As with most forms of media, video games have since been a subject to parodies ever since they gained mainstream popularity in the early Eighties, with popular characters like Mario, Sonic and the like getting their fair share of expies, or common gaming conventions such as Achievement Systems and First-Person Shooter mechanics being satirized or deconstructed either as a commentary on the industry, to simply poke fun at or pay homage to them or pop culture in general, or as a mere Shallow Parody.
Note that Affectionate Parody applies here as well; arguably even more so than other forms of parody. A parody game can just as easily be a fan game as well, or at the very least a love letter to the game it's parodying. Some games are even made by the same company, either as Self-Deprecation or just wanting to have fun compared to the more serious versions.
Sub-trope of Comedy Video Games. Compare and contrast this with Deconstruction Game. See also Lighter and Softer, Denser and Wackier.
Games:
- 77p egg: Eggwife - a parody of FPS games in general, mixed with truckloads of Toilet Humor (as in, once every 5 seconds)
- 3:00 AM at The Krusty Krab
- 3D Dot Game Heroes - A spoof of The Legend of Zelda
- 6 AM at The Chum Bucket
- Achievement Unlocked - The main goal is to get achievements/trophies
- AmsterDoom is a Doom spoof, as well as a slapstick parody of violent 90s FPS games
- Around the Clock at Bikini Bottom
- Barkley, Shut Up and Jam: Gaiden - Parody of amateur RPG Maker games, made in Mark Overmars' Game Maker
- Battlefield Heroes - Parody of World War II shooters.
- Brad Has a Pain - A parody of LISA: The Painful RPG.
- Clownfield 2042 - A spoof that makes fun of the poorly received aspects of Battlefield 2042
- Cooking Mama: Mama Kills Animals - PETA making a spoof of Cooking Mama
- Courage's Curse
- Dangeresque: The Roomisode Triungulate - Parodies Sierra and LucasArts Point And Click Games.
- Death Trips - Parody of generic Horror Video Games.
- DLC Quest - Spoofs Downloadable Content
- Dot Kareshi - An Affectionate Parody of Eastern RPGs and the habits players of said games tend to develop.
- Election Year Knockout - Spoofs Punch-Out!!
- Enough Plumbers - Spoofs Super Mario Bros.
- Fantasy Quest - The first game is a "straight" game. The sequel, written over a decade later, mocks many of the unlikely and unexplained aspects of the original, and Interactive Fiction tropes in general.
- Fishgun is an FPS spoof where instead of zombies, aliens or most Standard FPS Enemies, you're fighting killer anthropomorphic fruits. With the bosses including peaches that tries flattening you, pears who can spam lasers, and the last boss being a building-sized carnivorous strawberry.
- Five Nights at Fuckboy's - Spoofs Five Nights at Freddy's
- Franken - Parody of Eastern RPG tropes.
- The Good Grimace Shake Horror Game - A Survival Horror parody based on the Grimace Shake trend.
- Gourmet Warriors - Affectionate Parody of the various Beat 'em Up games populating arcades in the 80s and 90s.
- The Illogical Journey of the Zambonis - a parody of Logical Journey of the Zoombinis with, well zambonis.
- Kid Dracula - Konami made a Lighter and Softer version of its own Castlevania
- Legos in Space - Of bad LEGO fan games.
- The Looker - Parody of The Witness.
- Moon: Remix RPG Adventure - Is almost, but not quite an example. The game heavily spoofs the genre conventions of JRPGs, especially of the 16-bit Era, and even plays around with elements of Postmodernism, but as an Adventure Game in its own right, it is played perfectly straight.
- Normal Super Mario Bros. - Super Mario Bros. but more surreal.
- Neptunia - Uses Moe Anthropomorphism to parody the entire video game industry, as well as several individual game series.
- One Night at Flumpty's - Spoofs Five Nights at Freddy's
- Organ Trail - If The Oregon Trail had to deal with zombies.
- Otomedius - Konami makes an extremely trippy version of its own Gradius, and other series.
- Parodius - Konami makes a Cute 'em Up version of its own Gradius, and other series.
- Peasant's Quest - Of old fashioned text adventures like King's Quest, and no, You Can't Get Ye Flask in these games.
- Pokémon Black and Blue - PETA making a spoof of Pokémon
- Progress Quest - Spoofs RPG games by making it all look like a spreadsheet
- Pyst - Spoofs Myst
- A Real Party
- Songs for a Hero - Self-lampshading platformer.
- Sonic Dreams Collection - Spoofs the Sonic the Hedgehog fandom BIG TIME
- Splatterhouse - The series itself has a spoof installment, Splatterhouse Wanpuku Graffiti
- Star Soldier - has a Cute 'em Up installment Star Parodier
- Stinkoman 20X6 - Spoofs the Mega Man (Classic) series
- Super Amazing Wagon Adventure spoofs The Oregon Trail
- Super Chick Sisters - PETA making a spoof of Super Mario Bros.
- Super Tanooki Skin 2D - PETA making a spoof of Super Mario Bros.
- Syobon Action - Spoofs Super Mario Bros.
- Trombone Champ - Spoofs Guitar Hero and similar Rhythm Games
- Upgrade Complete - A parody of upgrade-centric Web Games
- The What-Iffers in: Final Fancy - A parody of Final Fantasy
- Wingman DX - A parody of dating simulators.
