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- #BLUD is Buffy the Vampire Slayer AS A Zelda-like WITH A 90s CARTOON AESTHETIC
- 12 Labours of Hercules 9: A Hero's Moonwalk.
- A.B. Cop is Chase H.Q. ON A HOVER BIKE!
- ABZÛ is Journey (2012) Under the Sea!
- Ace Combat: Assault Horizon is Call of Duty IN THE AIR!
- Action Fighter is Spy Hunter ON A MOTORBIKE!
- Age of Mythology = Age of Empires WITH MYTHOLOGICAL CREATURES!
- Age of Wonders: Planetfall is Age of Wonders IN SPACE!
- Air Zonk is Bonk AS A Shoot 'em Up IN THE FUTURE!
- AkaSeka: Yume100 WITH JAPANESE HISTORICAL FIGURES!
- Alan Wake is Twin Peaks AS AN ACTION HORROR GAME!
- Alternatively, Garth Marenghi's Darkplace Played for Horror!
- Alien Storm is Golden Axe WITH ALIENS!
- Altered Space is Solstice IN SPACE!
- Among Us is Town of Salem (or the original inspiration Werewolf (1997)) IN SPACE!
- Angry Birds is Crush the Castle WITH BIRDS AND PIGS!
- On top of that, there are three Angry Birds sequels which are respectively holiday themes, based on the film RIO, IN SPACE, racing games, and augmented reality!
- Don't forget the DIRECT SEQUEL TO THE FIRST GAME!
- And then there's Angry Birds Star Wars, which is Angry Birds Space WITH A Star Wars THEME!
- As well as Angry Birds Star Wars 2, which is Angry Birds Star Wars but BASED AROUND THE PREQUELS!
- And Angry Birds Transformers, which is Angry Birds DISGUISED AS ROBOTS IN DISGUISE!
- There's also Angry Birds Epic, which is Angry Birds AS A FANTASY-THEMED TURN-BASED RPG!
- And Angry Birds Stella, which is Angry Birds STARRING THE PINK BIRD FROM SEASONS, NOW WITH HER OWN FLOCK!
- On top of that, there are three Angry Birds sequels which are respectively holiday themes, based on the film RIO, IN SPACE, racing games, and augmented reality!
- Another Crab's Treasure is SpongeBob SquarePants AS A Souls-like RPG
- Area 51 is Lethal Enforcers 1 WITH ALIENS!
- ARK: Survival Evolved is Minecraft WITH DINOSAURS and NOT IN CUBE-STYLE!
- ARMS is Real Steel BY NINTENDO!
- Armored Warfare is World of Tanks IN THE PRESENT DAY!
- Assassin's Creed III is Assassin's Creed IN AMERICA!
- Astro Bot is Super Mario Galaxy AS A PLAYSTATION EXCLUSIVE!
- The obscure Japanese Famicom game Astro Fang - Super Machine is Rad Racer IN SPACE!
- Atomfall is Fallout IN RURAL ENGLAND!
- Alternatively it's Fallout: London OUTSIDE LONDON!
- ATOM RPG is Fallout IN THE SOVIET UNION!
- Aviary Attorney is Ace Attorney IN 19th-CENTURY PARIS WITH FUNNY ANIMALS!
- Backyard Football 2006 is Backyard Football... ON AN ISLAND!
- Barkley, Shut Up and Jam: Gaiden is Charles Barkley: Shut Up and Jam AS A JPRG! And sometimes IN SPACE! IN CANON!
- Barnyard Blast is Castlevania ON A FARM!
- BattleTanx is Mad Max WITH TANKS!
- BioShock 1 is System Shock UNDER THE SEA!
- Bloodborne is Dark Souls IN THE VICTORIAN ERA! at first...
- Borderlands: The Pre-Sequel! is Borderlands IN SPACE!
- The overall franchise is basically if G.I. Joe, MadMax, Dungeons & Dragons, and Star Wars had a baby. In other words: Borderlands is G.I. Joe & Mad Max AS A SPACE FANTASY!
- Bramble: The Mountain King is Little Nightmares IN SWEDEN!
- Brawlhalla is Super Smash Bros. IN VALHALLA!
- Brick Rigs is BeamNG WITH LEGOS!
- Brütal Legend is School of Rock AS AN ISEKAI! It helps that both main protagonists are portrayed by the same person.
- Bug Fables is Paper Mario WITH INSECTS!
- Burai Fighter is Contra IN SPACE!
- Cabbage Patch Kids: Adventures In The Park is Smurf: Rescue In Gargamel's Castle WITH CABBAGE PATCH KIDS!
- Ironically, Call of Duty 4 itself was Call of Duty IN Next Sunday A.D.!
- Goes literal in the 2016 Call of Duty installment, Infinite Warfare.
- CarnEvil is Crypt Killer AT THE CARNIVAL WITH CLOWNS!
- Carrier and Cold Fear are Resident Evil AT SEA!
- Cassette Beasts is Pokémon IN The '80s WITH ELDRITCH ABOMINATIONS!
- Clutch (2027) is Forza Horizon IN MONACO! WITH WEAPONS!
- Chopper Command is Defender IN THE MODERN-DAY WORLD!
- Clockmaker
: Candy Crush Saga IN THE VICTORIAN ERA! - Clockwork Revolution is BioShock Infinite WITH TIME TRAVEL RATHER THAN ALTERNATE UNIVERSES!
