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A moon (Natural satellite)	Includes any natural satellite as location, not just Earth's moon.	1977 / 2021	239 games
Abstract Setting (Abstract Location)	Takes place in somewhere that cannot really be located or identified as a place. Or it is a place other than 2D or 3D space.	1980 / 2021	404 games
Acre, Israel	Includes the city of Acre as a location.	2007 / 2008	3 games
Africa (Dark Continent)	All or at least a significant portion of the story takes place on the African continent.	1982 / 2020	402 games
Air ducts (Air vents)	Involves the protagonist navigating through air ventilation ducts or similar structures not intended for human occupation for any purpose.	1993 / 2020	146 games
Airport (Airstrip;Airfield)	Features an area dedicated to the landing and taking off of aerodynamic-flight vehicles to.	1984 / 2017	42 games
Alabama, USA	Includes the state of Alabama as location.	1989 / 2009	5 games
Alaska, USA	Includes the state of Alaska as location.	1982 / 2019	23 games
Alcatraz (Escape-proof prison)[alcatraz island]	Features a prison that's officially impossible to escape from with zero escapees so far. Often the protagonist becomes the first to ever escape from there.	1981 / 2009	12 games
Alien Earth	Earth, as we know it, no longer exists. Having been transformed, either on its own or with help of others, into something decidedly alien.	1994 / 2015	46 games
Alien locales	Any locations that try to deliver a sense of this-is-not-on-Earth.		0 game
Alien planet (Alien world)	Takes place on a world that resembles little if at all of our Earth.	1975 / 2020	140 games
Altered reality (Distorted reality)	Somewhere, along the line, you encounter a place that has its laws of physics or other natural features warped beyond reality.	1999 / 2016	20 games
Amsterdam, Netherlands	Includes the city of Amsterdam as location.	1984 / 1992	5 games
Amusement park(Theme park)		1985 / 2019	46 games
Animate environment	Environments have noticeable movement here and there, regardless if this has any purpose.	2000 / 2014	9 games
Animate world (Cartoon world)	A setting where every conceivable object has a tendency to be a person or otherwise alive, from mailboxes to cars to trees.	1993 / 2013	5 games
Antarctica (South Pole)	All or at least a significant portion of the story takes place on the continent of Antarctica (the region around south pole).	1983 / 2018	38 games
Anti-magic zones (Null magic zones;Null power zones;Anti-power zones;Dead-magic zones)	Areas that for one reason or another prevent magic or some other powers from being used within them.	1995 / 2012	11 games
Apartment building (Block of flats;Tenement)	A significant portion of the story is spent in an apartment building.	1990 / 2022	60 games
Aquatic realm(Underwater realm)[Aquatic nation;Underwater nation]	Depicts a realm, kingdom, nation, or such that is located underwater. Likely populated by mermaids or other aquatic sentients.	1999 / 2015	12 games
Arabia (Arabistan;Arabian subcontinent;Arabian peninsula)	Includes the region of Arabian peninsula as a location.	1981 / 2015	16 games
Archaeological sites			0 game
Archaic Earth	A fictional representatin of Earth in the distant past.	1981 / 2018	140 games
Archeonlaan			1 game
Archipelago	Includes an archipelago, a chain or cluster of islands, as a location.	1988 / 2012	15 games
Arctic circle (North Pole)	Takes place in the Arctic circle region of the Earth (or contextually in the 10° isotherm); for the whole game or at least a significant portion of it	1985 / 2016	26 games
Ardennes	A region that stretches from Belgium to Luxembourg to France.	1980 / 1984	10 games
Area 51	Involves the urban myths of Area 51, the location itself or incidents related to it.	1995 / 2007	20 games
Arizona, USA	Includes the state of Arizona as location.	1989 / 2014	23 games
Arkansas, USA	Includes the state of Arkansas as location.	1989 / 2009	8 games
Artificial biosphere (Closed ecological system;CES)	Includes an artificial closed ecosystem as location.	1999 / 2006	5 games
Asia	All or at least a significant portion of the story takes place on the Asian continent.	1982 / 2019	430 games
