X Meets Y/Video Games/Games

• 1... 2... 3... KICK IT! Drop That Beat Like An Ugly Baby is Aaaaa a Aaaa AA Aaa AAA Aa AAAAAA Reckless Disregard For Gravity meets Audiosurf
• 8-Bit Deathmatch is Mega Man meets Doom.
• Act Raiser is Valis meets Sim City meets Christianity.
• Sega's Alien Storm is Alien meets Golden Axe.
• The Ace Attorney series could be described as "a Shounen series written by John Grisham".
• Aliens vs. Predator is Doom meets Halo ODST.
• Assassin's Creed is Hitman meets Ancient Conspiracy.
• Age of Wonders is Dungeons and Dragons meets Civilization.
• Amazing Island. Some critic described on the back of the games case that it was like Pokémon meets Mario Party.
• Audiosurf is Rock Band meets F-Zero meets TRON Legacy meets a Media Player Visualization.
• Asura's Wrath is basically God of War meets Naruto meets Fist of the North Star meets Gurren Lagann meets God Hand meets Dragonball Z meets A bunch of Steroids and Testosterone Growth hormone. Heavy Rain, Street Fighter (Literally) and some more Super Robot Genre (Via DLC) are in it as well.
• Angry Birds Space is Angry Birds meets Super Mario Galaxy.
  • Angry Birds itself is Crush The Castle meets a bright, sugary art style.
• Blur is Project Gotham Racing meets Mario Kart. Makes sense, since Blur and PGR are both from Bizarre Creations.
• Blast Works is Darius meets Katamari Damacy.
  • And Katamari itself is Bubbles (1982 arcade game by Williams) meets the brightly-colored collect-fests of the fifth console generation.
• Bit.trip Beat is Pong meets Rez.
• Backyard Sports is MLB/MLS/NBA/NFL/NHL meets Jimmy Neutron-esque characters.
• Blaz Blue is Guilty Gear meets Trigun.
  • I'm pretty sure Blaz Blue is Guilty Gear meets Melty Blood and a dash of Fate/stay night.
    • Perhaps, but Word of God says Trigun was the main inspiration.
• The Beatles:Rock Band is Rock Band meets Yellow Submarine.
• Billy Hatcher and the Giant Egg is Sonic the Hedgehog meets Katamari Damacy with a heaping helping of Everything's Better with Chickens.
• Blood Bowl is Madden NFL meets Warhammer Fantasy
• Gearbox Studios pitched Borderlands as "Halo meets Diablo".
• Beat Hazard is Audiosurf meets Bullet Hell.
• The Binding of Isaac is The Legend of Zelda (original version) meets 'Silent Hill meets Roguelikes.
• Big Rigs Over the Road Racing is The Eye of Argon meets Gran Turismo.
• Bioshock Infinite is Bioshock 1 put plot is mostly reverse and inverted on Floating Small City with Steampunk setting instead meets Half Life 2.
• Boiling Point: Road to Hell (and the sequel, White Gold: War in Paradise) is Grand Theft Auto meets Deus Ex.
• Bulletstorm is Duke Nukem meets MadWorld.
• Call of Duty:
  • Call of Duty: Modern Warfare trilogy:
    • Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare is Call of Duty meets Half-Life meets The War on Terror.
    • Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 is Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare meets Red Dawn.
    • Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3 is Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 meets Air Force One meets God of War meets Metal Gear Solid 4: Guns of the Patriots.
  • Call of Duty: Modern Warfare (2019) is the original Modern Warfare trilogy meets Medal of Honor 2010 (and Warfighter) meets Zero Dark Thirty.
• Command and Conquer 3: Tiberium Wars is G.I. Joe fighting COBRA, when all of a sudden a third faction shows up that happens to be a Alien Invasion force.
• Contra = Alien S + Commando + Rambo First Blood Part II
  • Arc Hound Contra Force is Contra (in the modern day) with the power-up system from Gradius.
• Castle Crashers: Gauntlet (1985 video game) meets Alien Hominid Literally, at one point.
• Culdcept is Monopoly with elements of Magic: The Gathering.
• Castlevania Judgment can be described as Castlevania meets Soul Calibur, with plenty of Death Note in the art.
