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- 1... 2... 3... KICK IT! Drop That Beat Like An Ugly Baby is AaaaaAAaaaAAAaaAAAAaAAAAA!!! – A Reckless Disregard for Gravity meets Audiosurf
- 3D Dot Game Heroes can be described as The Legend of Zelda meets LEGO meets Ginormo Sword.
- 60 Seconds! is When the Wind Blows meets The Oregon Trail meets Fallout Shelter meets Wait Till Your Father Gets Home.
- 7 Days to Die is Minecraft meets DayZ.
- 7th Dragon Is basically Etrian Odyssey meets Neon Genesis Evangelion with The Dragons Come Back.
- 8Bit Killer is Wolfenstein 3-D mixed with Fist of the North Star.
- 13 Sentinels: Aegis Rim is Front Mission meets Pacific Rim meets SaGa Frontier meets Aegis of Earth: Protonovus Assault meets Bokurano.
- 20XX and its sequel 30XX are Mega Man meets Rogue Legacy.
- 100% Orange Juice! is Mario Party meets Dokapon Kingdom meets the works of Orange_Juice.
- 1001 Spikes is Indiana Jones meets Meat Boy and I Wanna Be the Guy.
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- Abadox is Section Z meets Life Force.
- ABZÛ is Journey meets Endless Ocean.
- A.R.E.S. Extinction Agenda is Abuse meets Turrican, while taking some plot and gameplay elements from Metroid Prime.
- Academagia is what happens when a video game set in a Wizarding School isn't either Harry Potter meets Brütal Legend (equals GrimGrimoire), or Polyhistor Academy given the Namco High treatment.
- The Ace Attorney series could be described as "a Shounen series written by John Grisham".
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it's a comedy of errors with the violence of Macbeth. - The Great Ace Attorney is Professor Layton vs. Phoenix Wright: Ace Attorney meets Sherlock Holmes.
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- Ace Combat:
- Ace Combat 3: Electrosphere is Ace Combat meets Ghost in the Shell.
- Ace Combat: Assault Horizon is Ace Combat: Joint Assault meets Time Crisis 4's Complete Mission mode.
- Ace Combat Infinity is Ace Combat: Joint Assault meets Ace Combat: Assault Horizon with mashups of elements from Strangereal-based games.
- Aces Wild: Manic Brawling Action! is Scott Pilgrim (In terms of any version), with the High Altitude Battles of Dragon Ball Z, and a scoring system similar to God Hand.
- Achron is Starcraft meets Braid
- ActRaiser is Valis meets SimCity meets Populous.
- Advanced V.G. II is The King of Fighters meets Rumble Roses.
- Advert City is the cruel and near-unstoppable MegaCorp oligopoly seen in works like Syndicate getting rekt by the rise of the Lightning Bruiser Manipulative Bastard that is Big Data, in the form of a business sim where your company, AdsPlay, is Big Data.
- Alternatively, Advert City is to BladeRunner what Beholder is to NineteenEightyFour.
- Aaero is Rez meets Tempest meets Gitaroo Man.
- After Burner is Top Gun meets Macross.
- Afterfall: Insanity is Dead Space meets Mad Max.
- Age of Empires is Warcraft meets Civilization.
- Age of Mythology is Age of Empires Meets Black & White.
- Age of Wonders is Dungeons & Dragons meets Civilization.
- Alternatively, Age of Wonders is Master of Magic meets Heroes of Might and Magic.
- Agents of Mayhem is Overwatch in the world of Saints Row.
- Yahtzee describes the game as "a cross between Saints Row and G.I. Joe, a Saints' Joe if you will."
- Aground is Starbound meets A Dark Room meets Utopian Mining.
- Ajax is Xevious meets Twin Cobra meets After Burner.
- Akai Katana is Progear meets Guwange.
- Akanesasu Sekai de Kimi to Utau: 100 Sleeping Princes and the Kingdom of Dreams meets Japanese history.
- Akiba's Trip: Undead & Undressed is Way of the Samurai meets Dead Rising (or Sleeping Dogs (2012)) meets Kill la Kill meets High School D×D.
- Alan Wake:
- The original game is Twin Peaks meets House of Leaves meets Resident Evil 4 as written by Stephen King.
- Alternatively, Twin Peaks meets In the Mouth of Madness.
- Alan Wake's American Nightmare is instead Alan Wake meets Evil Dead as penned by Quentin Tarantino.
- Alan Wake II is True Detective meets Vanishing on 7th Street.
- The original game is Twin Peaks meets House of Leaves meets Resident Evil 4 as written by Stephen King.
- Alchemist Code is Final Fantasy Tactics meets Brave Frontier.
- Alien: Isolation is Alien meets Outlast.
- Alien Storm is Aliens meets Golden Axe.
- Alien Syndrome is Aliens meets Gauntlet.
- Alien vs. Predator is Doom meets Halo 3: ODST.
- Aliens: Colonial Marines is Alien meets Call of Duty
- Alone in the Dark:
- The 1992 original is Laura Bow meets Sweet Home (1989).
- The 2008 reboot is Alone in the Dark (2005) meets Resident Evil 4 meets Highlander meets Hellblazer.
- Alone in the Dark: Illumination is the 2008 game meets Alan Wake and Left 4 Dead, by way of The Slaughtering Grounds.
- Alone in the Dark (2024) is the 1992 original meets Resident Evil 2 (Remake) and White Night.
- Alpha Protocol is Splinter Cell meets Mass Effect.
- Alundra is The Legend of Zelda meets A Nightmare on Elm Street. The second game is The Legend of Zelda meets Pirates of the Caribbean meets Monster Rancher (specifically the anime).
- Amanda the Adventurer is Dora the Explorer meets Baldi's Basics in Education and Learning meets Popee the Performer meets Candle Cove.
- Alternatively, all of those things plus The Ring.
- Amazing Island. Some critic described on the back of the games case that it was like Pokémon meets Mario Party.
- American McGee's Alice is Return to Oz meets Alice's Adventures in Wonderland.
- Amnesia: The Dark Descent is Memento meets Eternal Darkness.
- Among the Sleep is Rugrats meets Papo & Yo.
- Among Us is The Thing meets Fall Guys: Ultimate Knockout if it were a game of Mafia/Werewolf.
- Anarchy Reigns = Mortal Kombat: Mario Party Edition featuring Final Fantasy VII.
- Anbennar is Europa Universalis IV meets Dungeons & Dragons.
- Andy's Apple Farm is Baldi's Basics in Education and Learning meets The Walten Files.
- Angels of Death is Ib meets Ruby Quest with the general energy of Magical Girl Site and the visual aesthetic of horror B-movies.
- Angry Birds is Crush the Castle meets a bright, sugary art style.
- Angry Birds Space is Angry Birds meets Super Mario Galaxy.
- Spin-Off Angry Birds Stella POP! is Bubble Witch Saga 2 meets Angry Birds Stella.
- Animal Crossing is Sylvanian Families meets The Sims.
- Animal Jam is Club Penguin meets Animal Atlas meets The Legend of Zelda.
- Anomie is The Prisoner (1967) meets The Man Who Fell to Earth.
- An Untitled Story was described by its author as Super Metroid meets Jumper, though Seiklus meets Jumper is also feasible.
- A Plague Tale: Innocence is what happens when you mix Hellblade: Senua's Sacrifice, Brothers: A Tale of Two Sons, The Last of Us, Thief and The Goonies together and put them in France during The Hundred Years War.
- Ape Escape is Pokémon: The Series meets Banjo-Kazooie meets a kid-friendly version of Planet of the Apes.
- Apex Legends is Player Unknowns Battlegrounds meets Overwatch.
- Aquaria is Metroid meets The Little Mermaid (1989) meets Ecco the Dolphin meets Flashback.