- Cobra Triangle is fellow Rare game RC Pro-Am WITH BOATS!
- Code Name: Viper is Rolling Thunder (1986) WITH The Cartel IN SOUTH AMERICA!
- The Dolled-Up Installment Contra Force could easily be considered "Contra IN THE PRESENT!" if it weren't for the fact that the localizations of the early games already changed the setting of the series from the future to the present.
- Confidential Mission is Virtua Cop WITH A SPY THEME!
- Or The House of the Dead WITHOUT ZOMBIES!
- Ghost Squad (2004) is Virtua Cop WITH MILITARY!
- Control is Second Sight IN THE LOOP
- Cooking Academy: Cooking Mama ON THE PC!
- Counter-Strike Online is Counter-Strike WITH Fanservice AND MORE GUN PORN!
- Cowboy Kid is Ganbare Goemon 2 IN THE WILD WEST!
- Crimson Sea is Dynasty Warriors AS SPACE ANIME!
- Cruis'n is OutRun WITH OPPONENTS!
- Cyber Shadow is Ninja Gaiden 2D WITH Cyberpunk!
- Dance Central is Just Dance WITH DISCO!
- Darkstalkers is Street Fighter WITH MONSTERS!
- Dark Deception is Pac Man IN HELL!
- Dark Void is Indiana Jones meets The Rocketeer IN A LOST WORLD!
- Day of Defeat is Counter-Strike IN WORLD WAR II!
- Deadpool (2013) is No More Heroes WITH MARVEL CHARACTERS!
- Dead to Rights is Max Payne WITH A DOG!
- Deadly Premonition is Twin Peaks AS AN ADVENTURE GAME!
- Deadly Premonition 2 is True Detective AS A SPOOF COMEDY!
- Deathwish Enforcers is Sunset Riders AS AN 80'S ACTION MOVIE!
- Deep Fear is Resident Evil IN THE OCEAN!
- Deep Rock Galactic is Dwarves IN SPACE!
- Deep Sky Derelicts is Darkest Dungeon IN SPACE!
- Deltarune: Chapter 2 is The LEGO Movie 2: The Second Part WITH INTERNET THEMING!
- Demonophobia is Clock Tower (1995) IN HELL AND WITH GORN!
- Destroy All Humans! 1 is Stubbs the Zombie BUT WITH ALIENS!
- Alternatively, Invader Zim IN THE 50'S!
- Destroy All Humans! (2020) is Destroy All Humans! 1 FOR GEN NINE!
- Destroy All Humans! 2 is Destroy All Humans! 1 IN THE 60'S!
- Destroy All Humans! 2: Reprobed is Invader Zim IF IT WERE A HANNA-BARBERA CARTOON!
- Destroy All Humans! Big Willy Unleashed is Destroy All Humans! 2 WITH DICK JOKES!
- Destroy All Humans! Path of the Furon is Destroy All Humans! 2 IN THE 70'S!
- Dino Crisis is Resident Evil WITH DINOSAURS!
- Or Godzilla (1954) AS A HORROR GAME!
- Dino Crisis 3 is literally Dino Crisis IN SPACE!
- Dino Stalker is Time Crisis WITH DINOSAURS!
- Disney Dreamlight Valley: Animal Crossing WITH DISNEY CHARACTERS!
- Disney Speedstorm is Mario Kart WITH DISNEY CHARACTERS!
- Doom is Wolfenstein IN SPACE! WITH DEMONS!
- Double Dragon Neon is Double Dragon WITH SYNTHWAVE!
- Dragon Quest Builders is Minecraft IN THE WORLD OF Dragon Quest!
- Dungeon Stalker, a homebrew title for the Atari 7800, is the Intellivision game Night Stalker in a fantasy genre setting, combining elements with Wizard of Wor.
- Dynamite Cop is Streets of Rage IN 3D!
- Dynasty Warriors: Gundam is the classic Dynasty Warriors Hack and Slash format, recycled WITH LOADS AND LOADS OF GUNDAM CHARACTERS... AND (Occasionally) IN SPACE!
- Similarly, Samurai Warriors is the Dynasty Warriors format IN SENGOKU ERA JAPAN! WITH ODA NOBUNAGA!
- Both franchises eventually got their own crossover with Warriors Orochi, which is Dynasty Warriors meets Samurai Warriors IN ANOTHER DIMENSION! (They were summoned there by an Orochi that's crossed the Bishounen Line.)
- And now we have Dynasty Warriors IN A POST-APOCALYPTIC MARTIAL ARTS SETTING! (Hokuto Musou.)
- But wait, there's more...Hyrule Warriors is, as one would probably expect, Dynasty Warriors IN HYRULE!
- Elite Beat Agents is Osu! Tatakae! Ouendan WITH FUNNY-HAIRED DANCING MEN IN BLACK!
- Empire of Sin is Lackadaisy WITH HUMANS!
- Enchanted Portals is Cuphead WITH WIZARDS INSTEAD OF BEVERAGE CONTAINERS.
- Enduro Racer is Hang-On ON A DIRT BIKE!
- ClockUp's Ero Manga! H mo Manga mo Step-up ♪ is ClockUp Team Anise's Eroge! Sex and Games Make Sexy Games CREATING ADULT MANGA!
- "Esoteric Ebb" is Disco Elysium in a Standard Fantasy Setting.
- "The Eternal Life of Goldman" is DuckTales (Capcom) STARRING A JEWISH MAN!
