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Somedays You Just Need A Laugh

Video games are about all sorts of things. Shooting enemies, building forts, winning races and flying to space to name a few. But some days, you just want some games to make you laugh.

Here are the games we've found (and the families we work with have told us about) that we can't help but laugh at/with/about when we play.

This list includes 56 games from the last 33 years, with 744 likes. They come from a range of different genres and play-styles and are all good games if you want to laugh out loud.

List Details

PEGI Ratings: PEGI 3 to PEGI 18
ESRB Ratings: ESRB EVERYONE to ESRB MATURE 17+
Australian Ratings: G to MA 15+
Genres: Action, Adventure, Battle, Brain Game, Collecting, Communication, Creative, Fighting, Narrative, Platform, Point-and-Click, Puzzle, Race, Rhythm, Role-Play, Sequencing, Shooting, Simulation, Sports, Stealth, Strategy and Traversal
Total Likes: 744

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Drink More Glurp

Release Date: 06/08/2020

Out Now: PC and Switch

Skill Rating: 8+ year-olds

Components: 2D Side-On and Cartoon

Drink More Glurp is a wacky sports game where you take turns to play athletic challenges. The twist is that you have to control your over-long arms with a separate joystick and your body is a wheel you can roll along on if you lift your arms right up....

Luigi's Mansion 3

Release Date: 31/10/2019

Out Now: Switch

Skill Rating: 9+ year-olds

Components: 2D Side-On and Cartoon

Luigi's Mansion 3 is an adventure game where you explore the intricate rooms of a haunted hotel to find and capture ghosts. As in the first two games, you move through the rooms, finding secrets and treasures, and vacuuming up ghosts. It has the same...

Fall Guys: Ultimate Knockout

Release Date: 04/08/2020

Out Now: PC, PS4, Switch and Xbox One

Skill Rating: 8+ year-olds

Components: 3D Third-Person

Fall Guys: Ultimate Knockout is a whacky obstacle race where up to 60 people compete to get to the end of the course and advance to the next round. Drawing on TV shows like Takeshi's Castle, Wipeout or It's a Knock Out, you have to control top-heavy...

Untitled Goose Game

Release Date: 03/10/2019

Out Now: Mac, PC, PS4, Switch and Xbox One

Skill Rating: 5+ year-olds

Components: 3D Third-Person and Cartoon

Untitled Goose game is a tongue-in-cheek puzzle game where you play a dastardly goose intent on ruining the day of the inhabitants of a sleepy English village. Play involves working out the right order of interactions and distractions to let you steal...

Overcooked! All You Can Eat

Release Date: 07/08/2018, updated in 2018

Out Now: Mac, PC, PS4, PS5, Switch, Xbox One and Xbox Series X|S

Skill Rating: 7+ year-olds

Components: 2D Overhead and Grid

Overcooked! All You Can Eat is part of a series of collaborative cooking games for up to 4 players. You must keep talking to other players to coordinate the various elements of the dishes. It starts simply enough but soon gets more complicated as you...

West of Loathing

Release Date: 01/06/2018

Out Now: Mac, PC, Switch and iOS

Components: 2D Side-On and Hand-Made

West of Loathing is a comedic adventure where you roleplay as a stickman cowboy. The quipping characters and intricate puzzles work best with teenagers, but the slapstick comedy will make anyone laugh. Traverse snake-infested gorges, punch skeletons...

Crab Game

Release Date: 29/10/2021

Out Now: PC

Skill Rating: 10+ year-olds

Components: 3D First-Person

Crab Game is a competitive action game where you play mini-games based on the Squid Game Netflix show challenges. Similar to Fall Guys, each requires you to be the last player standing to claim the win. Here, however, the game has a darker feel with...

Gang Beasts

Release Date: 12/12/2017, updated in 2021

Out Now: PC, PS4, Switch and Xbox One

Skill Rating: 8+ year-olds

Components: 3D Third-Person and Cartoon

Gang Beasts is an over-the-top brawling game where you play wobbly characters who kick, throw, push, pull and pummel up to seven other rivals to win. The game models real physics so you have to work with the grappling and jelly-like bodies to both get...

