Remove one letter from the title of a video game; what is the plot now?

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Final Fantas - people fighting over the last cans of Fanta in the world.

Chrono Tigger - the adventures of Tigger travelling to Christopher Robin's adulthood.

Secret of Man - NSFW

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Dadspace - A game of smoking meats and questionable fashion choices

What if I prefer my meats questionable and my fashion choices smoking?

I’d like to play the other games in that series, like Dad Rising and Dad island

Don't forget Red Dad Redemption, House of the Dad and Left 4 Dad

Moral Kombat. A game where each player fights against their own vices, competing to build the most virtuous character.

Cyberpuk 2077: In a dystopian future where global warming has brought the planet to a boil, desperate hockey players take their game to cyberspace because ice is no longer available.

actually sound like fun

I'm picturing a mix of Tron and Mutant Football League for hockey and the more I think about it, the more I want it.

Who here remembers Bill Lambeer's Combat Basketball?

Metal Ear Solid. A lore heavy game about a man dealing with tinnitus.

Meta Gear Solid -- a game about the metal gear series

Metal Gear Sold - merchant game in the style of steampunk Stardew Valley

All of Duty - you work in a company which, after several waves of layoffs, has been severely understaffed.

I have no Mouth and I must Cream

... I don't want to talk about it

That made me come up with the friendlier option:
I Have No Moth and I Must Scream

Poor guy just wants a moth.

You may not have a mouth, but others do.

Sorry, I just disgusted myself.

Petty Princess Party - instead of decorating rooms you snark about how gaudy everything is

Alone in the ark. A horror game where you accidentally step aboard the wrong ark and you have to survive against gods rejected beasts.

Oat Simulator: the most intense game about preparing breakfast.

Ant-chamber: cleaning up an ant infestation in non-Euclidean space

Stay: a cat tries to stop its owner from leaving the house

Mincraft: a picture of a single block for minimalism

Shove Knight: a game about a knight that fights by shoving enemies off of cliffs

Udertale: goat mom starts a "business" after her teaching does not pay enough for the bills.

Until DAW: only the power of music can defeat the wendigo

Doki Doki literature cub: same game but all the characters are bears

Stay is like the opposite of Home Alone. The cat sets traps so the owner cannot leave.

I think you might have something there with oat simulator and stay!

I play Stay every day with my cat. I wouldn't play a simulator of things I can do in real life.... right? (Yes, I would)

Pathfinder Kinmaker: It's all about managing your lineage.

Got Simulator: A simulator where you sit in a bus and the kid behind you ask if you have Simulators on your phone

GoT simulator - Crusader Kings but somehow with even more incest and also dragons.

Assassin's Reed. A game about an Assassin and his precious piece of Reed that he uses to kill people with.

Pants vs. Zombies: a tower defence game where a clothing shop keeper must protect their property from a zombie apocalypse by throwing jeans, khakis, capris, shorts etc. at them.

Well, that's a funny game idea indeed!

Keep Taking and Nobody Explodes: steal as much as you can before the bomb detonates.

Amnesia: the dark decent

A survival horror where you have to run away from a very polite, forgetful monster.

Mario Art - it's just Mario Paint.
Hearts of Ion - very complicated particle physics simulator.
Imworld - you can trigger challenges at your will.

Gran Theft Auto - same as the original, but you play as an 86 year old woman named Mildred.

Andy Crush - dating sim.

Word of Warcraft - word feud with elves and orcs

War raft: an RPS game set in the ocean.

Grand heft auto: a weightlifting simulator.

World of Go - A puzzle game where you have to play multiple games of Go to complete puzzles, and save the world from the enigmatic World of Go corporation.

Microsoft Fight Simulator 2020

Learn how to fight in photorealistic settings all around the world!

Would be an amazing VR game with motion control. Just like the dojo in the Matrix.

Allout New Vegas

Now you're broke!

Fallout: EW, Vegas.

Even in the apocalypse, somehow Vegas still feels dirty

Microsoft Light Simulator 40th Anniversary- The classic particle / wave physics simulator now allows you accurately model everything from radio arrays and lasers up to particle accelerators and tokamak reactors.

Allout - A game about surviving in the wake of a nuclear disaster

Mehwarrior - Assume the role of a bored military member standing watch over an empty shed.

Words With Fiends - Travel through the planes of Hell debating the denizens.

