Picmin?
A childrens game based on using hordes of teensy shrubs to brutally butcher insects for numbered tokens that give you more shrubs to replace the slaves that you have just thrown in to the meatgrinder, who live in flying onions. All set in a bug sized version of our own world where oxygen is poisonous to the main character, who is a space captain (a really bad one), which will kill him in a short while, requiring you to find a large amount of relatively meaningless and seemingly indestructible ship components (as well as a few important ones), all within a set time limit. All so he can ditch his new found slaves at the first opportunity and return to his space based existence, showing no appreciation for their hard work, toil and sacrifice and leaving them to fend for themselves. Also night time is evil and to be hidden from throughout.
A very weird concept that seemingly sends pretty mixed signals, if not bad ones, to children... but is relatively amusing for everyone else if a bit annoying due to the time constraints.