10 Best Meme Games, Ranked

To whatever degree meme games comprise a proper genre, they make up a tricky one. Games like showed how much fun a buggy, silly experience could be, and plenty of titles have followed the path that it and other titles blazed. There's a fine line between intentionally silly and just plain lazy, however, and there's no shortage of offenders that have fallen more into the latter category.

The best meme games are ones that are actually well-made and engaging for what they are, offering some kind of hook that isn't found elsewhere. Even so, it's best not to go into a meme game expecting a masterpiece, but there can be a lot of enjoyment to be found with the right attitude.

When Goat Simulator 3 was announced as the sequel to 2014's Goat Simulator, many were left wondering whether a Goat Simulator 2 existed.

Games oriented around comically Herculean tasks have proliferated in the era of Twitch streaming, as watching someone try and fail again and again tends to attract an audience. Among these, might take the cake for the most ridiculous concept. Like the myth of Sisyphus, the protagonist of the game must take on the seemingly endless challenge of rolling a boulder up a hill, although there's a little more complexity to the way the game goes about it.

is the kind of meme game that can be almost anti-fun, punishing mistakes with the threat of repeating long segments of rolling a boulder around obstacles. Played with some spectating friends, however, a torturous solo experience takes on a much more comical quality. It also taps into the inherent drive to reclaim progress effectively, making it hard to put down despite its frustrations.

The floppy movement of can be a fun gimmick for a short session, but as far as meme games go, it doesn't really have legs. is a much more robust realization of ragdoll movement gameplay, taking on the absurd premise of an octopus pretending to be a normal human father. As the sequel to a freely available student project, refines and