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* {{spoiler|''[[N]]''}}: A pacifist stickman ninja runs and jumps across simplistic monochrome landscapes, dodging killer drones and collecting lots of gold.
* {{spoiler|''[[Nancy Drew (video game)|Nancy Drew]]''}}: A series of games based on classic books that have nothing to do with the books. The best part is [[Video Game Cruelty Potential|repeatedly killing the protagonist, then taking the option of going back to kill them again.]]
* {{spoiler|''[[Narcissu]]''}}: A car thief and his depressed lady-friend wander around the countryside looking at flowers because they have nothing better to do.
** {{spoiler|''Narcissu -Side 2nd-''}}: The moody friend from the first game spends her summer vacation tagging along with a jaded ex-Catholic.
** {{spoiler|''Narcissu 3rd: Die Dritte Welt''}}: A collection of stories vaguely related to the first two, now with a bigger price tag and probably [[No Export for You]].
* {{spoiler|''[[Neo Geo Battle Coliseum]]''}}: Mascot characters of varying obscurity have to fight each other for five minutes in teams of two. Then you have to fight a cloned nihilist, an alien with a god complex, a [[Blood Knight]] and a ripoff of a certain someone. [[SNK Boss|Good Luck]].
* {{spoiler|''[[Nethack]]''}}: A single link {{spoiler|[http://alt.org/nethack/topdeaths.html on NAO]}} proves that there are over 5,000 ways to lose. And only one way to win.
* {{spoiler|''[[Neutopia]]''}}: A ROM hack of ''The Legend of Zelda'', featuring no nonlinearity and 90% of the secret hidden passageways don't give you anything.
** {{spoiler|''Neutopia II''}}: A ROM hack of ''The Legend of Zelda: A Link to the Past'', featuring no dark world and the secret passageways still don't give you anything. The hero from the first game dies and leaves his son some of his defective equipment as inheritance.
* {{spoiler|''[[The Neverhood]]''}}: A guy made of clay must fulfill a quest in a deserted world; however, he has no idea what it is he's supposed to do. It turns out he was created to fix his world's interrupted creation myth.
** {{spoiler|''Skullmonkeys''}}: The villain of the previous game (the original Adam of his world, corrupted through his own choice) isn't dead, but merely landed on another world. He enlists the natives to build a warship capable of obliterating his homeworld, so a tech-savvy local enlists the help of the first game's hero to save the day. [[Genre Shift|The two games are of completely different genres]].
* {{spoiler|''[[Neverwinter Nights]]''}}: Experienced, heroic champion of light hires a low-level adventurer and their henchmen to stop a plague.
** {{spoiler|''[[Neverwinter Nights]] Hordes of the Underdark''}}: Hero gets lost underground, gets manipulated into helping some residents of the underground fight the rest, and beats up a giant red guy with wings.
** {{spoiler|''[[Neverwinter Nights]] The Bastard of Kosigan''}}: French ([[Berserk Button|Burgundian!]]) hero with serious family issues runs off to Germany. Then [[It Got Worse]].
** {{spoiler|''[[Neverwinter Nights]] [[A Dance With Rogues]]''}}: Spoiled princess gets deposed, her family destroyed, her city overrun with hostile soldiers out to kill her and her friends. This all in the prologue. [[It Got Worse]].
* {{spoiler|''[[Neverwinter Nights 2]]: Mask of the Betrayer''}}: Main character wakes up at the bottom of a ghost-infested cave as a punishment. He cannot decide if this is a good thing.
* {{spoiler|''[[Nicktoons Unite!]]''}}: [[SpongeBob SquarePants|Sentient cheese block]], [[Danny Phantom|spandex ghost]], [[Jimmy Neutron|guy with bizarre hairdo]] and [[The Fairly OddParents|non-manly guy wearing pink]] battle [[Tim Curry]].
** {{spoiler|''Nicktoons: Battle for Volcano Island''}}: [[SpongeBob SquarePants|Sentient cheese block, retarded echinoderm, astronaut mammal, cranky six-armed octopus]], [[Danny Phantom|spandex ghost, goth girl, technical wizard]], [[Jimmy Neutron|guy with bizarre hairdo]] and [[The Fairly OddParents|non-manly guy wearing pink]] save an island of crabs.
** {{spoiler|''Nicktoons: Attack of the Toybots''}}'': [[SpongeBob SquarePants|Sentient cheese block, retarded echinoderm]], [[Danny Phantom|spandex ghost, goth girl]], [[Jimmy Neutron|guy with bizarre hairdo]], [[The Fairly OddParents|non-manly guy wearing pink]], [[Tak and the Power of Juju|little shaman]], [[The Ren and Stimpy Show|gross kitty]], [[Rocko's Modern Life|wallaby wearing a Hawaiian shirt]], [[My Life as a Teenage Robot|girl in blue and white]] and [[Invader Zim|stupid hedonist]] battle Tim Curry's [[Living Toys]].
** {{spoiler|''Nicktoons: Globs of Doom''}}: [[SpongeBob SquarePants|Sentient cheese block, little cyclops]], [[Danny Phantom|spandex ghost, not-Gilbert-Gottfried-honest]], [[Jimmy Neutron|guy with bizarre hairdo, Tim Curry's daughter]], [[Tak and the Power of Juju|little shaman, tall shaman]], [[Invader Zim|green omnicidal maniac and conspiracy nut]] battle alien mucus older than time itself.
* {{spoiler|''[[Nicktoons MLB]]''}}: [[SpongeBob SquarePants|Sentient cheese block]], [[Danny Phantom|spandex ghost]], [[Tuff Puppy|secret agent dog]], [[Avatar: The Last Airbender|bald kid]], [[Invader Zim|green omnicidal maniac]], [[The Ren and Stimpy Show|gross kitty]] and more face-off against real baseball players. [[What Do You Mean It Wasn't Made on Drugs?|No, you are not high.]]
* {{spoiler|''[[Night Trap]]''}}: The player helps a former child star fight vampires that are slightly less threatening than Count Chocula using tactics straight out of an episode of [[Scooby Doo]]. A very small number of the vampires can shoot lightning out of their hands for some inexplicable reason.
* {{spoiler|''[[NiGHTS Into Dreams]]''}}: An androgynous creature enters the minds of children and absorbs their spirits into itself. And he's the ''Good Guy''.
** {{spoiler|''Nights: Journey Of Dreams''}}: Same androgynous creature does the same thing again, this time with different children, and also manages to confuse everyone by having [[Viewer Gender Confusion|a woman's voice]]. Also, an Owl constantly reminds them to collect [[Gotta Catch Em All|Dream]][[Collection Sidequest|Drops]], which if done, results in a cameo of the two children from the first game.
* {{spoiler|''[[Nine Hours, Nine Persons, Nine Doors|Nine Hours Nine Persons Nine Doors]]''}}: An eight year old uses time travel to solve a sudoku puzzle.
* {{spoiler|''[[Ninja Gaiden]]'' (original)}}: Everyone good and bad wants you dead, and all you want is your family heirloom, which inadvertently tries to destroy the world.
** Said duo then fights a [[Giant Spider|giant spider-lady]], [[Dem Bones|a cow skeleton in armor]], a multiheaded snake who you must get drunk, a [[Cool Sword|sword]] inside [[Womb Level|a sleeping rulers' stomach]], a [[Cunning Like a Fox|fox with alot of tails]] who [[Creepy Crossdresser|dresses up as a priestess]], [[High-Class Glass|two]] [[Clockwork Creature|aristocrat]] [[Owl Be Damned|owls]], and [[Anticlimax Boss|a giant metal ball with a fish fetus inside it.]]
** {{spoiler|''[[Okamiden]]''}}: A wolf pup gains many friends, populates a small town and saves the world.
* {{spoiler|''OMGWTFOTL''}}: [[Schmuck Bait|DON'T GENUFLECT. EVER.]] Other than that... [[Mind Screw|good luck figuring this one out]].
* {{spoiler|''[[OneChanbara]]''}}: [[Hot Chick with a Sword|Hot chicks with swords]] fight zombies while trying not to get their clothes dirty.
* {{spoiler|''[[Oni]]''}} [[Ghost in the Shell|Motoko Kusanagi]] [[Captain Ersatz|ersatz]] fights terrorists and her former employers, mostly with her bare hands.
* {{spoiler|''[[Orbiter]]''}}: The Free Spaceflight Simulator. First, you study ''loooong'' instruction manuals. Then, you finally fly various missions. Most of them are mundane hard work. Piloting a spacecraft is not an easy job.
* {{spoiler|''[[Osu! Tatakae! Ouendan]]''}}: The people are not motivated. A squad of manly cheerleaders tries to alleviate this.
** {{spoiler|''Moero Nekketsu Rhythm Tamashii! Osu! Tatakae! Ouendan 2''}}: Six years later, the people are still not motivated. The cheerleaders from across the river are [[Bishonen|not as manly]].
* {{spoiler|''[[Oregon Trail]]''}}: Five men travel west. Everyone dies of dysentery or a broken leg, and [[Grave Humor|the leader gets a silly epitaph]].
* {{spoiler|''Outpost''}}: God drops an asteroid on the Earth. Your onboard Windows 95 computer won't let you take the off ramp to Mars so you spend about a hundred years flying to the next equally barren rock where you build an <ahem> outpost of civilization.
* {{spoiler|''[[Phantasy Star Online]]''}}: You're hired to find out what happened to the daughter of the head of the spaceship you live on. You commit genocide on the planet you're trying to colonize only to discover {{spoiler|the daughter's been absorbed by the [[Eldritch Abomination]].}}
** {{spoiler|''[[Phantasy Star Online]]'': Episode 3:}} Later, you use trading cards to discover {{spoiler|everything's a government conspiracy}}.
* {{spoiler|''[[Phantom Brave]]''}}: [[Pollyanna|Incredibly cheery]] young necromancer raises the dead to fight and kill for money. [[Hero with Bad Publicity|Her clients are extremely stingy.]]
* {{spoiler|''[[Pikmin]]''}}: A cargo deliveryman escapes from being stranded on an alien world with a poisonous atmosphere with the help of an army of carrot-creatures.
