Did we have any overtly marketing (non-cellphone) games hit consoles like the Yaris or Sneak King?

Yes, Chex Mix quest is on PC, but has the effectiveness of twitch marketing and in-game advertising supplanted the need for a game based on brands. Can i get an Amazon based Factorio? Did i miss something? Any ideas?

I don't know if they were overt in their advertising, but advertising mascots got their share of mascot platformers. Cool Spot, Chester Cheetah, and the Noid all got games.

Advergames are rare these days, but they do still come along occasionally. Games are expensive to make, and I'm sure it's easier for these brands to just do deals to feature their product in other established games (Monster Energy in Death Stranding for example).

That said, a very recent example that comes to mind is Devolverland Expo - basically just a loose framework of a game around a bunch of game trailers. There was also that KFC VR training game that came out a couple of years ago.

There was that KFC Dating Sim.

Doritos Crash Course and that Sour Patch Kids game come to mind.

@imhungry: Forgot about the KFC dating game. Is that available still? Was that a promo you had to buy into?

I Love You Colonel Sanders is still available for free on Steam

KFC also recently had that VR game where the voice of the Colonel taught you how to prepare chicken.

This also reminds me of how Burnout or Midnight Club or BF 2143 had ads for like Burger King or Gillette razors. I thought that stuff was hilarious and almost miss it compared to microtransactions and such

There was the gamecube game Darkened Skye, which was a fantasy action adventure game where all the magic was performed with Skittles(seriously).

This game is amazingly terrible. Everyone should look into it.

They just remade Chex Quest recently, I think that's free.

Fortnite

I mean...yeah.

Pepsiman!

@efesell: Was it a paid for game? I would have definitely picked it up at the time if it were free.

@fourthline: Oh definitely not free. It tried very hard to present as a normal game until you were in it and they start talking about magic Skittles.