Expository Theme Tune / Video Games

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• The Jackbox Party Pack

• The Dutch Flash game Bouterdart ("Gnome Darts") features a catchy theme song in which the gnomes sing about how they're not as famous as other fictional "little people" like The Smurfs, and have to make ends meet by letting people use them to play darts.
• God Hand qualifies, although the song itself actually plays during the ending credits. ("Lost a limb/in a fight/but don't worry babe, I'll be cool/the ultimate/power of a god/is now my secret tool")
• Take a listen to "Still Alive", played at the end of the game Portal. This catchy, sweet-sounding, yet also slightly sinister song pretty-much sums up the plot of the game.
  • Similarly, the theme to the spoof Flash platformer You Have to Burn the Rope tells you exactly what you just did.
  • Then Portal 2 does the same thing with the song "Want You Gone". "So here we are again, it's always such a pleasure. Remember when you tried to kill me twice?"
• As the credits role on Call of Duty 4, lead animator Mark Grigsby raps about the events of the game in character as Staff Sgt Griggs. He actually had a burgeoning rap career before joining Infinity Ward, so it doubles as The Cast Showoff.
• The intro to ClayFighter: Sculptor's Cut is essentially a breakdown of the game's Excuse Plot in the form of a cartoony theme song.
• At the very least, the intro song of Disgaea 3 gives you all the information about the game's setting you need.
• Headdy the Hero in Dynamite Headdy qualifies as this.
• The Wonderful End of the World does this with the menu music.
• Brütal Legend shows you — via commercial — how's it's done.
• In part, Chris Ballew's "Get Together" from Backyard Baseball 2007.
• Final Fantasy X for the song Otherworld. "An Other-world awaits you", "and you will fight, fight, fight... fight, fight, FIGHT", "Go now, into the sand and dust in the sky, go, for it is better to do than to die".
• Final Fantasy XIV gets in on the fun with the boss theme for Shadowbringers, Insatiable, which describes the plot of the expansion.
  ''The road that we walk
  Is lost in the flood
  Here proud angels bathe in their wages of blood
  At this, the world's end, do we cast off tomorrow!
• Plants vs. Zombies. "There's a zombie on your lawn~"
• Persona 4 and its theme song for battles, Reach Out to the Truth, qualify for this trope. The entire game, for instance, is about seeing through the lies that cloud the truth from one's eyes, both self-imposed and those that cloud our view of others. Within the chorus, the lyrics include gems like "Oh god let me out / can you let me out / can you set me free from this dark inner world / Save me now, last beat in the soul". The majority of the game is about venturing into dungeons full of shadows - dark, repressed inner emotions given form - to save whichever character has been kidnapped that month.
• The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim has the main theme song "Dragonborn". While the lyrics are sung in the language of dragons, when translated, they succinctly describe the game's overall plot, of how one "who was kin to both wyrm and the races of man" would come to deliver Skyrim from destruction when the dragons return amidst a brutal civil war.
  ''Dragonborn! Dragonborn!
  By his honor is sworn
  To keep evil forever at bay!
  And the fiercest foes rout
  When they hear triumph's shout!
  Dragonborn, for your blessing we pray!
• Alan Wake does this in the song "The Poet and the Muse," which tells basically the whole plot of the game. The song itself is even a MacGuffin!
• Parodied in I MAED A GAM3 W1TH Z0MB1ES 1NIT!!!1. The song is about, well, some guy making a game, putting zombies in it, and charging a dollar for it.
• Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas brings us a rap song summing up the basic story behind CJ, and some explanation about the game's defining elements.
• The theme for Metal Gear Solid 3: Snake Eater sums up what you have to do over the course of the game while still sounding like something out of a James Bond movie.
• Octodad: Dadliest Catch features "Octodad (Nobody Suspects A Thing)", setting up almost the entire plot (except for the deranged sushi chef Big Bad).
  Who's that man in the three-piece suit?
  Making a doll with logs and fruit?
  Who's that man with the eight strong legs?
  Tried to make breakfast, but he broke my eggs
  
  Octodad, nobody suspects a thing
  Octodad, he's got a good thing going on
  Octodad, nobody suspects a thing
  Octodad, Octodad
• The Kickstarter trailer for ToeJam & Earl: Back in the Groove is a catchy hip-hop tune detailing the plot of the game. It's even sung by their voice actors from their last game.
• Rock Paper Scissors Champion, as featured in a Jim Sterling Best of Steam Greenlight video here, has one that has to be heard to be believed. And yes, the game is what you think it is.
• "Grinder's Blues," Poets of the Fall's Rockabilly Theme Song of Sci-Fi Platformer Rochard, where the Asteroid Miner protagonist laments that he and his crew can't deliver on the quotas set forth by their boss, and he can't think of any solution.
• Armikrog sums up why exactly the protagonist is on a Death World planet in the game's opening cutscene:
  The people of planet Ixen
  Are surely going to die
  Without the power of P-tonium found
  On planet Spiro 5
  Our hope was brother astronauts
  Vognaut, Numnaut and Tommynaut
  Two are dead, Tom's all we've got
  This kid is green, do we have a shot?
• Temtem, being heavily inspired by Pokemon and other Mons series, has a theme song that heavily resembles cheesy dubbed anime openings that explain the monster combat.
• Super Daryl Deluxe has a rock-opera styled theme that plays over the trailer and the credits. ^*
  When the shadows descended and brutes had the throne
  Like a creamsicle champion he fought them alone
  With the flail of his fist every scoundrel lay slain
  And forever more we remember his name
  Daryl!
  Like a scoliotic juggernaut he's
  Daryl!
  Like the waterboy to Hercules he's
  Daryl!
  With a power mullet baptized in luck
  He is Super Daryl Deluxe!
• Chroma Squad's Anime Theme Song "Power of Love, Chroma Squad!" lays out the premise of the game's setting and gameplay... Entirely in Japanese. It was originally written for the game's Kickstarter pitch, which gives it a double kind of meta as it was used to advertise the intended features of the finished product.
• Cyber Grannies opens with a song by Atoz and a sentient airplane explaining that the grannies are called Cyber Grannies because they live in a computer. The song also promises words to learn and games to play.
• The theme song for Bugsnax, performed by Kero Kero Bonito, basically tells you all you need to know about the gameplay, story and what Bugsnax are.
  Kinda bug and kinda snak
  Try to catch them in your trap
  Feed somebody and you'll see we are whatever we eat!
  Find them hiding in the sand
  Tearin' up a ketchup patch
  Come to Snaktooth Island and discover: It's Bugsnax!
• Mewgenics has the "Mewgenics THEME" performed by Ridiculon, telling you the game's premise in a catchy and irreverent way.

• Live A Live features a Near Future chapter which is an extended shout out to the Super Robot Genre, including a theme song sung by none other than Hironobu Kageyama of JAM Project. He also sang the English version, with adapted lyrics summarizing the ancient origin of the Buriki Daioh/Steel Titan and its timeless purpose.
  In a long forgotten place, Babylonia
  The king was forged with fists of steel, and the heavens quaked
  To defeat and destroy the evil that now comes
  Furious and righteous, lead the way!
  Hearts aflame with purpose true, call him to the fight!
  The king of kings, Steel Titan! We'll give him our all!