** {{spoiler|''Pikmin 2''}}: The cargo deliveryman and a fellow employee return to the planet from the last game, and enslave the carrot-creatures to dig for "treasure" that is actually worthless junk.
* {{spoiler|''[[Pong]]''}}: Two numbers, three lines, and a dot.
* {{spoiler|''[[Portal (series)|Portal]]''}}: Break the laws of physics repeatedly while being carted around a desolate laboratory by an insane computer.
** {{spoiler|''[[Portal 2]]''}}: Hundreds of years later, you team up with a potato to stop an idiot.
*** Alt: Solve puzzles by shooting at walls while your former friend struggles with addiction and withdrawal.
*** I prefer "give a childish asshole a piggyback ride while she argues with another childish asshole."
** {{spoiler|''Prince of Persia (2008)''}}: An environmentalist and a guy with a Freddy Kreuger glove run around trying to save a tree for someone who's been gone for a thousand years.
* {{spoiler|''[[Princess Debut]]''}}: You have thirty days to learn to dance from a furry. [[Bishounen]] princes want to screw you, but won't, because the game is rated E. There's a flying hamster.
* {{spoiler|''Princess Maker 2''}}: As a reward for saving a kingdom from the armies of Satan, God gives you a ten-year-old girl.
** You can then have said 10 year old girl kill the god of war and become the new satan.
** Alternatively: Make your underage daughter work at a sleazy bar to pay for her breast enlargement.
* {{spoiler|''[[Princess Waltz]]''}} A bunch of princesses compete in a royal battle royale where cardgames are [[Serious Business]]. The prize is a prince who secretly turns into a princess through a DBZ fusion-move to compete in the tournament as well, because he doesn't want to marry any of the competitors since he prefers men. Besides, he really was a princess all along, anyway.
* {{spoiler|''[[Professor Layton]]''}}: Barraged by puzzles, two Brits, a professor and his apprentice, solve mysteries. Plot twists ensue.
** {{spoiler|''[[Professor Layton]] and the Curious Village''}}: Two Brits are trapped in a town where puzzles are [[Serious Business]].
** Alternatively: The consequences for not being able to arrest for Obstruction of Justice.
* {{spoiler|''[[Professor Layton VS Ace Attorney]]''}}: [[Professor Layton|Top-hat Brit professor]] and [[Phoenix Wright: Ace Attorney|spiky-haired attorney]] match wits. [[Giving Someone the Pointer Finger|Finger Pointing]] ensues.
* {{spoiler|''[[Prototype (video game)|Prototype]]''}}: A man in a hoodie has lunch in New York despite the army's best attempts to stop him.
** {{spoiler|''[[Prototype 2]]''}}: The man in the hoodie welcomes a very upset man into his family. The angry man shows his appreciation by waging war on ''everyone''.
* {{spoiler|''[[Psychonauts]]''}}: A kid runs ''away'' from the circus, learns [[Psychic Powers]] by [[Gotta Catch Em All|collecting random junk]] to earn merit badges, and must save the world from an angry midget and a mad dentist.
** Alt: [[Circus Brat]] [[Subverted Trope|runs away from home]] in hopes of becoming a [[Teen Superspy|pre-teen superspy]]. As he works his way to the top of an asylum, he is mistaken for a lake monster, eaten by a fish and sneezes out his brain. His dad is ''not'' balding and doesn't hate him.
* {{spoiler|''[[Puyo Puyo]]''}}: Stacking and killing cute little blobs is a sport.
* {{spoiler|''[[Puzzle Quest]]''}}: Warriors fight for the fate of the world with Match-Three Puzzle battles.
* {{spoiler|''[[Q*bert]]''}}: Jump on blocks in order to change their color while avoiding anything purple.
* {{spoiler|''[[Qix]]''}}: Draw lots of quadrilaterals while sparkly things chase you around. Avoid the color-changing lines.
* {{spoiler|''[[Quake (series)|Quake]]''}}: A single [[Space Marine]] must traverse numerous monotonously decorated Gothic buildings in order to reach a boss who doesn't move or attack at all.
** {{spoiler|''[[Quake II]]''}}: A single soldier fights a bunch of guys who all have prosthetic limbs.
** {{spoiler|''[[Quake III Arena]]''}}: A bunch of people kill each other over and over again.
** {{spoiler|''[[Quake 4|Quake IV]]''}}: A bunch of soldiers invade the home of the aforementioned prosthetic limb users.
** {{spoiler|''[[Enemy Territory: Quake Wars|Enemy Territory Quake Wars]]''}}: A bunch of soldiers and a bunch of prosthetic limb users wage war in the soldiers' home planet.
* {{spoiler|''The Queen of Heart '99''}}: The result of dipping ''[[To Heart]]'' into massive (fan-made) [[Character Derailment]].
* {{spoiler|''[[Quest for Glory]]''}}: A guy wants to be a hero.
** {{spoiler|''[[Quest for Glory]] 2''}}: Same as the above...[[Recycled in Space|IN THE DESERT!]]
** {{spoiler|''[[Quest for Glory]] 3''}}: Same as the above...[[Recycled in Space|IN THE JUNGLE!]]
** {{spoiler|''[[Quest for Glory]] 4''}}: Same as the above...[[Recycled in Space|IN TRANSYLVANIA!]]
** {{spoiler|''[[Quest for Glory]] 5''}}: Same as the above...[[Recycled in Space|IN ANCIENT GREECE!]]
* {{spoiler|''[[Radiata Stories]]''}}: You and everyone you've ever met including your bumbling mentor and quiet girlfriend wage war against whoever's side you don't take.
* {{spoiler|''[[Radiant Silvergun]]''}}: An arcade [[Shoot'Em Up|shmup]], only port was on a failed console and [[No Export for You|released in only one country]], contains tons of Engrish but no powerups.
* {{spoiler|''Rally Trophy''}}: You struggle with the steering wheel of your old 60s car. You start your racing career in the middle of nowhere in northwest Russia. Your co-driver is a bossy [[Jerkass]] and panics when seeing cows.
* {{spoiler|''Rama''}}: [[Arthur C. Clarke]] teaches an astronaut octal and hexadecimal math.
* {{spoiler|''[[Rampage]]''}}: You punch buildings until either they collapse or you fall and turn into a naked person.
* {{spoiler|''[[Raptor: Call of the Shadows]]''}}: An '''''[[Made of Iron|extremely durable]]''''' plane shoots down enemies.
** {{spoiler|''Rabbids Go Home''}}: Cacophonous lagomorphs decide to finally go home. Except that they've forgotten where home is, and decide it's the moon, and build a tower consisting of random junk on the streets and clothing stolen directly off people in order to get there. The limbless man is now apparently absent, considering the rabbits are doing his job for him.
** {{spoiler|''[[Rayman Origins]]''}}: Limbless man, blue frog, and fancily-dressed blue people have a nap that drives a grandma to send the legions of Hell upon them. They all set out to find some pink people so their god doesn't have nightmares.
* {{spoiler|The ''[[Rance]]'' Series}}: A [[Heroic Sociopath]] mercenary wanders the [[Medieval European Fantasy]] [[Crap Saccharine World]] with his loyal slave doing what he does best.
** {{spoiler|''[[Rance: Quest for Hikari|Rance]]: Quest for Hikari''}}: The mercenary searches for a missing girl, who turns out to have been the victim of {{spoiler|a perverted lesbian queen.}} He saves her by doing what he does best.
** {{spoiler|''[[Rance II]]: The Rebellious Maidens''}}: Said mercenary finds a town sunk by [[Virgin Power]]. He solves the problem by doing what he does best.
*** Alternatively, one man's continuing struggle against [[The Loins Sleep Tonight|impotence]], so he can do what he does best.
* {{spoiler|''[[RapeLay]]''}}: Serial rape, and not the [[Black Comedy Rape|fun kind]].
* {{spoiler|''[[Razing Storm]]''}}: Two commandos and their squad kill an evil dictator. And ''lots'' of [[Humongous Mecha]].
* {{spoiler|''[[Recettear]]: an Item Shop's Tale''}}: In a world full of adventurers, you play as the shopkeeper.
* {{spoiler|''[[Red Dead Redemption]]''}}: [[Grand Theft Auto]]...[[Recycled in Space|IN THE WILD WEST!]]
* {{spoiler|''[[Rez]]''}}: You have to fix an AI that's not working well by shooting stuff to techno music.
** Alternatively, an AI gets depressed, and you shoot stuff to make it feel better.
* {{spoiler|''[[Rift]]''}}: Six [[Our Dragons Are Different|large reptilian]] ''[[Eldritch Abominations|things]]'' decide to cause trouble. [[Rashomon Style|Either]] [[Mad Scientist]]s or [[God Is Inept|the gods themselves]] are to blame.
* {{spoiler|''[[Ring of Red]]''}}: What if the Korean War was fought with [[Humongous Mecha]]?
* {{spoiler|''Rise of the Triad''}}: Five special forces agents must stop a cult whose ranks include the former head of a movie studio. Among your weapons are a magical baseball bat and the ability to turn into a dog.
* {{spoiler|''[[Ristar]]''}}: A star defeats invading aliens by grabbing them.
* {{spoiler|''[[Rival Schools]]: United By Fate''}}: High school kids are disappearing and coming back [[Brainwashed and Crazy]]. The only obvious solution is to beat the crap out of one another to find the culprit.
** {{spoiler|''Project Justice''}}: A lunatic in tight clothing and extendable claws sets out to take over all the schools. The obvious solution from the last game is again the only option.
* {{spoiler|''[[River City Ransom]]''}}: Two high school [[Delinquents]] beat up an entire city worth of gangsters for the sake of one guy's girlfriend.
** Or: Beat up people to hear them barf.
* {{spoiler|''[[Riviera: The Promised Land]]''}}: A fallen angel and his harem attempt to stop his old companions from bringing about [[The End of the World as We Know It]].
** {{spoiler|''[[Yggdra Union]]''}}: Princess with a [[BFS|big sword]] and a deck of cards has to reclaim her kingdom from an empire with larger numbers (and, obviously, more cards).
*** {{spoiler|''[[Yggdra Unison]]''}}: Empire captures fortress; [[Lighter and Softer|very cutesy]] world war between twelve countries, each armed with a deck of cards, ensues.