Austin, Texas, USA	Includes city of Austin as a location		1 game
Autumnal (Fall setting)	The events are set in autumn/fall-like setting, with trees losing their leaves, browning plants, heavy rains and thunderstorms, cold weather, etc.	1993 / 2023	100 games
Avalon	Includes the mythical island of Avalon as a location or otherwise features it as prominent plot element.		5 games
Barrage zone(Artillery fire zone;Area bombing zone)	Player encounters and must traverse a barrage, artillery fire, or area bombing zone with shells, bombs, or other munitions striking at random or in patterns.	2005 / 2015	7 games
Bathroom (Restroom;Loo)	Includes at least one bathroom as a location.	1984 / 2015	24 games
Bishop Ring(O'Neill cylinder)	Includes a Bishop Ring, or a place akin to such (e.g. O'Neill cylinder), as a location.	1992 / 2017	11 games
Boreal setting (Boreal climate;Subarctic climate;Taiga)	Includes boreal climate setting. Characterized by corniferous trees (especially evergreens) and relatively lush flora.	2004 / 2011	5 games
Boston, Massachusetts, USA	Includes the city of Boston as a location	1985 / 2015	36 games
Bridge[bridges]	A significant time is spent on or under one or more bridges.	1979 / 2018	50 games
Brothel (Bordello)		1995 / 2019	37 games
Buenos Aires, Argentina[Ciudad Autónoma de Buenos Aires;Autonomous City of Buenos Aires]	The capital and a port city of Argentina.	2013 / 2014	4 games
Bunker		2009 / 2016	25 games
Busy environment (Distracting environment)	The surroundings are alive with activity, small and large, that distracts the player from what is important. Regardless if the distraction is intentional or not.	2006 / 2017	13 games
Cairo, Egypt	Includes the city of Cairo as a location.	1990 / 2012	11 games
California, USA	Includes the state of California as location.	1978 / 2018	126 games
Camp	A temporary outdoor accommodation usually composed of one or more tents.	2009 / 2011	5 games
Canyon (Gorge)[valley]	Includes a canyon as a location, a valley lined with steep (usually rocky) walls.	1982 / 2020	93 games
Caribbean	Includes the Caribbean islands and/or Caribbean sea as a location.	1980 / 2020	78 games
Carnival (Funfair)	Features any kind of carnival.	1981 / 2015	14 games
Castle(Private fortified residence)	All or part of the story takes place in a castle keep or its bailey, or similar protective structure.	1979 / 2023	617 games
Cemetery (Graveyard;Burial grounds;Catacomb;Crypt;Mausoleum)	Includes any kind of cemetery as location, whether above (graveyard, mausoleum, etc.) or underground (crypt, catacomb, etc.).	1982 / 2023	326 games
Charon	Includes the planet Charon (moon of Pluto, or companion planet of the dual planet system of Pluto) of the Sol star system as location.	1988 / 2011	2 games
Chicago, Illinois, USA	Includes the city of Chicago as a location.	1979 / 2017	84 games
Chichen Itza			1 game
Chinatown	"a section of an urban area with a large number of Chinese residents, usually outside of Greater China." --Wikipedia	2004 / 2012	10 games
Cincinnati, Ohio, USA	Includes the city of Cincinnati as a location.		1 game
Circus		1977 / 2016	92 games
City: Menden, Germany	A 3rd century AD onward settlement that's alternately been ruled by many outside authorities between periods of independence as long as 400 years.		1 game
City: Seoul, Korea (Seoul Special City;서울 특별시;서울 特別市)	Capital of South Korea. Formally capitol of Korea, The Korean Empire, & the Baekje Kingdom (18 BC).	1988 / 2005	6 games
Cliff (Cliffside)	Features one ore more cliffs as a location.	1988 / 2020	29 games
Collapsing structure (Sinking structure)	Includes a structure that's collapsing or otherwise being destroyed as a location.	1986 / 2011	9 games
Colony		1982 / 2011	4 games
Colorado, USA	Includes the state of Colorado as location.	1983 / 2024	18 games
Columbus, Ohio, USA	Includes the city of Chicago as a location.		1 game
Connecticut, USA	Includes the state of Connecticut as location.	1989 / 2009	5 games
Constrained locale	The events of the game take place in very limited location, such as single building (e.g. castle) or other smallish area.	1986 / 2023	122 games
