based off of 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.
- Platform Hell: An Affectionate Parody of old-school 2D platformer games. The game begins as a standard Super Mario Bros.-knockoff and the Player Character falls down a Bottomless Pit 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 Nintendo Hard platformer known for its trollish sense of humor.
- Please Subscribe to Our Channel: Simulation Game where you play as an aspiring YouTuber, and must use annoying and intrusive measures to get views and subscribers.
- Quick Draw: An old Light Gun Game from the arcade era where you play a sheriff gunning down outlaws in The Wild West.
- Quirky Work: A Simulation Game 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.
- Quote Mine: A game where you collect quotes from people and use Manipulative Editing to condemn your enemies' reputation.
- Ridiculously Average Guy: A Life Simulation Game where you play a suburban dad who is secretly a Serial Killer, 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.
- Scenery Censor: 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.
- Skeleton Crew: A Massively Multiplayer Online Role-Playing Game where you play a pirate who dies and is offered a chance at glory in the dead ocean of Davy Jones' Locker.
- Super Title 64 Advance: An online-multiplayer Party Game with graphics purposefully done to evoke the Nintendo 64.
- Talk to the Fist: Aggressively manly and macho 2D sidescrolling beat 'em up.
- Technicolor Death: An Action RPG where you play The Grim Reaper, assigned by Management to reap the corrupt CEO of MegaCorp when their plan will result in The End of the World as We Know It. The game includes robots, critiques of Crony-Capitalism, and lots and lots of rain.
- Twilight of the Supers: A Wide-Open Sandbox game set in a superhero world in the later of the Superhero Prevalence Stages. You play an Occult Detective (a deliberate homage to John Constantine) who is hired by the US Government to find out who and how a thought-to-be-unkillable Superman Substitute 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 Central Theme 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.
- Ultimate Showdown of Ultimate Destiny: A Mascot Fighter where you can play any and every character ever put to fiction. They get around copyright laws by licensing it as a Fortnite spinoff.
- Ultra Super Death Gore Fest Chainsawer 3000: A Murder Simulator where you play an Action Hero 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.
- Unconventional Food Order: Cooking game where you make a variety of strange recipes with unusual ingredients.
- Vampire Vords: Parody Typing Game where you must type sentences in Fang Thpeak.
- Violently Protective Girlfriend: 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 Bloody Hilarious ways.
- Wham Shot: An E-rated First-Person Snapshooter. You play as a professional photographer who must take photos worthy of being on the front page of the newspaper.
- Wicked Pretentious:
- 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 World of Jerkass where everyone is terrible, this is all Played for Laughs.
- A Wide-Open Sandbox Crime Simulator where you play an up-and-coming crimeboss who wants to become a member of the Nebulous Criminal Conspiracy. While the Conspiracy are made of Old Money high society criminals, the Player Character is Nouveau Riche 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 Played for Laughs 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.
- A Wizard Did It: A Retraux 2.5-D RPG where you play a wizard that accidentally turned random objects across his village into monsters and its you job to fight them and return things to normal.
