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Faux serious

Video game concept

Gives generally serious appearance and tone, but is riddled with comic relief, tongue-in-cheek humor, and similar that make the serious tone only skin deep.

17
games
5
platforms
Dead Rising 2 (Xbox 360)
Dead Rising 2
X360 2010-09-24
Deadly Premonition (Windows)
Deadly Premonition
WIN 2013-10
Space Pirates and Zombies (Windows)
Space Pirates and Zombies
WIN 2011-08-15
F.E.A.R. 2: Project Origin (Windows)
F.E.A.R. 2: Project Origin
WIN 2009-02-10
Call of Juarez: Gunslinger (Windows)
Call of Juarez: Gunslinger
WIN 2013-03-31
Dead Rising 2 (PlayStation 3)
Dead Rising 2
PS3 2010-09-24
Dead Rising 2 (Windows)
Dead Rising 2
WIN 2010-09-28
Deadly Premonition (Xbox 360)
Deadly Premonition
X360 2010-02-17
Divinity: Dragon Commander (Windows)
Divinity: Dragon Commander
WIN 2013-08-06
Saints Row: The Third (PlayStation 3)
Saints Row: The Third
PS3 2011-11-15
Saints Row: The Third (Windows)
Saints Row: The Third
WIN 2011-11-15
Saints Row: The Third (Xbox 360)
Saints Row: The Third
X360 2011-11-15
Mockumentaries (for example) and other parodies of serious works are probably excellent examples of this.

Bathos can easily make things feel like at home here.

Popular tags

deadrising-series gtalike saintsrow-series spaz-series

Parent group

Literary tone

Games by year

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The first Faux serious video game was released on February 10, 2009.

MinMax Games, THQ and Capcom published most of these games.

Platforms

Windows 8
Linux 3
X360 3
PS3 2
Mac OS X 1