Construction site	A place where a structure is being built serves as a location.	1981 / 2016	59 games
Crawl tunnels[crawlspaces;crawl spaces]	Very small tunnels one can't pass through while standing up and possibly not even while crouched, requiring either crawling with abdomen touching the ground or even changing one's size to accommodate.	1996 / 2016	29 games
Dallas, Texas, USA	Includes Dallas as a location.	1982 / 1992	8 games
Damascus, Syria	Includes the city of Damascus as a location.	2007 / 2008	3 games
Dayton, Illinois, USA	Includes the city of Dayton as a location.		1 game
Daytona Beach, Florida, USA	Includes city of Daytona Beach as a location	1990 / 2020	2 games
Death world	Takes place on an exceedingly inhospitable world.	1995 / 2015	39 games
Delaware, USA	Includes the state of Delaware as location.	1989 / 1992	4 games
Denver, Colorado, USA	Includes the city of Denver as a location.	1988 / 1992	4 games
Derelict (Ghost ship)[ghostship]	Features a derelict ship or space craft as a location. Possibly having gained new occupants since being abandoned or haunted by the undead.	1992 / 2018	31 games
Derelict graveyard (Ship graveyard)	A graveyard of derelicts: ships, spacecraft, or other vehicles.	2000 / 2018	9 games
Dimensional breach (Dimensional convergence;Dimensional invasion;Hell on Earth)	Two or more dimensions have decided to exist simultaneously at the same place, or other dimension is bleeding over into another. Usually involves alien flora, fauna, and other strange things to be sighted, one may even question their sanity, and so on.	1999 / 2015	22 games
Dol Guldur	Sauron's stronghold in Mirkwood		1 game
Dream world (Imaginary world)	All or a portion of the game takes place in a dream world or similar place.	1985 / 2024	126 games
Dry climate (Arid climate)	Includes dry climate setting.	1979 / 2021	97 games
Dungeon	A labyrinthine place riddled with traps, home to monsters and villains, and place to find various treasures. Often pillaged by dungeon delvers, heroes and adventurers.	1974 / 2024	244 games
Easter Island	Includes Easter Island as a location.	2010 / 2011	2 games
Ecozones (Terrestrial ecozones;Biogeographic realms)			0 game
Electric Circuit	Takes place in a electric circuit, or the game characters are based on it.		1 game
England	Includes England (part of Great Britain) as a location.	1982 / 2021	204 games (17 characters)
Estonia	Includes Estonia as a location.	1991 / 2009	6 games
Ether (Aether)	A non-place somewhere (e.g. between dimensions). Often characterized by lack of any planet or other large firmament, but contains small islands, or even artificial structures, floating in a starry ocean without sun or moon.	1993 / 2021	25 games
Eureka, California, USA	Includes the city of Eureka as a location	1980 / 2016	21 games
Excavation (Archaeological site)[dig site]	Includes an archaeological site of any sort.	1992 / 2019	29 games
Extraterrestrial	Set somewhere away from Earth, but still within the same universe where Earth actually exists or existed.	1971 / 2024	1137 games
Factory	Includes a factory or similar manufacturing facility as location.	1983 / 2023	58 games
Fantastic Earth	Your regular Earth except it has fantastic elements such as ogres, trolls, dragons, witches, and so forth intermixed with the normal as if they always were there.	1981 / 2024	288 games
Farm	Includes a farm, agricultural or livestock, as a location.	1981 / 2023	32 games
Fictional city	Takes place in a fictional city on Earth.	1979 / 2020	85 games
Fictional location	Set in some made-up location on Earth.	1984 / 2023	152 games
Fictional universe (Constructed universe;Earthless universe)[no Earth]	The story takes place in a fictional world or universe in which Earth does not, will not and has not existed anywhere.	1986 / 2023	246 games
Flat world	Takes place on a flat world (known or not, but not simply believed), as the planet Earth was believed to be before its round shape was established to be true.	1992 / 2010	30 games
Flood (Flooded area;Flood zone)	Includes a flooded location.	1982 / 2015	56 games
Florida, USA	Includes the USA state of Florida as a location.	1986 / 2020	22 games