- On the surface, ClockUp's Euphoria is Saw WITH PORN AND LESS GORN!
- The Evil Within is Inception WITH GORN!
- Exed Exes is Xevious WITH INSECTOID ALIENS!
- Fallout: New Vegas is Fallout 3 IN VEGAS!
- Far Cry 3: Blood Dragon is Far Cry 3 IN A Cyberpunk ALTERNATE HISTORY!
- Far Cry Primal is Far Cry 4 IN PREHISTORIA!
- Far Cry 5 has with its DLC:
- The unreleased Genki-developed The Fast and the Furious tie-in game could have been Midnight Club AS A LICENSED GAME!
- Capcom loves doing this for Final Fight
- Captain Commando — IN THE FUTURE!
- Knights of the Round — IN MEDIEVAL EUROPE!
- Warriors of Fate — IN IMPERIAL CHINA!
- Cadillacs and Dinosaurs — WITH DINOSAURS!
- The Punisher (Capcom) — IN THE MARVEL UNIVERSE!
- Alien vs. Predator (Capcom) — WITH XENOMORPHS!
- Armored Warriors — WITH MECHA!
- Final Fight Revenge: Final Fight AS A FIGHTING GAME!
- Final Zone II is Last Alert IN THE FUTURE!
- Flash of the Blade is Time Crisis IN THE FEUDAL JAPAN!
- Forsaken is Descent ON POST-APOCALYPTIC EARTH WITH HOVER BIKES!
- Fortnite is The Ultimate Showdown of Ultimate Destiny AS A THIRD-PERSON SHOOTER!
- The Forza (Motorsport and Horizon) series is Gran Turismo FOR THE XBOX!
- Freedom Planet is Sonic the Hedgehog IN EAST ASIA! IN SPACE!
- Front Mission is Final Fantasy Tactics WITH GIANT ROBOTS, set 20 Minutes into the Future!
- Battlefield 2142 is Battlefield 20 Minutes into the Future!
- 3D Pinball for Windows is pinball IN SPACE!... for WINDOWS XP!... or 2000, ME, 98, 95, NT, Vista and 7!
- Galactic Civilizations is also Civilization IN SPACE (literally)!
- Gamedec is Disco Elysium IN THE MATRIX!
- The Ganbare Goemon games stars the Japanese folk hero Ishikawa Goemon IN A SCHIZO TECH EDO! Ishikawa Goemon, in turn, is ROBIN HOOD IN FEUDAL JAPAN! All oddness and cultural differences aside, they're actually pretty good. Or altenatively, is Samurai Pizza Cats WITH HUMANS (AND A COUPLE OF ROBOTS)!
- Garfield Kart is Mario Kart WITH GARFIELD CHARACTERS!
- Garry's Mod is Half-Life 2 AS A SANDBOX GAME!
- Ghost of Yōtei is Lady Snowblood THE VIDEO GAME!
- Ghost Runner is Mirror's Edge AS A POST-APOCALYPTIC McNinja!
- Glypha is Joust IN EGYPT!
- Grandia Xtreme is Grandia WITH MARK HAMILL! (and XTREME!)
- Guitar Hero is Samba de Amigo WITH ROCK MUSIC!
- Gunfighter: The Legend of Jesse James is Time Crisis IN THE WILD WEST!
- Gun.Smoke is Commando (Capcom) IN THE WILD WEST!
- A Hat in Time is The Legend of Zelda: The Wind Waker AS A COLLECT-A-THON PLATFORMER!
- Haven (2020) is Romeo and Juliet AS A JRPG IN SPACE!
- Hearts of Iron is Europa Universalis IN WORLD WAR II!
- Extremis Ultimis is Hearts of Iron IN A CRAPSACK-IER ALTERNATE PRESENT!
- Hollow Knight is Dark Souls AS A 2D METROIDVANIA WITH BUG PEOPLE!
- Alternatively, A Bug's Life AS A SOULSBORNE!
- HoloCure is Vampire Survivors WITH hololive TALENTS!
- Hydro Thunder is Daytona USA IN THE WATER!
- Offroad Thunder is Sega Rally WITH OFFROAD VEHICLES!
- Arctic Thunder is Motor Raid WITH SNOWMOBILES!
- HyperRogue is Rogue WITH ALIEN GEOMETRIES!
- Identity V is Dead by Daylight ON MOBILE!
- If on a Winter's Night, Four Travelers is The Last Door ON A TRAIN!
- Immortals of Aveum: What if Call of Duty, but with elite wizards instead of elite soldiers?
- Inca boils down to a battle between the Incas and Conquistadors IN SPACE!
- inFAMOUS 2 is inFAMOUS IN THE BIG EASY!
- inFAMOUS: Second Son is inFAMOUS 2 IN SEATTLE!
- Infinite Space, according to some, is Skies of Arcadia IN SPACE!
- Into the Eagle's Nest is Gauntlet WITH NAZIS!
- Intrusion 2 is Contra...WITH A PHYSICS ENGINE CODED IN FLASH!
- Invasion: The Abductors is Gunblade N.Y./L.A. Machineguns WITH ALIENS!
- Island Saver is Slime Rancher AS AN EDUTAINMENT GAME!
- I Was a Teenage Exocolonist is Princess Maker and Groundhog Day In Space!
- Jak II: Renegade is Jak and Daxter: The Precursor Legacy IN THE GRIM DARKNESS OF THE FAR FUTURE! AND WITH A Superpowered Evil Side!
