Pitch your totally serious game ideas

Finnegans Wake as a roguelike, but completing a run takes 6 months to finish and seamlessly and immediately puts you back at the beginning.
The Sun Also Rises as an open world RPG where you play as Jake Barnes looking for his lost penis.

Gravity’s Rainbow as a WWII-skinned Missile Command.

Knaussgaard as a powerwash simulator reskin, with MGS-like stealth missions included

I just really want to clean his dads house ya know. Would accept an ASMR tik-tok series as substitute

Civilization, but its all space diplomacy and battles in the Babylon 5 universe.

Because I am very smart, here is the conceit of the thread if it wasn't already obvious:
With the cost of game development ballooning, publishers are looking to established IPs from other media to ensure ROI.

Two more:

Bodymore, Murdaland. You're a morally upstanding lieutenant put in charge of a squad of misfits, malcontents, and castoffs trying to bring down Baltimore's biggest drug dealers, while also trying to reform the self-dealing, irredeemably corrupt Baltimore PD. But you're hiding a dark secret: you are an octopus, and navigating the world of politics and crime with fumblecore controls underscores the sisyphean magnitude of your tasks. This is Octo-Wire.

An open world action RPG set in space, but you play as a fat orange tabby. I call it: Garfield. (Yes I made this joke before.)

House (of Leaves) Flipper.

No Exit, as an endurance game in which players compete to log the longest time in a VR lobby with two random assholes.

Funny Games board game where you inflict the torture depicted on the cards upon the people you're playing against.

can only be played once