- Arabian Fight is Streets of Rage meets Aladdin.
- Archvale is The Legend of Zelda meets Enter the Gungeon.
- Ardy Lightfoot is Super Mario Bros. meets Indiana Jones with a pinch of Sonic the Hedgehog.
- Arknights is Plants vs. Zombies meets Kemono Friends meets Command & Conquer: Tiberian Sun meets Pixiv Fantasia.
- ARK: Survival Evolved is DayZ meets Rust meets The Stomping Land.
- Armello is Game of Thrones meets Redwall.
- Armored Core VI: Fires of Rubicon is Armored Core meets Dune.
- ARMS is Punch-Out!! meets Super Smash Bros. meets Brawlhalla meets JoJo's Bizarre Adventure, with a side dash of Dragon Ball and AKIRA.
- Art of Fighting is Street Fighter meets Taken meets Rumble in the Bronx.
- Arumana no Kiseki is Indiana Jones meets Roc 'n Rope.
- Ashes of the Singularity is Total Annihilation meets Orion's Arm
- The Asphalt series of mobile racing games by Gameloft is Need for Speed real cars meets Burnout takedown and action based racing meets Ridge Racer drift mechanics.
- Alternatively, Test Drive meets OutRun meets Super Smash Bros. with some The Fast and the Furious flair.
- Assassin's Creed is Hitman meets Ancient Conspiracy meets Prince of Persia: The Two Thrones.
- The plot of Assassin's Creed is Alamut meets Kingdom of Heaven.
- The "Ezio Trilogy" could be summed as Assassin's Creed meets The Borgias meets Dan Brown meets Medici:
- Assassin's Creed III is Assassin's Creed meets The Last of the Mohicans meets The Patriot (2000) meets Red Dead Redemption meets The Legend of Zelda: The Wind Waker with a side order of the Star Wars Original Trilogy.
- Assassin's Creed IV: Black Flag is Assassin's Creed III meets Pirates of the Caribbean meets Black Sails.
- Assassin's Creed Rogue is Assassin's Creed IV: Black Flag meets Assassin's Creed III meets the Star Wars Prequel Trilogy.
- Assassin's Creed: Unity is Assassin's Creed meets The Rose of Versailles meets Les Misérables (2012) meets Romeo and Juliet.
- Assassin's Creed Syndicate is Assassin's Creed meets Grand Theft Auto meets Gangs of New York meets Peaky Blinders in Victorian Britain.
- Assassin's Creed Origins is Assassin's Creed meets Rome meets Cleopatra meets The Mummy Trilogy meets The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt with the combat mechanics of For Honor.
- Assassin's Creed: Odyssey is Assassin's Creed meets 300 meets God of War.
- Assassin's Creed: Valhalla is Assassin's Creed meets Vikings meets The Last Kingdom meets For Honor garinished with the gameplay mechanics of Mortal Kombat 11 and the mythological flavor of Marvel Comics' Thor.
- Assetto Corsa is TORCS meets M.U.G.E.N with official licensed cars.
- Astalon: Tears of the Earth is Alwa's Awakening or Castle in the Darkness meets Trine.
- Astebreed can be seen as Ether Vapor meets ALLTYNEX Second.
- Or Ether Vapor meets Zone of the Enders.
- Astral Chain is essentially NieR: Automata meets JoJo's Bizarre Adventure meets Neon Genesis Evangelion.
- Asura's Wrath is basically God of War meets Naruto meets Fist of the North Star meets Tengen Toppa Gurren Lagann meets God Hand meets Dragon Ball Z with dashes of Heavy Rain, Street Fighter (Literally) and some more Super Robot Genre (Via DLC) being in it as well.
- Atari Mania is the Ominous Visual Glitch Crisis Crossover apocalypse concept of Pibby meets the gameplay of NES Remix.
- Audiosurf is Rock Band meets F-Zero meets TRON: Legacy meets a Media Player Visualization.
- Aurora is a mix of Dwarf Fortress, War in the Pacific, Space Empires and every complex strategy game you can think of.
- Auto Destruct is Spy Hunter meets Die Hard with a Vengeance.
- AVGN KO Boxing is The Angry Video Game Nerd meets Punch-Out!! on the Atari 2600.
- Aviary Attorney is, more or less explicitly Ace Attorney meets Les Misérables meets J. J. Grandville's Les Métamorphoses du jour.
- Awesomenauts is Defense of the Ancients meets Super Smash Bros., with a liberal dash of 80's cartoons mixed in.
- Axel's Magic Hammer is Alex Kidd in Miracle World meets Rick Dangerous.
- Atomicrops is Stardew Valley meets Enter the Gungeon
- Axiom Verge is Metroid meets Out of This World.
- Azur Lane is KanColle meets World of Warships meets horizontal Shoot 'Em Up gameplay.
- Alternatively, it's KanColle meets Touhou Project.
- Azure Dreams is Pokémon meets Angband.
- Azure Striker Gunvolt is Mega Man Zero meets Alisia Dragoon meets Psychic Force.
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- The Baby in Yellow is The King in Yellow meets Jack-Jack Attack.
- Backyard Sports is MLB/MLS/NBA/NFL/NHL meets Recess.
- Bad Rats: the Rats' Revenge is The Incredible Machine meets Ratatoing with a bit of Saw thrown in.
- Bahamut Lagoon is Final Fantasy Tactics meets Seaman meets Gone Girl.
- Balan Wonderworld is NiGHTS: Journey of Dreams meets Yooka-Laylee meets Psychonauts.
- Baldi's Basics in Education and Learning is Sonic's Schoolhouse meets Slender: The Arrival.
- The Baldur's Gate trilogy as a whole (especially Throne of Bhaal) is Highlander in the Forgotten Realms setting.
- Bangai-O is Dangaioh with the insanity of Dynamite Headdy and the brutal difficulty of Radiant Silvergun.
- Bang-On Balls: Chronicles is Super Mario Odyssey meets the Lego Adaptation Games meets Gex meets Polandball.
- Banjo-Kazooie is Super Mario 64 meets The Wind in the Willows as imagined by Roald Dahl.
- The Banner Saga is A Song of Ice and Fire meets The Oregon Trail and King of Dragon Pass.
- Batman games:
- The Adventures of Batman and Robin is Batman: The Animated Series meets Gunstar Heroes meets Amiga Demoscene.
- Batman: Arkham Asylum is Batman: The Animated Series meets Metal Gear Solid and Arkham Asylum: A Serious House on Serious Earth.
- Batman: Arkham City is Escape from New York meets Batman: The Animated Series.
- Battle Bay is Fortress Destroyer meets Splatoon, but with a lot less paint involved.
- Battle Arena Toshinden is Samurai Shodown meets Virtua Fighter.
- Battle Brothers is XCOM meets Mount & Blade, in a setting very similar to Warhammer.
- Battle Chef Brigade is Iron Chef mixed with Bejeweled Twist and the combat of Dust: An Elysian Tail.
- The Battle Cats is Warrior Cats meets Space Invaders, with the gameplay of Plants Versus Zombies and added hilarity of the Saints Row series.
- Battle Garegga is Gun Frontier meets Zanac.
- The Battle of Olympus is Orpheus & Eurydice meets Zelda II: The Adventure of Link.
- Battle Traverse is Ketsui meets Progear.
- Battletoads is a cross between Double Dragon and Contra. For one thing, it's a beat-em-up like Double Dragon, and the Toads' helicopter resembles the one from Contra. Also, Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles is a clear inspiration.
- The PC-FX FMV game Battle Heat is Fist of the North Star meets Queen's Blade with both males and females alike meets Terminator.
- Bayonetta is what you get when you mix Devil May Cry with Viewtiful Joe.
- Bayonetta 2 is Bayonetta meets Devil May Cry 3: Dante's Awakening meets Super Mario Galaxy.