• Castlevania: Chronicles of Sorrow could be Castlevania meets JoJo's Bizarre Adventure
• Castlevania: Lords of Shadow is most certainly Castlevania meets Shadow of the Colossus.
• Conkers Bad Fur Day is Looney Tunes Meets South Park
• Crimson Skies is Diesel Punk meets Sky Captain and The World of Tomorrow.
• Catherine is Ico meets Swan Lake or Black Swan
• Danganronpa is Total Drama meets Charlie and the Chocolate Factory meets Ace Attorney, with a pinch of A Nightmare on Elm Street to top it all off.
  • Super Danganronpa 2: Goodbye Despair is Danganronpa meets Second Life meets Denji Sentai Megaranger meets Choujuu Sentai Liveman meets The Matrix
  • New Danganronpa V3: Killing Harmony is Danganronpa meets Your Lie In April meets Choujuu Sentai Liveman meets Kamen Rider 1971 meets Chikyuu Sentai Fiveman meets The Truman Show meets Digimon Tamers meets The Running Man
  • Danganronpa Another Episode is Contra meets Shadow the Hedgehog meets Gosei Sentai Dairanger
• DJMAX Technika is Elite Beat Agents meets Lumines.
• Dragon Quest Monsters = Dragon Quest + Pokémon
  • It's more like Dragon Quest meets Shin Megami Tensei as most of the breeding elements are more commonplace in that series of games. The tone, however?
• Day Of Defeat: Source is Counter-Strike meets Call of Duty.
• Dino Crisis is Resident Evil meets Jurassic Park.
• Dino Crisis 3 is Alien meets Jurassic Park.
• Deus Ex: Human Revolution is Mass Effect meets Metal Gear, at least in terms of gameplay.
• The Dark Cloud series itself is like Sim City meets Final Fantasy, and the second game adds Chrono Trigger to the mix.
• Drawn to Life is Act Raiser meets Animal Crossing.
• Dragon Age is Baldur's Gate meets A Song of Ice and Fire with a little bit of Warhammer Fantasy, Buffy the Vampire Slayer, and medieval Christianity thrown in for good measure.
• Dokapon Kingdom is Dungeons & Dragons meets Mario Party.
• Doom was once described by John Carmack as Aliens meets Evil Dead 2.
• The beat-em-up Dantes Inferno is The Divine Comedy meets God of War.
  • Dantes Inferno is also God of War meets The Devil.
• Dead Space is the premise of System Shock 2 with the gameplay of Resident Evil 4.
• Deadly Premonition : Twin Peaks meets Silent Hill
• Demonbane is The Big O meets H.P. Lovecraft.
• Dynasty Warriors: Strikeforce is Dynasty Warriors meets Dragonball Z.
• Dead Rising is Resident Evil meets Final Fight
• Dr. Mario is Mario Bros meets Tetris.
• Darksiders is God of War meets The Legend of Zelda, starring The Horseman of War.
• Drakengard is The Inheritance Cycle meets Berserk.
• Dragons Dogma is Monster Hunter meets Dark Souls.
• Duke Nukem is Terminator meets Commander Keen meets Parodius.
• Escape Velocity is Asteroids meets Elite.
• Eets is loosely summed up as Lemmings meets The Incredible Machine.
• Enslaved: Odyssey to the West is Journey to the West meets Escape from New York.
• Video game reviewer Yahtzee describes Earthbound as "a cross between the Cthulhu Mythos and the Charlie Brown and Snoopy Show."
  • Earthbound could also be seen as Dragon Quest meets A Wrinkle in Time.
• Eversion is Super Mario Bros. meets Monster Party.
  • Or maybe it's Cocoron meets Yume Nikki.
• EZ2Dancer is Dance ManiaX meets Dance Dance Revolution.
  • Techno Motion is Dance Dance Revolution meets Pump It Up. KONAMI AND ANDAMIRO WILL SUE.
  • Pump It Up Pro is In the Groove meets Pump It Up.
• ESWAT is Shinobi meets RoboCop.
• Evil Genius is Dungeon Keeper meets James Bond
• Nintendo Power described Fossil Fighters as Pokémon meets Jurassic Park. Because every Mons game is like Pokemon (It's really Spectrobes meets Jurassic Park).