- Jazzpunk is Gravity Bone...PLAYED FOR LAUGHS!
- The unreleased Jet Moto 2124 would have been Jet Moto ALL OVER THE SOLAR SYSTEM!
- Jetpack (1993) is Lode Runner WITH A JETPACK!
- Johnny Nero Action Hero is Time Crisis IN A COMIC BOOK SETTING IN SPACE SPACE WITH EVIL ALIEN EMPIRE, EGYPT WITH CURSED MUMMIES, AND THE WILD WEST WITH ZOMBIE/GHOST COWBOYS AND INDIANS PLUS GUNS AKIMBO FEATURE!
- Just Dance is Samba de Amigo BY UBISOFT!
- Kato-Chan & Ken-Chan is Adventure Island WITH JAPANESE COMEDIANS AND TOILET HUMOR!
- Keith Courage in Alpha Zones is He-Man and the Masters of the Universe (1983) BUT EVEN MORE SCI-FI!
- Kenseiden is Castlevania IN FEUDAL JAPAN!
- Knights of the Old Republic was Neverwinter Nights AN EVEN LONGER TIME AGO IN A GALAXY FAR FAR AWAY!
- Mass Effect has also been described as simply "KotOR IN SPACE!", which is stupidly funny. On a slightly more serious note, Mass Effect is often described as Knights of the Old Republic WITHOUT JEDI AND LIGHTSABERS!
- And Knights of the Old Republic II: The Sith Lords is sometimes referred to as Planescape: Torment IN A GALAXY FAR FAR AWAY!
- Jade Empire is Knights of the Old Republic IN IMPERIAL CHINA! The story borrow lots of elements from Hordes of The Underdark, an Expansion Pack of Neverwinter Nights.
- Just Shapes & Beats is Fantasia BUT WITH CHIPTUNE AND EDM!
- Downtown Special: Kunio-kun no Jidaigeki Dayo Zenin Shuugou! is River City Ransom IN FEUDAL JAPAN!
- L.A. Noire is True Crime: Streets of L.A. IN THE '40s!
- True Crime: Streets of L.A. is Grand Theft Auto AS A COP!
- And Sleeping Dogs (2012) is True Crime: HONG KONG! Literally, in fact; it was originally slated to be released as True Crime: Streets of Hong Kong before True Crime: New York City turned out to be a Franchise Killer of a flop.
- The Last Blade is basically Samurai Shodown, ONLY DIFFERENT.
- The eighth game by Al Lowe in the Leisure Suit Larry series would have been subtitled Leisure Suit Larry 8: Lust in Space, but it never came to be.
- Lenna's Inception is A Link to the Past BUT Darker and Edgier! WITH ELDRITCH ABOMINATIONS!
- Lethal Enforcers 1 is Dirty Harry AS A LIGHT GUN GAME!
- Lethal Enforcers II: Gun Fighters is Lethal Enforcers 1 IN THE WILD WEST!
- Police 911 Is Lethal Enforcers AS A TIME CRISIS GAME IN JAPAN!
- Lethal League is Jet Grind Radio AS A BASEBALL/DODGEBALL GAME!
- Inverted with Life Force / Salamander, which is Gradius IN ONE BIG WOMB LEVEL!
- Gradius is Scramble IN SPACE! WITH FRICKIN LASER BEAMS!
- Life is Strange is Twin Peaks AS A YA NOVEL FOR TWEENS!
- Little Nightmares is Spirited Away AS A HORROR-STEALTH GAME!
- Little Nightmares II is Little Nightmares IN THE BIG CITY!
- Alternatively, INSIDE (2016) IF HAUNTED BY SADAKO!
- Little Nightmares III is Little Nightmares II IN THE APUNKALYPSE!
- Alternatively, 9 IN THE OTHER WORLD!
- Lords of the Rising Sun is Defender of the Crown IN JAPAN!
- Lost In Play is Gravity Falls AS AN INDIE GAME FROM ISRAEL WITH GIBBERISH TONE!
- Alternatively, Over the Garden Wall AS AN INDIE GAME FROM ISRAEL WITH A BROTHER-SISTER DUO INSTEAD OF TWO BROTHERS!
- Or Hilda AS AN INDIE GAME FROM ISRAEL WITH A BROTHER-SISTER DUO!
- Luigi's Mansion 3 is Luigi's Mansion IN A HOTEL!
- MadWorld is Sin City AS A Hack and Slash BEAT-EM-UP GAME ON THE WII!
- Mafia II is Grand Theft Auto IV IN THE 50'S!
- ClockUp's Maggot Baits is Puella Magi Madoka Magica WITH GURO AND PORN!
- Magician's Quest: Mysterious Times is Animal Crossing AT WIZARDING SCHOOL!
- Maldita Castilla is Ghosts 'n Goblins IN MEDIEVAL SPAIN!
- (Mario) The Music Box is Luigi's Mansion (Series) BUT MORE SERIOUS!
- Marlow Briggs and the Mask of Death is God of War IN THE MODERN DAY! WITH A MAYINCATEC SETTING!
- Master Detective Archives: Rain Code is Danganronpa BUT Cyberpunk with a Chance of Rain AND WITH A CAST OF ACTUAL DETECTIVES!
- Alternatively, it's My Hero Academia IF IT WERE A DETECTIVE DRAMA!