- Bayonetta 3 is Bayonetta 2 meets Doctor Who meets Devil May Cry 5 meets Kamen Rider Decade meets Kamen Rider Zi-O meets Kamen Rider Revice meets Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse meets Spider-Man: No Way Home meets WandaVision meets Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness meets Metroid Dread meets No Time to Die.
- Beacon Pines is Winnie the Pooh meets Twin Peaks meets Stranger Things.
- Beat Hazard is Audiosurf meets Space War.
- The Beatles: Adventures In Pepperland is Yellow Submarine meets Super Mario Bros. 2.
- The Beatles: Rock Band is Rock Band meets Yellow Submarine.
- Bendy and the Ink Machine is Epic Mickey as written by H. P. Lovecraft and with the gameplay of Amnesia: The Dark Descent.
- Alternatively, it's Amnesia: The Dark Descent meets Resident Evil 7: Biohazard meets Abandoned by Disney.
- Beyond Oasis: The Legend of Zelda: A Link to the Past meets Arabian Nights
- Beyond the Beyond is 1/3 Shining Force, and 2/3 Final Fantasy.note
- Big Rigs: Over the Road Racing is The Eye of Argon meets Gran Turismo.
- Billy Hatcher and the Giant Egg is Sonic the Hedgehog meets Katamari Damacy.
- The Binding of Isaac is The Legend of Zelda meets Silent Hill meets Diablo.
- Biomutant is Maneaternote meets Secret of Mananote meets Kung Fu Pandanote with a healthy dose of Fallout, topped off with combat taking notes from Devil May Cry and Ratchet & Clank.
- Bioshock
- BioShock is Walt Disney World's unmade EPCOT "city of the future" meets Objectivism, with the horror atmosphere of System Shock, the dystopian setting of Deus Ex, and the fast-paced gameplay of Resident Evil 4, but in first-person.
- Or System Shock 2 meets Atlas Shrugged meets Fallout 3 meets Total Recall (1990).
- Bioshock Infinite is Bioshock 2 meets Half-Life 2 meets ICO meets Braid meets Beauty and the Beast meets The Handmaid's Tale meets Spec Ops: The Line.
- BioShock is Walt Disney World's unmade EPCOT "city of the future" meets Objectivism, with the horror atmosphere of System Shock, the dystopian setting of Deus Ex, and the fast-paced gameplay of Resident Evil 4, but in first-person.
- Bionic Dues takes the bitesize nature of The Binding of Isaac, the story of Terminator Salvation, the Humongous Mecha strategy aspect of MechCommander, and the customisation of Gratuitous Space Battles.
- BIT.TRIP BEAT is Pong meets Rez.
- BIT.TRIP CORE is Missile Command meets DanceDanceRevolution.
- BIT.TRIP VOID is Katamari Damacy as a Bullet Hell.
- BIT.TRIP RUNNER is Vib-Ribbon meets Super Meat Boy.
- BIT.TRIP FATE is Rez meets Touhou Project.
- BIT.TRIP FLUX is Pong meets a hefty dose of Symbolism.
- The series' spin-off game, BIT.TRIP Presents: Runner2: Future Legend of Rhythm Alien, is the regular BIT.TRIP RUNNER meets Saturday morning cartoons.
- Black Myth: Wukong is Journey to the West meets Sekiro: Shadows Die Twice meets Dark Souls
- Bladed Fury is Valis meets Mulan.
- Blast Works is Darius meets Katamari Damacy.
- And Katamari itself is Bubbles (1982 arcade game by Williams) meets the brightly-colored collect-fests of the fifth console generation.
- Blasphemous is Berserk meets Castlevania: Symphony of the Night meets Bloodstained: Ritual of the Night meets Knights of the Temple: Infernal Crusade meets Dante's Inferno meets The Last Door meets Dark Souls meets Bloodborne meets Darkest Dungeon meets The Binding of Isaac meets Dark Devotion meets Hades meets Hollow Knight meets Prince of Persia: Warrior Within meets The Evil Within meets Splatterhouse.
- Or Castlevania: Lords of Shadow meets Fear & Hunger meets Super Metroid, by way of The Devil's Backbone.
- Blasphemous II is Blasphemous meets Metroid Dread meets Logan meets Pan's Labyrinth.
- Blackthorne is Flashback (general gameplay) meets The Lost Vikings (similar puzzles and password system).
- Blaster Master (NES): Metroid meets City Connection
- Blaster Master Zero is Blaster Master meets Megaman Zero meets Azure Striker Gunvolt.
- BlazBlue is Guilty Gear meets Trigun, Mortal Kombat, the Nasuverse, Naruto and Darkstalkers.
- Blazing Chrome is Contra: Hard Corps meets Metal Slug meets Shatterhand meets Mega Man X meets Appleseed.
- Bleach licensed games:
- The Blade of Fate and Dark Souls are Guilty Gear meets YuYu Hakusho Makyo Toitsusen meets Astro Boy: Omega Factor.
- Bleach: The 3rd Phantom is Bleach meets Fire Emblem.
- Blood is Duke Nukem 3D meets Evil Dead.
- Or Outlaws meets Killing Time and a toned down, irreverant version of Blood Meridian.
- Bloodborne is Dark Souls meets the works of H. P. Lovecraft meets Dracula.
- Or Demon's Souls meets Bioshock, Castlevania, and Fallen London.
- Blood Bowl is Madden NFL meets Warhammer.
- BloodRayne is Blade meets Buffy the Vampire Slayer meets Jedi Knight II: Jedi Outcast meets Max Payne and in the first game, Return to Castle Wolfenstein.
- Bloody Roar is X-Men meets The King of Fighters and Tekken. Alternatively, it's Tekken meets Altered Beast (1988) or Animorphs.
- Bloodstained: Ritual of the Night is Castlevania: Order of Ecclesia with the mechanics of Castlevania: Aria of Sorrow and Castlevania: Dawn of Sorrow and set within the time period of Castlevania: Symphony of the Night.
- Bloodstorm is Mortal Kombat meets Mega Man.
- Blue Dragon's Laconic page describes it as Persona 2 in the style of Dragon Quest meets Final Fantasy.
- Alternatively, it's Dragon Quest meets JoJo's Bizarre Adventure (Stardust Crusaders in particular).
- Blue Reflection is Sailor Moon meets Persona 4.
- Blue Reflection: Second Light is an all-girl version of Persona meets Life Is Strange with the pervasive lesbian overtones of Shoujo Sect.
- BLUE REVOLVER is Ketsui meets Battle Garegga meets Dangun Feveron.
- Blur is Project Gotham Racing meets Mario Kart. Makes sense, since Blur and PGR are both from Bizarre Creations.
- Boiling Point: Road to Hell (and the sequel, White Gold: War in Paradise) is Grand Theft Auto meets Deus Ex.
- Bombergirl is Bomberman meets Otomedius with a hint of Dota 2.
- Bonnie's Bakery is Diner Dash meets Animal Crossing.
- Borderlands was pitched by Gearbox Studios as "Halo meets Diablo".
- In a setting that's half Firefly and half Mad Max.
- Alternatively, it's Fallout meets Desert Punk, Serious Sam, and Team Fortress 2.
- Bot Vice is Mega Man meets Wild Guns meets Time Crisis.
- Boyfriend Dungeon is Dream Daddy meets Xenoblade Chronicles 2 meets Persona 4 meets Hades meets Beverly Hills, 90210
- BPM: Bullets Per Minute is Doom (2016) meets Crypt Of The Necrodancer.
- Bramble: The Mountain King is Little Nightmares meets Unforgiving – A Northern Hymn meets Brothers: A Tale of Two Sons (though with a much happier ending than these 3 games)
- Bravely Default is Final Fantasy meets Groundhog Day.
