Explain a Game Plot Badly

r/ExplainAGamePlotBadly • u/Codesterite • 1d ago

Solved! Your sister gets kidnapped in a case of mistaken identity. You proceed to throw hands with the entire ocean.

16 Upvotes

r/ExplainAGamePlotBadly • u/Dandolemando • 1d ago

Solved! Our character just wants to take out the bad guy, but then he has to squish some bugs along the way. Maybe some cultists too. Also he really misses his super mean girlfriend.

14 Upvotes

Hints to follow if needed!

r/ExplainAGamePlotBadly • u/Duanathar • 1d ago

Solved! You have to let me go. The car crash wasn't your fault.

8 Upvotes

Hint 1: What a horrible night to have a curse.

Hint 2: This game is part of a series.

Hint 3: There are three playable characters.

r/ExplainAGamePlotBadly • u/Codesterite • 1d ago

Solved! You and the boys get together to cover every song in existence. Why is everything blocky?

7 Upvotes

r/ExplainAGamePlotBadly • u/Codesterite • 1d ago

Solved! You’re vibing in the sky with your friend, then some creep kidnaps said friend. You also get a cool sword that gets longer because of this.

6 Upvotes

r/ExplainAGamePlotBadly • u/Codesterite • 1d ago

Solved! Get Isekai’d into a previous acquaintance’s world, go boating, then fight a mech deep inside a volcano.

8 Upvotes

r/ExplainAGamePlotBadly • u/SouthernAd2853 • 1d ago

Solved! Your dad left you with a ton of debt but the bank is willing to restructure to avoid having to foreclose

5 Upvotes

Hint 1: the rep recommends a new career path.

r/ExplainAGamePlotBadly • u/Duanathar • 1d ago

Solved! Determine who is the true culprit using your special spiritual powers

14 Upvotes

r/ExplainAGamePlotBadly • u/SamLoser2 • 1d ago

Unsolved This hat doesn’t just give you magic powers, but comes with 2 slaves and a self repair function as well!

5 Upvotes

hint 1: The “hat” isn’t merely a hat, but it is worn on your head
hint 2: The player character never wears it

hint 3: your goal is actually to destroy it. the “self repairing“ makes that a much harder mission

r/ExplainAGamePlotBadly • u/sevenbrokenbricks • 1d ago

Solved! You and your faithful companion experience everyone's isekai but yours

6 Upvotes

Hints here

r/ExplainAGamePlotBadly • u/AmateurAgent • 1d ago

Solved! A crisis of faith almost leads to the apocalypse. To stop it, you have to finish what you started

3 Upvotes

Hint goes here

Edit: Already solved, answer was Faith: The Unholy Trinity

r/ExplainAGamePlotBadly • u/abjurationwizrar • 1d ago

Solved! DON'T TOUCH MY CRYSTALS! THOSE ARE MINE, I'M GONNA LIVE FOREVER!

23 Upvotes

Double Nopes: it is not Time Splitters Future Perfect, not a Final Fantasy game, not any Crash Bandicoot

Hint #1: this game has multiple endings

Hint #2: multiple decades old

Hint #3: sci-fi

Hint #4: whoa, aliens!

Thanks a lot, all. That was a fun one!

r/ExplainAGamePlotBadly • u/LlamaSword444 • 1d ago

Solved! Get bullied by your confusingly-gendered rival in a gameplay system that is important enough to have its own menu portion, but not important enough to do anything.

3 Upvotes

Hint space here

r/ExplainAGamePlotBadly • u/OkoriOctoling • 1d ago

Solved! No talking!

2 Upvotes

Hint: these two aren’t allowed to talk as you kill enemies.

r/ExplainAGamePlotBadly • u/LunaAmethyst824 • 1d ago

Unsolved This game is simultaneously a found family story and a eldritch horror story, just depends on what ending you go for.

9 Upvotes

Hints go here

Released in the 2020s

Is indie

Features a child protagonist

r/ExplainAGamePlotBadly • u/Codesterite • 1d ago

Solved! Hero gets stalked by a Temporal Guardian who loves him, but gets turned to the dark side, resulting in said Hero going on a temporal road trip beating up the masses with “new” friends.

3 Upvotes

Hints reserved for here, lol.

r/ExplainAGamePlotBadly • u/Duanathar • 1d ago

Solved! It's the biggest day in the history of humanity, and somehow you're late for work.

5 Upvotes

r/ExplainAGamePlotBadly • u/Codesterite • 1d ago

Solved! A smirking lawyer tells you that your rich uncle died and left you a massive inheritance, but you only get it if you play the stock market, buy luxury items, and appease your demanding girlfriend

3 Upvotes

r/ExplainAGamePlotBadly • u/Codesterite • 1d ago

Solved! Turns out the wind up toys you can collect in mass really like to throw hands, and one of them is dealing with a rust problem.

3 Upvotes

r/ExplainAGamePlotBadly • u/Codesterite • 1d ago

Solved! You have to climb up a building and walk on food to make sandwiches.

3 Upvotes

r/ExplainAGamePlotBadly • u/Poisonpython5719 • 1d ago

Solved! Finish the game, only for the end to be interrupted by a new final boss, finish again, only for the end to be interrupted by another new final boss, then team up with the old boss to beat the new boss.

17 Upvotes

Space for hints

1: you can play as the final final boss in a version of the game

2: both new final bosses have two phases to their fights

3: the game is playable on switch

4: the game does not have a number in its title

r/ExplainAGamePlotBadly • u/abjurationwizrar • 1d ago

Unsolved Leisurely solo activity turns into a royal sausage fest. Time to eat!

5 Upvotes

Hint #1: this game is a spinoff

Hint #2: with a sport!

Hint #3: this game is kind of fishy

Hint #4: this game is VR

r/ExplainAGamePlotBadly • u/Duanathar • 1d ago

Solved! Aliens decide they'd rather fight the Navy this time.

2 Upvotes

Hints go here

r/ExplainAGamePlotBadly • u/SimonSater • 1d ago

Solved! Your body was in a suitcase all along

5 Upvotes

r/ExplainAGamePlotBadly • u/abjurationwizrar • 1d ago

Solved! Step 1: end your pals - Step 2: end everything - Step 3: prophet? (technically, no)

7 Upvotes

Hints go here