- Medieval Engineers is Space Engineers IN THE MEDIEVAL PERIOD!
- Mega Man Star Force is Mega Man Battle Network IN SPACE!
- Mega Man Battle Network is Mega Man IN CYBERSPACE!
- Men of Valor is Medal of Honor: Allied Assault IN VIETNAM!
- Metal: Hellsinger is Crypt of the NecroDancer AS A FIRST-PERSON SHOOTER! IN HELL!
- Mole Zhuangyuan is Club Penguin WITH MOLES!
- MIA: Missing in Action is Rush'n Attack IN VIETNAM!
- And Trojan is Rush'n Attack IN THE POST-APOCALYPTIC FUTURE!
- Mon Bazou is My Summer Car IN QUÉBEC!
- Monster Hunter is Dino Crisis AS AN RPG!
- Monster Musume TD is Sennen Sensou Aigis IN AN ISLAND WITH CUTE MONSTER GIRLS!
- Monster World IV is Wonder Boy in Monster World with an Action Girl hero IN ANCIENT ARABIA!
- Moonlight Peaks is Story of Seasons WITH VAMPIRES!
- Mortal Kombat is Street Fighter II BUT Bloodier and Gorier!
- On the subject of Mortal Kombat, we have:
- Time Killers is Mortal Kombat AS TIME TRAVELLERS AND WITH WEAPONS!
- Primal Rage is Mortal Kombat WITH DINOSAURS AND GIANT GORILLAS!
- BloodStorm is Time Killers IN A POST-APOCALYPTIC SETTING!
- War Gods is a 3D version of Mortal Kombat 3 WITH 3D MOVEMENT!
- Mace: The Dark Age is Soul Edge BUT Darker and Edgier!
- Bio F.R.E.A.K.S. is Time Killers and Blood Storm WITH GUNS AND IN THE NEAR FUTURE!
- Injustice: Gods Among Us is Mortal Kombat WITH DC COMICS CHARACTERS! Made by the same studio as MK to boot BUT LESS VIOLENT.
- Mutant: Year Zero is XCOM 2 WITH MUTANTS. The game's page on the PlayStation store describes it as having "a deep, turn-based, tactical combat system inspired by the XCOM games."
- Mystic Warriors is Sunset Riders WITH NINJAS!
- My Singing Monsters is Pokémon AS A MUSICAL! WITHOUT HUMANS! AND NO VIOLENCE!
- Namu Amida Butsu! -UTENA-: Bungo to Alchemist WITH BUDDHIST DEITIES!
- NeonXSZ can either be described as Descent...IN CYBERSPACE!, or Retrovirus...WITH RPG ELEMENTS, LOOTING AND FACTION ALIGNMENTS!
- Neptunia is Console Wars FOR CONSOLES!
- or Chowder WITH VIDEO GAMES INSTEAD OF FOOD!
- Neva is GRIS IF THE MAIN CHARACTER GOT A PET AND TOOK A LEVEL IN BADASS.
- Nightshade (2003) is Shinobi (2002) WITH A FEMALE PROTAGONIST!
- No Man's Sky is Minecraft IN SPACE!
- Alternatively, it's Starbound IN 3D!
- It can also be described as FTL: Faster Than Light IN 3D!
- No Straight Roads is Trolls World Tour STARRING THE ROCKSTAR VILLAIN!
- North and South is Defender of the Crown IN AMERICA!
- Nostalgia (Red Entertainment) is Skies of Arcadia IN THE 19TH CENTURY!
- Oddworld is The Lorax BUT DARKER!
- OMORI is EarthBound (1994) meets Yume Nikki WITH MORE PSYCHOLOGICAL HORROR!
- Onimusha is Resident Evil IN THE Jidaigeki!
- Orcs Must Die! is Deception WITH ORCS AND A GOOFY MAIN CHARACTER!
- Order Up! is Cooking Mama IN A FAST FOOD RESTAURANT!
- Organ Trail is The Oregon Trail IN A ZOMBIE APOCALYPSE!
- Otomedius is Gradius IN THE WORLD OF ACTION GIRLS!
- The Outer Worlds is Fallout: New Vegas IN SPACE!
- Palworld is Pokémon WITH SWEATSHOPS AND GUNS!
- Or Red Dead Redemption 2 AS A DOUJIN SOFT!
- Papa Louie Arcade is Order Up! ON A COMPUTER!
- Averted with their app games. For example, every app game in this series has added at least one new ingredient from the original computer game it was based on.
- Pastel Memories: Bungo to Alchemist WITH MODERN ANIME AND MANGA CULTURE!
- Penguin Land's Japanese title is Doki Doki Penguin Land: Uchuu Daibouken, which means "Doki Doki Penguin Land: Outer Space Adventure." That's right: the game is literally Doki Doki Penguin Land IN SPACE!
- Perfect Dark is GoldenEye (1997) IN THE FUTURE!
- Phantasy Star is Dragon Quest and Final Fantasy IN SPACE
- Phantom Doctrine is XCOM 2 WITH SPIES!
- Pixie Hollow Online: Club Penguin IN THE DISNEY FAIRIES UNIVERSE!
- Pokémon Pokopia is Dragon Quest Builders WITH Pokémon!
- Poppy Playtime is Bendy and the Ink Machine IN A TOY FACTORY!
- Port Royale is The Patrician IN THE CARIBBEAN!
- Power Punch II is Punch-Out!! IN SPACE!