- Brawlhalla is Super Smash Bros. meets League of Legends meets Fortnite.
- Bro Force is Metal Slug meets The Expendables meets Team America: World Police meets Power Rangers, with a lives system similar to Aliens: Infestation.
- Brütal Legend is Overlord meets School of Rock.
- Brutal Orchestra is The Binding of Isaac meets LISA.
- Bujingai is Shinobi (2002) meets Devil May Cry with a Dynasty Warriors aesthetic and soundtrack.
- Bulletstorm is Duke Nukem meets MadWorld.
- Buddy Simulator 1984 is Undertale meets Coraline.
- Bug Fables is Paper Mario meets A Bug's Life.
- Bugsnax is Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs 2 meets Monster Hunter meets The Stuff.
- In Yahtzee Croshaw's Zero Punctuation review of the game, he described it as being akin to “Fraggle Rock as directed by David Cronenberg.”
- Bungo to Alchemist: Touken Ranbu meets Taishō roman.
- The Bureau: XCOM Declassified is The X-Files meets Mass Effect 3.
- Burning Rangers is The Rescue Mission Trilogy meets Backdraft.
- Bye Sweet Carole is Alice's Adventures in Wonderland meets Clock Tower
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- Cadillacs and Dinosaurs is Xenozoic Tales (the original comics) meets Growl meets Final Fight.
- Caladrius is Raiden Fighters meets Touhou Project in a Steampunk setting.
- The Callisto Protocol is Dead Space 3 meets Scorn meets Escape from Butcher Bay meets The Last of Us Part II.
- Call of Duty series:
- Modern Warfare:
- Call of Duty: Modern Warfare is Shadow Ops: Red Mercury meets Casino Royale (2006) meets Ghost Recon: Advanced Warfighter meets Black Hawk Down.
- Call of Duty: Modern Warfare (2019) is Call of Duty meets 13 Hours: The Secret Soldiers of Benghazi meets Zero Dark Thirty.
- The free-to-play Call Of Duty: Warzone meanwhile is Call of Duty meets PlayerUnknown's Battlegrounds meets Battlefield 3 and 4.
- Call of Duty: Modern Warfare II is Call of Duty meets Sicario meets Sicario: Day of the Soldado.
- The Black Ops subseries as a whole is Call of Duty meets Metal Gear
- Call of Duty: Black Ops is Call of Duty meets The Deer Hunter.
- Call of Duty: Black Ops II is Call of Duty: Black Ops meets Red Dawn (1984) meets Dexter.
- Call of Duty: Black Ops Cold War is Call of Duty: Black Ops meets The Deer Hunter meets The Manchurian Candidate (except it's the "good guys" who do the brainwashing).
- Call of Duty: Black Ops III is Call of Duty meets Crysis meets RoboCop meets Jacob's Ladder.
- Call of Duty: Infinite Warfare is Call of Duty meets The Expanse meets Mass Effect 3.
- Call of Duty: Zombies is Call of Duty meets Killing Floor or Left 4 Dead.
- Modern Warfare:
- Call to Arms is Men of War meets Battlefield.
- Candy Crush Saga is Bejeweled meets Candy Land.
- Capcom vs. is Capcom's characters meeting another company's characters meets The King of Fighters. Quite literally in the case of the last one, due to the existence of SNK vs. Capcom.
- Carmen Sandiego is Catwoman meets James Bond as an interactive video-game.
- CarnEvil is Crypt Killer meets 80s/90s Horror Comedy films meets Jumanji.
- Carrie's Order Up! is Tapper meets Pac-Man.
- Carrion is Ape Out meets The Thing (1982) meets Alien.
- Cartoon Network: Punch Time Explosion XL Super Smash Bros. meets Cartoon Network's non-licensed roster, circa 2010.
- Castle Crashers is Gauntlet meets Newgrounds.
- Castlevania is Ghosts 'n Goblins meets Dracula (and Universal Horror in general).
- Castlevania II: Simon's Quest is Castlevania meets Zelda II: The Adventure of Link.
- Castlevania III: Dracula's Curse is Castlevania meets The Lost Vikings.
- Castlevania: Curse of Darkness is Castlevania: Lament of Innocence meets Castlevania: Symphony of the Night meets Devil May Cry meets Pokémon.
- Castlevania: Lament of Innocence is Castlevania: Symphony of the Night meets Castlevania 64 meets JoJo's Bizarre Adventure: Phantom Blood meets Berserk.
- Castlevania: Judgment can be described as Castlevania meets Soulcalibur, with artwork by the artist of Death Note.
- Castlevania: Aria of Sorrow could be Castlevania meets JoJo's Bizarre Adventure and/or the Power Copying mechanics of Kirby and Mega Man (Classic).
- Castlevania: Dawn of Sorrow's Julius Mode is Castlevania meets JoJo's Bizarre Adventure meets Castlevania III: Dracula's Curse.
- Castlevania: Portrait of Ruin is Dawn of Sorrow's Julius Mode meets Castlevania: Bloodlines meets the "levels in paintings" aspect of Super Mario 64.
- Castlevania: Lords of Shadow is Super Castlevania IV meets God of War meets Maximo: Ghosts to Glory meets Shadow of the Colossus meets Metal Gear Solid 3: Snake Eater meets Metal Gear Solid 4: Guns of the Patriots meets Metal Gear Solid: Peace Walker with a dash of Pan's Labyrinth.
- Castlevania: Lords of Shadow – Mirror of Fate is Castlevania: Lords of Shadow meets Castlevania III: Dracula's Curse meets Castlevania: Circle of the Moon.
- Castlevania: Lords of Shadow 2 is Castlevania: Lords of Shadow – Mirror of Fate meets Castlevania: Curse of Darkness meets Prince of Persia: Warrior Within meets Violence Jack meets DmC: Devil May Cry meets Darksiders meets Metal Gear Rising: Revengeance meets Soulcalibur V meets Warhammer 40,000 meets God of War III meets Final Fantasy VI meets End of Days.
- Castlevania: Symphony of the Night is Cadash meets Castlevania: Rondo of Blood meets Super Metroid.
- Castlevania: Harmony of Dissonance is Castlevania: Symphony of the Night meets Castlevania II: Simon's Quest meets Mega Man X.
- Catherine is ICO meets Swan Lake meets Black Swan.
- Alternatively, it can be described as ICO + School Days + Buffalo '66 + Persona + The Twilight Zone (1959) + Black Swan + Audition + Cowboy Bebop + Future Diary
- Ben "Yahtzee" Croshaw described the game's puzzle-platforming dream sequences as "A Nightmare on Elm Street meets Q*bert".
- Cave Story is Nintendo Hard 8-bit platformers meets Metroid, with a touch of Mega Man and Blaster Master.
- or Mega Man meets The Neverhood.
- Chaos Legion is Devil May Cry meets Final Fantasy VII meets Castlevania
- Chasm: The Rift is Quake meets Doctor Who.
- Chimera Beast is Tyranids meets Gaiares. Or R-Type meets the Cthulhu Mythos
- Chroma Squad is Final Fantasy Tactics meets Super Sentai, with a pinch of Kamen Rider on the side.
- Alternatively, it's X-COM meets Power Rangers.
- Chrono Trigger is Final Fantasy meets Doctor Who.
- Or Dragon Quest meets Live A Live.
- CHUNITHM is Keyboardmania meets SOUND VOLTEX.
- Circus Electrique is WeHappyFew meets DarkestDungeon
- The Citadel is Relics meets Marathon meets Ghost in the Shell meets Brutal Doom.
- Cities: Skylines is SimCity 4 meets Train Fever.
- City Shrouded in Shadow is Disaster Report meets the Kaiju genre.
- Cloudpunk is Blade Runner meets The Fifth Element.
- Club Penguin is Habbo meets Pingu with some heaping of Webkinz.
