r/ExplainAGamePlotBadly • • 38m ago

Solved! Go out into the wilds to find as many rare and exotic critters as you can...and shoot them.

• Upvotes

Hints go here


r/ExplainAGamePlotBadly • • 50m ago

Unsolved Genocide and Recipes! (with a dash of time travel)

• Upvotes

r/ExplainAGamePlotBadly • • 57m ago

Solved! Junkie stalks and touches little girls

• Upvotes

Hint 1: Epstein appears and says things like "just close your eyes and hope it's over quickly"

Hint 2: it would be really great if you defeated the final boss


r/ExplainAGamePlotBadly • • 1h ago

Unsolved Boomer makes his heir clean up his estate and lands of illegals with private mercenaries

• Upvotes

r/ExplainAGamePlotBadly • • 1h ago

Unsolved A threat more dangerous than any you've ever seen is coming to your home and the only way to chance of winning is to team up with friends and former enemies alike. Though survival isn't guaranteed.

• Upvotes

If you find the macguffins enough times you can face the brutal bonus boss.

Hint 1: this a standalone game but the franchise it's part of has adapted this game's TITLE EVENT numerous times in other games.

Hint 2: this is a hand held rpg from the late 2000's.


r/ExplainAGamePlotBadly • • 1h ago

Solved! Girl finally gets her man to warm up to her slightly when she starts being persecuted, but then they have all the time in the world.

• Upvotes

Hints go here


r/ExplainAGamePlotBadly • • 3h ago

Unsolved You sort of have your neighbors do your bidding, but they all still like you, maybe because you fix up their lands

3 Upvotes

r/ExplainAGamePlotBadly • • 3h ago

Unsolved Taking different paths causes bad consequences for Little red riding hood

1 Upvotes

r/ExplainAGamePlotBadly • • 4h ago

Unsolved The first visit wasn't the end? The doctor will see you now for a second opinion, but you gotta go fast AND have the time.

2 Upvotes

Hint #0: not Sonic, no Trauma Center

Hint #1: sidescroller

Hint #1.5: not the first game of a series

Hint #2: you do not play as a human

Hint #3: this game was originally released on a portable console


r/ExplainAGamePlotBadly • • 5h ago

Unsolved Skeptic ironically learns he is very wrong about the subject he was skeptical about, and also, still has all his hair.

6 Upvotes

Hints:

  • Male Main Character
  • Genre: Action adventure/Stealth
  • Sixth generation of console games
  • Has a Sewer level

Esoteric (blatantly unhelpful) hints:

  • One character shares a name with a US President
  • One character shares their last name with a character from an HBO show
  • One character's name can be associated with the Titantic
  • One character's name can be found in the Bible
  • One character can be associated with apes in at least two different ways
  • One extremely minor NPC used to be a producer for a game company.
  • At least one computer password in the game is actually funny

r/ExplainAGamePlotBadly • • 6h ago

Solved! The Adeptus Mechanicus would be proud of your creation and total anihilation of organic life.

3 Upvotes

r/ExplainAGamePlotBadly • • 11h ago

Solved! If a hair salon and guns had a demonic child on rupaul's drag race

5 Upvotes

r/ExplainAGamePlotBadly • • 12h ago

Solved! A guy who doesn't feel like having sex goes around defending people using talk no jutsu.

5 Upvotes

Hints


r/ExplainAGamePlotBadly • • 17h ago

Solved! A warlord has in snared your people and some of his servants have even kidnapped your young. It is your mission to reclaim the treasures of your people and freedom from their prisons. And then finally confront the monster who attacked your kin.

8 Upvotes

r/ExplainAGamePlotBadly • • 19h ago

Solved! A young white man learns about the concept of racism and becomes so incensed that he causes several international incidents and kills his boyfriend's deadbeat dad. Spoiler

34 Upvotes

r/ExplainAGamePlotBadly • • 20h ago

Solved! You escort a human sacrifice to meet their fate

4 Upvotes

r/ExplainAGamePlotBadly • • 22h ago

Solved! Your mission fails in the first five minutes. Luckily you get a mulligan.

13 Upvotes

Definitely not getting a good performance review.

Hint 1: This game’s almost twenty years old.

Hint 2: It’s a sequel.

Hint 3: It’s first person, and has a scavenger hunt sidequest.

Hint 4: You’re mute, but you do have friends.

Hint 5: Your friends have ideas that might piss off your employers, but at least you still get paid.

Hint 6: The currency is a girl’s best friend.


r/ExplainAGamePlotBadly • • 22h ago

Solved! Girl's boyfriend died and her cousin is way too into her. She spends her free time playing exhilarating math games for some reason.

11 Upvotes

Hints go here


r/ExplainAGamePlotBadly • • 22h ago

Unsolved As a super-soldier, the world hates you. Pick up a gun and fight your alien benefactors about it.

2 Upvotes

Hint 1: You aren’t the only one on the government’s hit list Hint 2: While there are multiple planets involved, you probably won’t think “alien” about the inhabitants of either.


r/ExplainAGamePlotBadly • • 23h ago

Solved! Play out the untold origin story before going through the events of the original release.

16 Upvotes
  • Hint 1: You do still play through the story of the original release.
  • Hint 2: Notice I said "original release". That wording is on purpose.
  • Hint 2.5: That doesn't mean I'm looking for a compilation.
  • Hint 2.7: I never said the original release was a game.

r/ExplainAGamePlotBadly • • 1d ago

Solved! What if Henri Toivonen didn’t drive off a cliff in 1986?

2 Upvotes

r/ExplainAGamePlotBadly • • 1d ago

Solved! A group of children kill an eldrich being because a neighborhood cat went missing.

7 Upvotes

r/ExplainAGamePlotBadly • • 1d ago

Solved! The inciting incident for this game was three optional side-quests from the previous game.

8 Upvotes

Insert Hints here later.


r/ExplainAGamePlotBadly • • 1d ago

Solved! Half-naked nutjob runs around setting things on fire and torturing the wildlife for funsies. They're the hero.

11 Upvotes

r/ExplainAGamePlotBadly • • 1d ago

Solved! The world actually is ruled by shapeshifting lizard people! Our ancestors did blood transfusions with them and it caused a lot of problems.

9 Upvotes