- Psychonauts is Mother FOR HIPPIES!
- Psychonauts 2 is Psychonauts IN THERAPY!
- Psychonauts in the Rhombus of Ruin is Psychonauts AS A JAMES BOND PARODY!
- Puzzle Quest: Galactrix. It's Puzzle Quest... IN SPACE!
- Quantum Break is Fringe ON A TIME LOOP!
- Ratchet: Deadlocked is The Running Man (1987) IN SPACE!
- Reanimal is Little Nightmares with ANIMAL ABOMINATIONS
- Red Dead Redemption is, in spite of being a "sequel" to a Western-themed level-based third-person shooter, Grand Theft Auto IV IN THE WILD WEST!
- Alternatively, Grand Theft HORSE IV.
- Its prequel, Red Dead Revolver, is Max Payne IN THE WILD WEST!
- Rhythm Thief & the Emperor's Treasure is either:
- Rhythm Heaven IN PARIS! or
- Professor Layton AS A RHYTHM GAME!
- RimWorld is, by its creators' own admission, Dwarf Fortress ON AN ALIEN PLANET IN A SPACE WESTERN SETTING!
- Risen 2: Dark Waters is Risen...WITH PIRATES IN THE CARIBBEAN, MON!
- Roots of Pacha is Stardew Valley IN THE STONE AGE!
- Rune Factory is Story of Seasons WITH COMBAT!
- Sakura Wars is Shin Megami Tensei AS A DATING SIM AND SUPER ROBOT GENRE IN Steampunk!
- Samba de Amigo is Rocko's Modern Life WITH THE MEXICAN MONKEY!
- San Francisco Rush is Ridge Racer WITH CRAZY STUNTS!
- Second Life is The Sims AS A MMORPG! AND NSFW!
- Shadow Of Mordor is Batman playing Assassin's Creed IN MIDDLE EARTH!
- Shadow Tactics: Blades of the Shogun is Commandos IN EDO PERIOD JAPAN!
- Shin Megami Tensei: Strange Journey is Shin Megami Tensei IN ANTARCTICA. IN HELL. IN SPACE!
- Shinobi itself is Rolling Thunder WITH NINJAS!
- Shui Hu Feng Yun Zhuan (Water Margin) is Golden Axe IN IMPERIAL CHINA!!
- SimEarth is SimCity ON A PLANET AND WITHOUT HUMANS!
- The Simpsons: Road Rage is Crazy Taxi WITH SIMPSONS CHARACTERS!
- The Simpsons Hit & Run is Grand Theft Auto IN THE SIMPSONS UNIVERSE!
- Shutokou Battlenote is Ridge Racer IN TOKYO!
- Sid Meier's Alpha Centauri is more of an aversion (and even an inversion), since, while sharing the basic mechanics of Meier's previous Civilization series, the game introduces a lot of new concepts that simply weren't present in the previous two instalments of the Civilization series, but were included in later versions - borders and advanced social policies just to mention two. The fact that the game spends more time on another planet than in space adds to this.
- From a story standpoint, it makes sense, since game lore hints that the rocket launch victory in Civilization ends up being the UNS Unity, the colony ship from Sid Meier's Alpha Centauri.
- Singularity is BioShock IN SOVIET RUSSIA, WITH TIME TRAVEL!
- SINoALICE is revealed by the ending for its Taiwanese and Global servers to be OMORI WITH FAIRY TALE CHARACTERS!
- SkateBIRD is Tony Hawk's Pro Skater WITH A BIRD!
- Snow Bros. is Bubble Bobble WITH SNOWMEN! (One Korean bootleg of Snow Bros. was titled The Winter Bobble.)
- Sonic the Hedgehog:
- Sonic and the Secret Rings is Sonic Adventure IN ARABIA!
- Likewise, Sonic and the Black Knight is Sonic and the Secret Rings IN MEDIEVAL TIMES! AND WITH SWORDFIGHTING!
- Both Sonic and the Black Knight and Sonic and the Secret Rings were originally planned to be part of a Storybook Series with more Sonic games following this pattern, but sales of these two games were lackluster, making a third Storybook game unlikely.
- Both Sonic Adventure games parody this trope with posters for movies called Chao in Space and Chao in Space 2. Sonic the Hedgehog (2006) (Xbox 360/PS3) later continues this with Chao in Space 3. Chao in Space became an actual animated short in December 2019.
- Sonic Shuffle is Mario Party WITH CARDS!
- Look at the architecture for the Death Egg in Sonic the Hedgehog 2. It is quite literally Chemical Plant IN SPACE!
- Sonic Colors is Sonic Unleashed (minus the Werehog) and Sonic Rush IN SPACE (FOR THE WII AND DS, RESPECTIVELY)! It works out pretty well, though.
- Sonic Generations seems to be going the route of Sonic Unleashed and Sonic Rush, but IN OLD SONIC LEVELS (FOR THE PS3 / 360 AND 3DS RESPECTIVELY) PLUS SOME CLASSIC-STYLE PLATFORMING FOR BOTH VERSIONS!
- The current formula for Sonic levels introduced with Sonic Unleashed Day levels is arguably Sonic Rush IN 3Dnote !
- Sonic & Sega All-Stars Racing is Mario Kart WITH SEGA CHARACTERS!
- South Park: The Stick of Truth is Paper Mario...IN THE South Park UNIVERSE!
- South Park: The Fractured but Whole is South Park: The Stick of Truth WITH SUPERHEROES!
