Top 10 Video Games That Were Very Heavily Inspired by Other Games

The Top Ten
1 Undertale (Earthbound)
2 Bioshock (System Shock)
3 Portal (Half-Life)
4 Xenoblade Chronicles (Final Fantasy)
5 Okami (The Legend Of Zelda: The Wind Waker)
6 Saints Row (Grand Theft Auto)
7 Borderlands (Diablo)
8 Sonic The Hedgehog (Super Mario Bros.)
9 Cave Story (Metroid)
10 Shovel Knight (Mega Man)
The Contenders
11 Sonic Boom: Rise Of Lyric (Sonic 2006)
12 Digimon (Pokémon)

They aren't that similar. Also, Digimon was based off of tamagotchi, not Pokémon. I'm saying this as a Digimon hater!

13 Mortal Kombat (Street Fighter)
14 Ratchet & Clank (Crash Bandicoot)

I have to disagree, since I'm pretty sure Crash didn't contain high-tech weapons...

15 Psychonauts (Earthbound)

Which in turn created the basis for the gravity system in Super Mario Galaxy! It's funny how many 'original' (but good) video games draw inspiration from others.

16 South Park: The Stick Of Truth (Earthbound)
17 Mother 3 (Earthbound)
18 Timesplitters (Goldeneye007)

It's more of a spiritual successor to Goldeneye than Perfect Dark ever was, and that's not saying it's a bad game, it's pretty good!

19 Axiom Verge (Super Metroid)
20 Genshin Impact (The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild)
21 Advance Wars (Fire Emblem)
22 Shadow Complex (Metroid)
23 Rogue Legacy (Spelunky)
24 Castle Crashers (Alien Hominid)
25 Fallout 4 (Fallout 3)
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