There is an unfortunate lack of comedy games in the industry, and not just right now; it's been a thing for as long as video games have been around. It's not like comedy video games have never been attempted, but they've been a tricky marriage. Finding the balance between jokes and gameplay without overdoing the former or neglecting the latter is a persistent problem.
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Thankfully, there are still successful games out there that manage to be both fun and funny. Not all of them will work for everyone — comedy is subjective, and what's funny to some will be cringey to others — but what they do show is that comedy is alive and well in gaming. These are the funniest games of the last 10 years, and from open-world sandboxes to rhythm games, there's at least one that can get a laugh out of anyone.
Trombone Champ
Become The Worst Musician On The Planet
Trombone Champ
- Released
- September 15, 2022
WHERE TO PLAY
- ESRB
- e
- Developer(s)
- Holy Wow
- Genre(s)
- Rhythm, Music
In a way, Guitar Hero walked so that Trombone Champ could run, fail miserably, and fall in some mud. This is, at its core, a "music rhythm" game, but only if you imagine that both of those words don't mean what they actually mean. There is music, and the trombonist must match the rhythm of that music. Good luck.
To the tune of a selection of licensed and public domain songs, players must drag their cursor across the play area to match the tones of each song, which will then be played on their trombone. It's way easier said than done. Most of the time, it will sound like absolute garbage, but that's where the humor is. You frantically try to play a song, and it is a disaster, and hearing that disaster while it's in progress will make the disaster worse. Sure, Trombone Champ is kind of a one-trick pony. "Play the song, but bad" is the joke. Most people will do one of two things if that joke ever wears out its welcome: they'll either bounce off the game (most common), or they'll play it long enough to actually get good at it (insane).
Untitled Goose Game
Geese Can Ruin Lives; Embrace That
Untitled Goose Game
- Released
- September 20, 2019
WHERE TO PLAY
- ESRB
- E For Everyone
- Developer(s)
- House House
- Genre(s)
- Puzzle, Stealth
The "mischievous animal upends suburban life" gaming genre has been growing in popularity somehow. There's Little Kitty, Big City, Squirrel With a Gun, and a game about an immortal goat that will show up later on this list. There's also Untitled Goose Game, which is probably the most wholesome and serious example of the bunch, if such a game can even be called "serious."
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The idea is very simple. Players control a goose in a small village. They can run, duck, flap, honk, and grab things with their beak. With nothing but those tools and their God-given goose instincts, they must create mischief in each of the game's four areas to complete objectives; mischief that involves anything from stealing to tricking humans to destroying property. It's not a laugh riot or anything, but watching how much trouble one goose can cause is consistently funny, and it's even funnier to cause that trouble yourself.
Immortals Fenyx Rising
Prometheus And Zeus Argue About How To Save The World
Immortals Fenyx Rising
- Released
- December 3, 2020
WHERE TO PLAY
- ESRB
- T for Teen: Language, Suggestive Themes, Violence
- Developer(s)
- Ubisoft Quebec
- Genre(s)
- Action RPG
While Immortals Fenyx Rising is a Breath of the Wilds- like set in Ancient Greece first and foremost, one with puzzle shrines, real-time combat, and open-ended exploration, it's also a story narrated by Prometheus, with Zeus chiming in on occasion (okay, all the time). This lends the game a tone similar to The Stanley Parable, where omnipotent narrators comment on your actions as they're being performed, and their comments are rarely complimentary.
All the Greek gods who appear in the game take this same tone of consternation at Fenyx's very presence, and while they need the hero's help to stop Typhon, they aren't happy about it. This persistent comedic tone is one of the standout parts of the game, as Immortals Fenyx Rising is otherwise a pretty cut-and-dry clone of BOTW. That's not a bad thing, but that humor is a pleasant and welcome surprise in a game that is otherwise pretty familiar.
High On Life
If You Like Rick & Morty, Well, Here You Go
High on Life
- Released
- December 13, 2022
WHERE TO PLAY
- ESRB
- M For Mature 17+ due to Violence, Blood and Gore, Sexual Themes, Use of Drugs, Strong Language, Crude Humor
- Developer(s)
- Squanch Games
- Genre(s)
- FPS
Look, not everyone likes Rick & Morty, and those who don't will also probably not like High on Life. This is a first-person shooter that is voiced largely by Justin Roiland, and his weird, nonsensical brand of humor is around every weirdly shaped corner. The guns all have faces, voices, and personalities, and just like with Immortals Fenyx Rising, they will comment on your every action.
The difference here is that High on Life is also unafraid to acknowledge that it's a video game. You are frequently presented with "decisions" to do things like kill an alien child or leave a bear who is almost dead behind. For the former example, your gun will stop the first couple of trigger pulls and offer a chiding comment about killing kids in games. Eventually, the gun stops resisting, and you'll actually kill the kid and get an earful about it. It'll get brought up throughout the game, too. Meanwhile, the bear will beg you to come back whenever you walk away, but he'll take forever to die, so you just... Wait there. High on Life is full of the kinds of moments that would barely be a second thought in other games, but they're drawn out here to jab at them. When it works, it really works, and those who jive with the absurdist humor of Rick & Morty will probably jive with this game as well.
Manual Samuel
You're Very Good At Existing!
Manual Samuel
- Released
- October 11, 2016
WHERE TO PLAY
Games like QWERTY, Octodad, and Baby Steps, where you precisely control every detail of the protagonist's movement, are inherently comedic because of how goofy that movement becomes when it's filtered through a game controller. However, none of those games come close to the degree of manual control offered in Manual Samuel. Samuel is a pretentious rich kid who is hit and killed by a truck, but he doesn't stay dead. Instead, Death offers him a deal: he can come back to life if he survives 24 hours while performing every aspect of existence manually.
