Lumpy the Cook posted:

I think at this point 'meme game' is just a catch-all term for any game that uses overt goofiness- usually of an 'ironic' sort- as an excuse to mask lazy programming and gimmick-driven gameplay... stuff like Goat Simulator, Goose Simulator, Bread Simulator, Mayonnaise Simulator, etc. Very deeply bad games, both on an aesthetic level and a moral and spiritual one ('irony' humor is inseparably associated with misanthropy, insincerity and nihilism)