*** {{spoiler|''[[Blaze Union]]''}}: Demonic [[The Messiah|Christ figure]] gathers [[Unwanted Harem|many allies]] and a large deck of cards in order to save the Empire.
*** {{spoiler|''[[Gloria Union]]''}}: Wannabe pirate and a robot who fell from the sky look for treasure, armed with a deck of cards. Also, political intrigue!
** {{spoiler|''[[Knights in The Nightmare]]''}}: Ghost calls on the spirits of the dead to protect him from monsters, even though it can't be killed.
** {{spoiler|''[[Gungnir]]''}}: Boy with the ability to summon (but not control) powerful demons VS mundane racism.
* {{spoiler|''[[Robot Alchemic Drive]]''}}: Super robots save the world while you stand around and watch. And try to avoid collateral damage from their battles.
* {{spoiler|''[[Robot Unicorn Attack]]''}}: Horse collects fairies and makes friends with dolphins on a journey amongst the stars. [[Have I Mentioned I Am Heterosexual Today?|Men love it.]]
* {{spoiler|''[[Robo Warrior]]''}}: Saving the world from an alien-engineered ecological disaster by blowing up trees on your way.
* {{spoiler|''[[Rock Band]]''}}: Tapping buttons on what looks like a plastic toy guitar/bass, hitting plastic drums, making an arrow follow a line with your voice. Making an ass of yourself in the process, of course, but at least you can do it with more friends.
** {{spoiler|''Rock Band Unplugged''}}: Tapping buttons while potentially making an ass of yourself in the process. Unfortunately, you can't do it with friends.
** {{spoiler|''Sparkster'' (SNES)}}: Rescue a princess from wolf men with a sword that can undress its victims again.
** {{spoiler|''Rocket Knight (2010)''}}: Save your village from wolf men {{spoiler|and the same pig-men from the first game}} with a sword that sometimes undresses its victims and occasionally shoots larger bolts.
* {{spoiler|''[[Rogue (video game)|Rogue]]''}}: A [[Big Eater]] fights uppercase letters. Popular enough to spawn a game genre named after it.
* {{spoiler|''[[Rogue Galaxy]]''}}: After being abandoned by a bunch of space pirates and then rescued by the captain's pretty daughter, a young man finds his true heritage while traveling across the universe.
* {{spoiler|''Rogue Trip: Vacation 2012''}}: A demonic gangster takes over most of America's tourist spots, while an underground organization fights back by offering discount vacations, breaking into said tourist spots with heavily-armed vehicles, and battling each other over the tourist.
* {{spoiler|''ROM CHECK FAIL''}}: Your favorite arcade machine is busted, and you have to shoot/stomp on things to (attempt to) fix it.
* {{spoiler|''Rondo of Swords''}}: Incongruous ninjas pay a visit. [[Izuna|Unemployed ninjas]] show up, too, [[Guest Fighter|for some reason]].
* {{spoiler|''The Room: The Game''}}: Based on one of the worst movies of all time, wherein you re-enact scenes from said movie, and need to collect spoons to unlock an alternate ending.
* {{spoiler|''[[Rose and Camellia]]''}}: A young widow fights [[Cat Fight|(quite literally)]] to claim her stake in the family estate.
* {{spoiler|''[[Rosenkreuzstilette]]''}}: A church maiden and army official fights her friends who have sided with a vampire. {{spoiler|[[Xanatos Gambit|All for said vampire's daughter's entertainment.]]}}
* {{spoiler|''[[Rule of Rose]]''}}: Little lesbian girls proceed to torture, humiliate and beat each other. The happy ending is where everybody dies.
* {{spoiler|''[[RuneScape]]''}}: A fresh-faced adventurer seeks to make his place in the world by spending hours and hours training his skills and fighting the evil forces of an undead creature with the power of a god, an island of monkeys, a mage that uses food as his power source, and Communist penguins. Whilst tons of 12-year old boys pester him, and/or beg him for items.
* {{spoiler|[[SOS]]}}: ''[[Prince of Persia]]'' <small>[[Recycled in Space|ON A SINKING SHIP!]] [[Xtreme Kool Letterz|WITH MODE 7 GRAFIX!]]</small>
** {{spoiler|''[[Sakura Taisen]] 5''}}: As above, <small>IN NEW YORK</small>!
* {{spoiler|''[[The Adventures of Sam & Max: Freelance Police|Sam and Max Freelance Police]] Hit the Road''}}: Two sociopathic [[Funny Animal]] private eyes rescue a sasquatch and his girlfriend from a midget country singer, then help a bunch of eco-terrorists re-forest the Pacific Northwest.
** {{spoiler|''Sam and Max- Culture Shock''}}: Two sociopathic [[Funny Animal]] private eyes beat up a bunch of [[Former Child Star|former child stars]].
** {{spoiler|''Sam and Max- Situation: Comedy''}}: Two sociopathic [[Funny Animal]] private eyes trick a chicken into eating cow poop, cheat at game shows, and electrocute a talk-show hostess.
** {{spoiler|''Sam and Max- The Mole, The Mob, and the Meatball''}}: Two sociopathic [[Funny Animal]] private eyes join a team of [[Killer Rabbit|adorable]], [[Most Definitely Not a Villain|thinly-disguised]] mobsters.
** {{spoiler|''Sam and Max- Abe Lincoln Must Die!''}}: Two sociopathic [[Funny Animal]] private eyes decapitate the President of the United States, start a civil war, and blow up the Lincoln Memorial. One of them becomes the new president.
** {{spoiler|''Sam and Max- Reality 2.0''}}: Two sociopathic [[Funny Animal]] private eyes destroy the Internet.
** {{spoiler|''Sam and Max- Bright Side of the Moon''}}: Two sociopathic [[Funny Animal]] private eyes kill a cult leader who wants to make everyone in the world happy.
** {{spoiler|''Sam and Max- Ice Station Santa''}}: Two sociopathic [[Funny Animal]] private eyes alternately [[Saving Christmas|save]] and [[Nice Job Breaking It, Hero|ruin]] Christmas.
** {{spoiler|''Sam and Max- Moai Better Blues''}}: Two sociopathic [[Funny Animal]] private eyes [[God Guise|defraud an underwater civilization]] in order to discover the secret of Easter Island.
** {{spoiler|''Sam and Max- Night of the Raving Dead''}}: Two sociopathic [[Funny Animal]] private eyes pick on a [[Goth|club kid]] vampire.
** {{spoiler|''Sam and Max- Chariots of the Dogs''}}: Two sociopathic [[Funny Animal]] private eyes thwart the machinations of time-traveling Mexican stereotypes.
** {{spoiler|''Sam and Max- What's New, Beelzebub?''}}: Two sociopathic [[Funny Animal]] private eyes nearly cause the apocalypse after saving their friends and neighbors from eternal damnation.
** {{spoiler|''Sam and Max- The Penal Zone''}}: Two sociopathic [[Funny Animal]] private eyes use toys to help them trap a gorilla in a pocket dimension.
** {{spoiler|''Sam and Max- The Tomb of Sammun-Mak''}}: Two sociopathic [[Funny Animal]] private eyes watch their great-grandfathers' home movies.
** {{spoiler|''Sam and Max- They Stole Max's Brain!''}}: A sociopathic [[Funny Animal]] private eye threatens a rat, a gorilla, a tourist, and an outdated fax machine because his partner lost a vital organ. Said partner then has to thwart a spoiled pre-teen's plans for world domination.
** {{spoiler|''Sam and Max- Beyond the Alley of the Dolls''}}: A sociopathic [[Funny Animal]] private eye tries to find clones of himself, but finds a [[Team Fortress 2|dispenser]] instead.
** {{spoiler|''Sam and Max- The City That Dares Not Sleep''}}: The other sociopathic [[Funny Animal]] private eye spontaneously gains psychic powers. And becomes a giant beast.
* {{spoiler|''Samba de Amigo''}}: Mexican and sister compete in dance contests.
* {{spoiler|''[[Samorost]]''}}: A gnome tries to save his home planet. This usually involves him standing motionlessly and waiting for his problems to solve themselves.
** {{spoiler|''Samorost 2''}}: A gnome tries to rescue his dog from fruit poachers. Again, this usually involves him standing around waiting for his problems to solve themselves.
* {{spoiler|''[[Samurai Champloo]]: Sidetracked''}}: A prototype for [[No More Heroes]], based on an anime, doesn't affect the anime's canon [[Gaiden Game|in any way]].
* {{spoiler|''[[Samurai Shodown]]''}}: An alcoholic guy with an outrageous hair style and an [[wikipedia:Ainu people|Ainu]] maiden thwart a jesuit's evil plan. They encounter 10 other weirdos in the way.
** {{spoiler|''[[Samurai Shodown]] II''}}: The guy and the girl from the previous game fix an evil god's evil doing.
* {{spoiler|''[[Shadow Hearts]]''}}: A guy saves a girl in a short skirt from a man in a suit, then gets his friends to gang up on him. The [[Bittersweet Ending|bad ending]] is canon.
** {{spoiler|''[[Shadow Hearts]]: Covenant''}}: The same guy gets stabbed with a plant. He gets picked up by an old puppeteer and a German soldier in a quest to stop a minor character from the last game from doing what the guy in the suit wanted to do.
** {{spoiler|''[[Shadow Hearts]]: From the New World''}}: A [[First-Person Snapshooter|guy with a camera]] finds out what he can do. People suffer. This time it's [[Trans-Atlantic Equivalent|on the other side of the Atlantic]].
* {{spoiler|''[[Shadow of Destiny]]''}}: The main character dies during the first cutscene and is resurrected by an androgynous time traveller who may or may not be Satan. He tries to prevent his own death while avoiding accidentally causing it. This is repeated several times.
* {{spoiler|''[[Shadow of the Colossus]]''}}: An oddly named [[A Boy and His X|boy and his horse]] set upon destroying sixteen statues in order to revive his dead girlfriend.
** Alternatively: One of the most epic [[Boss Rush|boss rushes]] ever implemented.
* {{spoiler|''[[Shadow Warrior]]''}}: An old ninja who is named after a penis says dirty jokes in [[Engrish]].
