r/ExplainAGamePlotBadly • • Jul 08 '26

Top-Tier Badly Explained Game This game's unique story is FULLY tailored to everyone who plays it. And the biggest twist in the story is that the game wants you to stop playing it!

197 Upvotes

This is gonna be a super weird, deep cut.

It can't be Stanley guys, he's banned!

Hint #1: I hope nobody has had to play this game

Hint #1.5: and if you are playing this game, you're heading in the right direction (or you're just curious, lol)

Hint #2: if I had to give this a genre, I would call it educational

Double Guess No's: it is not a Daniel Mullins game or There is No Game

Hint #3: there's a good chance you've never heard of this game.

Hint #3.5: but playing video games is way better than ending up with THIS game lol

Hint #4: this game was on a handheld console

Hint #5: Dark Souls and the like are hard as hell, but this game may be the hardest game that some may ever play

Addendum: you've all made my day, thank you


r/ExplainAGamePlotBadly • • Sep 22 '22

Announcement Banned Games List

264 Upvotes

Similarly to r/ExplainAFilmPlotBadly , we're implementing a list of banned games. There's been a lot of games, while still being good posts, that have been posted so often. This causes a lot of active members here to deal with the tediousness of a game being brought up way too often. I definitely missed some, so if you have any suggestions on what to add, please leave a comment.

You are allowed to describe game mechanics as well as the plot. There's more to a game than just the plot, so if you have a creative bad description that describes how the game plays, go for it!

Low Effort Posts will be removed at moderators discretion. Too many, Too Frequently will result in a ban.

Note: Please search for your game before posting, if it's posted too frequently, it will be added to the list. Please keep in mind that any games newer than 3 months old will also not be allowed, to prevent spoilers.

Banned Games List:

  • Among Us

  • Binding of Isaac

  • Bloons TD

  • Call of Duty 2: Big Red One

  • Cuphead

  • CP2077

  • Danganronpa

  • Deltarune

  • Doki Doki Literate Club

  • Fallout NV

  • FNAF

  • Fortnite

  • Geometry Dash

  • GTA V

  • Hollow Knight series

  • Minecraft

  • OMORI

  • Persona Social Link Trilogy

  • Plants Vs Zombies

  • Pokémon Main Series (spinoffs are allowed)

  • Skyrim

  • Stanley Parable

  • Undertale


r/ExplainAGamePlotBadly • • 4h ago

Solved! Look down. Fall down. Cat meow. Back to ground.

11 Upvotes

hintspace

had the world record for this game! For a week. Just spend two weeks of doing the same ten minutes over and over and you too can maybe do it in less than that!

Had a spiritual sequel in a compilation game.


r/ExplainAGamePlotBadly • • 5h ago

Solved! Criminals masquerade as animal rights activists to commit various violent crimes in Totally Not America. You have to stop them before they commit more crimes/take over the world/destroy the world/kill you, specifically, for fucking everything up for them.

8 Upvotes

r/ExplainAGamePlotBadly • • 7h ago

Unsolved A bunch of nerds fuck up the local real-estate, so you bathe with skeletons after beating up a handicapped person.

5 Upvotes

r/ExplainAGamePlotBadly • • 4h ago

Unsolved A society comes apart rather abruptly because the proverbial child of Omelas turns out to be computer literate.

3 Upvotes

Hints here if I add them.


r/ExplainAGamePlotBadly • • 5h ago

Unsolved One, two, or possibly three girls squabble over one, two, or possibly three cute boys.

3 Upvotes

Hint 1: One of the girls gets really hot up about everything.

Hint 2: One of the boys is willing to hang around for a long time while you figure out what to do next.

Hint 3: At least one of the girls has a face off, whatever ending you are going for.

Hint 4: One of the boys is an affair baby, but that won't get his family off his back about getting married.


r/ExplainAGamePlotBadly • • 11h ago

Solved! Using the power of the atomic bomb, you'll get the girl. Even if you become a monster in doing so.

