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I can't come up with any vidya examples but for TTRPGs the concept was truly knocked out of the park around Y2K:
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>HtR - The (good) oldschool World of Darkness with iconic monstrosities like werewolves, VtM: Bloodlines vampire clans and other even weirder things out there... That the PCs don't know shit about because they're soccer moms, Joe Averages and homeless people that have a revelation that they have to start fight back against these threats for the sake of humanity's survival...
>Orpheus - A game independent from the World of Darkness setting: No shapeshifters, leeches, leprechauns, eskimos nor other fairy tale supernatural shit. Just our ol' regular world, where a small weird cryotechnology firm wants to hire the normie PCs because they had a close call with a car accident or their heart surgery...
Orpheus might be my favorite TTRPG of all time because Wraith: the Oblivion had such a fantastic setting but was nigh-on unplayable due to the weird milieu and drama mechanics. Orpheus rather turns that amazing setting into normies trying to X-Files their way out of haunted mansions and spooky ghost hunting (the game is excellent if you want to roleplay it up in or put a spin on a scenario of those shitty tv shows). The game also had a neat "seasonal" metaplot that turned into something quite epic...
And yet noone's even heard of it due to a limited release at the end of White Wolf's life span. Grim.