* {{spoiler|''[[Shantae]]''}}: Cute [[Half-Human Hybrid|genie girl]] saves the world from the onset of [[Steampunk]] with [[Prehensile Hair|magical hair]] and belly dancing.
** {{spoiler|''Shantae: Risky's Revenge''}}: Cute [[Half-Human Hybrid|genie girl]] learns what a magic lamp is [[Brought Down to Normal|the hard way]].
* {{spoiler|''Shatter''}}: A dysfunctional power plant part goes on a rampage to destroy the evil orwellian space robot empire led by an equally evil robot pong paddle.
* {{spoiler|''[[Shenmue]]''}}: A guy's father is killed. He collects toys, plays arcade games, and adopts a kitten. [[Cut Short|He never avenges his father.]]
* {{spoiler|''[[Shin Megami Tensei]]''}}: A young male teen gains the ability to summon demons and uses it to fight demons. And possibly the [[Rage Against the Heavens|forces of heaven]]. No wonder it got stuck in Japan.
** {{spoiler|''[[Shin Megami Tensei]] 2''}}: X Years Later, the world of balance that the hero of the previous game created has [[It Got Worse|gotten worse.]] The powers that be create a Test Tube Messiah, who may or may not [[Rage Against the Heavens|kill God]], that is, if he decides not to run away from the planet first.
* {{spoiler|''[[Sid Meier's Alpha Centauri]]''}}: A sleeping alien god gets a skin disease. It takes decades for it to start scratching and centuries to actually wake up. Meanwhile, [[Captain Planet and the Planeteers|tree-hugging hippies discover that the local fungus is the path to apotheosis, man]]; [[Evil Overlord|Chairman Mao's reincarnation]] is worse than ever; [[The Spartan Way|ancient Greeks]] are apparently lead by a hot Latina; a [[Mad Scientist|scientist goes mad]]; [[Corrupt Corporate Executive|Gordon Gekko is alive and well in the late 21st century]]; and [[Eagle Land|American]] [[Church Militant|Bible-thumpers annoy everybody]] ([[Acceptable Targets|just like today]], har har har).
** {{spoiler|''Sid Meier's Alien Crossfire''}}: As above, but with [[Sid Meier's Pirates!|pirates]]!; [[cyborg]]s!; a [[Creepy Child|child messiah]]!; [[Playful Hacker|hackers]]!; a [[Does This Remind You of Anything?|neo-socialist working-class revolution]]!; and even more aliens!
* {{spoiler|''[[Sid Meier's Pirates!|Sid Meier's Pirates]]''}}: [[Wide Open Sandbox|Do what you want]] 'cause a pirate lives free, [[Memetic Mutation|you are a pirate]]!
* {{spoiler|''[[Silent Hill]]''}}: Your daughter gets lost in a foggy resort town, and an antiques dealer tries to convince you that she's actually her daughter. The cop and the doctor don't clarify things.
** Alternatively: A man keeps finding ways into parallel versions of buildings in which floors are a luxury, everything's rusty, and important things are marked by blood.
** Alternatively: You get to witness an abuse victim act out a revenge fantasy.
** {{spoiler|''[[Silent Hill 2]]''}}: You receive a letter from your dead wife. It all goes downhill from there.
** {{spoiler|''[[Silent Hill 3]]''}}: A creepy blond woman wants to talk to you about birth. You end up killing God.
*** Alternatively: A young teenage girl avenges her father's murder by aborting her child.
** {{spoiler|''[[Silent Hill 4]]''}}: You're trapped in the [[Big Bad]]'s mother. Is home to the [[Video Games/Nightmare Fuel|High Octane Nightmare Fuel]] poster pic (Yikes!)
*** Alternatively: A man looks for a way to unlock the front door of his apartment. To accomplish this, he peeks on his female neighbor, and crawls through holes to watch people get killed by an {{spoiler|immortal}} serial killer.
*** Alternatively: A man cannot find a way to get out of his room because his front door is locked from the inside. To get out, he must crawl through a plot hole.
** {{spoiler|''[[Silent Hill Homecoming]]''}}: You come home from a war to find your town overrun with more crazy cultists and, also, vaginal imagery. You shoot your mother to get the good ending.
** {{spoiler|''[[Silent Hill: Shattered Memories]]''}}: You go on a hunt for your daughter in freak weather conditions. The town locals make every effort to [[Mind Screw]] you into submission.
*** Alternatively: {{spoiler|You play through a metaphor for a therapy session.}}
* {{spoiler|''[[The Silver Case]]''}}: Almost everyone dies trying to figure out why there are killers in town.
** {{spoiler|''[[Flower, Sun, and Rain]]''}}: A man never gets his breakfast, therefore airplanes explode.
** {{spoiler|''The Silver Case: Ward 25''}}: Correctness, Match Maker, Placebo, Transmitter. These words have ''something'' in common, but [[No Export for You|darned if I know]] what they are.
* {{spoiler|''[[SimCity]]''}}: Put yourself in power; receive many complaints about traffic.
** {{spoiler|''[[SimCity]] 2000''}}: Put yourself in power; cut back on funding. [[Memetic Mutation|YOU WILL REGRET THIS!]]
* {{spoiler|''[[Sin]]''}}: An angry police officer battles a beautician with [[Screw the Rules, I Have Money|a lot of money]], a lot of chest, and no ethics.
* {{spoiler|''[[Sin and Punishment]]''}}: Genetically-enhanced humans kill an onslaught of monsters, followed by killing the army responsible for defending against them. Then they betray the one who helped them do so, [[Attack of the 50-Foot Whatever|turn into a giant monster]] and destroy the Earth by reflecting its attacks. Delivered entirely in [[Surprisingly Good English]].
* {{spoiler|''[[Sinistar]]''}}: A guy in a spaceship gathers shiny rocks to keep a giant roaring head from eating him.
* {{spoiler|''[[Skies of Arcadia]]''}}: Two pirates and a [[Mysterious Waif|Waif]] go on an epic adventure to collect moon rocks. In the sky.
* {{spoiler|''[[Skullgirls]]''}}: Eight ladies fight each other to gain an artifact who will grant them a wish but also turning them into an [[Eldritch Abomination]].
* {{spoiler|''Sky Blazer''}}: A grumpy old man yells at a gay cousin of [[Mega Man (video game)|Mega Man]] to go beat up an indian deity. He concedes.
* {{spoiler|''[[Sly Cooper]] and the Thievious Racoonus''}}: A career criminal beats up other career criminals to recover a family heirloom.
* {{spoiler|''[[Soul Nomad and The World Eaters]]''}}: A red-haired mute with voices in his/her head must save the world. S/he is joined by his/her [[The Ditz|brain-damaged]] childhood friend.
* {{spoiler|''[[Soul Series]]''}}: A [[BFS|big]] (and powerful) [[BFS|sword]] enslaves and maddens its users [[With Great Power Comes Great Insanity|(naturally)]]. Fight against an opponent over [[Bottomless Pits]] to obtain, destroy, or help it. Maybe you'll get its [[Inverted Trope|good]] [[Evil Twin|twin]] to help. [[Bloodless Carnage|It's hard to tell if anyone dies.]]
** {{spoiler|1=''SoulCalibur IV''}}: [[Clothing Damage|You can break your opponent's clothing.]] [[Fan Service|What do you mean that sounds gratuitious?]] Also, [[Rule of Cool|Darth Vader fights ninjas]].
** {{spoiler|1=''SoulCalibur V''}}: The children of one of fighters of the last 4 games go around to kill an infection caused by the evil sword in Renaissance Europe. This time the guest character is one of the few smart enough to take a gun to a sword fight.
* {{spoiler|''[[Space Channel 5]]''}}: A newscaster enlists the aid of [[Michael Jackson]] in out-dancing rubber aliens.
** {{spoiler|''Space Channel 5 Part 2''}}: The President has been kidnapped by robots. Are you a good enough dancer to rescue the President?
* {{spoiler|''[[Spelunky]]''}}: A tiny man dressed like Indiana Jones travels through a ridiculously dangerous cavern in search of treasure, populated by [[Goddamned Bats]], spiders, snakes, yetis, and lots of spikes. The [[Roguelike|game is different every time]], but 99% of your sessions will end in the tiny man's untimely death.
* {{spoiler|''Spheres Of Chaos''}}: An [[Asteroids]] clone where there's a high chance of getting epilepsy when playing it.
* {{spoiler|''Spider Solitaire''}}: Either the easiest or the hardest variant game in the history of ever.
* {{spoiler|''[[Splinter Cell]]''}}: A highly skilled former Navy SEAL fights terrorists in [[No OSHA Compliance|unsafe workplaces]] by hiding from them.
** {{spoiler|''Splinter Cell: Pandora Tomorrow''}}: A veteran must pick up some notes, retrieve stolen refrigerators, and find out where five spray cans are and give the last one to some security guards.
** {{spoiler|''Splinter Cell: Chaos Theory''}}: A veteran must kill his old friends and save the bad guys to save the world.
** {{spoiler|''Splinter Cell: Double Agent''}}: A veteran questions his morality as he inflitrates a terrorist organization named after a southerner who was hanged.
*** Or: A man is sent on a secret mission better suited for someone 30 years younger than him.
* {{spoiler|''[[Spore]]''}}: Everything. Including, but not limited to: evolving by dancing in public, getting more advanced by burning buildings, capturing cities by playing music, and [[Video Game Cruelty Potential|lots and lots of genocide]].
** {{spoiler|Space Stage}}: Build an empire with one measly ship.
** {{spoiler|''[[Spore]] Creature Creator''}}: As a preview of a game about everything, you stretch and squish various blobby shapes and add parts to them to make them look vaguely like some sort of animal. Or a penis.
** {{spoiler|''[[Spore]] Creature Creator Parts: Creepy and Cute''}}: The first of several efforts to make a game about everything about more everything.
* {{spoiler|''[[Spy vs. Spy]]''}}: Monochromatic Deformed Anthropomorphic Birds set traps for one another while searching a building for a variety of worthless junk.
** {{spoiler|''[[Spy vs. Spy]] II''}}: Monochromatic Deformed Anthropomorphic Birds set traps for one another using trees and coconuts while searching a tropical island for a buried missile.