• The Fallout francise is Mad Max meets Pleasantville.
• Final Fantasy Crystal Chronicles: My Life as a King = Crystal Chronicles + Dark Cloud
• The F.E.A.R. series is essentially Hard Boiled meets The Ring meets Scanners meets Elfen Lied.
• Free Realms: World of Warcraft meets Neopets
• Fairytale Fights: Castle Crashers meets Hoodwinked as seen through Animal Crossing-colored filters.
• Final Fantasy Tactics is Final Fantasy meets Tactics Ogre.
• Freedom Planet is Sonic the Hedgehog meets The Powerpuff Girls meets Kung Fu Panda, with a pinch of Gunstar Heroes
• Farmville: Harvest Moon meets Facebook
• Grim Fandango can be described as Film Noir meets the Dia de los Muertos.
• Grim Grimoire is Groundhog Day meets Harry Potter with Les Yay.
• Gyromancer is Final Fantasy meets Bejeweled Twist
• Ge Ne Sis is totally Kingdom Hearts meets Persona 4, on a flash game!
• Golden Sun's gameplay is The Legend of Zelda meets Final Fantasy
• Grand Theft Auto Chinatown Wars is Crazy Taxi meets crime.
• The Guardian Legend is Aleste meets Golvellius.
• God Hand is Final Fight meets Fist of the North Star meets Devil May Cry.
• Gyruss is Galaga meets Tempest.
  • Torus Trooper is Gyruss meets F-Zero.
• Video game Historian/analyst Kieth Fienstien on CNBC called Halo: "RoboCop, with Colonial Marines from Aliens, meets War of the Worlds, with a Night of the Living Dead/Invasion of the Body Snatchers subplot.
  • Let's not forget Ring World, the most obvious one of all for those familiar with it.
• The Happyhills Homicide is A Nightmare on Elm Street meets Hitman (video game series) meets Assassin's Creed.
• Heretic is basically Doom meets Castlevania.
• Heart of Darkness is Commander Keen meets Another World.
• Halo is Marathon meets Starcraft meets Call of Duty.
  • Starship Troopers meets Captain America by way of The Lord of the Rings.
  • Master Chief himself is "Captain America" meets "Iron Man" meets "Ender'sGame"
• Hotel Dusk: Room 215 is Ace Attorney Investigations meets Professor Layton.
  • Actually, the upcoming Professor Layton VS. Ace Attorney (for the non-believers, yes it's real) is Ace Attorney meets Professor Layton.
• Home Front is Red Dawn meets Modern Warfare.
• Hydlide is Ultima meets The Tower of Druaga.
• Injustice: Gods Among Us is an alternate version of the DC Universe meets a Darker and Edgier version of Kingdom Hearts meets Star Wars.
  • Its sequel, Injustice 2 is Injustice: Gods Among Us meets Captain America: Civil War.
• Jak II is basically Jak and Daxter meets Grand Theft Auto.
  • And Jak III is Jak II meets Motorstorm.
• Jewelry Master is Super Puzzle Fighter II Turbo meets Tetris.
• Just Cause 2 is Bionic Commando meets Mercenaries with a dash of Grand Theft Auto, thoroughly marinated in Rule of Cool, Rule of Awesome, and an awful lot of Stuff Blowing Up.
• Kingdom Hearts is quite literally Disney meets Final Fantasy. Gameplay-wise, it's Super Mario 64 mixed with Street Fighter III.
  • On that note, Epic Mickey is Mickey Mouse meets Deus Ex and System Shock.
• Kirby + Line Rider = Kirby: Canvas Curse.
  • Kirby & the Amazing Mirror + Kirby: Canvas Curse + Sonic Colors = Kirby Mass Attack
• It looks like Bioware's new MMO is going to be Knights of the Old Republic meets World of Warcraft. Based on the division of players into two sides (one "light" but not good, and one dark yet not "evil") that were at war, but have an unstable treaty...
• Knytt is Shadow of the Colossus meets Ico.
  • Knytt Stories is Knytt with the atmosphere and flora (and ring world, in the case of A Strange Dream) of Creatures.