That deal is very literal. This game isn't just about controlling Samuel's feet when he walks or closing his hand to pick up an object; every single thing must be done manually. That includes breathing, blinking, and going to the bathroom. Coordinating the variety of button presses required to pull this off is virtually impossible, and the resulting chaos is where the humor comes in. There's also an ever-present British narrator (that's a theme on this list, isn't it?) Who sarcastically congratulates Samuel every time he successfully does something like put his clothes on, and it just adds hilarious insult to an already insulting existence.
Goat Simulator 3
There Was Never A Goat Simulator 2
Goat Simulator 3
- Released
- November 17, 2022
WHERE TO PLAY
- ESRB
- t
- Developer(s)
- Coffee Stain North
- Genre(s)
- Simulation, Adventure
Anyone familiar with the first Goat Simulator will know exactly what they're in for with Goat Simulator 3. It's a game about causing mayhem while playing as an unkillable goat that is way more powerful than it has any right to be. Much of that power comes from the goat's tongue, which is endlessly sticky, endlessly stretchy, and will drag objects along behind the goat or attach the goat to objects to be dragged by, physics be damned.
Causing chaos of any kind rewards you with a score: the crazier the chaos, the higher the score. The way Goat Simulator 3 rewards that chaos, regardless of how it comes about, is really impressive. It feels like the devs thought of everything and are just waiting for you to find it, or even better, to compound it into one massive all-out explosion of insanity. Co-op just amplifies these features, resulting in the kind of video game nonsense that's virtually impossible to keep up with.
Hi-Fi Rush
Gaming's Greatest Lovable Idiot
Hi-Fi Rush
- Released
- January 25, 2023
WHERE TO PLAY
- ESRB
- Rated T: Fantasy Violence, Language
- Developer(s)
- Tango Gameworks
- Genre(s)
- Action
The "lovable idiot" is a character trope seen in lots of media, especially in anime. While a few of these characters have become household names in gaming (like Big the Cat from Sonic the Hedgehog or Dick Gumshoe from the Ace Attorney series), none have been as lovable or as funny as Chai from Hi-Fi Rush. True to his caricature, Chai isn't the smartest guy in any room, but he's got a heart of gold, boundless courage, and a deep love of music that's hard not to respect. Well, except when he tries to "reason" with a killer robot.
The thing about Hi-Fi Rush is that its comedy aspects are barely talked about. That's mostly because of how awesome its rhythm-game-inspired combat is (and it really is great) and the banging soundtrack, but damn it if this game isn't hilarious as well. Chai has some absolutely terrible ideas that no one has time to talk him out of, and he ends up in situations that are pure slapstick gold. There are also robot workers scattered throughout Vandelay Technologies that are great parodies of office workers and do a great job of making the exposition both fun and interesting.
Thank Goodness You're Here!
A Small Yellow Salesman Goes Around Slapping Things
Thank Goodness You're Here!
- Released
- August 1, 2024
WHERE TO PLAY
The title Thank Goodness You're Here! Is indicative of what the entire game is about. You control a tiny yellow salesman who arrives in a town in Northern England for a meeting with the mayor. Sadly, the mayor is busy, so the salesman explores the town instead. Everywhere he goes, people need things from him, and he's got nothing better to do.
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To complete these tasks for the townsfolk, the salesman uses his all-purpose "slap" ability, which does everything from moving or breaking objects to initiating conversations. He can also jump. Some tasks are pretty standard, like helping someone grocery shop, and others are completely absurd, like helping a man with one long arm grocery shop. The whole game is steeped in dry British humor, so if that's not your thing, it's might not be for you. However, for anyone with even a passing enjoyment of that style of comedy, Thank Goodness You're Here! Is a magnificent distillation of it. There are very few games that are purely focused on comedy and nothing else, and this is an example of one that not only takes that focus but executes it to near-perfection.
Dispatch
A Former Superhero Walks Into An Office Job
Dispatch
- Released
- October 22, 2025
WHERE TO PLAY
- ESRB
- Mature 17+ / Blood, Crude Humor, Intense Violence, Nudity, Sexual Content, Strong Language, Use of Drugs and Alcohol
- Developer(s)
- AdHoc Studio
- Genre(s)
- Strategy, Point-and-click, Adventure
Dispatch's popularity is widespread enough by now that most tapped-in gamers have probably heard of it at least, but it bears repeating just how fantastic this game is. Yes, it's a Telltale-style narrative adventure game, so expect lots of dialogue choices. However, unlike that studio's series — The Walking Dead and The Wolf Among Us, for example — Dispatch also features a strategy-lite element that crops up in every episode, making it feel more like an actual game than anything Telltale has ever produced.
The thing about Dispatch's comedic style is that many will draw comparisons to the two Amazon Prime series The Boys and Invincible. That's fair, as Dispatch does take a similarly vulgar and violent approach to its representation of superheroes. The difference is that, unlike those shows, the vulgarity and violence aren't where Dispatch's laughs stem from. It's far more wholesome than that. The game crafts a brilliant cast of characters and then puts them in situations that naturally draw comedy out of the proceedings. Scenes where someone gets covered in spaghetti are way funnier than scenes with genital gags, and from cold opens to montages to story beats, the jokes rarely fall flat. Being a narrative adventure game, it will also rip your heart out on occasion, so be prepared for that. Frankly, that's what makes it brilliant. It's a wholesome office comedy with massive stakes that brings those good vibes crashing down right when everything feels like it's going to be okay.