* ''{{spoiler|[[Star Ocean]]}}'': The Japanese version of [[Star Trek]] minus the science fiction.
** ''{{spoiler|[[Star Ocean the Second Story]]}}'': Teenager gets marooned on a fantasy planet. His girlfriend is whomever he sucks up to the most.
** ''{{spoiler|[[Star Ocean: Till the End of Time]]}}'': Teenager gets marooned on a fantasy planet...AGAIN. He and his friends discover {{spoiler|1=they're NPCs in a MMORPG.}}
** ''{{spoiler|[[Star Ocean: The Last Hope]]}}'': Teenager gets marooned on a fantasy planet. Only this one happened like a hundred years before all those other ones.
* ''{{spoiler|Star Soldier R}}'': A [[It's Short, So It Sucks|five-minute]] [[Shoot'Em Up]] that costs $8.
* {{spoiler|''[[Super Mario Bros. (video game)|Super Mario Bros]]''}}: An evil turtle king has turned all the denizens of the world into bricks. The [[Damsel in Distress]] can only be saved by two [[The Everyman|blue-collar workers]] who [[What Do You Mean It Wasn't Made on Drugs?|do a lot of mushrooms]]. ''OR:'' The hero must eat mushrooms in order to kill other mushrooms in order to save other other mushrooms.
** {{spoiler|''[[Super Mario Bros. 2]]''}}: Previously mentioned blue-collar workers fall from the sky into a new land and must defeat an evil frog by feeding him vegetables. [[All Just a Dream|Or do they?]]
*** {{spoiler|''[[Super Mario Bros the Lost Levels]]''}}: Blue collar workers [[Nintendo Hard|get killed often]] fighting the turtle king, [[No Export for You|leading them to fight the frog instead.]]
** {{spoiler|''[[Super Mario Bros 3]]''}}: The duo must save the damsel again, this time be dressing up in outlandish costumes and systematically murdering the turtle king's children.
** {{spoiler|''[[Super Mario Land]]''}}: One of the duo fights aliens to save a completely unrelated damsel in a kingdom filled with moai.
** {{spoiler|''[[Super Mario 64]]''}}: One of the duo fights evil in paintings in said damsel's castle.
*** {{spoiler|''Super Mario 64 DS''}}: In this [[Oddly-Named Sequel 2: Electric Boogaloo|oddly named]] [[Updated Rerelease]] of the above title, the duo and the fat guy also need rescuing. The hero ends up being the green dinosaur, though one of the duo takes on the villain.
** {{spoiler|''[[Super Princess Peach]]''}}: Everyone decides the damsel is more interesting and helps her have adventures with her umbrella.
** {{spoiler|''[[Super Mario Sunshine]]''}}: One of the duo is put to work against his will and sprays everyone with water in the process. The turtle king turns out to be taking a family vacation at the same resort the same blue-collar worker is staying at, but not with his original seven children—it's [[Replacement Scrappy|a new son]] with mommy confusion.
** {{spoiler|''[[New Super Mario Bros.]]''}}: Turtle king decides to re-enact the first time he kidnapped the damsel, only to [[Kill It with Fire|get his skin]] [[Family-Unfriendly Death|burned off]]. His [[Replacement Scrappy|son]] takes over.
*** {{spoiler|''[[New Super Mario Bros. Wii]]''}}: Turtle king decides to re-enact the first time he kidnapped the damsel again, but this time his original seven children return after a long absence and team up with [[Rescued from the Scrappy Heap|his other son]]. The duo enlists the help of two mushroom folk and the dinosaur, but end up tripping over each other.
** {{spoiler|''[[Super Mario Galaxy]]''}}: The duo from the above examples find themselves [[Recycled in Space|in space]]. [[Batman Can Breathe in Space|They never acquire space suits.]] [[Gainax Ending|Then the universe explodes.]]
*** {{spoiler|''[[Super Mario Galaxy 2]]''}}: There is more exploration of space. This time the green dinosaur can be used to travel places. [[Batman Can Breathe in Space|They still never acquire space suits.]] The turtle king's original seven children once again fail to show up despite [[New Super Mario Bros. Wii|the previous adventure]].
** {{spoiler|''[[Hotel Mario]]''}}: Overweight hero calls his brother [[Mondegreen|a homosexual]] while going out on a picnic. They proceed to shut a lot of doors in order to condemn buildings. [[Read the Freaking Manual|Enclosed within is an instruction book.]]
*** To be honest, it really isn't any better than it sounds.
* {{spoiler|''[[SWAT 4]]''}}: You lead a SWAT team consisting of often bumbling squadmates, who can (and will) blind you with your own flashbangs.
* {{spoiler|''[[Sweet Home (video game)|Sweet Home]]''}}: Five uninvited visitors enter a private home and anger the lady of the house at the moment of their arrival. They also take photos of the valuable paintings in the house without permission and kill a notable amount of the inhabitants with kitchen utensils. In the end, they evict the lady using the corpse of her child, who was killed in an incinerator.
* {{spoiler|''Taiko no Tatsujin''}}: Talking drum has two notes.
* {{spoiler|''[[Tales of Phantasia]]''}}: A hero chosen by fate receives the blessing of his Gods and sets out on a quest to save his world, the hopes of his people carried on his shoulders. You must stop him at all costs.
** {{spoiler|''[[Tales of Destiny]]''}}: A boy with a talking sword must save the world from evil businessmen.
*** {{spoiler|''[[Tales of Destiny]] 2''}}: [[Kid Hero]] tries to avenge the previous hero. The man who betrayed his father comes back to life to help him.
** Alternatively: [[Large Ham|Big]] [[Complete Monster|Guy]] with a [[An Axe to Grind|big axe]] makes a big mess.
** {{spoiler|''[[Tales of Eternia]]''}}: The sky is falling. The world's only hope is a guy in a really fruity hat. Failing that, a guy in a really fruity shirt. You are the guy in the shirt.
** {{spoiler|''[[Tales of Symphonia]]''}}: You fight against angels led by a spandex bodysuit-wearing legendary hero and ruin his plans for world peace.
*** {{spoiler|''[[Tales of Symphonia]] Dawn of the New World''}}: A [[Woobie, Destroyer of Worlds]] with a severe bipolar disorder sets off on a quest to [[Gotta Catch Em All|catch'em all]] while his [[Clingy Jealous Girl]]friend constantly tells him to be a man.
** {{spoiler|''Tales of the World: Narikiri Dungeon''}}: A fanboy and a fangirl alternately break and fix the timeline through cosplay. ''Extreme'' cosplay.
** {{spoiler|''[[Tales of the Abyss]]''}}: A young aristocrat suffers a severe emotional crisis, is betrayed by his most trusted ally, abandoned by his family and country, treated with contempt by his friends, and attempts to kill himself repeatedly.
*** Alternately: A boy and his teacher agree that the best way to solve the world's problems is to [[Screw Destiny]], but end up having an argument about the best method of doing so.
** {{spoiler|''[[Tales of Legendia]]''}} An Ex-marine punches things to death while searching for his sister on a ship bigger than some continents.
** {{spoiler|''[[Tales of Rebirth]]''}}: A [[White-Haired Pretty Boy]] fights racism and [[Say My Name|screams his girlfriend's name in a really dramatic fashion]].
** {{spoiler|''[[Tales of Innocence]]''}}: A general becomes a schoolboy, then has an identity crisis. His lover and sword follow suit. Don't ask what happened to his pet dragon.
** {{spoiler|''[[Tales of Vesperia]]''}}: A hooligan goes on a quest to fix a fountain, but ends up in everyone else's quests. His friend disapproves.
** {{spoiler|''[[Tales of Hearts]]''}}: A girl's heart breaks, and her friends take her on a journey to put it back together. Later, they save the world from a giant soul-eating flower from space. All this happens by way of [[Power of Friendship]].
** {{spoiler|''[[Tales of the Tempest]]''}}: [[Fantastic Racism]] {{smallcaps|[[Recycled in Space|with werewolves!]]}} Considered [[Canon Discontinuity|non-canon]]... for a series with almost zero continuity.
** {{spoiler|''[[Tales of Graces]]''}}: A young knight gets in a fight with his best friend. The little girl who follows him around frequently has to save him.
* {{spoiler|''[[Task Maker]]''}}: An all-powerful leader has you run his errands. If at any point you swear, you instantly die and go to hell.
* {{spoiler|''[[Team Fortress 2]]''}}: Bring a bat to a gunfight, run very slowly with a gun that's too large for you, die trying to [[Kill It with Fire|set people on fire]], heal the ungrateful masses, stand very still and hope nobody notices you, blow yourself up trying to reach new heights, set bombs in a corner and wait for people to step on them, solve the same puzzle ("[[Zero Punctuation|use rifle on man]]") over and over again, or build some buildings.
** Alternatively, A construction company and a demolition company {{spoiler|which are administered by the same person}} fight over each other's briefcases, land rights, and proper waste disposal procedure, all while the teenager complains about the lack of necessary equipment on his side.
** Alternative the second: sit around doing nothing while hoping that you are rewarded with a [[Nice Hat|purely cosmetic reward]] as a sign of your [[Sarcasm Mode|hard work]]. The developers [[Genre Savvy|actively troll their fanbase]] over this.
** Alternative the sixth: A war between a piss-throwing Australian, a smartass who drinks radioactive soda, a cyclops with a grenade gun, a fat sandwich addict who obsesses over his "sasha", a mad German doctor with technology that hasn't even been invented yet, a [[Ambiguous Gender|gender-unknown person]] who doesn't have the balls to take their mask off, a French pervert, a brainwashed American who thinks a shovel is an effective weapon, a redneck who, again, has technology that hasn't been invented yet, and their hordes of clones.
** Alternative the seventh: Ethnic stereotypes fight to the death in a cartoonish [[Bread, Eggs, Breaded Eggs|desert and/or industrial]] [[Zero Punctuation|environment]]. Remember, it's not whether you win or lose, it's how many hats you have.
* {{spoiler|''[[Tekken]] (entire series)''}}: Members of a dysfunctional family violently argue over property.
