Dark Humor

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Some games just won't settle for laughs. Some games make you want to cringe as you're busting a gut.

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Dark Humor is a sub-genre of humor in which taboo subjects are treated in a satirical manner.

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• AaaaaAAaaaAAAaaAAAAaAAAAA!!!: A Reckless Disregard for Gravity (Game)
• Addams Family Values (Game)
• Afterparty (Game)
• Agatha Knife (Game)
• Algo Bot (Game)
• American McGee Presents: Bad Day L.A. (Game)
• American McGee presents SCRAPLAND (Game)
• American McGee's Alice (Game)
• American McGee's Grimm (Game)
• Anodyne (Game)
• Armed and Dangerous (Game)
• Armikrog (Game)
• BMX XXX (Game)
• Banjo-Kazooie (Game)
• Banjo-Tooie (Game)
• Banshee (Game)
• Barbarian II (Game)
• Battle Chess (Game)
• Battle Chess 4000 (Game)
• Battle Chess II: Chinese Chess (Game)
• Battletoads (Game)
• Beneath a Steel Sky (Game)
• Beyond Shadowgate (Game)
• Blast Corps (Game)
• Blood (Game)
• Blood Bowl (Game)
• Blood II: The Chosen (Game)
• Brütal Legend (Game)
• Bully (Game)
• Bully: Scholarship Edition (Game)
• CSI: Crime Scene Investigation - Hard Evidence (Game)
• CSI: Deadly Intent (Game)
• CSI: Fatal Conspiracy (Game)
• Champions of Zulula (Game)
• Clive Barker's Jericho (Game)
• Conker's Bad Fur Day (Game)
• Conker: Live & Reloaded (Game)
• Constructor (Game)
• Contra: Rogue Corps (Game)
• Contract J.A.C.K. (Game)
• Cookie Clicker (Game)
• Cross Edge (Game)
• Darksiders Genesis (Game)
• Darkstalkers 3 (Game)
• Darkstalkers Chronicle: The Chaos Tower (Game)
• Darkstalkers: The Night Warriors (Game)
• Dead Rising 2: Off the Record (Game)
• Denki Groove Jigoku V (Game)
• Deponia (Game)
• Destroy All Humans! (Game)
• Destroy All Humans! 2 (Game)
• Dink Smallwood (Game)
• Dino Hazard (Game)
• Dishonored (Game)
• Dragon Wars (Game)
• Duke Nukem 3D: Plutonium Pak (Game)
• Duke Nukem Advance (Game)
• Duke Nukem: Land of the Babes (Game)
• Duke Nukem: Manhattan Project (Game)
• Duke Nukem: Time to Kill (Game)
• Dungeon Keeper 2 (Game)
• Dungeon Keeper: The Deeper Dungeons (Game)
• Dwarf Fortress (Game)
• Earthbound Beginnings (Game)
• Earthworm Jim (Game)
• Earthworm Jim 2 (Game)
• Earthworm Jim 3D (Game)
• Earthworm Jim: Menace 2 the Galaxy (Game)
• Edna & Harvey: Harvey's New Eyes (Game)
• Eric the Unready (Game)
• Evil Days of Luckless John (Game)
• Evil Dead: Regeneration (Game)
• Exploding Kittens (Game)
• Fairytale Fights (Game)
• Fallout (Game)
• Fallout 2 (Game)
• Fallout 3 (Game)
• Fallout Tactics: Brotherhood of Steel (Game)
• Fallout: Brotherhood of Steel (Game)
• Family Guy Video Game! (Game)
• Finding Paradise (Game)
• Full Throttle (Game)
• Gekkeiju Online (Game)
• Giants: Citizen Kabuto (Game)
• Goodbye Deponia (Game)
• Gori: Cuddly Carnage (Game)
• Gothic (Game)
• Grabbed by the Ghoulies (Game)
• Grand Theft Auto (Game)
• Grand Theft Auto 2 (Game)
• Grand Theft Auto V (Game)
• Grand Theft Auto: Chinatown Wars (Game)
• Grand Theft Auto: Liberty City Stories (Game)
• Grand Theft Auto: London 1969 (Game)
• Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas (Game)
• Grand Theft Auto: Vice City Stories (Game)
• Grim Fandango (Game)
• Harvester (Game)
• Heavenly Sword (Game)
• Hell of an Office (Game)

Concept details

Name

Dark Humor

Aliases

Gallows Humor

Games

• AaaaaAAaaaAAAaaAAAAaAAAAA!!!: A Reckless Disregard for Gravity (Game)
• Addams Family Values (Game)
• Afterparty (Game)
• Agatha Knife (Game)
• Algo Bot (Game)
• American McGee Presents: Bad Day L.A. (Game)
• American McGee presents SCRAPLAND (Game)
• American McGee's Alice (Game)
• American McGee's Grimm (Game)
• Anodyne (Game)
• Armed and Dangerous (Game)
• Armikrog (Game)
• BMX XXX (Game)
• Banjo-Kazooie (Game)
• Banjo-Tooie (Game)
• Banshee (Game)
• Barbarian II (Game)
• Battle Chess (Game)
• Battle Chess 4000 (Game)
• Battle Chess II: Chinese Chess (Game)
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Franchises