- Space Ace is Dragon's Lair IN SPACE!
- Space Quest is the snarkier, slightly raunchier, and somewhat Darker and Edgier little brother of King's Quest.
- Space Siege is Dungeon Siege IN SPACE WITH CYBERNETICS!
- Spidersaurs is Contra AS A Saturday-Morning Cartoon!
- Starbound is Terraria IN SPACE! and shares some of the same staff, though Starbound has a much larger team than its predecessor.
- Stirring Abyss is X-COM: Terror from the Deep AS A STRAIGHT COSMIC HORROR STORY
- Terraria is Minecraft IN 2D!
- Minecraft is Dwarf Fortress IN 3D!
- Star Craft is "not Warcraft IN SPACE! It's much more sophisticated!" However, many elements introduced in Starcraft were reused in Warcraft 3, along with further refinements — such as the Undead, who are essentially the Zerg NOT IN SPACE!
- Stardew Valley is Story of Seasons BUT MORE BISEXUAL!
- Star Fox Adventures became The Legend of Zelda IN SPACE! (it even had a similar you-just-solved-a-puzzle music) when Nintendo replaced the setting with Star Fox characters and also made it a game that didn't please the fans of the series at all. Before that, it was more like Zelda WITH FURRIES!, something Rare has done quite a few times with more success (Mario 64-> Banjo-Kazooie, Mario Kart -> Diddy Kong Racing, not to mention the older Donkey Kong Country games).
- Star General is Panzer General IN SPACE!
- Starhawk is Warhawk IN SPACE!
- Starship Titanic is Titanic IN SPACE!
- Star Wars: Galactic Battlegrounds is Age of Empires A LONG TIME AGO IN A GALAXY FAR, FAR AWAY!
- Stellar Blade is NieR: Automata WITH JIGGLE PHYSICS!
- Steven Universe: Save the Light is Paper Mario WITH STEVEN UNIVERSE CHARACTERS!
- Streets of Rage is Golden Axe IN THE CITY!
- Subnautica is Minecraft Under the Sea!
- Sunset Overdrive is inFAMOUS: Second Son FOR HIPSTERS!
- Suicide Squad: Kill the Justice League is Saints Row IV in the Arkhamverse.
- Alternatively, Marvel's Avengers but for DC Comics, make of that how you will.
- Super Cobra is Scramble WITH A HELICOPTER!
- Super Mario Galaxy is Super Mario 64 IN SPACE, AND IN LINEAR LEVELS! Although it works out pretty well.
- On a similar note, Super Mario Sunshine is Super Mario 64 ON A TROPICAL ISLAND!
- Super Mario 3D Land is Super Mario Galaxy ON THE GROUND!
- Super Mario 3D World is Super Mario 3D Land IN ANOTHER KINGDOM!
- Super Mario Party Jamboree is Bluey The Videogame WITH PARTY GAMES!
- System Shock is Ultima Underworld IN SPACE!
- The Tale of Food: Touken Ranbu WITH CHINESE FOOD!
- Tales of Berseria is inFAMOUS: Second Son WITH MORE PRONOUNCED GREY-AND-GRAY MORALITY ON BOTH SIDES OF THE CONFLICT!
- Target: Terror is Maximum Force BUT Bloodier and Gorier WITH CHEAP FMV!
- Tasty Planet:
- Tasty Planet is Katamari Damacy WITH GREY GOO!
- Tasty Planet: Back for Seconds is Tasty Planet WITH TIME TRAVEL!
- Telefang is Pokémon WITH CELL PHONES!
- Tetris: The Grand Master 3 is Tetris: The Grand Master IN SPACE!
- That's Not My Neighbor is Papers, Please BUT HORROR
- Thundercade is Jackal WITH A MOTORCYCLE!!
- Time Crisis is Rolling Thunder AS A 3D LIGHT GUN GAME!
- Titanfall is Call of Duty meets Brink! WITH HUMONGOUS MECHAS!
- Titan Quest is Diablo...AS DIRECTED BY RAY HARRYHAUSEN!
- TNK III and its NES adaptation Iron Tank are Jackal WITH A TANK!!!
- Toca Life, especially Toca Life World, is Gacha Life FOR YOUNG CHILDREN!
- Toontown Online is Hikonin Sentai Akibaranger WITH TOONS!
- Total Carnage is Smash TV DURING THE GULF WAR!
- Each Total War games realeased after 2001 is Shogun: Total War IN WESTERN MEDIEVAL! IN ANCIENT ROMAN ERA! IN INDUSTRIAL REVOLUTION PERIOD!
- Well, except for Total War: Shogun 2 obviously.
- Tourist Trophy is Gran Turismo ON MOTORBIKES!
- Trials of the Blood Dragon is Trials IN THE FAR CRY 3: BLOOD DRAGON VERSE!
- Truxton is Sky Shark IN SPACE!
- Tunic is The Legend of Zelda WITH FUNNY ANIMALS!
- Twisted-Wonderland: Disney Villains IN HOGWARTS!
- Ty the Tasmanian Tiger is Spyro the Dragon WITH BOOMERANGS!
- Vampire Night is The House of the Dead WITH VAMPIRES AND TIME TRAVEL!
- Vanquish is Gears of War IN SPACE! WITH Mecha-Mooks!
- Victory Road, the sequel to Ikari Warriors, is Ikari Warriors IN SPACE!