Fog (Mist)		1999 / 2018	26 games
Fomalhaut star system (Alpha Piscis Austrini)	Includes the Fomalhaut star system (the star is visible from Earth in the Piscis constellation) as a location.	1993 / 2003	9 games
Forest (Woodland;Woods)	An area dense with trees.	1977 / 2024	990 games
Fortress(Fortification)	All or part of the story takes place in a fortress or similar protective structure not meant as a residence of anyone important.	1985 / 2020	70 games
Frontier (Border;Borderland)	A region at the edges of something resembling civilization or safety.	1999 / 2018	11 games
Future Earth	A fictional representation of Earth in distant future, where recognizing it as Earth has become difficult.	1983 / 2018	111 games
Galilean Moons	The four large moons of Jupiter discovered by Galileo Galilei around January 1610.		0 game
Garden (Botanical garden)		1981 / 2010	19 games
Georgia	Includes the country of Georgia as a location.	1985 / 2000	7 games
Georgia, USA	Includes the US state known as Georgia as a location.	1990 / 2020	23 games
Germany (Deutschland)	All or part of the game takes places in Germany.	1970 / 2019	181 games
Ghost town (Ghost city)	A recently abandoned town, city, or similar habitat. Often with many things still fully operational.	1986 / 2019	17 games
Gion District, Kyoto, Japan	Includes the Gion district of the city of Kyoto, in the Kyoto Prefecture of Japan.		1 game
Great Britain	Includes the island of Great Britain as location, which covers most of the territory of United Kingdom.	1980 / 2018	245 games
Greenland	Includes Greenland as location.	2006 / 2011	11 games
Habitats			0 game
Hangar		2000 / 2016	7 games
Haunting	Features any location haunted by ghosts, demons, poltergeists, or other supernatural phenomena or entities.	1981 / 2016	24 games
Hawaii, USA (Hawaiian Islands, USA)	Includes Hawaii or the Hawaiian Islands as a location	1988 / 2009	18 games
Heavy weather(Severe weather;Extreme weather)	Player is subjected to heavy weather conditions, such as lightning storms, sandstorms, hailstorms, or other weather phenomena that is severely impactful.	2005 / 2019	16 games
Hell	Includes Hell or equivalent location.	1981 / 2020	114 games
Hellscape		1994 / 2015	46 games
Hero school (Hero academy)	There's a school or similar institution for heroes.	2005 / 2014	5 games
Hidden village[Hidden city;Hidden town]	Features a village, town, or such hidden away from the rest of the world. The population either secretive, isolationist, or just oblivious to anything else.	1993 / 2013	5 games
Hideout	A location meant for hiding, usually one of many. Commonly thieves, bandits, revolutionaries, and other outlaws have several of these to hide, gather, and plan their activities.	2005 / 2014	16 games
Hill land (Hill country;Hilly region)	Includes any location with notably large number of somewhat small hills that can be relatively quickly traversed.	1995 / 2018	63 games
Hive	Includes a hive or hive-like location.	1992 / 2022	34 games
Hollow world (Hollow Earth;Hollow planet)	Takes place in a world that's hollow from the inside, often with all action on the internal "surface" rather than the external, with the "sun" being the planet's core rather than a star the planet orbits.	1995 / 2010	5 games
Hollywood district of Los Angeles, California, USA	Includes Hollywood as a location.	1988 / 2004	7 games
Hong Kong (香港)	Includes the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region as a location.	1979 / 2018	35 games
Hospital	Includes a hospital as a location.	1981 / 2018	86 games
Hotel (Inn;Hostel;Motel)	Includes any type of hotel-style establishment - that rents lodging and possibly other services to their customers - as location.	1984 / 2015	64 games
House	A significant portion of the story is spent in one or more regular houses.	1982 / 2022	58 games
Houston, Texas, USA	Includes city of Houston as a location	1988 / 2007	2 games
Humid[wet]	Includes any humid climate setting.	2000 / 2021	29 games
Idaho	Includes the state of Idaho as location.	1971 / 2013	13 games
Illinois, USA	Includes the state of Illinois as location.	1986 / 2017	24 games