• Killing Floor is Left 4 Dead meets 28 Days Later
• Kickle Cubicle is Adventures of Lolo meets Pengo.
• Kingdoms of Amalur is The Elder Scrolls meets God of War.
• Lollipop Chainsaw is Dead Rising meets OneChanbara
• Lethal Enforcers 3 is Police 911 (or Time Crisis) meets Wangan Midnight Maximum Tune.
• Lumines is Puyo Puyo meets Rez.
• La-Mulana is Indiana Jones meets Knightmare II: Maze of Galious.
• Lugaru is Usagi Yojimbo meets lo-res computer graphics.
• The Legend of Zelda Majoras Mask is Alice in Wonderland meets Groundhog Day.
  • Or Donnie Darko meets The Legend of Zelda Ocarina of Time.
• LA Noire is L.A. Confidential meets Grand Theft Auto
• Manhunt is The Warriors meets The Running Man meets the Slasher Movie genre.
  • Manhunt 2 is the Slasher Movie genre meets Fight Club.
• The Metal Gear series is James Bond meets The Matrix meets Rambo.
• Xbox Live Arcade shooter Monday Night Combat can best be summed up as Team Fortress 2 meets The Bigs meets Gears of War with a few elements of Defense of the Ancients game mixed in. Yes, it's as good a combination as it sounds!
• Metal Wolf Chaos has been described as "The West Wing meets Robotech meets Rampage."
  • Or Tengen Toppa Gurren Lagann meets Air Force One.
  • Or simply: "Counter-Strike meets World War II".
• Mass Effect is NOT Luke Skywalker meets Debbie Does Dallas, despite what a certain someone thinks (or at least, used to think).
  • It's more like Starship Troopers meets Rendezvous With Rama meets The Call Of Cthulhu.
  • Or Star Wars meets Star Trek meets Battlestar Galactica and a whole lot of tropes.
    • To be a little more specific on the Star Wars part, it's Knights of the Old Republic meets Star Trek, with a little bit of the Cthulhu Mythos and Gears of War (combat-wise) thrown in., as well as Halo. Mass Effect has a lot of plot points taken from Halo.
• Yahtzee described Minecraft to be Zelda meets There Will Be Blood.
• Magician's Quest: Mysterious Times / Little Magician's Magic Adventure is Animal Crossing meets Harry Potter
• Metamorphic Force is Altered Beast meets Fist of the North Star.
• Muramasa: The Demon Blade: Ninja Gaiden meets Odin Sphere.
• Mushihime-sama is Touhou meets Do Don Pachi or Touhou meets Nausicaa of the Valley of the Wind, story-wise.
  • Mushihime-tama is Peggle meets Puyo Puyo.
• The Maw is A Boy and His Blob meets Kirby.
• Mana Khemia Alchemists of Al Revis is Harry Potter meets Persona 4 meets Haruhi Suzumiya.
• Mutant Rampage Body Slam is MadWorld meets Mutation Nation meets Link: The Faces Of Evil/Zelda: Wand of Gamelon.
• Monster Hunter is Final Fantasy meets Cabela's Big Game Hunt meets Guild Wars.
• Modnation Racers is what happens when Mario Kart and Little Big Planet get together.
• Magicka is Loom meets Left 4 Dead.
• Mini Robot Wars is Plants vs. Zombies meets Mega Man.
• Max Payne 1 & 2 is John Woo's Heroic Bloodshed genre meets Film Noir meets The Matrix.
  • Max Payne 3 is Man on Fire meets Heroic Bloodshed meets The Matrix.
• Mortal Kombat is Stargate meets the Wuxia genre with Sci-fi, and horror overtones, and with a dusting of Game of Thrones.
  • Mortal Kombat 11 is Mortal Kombat 9 meets Mortal Kombat X meets Avengers: Infinity War.
    • Mortal Kombat 11: Aftermath is Mortal Kombat 11 meets Avengers: Endgame.
• Nehrim is Morrowind (not Oblivion oddly enough, despite being a mod for it.) meets Gothic (Adding the Deadly Reflex mod adds "meets Dark Messiah").
