Dark humor

Culture concept

Humor that makes light of taboo and/or depressingly serious subjects to entertain, cause discomfort, and/or provoke serious thought on the subject.

47
games
11
platforms

Alternate names: Black comedy, morbid humor

A mainstay of darkhumor is provoking the audience to laugh precisely when the audience believes it is wrong for them to so.

To make a normal person laugh, a comedian dresses up as a little old lady and falls down a manhole. To make a comedian laugh, it needs to be an actual little old lady.

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Parent groups

Comedy, Crude humor

Related group

Culture
Punch and Judy

Games by year

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The first Dark humor video game was released in 1975.

Electronic Arts, Telltale Games and TinyBuildGames published most of these games.

Platforms

Linux 20
Windows 13
Mac OS X 5
MS-DOS 2
PS3 1
X360 1
Altair 8800 1
Apple II E 1
Win3.1 1
iOS 1
BeOS 1