Moving Out

Release Date: 29/04/2020

Out Now: Mac, PC, PS4, Switch and Xbox One

Skill Rating: 7+ year-olds

Components: 2D Overhead and Cartoon

Moving Out is an action-puzzle game where you play a removal company. With up to four players you work together to get items out of the house and into the van. Although this starts simply you soon find furniture that is an awkward shape or needs two...

Heave Ho

Release Date: 29/08/2019

Out Now: Mac, PC and Switch

Skill Rating: 7+ year-olds

Components: 2D Side-On

Heave Ho is a game where up to four players try and swing themselves across a level. But you can only hang on to certain points and must dangle and swing with both arms to progress. The twist is that you can also hold hands with other players and make...

The Professional

Release Date: 31/12/2022

Out Now: Mac and PC

Skill Rating: 11+ year-olds

Components: 2D Side-On

The Professional is a traversal game where you attempt to steal a diamond from the museum with a wacky twist: you control each of your character's limbs individually. This makes even the simple goal of moving forward a challenging (and hilarious) task....

The Secret of Monkey Island

Release Date: 01/10/1990

Out Now: Mac, PC, PS3, Xbox 360 and iOS

Skill Rating: 8+ year-olds

Components: 2D Side-On and Pixels

The Secret of Monkey Island is a classic tongue-in-cheek pirate adventure game. You click or tap the screen to explore locations, find items and complete puzzles. Playing a young man, Guybrush Threepwood, with a dream of being a pirate, you become...

Crossy Road Castle

Release Date: 28/02/2020

Out Now: Apple TV, Mac and iOS

Skill Rating: 6+ year-olds

Components: 2D Side-On and Pixels

Crossy Road Castle is the follow-up to the simple frogger Cross Road game. You play pixilated animals racing to the top of various towers that change every time you play.

Death's Door

Release Date: 20/07/2021

Out Now: PC, PS4, PS5, Xbox One and Xbox Series X|S

Skill Rating: 10+ year-olds

Components: 2D Overhead

Death's Door is a noir adventure game where you play a crow whose job it is to reap the souls of the dead. When one goes missing you must fight, run and jump through a fantasy world to get it back. It's a simple combat game at heart, but the unusual...

WarioWare: Get It Together

WarioWare: Get It Together (Series)

Release Date: 27/07/2018, updated in 2021

Out Now: 3DS and 2DS, DS, GBA, Switch, Wii and Wii U

Skill Rating: 8+ year-olds

Components: 2D Side-On

WarioWare: Get It Together is the latest in the mini-game series. Games don’t get any sillier than the WarioWare series. Each of its mini-games presents a basic yet peculiar challenge for the player. A simple scene appears on the screen with a...

Mario + Rabbids: Sparks of Hope

Release Date: 20/10/2022

Out Now: Switch

Skill Rating: 8+ year-olds

Components: 2D Side-On, Cartoon and Grid

Mario + Rabbids: Sparks of Hope is a strategy game where you control Ubisoft's Rabbids (cartoon rabbits) and Nintendo's Mario team in turn-based battles. It expands upon the previous game by adding a wider...

Cricket Through The Ages

Release Date: 03/10/2019, updated in 2021

Out Now: Apple TV, Mac and iOS

Skill Rating: 6+ year-olds

Components: 2D Side-On and Hand-Made

Cricket Through the Ages is a competitive sport game themed around cricket but with little to do with the rules of that game. Players face off and aim for each other as much as wickets. Controls work by holding or tapping the screen to spin limbs and...

QWOP

Release Date: 21/12/2010

Out Now: Mac, PC and Web

Skill Rating: 9+ year-olds

Components: 2D Side-On and Hand-Made

QWOP is a sports game with a difference. You have to control each limb of your virtual athlete. This changes it from a challenge of hitting buttons to using the touch screen or keyboard to deftly coordinate movement to gain forward motion. It's really...

Goat Simulator 3

Goat Simulator 3 (Series)

Release Date: 01/04/2014, updated in 2022

Out Now: Android, PC, PS4, PS5, Switch, Xbox One, Xbox Series X|S and iOS

Skill Rating: 10+ year-olds

Components: 3D Third-Person, Cartoon and Open World

Goat Simulator 3 is the sequel to Goat Simulator, where you cause mayhem and destruction as a goat (or other animal) in a relatively realistic world with exaggerated physics. This game adds several new challenges and ways to play to the game, like...