- Clockwork Empires is the gameplay of Dwarf Fortress and the setting of Age of Empires III meets The Shadow Over Innsmouth.
- Cloudbuilt is Mega Man X meets Mirror's Edge.
- Code Name: S.T.E.A.M is The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen meets Valkyria Chronicles meets comic books, with a bit of stealth and Fire Emblem Guest Fighters as well.
- Code Vein is Dark Souls meets God Eater Burst.
- Comic Jumper is Comix Zone meets Sin and Punishment meets Earthworm Jim.
- Command & Conquer: Tiberium Wars is G.I. Joe fighting COBRA, when all of a sudden a third faction shows up that happens to be a Alien Invasion force.
- Commando (Capcom) is Metal Gear meets Syndicate meets World War II.
- The Conception series is Persona meets a Harem anime.
- Conception 2: Children Of The Seven Stars is Persona 3 meets Sakura Wars.
- Condemned: Criminal Origins is Se7en meets Silence of the Lambs.
- Confidential Mission is Virtua Cop meets James Bond meets Mission: Impossible.
- Conflicks: Revolutionary Space Battles is Treasure Planet: Battle at Procyon meets Jamestown: Legend of the Lost Colony meets Angry Birds.
- Congo Bongo: Donkey Kong meets Crystal Castles
- Conker's Bad Fur Day is Banjo-Kazooie meets Looney Tunes meets South Park.
- Or Duke Nukem 3D meets Duckman.
- Or Banjo-Kazooie meets Alice in Wonderland meets Fritz the Cat.
- The Escapist's review of Consortium described the game by saying, "you're left wondering who mixed the Deus Ex chocolate with your Stanley Parable peanut butter".
- Contra = Aliens + Commando + Rambo: First Blood Part IInote
- Contra Force is Contra (in the modern day) with the power-up system from Gradius.
- Probotector is Contra meets robotization.
- Contra: Shattered Soldier is Contra meets Demolition Man.
- Control is House of Leaves meets The Southern Reach Trilogy as set in the SCP Foundation and starring Wynonna Earp, all while featuring gameplay reminiscent of both Alan Wake and BioShock.
- Cookies is Condemned: Criminal Origins meets Trainspotting, by way of Silent Hill.
- Or "...Silent Hill, Twin Peaks, and The Wire made messy love all over Candyman while watching reruns of Bozo the Clown.”, as described by one critic quoted on the game's itch.io page.
- Or "...Silent Hill, Twin Peaks, and The Wire made messy love all over Candyman while watching reruns of Bozo the Clown.”, as described by one critic
- Cooking Companions is Until Dawn meets Doki Doki Literature Club! meets The Thing meets Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street.
- Cook, Serve, Delicious! is Cooking Mama meets WarioWare, with twice the speed and pressure.
- Copy Kitty is Bangai-O (target-based mission) meets Kirby 64: The Crystal Shards and Gunstar Heroes (weapon combining) meets Mega Man Network Transmission (graphical style and the cyberspace setting).
- Corn Kidz 64 is Super Mario 64 meets Banjo-Kazooie meets Invader Zim meets Children of the Corn.
- Corpse Party is Sweet Home (1989) meets Higurashi: When They Cry.
- Cosmo Dreamer is Kirby meets Touhou Project meets Ketsui.
- Counter-Strike Nexon: Zombies:
- Zombie Scenario mode is Counter-Strike meets Left 4 Dead.
- Zombie Shelter mode is Counter-Strike meets Minecraft.
- The Crash Bandicoot series in general is Donkey Kong Country meets Super Mario Bros. meets Sonic the Hedgehog.
- Crash Bandicoot (1996) is Donkey Kong Country (1994) and Super Mario 64 meet Looney Tunes, Sonic the Hedgehog, Mega Man (Classic) and Zelda II: The Adventure of Link.
- Crash Bandicoot 2: Cortex Strikes Back is Crash Bandicoot (1996) meets A New Hope meets Super Mario World meets Sonic the Hedgehog 2 meets Donkey Kong Country 2: Diddy's Kong Quest.
- Crash Bandicoot 3: Warped is Crash Bandicoot 2: Cortex Strikes Back meets Back to the Future meets Donkey Kong Country 3: Dixie Kong's Double Trouble!.
- Crash Team Racing is Crash Bandicoot meets Diddy Kong Racing with the Competitive Balance of Super Mario Kart.
- Crash Bandicoot: The Wrath of Cortex is Crash Bandicoot 2: Cortex Strikes Back and Crash Bandicoot 3: Warped meet The Empire Strikes Back, Donkey Kong 64 and Mega Man X.
- Crash Twinsanity is Crash Bandicoot: The Wrath of Cortex meets Mario & Luigi: Superstar Saga meets The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time meets Super Mario RPG meets Jak and Daxter: The Precursor Legacy meets Whiplash.
- Crash Tag Team Racing is Crash Team Racing and Crash Twinsanity meets Mario Kart: Double Dash!! with a hint of The Simpsons Hit & Run.
- Crash of the Titans is Crash Bandicoot: The Wrath of Cortex and Crash Twinsanity meet God of War, The Legend of Zelda: The Wind Waker and Mega Man ZX.
- Crash: Mind Over Mutant is Crash of the Titans meets Back to the Future Part II meets Sonic Adventure.
- Crash Bandicoot N. Sane Trilogy is Crash Bandicoot (1996), Crash Bandicoot 2: Cortex Strikes Back and Crash Bandicoot 3: Warped meet Donkey Kong Country Returns.
- Crash Bandicoot 4: It's About Time is Crash Bandicoot 3: Warped meets Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse meets Rick and Morty meets Crash Bandicoot N. Sane Trilogy meets Super Mario Odyssey meets Uncharted 4: A Thief's End meets Donkey Kong Country: Tropical Freeze meets Spies in Disguise.
- Cratermaze is Heiankyo Alien with a dash of Lode Runner.
- Crisis Force is Terra Cresta meets Vapor Trail.
- The Crew is Test Drive Unlimited meets Driver: San Francisco meets Need for Speed: Underground through Undercover meets The Fast and the Furious meets Forza Horizonnote meets Need for Speed: Hot Pursuit (2010) and Need for Speed Rivalsnote ... in America!
- The Crew 2 is all of the above meeting Hydro Thunder and Pilotwings.
- Criminal Case is Criminal Minds meets The Wire meets Mystery Case Files meets JoJo's Bizarre Adventure, with a bit of Mortal Kombat.
- Crimson Skies is Ace Combat meets Indiana Jones meets Star Wars meets Treasure Island.
- Alternatively, Diesel Punk meets Sky Captain and the World of Tomorrow.
- Crimson Skies High Road To Revenge is Crimson Skies meets Star Wars Rogue Squadron.
- Originally, it was going to be Crimson Skies meets Interactive Movie, but the concept was scrapped due to mediocre reception at E3 2002.
- Crimzon Clover is Ketsui meets RayForce.
- CROSS×BEATS is Osu! Tatakae! Ouendan with DanceDanceRevolution's former musicians.
- Crossy Road is Frogger meets Flappy Bird.
- Or essentially, if Frogger was an Endless Runner.
- Crusader Kings is Europa Universalis meets A Song of Ice and Fire meets The Sims.
- Cruelty Squad is Far Cry meets Hitman meets Deus Ex meets LSD: Dream Emulator meets Saya no Uta.
- Or Rainbow Six meets System Shock 2, In the Style of Hotline Miami.
- Crypt Of The Necrodancer is Dungeon Crawl meets DanceDanceRevolution.
- Alternatively, the game is The Legend of Zelda meets Dark Souls meets The Binding of Isaac meets DanceDanceRevolution.
- Cadence of Hyrule is almost literally Crypt Of The Necrodancer meets The Legend of Zelda: A Link to the Past.
