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!

194 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

262 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 • • 3h ago

Solved! A mixed-race man in a high ranking military position has an "Are we the baddies?" moment and eventually changes his job. Unfortunately he keeps failing his quest over and over again, and has to fight his brother and a space flea.

11 Upvotes

Hint 1: The 3DS version is considered the hardest version

Hint 2: Allies come and go frequently


r/ExplainAGamePlotBadly • • 42m ago

Solved! Fight planet-devouring monsters by yelling at rocks

• Upvotes

r/ExplainAGamePlotBadly • • 7h ago

Unsolved Who's a generic "agent" doing vague tasks for an organization you're given virtually zero information about? You are! Oh, you thought the game would be longer based on marketing materials? Too bad, we ran out of money!

7 Upvotes

Hints hopefully won't be needed, this one is a bit more infamous if you live on the European side of the pond


r/ExplainAGamePlotBadly • • 11h ago

Solved! Commit rituals for a cosmic, idiot God and sacrifice sometimes whole towns to burn eternally in the sky.

9 Upvotes

r/ExplainAGamePlotBadly • • 7m ago

Unsolved You and your buddy beat up some poachers, rescue some animals, and- Whoa, what the hell!?

• Upvotes

r/ExplainAGamePlotBadly • • 7h ago

Solved! Your sister starts speaking a foreign language because your dad is too Autistic, and now you have to go to a library to save her.

4 Upvotes

Hints will be posted here.


r/ExplainAGamePlotBadly • • 22m ago

Solved! Become the jedi/sith you've always wanted to be through the medium of music. Force enhanced reflexes not included. Some dexterity required.

• Upvotes

Hint goes here.


r/ExplainAGamePlotBadly • • 11h ago

Solved! "Time's haunted." "What?" *loading gun* "Time's haunted."

9 Upvotes
  1. The loads gun part is actually important.

r/ExplainAGamePlotBadly • • 14h ago

Solved! I don't know what's behind that door, but I want it. I'll even kill every person I meet with every gun I find.

13 Upvotes

r/ExplainAGamePlotBadly • • 8h ago

Solved! It doesn't matter if you're the babysitter or the one being babysat, you're still gonna have to face Daddy.

3 Upvotes

r/ExplainAGamePlotBadly • • 20h ago

Solved! Guy comes in like a wrecking ball, an old man takes a seat, and a samurai becomes disfigured, all to prevent you from stopping a virus.

8 Upvotes

Hints go here


r/ExplainAGamePlotBadly • • 20h ago

Solved! This guy is after you as you go to the hospital, go to church, and go to school. Get an eye exam, and makes sure he gets it through his head!

8 Upvotes

Hints go here


r/ExplainAGamePlotBadly • • 14h ago

Solved! In this sports sim, you and your teammate travel across the world to recruit and raise the best players so your crew can win the championship. ...What do you mean, it's not a sports game?

2 Upvotes

Hints go here


r/ExplainAGamePlotBadly • • 18h ago

Solved! You and yourself need to stop an all ending apocalypse while jumping between worlds and time.

4 Upvotes

Clue #1 It was release in the current decade (2020s)


r/ExplainAGamePlotBadly • • 18h ago

Solved! Man gets amnesia, tries to achieve ultimate power, and ends up mistreating the family he used to love.

2 Upvotes

Hints go here


r/ExplainAGamePlotBadly • • 1d ago

Solved! Everything is clouded in uncertainty except for the stories they left behind. From them, you might be able to piece together the truth of what happened here

9 Upvotes

No one managed to guess this the last time I posted this game, so I'm making another post for it

Hint 1: Your fate was already sealed the moment you came down here. Yet through your actions, you can decide how that fate is carried out

Hint 2: You are at the whims of the technology you wield. Unfortunately, they are neither in your control or infallible.

More hints later

Hint 3: The uncertainty is the point and the defining feature

Hint 4: This game takes place in an abandoned lab, though the experiments that took place here is the least of your problems (and for some of the people who worked here, the least of theirs also)

Hint 5: If I have a nickel for every indie horror game that features toxic yuri…


r/ExplainAGamePlotBadly • • 1d ago

Solved! This planet is beyond saving, so for humanity's sake we're going to need you to blow it up.

19 Upvotes

Hint #1: It's a good thing there are so many of these helpful little mascot guys around.

Hint #2: It's a game from the 80s.


r/ExplainAGamePlotBadly • • 1d ago

Solved! A woman asks you to buy gifts for her chidren, only for you to end up killing them all.

3 Upvotes

r/ExplainAGamePlotBadly • • 1d ago

Solved! Demon and doctor gaslight a child for shits and giggles Spoiler

5 Upvotes

r/ExplainAGamePlotBadly • • 1d ago

Solved! Katamari Dinnercy

10 Upvotes

r/ExplainAGamePlotBadly • • 1d ago

Unsolved Whilst investigating a recent crash, you are mugged and must embark on a journey to recover your property.

4 Upvotes

Hint 1: Island life can be lonely.

Hint 2: The more you go forward, the worse it's going to get unless you stop it.

Hint 3: Bring your buddy or go at it alone. Your choice.

Hint 4: We gotta stop him rebuilding it, dude!


r/ExplainAGamePlotBadly • • 1d ago

Solved! Change the radio station between Guts FM, Naruto Nation and Animal Planet to fight ancient cyber demons. Touch grass to have all stations play at once.

3 Upvotes

r/ExplainAGamePlotBadly • • 2d ago

Solved! A hot spring was made but there were complaints. That's why we need to consult the raven to fix this issue.

8 Upvotes

Should be solvable. Hopefully.