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Weirdly enough, there’s been A FEW of these types of games that were based either on a specific product or a specific brand, and they were for the most part, weirdly well done for the times they released in and actually sorta fun.

Off the top of my head, Pepsiman for a specific product and the whole lot of Lego games if we’re talking about a whole product line.

I think that whole genre is called advergames

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Doc_Crankenstein@slrpnk.net ⁨9⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
Sometimes I forget that the LEGO games are just really fancy ads.

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vrek@programming.dev ⁨19⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
Those Xbox burger king games were legitimately fun…

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- ripcord@lemmy.world ⁨18⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
  Sneak king!
  
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  - vrek@programming.dev ⁨15⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
    That was one of them… Weren’t there two others but I agree sneak King was the best.
    
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    Doc_Crankenstein@slrpnk.net ⁨8⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
    Sneak King was fun but, sorry not sorry, Pocketbike Racer was the best. No clue what the third one was.
    
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Zephorah@discuss.online ⁨20⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
I think legos are in their own genre no matter what. That’s like advertising a game franchise.

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grue@lemmy.world ⁨16⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
I am genuinely surprised none of the freaks around here have mentioned the KFC dating sim yet.

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jaycifer@lemmy.world ⁨15⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
The Dungeons and Dragons idle game has a champion that is composed of Nerds candy pieces. It’s actually a fun character concept because you can switch the nerds around to different colors, each one with a different class that changes how their mechanics work. But it’s just so weird seeing candy you can eat alongside Drizzt Do’urden that I never use them.

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Butterpaderp@lemmy.world ⁨19⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
Candystand.com games went crazy back in the early 2000’s

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Cavemanfreak@programming.dev ⁨13⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
The old Kellogg’s game from mid 90’s was really clunky, but it was great fun as a <10 year old not knowing any better!

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turkalino@sh.itjust.works ⁨16⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
That Nerf clone of Unreal Tournament was dope

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