• No More Heroes: Kill Bill meets Scott Pilgrim
• Neverwinter Nights module The Bastard of Kosigan is Medieval Burgundy meets Dungeons and Dragons. Yes, the King of France has a pet dragon. And the Inquisition has actual witches to worry about. And the ruling house of the Barony of Velan are elves.
  • A Dance With Rogues is A Song of Ice and Fire meets the Trickster books with a whole lot more explicit sex.
  • Neverwinter Nights 2 is Forgotten Realms meets Slayers.
• Nethack: Dungeons & Dragons meets the alphabet.
• NFL Blitz: Tecmo Bowl meets NBA Jam.
• Nine Hours, Nine Persons, Nine Doors is the original Saw in the Ace Attorney and Professor Layton universe.
• No Delivery: One Night at the Steeze meets Mother 3 meets Darkest Dungeon.
• One Night at the Steeze: Five Nights at Freddy's meets EarthBound.
• Outlaws of the Lost Dynasty: Street Fighter II meets The Water Margin.
• Overlord: Pikmin meets Lord of the Rings
• Psychonauts: "Earthbound meets mid-90s Nickelodeon."
  • Or "Earthbound meets Invader Zim" in terms of wackiness.
  • Yahtzee also described Psychonauts as "It's kinda like if Tim Burton knocked up David Lynch in Willy Wonka's chocolate factory and he did meth right up until the birth."
  • Alternatively, Camp Lazlo meets Inception
• Prince of Persia meets Metal Gear Solid? Assassins' Creed.
  • That, or The Matrix meets The Da Vinci Code.
• Puzzle Quest: Bejeweled meets Warlords.
  • Puzzle Quest 2: Bejeweled meets World of Warcraft
  • PQ:Galatrix: Puzzle Quest meets Hexic meets Eve Online.
  • Puzzle Kingdoms: Bejeweled meets Fire Emblem.
  • Puzzle Chronicles: Super Puzzle Fighter meets Conan the Barbarian.
• The SNK arcade and NES game P.O.W. Prisoners of War is Double Dragon meets The Great Escape.
• Persona 3 is something akin to Code Lyoko meets Bleach...
• Persona 4: Scooby Doo meets Death Note.
  • Maybe American Gods doing something illegal with Kafka on the Shore and Earthbound.
  • Kamen Rider Ryuki meets the Persona Series.
• The entire Persona series is Shin Megami Tensei meets JoJo's Bizarre Adventure meets Jungian psychology.
• Pokémon
  • Pokémon Conquest is Pokémon meets Samurai Warriors (even retaining most of the warlords' character designs from the latter).
  • Pokémon Sword and Shield is Pokémon meets Xenoblade Chronicles meets The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild meets Kaiju movies. Or, to be precise, Pokémon meets Metroid.
    • The Expansion Packs:
      • The Isle of Armor is Pokémon Sword and Shield meets Tekken, JoJo's Bizarre Adventure,Fist of the North Star, Kamen Rider Super-1, Kamen Rider Ryuki, Juken Sentai Gekiranger, Ultraman Leo, and Dragon Ball Super.
      • The Crown Tundra is Pokémon Sword and Shield meets Super Metroid, Metroid Prime, Soulcalibur VI, Kamen Rider Decade, Kamen Rider Zi-O, Ultraman Ginga, and Ultraman Orb.
  • Pokémon Legends: Arceus' is Pokémon Diamond and Pearl meets Attack on Titan meets Ultraman Trigger: New Generation Tiga.
• Prototype: Hulk: Ultimate Destruction meets the game of Spider-Man 2 meets Assassin's Creed meets a big bucket of blood.
• Pump It Up Pro is In the Groove meets Pump It Up.
• Patriot Dark is Do Don Pachi meets Ketsui meets Espgaluda. (In other words, it's what happens when you throw CAVE's games into a blender.)
• The Precursors is Deus Ex meets Freelancer.
• Pong is tennis meets television.
• In spite of itself, Plumbers Don't Wear Ties is Monty Python's Flying Circus meets Softcore Porn.
• Puzzle Agent is Professor Layton in Fargo.
• Perfect Dark is Ghost in the Shell meets The X-Files, with the gameplay of Goldeneye.
• Rune Factory: A Fantasy Harvest Moon is Dungeon Siege meets Monster Rancher.
