Top 10 Incredibly Weird Video Games that Take Place in Deceptively Normal or Everyday-Looking Settings

The Top Ten

  1. Earthbound

    Be warned, children. The freakishly trippy postmodern horror you are going to see all throughout this game is definitely not for the faint of heart.

  2. Plumbers Don't Wear Ties

    Officially the Tommy Wiseau "Room" of video games. Saying that is being extremely generous.

  3. Goat Simulator

    G-Mod in general, actually.

  4. Danganronpa

    When not counting the fact that the actual background setting of the original pre-V3 saga was a post-apocalyptic hellscape with literally all kinds of demented mechanical serial-killer teddy bears running around all over the place, yes.

  5. South Park: The Stick of Truth

    Just like the show itself, naturally.

  6. Portal

    Looks are deceiving when GLaDOS is involved.

  7. Undertale

    Background environments: pitifully cliched and often irritatingly linear archetypes of literally ages-old video game level tropes. First you have the ancient ruins, then the snowy forest, then the water cave (that looks uncannily similar to Satorl Marsh from Xenoblade Chronicles, might I add), then the big dramatic lava level leading up to the finale, and then finally a big grey house, followed by the science-fiction equivalent of a haunted one, then finally the grey one again.

    Actual game: one of the most wonderfully bizarre, uniquely inventive, atmospheric, and incredibly memorable experiences I've had with a game in literally forever.

  8. UmJammer Lammy

    When you take away literally all of the characters from its setting, yes. Have I not already mentioned enough times that one of them is a giant rainbow-vomiting caterpillar with breasts?

  9. Conker's Bad Fur Day

    Actually more disturbing than Happy Tree Friends at times.

  10. PaRappa the Rapper 2

    Same here as with UJL, except that this time we have a villain whose ultimate goal is to literally transform the entire planet Earth into ramen noodles.

    11. The Contenders

  11. Postal 2

    The town of Paradise, Arizona, is home to the most outlandish events in gaming. A former child star leading a gang, the appropriately named Krotchy being a physical character who wields a rocket launcher when you fight him, rednecks kidnapping people in the cemetery and making them wear gimp suits, and so much violence that an apocalypse starts, with every civilian killing each other and cats raining down from the sky.

    Those were all words in the correct order, I assure you. That's just the main five days as well, where your objective is to do nothing more than complete chores for a nagging wife. It gets even more ridiculous with the weekend and the DLC. Either way, prepare for the lavish amounts of gore that await those who play this game.

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