- Vindicators is Gauntlet WITH TANKS!
- Viper Phase 1 is Raiden IN SPACE!
- Where in Space Is Carmen Sandiego? is, obviously, a Carmen Sandiego game IN SPACE! Or more precisely, IN OUR SOLAR SYSTEM!
- White Shadows is Animal Farm IN METROPOLIS!
- Alternatively, INSIDE WITH FUNNY ANIMALS!
- Wild Bastards is Void Bastards AS A SPACE WESTERN!
- Wing Commander is WW2 Pacific theater IN SPACE!
- Worms: A Space Oddity is Worms IN SPACE! ON THE WII!
- Worms is Tank Wars/Scorched Earth WITH CARTOON WORMS!
- Wurm Online is Dwarf Fortress THE MMORPG!
- Wonder Project J is The Adventures of Pinocchio WITH ANDROIDS!
- World of Warcraft has the Burning Legion. The Legions of Hell, FROM SPACE!
- Xenoblade Chronicles 3 is Amphibia WITH HUMANS AND A NEVER-ENDING WAR!
- X-COM: Terror from the Deep is a sequel that is the first game UNDERWATER!! And EVEN HARDER!
- Zaxxon and Congo Bongo are Scramble and Donkey Kong IN ISOMETRIC PROJECTION!
- Zing Zing Zip is 1941: Counter Attack MAKING FUN OF THEMSELVES!
- Zombies Ate My Neighbors is Alien Syndrome WITH THE AESTHETICS OF A B-Movie!
- Zombie Revenge is Streets of Rage or Dynamite Cop IN A ZOMBIE APOCALYPSE!
- 1941: Counter Attack is 1943 IN EUROPE! WITH PLAYERS CRUSHING THOSE WACKY NAZIS!
- 19XX: The War Against Destiny is 1941 ALL OVER THE WORLD! And the Final Boss is IN SPACE!
- 2020 Super Baseball is Baseball Stars IN THE FUTURE!
- By the makers own admission, 7 Days A Skeptic is 5 Days A Stranger IN SPACE!
Characters
- Alan Wake: Alan Wake is Garth Marenghi AS A HORROR PROTAGONIST!
- CrossCode: Sergey Asimov is Jérémie Belpois AS AN ADULT!
- Dark Souls III: Aldrich, Devourer of Gods is The Slug Count AS THE GOD-EMPEROR OF A CULT!
- Deadly Premonition:
- Francis York Morgan is Dale Cooper WITH D.I.D.!
- George Woodman is Leland Palmer AS A COP!
- Dota 2: Invoker is Howl Pendragon BUT AS DOTA 2 CHARACTER WITH MONOCRHOMATIC EYES!
- Sly Cooper and the Thievius Raccoonus: Sir Raleigh is Mr. Toad AS A VILLAIN!
Hardware
- LeapFrog's Leapster is the Game Boy Advance FOR KIDS!
- The Dreamcast is the PlayStation WITH BEEFIER HARDWARE AND ONLINE SUPPORT, AND BY SEGA!
- The Nintendo DS is the Nintendo 64 IN HANDHELD FORM AND WITH DUAL SCREENS! Oh, and WITH A TOUCHSCREEN!
- The Nintendo 3DS is the Nintendo DS WITH BETTER GRAPHICS AND 3D EFFECTS, AND WITH AN ANALOG CIRCLE PAD!
- Or the Wii IN HANDHELD FORM, WITH DUAL SCREENS AND A TOUCHSCREEN INSTEAD OF MOTION CONTROLS, note AND WITH 3D EFFECTS!
- The Nintendo 2DS is the Nintendo 3DS MINUS 3D EFFECTS AND WITHOUT ANY HINGES!
- The New Nintendo 3DS is the Nintendo 3DS WITH AN UPGRADED CPU, INTEGRATED AMIIBO FUNCTIONALITY, AND A SECOND ANALOG STICK!
- The Nintendo Switch is the Wii U AS A HANDHELD/HOME CONSOLE HYBRID! AND WITH DETACHABLE CONTROLLERS!
- Or the Steam Deck WITH DETACHABLE CONTROLLERS AND MADE BY NINTENDO!
- The Nintendo Switch 2 is the Nintendo Switch WITH BEEFIER HARDWARE, BETTER GRAPHICS, HARDWARE RAY TRACING, HARDWARE ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE, MAGNETIC JOY-CONS, VOICE CHAT AND MOUSE CONTROLS!
- The Wii is the Nintendo GameCube WITH MOTION CONTROLLERS!
- The Wii U is the Wii... IN HD! And also WITH A TABLET-LIKE CONTROLLER, BETTER GRAPHICS, DUAL SCREENS AND TOUCHSCREEN CONTROLS!
- Or the Nintendo 3DS AS A HOME CONSOLE AND IN HD, MINUS 3D EFFECTS!
- PlayStation Portable is PlayStation 2 BUT HANDHELD!
- PlayStation Vita is PlayStation 3 BUT HANDHELD AND WITH OLED TECH!
- Or the Wii U AS A SONY HANDHELD and WITH AN OLED SCREEN AND A REAR TOUCHPAD!
- The Xbox is the PlayStation 2 WITH BEEFIER HARDWARE, A BUILT-IN HARD DRIVE, SLIGHTLY BETTER GRAPHICS, A BIGGER FOCUS ON ONLINE GAMING, AND MADE BY MICROSOFT!