Return to Monkey Island

Release Date: 19/09/2022

Out Now: PC, PS5, Switch and Xbox Series X|S

Skill Rating: 9+ year-olds

Components: 2D Side-On and Hand-Made

Return to Monkey Island is a point-and-click pirate adventure where you complete puzzles, meet the other pirates and explore the tropical island and high seas on your path to fortune and glory. As a continuation of the [link to...

What The Golf?

Release Date: 19/11/2019

Out Now: Mac, PC, Switch and iOS

Skill Rating: 6+ year-olds

Components: 3D Third-Person

What the Golf? is a golf game as bonkers as WarioWare. Each golf course has an unexpected twist, such as hitting yourself into the hole rather than the ball. It’s a brilliant parody that’s as much about making you laugh as getting a hole in one.

Rain on Your Parade

Release Date: 15/04/2021

Out Now: PC, Switch and Xbox One

Skill Rating: 6+ year-olds

Components: 3D Third-Person, Hand-Made and Weather

Rain on Your Parade is a slapstick puzzle game where you play a mischievous cloud ruining everybody’s day. "You are a cloud jerk," says the trailer. In each of the varied levels, you have to work out what it is you need to do to make people's lives a...

High On Life

Release Date: 13/12/2022

Out Now: PC, Xbox One and Xbox Series X|S

Skill Rating: 12+ year-olds

Components: 3D Third-Person and Cartoon

High On Life is a shooting adventure game from the creators of Rick and Morty. As you'd expect it's comedic and zany, but cleverly this is delivered by the bombastic boasting sentient weapons as much as other characters.

Frantics

Release Date: 07/03/2018

Out Now: PS4

Skill Rating: 7+ year-olds

Components: 2D Overhead

Frantics is an action party game where you battle friends and family in quirky mini-games. It's played like a game show, only here each round involves a little video game. The twist is that you can sabotage the other players in various sneaky ways....

Kirby's Return to Dream Land Deluxe

Release Date: 24/10/2011, updated in 2023

Out Now: Switch and Wii

Skill Rating: 6+ year-olds

Components: 2D Side-On and Cartoon

Kirby's Return to Dream Land Deluxe is a running, jumping and fighting game where you explore and fight monsters as Nintendo's famous Kirby, who inhales enemies to gain their abilities. Alone, or with up to three other people, you explore lush and...

Lair Of The Clockwork God

Release Date: 21/02/2020

Out Now: PC, PS4, Switch and Xbox One

Skill Rating: 12+ year-olds

Components: 2D Side-On, Cartoon and Hand-Made

Lair Of The Clockwork God is an adventure played with two characters from different game genres. Ben is a die-hard, old-school LucasArts Adventure fan, one foot stuck in the 90s. Dan is younger, running and jumping platform character, he's hip, he's...

Rubber Bandits

Release Date: 02/12/2021

Out Now: PC, PS4, PS5, Xbox One and Xbox Series X|S

Skill Rating: 7+ year-olds

Components: 3D Third-Person

Rubber Bandits is a fast-paced fighting game where you battle opponents with wacky objects in a race to complete objectives. In each of the eight game modes, you can use anything you find in the levels as a weapon you can throw or use as a melee weapon....

SpongeBob SquarePants: The Cosmic Shake

Release Date: 31/01/2023

Out Now: PC, PS4, Switch and Xbox One

Skill Rating: 7+ year-olds

Components: 3D Third-Person and Cartoon

SpongeBob SquarePants: The Cosmic Shake is a whimsical running and jumping game based on the longstanding Nickelodeon cartoon. In a magical world of pirates and cowboys, you run, jump and glide through several different areas, fighting enemies and...

Squirrel with a Gun

Release Date: Coming soon

Coming Soon: PC

Skill Rating: 10+ year-olds

Components: 3D Third-Person and Open World

Squirrel with a Gun is an open-world simulation game where you play, as the title suggests, as a squirrel with a gun. It sounds like a joke, but actually offers a surprisingly entertaining tongue in cheek challenge as you fight using precise moves and...

Turnip Boy Robs a Bank

Release Date: Coming soon

Coming Soon: PC, Xbox One and Xbox Series X|S

Skill Rating: 8+ year-olds

Components: 2D Side-On and Pixels

Turnip Boy Robs a Bank is the shooting role-playing sequel to Turnip Boy Commits Tax Evasion. Unlike its predecessor, where you used swords and other close-combat weapons, here you use guns to defeat...