7 Upvotes

r/ExplainAGamePlotBadly • • 11h ago

Solved! Man destroys the sun by throwing a live animal at it

6 Upvotes

r/ExplainAGamePlotBadly • • 10h ago

Solved! A child from an extinct species convinces you to spend all your hard earned money improving your town and dating the local daughters

3 Upvotes

r/ExplainAGamePlotBadly • • 4h ago

Solved! Explode everything red and send people to the afterlife with an orbital death ray.

1 Upvotes

r/ExplainAGamePlotBadly • • 16h ago

Solved! After crashing on a Beach with a Ship, you and a group of strangers who just happened to be in your close proximity have to clean up behind different evil organisations and destroy (or claim) worldending Power

7 Upvotes

r/ExplainAGamePlotBadly • • 12h ago

Solved! Taking down an evil corporation with deadly gas.

5 Upvotes

r/ExplainAGamePlotBadly • • 5h ago

Solved! Various powers bristle with anticipation of a war over economics, while a neutral group attempts to keep the peace. In the end, things get cyberpunky as you fight against machines armed with super advanced weaponry belonging to a snake-themed faction. You also might not be human.

1 Upvotes

r/ExplainAGamePlotBadly • • 6h ago

Unsolved What do you mean i only beat 20% of the game? I have to do that shit all over again for a CHANCE at platinum?!

0 Upvotes

Hint 1: you don't NEED to 100% the game for platinum... but you already made it this far, so why stop?

Hint 2: for a game this old, the later enemies are actually quite intelligent.

Hint 3: the (debatably) most dangerous enemy doesn't even move...

Hint 4: is your favorite colour green? It probably won't be if you're trying to complete this game.


r/ExplainAGamePlotBadly • • 12h ago

Unsolved [Fan game] Okay so the last tournament was hijaked by the bad guy. Surely this won't happen again, right?

3 Upvotes

Hint 1: 3D shooter

Hint 2: for the PC

Hint 3: This game's story diverges from the official lore


r/ExplainAGamePlotBadly • • 22h ago

Solved! A big bad evil corpo gave you the funniest apocalypse by making people drink soda

10 Upvotes

Hints here


r/ExplainAGamePlotBadly • • 2h ago

Solved! sleepy ahh guy sleeps for 100 years and has to stop a ancient demon

0 Upvotes

no hints


r/ExplainAGamePlotBadly • • 16h ago

Unsolved Superheroes fight a purple dictator trying to make a cross-time urban crazy quilt.

2 Upvotes

r/ExplainAGamePlotBadly • • 1d ago

Solved! The final boss is you and the friends you made along the way

10 Upvotes

Hints here if needed


r/ExplainAGamePlotBadly • • 1d ago

Solved! It's just a series of Evil Monopoly games.

7 Upvotes

Hints:

  1. There's a stick market in it

  2. It's on the Wii

  3. It features Dragon Quest, and Mario characters


r/ExplainAGamePlotBadly • • 1d ago

Solved! Investigate travelers going through a checkpoint on behalf of an oppressive government, to find hidden terrorists and contraband. Oh, and you're the only one without a shield generator.

6 Upvotes

r/ExplainAGamePlotBadly • • 1d ago

Solved! Lad in blue with talking fatherly pet escorts a Light-type Blonde and a Fiery Redhead. Those last two are more than roommates but never around at the same time and both want the dude wearing blue. Also blue haired robot girls and Fundamentalists.

2 Upvotes

r/ExplainAGamePlotBadly • • 1d ago

Unsolved In this rpg maker, triumph over misogyny! And a curse. And a serial killer, sort of.

2 Upvotes

Hint 1: You only know the serial killer is a villain/murderer if you connect the dots between one of the bad endings and the good ending.


r/ExplainAGamePlotBadly • • 1d ago

Solved! Truck driver crashes his car in the middle of nowhere while on vacation and has only a month to get back to work, so he must somehow repair his totaled car with help from the local children.

8 Upvotes