Immaterial realm	Includes a place that is not physical, although it may be indistinguishable from physical place simply by its appearance.	2003 / 2014	3 games
In the belly of a whale	All or part of the game takes place inside some creature.	1980 / 2019	53 games
Indian Ocean	Features the Indian Ocean as a location, including any islands or structures there and any craft traveling in the general area of it.	1989 / 2016	7 games
Indiana, USA (IN)	Includes the state of Indiana as location. (IN)	1979 / 2016	10 games
Indianapolis, Indiana, USA	Includes the city of Indianapolis as a location.	1979 / 1984	3 games
Indoors	Most or all of the story is spent indoors or similar conditions with limited visibility and movement options.	1978 / 2021	487 games
Industrial setting	Includes industrial areas and structures, such as factories, power plants, or construction zones as location.	1990 / 2022	102 games
Insane asylum (Psychiatric hospital;Mental ward)[Lunatic Asylum]	Includes a facility to house, contain, or provide care for mentally ill patients.	1982 / 2024	47 games
Iowa, USA	Includes the state of Iowa as location.	1989 / 1998	6 games
Island (Isle;Islet)	Includes one or more islands as location.	1975 / 2023	506 games
Isolated habitat	All or part of the story takes places in an isolated habitat of one sort of another.	1993 / 2023	33 games
Isolated locale	The location is isolated from the grander world, far away from most of civilization with no easy access to modern comforts or way back to said civilization. From remote cabins and towns to small islands and even to other worlds.	1993 / 2023	110 games
Israel (יִשְרָאֵל‎;إسرائيل‎)	Significant portion of the game is spent in Israel.	1983 / 2013	16 games
Jerusalem, Israel	Includes the city of Jerusalem as a location.	1981 / 2012	19 games
Jilemnice, Czech Republic (Starkenbach)	Includes the city of Jilemnice as a location. Home town of Ales Vodsedalek, Jakub Hlava, Lukas Hlava, and Jan Weiss.		1 game
Jungle	Includes a tropical forest or similar as a location.	1980 / 2021	282 games
Jupiter	Includes Jupiter as a location, however unlikely that is.	1979 / 2024	23 games
Karacha, Kyrgyzstan	Includes the village of Karacha in the Jalal-Abad Province of Kyrgyzstan as a location.		1 game
Kentucky, USA	Includes the state of Kentucky as location.	1989 / 2016	19 games
Kyoto City, Kyoto, Japan	Includes the City of Kyoto, Japan as a location.	1985 / 2008	3 games
Kyrgyzstan (Кыргызстан)	Includes the country of Kyrgyzstan as a location.	1997 / 2010	2 games
Laboratory		2005 / 2016	24 games
Labyrinth	Includes a labyrinth as a location.	1972 / 2023	93 games
Land of OZ (Oz World;Oz Universe)	These game take place in Oz. An imaginary land from the numerous writings of L. Frank Baum. The most famous work being "The Wizard of Oz".		1 game
Las Vegas, Nevada, USA	Includes the city of Las Vegas as a location.	1981 / 2013	39 games
Lemuria	A hypothetical lost land claimed to be either in Indian Ocean or Pacific Ocean.		7 games
Lilliputian (Minuscule;Miniature)	The protagonist sees the environment from Lilliputian perspective with everything being abnormally large, likely because the protagonist him-/herself is extremely small (or they happen to be in some world of giants).	1991 / 2017	101 games
Lively environment	The environments have large amount of activity from creatures large and small, regardless if these can be interacted with.		0 game
Location: Aircraft	All or part of the story takes place on any kind of aircraft.	1984 / 2020	46 games
Location: Spacecraft	All or part of the story takes place on a spacecraft, but not necessarily ever traveling with it or otherwise controlling it.	1981 / 2020	276 games
Location: Watercraft (Submarine;Ship)	Significant portion of the game takes place aboard a watercraft, such as a ship or a submarine.	1980 / 2020	150 games
Logansport, Indiana, USA	Includes the city of Logansport as a location.		1 game
Long Beach, Califonia, USA			1 game
Los Angeles, California, USA	Includes the city of Los Angeles as a location	1980 / 2016	107 games
Lost City	A city that was once prosperous until it was abandoned for some reason with the location lost, and so forth.	1989 / 2019	25 games
Lost Lands		1985 / 2001	14 games