Husbando had a lot of fun thinking about this:

  • Ears of the Kingdom: The adventures of the ENT of Hyrule
  • Tar Craft: A citybuilder focused on traffic management
  • Ann 1800: Bridgerton - The Game
  • Resident Vil: The sims set in Racoon City
  • The IMs: The Sims, but text-based
  • Okemon: A Jamaican-themed friendship simulator
  • Spider Ma: An RPG centered around Miles Morales' mom
  • Itcher 3 Wild Hunt: A popping simulator
  • Goof War: Just a boy goofing around
  • Oom: Out of mana

These are all amazing!

Surviving Mrs: this war of mine but as a dude who got caught cheating.

Loo hero: plumber simulator

Elden Ing. An emotional story based game about growing old and facing your own mortality.

Tardew Valley. Less so about farming, bit more about establishing and managing an oil drilling site.

Stardew Alley - the back streets where weeds are traded

Alflife - a game about Gordon Freeman's brother Alfred and the troubles in his life

Halflie - as above but now we know the troubles are because of him not quite telling the truth

PaRappa the Raper

Kick, punch, it's all in the mind.
If you wanna test me, I'm sure you'll find.
The things I'll teach ya is sure to beat ya.

Slay the Sire - Instigate a medieval peasant revolt and establish a commune.

Tom Raider. It's about a guy name Tom Raider. He sells insurance.

Grand Heft Auto - like Crazy Taxi but you are driving your obese aunt around town to run errands while taking shortcuts and avoiding weigh stations (which are in a town for some reason) Racing/puzzle mashup

BABA IS YO

  • Instead of controlling Baba, they just are cool instead 😎

Hal -- It's the Sims, except focused on one guy called Hal.
Super Sash Bros -- They're all fabulous and they love to parade about in their sashes!
Dragon Ball Xenverse -- A couple of Saiyans find themselves in the Borderworld and help Gordon Freeman send the Nihilanth packing.
The Matrix: Path of No -- You take the blue pill. The end.

Octopat Traveler. A pixel art RPG where you level up by petting octopuses.

Death Standing - You play as the Grim Reaper guiding souls into the afterlife.

Allout 3. Arguably the best in a series of post-apocalyptic battle royale games.

Valorat - a tactical first person shooter where players play as a set of rodents with special abilities

Rimword: The margarita bandit strikes again! Can you decipher the clues left behind in the salt on his glass?

Dad Space

"God dammit Billy, if you ask me if we're in the Alpha Centauri system yet, I swear to God I will pull this cruiser over. I'm sirius!"

Fir Emblem: An art game where you design a logo for a forestry company.

Dom: BDSM-themed hentai game, emphasis on the DS part.

Gang Beats - rhythm game containing songs from the hood

Raveyard Keeper: Your hopes and dreams of making the most fly night club in the 2000's with Bob the Skull as your DJ and hypeman.

Cave Tory

  • you're a robot and find yourself fighting against bats and creatures in a cave shouting you their traditional British beliefs (Tory)

Slent Hill - game about a quaint village in Scotland

Minecrat - game about aristocrat miners

The Sms - game about texting people

Bishock - game about bi panic (my kind of game lol)

Resident Eil - game about homebody eels who cant spell

Valyria Chronicles, now a game about the GoT universe.

Porta, now about latin american doors.

The Itcher 3, the world-acclaimed infectious insect bites game

The Sis, the Alabama simulation game

Ree of Savior - The angry quest of a self-righteous paladin

Cities Skylies sounds like a hell of a mystery game. The same can be said about Albion Onlie.

Abletop Simulator, OneHot, Sore and Total War: HOGUN - NSFW

Total War: All of the Samurai- a game in which you must time travel to the past to gather every samurai throughout history, and build up your samurai army to take over the world

Ax Payne: Max Payne's lesser known cousin, who's staunchly against firearms. Uses axes instead!

The Itcher 3: Geralt of Rivia is searching for a topical analgesic after encountering mosquitos

Meal Gear. Tactically finding the food machine without being spotted.

Dom Eternal

You play as Dom from the fast franchise and race demons

Ike, a Dragon - Ike becomes ostracized and has to come to terms what being a dragon truly means.

(Alright I'm pushing the rules by adding comma)

Fight of the Navigator.
David has to defeat Nasa, kidnap Ralph and the McAdams girl, then go back in time to save the Pukmerin's planet from the comet where they start a new life.

Oman's Sky.