- Alternatively, the game is The Legend of Zelda meets Dark Souls meets The Binding of Isaac meets DanceDanceRevolution.
- Crysis and Crysis Warhead is Far Cry meets Halo
- Crysis 2 and Crysis 3 is Halo meets Call of Duty.
- Cube Escape is the Submachine series meets Twin Peaks.
- Culdcept is Monopoly with elements of Magic: The Gathering.
- Cult of the Lamb has been described by multiple people as The Binding of Isaac plus Animal Crossing.
- Alternatively, It's Happy Tree Friends meets Berserk meets Mid Sommar
- Cuphead is Contra meets Parodius meets Silhouette Mirage in the art styles of Max and Dave Fleischer.
- The Curse of Issyos is The Battle of Olympus meets Castlevania: Rondo of Blood.
- Cute Things Dying Violently is Angry Birds meets Lemmings.
- Cyberpunk 2077 is Cyberpunk meets Fallout: New Vegas meets The Division meets Johnny Mnemonic meets Plastic Memories meets The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt meets Wolfenstein: Youngblood meets Serial Experiments Lain.
- Cyber Shadow is Ninja Gaiden meets Cyberpunk meets Shovel Knight.
- Cytus is DJMax Technika turned 90 degrees with the music of the BMS of Fighters series of beatmania IIDX simfiles.
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- Dangun Feveron is any Toaplan shooter meets Disco.
- Dante's Inferno is The Divine Comedy meets God of War.
- Alternatively, it's also God of War meets Knights of the Temple: Infernal Crusade.
- In summary, it is God of War meets The Devil.
- The Dark Cloud series itself is like SimCity meets Final Fantasy, and the second game adds Chrono Trigger to the mix.
- Dark Escape 4D is House of the Dead meets Saw.
- Dark Seed II is Silent Hill meets The Room (2003).
- Darksiders is God of War meets The Legend of Zelda meets Warhammer 40,000 meets Mad Max meets Soulcalibur, starring the Horsemen of the Apocalypse.
- Darksiders II is Darksiders meets Diablo II meets Dante's Inferno.
- Darksiders III is Darksiders II meets Dark Souls III.
- Darksiders Genesis is Darksiders meets God of War: Ascension.
- Dark Souls:
- King's Field meets Tomb Raider (especially the Core Design series) meets Berserk
- Or Knights of the Temple: Infernal Crusade meets Berserk, with some elements of H. P. Lovecraft.
- Darkstalkers is Street Fighter II with characters based on the monsters from the Universal Horror movies.
- Dark Void is The Rocketeer meets The Lost World (1912), with a side of Indiana Jones.
- Darkwatch was originally conceived, in the words of head designer Paul O'Connor, as "Blade meets Men in Black in the Old West". The actual game is more like Van Helsing meets Halo meets Jonah Hex.
- Dash Galaxy in the Alien Asylum is Impossible Mission meets Sokoban meets Spelunker IN SPACE!!
- Dave the Diver is Subnautica meets Papa's Sushiria meets Story of Seasons.
- Dawn of Crafting's description claims itself to be where Minecraft meets Cookie Clicker.
- Day of Defeat: Source is Counter-Strike meets Call of Duty.
- Or simply Counter-Strike meets World War II.
- Days Gone is The Walking Dead meets Sons of Anarchy meets The Last of Us and World War Z, according to the main page.
- Or it's Ride to Hell: Retribution meets Syphon Filter: Logan's Shadow in a Zombie Apocalypse Wide-Open Sandbox.
- DayZ is ArmA meets The Walking Dead.
- Deadly Premonition: Twin Peaks meets Silent Hill, with a dash of Shenmue and Illbleed.
- Dead by Daylight is Evolve neets Left 4 Dead meets Groundhog Day meets Until Dawn, guest-starring many horror film characters.
- Dead Cells is Castlevania: Symphony of the Night meets The Binding of Isaac with a splash of Dark Souls.
- Dead End Aegis is Pretty Cure mixed with Warhammer 40,000
- Dead Island is described by Yahtzee as "...the unnatural spunk-baby produced by a mutual masturbation session between Borderlands and Dead Rising 2, during which lingering eye contact was made with Left 4 Dead".
- The Dead or Alive series in general is Street Fighter, Virtua Fighter and Tekken meets the works of Go Nagai, particularly Cutey Honey and Devilman Lady and all served up with a side order of Soulcalibur.
- Dead or Alive 5 is Dead or Alive meets Soulcalibur V meets Kamen Rider 555 meets Ultraman Zero.
- Dead or Alive 6 is Dead or Alive 5 meets Soulcalibur VI meets Tekken 7 meets Ultraman R/B.
- The Dead or Alive: Xtreme spin-off series is Dead or Alive meets the Dating Sim genre.
- Dead Rising is Resident Evil meets Final Fight in terms of gameplay, and both of them meets South Park and Highschool of the Dead story-wise.
- Dead Space is Resident Evil 4 meets System Shock 2 meets Aliens meets Event Horizon.
- Dead Space 2 is Dead Space meets One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest meets Predator meets The Thing.
- Dead Space 3 is Dead Space 2 meets Halo 4 meets Alien³ meets Return of the Jedi.
- The remake is the original meets The Callisto Protocol meets Resident Evil 2 (Remake).
- Deadstorm Pirates is Let's Go Jungle meets Pirates of the Caribbean meets Indiana Jones.
- Death end re;Quest is .hack meets Neptunia with some elements of Sword Art Online.
- Deathloop can be best described as Dishonored meets Hades, with a dash of Hitman and Groundhog Day.
- Deathwish Enforcers is Dirty Harry and Death Wish meets Sunset Riders.
- Death Road to Canada is The Oregon Trail meets the Zombie Apocalypse genre meets Rogue Legacy.
- Death Stranding is Fallout 4 meets The Postman meets Castlevania: Lords of Shadow 2 meets Metal Gear Solid V: The Phantom Pain meets Eraserhead, as far as anyone can tell.
- Or Metal Gear meets The Oregon Trail meets Xenosaga.
- Or The Last of Us meets Final Fantasy VII meets Organ Trail meets a toned-down version of Nier.
- Death to Spies is Hitman meets Commando (Capcom).
- Deceit is Stealth-Based Game meets The Werewolves of Miller's Hollow.
- Deep Rock Galactic is Left 4 Dead meets Minecraft.
- Defense of the Ancients and DOTA 2 are Aeon of Strife meets Warcraft III
- Deltarune seems to be Undertale meets the Persona games.
- Or Undertale: The Halloween Hack.
- Chapter 1 is Alice in Wonderland meets The Rising of the Shield Hero.
- Chapter 2 is Ralph Breaks the Internet meets The Adventures of Sharkboy and Lavagirl meets The LEGO Movie 2: The Second Part.
- Demonbane is Space Runaway Ideon meets Tengen Toppa Gurren Lagann meets Call of Cthulhu.
- Or The Big O meets the Cthulhu Mythos.
- Demon Sword (Fudou Myououden) is The Legend of Kage meets Castlevania.
- Depression Quest is Life: the Game meets The Bell Jar.
- Destiny and its sequel Destiny 2 are Phantasy Star Online meets Halo.
- Or Halo meets Star Wars meets Super Sentai
- Destiny Connect: Tick Tock Travelers is EarthBound (1994) meets Back to the Future
- Destroy All Humans! is Grand Theft Auto meets Invader Zim meets Mars Attacks!
- Detective Pikachu is Pokémon meets Zootopia.
- Detroit: Become Human is Heavy Rain meets Blade Runner meets RoboCop (1987) meets I, Robot meets Isaac Asimov's Robot novels (The Caves of Steel, The Naked Sun and The Robots of Dawn).