Louisiana, USA	Includes the state of Louisiana as location.	1988 / 2020	14 games
Low gravity environment	Includes locations where the effects of gravity have been greatly reduced.	1999 / 2023	18 games
Machine world(Artificial world)	The entire world, planet, or such is a gigantic machine of some sort.	2004 / 2017	10 games
Maine, USA	Includes the state of Maine as location.	1989 / 2009	5 games
Mainland China (Continental China;Chinese mainland)	All or part of the story takes place in China.	1979 / 2022	202 games
Mall (Shopping mall)	A large enclosed shopping center.	1986 / 2024	22 games
Mansion(Manor)	Includes a mansion or similar large dwelling as location.	1980 / 2024	222 games
Mars	Takes place on the planet Mars; for the whole game or at least a significant portion of it.		0 game
Mars (Red Planet)	Includes the planet Mars of Sol star system as location.	1975 / 2024	192 games
Maryland, USA	Includes the state of Maryland as location.	1985 / 2009	9 games
Massachusetts, USA	Includes the state of Massachusetts as location.	1985 / 2015	17 games
Megastructure		1984 / 2017	23 games
Mercury	Takes place on the planet Mercury; for the whole game or at least a significant portion of it.	1979 / 2024	17 games
Mexico	All or part of the story takes place in Mexico.	1982 / 2015	73 games
Miami, Florida, USA	Includes the city of Miami as a location.	1986 / 2015	28 games
Michigan, USA	Includes the state of Michigan as location.	1989 / 2013	7 games
Microscopic Scale	Player interacts on a scale allowing them to see things too small to be seen without a microscope.	1991 / 2016	18 games
Military base (Military installation)		1997 / 2018	50 games
Mine	Includes a mine as location.	1980 / 2021	180 games
Minefield	Player must traverse one or more minefields.	1982 / 2020	40 games
Minnesota, USA	Includes the state of Minnesota as location.	1989 / 2007	4 games
Mirkwood	A great forest in Middle-Earth. Home of Thranduil's elves.		1 game
Mirror world	A world that's an altered, even twisted, version of the world it mirrors.	2004 / 2011	7 games
Mississippi, USA	Includes the state of Mississippi as location.	1989 / 2011	6 games
Missouri	Includes the state of Idaho as location.	1971 / 2013	13 games
Montana, USA	Includes the state of Montana as location.	1989 / 2009	5 games
Monte-Carlo, Monaco [Monte-Carlo;Monte-Carl;Monte-Carlu;Monégasque;Mount Charles]	The administrative area of Monaco known for its casino, opera, and a few hotels and cafés. Oh, and city street race course.	1979 / 2014	7 games
Moon: Callisto	Includes Jupiter's moon, Callisto, as a location.	1983 / 2024	20 games
Moon: Europa	Includes Jupiter's moon Europa as location.	1995 / 2024	23 games
Moon: Ganymede	Includes Jupiter's largest moon, Ganymede, as a location.	1990 / 2024	16 games
Moon: Io	Incldues Jupiter's moon Io as location.	1983 / 2024	24 games
Moon: Miranda	Includes Neptune's moon, Miranda, as a location.		1 game
Moon: Titan	Includes Saturn's moon, Titan, as a location.	1981 / 2024	29 games
Moon: Triton	Includes Neptune's moon, Triton, as a location.	2001 / 2024	7 games
Mountain	Includes mountain or mountains as a location and not just scenery.	1979 / 2024	188 games
Multiple worlds (Multiple worlds)	The story takes place on more than one world.	1986 / 2019	41 games
Multiverse (Meta-universe;Metaverse)	The depicted story takes place in a multiverse.	1993 / 2023	56 games
Museum	Includes a museum or similar structure - intended for safe keeping of ancient artefacts or their likenesses - as location.	1984 / 2015	114 games
Mushroom forest (Fungal forest)	Includes a forest made out of tree-sized fungi as a location.	1995 / 2016	13 games
Mythical location	Includes one or more mythical or similar location.	1984 / 2015	21 games
Natural cave (Cavern)	Includes one or more natural cave as a location.	1973 / 2021	340 games
Nazca Lines	References to the series of ancient geoglyphs located in the Nazca Desert of Peru, known as Nazca Lines.	1982 / 2011	23 games
Near East (Middle East)	Takes place in The Near East region, a region that covers a large chunk of West Asia as well as Egypt from North Africa.	1976 / 2018	75 games
