Ten comedy games
Jokes, parodies and absurd situations, for April Fools' Day
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Portal 2007
Valve's puzzle game about a gun that links two portals in space, so an object keeps its momentum from one to the other. One tool and those rules open many solutions, and the humour keeps you going.
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EarthBound 1994
A meteorite lands near Ness's home, and he leads a party of four to collect eight melodies from sanctuaries around the world, in a role playing game whose humour gets wackier as you go.
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Monkey Island 2: LeChuck's Revenge 1991
Guybrush explores several islands in what was then LucasArts' most nonlinear game, a comic adventure with a lot of people to talk to and no way to die for a mistake.
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Tales from the Borderlands 2014
Rhys and Fiona tell the story in turn on Pandora, after Borderlands 2, in writing that balances comedy against drama. Handsome Jack, Claptrap and Mad Moxxi appear across five episodes.
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Hypnospace Outlaw 2019
You are an enforcer in Hypnospace, a parody of the 1990s internet that people visit while asleep, browsing its pages from a desktop of the period. Every case is solved by reading the pages and following what they say.
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Discworld Noir 1999
The private investigator Lewton is drawn into the occult underworld of Ankh-Morpork in a film noir parody set in Terry Pratchett's Discworld.
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Space Quest IV: Roger Wilco and the Time Rippers 1991
Roger Wilco is thrown into a new adventure across time and space to thwart an old enemy's revenge, in the fourth Space Quest.
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The Book of Unwritten Tales 2 2015
Four heroes, a gnome mage, a human, an elf princess and a furry alien, share an adventure in Aventasia, where a magic force is turning beasts into puppies. Hundreds of puzzles are weird but logical, and the jokes parody fantasy classics.
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Theme Hospital 1997
Bullfrog's business simulation puts a private hospital in your hands, built room by room for patients with comical, made up ailments.
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God Hand 2006
Gene, a martial artist with a legendary divine arm called the God Hand, fights to save the world from demons, in Shinji Mikami's beat 'em up full of jokes.
