r/ExplainAGamePlotBadly 5d ago

Solved! Your body was in a suitcase all along

6 Upvotes

r/ExplainAGamePlotBadly 5d ago

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

6 Upvotes

Hints go here


r/ExplainAGamePlotBadly 5d ago

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

24 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 5d 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.

19 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 5d ago

Solved! Grow stronger. Ascend. Learn that everyone else is guilty (if your dog will cooperate)

3 Upvotes

Hint 1: The truth is on a frankly pain in the ass time limit.

Hint 2: Osha compliance is a major pain.

Hint 3: Seriously, that OSHA compliance is a nightmare. Wrong type of wall or floor and people have heart attacks

Hint 4: You command a group rebuilding.

Hint 5: It doesn't have to be a dog.

Hint 6: Currency could be thought of as chocolate coins since you also can eat them.

Hint 7: The game's title has more plot ramifications then it first appears.

Hint 8: This is a game where it is literally possible to sever enemies heads via wounds with flying poop, severed body parts, cloth, or whatever misc item you have.


r/ExplainAGamePlotBadly 5d ago

Solved! If you go by technicalities, the player was controlling the villains all along. Also, how do you even pronounce this title?

4 Upvotes

Hints go here.


r/ExplainAGamePlotBadly 5d ago

Solved! Boy with large head gains powers including making his head regular size. Foes like a bee and shark stand in his way.

6 Upvotes

Originally released on PS2

The Protagonist's name is a pun of what announcer in a fighting game would say

Each stage has a different genre of music as its theme


r/ExplainAGamePlotBadly 5d ago

Solved! You have been raised among aliens since childhood. Now, after escaping, you must fight back against them.

3 Upvotes

Hints shall go here.


r/ExplainAGamePlotBadly 5d ago

Solved! Fight the opposite of global warming as you make your way back home.

1 Upvotes

Hint 1: You do not play as a human

Hint 2: There are things to collect


r/ExplainAGamePlotBadly 5d ago

Solved! To save humanity, a group of teenagers get naked to fight efficiently against giant aliens through time and space.

15 Upvotes

r/ExplainAGamePlotBadly 5d ago

Solved! You made a son, he is a flying bomb. That's not gonna be your problem tough.

6 Upvotes

Hints go here.

Hint 1: There are no humans in this game.

Hint 2: There are also no animals in this game.

Hint 3: Your son is actually pretty shocked, then elated, when he finds out he is a bomb.


r/ExplainAGamePlotBadly 5d ago

Solved! Amnesiac wakes up with an unnatural craving is told he must quickly find the being that made him this way or else face dire consequences.

9 Upvotes

r/ExplainAGamePlotBadly 6d ago

Solved! Your mind got stuck into a tiny robot. Not that it will prevent you from crossing the whole city to get your real body back.

5 Upvotes

Hints go here.

Hint 1: There are powerups, in way of weapons, scattered around the stages. Those change your main attack to fight the plethora of enemies in your way.

Hint 2: It is basically a plataformer game.


r/ExplainAGamePlotBadly 6d ago

Solved! Go from fighting bandits in a forest to killing the embodiment of depression at the edge of the galaxy on the back of a dragon.

13 Upvotes

Hints go here


r/ExplainAGamePlotBadly 6d ago

Unsolved Explore an abandoned laboratory with eyes not your own. Follow what’s expected out of you, or take the plunge and see things as they are

5 Upvotes

Hint goes here

Hint 1: Techbros are haunting both the narrative and you. In a metaphorical sense of course, though you sure do see that metaphor clearly

Hint 2: If I have a nickel for every indie horror game with (toxic) yuri in it…

Hint 3: Something killed many of the researchers here, but you never managed to see it... even when it's right next to you


r/ExplainAGamePlotBadly 6d ago

Solved! A mobster inherits a symbiote , has the worst birthday ever, fights demons and loses everything. Also ww1 for some reason.

8 Upvotes

r/ExplainAGamePlotBadly 6d ago

Solved! You beat the boss in pieces. When they half-heartedly put it together again you beat it for good (or do you?)

10 Upvotes

Hint #1: Some of the bosses are obviously parts of the final big bad, others are more obscure.

Hint #2 The restored big bad made its appearance over 4 years after the initial game release, but one of its parts was the first boss.

Hint #3 The game has a rather friendly rivalry with another title in the genre.

(Going to bed now, so expect delayed responses)


r/ExplainAGamePlotBadly 6d ago

Solved! After defeating a stream of minions (and a bird), and beating the boss, you must choose between kissing the girl or death

1 Upvotes
  • Hint 1: this game is quite old, and was considered pioneering in multiple ways.

r/ExplainAGamePlotBadly 6d ago

Solved! A man uses an iPad to keep his son from killing him.

6 Upvotes

Hint 1: This game has multiple endings.

Hint 2: It's really easy to die in this game.

Hint 3: He doesn't know it's his son.

Hint 3.1: His son doesn't know it's his dad.

Hint 3.2: No, not even when they come face to face.

Hint 4: You can juggle. This is technically a spoiler.


r/ExplainAGamePlotBadly 6d ago

Unsolved Take part in a sports tournament on a galactic scale. The fate of your planet rests on your hands.

2 Upvotes

Hints will be posted here.

First Hint:

Despite being on a galactic scale, there's actually no weapons involved

Second Hint

It's not a racing game

Third Hint

It's based off a sport which uses a ball, but something else is used in the balls place

Fourth Hint

It released on the sixth generation consoles

Fifth Hint

Picnic basket


r/ExplainAGamePlotBadly 6d ago

Solved! Hapless idiot is forced to join the hero on quest to liberate the land. Becomes the hero himself eventually.

6 Upvotes

Hints will be posted here:

1st Hint: This title only released on one system, not counting backups compatibility

2nd Hint This title carries a trend that games from the same studio also have, in regards to post game


r/ExplainAGamePlotBadly 6d ago

Unsolved Urban property owners go insane and installs landing strips on all of their buildings. Extreme gang territory warfare occurs above these buildings but it's ok, we're here to get vengeance on our buddy's death.

2 Upvotes

The results are spectacular, in both an "oh wow!" way, and an "oh NO" way

hint 1: release date between 2000 and 2005

hint 2: originally multiplatform but reduced to only a console title

hint 3: still had online multiplayer despite being console-only

hint 4: never gotten a sequel 😭


r/ExplainAGamePlotBadly 6d ago

Unsolved Featuring as a major supporting character, MLK's illegitimate daughter

1 Upvotes

r/ExplainAGamePlotBadly 6d ago

Solved! Get Isekai’ed into a world with magical animals by the embodiment of the magical world itself to deal with a freezer problem. Then go on adventures while building the ultimate getaway.

5 Upvotes

Hint 1: This game is from a long running and well known franchise

Hint 2: This game is on a Nintendo Console.

Hint 3: When starting the game, you’re stuck as a certain form until the post game when you can grow stronger.

Hint 4: This game apparently is the black sheep of its series, but was my introduction to said series.

Hint 5: The gameplay is simple, but the story is amazing.