  • A lot of official sources will all but state this.
• Resident Evil 4 is Night of the Living Dead meets The Wicker Man (1973 version) meets The Thing.
  • Or Invasion of the Body Snatchers meet 24 meets Dagon meets The Wicker Man.
• Razing Storm is Ghost Squad meets Time Crisis.
  • No, actually Ghost Squad meets Metal Gear Solid 4 Guns of the Patriots featuring More Dakka and Stuff Blowing Up.
• Rez is Ray Crisis (both its setting and the lock-on mechanic!) meets Starblade.
• Rainbow Islands Evolution (obscure PSP game): Kid Icarus meets the Z-axis and Samba De Amigo.
• Rock of Ages is Marble Madness meets Rampart.
• Rock Band is Guitar Hero meets Drum Mania meets Karaoke Revolution.
• Red Dead Redemption: Grand Theft Auto meets The Wild Bunch.
• Resident Evil 5 is The Constant Gardener meets The Puppet Masters meets Black Hawk Down
• Rule of Rose: Lord of the Flies meets Silent Hill, except that they are all girls.
• Rez: Space Harrier meets Tron with a helping of synesthesia.
• Samhain: The Legend of Zelda (video game) meets EarthBound meets Monster Party.
• Little-known PC and Xbox FPS Section 8 (video game) is best described as Battlefield meets A Reckless Disregard for Gravity meets The Outfit meets Crackdown.
• An advertisement for the game Sins of a Solar Empire (which really has nothing to do with sins) says Gamespot described it as Galactic Civilization meets Homeworld.
  • Sins of a Solar Empire is Galactic Civilizations meets Supreme Commander.
• Super Meat Boy is Donkey Kong meets I Wanna Be the Guy.
• Sin and Punishment: Star Fox meets Neon Genesis Evangelion.
• Star Wars Battlefront is, of course, Star Wars meets Battlefield
• The Jump Stars series is Super Smash Bros meets Shonen Jump.
  • Add SSB to Onimusha and you get Onimusha: Blade Warriors.
  • Do the same to Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles to get Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Smash-Up.
  • Mix some Streets of Rage and Kirby to Smash Bros. and you have Brawl's Subspace Emissary.
  • Super Smash Bros. is Street Fighter meets Super Mario Bros..
• Spelunky: La-Mulana meets Roguelikes. And Mario.
• Silent Hill 3 is Juno meets H.P. Lovecraft. No word on what the other ones are.
• Senko no Ronde is Star Control meets Bullet Hell.
• Space Invaders Extreme is Space Invaders meets Rez.
• Sam and Max Freelance Police: Animaniacs meets Psych (even though they both came out long after Sam and Max).
• Strife is Doom meets Star Wars.
  • Star Wars: Dark Forces would also fit this description, in a different way.
• Shadow Hearts = Hellboy + Monty Python + All Quiet on the Western Front + Indiana Jones + Tim Powers' work + ...it's complicated, alright?
• Shadow the Hedgehog is Sonic Adventure 2 meets Resident Evil.
• Spectrobes: Phantasy Star meets Pokémon.
• Super Mario RPG is Super Mario Bros. meets Final Fantasy.
• The Super Mario series is Mario Bros meets Alice in Wonderland.
• Singularity is Bioshock meets Back to The Future meets Red Alert.
• Steel Battalion is VOTOMS meets X Simulator.
• Starbound is Terraria meets Doctor Who
• Starcraft: Starship Troopers meets Alien vs. Predator.
  • Starcraft II: Wings of Liberty is sort of Starcraft meets Firefly.
  • Alternative for Starcraft Brood Wars: Starship Troopers meets Warcraft
    • Starcraft' is basically the art style of Warhammer40000 copy-and-pasted onto Starship Troopers with a good amount of Firefly thrown into the mix.
• Shin Megami Tensei would be Fist of the North Star meets Pokémon if it wasn't actually older than Pokemon.
  • Presumably, this means Pokémon is Shin Megami Tensei, as made by 4Kids.
• Summon Night: Swordcraft Story is Diablo meets Harry Potter, but with blacksmithing instead of magic.
• Star Ocean is Tales of Phantasia meets Star Trek.