An app to view the sultanate night sky in real time.

Awk: Survival Evolved

It's a game about surviving the most awkward situations you could possibly get into as a modern school kid. Parents giving you the sex talk. Forgetting your gym clothes and having to do it in your underwear. etc.

And here I thought this was going to be post apocalyptic survival game where you play the part of a rogue AI forced to interact with its environment solely through awk commands.

ITMAN - game about eliminating software bugs and glitches.

Allout 4,

A partying simulator (probably a bad one)

Castevania : Start as a medieval serf. Speak out against society EVEN THOUGH YOU PARTAKE OF IT (you are not very smart). Try to hem and haw your way to becoming a Feudal Lord. First DLC is Primae Noctis!

Atman - Return of the Joker : You are Angry Joe. You have memberships to seven different gyms, and you use them all…HARD. You never wear a shirt. It is physically impossible. As soon as a shirt clears your neck, it kills itself. In this family-friendly brawler, you don’t have to punch or kick anyone! Your basic attack consists of you slapping your chest and saying, “Don’t @ me bro!” and kills everything onscreen in one hit!

A Boy and his Blo : No, wait, come back! I know what you’re thinking. But, that’s not it. See, in this case, Blo actually means cocaine! And fear not, capitalists! “Boy” does not get his Blo for free, certainly not! Instead, he makes use of a certain set of skills he has to “trade” for…ok I’m going to stop there.

Hosts n Goblins : A time management game where you try to be the perfect host, but to a party of stinky gobbos! They will make outrageous requests of you, such as, “What flavor is dis pet?”, “Stabbin forks not pointy enuf!”, “Me needs a patch o dirt for me stinkies”, “My other wheelbarrow is an orc!” and other zany remarks.

Ron Man : Ron doesn’t have any high-tech suits of armor, or magic powers, or special abilities. He’s just Ron. He goes about his day, doing Ron things. Could be fun for a short while, if you’re into Ron things.

Landtalker : You are a terrain therapist. Your clients are dirt, grass, and sometimes trees. They tell you their problems, you take their money. Level up and get access to new patients like sand, bushes, and rocks! Delve deep into their innermost fears! (Spoiler: it’s always erosion).

Pifall : Whole numbers? What is this, a baby’s game?

Sword of Soda : The Stevia is more dangerous than the blade!

StarTopics : The new forum aggregate that is making waves everywhere! Fight against the evil spez empire!

The itcher - Geralt of Rivia subdues monsters not through violence, but by scritches

Guilty Gar - all out anime-inspired aquatic fighting game

I'm just imagining river fishing in bikinis. There's a minigame where you swat mosquitos before they bite you.

Okémon. Not as good as Pokémon, but it's fine I guess.

Stardew Alley

A game about a new drug dealer moving into town and setting up shop selling crack in an alleyway.

Untitled Goos Game - What's that goo? Do you really want to know? Well you're gonna find out, and several others as well.

City skylies - The city sky lies about the weather and you have to find out what the weather really is?

I am bad at it

Doctor Detrot.

Naive dorky university faculty member by day. Horse amputator with mother issues by night.

Antchamber - anthill simulation game.

-COM : multi-awards domain management simulation. Looking forward the DLCs which should add ORG and NET TLDs !

  • Battle Hess: you're an ecoterrorist and trying to take down Hess Gasoline.

  • Pirate! Gold: you're a loan pirate, no crew, no support. Good luck finding your family and treasure.

  • Ork: a classic text adventure, all about about going to Waagh!

  • Liberal Crime Quad: You and your team have to commit crimes on the grounds of a school

  • Ill of the Jungle: You're a woman in a jungle in a one-piece swimsuit. You get sick and have to find a place to puke while trying to save the Prince.

What are the original titles? I've never heard of them before and I can't figure it out.

  • Battle Chess

  • Pirates! Gold (aka Sid Meier's Pirates!)

  • Zork (aka Zork, the Great Underground Empire)

  • Liberal Crime Squad

  • Jill of the Jungle

They're all older PC games.

Neopara. The bakery was never real, you and your haram must escape the simulation. Heart broken, you learn that they are apart of the simulation and can not leave with you...

Phoenix Wright: Ace Attoney - Basically, My Name is Earl. You have a list of people you wronged and are trying make it up to them in some way.

Kerbal Pace Program: a game about getting little green aliens to run marathons

Sellaris: a game about being a salesman