- Deus Ex Universe
- Deus Ex is Metal Gear Solid meets The X-Files meets The Matrix.
- Deus Ex: Human Revolution is Mass Effect meets Metal Gear, at least in terms of gameplay. Visually, it's like Blade Runner meets The Renaissance.
- Devil Survivor is Persona 3 meets Shadow Star
- Devil Survivor 2 is Neon Genesis Evangelion meets Persona 4
- Devil May Cry is Castlevania meets Resident Evil meets Ninja Gaiden meets The Matrix meets Devilman.
- Devil May Cry 2 is Devil May Cry meets Vampire Hunter D due to Dante being more stoic and quiet.
- Devil May Cry 3: Dante's Awakening is Devil May Cry meets Castlevania: Symphony of the Night.
- Alternatively, Versus meets The Matrix meets Castlevania.
- Devil May Cry 4 is Devil May Cry 2 meets Devil May Cry 3: Dante's Awakening meets Bleach meets JoJo's Bizarre Adventure (Nero's Devil Trigger functions like a Stand) meets Breath of Fire II.
- Devil May Cry 5 is Devil May Cry 4 meets DmC: Devil May Cry meets Berserk meets Chaos Legion meets Dragon Ball Z: The Tree of Might meets Persona 5.
- DmC: Devil May Cry is Devil May Cry as filtered through Blade or Underworld.
- Alternatively, it's Devil May Cry meets They Live! and V for Vendetta.
- Dex is Flashback meets Deus Ex.
- Diablo is Warcraft meets Warhammer 40,000 meets Shin Megami Tensei meets The Legend of Zelda.
- Diabolik Lovers is The Twilight Saga meets Fifty Shades of Grey.
- Diadra Empty is Panzer Dragoon meets Fantasy Zone.
- Digimon Story: Cyber Sleuth is Digimon meets Persona.
- Digimon Survive is Digimon Adventure meets Utawarerumono meets Devil Survivor.
- Dino Crisis and it's sequel are Resident Evil meets Jurassic Park.
- Dino Crisis 3 is Alien meets Jurassic Park.
- Dino Stalker is Time Crisis meets Jurassic Park.
- Disco Elysium is Inside Out meets L.A. Noire meets Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas meets Planescape: Torment.
- Alternatively, it's Inherent Vice meets Germinal meets Inside Out meets Planescape: Torment.
- Or The City & the City meets Pathologic 2 meets Homestuck.
- Disgaea: Hour of Darkness is Darkstalkers meets BlackMatrix meets Star Trek.
- Disgaea D2: A Brighter Darkness is Disgaea: Hour of Darkness minus the Star Trek.
- Disgaea 2: Cursed Memories is Dragon Quest meets Castlevania: Aria of Sorrow.
- Disgaea 3: Absence of Justice is Rosario + Vampire meets Psychonauts.
- Disgaea 4: A Promise Unforgotten is Code Geass meets The Devil is a Part-Timer!.
- Disgaea 5: Alliance of Vengeance is Kingdom Hearts meets Mobile Fighter G Gundam.
- Disgaea 6: Defiance of Destiny is Zettai Hero Project meets Trillion: God of Destruction
- Dishonored has been described as Assassin's Creed meets BioShock meets Escape from Butcher Bay.
- It has also been described as Half-Life 2 meets Deus Ex meets Dark Messiah.
- It also has strong undercurrents of an H. P. Lovecraft style Cosmic Horror Story in its Low Fantasy setting.
- Alternatively, it's Thief: The Dark Project meets Hitman and The Count of Monte Cristo.
- Disney Dreamlight Valley is Disney meets Stardew Valley meets Kingdom Hearts.
- Disney Illusion Island is Mickey Mouse meets Rayman Legends meets Kirby's Return to Dream Land.
- Disney Infinity is Disney meets Skylanders meets LittleBigPlanet.
- Divine Divinity is Diablo meets Baldur's Gate
- Divinity: Original Sin is Neverwinter Nights with the combat of Fallout and 2.
- The Division is DMZ with an epidemic and the player as one of the comics many armed secretive US government antagonists.
- Or for more mainstream media, Borderlands meets Gears of War meets Left 4 Dead but without the zombies.
- DJMAX Technika is Elite Beat Agents meets Lumines.
- Dodgeball Academia is Super Dodge Ball meets Inazuma Eleven.
- Dokapon Kingdom is Dungeons & Dragons meets Mario Party.
- Doki Doki Literature Club! is Tokimeki Memorial meets Imscared meets Spec Ops: The Line.
- Storywise, it's Tokimeki Memorial meets Stephen King's Misery
- Another way of putting it is Katawa Shoujo meets Higurashi: When They Cry meets Cabin In The Woods.
- Or Tokimeki Memorial meets Undertale meets Wreck-It Ralph, by way of Elfen Lied.
- Doki Doki Panic is Super Mario Bros. meets Arabian Nights (particularly Aladdin)
- DonPachi is Raiden meets Batsugun.
- The "plot" of DoDonPachi DaiFukkatsu is RayCrisisnote meets Radiant Silvergunnote .
- DoDonPachi DaiFukkatsu Black Label is DoDonPachi meets Recca meets Ibara Black Label.
- Add Ketsui and Virt to get its Arrange Mode.
- Donkey Kong: King Kong meets Popeye.
- Donkey Kong is King Kong (1933) meets Game & Watch.
- Donkey Kong Country is Donkey Kong with the gameplay of Super Mario Bros..
- Donkey Kong Country is Donkey Kong meets Super Mario World.
- Donkey Kong Country 2: Diddy's Kong Quest is Donkey Kong Country meets Pirates of the Caribbean.
- Donkey Kong Country 3: Dixie Kong's Double Trouble! is Diddy's Kong Quest meets Adventures in Babysitting meets Scooby-Doo.
- Donkey Kong 64 is Donkey Kong Country meets Banjo-Kazooie meets Super Mario 64.
- Donkey Kong Country Returns is Donkey Kong Country meets New Super Mario Bros. Wii.
- Donkey Kong Country: Tropical Freeze is Donkey Kong Country meets New Super Mario Bros. U with a dusting of JoJo's Bizarre Adventure: Stardust Crusaders.
- Since the reveal of Cranky Kong as a character with his pogo cane, Tropical Freeze has been called Donkey Kong Country meets DuckTales.
- Don't Starve is described by authors as "Tim Burton meets Minecraft".
- Doom was once described by John Carmack as Aliens meets Evil Dead 2.
- Or more accurately, Rambo meets Hellraiser
- Doom II: Hell on Earth and Final Doom: The Plutonia Experiment are both Doom meets The Silmarillion
- Final Doom: TNT is Doom meets Event Horizon.
- Doom³' is Doom meets System Shock without the RPG Elements.
- Doom RPG (the Java phone game) is Doom meets Might and Magic.
- Doom (2016) is Doom meets Metroid Prime meets Brütal Legend meets Berserk.
- Doom Eternal is Doom (2016) meets Warhammer 40,000 meets Super Mario Odyssey meets Devil May Cry 5 meets Avengers: Endgame.
- Sigil is Doom meets Drag Me to Hell
- Doug Huggem is Duke Nukem Forever meets Xavier: Renegade Angel and Smiling Friends.
- Dragon Age: Origins is Baldur's Gate meets A Song of Ice and Fire with a little bit of Warhammer, Buffy the Vampire Slayer, and medieval Christianity thrown in for good measure.
- Dragon Ball FighterZ is Dragon Ball Z: Budokai Tenkaichi meets Guilty Gear meets Omikron: The Nomad Soul.
- Dragon Ball Xenoverse is Dragon Ball Z: Budokai meets Dragon Ball Z: Budokai Tenkaichi meets Dragon Ball Online meets Dragon Ball Z: Battle of Z
- Dragon: Marked for Death is Mega Man Zero meets Castlevania: Harmony of Despair with a setting similar to Breath of Fire IV.