• Spider-Man games:
  • Spider-Man: Web of Shadows is Spider-Man meets Fable
  • Spider-Man: Miles Morales is Spider-Man (PS4) meets Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse.
• Spiral Knights is a Phantasy Star MMORPG meets clockwork Mega Man or Steampunk Zelda with some Crystal Chronicles added in for good measure.
  • Don't forget Diablo.
• SonicTheHedgehog (classic gameplay at least) was Super Mario Bros. meets racing games.
  • Sonic Battle is Sonic the Hedgehog meets Power Stone.
  • Sonic the Fighters is Sonic the Hedgehog meets Virtua Fighter meets Fighting Vipers
  • Sonic Adventure is Super Mario 64 meets Mega Man X4 meets Crash Bandicoot meets Raiders of the Lost Ark
  • Sonic Adventure 2 is Godzilla vs. Megalon meets Choujuu Sentai Liveman
  • Sonic Rush is Sonic meets Mothra vs. Godzilla meets Wonder Woman
  • Sonic the Hedgehog (2006) is Sonic Adventure 2 meets Godzilla vs. Destoroyah with a pinch of Final Fantasy to taste
  • Sonic Generations is Mickey Mania meets Sonic the Hedgehog (he even meets his classic self).
• The Soul Series: The entire franchise in general is Tekken meets Samurai Shodown meets Mortal Kombat written and directed by Hiroyuki Imaishi.
  • Soul Edge/Soul Blade is Samurai Shodown meets Virtua Fighter meets Tekken meets Kamen Rider Black meets Ultra Q.
  • Soulcalibur is Soul Edge meets Journey to the West meets Ultraseven meets Ultraman Tiga.
  • Soulcalibur II is Soulcalibur meets Tekken meets The Legend of Zelda meets Spawn meets Kamen Rider Ryuki meets Ultraman Dyna.
  • Soulcalibur III is Soulcalibur II meets Ultraman Gaia meets Ultraman Cosmos.
  • Soulcalibur IV is Soulcalibur III meets Star Wars meets Kamen Rider 555 meets Ultraman Leo meets Ultraman Nexus.
  • Soulcalibur V is Soulcalibur IV and Broken Destiny meets Persona 4 meets Ultraman Mebius meets  Puella Magi Madoka Magica meets Kamen Rider Kabuto: God Speed Love.
  • Soulcalibur VI is Soulcalibur meets Mortal Kombat 9 meets Super Smash Bros. meets Kamen Rider Decade meets Kamen Rider Gaim meets Kamen Rider Zi-O meets Ultraman Ginga meets Ultraman X meets Ultraman Orb meets Ultraman Geed meets Ultraman R/B meets Tengen Toppa Gurren Lagann.
• Shadows of the Damned is the legend of Orpheus as a grindhouse action movie.
• The Simpsons Hit and Run is Grand Theft Auto meets the Simpsons arcade game meets Continuity Porn.
• Super Robot Taisen is Fire Emblem in terms of gameplay, combined with Humongous Mecha (or, alternately, Banpresto-made licensed games depending on the entry).
• Stinkoman 20 X 6 is Mega Man meets Homestar Runner.
• Smash TV is Robotron: 2084 meets The Running Man.
• Street Fighter: The franchise in general is JoJo's Bizarre Adventure meets Dragon Ball meets Enter the Dragon meets The King of Fighters meets Final Fight.
  • The first Street Fighter game is Fist of the North Star meets Kamen Rider (1971) meets Himitsu Sentai Gorenger meets Ultraman meets The Karate Kid.
  • Street Fighter II is Street Fighter meets Return of Ultraman meets Mobile Suit Gundam ZZ meets Game of Death.
  • Street Fighter Alpha is Street Fighter II meets Mega Man X meets Ultraseven meets Mobile Suit Zeta Gundam.
    • Street Fighter Alpha 2 is Street Fighter Alpha meets Kamen Rider BLACK meets Ultraman Ace.
    • Street Fighter Alpha 3 is Street Fighter Alpha 2 meets Kamen Rider BLACK RX meets Ultraman Taro.
  • Street Fighter III: In general, Street Fighter meets the Robot Romance Trilogy meets The Lion King meets Neon Genesis Evangelion meets Tales of Phantasia.