** {{spoiler|''Tekken''}}: A [[Shotoclone]] fights in a tournament hosted by his father, a [[Corrupt Corporate Executive]]. Shotoclone wins and tosses his dad off a cliff.
** {{spoiler|''Tekken 2''}}: [[Shotoclone|Shotoclone's]] father lives. He returns the favor with interest.
** {{spoiler|''Tekken 3''}}: [[Shotoclone|Shotoclone's]] son asks his grandfather for help. Things don't end very well.
** {{spoiler|''Tekken 4''}}: [[Shotoclone|Shotoclone's]] son distances himself from family and attempts to live in peace. Things don't end very well.
** {{spoiler|''Tekken 5''}}: [[Shotoclone|Shotoclone's]] son meets his long lost ancestor. Things don't end very well.
** {{spoiler|''Tekken 6''}}: World War III is born from a fighting tournament by [[Shotoclone|Shotoclone's]] [[Start of Darkness|son]]. Things don't end very well.
* {{spoiler|''[[Terraria]]''}}: Destroy the environment so you can kill an old man and steal valuables from his tomb.
* {{spoiler|''[[Tetris]]''}}: Building supplies drop from the sky, and you must use them to erase any sign of your hard work to build the Kremlin. [[Failure Is the Only Option]].
* {{spoiler|''[[Thousand Arms]]''}}: Son of a blacksmith [[Impoverished Patrician|loses his home and reputation]], has to rebuild it by [[Dating Sim|dating pretty girls]].
* {{spoiler|''[[Threads of Fate]]''}}: A runaway, some dolls, treasure hunters, and a doctor fight over a man's estate.
* {{spoiler|''[[Time Hollow]]''}}: The protagonist draws circles to try to fix the past. [[Nice Job Breaking It, Hero|He makes it worse.]]
* {{spoiler|''[[Time Splitters]]''}}: A guy who looks like [[The Chronicles of Riddick|Riddick]] travels through time and shoots aliens dead. Monkeys are involved. [[Everything's Better with Monkeys|Lots and lots of monkeys]].
* {{spoiler|''[[Today I Die]]''}}: A woman becomes suicidally depressed after a bad break-up. She solves her problems using jellyfish, glowing bubbles, and Mad Libs.
** {{spoiler|''[[Tokimeki Memorial]] 2''}}: Same as above, but replace the tree with a broken clock tower.
* {{spoiler|''Tokyo Xtreme Racer Zero''}}: Explore Tokyo through its highways, with an opportunity to cruise down an extremely-straight twenty-kilometer stretch.
* {{spoiler|''[[Tomb Raider]] I'' through ''III''}}: A gifted archaeologist desecrates the ruins of ancient civilizations and kills local wildlife.
** ''{{spoiler|Tomb Raider: The Last Revelation}}'': The archaeologist wins by not despoiling the cultural artifact, and is rewarded with {{spoiler|death}}.
** {{spoiler|''Tomb Raider Chronicles''}}: At the start of the game, the archaeologist is still dead. The first part of the game is told in flashback.
** ''{{spoiler|Tomb Raider: Angel Of Darkness}}'': The archaeologist is on the lam for allegedly murdering her teacher.
** ''{{spoiler|Tomb Raider: Legend}}'': Reboot. A gifted archaeologist chases after a phallic symbol.
* {{spoiler|''Tomena Sanner''}}: A Japanese salaryman races the clock and evades numerous obstacles to earn the right to breakdance.
* {{spoiler|''[[Total Overdose]]''}}: ''Once Upon A Crime in Mexico''.
* {{spoiler|''[[Total War]]''}}: ''[[A Million Is a Statistic]]: The Series.''
* {{spoiler|''[[Touch Detective]]''}}: A 12 year old [[Incredibly Lame Pun|tactfully]] earns her work permit by chasing a paper bag in her sleep.
* {{spoiler|''[[Touhou]]''}}: A bunch of girls in a [[Fantasy Kitchen Sink]] settle disputes with [[Bullet Hell|Extreme Dodgeball]].
** {{spoiler|''Highly Responsive to Prayers''}}: You play ''literal'' Dodgeball against whoever destroyed your shrine.
** {{spoiler|''Story of Eastern Wonderland''}}: Ghosts partied at your shrine, a boss from the previous game comes back with the future co-protagonist of the game.
** {{spoiler|''Phantasmagoria of Dim.Dream''}}: {{spoiler|A hyperdimensional ship}} near my shrine? More likely than it sounds!
** {{spoiler|''Lotus Land Story''}}: Ditching the recurrent boss, you wake up a psychotic flower-obsessed girl. The whole story ends up hijacked by a maid.
** {{spoiler|''Mystic Square''}}: You twart a goddess's plan to transform the [[Fantasy Kitchen Sink]] into a demon tourist trap.
** {{spoiler|''Embodiment of Scarlet Devil''}}: Vampire decides she wants to take her nightly walks whenever she wants. And then her sister leaves the basement.
** {{spoiler|''Perfect Cherry Blossom''}}: Groundhog Day (the holiday, not the trope or film) takes [[Refuge in Audacity]]. The protagonists are not amused.
** {{spoiler|''Immaterial and Missing Power''}}: A very short, very drunk demon uses her density manipulation powers to make the inhabitants of said [[Hidden Elf Village]] party hard.
** {{spoiler|''Imperishable Night''}}: Two fugitives shelter a draft dodger. This pisses off everyone.
** {{spoiler|''Phantasmagoria of Flower View''}}: [[Death Takes a Holiday|Death slacks off]]. Many flowers bloom. A certain fairy decides to notify everyone that it's Spring. Repeatedly. [[Everything Trying to Kill You|With bullets.]] A familiar youkai who seemingly disappeared with a recurring boss returns after sleeping in for several years, and a paparazzi girl takes over as 'The Recurring Boss'.
** {{spoiler|''Shoot The Bullet''}}: Nearly everyone in the series is defeated by the paparazzi.
** {{spoiler|''Mountain of Faith''}}: [[Gods Need Prayer Badly|A goddess needs prayer badly]]. To survive, she must go in the [[Fantasy Kitchen Sink]] with her personal priestess to leach the main character's [[Clap Your Hands If You Believe]] power.
** {{spoiler|''Scarlet Weather Rhapsody''}}: The weather goes out of control. The main character's shrine gets wrecked. Twice.
** {{spoiler|''Subterranean Animism''}}: The goddesses from the tenth game needs electricity badly. She decides to give a bird from Hell nuclear powers to start an Industrial Revolution. The bird decides to incinerate the [[Fantasy Kitchen Sink]] instead.
** {{spoiler|''Undefined Fantastic Object''}}: The mains + the priestess of the tenth game are off to find a treasure ship. They end up fighting Magical Gandhi instead. Also, [[Fun with Acronyms|UFOs]].
** {{spoiler|''Hisoutensoku''}}: The recurring priestess and the two main [[Ensemble Darkhorse]]s sees a giant... [[Rashomon Style|something]]. They then decide to beat the crap out of each other. [[Mighty Glacier|The]] [[I Love Nuclear Power|nuclear]] [[Mighty Glacier|bird]] and [[Confusion Fu|a frog]] also joins the fray. [[Giant Space Flea From Nowhere|Who ordered catfish?]]
** {{spoiler|''Double Spoiler''}}: The rest of everyone in the series is defeated by the same paparazzi. Then, a blogger is added.
** {{spoiler|''Fairy Wars''}}: One of the [[Ensemble Darkhorse]]s gets her home destroyed by fairies. She vows revenge. Also, one of the mains shows up with flashlights.
** {{spoiler|''Ten Desires''}}: Conspicuously colored divine spirits appear out of nowhere. To fix that, the mains, the priestess and the samurai gardener from the seventh game have to beat the tar out of angry, if dimwitted taoists who are threatening the newly-built temple as well as heralding the ressurection of a DJ.
* {{spoiler|''[[Tower Madness]]''}}: Evil [[The Greys|aliens]] are going to steal your sheep and turn them into a scarf for their Emperor! You must defend them!
* {{spoiler|''[[Trace Memory]]''}}: [[White-Haired Pretty Girl]] moves to a long-abandoned island and attempts to solve a mystery while playing with her Nintendo DS.
* {{spoiler|''[[Track Mania]]''}}: Madman builds hellish racetracks. It may be you.
* {{spoiler|''Traffic Department 2192''}}: Well, the title alone belies the nature of this top-down mid 90s shareware sci-fi vehicle shooter, but let's give you the skinny: Bitchy woman uses her car to stop gangs named after scavenger birds.
* {{spoiler|''[[Transformers: War for Cybertron]]''}}: An unemployed librarian and his friends fight a downsized blue-collar worker and his friends.
* {{spoiler|''[[Transformice]]''}}: A multiplayer version of ''Lemmings''.
* {{spoiler|''[[Trauma Center]]''}}: Play doctor. No, not in a [[Hello, Nurse!|sexy]] sort of way.
** {{spoiler|''Trauma Team''}}: Play as six different doctors, learn the destructive power of butterflies.
* {{spoiler|''Tribes''}}: In an online game where you fly around like a fairy, a major exploit to move really fast is found in the first week. Sequels would build this feature right into the game.
* {{spoiler|''[[Turok (series)|Turok]]''}}: An Indian goes to [[After the End|Post-Apocalyptic]] alternate earth where ''"Time Has No Meaning"'' to save children from a cyborg viking's armies of robot lizards and the Thuggees from ''Temple Of Doom'' with a crystal-powered Martian death-ray that '''SKULL-FUCKS''' people to death.
** Or: Native American kills dinosaurs with guns. Aliens are involved.
* {{spoiler|''[[Tux Racer]]''}}: An adorable penguin races down customizeable slopes of ice, snow, and rock, often at breakneck speeds.
* {{spoiler|''Twinkle Star Sprites''}}: Adorable characters blow each other to smithereens in order to find a redneck star who grants wishes.
* {{spoiler|''[[Twisted Metal]]''}}: Sadistic millionaire grants a single wish to the person who can survive an all-out war with people in cars that shoot missiles, ice beams and tactical nukes.