Very Very Valet

Release Date: 24/05/2021

Out Now: Switch

Skill Rating: 8+ year-olds

Components: 3D Third-Person and Cartoon

Very Very Valet is a strategy game where you must park cars neatly and return them to guests as they need them. With up to four people you run a team of puppet valets to conquer a range of parking and retrieval challenges

BlazeRush

Release Date: 28/10/2014, updated in 2019

Out Now: Mac, PC, PS3, PS4 and Switch

Skill Rating: 7+ year-olds

Components: 3D Third-Person

BlazeRush is a car racing and combat game where you beat other players across the line by any means necessary. Play is viewed from the top, like Micro Machines, which lets you not only pick the best racing line but trigger attacks and bumps to push...

Crash Team Rumble

Release Date: 20/06/2023

Out Now: PS4, PS5, Xbox One and Xbox Series X|S

Skill Rating: 8+ year-olds

Components: 2D Side-On and Cartoon

Crash Team Rumble is a fighting game where teams compete to get the most fruit. You run and jump through stages, shooting and attacking enemy players to stop them from getting fruit back to their base while trying to collect and secure fruit yourself....

Fight Crab

Release Date: 15/09/2020

Out Now: PC and Switch

Components: 3D Third-Person

Fight Crab is a fighting game where you battle with weaponised crabs. But rather than pressing buttons to pull off moves, you have to work with the game’s over-the-top physics. This combines with giant crustaceans, insane weapons and claws to create...

Local News with Cliff Rockslide

Release Date: 11/05/2023

Out Now: Switch

Skill Rating: 8+ year-olds

Components: 3D First-Person and Pixels

Local News with Cliff Rockslide is an adventure where you play the camera operator of an independent reporting duo. You follow the reporter around the town to capture all manner of wacky situations and colourful characters. The challenge is to frame the...

AntonBlast

Release Date: Coming soon

Coming Soon: PC and Switch

Skill Rating: 9+ year-olds

Components: 2D Side-On and Pixels

AntonBlast is a frantic running-and-jumping game where you play a disgruntled construction worker who has a feud with Satan. It's reminiscent of the classic Wario Land games, as you smash through buildings, enemies, and obstacles with your hammer. It...

Clumsy Rush

Release Date: 23/12/2019, updated in 2022

Out Now: Switch, Xbox One and Xbox Series X|S

Skill Rating: 4+ year-olds

Components: 3D Third-Person and Cartoon

Clumsy Rush is a wacky obstacle course where you compete against friends and family to claim the crown and finish first. In addition to the bizarre obstacles, you must overcome the (intentionally confusing and finicky) controls, where each button moves...

Moving Out 2

Release Date: 15/08/2023

Out Now: PC, PS4, PS5, Switch, Xbox One and Xbox Series X|S

Skill Rating: 7+ year-olds

Components: 2D Overhead

Moving Out 2 is an action-puzzle game where you play a removal company and move furniture and belongings in and out of houses. Although this starts simply you soon find objects that are awkward shapes or need two people to lift. It stands out for the...

Paddles

Release Date: 15/09/2022

Out Now: Switch

Skill Rating: 4+ year-olds

Components: 2D Side-On and Pixels

Paddles is an action party game where you move your paddle to deflect balls, like Pong or Arkanoid but here you play against three other people. It's a battle to score points and keep your balls in play as you take on different levels, modes, and types...

Rubato

Release Date: Coming soon

Coming Soon: PC, PS5, Switch and Xbox Series X|S

Skill Rating: 8+ year-olds

Components: 2D Side-On and Pixels

Rubato is a running, jumping and collecting game where you play a frog on a quest to save the world. It's a familiar concept for a game, but Rubato leans into the wacky end of things as you drive clown cars around a track, use your tongue to attach...

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Assistance Getting Starting:	Tutorials Practice Area View Control Mapping Assistance With Controls Reaction-Time Not Critical Low Pressure Adjust Speed No Jump Scares
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Pieces:	Components are Distinguishable by Touch Components are Replaceable No Non-Standard Dice (Or No Dice) No Tiny Pieces No Paper Money No Sprawl
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