Death pits
Other (objects, etc.) entity
Includes pits where once you fall, you're never coming back. Either you die during the fall, hitting the bottom or there's just no way out of them and the game doesn't have the grace to call it a game over.
286
games
45platforms
Alternate name: Bottomless pits
LIN 2011-12-13
WIN 2016-01-28
NES 1990-12-21
WIN 2011-06-14
PS3 2008-01
WIN 2010-04-08
NES 1989-12-22
X360 2009-04-07
NES 1987-06-27
WIN 2013-08
MAC 1994
SPC 1986
Extremely common in platformers. Occasionally filled with water to doom the protagonist that can't swim (see: deadly water), other times they have no perceivable bottom and you only fall off screen, and the rest have sharp pointy things ready to jab you.
Note that this is NOT for the non-fatal kind that only drops your health a bit but does not really prevent progressing in the game.
Note that this is NOT for the non-fatal kind that only drops your health a bit but does not really prevent progressing in the game.
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Games by year
The first Death pits video game was released in 1984.
Platforms
Windows | 68 | ||
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NES | 53 | ||
Linux | 28 | ||
X360 | 15 | ||
Mac OS X | 15 | ||
PS3 | 15 | ||
MS-DOS | 11 | ||
Famicom Disk System | 7 | ||
Wii | 6 | ||
PS2 | 5 | ||
PC Engine | 5 | ||
Amstrad CPC | 4 | ||
Master System | 4 | ||
Amiga | 4 | ||
Flash | 3 | ||
GB | 3 | ||
C64 | 2 | ||
Atari ST | 2 | ||
MSX | 2 | ||
SNES | 2 | ||
C16/Plus4 | 2 | ||
iOS | 2 | ||
Mac OS Classic | 2 | ||
NEC PC8801 | 2 | ||
Mega Drive | 2 | ||
Wii U | 2 | ||
ZX Spectrum | 2 | ||
PS4 | 1 | ||
Xbox One | 1 | ||
Game Gear | 1 |