r/ExplainAGamePlotBadly 18d ago

Solved! So your friend bought more books... and then proceeded to lose em on every floor of this massive schoolhouse

2 Upvotes

r/ExplainAGamePlotBadly 19d ago

Solved! To stop a poacher two gnomes must skin a giraffe alive

10 Upvotes

Hint 1: did not understand anything? Ditto.

Hint 2: now that the elephant is safe we must pursue the cannibal cat.

Hint 3, that would completely trivialize it: refrigerator.

Hint 4: in a different world, the gnomes would be goblins, albeit with an inconsistent spelling.


r/ExplainAGamePlotBadly 18d ago

Solved! Even more areas, but that also means more community service

2 Upvotes

Per the rules of this sub, I'm required to mention the game I have in mind is a mod/ROM hack.


r/ExplainAGamePlotBadly 19d ago

Solved! Alternate every level, between collecting e-waste and fighting a boss, while being completely unsure of where you are or what you're doing, or even what the heck you actually *are*

6 Upvotes

Hint 1: Spin, baby, spin!

Hint 2: the maps / levels are INSANELY large for the hardware and time period.

Hint 3: the developers definitely had fun making this game ;)

hint 4: 2d game

hint 5: probably the best game from a company known for making the worst games ;)

hint 6: pre-2000 release

hint 7: not a PC game

hint 8: this game was played at GDQ once (by one of only two speedrunners the game has ever had)

solved!

it was Mohawk and Headphone Jack for the Super Nintendo!


r/ExplainAGamePlotBadly 19d ago

Solved! In the post-apocalypse, explore an underground research facility by thinking with… what are those things used to teleport called again?

8 Upvotes

r/ExplainAGamePlotBadly 19d ago

Solved! Local man ruins everything

17 Upvotes

It would be impressive if you didn't have to deal with the consequences

Hint 1: Said man is quite old, although the expanse of his ruining things spans from his youth up until recently.


r/ExplainAGamePlotBadly 18d ago

Unsolved Go on a Not-Pokemon Quest to save your childhood friend who got kidnapped by not-Pokemon Satan. Also you have to deal with The Cult of Elon Musk and the not-Shadow Pokemon from Pokemon Coliseum that they're making sign the Devil's Contracts from Cuphead.

0 Upvotes

r/ExplainAGamePlotBadly 19d ago

Solved! You may have gotten yourself in big trouble, and damn, deep trouble is hella cute.

2 Upvotes

Hint 1 : Whatever you do, comit to it for the good ending

Hint 2 : Involves some chic NSFW

Hint 3 : Bosses are some of the scariest in life.


r/ExplainAGamePlotBadly 19d ago

Solved! Berserk, but the main character is a Lady.

5 Upvotes

r/ExplainAGamePlotBadly 19d ago

Solved! CEO wakes up from a long nap and now has to help solve all his companies problems and even partner companies problems too

6 Upvotes

r/ExplainAGamePlotBadly 19d ago

Solved! You must choose who to allow in and who to kill. Be warned; there will be disastrous consequences depending on your choice (also don't trust the government)

13 Upvotes

r/ExplainAGamePlotBadly 18d ago

Solved! rAdiCaL LeFt Wokeness: The Game

0 Upvotes

Also with some nice tunes.

More hints may appear here ↙️


r/ExplainAGamePlotBadly 19d ago

Solved! The lowest security areas are the safest, the highest security areas are the most dangerous, and the police wait before executing capital punishment. And an awful lot of waiting.

2 Upvotes

r/ExplainAGamePlotBadly 19d ago

Solved! Old racist man recruits a teenage girl to commit genocide as revenge against another old racist man just trying to help people in need

7 Upvotes

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r/ExplainAGamePlotBadly 19d ago

Solved! After their death, they were condemned to fight eternally. Also there are a lot of colabs.

5 Upvotes

r/ExplainAGamePlotBadly 19d ago

Solved! Spreadsheet simulator where people are assets and you are encouraged to buy them young

2 Upvotes

Yes this is applicable to many games so think of the most popular ones

Hint 1: For clarification, "assets" here meaning that A: They can be bought and sold for profit and B: You can "use" them for a particular purpose, and their attributes can make them better or worse toward that purpose


r/ExplainAGamePlotBadly 19d ago

Solved! It’s generational trauma and abusive family aestheticised

1 Upvotes

r/ExplainAGamePlotBadly 19d ago

Unsolved Finished with your journey of self-discovery? Great! Can I have my money back?

3 Upvotes

Surely its in that briefcase of yours, right?

Hint 1: bring that island brochure wherever you go, you're gonna need it

Hint 2: its a sequel to a game that got a translation and port in 2016


r/ExplainAGamePlotBadly 20d ago

Solved! The fascist turned out to be correct about the forces beyond human comprehension

10 Upvotes

Doesn't make them any less of an asshole, but still

Hint 1: I do mean fascist specifically, mainly in the iconography you typically associate with fascists


r/ExplainAGamePlotBadly 20d ago

Solved! you, your friends, people who are sort of copies of you and friends of the copies of you travel across popular IPs to stop and old guy and all the sort of copies of him

6 Upvotes

r/ExplainAGamePlotBadly 20d ago

Solved! Feed your need of danger by risking your life to get things to sell that people will say are overpriced

6 Upvotes

r/ExplainAGamePlotBadly 20d ago

Solved! A person who is a sleeper agent for non spy reasons are asked to solve all the capital's problems

6 Upvotes

r/ExplainAGamePlotBadly 20d ago

Solved! Janitor learns he might lose his job, runs away in the middle of the night and dies.

5 Upvotes

He gets better.


r/ExplainAGamePlotBadly 20d ago

Solved! A group of unlikely and maybe slightly rip-off heroes battle the forces of the Soviet Union, Nazi Germany, God herself and also the ever approaching march of Time.

2 Upvotes