** {{spoiler|''[[Twisted Metal]] 2''}}: He does it again, around the world.
** {{spoiler|''[[Twisted Metal]] 3 and 4''}}: [[Canon Discontinuity|He never did it with Rob Zombie.]]
** {{spoiler|''[[Twisted Metal]]: Black''}}: He does it ''again'', in some clown's nightmares.
** {{spoiler|''[[Twisted Metal]]: Head-On''}}: He does it ''again'', '''''[[Department of Redundancy Department|again]]'''''.
* {{spoiler|''[[Ty the Tasmanian Tiger]]''}}: Anthropomorphic marsupial goes on quest to save parents, find rest of species, and defeat an evil bird by using [[Improbable Weapon User|a pair of boomerangs]], and collecting [[Kleptomaniac Hero|anything that isn't nailed down]], including jewels, geodes, small furry animals, parts of a machine, and [[Improbable Weapon User|more]] [[Improbable Weapon User|boomerangs]]. Also has [[Interspecies Romance|an interesting relationship with a dingo]], and occasionally [[Horse of a Different Colour|rides on a boar]].
* {{spoiler|''Ugh!''}}: A caveman earns money by flying other cavemen in his helicopter.
* {{spoiler|''[[Ultima]]''}}: The locals have unrealistic expectations about their hero. Said hero [[Lord British Postulate|comes up with increasingly creative ways to assassinate their leader]] in protest.
** {{spoiler|''Ultima VII''}}: Hero fights the evil forces of Scientology and Electronic Arts.
* {{spoiler|''[[Umihara Kawase]]''}}: A girl swings across an absurd dream world with her fishing rod. Said rod is more flexible than ''[[Bionic Commando]]''.
* {{spoiler|''[[Uncharted Drakes Fortune]]''}}: Lanky guy with a penchant for guns, hand-to-hand combat and one-liners searches for El Dorado with his [[Heterosexual Life Partner]] and [[Intrepid Reporter|April O'Neill]]. They are beaten to it by [[Legacy of Kain|Simon Templeman.]]
** {{spoiler|''Uncharted 2: Among Thieves''}}: Your character and [[Dragon Age|Morrigan]] team up to stop [[Dragon Age|Alistair]] and his new boss from discovering immortality.
*** {{spoiler|''Uncharted 3: Drake's Deception''}}: An adventurer and his 60 year old friend stops Helen Mirren from acquiring a hallucinogenic brass vessel in the middle of the desert.
* {{spoiler|''[[The Uninvited|Uninvited]]''}}: Your poor driving skills lead you to stop and ask for help at the first house you find.
* {{spoiler|''Uniracers''}}: Sentient one-wheeled vehicles compete in race and stunt competitions.
* {{spoiler|''[[An Untitled Story]]''}}: An egg travels throughout the world to hatch and fight ghosts.
* {{spoiler|''[[Urban Dead]]''}}: Thousands of warriors face off in a never-ending battle and die, only to get up and do it again the next day. They gather at shopping malls to do so. Basically [[Warrior Heaven|Valhalla]] with less mead.
* {{spoiler|''[[Urban Rivals]]''}}: Massive gang war among [[Gang of Hats|diverse groups]], such as pirates, enviromentalists, cops, the undead, the mafia, aliens, and the military. Drug use is rampant and aids in the fighting.
* {{spoiler|''[[Vacant Sky]]''}}: An [[Ordinary High School Student|ordinary high school girl]] gets murdered and spends a lot of time complaining about it.
* {{spoiler|''[[Vagrant Story]]''}}: A royal peacekeeper is sent into a haunted town to rescue the son of the duke of a kingdom. A creepy pale-skinned guy dressed in chain mail taunts him every step of the way.
* {{spoiler|''[[Valkyria Chronicles]]''}}: It's [[World War Two]] and you're Poland.
** Alternatively: It's WWII with women of mass destruction. The [[Fantastic Racism]] is due to the fact that you have the wrong hair color. And yes, you are Poland.
*** Alternative to the alternative: Battlefield 1942: JRPG Edition.
* {{spoiler|''[[Valkyrie Profile]]''}}: A lot of people join the heroine's party and die. But not in that order.
* {{spoiler|''[[Vampire: The Masquerade Bloodlines]]''}}: The fate of a [[Dark World]] version of LA depends on not opening a Mesopotamian sarcophagus, while you face off against [[Demonic Spider|incredibly difficult]] and [[Nightmare Fuel|terrifying]] monsters.
** Alternatively, a disastrous one-night-stand forces a recent hire to prove himself/herself truly worthy of employment.
* {{spoiler|''[[A Vampyre Story]]''}}: An opera singer tries to get away from her clingy boyfriend with the help of a sarcastic bat.
* {{spoiler|''[[Vectorman]]''}}: A garbage-hauling robot has to stop a sentient nuclear weapon from taking over the world, using only his shooting hands and burning feet. He encounters fat versions of himself, killer light bulbs, and pesky mosquitoes.
** {{spoiler|''[[Vectorman|Vectorman 2]]''}}: A garbage-hauling robot has to stop a bunch of over-mutated bugs and their big-brained queen from taking over the world.
* {{spoiler|''[[Victoria: An Empire Under The Sun]]''}}: Spend a hundred years providing people with coal and opium.
* {{spoiler|''[[Viewtiful Joe]]''}}: Movie fanboy obsesses over movies, pretends to be his hero.
** {{spoiler|''Viewtiful Joe 2''}}: Said fanboy teams up with his girlfriend to punch his father in the face.
* {{spoiler|''[[Virtua Fighter]]''}}: Fighters from around the world challenge each other for the rights to battle a corporation's metallic [[Super Soldier]].
* {{spoiler|''[[Viva Pinata]]''}}: You are put in charge of a breeding ranch for party favors.
* {{spoiler|''[[Wacky Wheels]]''}}: ''[[Mario Kart]]'' <small>[[Recycled in Space|WITH]] [[Funny Animal|FUNNY[IER] ANIMALS!]]</small>
* '' {{spoiler|[[Wandering Hamster]]}}'': Hamster with mallet, a water mage, and a dancing canine end a war in the first chapter, conquer the invader's castle in the second chapter, and get eaten in the third. Currently in [[Development Hell]].
* {{spoiler|''[[Wallace and Gromit]]'s Grand Adventures''}}: A clueless British inventor and his dog do stuff.
** {{spoiler|''Fright of the Bumblebees''}}: A clueless British inventor and his dog try to improve their latest business venture, which leads to them fighting giant bees.
** {{spoiler|''The Last Resort''}}: A clueless British inventor and his dog run a seaside resort out of their basement.
** {{spoiler|''Muzzled!''}}: A clueless British inventor and his dog invent fish-flavored ice cream and sabotage a fun fair.
** {{spoiler|''The Bogey Man''}}: A clueless British inventor and his dog join a golf club in order to get the inventor out of [[Accidental Marriage|an unwanted engagement]].
* {{spoiler|''[[War of the Monsters]]''}}: A fuel crisis causes immeasurable havoc.
* {{spoiler|''[[Warcraft]]''}}: Immigration leads to a race war. The immigrants win.
*** {{spoiler|''World of Warcraft: Wrath of the Lich King''}}: The immigrants realize they have yet to colonize the Arctic and surrounding areas. They seek to rectify the situation. Meanwhile, a group of natives become disgusted with anti-foreigner sentiment and decide to help the immigrants.
*** {{spoiler|''World of Warcraft: Cataclysm''}}: The natives and immigrants resume their war. A senior official, formerly in exile because of his skin color, decides to return home. This causes property values to plummet. Furries and insane corporate executives join the grassroots campaign to kick him out of the country.
*** {{spoiler|''World of Warcraft: Mists of Pandaria''}}: The immigrants discover the [[Far East]] and, ignoring the protests of the natives, proceed to fight over colonization rights. Almost all of the immigrants decide to learn [[Bare-Fisted Monk|new things]] from [[Pandaing to the Audience|bears]].
* {{spoiler|''[[Warhammer 40,000]]: [[Dawn of War]]''}}: A bunch of red-[[Powered Armor|armoured]] [[Super Soldier]]s land on a planet to help the local [[Redshirt Army]] fight off an invasion of [[Our Orcs Are Different|Different Orcs]]. A [[Church Militant]] shows up, looking for an invasion of [[The Legions of Hell]]. [[The Problem with Licensed Games|It's also licensed.]]
** {{spoiler|''Warhammer 40000: Dawn of War: Winter Assault''}}: A [[Humongous Mecha]] was wrecked on an [[Single Biome Planet|icy planet]] some years ago. The [[Redshirt Army]], reluctantly aided by [[Our Elves Are Better|Better Elves]], fight against [[Our Orcs Are Different|Different Orcs]] and [[The Legions of Hell]] to get to the 'mech, only to find [[Terminator]]-wannabes with pyramids waiting.
** {{spoiler|''Warhammer 40000: Dawn of War: Soulstorm''}}: A system with four planets develops a [[Negative Space Wedgie]] and [[The Legions of Hell]] show up. The [[Our Orcs Are Different|Different Orcs]] get a stronger leader and try fighting against the human [[Super Soldier]]s and greyskins weak in melee. The [[Redshirt Army]] gets another leader to replace the one the greyskins shot dead, but has to face the [[Church Militant]] [[Amazon Brigade]]. [[Terminator]]-wannabes wake up from a long sleep and [[Our Elves Are Better|Better Elves]] arrive to stop them. The Not-So-Much-Better Elves arrive to take slaves and torture people.
*** Except that [[Canon Discontinuity|didn't really happen.]]
* {{spoiler|''[[Wario Land]]''}}: Fat man does a [[Heel Face Turn]], travels through lands named after food, blows up [[Pirate]]'s gothic tower, and gives his nemesis a priceless object. And there's a [[Genie in a Bottle]] involved, who also does a [[Heel Face Turn]] and gives a castle...if you give him enough money.
** {{spoiler|''[[Wario Land]] 2''}}: After being robbed by a [[Pirate]], fat man sets out to kick her ass.
** {{spoiler|''[[Wario Land]] 3''}}: Fat man gets sucked inside a music box. There he finds a being who tells him to find a bunch of music boxes, bribing him with the treasure. He then proceeds to desecrate an entire community, kills the locals, only to discover that {{spoiler|he was working for an [[Monster Clown|evil clown]]}}
** {{spoiler|''[[Wario Land]] 4''}}: Fat man desecrates ancient ruins for money. {{spoiler|A cat turns out to be a princess. An insane "diva" tries to kill them both.}} And there's Mr. Game & Watch involved.