- Dragon Quest is Ultima meets Wizardry meets Hydlide.
- Or Dungeons & Dragons meets Dragon Ball and the Disney Animated Canon.
- The original game is Wizardry meets Dragon's Lair.
- Dragon Quest VII is Dragon Quest meets Terranigma with a dash of Chrono Trigger.
- Dragon Quest Monsters is Dragon Quest meets Pokémon with a touch of Shin Megami Tensei.
- Dragon Quest Builders and it's sequel are Dragon Quest meets Minecraft.
- Dragon's Crown is Capcom's Dungeons & Dragons: Chronicles of Mystara meet Odin Sphere.
- Dragon's Dogma is Dragon Quest meets Dark Souls meets Fate/stay night.
- Drakengard is Inheritance Cycle meets Berserk. Gameplay-Wise, it's Dynasty Warriors meets Panzer Dragoon.
- The original game is Tales of Symphonia by way of Blood Meridian.
- Drakengard 3 is Wicked and The Witcher by way of God of War.
- Alternatively, Drakengard 3 is the original Drakengard meets Puella Magi Madoka Magica meets Bayonetta meets Off.
- Drawn to Life is ActRaiser meets Animal Crossing.
- Drawn to Life: The Next Chapter (DS) is Drawn to Life meets de Blob meets OFF.
- Drawn to Life: Two Realms is Drawn to Life meets Psychonauts.
- DREDGE is The Shadow Over Innsmouth meets The Legend of Zelda: The Wind Waker.
- Driver is Grand Theft Auto meets Bullitt meets The French Connection meets The Driver.
- DRIV3R (aka Driver 3) is Driver meets Grand Theft Auto III. An interesting case, see also GTA III's own entry.
- Driver: San Francisco is basically Driver meets Quantum Leap.
- DRL is Doom meets Rogue. This was more blatantly obvious back when it was still called Doom, the Roguelike.
- Dr. Mario is Mario Bros. meets Tetris.
- Drox Operative is Star Control meets Diablo.
- TotalBiscuit describes Duck Game as, "A cross between WarioWare, Towerfall, and Super Smash Bros. with online multiplayer and a dedicated quack button"
- Duck Season is Duck Hunt meets NES Godzilla Creepypasta.
- Dude, Stop is WarioWare meets The Stanley Parable meets There Is No Game.
- Duet (Commando '86) is Commando (Capcom) meets Gauntlet.
- Duke Nukem:
- Duke Nukem is Secret Agent meets Alien Carnage.
- Duke Nukem 3D is Doom II meets Deadpool and MAD.
- Duke Nukem Forever is Half-Life 2 meets Halo meets Postal 2 meets Disaster Movie (2008).
- DUSK is Blood meets Quake.
- Duskers is the "remotely guiding an expendable team through abandoned facilities full of monsters" aspect of Deadnaut mixed with the named node-based movement of There Came an Echo, and the command-prompt mechanic of games like Hacker Evolution.
- Dust: An Elysian Tail is Castlevania: Order of Ecclesia meets Usagi Yojimbo, or Captain Claw meets Muramasa: The Demon Blade.
- Dwarf Fortress is described on This Very Wiki as something that "Plays like a dizzyingly complex hybrid of Dungeon Keeper and The Sims, if all your little people were manic-depressive alcoholics".
- Alternately and (perhaps) more accurately, it's NetHack meets Discworld meets The Lord of the Rings, by way of a LSD-laced mixture of Warhammer, Warhammer 40,000, Dungeons & Dragons, Magic: The Gathering, and the combined works of Michelangelo Buonarroti, Vincent van Gogh and Leonardo da Vinci.
- People have said that the horror game Dying Light is "Dead Island meets Mirror's Edge meets Fallout 3."
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- EarthBound (1994) is "a cross between the Cthulhu Mythos and The Charlie Brown and Snoopy Show", according to video game reviewer Yahtzee.
- It could also be seen as Dragon Quest meets A Wrinkle in Time, with some Gravity Fallsnote thrown in for extra Weirdness.
- Eastward is described by Yahtzee as being "kind of Zelda-y, kind of EarthBound (1994)-y, kind of Lisa: The Painful but not quite as likely to induce suicidal depression-y".
- Eets is loosely summed up as Lemmings meets The Incredible Machine.
- Elden Ring is Dark Souls II meets The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim meets The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild meets Game of Thrones meets Assassin's Creed meets Warhammer: Age of Sigmar.
- Eldritch (2013) is Minecraft mixed with Call of Cthulhu.
- Elite Beat Agents is Osu! Tatakae! Ouendan meets Men in Black. In the highest difficulty, replace the latter with Charlie's Angels.
- The End Is Nigh is Meat Boy meets Limbo and Salad Fingers.
- The End Times: Vermintide is Left 4 Dead meets Mordheim: City of the Damned.
- Enslaved: Odyssey to the West is Journey to the West meets Escape from New York.
- Enter the Gungeon is The Binding of Isaac meets Borderlands.
- Or: Smash TV meets The Binding of Isaac meets Bullet Hell.
- Exit the Gungeon is Enter the Gungeon meets the Platform Game.
- Enter the Gungeon: House of the Gundead is Enter the Gungeon meets House of the Dead with a sprinkling of Bad Dudes.
- Entogious is Hylics meets Cruelty Squad, according to Steam curator Dark Strategy Games.
- Epic Battle Fantasy is, as described by a Youtuber Shyguymask in his "Top 15 BEST Flash Games of All Time!" video, Final Fantasy plus Pokémon.
- Epic Mickey is Mickey Mouse meets Deus Ex and System Shock.
- Or Kingdom Hearts meets Super Mario Sunshine.
- Escape Velocity is Asteroidsnote meets Elitenote .
- Esoteric Ebb is Disco Elysium characters playing Dungeons & Dragons.
- Espgaluda is ESP Ra.De. meets Mahou Daisakusen and Castle in the Sky.
- Add more ESP Ra.De for the PS2 Arrange Mode.
- ESWAT is Shinobi meets RoboCop.
- Eternal Champions is Mortal Kombat meets Street Fighter meets Killer Instinct meets World Heroes.
- Eternal City is Puella Magi Madoka Magica meets XCOM 2 (although real-time) with MOBA-style controls.
- Eternal Darkness is Resident Evil meets Call of Cthulhu.
- First-person adventure game Ether One is Myst meets Paprika.
- Alternatively, Inception meets King's Quest in the style of Dear Esther.
- Ether Vapor is a toned-down version of Radiant Silvergun's weapon system meets Salamander's perspective changing in an attempt to stop I Have No Mouth, and I Must Scream from happening.
- Everhood is Undertale meets Crypt Of The Necrodancer.
- Everlasting Summer is Steins;Gate meets Inception on the set of Welcome, or No Trespassing.
- Eversion is Super Mario Bros. meets Monster Party.
- Or maybe it's Cocoron meets Yume Nikki.
- Evil Genius is Dungeon Keeper meets James Bond
- Evil West is Red Dead Redemption II meets Van Helsing meets Evil Dead.
- The Evil Within is Inception meets Silent Hill and Resident Evil.
- Alternatively, Resident Evil 4 meets Psychonauts
- The Evil Within 2 is Deadly Premonition meets Left 4 Dead meets Resident Evil 6.
- Evolve is Left 4 Dead meets Predator meets Team Fortress 2's VS Saxton Hale Mode.
- Evolve Idle is Kittens Game meets Spore.
- EZ2Dancer is Dance ManiaX meets DanceDanceRevolution.
- Techno Motion is DanceDanceRevolution meets Pump It Up. KONAMI AND ANDAMIRO WILL SUE.
- Pump It Up Pro is In the Groove meets Pump It Up.