    • Street Fighter III: New Generation is Street Fighter Alpha meets Choudenji Robo Combattler V meets Shin Kamen Rider Prologue meets Jinzo Ningen Kikaider meets Ultraman Tiga meets New Mobile Report Gundam Wing.
    • Street Fighter III: 2nd Impact is Street Fighter III: New Generation meets Choudenji Machine Voltes V meets Kamen Rider ZO meets Choujinki Metalder meets Juukou B-Fighter meets Ultraman Dyna.
    • Street Fighter III: Third Strike is Street Fighter III: 2nd Impact meets Toushou Daimos meets Kamen Rider J meets B-Fighter Kabuto meets Kikaider 01 meets Ultraman Leo meets Ultraman Gaia.
  • Street Fighter IV is Street Fighter III meets Tekken meets Dead or Alive meets Kamen Rider 555 meets Ultraman Mebius meets Mobile Suit Gundam SEED (and Destiny).
  • Street Fighter V is Street Fighter III meets Street Fighter IV meets Pokémon Diamond, Pearl, and Platinum meets Metal Gear Solid 4: Guns of the Patriots meets Kamen Rider W meets Ultraman Ginga (and Ginga S) meets Ultraman X meets Mobile Suit Gundam 00 meets Dragon Ball Super.
• Theathrythm Final Fantasy is what happens when the Elite Beat Agents meet Final Fantasy.
• Tomb Raider (2013) = Die Hard + Lost
• Tales of Symphonia Dawn of the New World is Tales of Symphonia meets Pokémon.
• Tekken is Virtua Fighter meets Devilman meets Baki the Grappler.
  • Tekken 6 is Tekken 5 meets Code Geass meets Kamen Rider Ryuki.
  • Tekken 7 is Tekken 6 meets Street Fighter III meets Kamen Rider Gaim meets Ultraman Ginga S.
• Touhou itself is KiKi KaiKai (Pocky & Rocky in the U.S.) meets GeGeGe no Kitaro with an Improbably-Female Cast.
  • Touhou is Moe Meets Myths.
• Tuper Tario Tros. is Super Mario Bros. meets Tetris very literally.
• Transcendence is Nethack meets Star Control.
• Team Fortress 2: The Incredibles meets Battlefield.
• Terraria is Minecraft meets Metroidvania.
• Umineko no Naku Koro ni: Ten Little Indians meets Groundhog Day.
  • Umineko no Naku Koro ni is The Usual Suspects meets And Then There Were None.
• An Untitled Story: Super Metroid meets Jumper.
• V-Five is Gradius meets Raiden.
• Valkyria Chronicles is Battlefield 1942 meets Sakura Wars.
• Vanquish is Gears of War meets P.N.03 meets Neo-Human Casshern.
• Viewtiful Joe is Kamen Rider meets Last Action Hero story wise, with game play similar to Kung Fu Master.
• Wangan Midnight Maximum Tune is Initial D Arcade Stage meets Tokyo Xtreme Racer.
• Warcraft: Dune II meets Lord of the Rings.
  • Warcraft 3 is Starcraft meets Night of the Living Dead at Norse Mythology's Tavern.
• Wardwell House is Google Street View meets The Blair Witch Project.
• Worms is Lemmings meets Artillery. (The earliest prototype versions were reportedly named Lemartillery.)
• Wibarm is Thexder meets Dragon Slayer II Xanadu.
• Wet is Mirror's Edge meets Stranglehold meets Devil May Cry, as directed by Quentin Tarantino.
• Wario Ware: Game & Watch meets the animated segments of Monty Python's Flying Circus.
• The X Universe series is typically described as "Freelancer meets Eve Online meets Elite" — though the X-Universe series predates both Freelancer and Eve Online.
• Xenogears can best be described as Neon Genesis Evangelion meets G Gundam meets Chrono Cross meets Gnosticism. Of course, one of these works came out after the game did.
• The freeware game Yume Nikki has been touted as "Earthbound meets Silent Hill," which is pretty accurate given the utter Mind Screw factor.
• Zening is Code Lyoko and Final Fantasy Tactics meet Neon Genesis Evangelion.