** {{spoiler|''[[Wario World]]''}}: Fat man gets his castle destroyed out of greed. Goes through a lot of crap to get a treasure, only to discover that {{spoiler|it is an evil sentient jewel}}.
** {{spoiler|''[[Wario Land]]: Shake It!''}}: Fat man helps the [[Pirate]] mentioned above shake the crap out of everything so he can beat up different pirate.
* {{spoiler|''[[Warriors Orochi]]''}}: Giant snake man is revived by fox-girl and merges [[Dynasty Warriors|Ancient China]] with [[Samurai Warriors|Warring States period Japan]] to kick their collective butts. Of course, the ones to stop him are what remains of the armies of both periods.
** {{spoiler|''Warriors Orochi 2''}}: Same giant snake man has to be revived by his old and new lackeys. No one is able to stop them but they do get to beat the tar out of his powered up form.
* {{spoiler|''Wetrix''}}: You create pools of water.
* {{spoiler|''[[Where's My Water?]]''}}: An alligator takes a bath.
** {{spoiler|Cranky's Story}}: An alligator hates eating vegetables.
* {{spoiler|''[[The white chamber]]''}}: Regretting your actions gives you a better ending.
* {{spoiler|''[[White Knight Chronicles]]''}}: A boy finds magic armor that lets him transform into a White Knight to fight an Evil Empire who has its own Dark Knight counterpart. You tag along, but only for the sake of going on your own completely unrelated adventures.
** {{spoiler|''[[White Knight Chronicles|White Knight Chronicles II]]''}}: The boy's [[Unlucky Childhood Friend]] gets her own Knight while the boy falls into a coma for half the game. You're still there, but the only person who ever acknowledges your presence is [[Genius Ditz|an annoying]] catgirl.
* {{spoiler|''[[Wii Fit]]''}}: You find yourself in a world where working out is [[Serious Business]]. Your [[Arch Enemy]] is metabolic syndrome. Your sidekicks are a piggy bank, a talking scale, and a fitness trainer who may or may not be [[Uncanny Valley|an android]]. During the course of your adventure, you will avoid panda heads, be turned into a pool ball, and attempt to meditate while an insane sensei screams at you if you don't sit still. It's not a [[Widget Series]].
** {{spoiler|''[[Wii Fit]] Plus''}}: Pursue further physical fitness by leading a marching band, flying in a chicken costume, and/or chasing robot moles on a Segway.
* {{spoiler|''[[Wii Sports]]''}}: Play simplified versions of baseball, golf, bowling, boxing, and tennis by swinging the controller around.
** {{spoiler|''[[Wii Sports Resort]]''}}: Play simplified versions of swordplay, wakeboarding, Frisbee, archery, basketball, table tennis, power cruising, canoeing, cycling, and air sports by swinging the controller around more precisely. The world is more developed and cohesive, and golf and bowling make a return, too.
* {{spoiler|''[[Windom XP]]''}}: [[Humongous Mecha]] that are the "[[Theme Naming|incarnations]]" of Windows OSes blow each other up. Can be a ridiculous [[Massive Multiplayer Crossover]] with the plethora of sound-only user add-ons.
* {{spoiler|''[[Wing Commander (video game)|Wing Commander]]''}}: [[Mark Hamill]] flies a fighter in the Pacific theater of [[World War II]] [[Recycled in Space|IN SPACE]] with 7-foot-tall alien furries standing in for the Japanese. There are a lot of cutscenes.
* {{spoiler|''[[Wipeout]]''}}: You pull the finger to gravity in rocket ships with missiles.
* {{spoiler|''[[The Witcher 2: Assassins of Kings]]: Assassins of Kings''}}: You're an elf who was falsely accused of killing a sovereign. You prove your innocence by killing the responsibles while being given the chance to [[Optional Sexual Encounter|bang girls.]]
* {{spoiler|''[[Within a Deep Forest]]''}}: A ball rebels against its creator.
* {{spoiler|''[[Wolfenstein 3D]]''}}: You have a knife. They are wearing [[Gatling Good|chaingun-equipped]] [[Powered Armor]]. Good luck!
** {{spoiler|''[[Return to Castle Wolfenstein]]''}}: The Nazis invent hand-held miniguns, a lightning gun, cybernetic [[Super Soldier]]s who are [[Immune to Bullets]], and raise an army of zombies commanded by a 20-foot-tall guy with a sword, and [[Status Quo Is God|lose the war anyway.]]
** {{spoiler|''Wolfenstein RPG''}}: Like the previous games, but with turn-based combat and [[Everything's Better with Chickens|chickens]]. Oh, and it's for cell phones.
* {{spoiler|''[[The World Ends With You]]''}}: For dead people, fashion is incredibly [[Serious Business]]. They overcome difficulties and [[The Power of Friendship|learn to love]]. And kill people with Myspace Flare.
** Alternatively: Dead people kill things and eat food in order to dress the most macho of them in the girliest clothing ever.
** Alternatively: Emo dead kid plays [[LARP]]ing game show in order to come back to life.
* {{spoiler|''[[World Heroes]]''}}: Historical figures duke it out against each other, and then a shapeshifting alien.
* {{spoiler|''[[World in Conflict]]''}}: Uh oh, the Cold War didn't end and the Soviets invade. [[America Wins the War|Already sounds propagandic...]]
* {{spoiler|''[[World of Goo]]''}}: Make bridges and towers with gooey balls.
* {{spoiler|''[[Worms]]''}}: Lacking opposable thumbs, invertebrates use heavy artillery to kill each other instead.
* {{spoiler|''[[X-COM]]''}}: Aliens invade Earth. The only way to defeat them is to send [[We Have Reserves|waves of disposable troops]] at them, capture their equipment, and execute a large, helpless brain on another planet.
** {{spoiler|''[[X-COM]]: Terror From the Deep''}}: Aliens invade from twenty thousand leagues under the sea. The only way to defeat them is to throw waves of disposable troops in diving suits at them, steal their equipment, and execute another helpless brain.
*** Alternatively: If you thought the aliens were unfair in the first game, wait until you get a load of this.
** {{spoiler|''[[X-COM]]: Apocalypse''}}: Aliens invade a very large city and try to take over its leaders. The only way to defeat them is to throw waves of disposable troops in absurd-looking suits of armor at them, steal their equipment, and blow up helpless buildings in an alternate dimension.
* {{spoiler|''[[Xenogears]]''}}: You are simultaneously the two-most powerful beings on the planet and the biggest [[Cursed with Awesome|whiner]] in the galaxy.
** Alternatively, Adam's metaphysical soul reincarnates into a schizophrenic teenager. He fights God with kung-fu.
** {{spoiler|''[[Xenosaga]]''}}: You watch the prequel movie. Occasionally, there are interactive parts.
*** {{spoiler|''Xenosaga Episode I''}}: A hot scientist builds a hot robot, Jesus rides a spaceship, and a [[Psychopathic Manchild]] severs his body parts to frighten a little girl.
*** {{spoiler|''Xenosaga Episode II''}}: A little girl's mind becomes an interactive playground, [[The Pope]] tries out his new [[Humongous Mecha]], and a psychotic mass murderer is killed by his brother and ascends to Heaven.
*** {{spoiler|''Xenosaga Episode III''}}: The heroes decide to destroy the universe. This is a good thing.
** ''{{spoiler|[[Xenoblade Chronicles]]}}'': A [[White-Haired Pretty Boy]] saves the world from giant robots using a red plastic lightsaber. The world he's saving also happens to be a giant robot.
* {{spoiler|''[[X-Men Legends]] 2: Rise of Apocalypse''}}: Non-humans battle Egyptian man.
* {{spoiler|''[[X-Men vs. Street Fighter]]''}}: Non-humans battle martial artists in a tag team match.
** {{spoiler|''[[Marvel Super Heroes vs. Street Fighter]]''}}: Non-humans, [[Badass Normal|humans with skill]], humans with super powers, a cyborg, a demon and an [[Marth Debuted in Smash Bros|obscure octopus creature]] battle martial artists and a creepy fanboy in a tag team match.
** {{spoiler|''[[Marvel vs. Capcom Clash of the Superheroes]]''}}: Non-humans, [[Badass Normal|humans with skill]], humans with super powers and a human with power armor battle martial artists, a monster, robots, a mech pilot, an assassin, and another human with power armor in a tag team match. There is occasional outside interference.
** {{spoiler|''[[Marvel vs. Capcom 2]]''}}: The same characters from one side of all the previous games plus more non-humans, another human with power armor, a non-human-hunting robot, and a space alien battle the same characters from the other side of all the previous games plus more martial artists, more monsters, a monster-hunting bounty hunter, more robots, a pirate, a fat walking cactus, a transforming monkey girl, a human with skills and guns and zombies, and a futuristic swordsman in a 3-on-3 tag team match.
** {{spoiler|''[[Marvel vs. Capcom 3]]''}}: Super powered humans, human mercenaries, a tentacle alien, demons, a Norse god, a wolf goddess, a giant head, and a couple of robots team up to stop a platinum blonde Neo and a man in lightning-shooting armor that plan to rule the world and accidentally wake up a giant [[Planet Eater]]. They still fight in 3-on-3 tag team matches.
* {{spoiler|''[[Star Wars: X-Wing]]''}}: Slaughter thousands upon thousands of relatively unarmored people just doin' their jobs in your quest to overthrow a perfectly legal government. [[You Bastard]].
** {{spoiler|''[[TIE Fighter]]''}}: You fly [[We Have Reserves|a foil can armed with laser pointers]] [[Villain Protagonist|against the good guys]].
** {{spoiler|''X-Wing vs. TIE Fighter''}}: You and your friends can pick which side to fight on, all to prolong an ongoing war.
** {{spoiler|''[[Star Wars: X-Wing|X-Wing Alliance]]''}}: Join the guy from the first game because of daddy issues. Continue to be a terrorist.
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