• Has franchises: Mortal Kombat (Franchise), Grand Theft Auto (Franchise), Half-Life (Franchise), Portal (Franchise), Batman (Franchise), DC Universe (Franchise), Conker (Franchise), The Simpsons (Franchise), Batman: Arkham (Franchise), The Chronicles of Riddick (Franchise), Mercenaries (Franchise), Dead Rising (Franchise), Duke Nukem (Franchise), Bully (Franchise), Shadow Warrior (Franchise), SiN (Franchise), The Grim Adventures of Billy & Mandy (Franchise), Peggle (Franchise), Sam & Max (Franchise), Battletoads (Franchise), Fallout (Franchise), Warhammer 40,000 (Franchise), Warhammer 40,000: Dawn of War (Franchise), Penny Arcade (Franchise), Maniac Mansion (Franchise), Clive Barker (Franchise), Monkey Island (Franchise), Manhunt (Franchise), Darkstalkers (Franchise), The Neverhood (Franchise), TimeSplitters (Franchise), Destroy All Humans (Franchise), Gothic (Franchise), Earthworm Jim (Franchise), Shadow Hearts (Franchise), Postal (Franchise), Leisure Suit Larry (Franchise), Dungeon Keeper (Franchise), EarthBound (Franchise), Cartoon Network (Franchise), Fable (Franchise), True Crime (Franchise), Red Dead (Franchise), American McGee's Alice (Franchise), Family Guy (Franchise), Oddworld (Franchise), South Park (Franchise), Zork (Franchise), Serious Sam (Franchise), Zombies Ate My Neighbours (Franchise), MegaRace (Franchise), Vampire: The Masquerade (Franchise), House of the Dead (Franchise), Overlord (Franchise), Mafia (Franchise), CSI (Franchise), Might and Magic (Franchise), Blood Bowl (Franchise), Warhammer (Franchise), Wasteland (Franchise), Blood (Franchise), Shadowgate (Franchise), Edna & Harvey (Franchise), Deponia (Franchise), Evil Dead (Franchise), Battle Chess (Franchise), Barbarian Series (Franchise), Redneck Rampage (Franchise), Constructor (Franchise), McMillenverse (Franchise), Tony Tough (Franchise)

Characters

• Has characters: Freddy Krueger (Character), Agahnim (Character), Vaati (Character), PROXY (Character), Ash Williams (Character), Deadpool (Character), Weighted Companion Cube (Character), Chell (Character), Donovan Baine (Character), Mohammed (Character), B.B. Hood (Character), Lo Wang (Character), Morrigan Aensland (Character), Q-Bee (Character), The Great Mighty Poo (Character), Irwin (Character), Calypso (Character), Max (Character), Kefka (Character), Loki (Character), Leon the Coroner (Character), Sasquatch (Character), Jedah Dohma (Character), Pyron (Character), Rikuo (Character), Victor von Gerdenheim (Character), Bishamon (Character), Huitzil (Character), Lord Raptor (Character), Crypto (Character), Orthopox (Character), Vault Boy (Character), Alice Liddell (Character), Abe (Character), John Constantine (Character), Betelgeuse (Character), Jonesy (Character), Rexus (Character), Marcus Reed (Character), Smiling Jack (Character), Rorschach (Character), The Comedian (Character), Grimm (Character), Billy (Character), Boogey Man (Character), Eris (Character), Nergal (Character), Grim Reaper (Character), Hoss Delgado (Character), Mandy (Character), Fred Fredburger (Character), Lumpy (Character), Flippy (Character), Flaky (Character), Giggles (Character), Russell (Character), Toothy (Character), Prince Vincent Wright (Character), Whacka (Character), Caleb (Character), Duke Nukem (Character), GLaDOS (Character), Smash (Character), Sylvia Christel (Character), Lilith (Character)

Locations

• Has locations: Aperture Science Enrichment Center (Location), Endsville (Location), Grey Mountains Asylum (Location)

Objects

• Has objects: Gun (Object), Nuclear Bomb (Object), Cake (Object), Bang Flag (Object), Cat Silencer (Object)

People

• Has people: Vince Desi (Person), Ben Croshaw (Person), Gilbert Gottfried (Person), John Cleese (Person), Artie Lange (Person), Anthony Burch (Person)

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• Has related concepts: Demon (Concept), Murder (Concept), Zombie (Concept), Controversy (Concept), Action One-Liners (Concept), Cutscene (Concept), Self-Referential Humor (Concept), Satire (Concept), Electrical X-ray (Concept), Urinating (Concept), Futuristic Game Show (Concept), Pithy Epitaphs (Concept), Comedian (Concept), Happy Killing (Concept), Clowns (Concept), Jump Scare Moment (Concept), Suggestive Remark (Concept), Cartoon Violence (Concept), Running Gag (Concept), Death (Concept), Bangsian Fantasy (Concept), Dark Fairy Tales (Concept), Scatological Humor (Concept), Malkavians (Concept), Grindhouse (Concept), Sprays (Concept), Man Darts (Concept), Melnorme (Concept), Genome Engine (Concept)