Nebraska	Includes the state of Nebraska as location.	1971 / 2015	14 games
Neptune	Takes place on the planet Neptune; for the whole game or at least a significant portion of it.	1979 / 2024	16 games
Nevada, USA	Includes the state of Nevada as location.	1981 / 2010	17 games
New England	Includes the region of New England of United States as a location.	1991 / 2015	17 games
New Hampshire, USA	Includes the state of New Hampshire as location.	1984 / 2009	6 games
New Jersey, USA	Includes the state of New Jersey as location.	1989 / 1991	5 games
New Orleans, Louisiana, USA	Includes the city of New Orleans as a location	1982 / 2020	10 games
New York City, New York, USA	Includes the city of New York as a location	1982 / 2018	372 games
New York State	Includes the state of New York as a location.	1982 / 2016	28 games
Nightmare	Plot involves nightmares or includes a nightmarish dreamworld as location.	1988 / 2012	12 games
Norden (Nordic countries)	A selection of countries and their shared culture, often mistakenly called Scandinavian countries (even by the locals).		0 game
North America	All or at least a significant portion of the story takes place on the North American continent.	1971 / 2024	901 games
North Carolina, USA	Includes the state of North Carolina as location.	1989 / 2009	6 games
North Dakota, USA	Includes the state of North Dakota as location.	1989 / 1991	4 games
Not quite Earth(Alternative Earth)	The location resembles Earth, but has certain things that make it clearly not actually Earth.	1987 / 2021	51 games
Ocean (Open sea)	Includes any open sea area as a location.	1978 / 2022	124 games
Ocean world	Set in an ocean world. Land, if there's any, holds nothing interesting or is limited to small islands or is completely unknown to the player.	1983 / 2015	30 games
Oceans			0 game
Offshore facility(Offshore platform)	Features any kind of offshore above water platform/facility as a location, regardless if it's oil platform, aquatic research facility, or anything else.		1 game
Ohio, USA	Includes the state of Ohio as location.	1979 / 1992	5 games
Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, USA	Includes city of Oklahoma as a location		3 games
Oklahoma, USA	Includes the state of Oklahoma as location.	1989 / 2005	8 games
Orchard (Fruit Garden)	Trees or shrubs planted in pattern with intention of effecient harvesting. Mainly commercial. (A type farm)		2 games
Orlando, Florida, USA			1 game
Ōsaka City, Ōsaka Prefecture Japan	Includes Ōsaka as a location.	1988 / 1996	4 games
Outdoors	Most or all of the story is spent outdoors with large areas without artificial movement or sight barriers.	1977 / 2023	371 games
Overcast	A weather phenomena where the sky (stars, moon, etc.) is obscured by largely uniform cloud cover.	1999 / 2015	9 games
Overgrowth (Overgrown locales)	Any location that is overgrown with vegetation, mainly locations one would expect to be kept clear of such.	2010 / 2014	16 games
Paradise (Garden of Eden;Elysian Fields;Shangri-La;Jannah)		2007 / 2019	6 games
Parallel reality (Parallel dimension)	A reality that occupies the same space but is unlike ours. With events in one affecting the other.	1983 / 2024	39 games
Parallel universe(Alternative reality)[Alternate reality]	Significant portion of the depicted events take place in a parallel universe.	1995 / 2021	28 games
Parallel world	Includes a parallel world or worlds as location, which unlike parallel reality, occupies separate space that has less impact on the other or the impact is subtle but both are still linked together somehow.	1983 / 2018	47 games
Park (Urban park)	A controlled recreational nature area with usually sparse trees, several paths, benches, sometimes adorned with more interesting land formations, streams, and so forth. Some may have large grass fields.	1986 / 2012	9 games
Parker, Texas, USA	Includes Parker as a location.		5 games
Parking lot (Car lot;Car park)	Large vehicle parking locations, commonly multistory structures with gates and access to nearby malls or other buildings.	2001 / 2014	13 games
Pelennor Fields	The planes before Minas Tirith where the Battle of the Pelennor Fields took place during the War of the Ring.	1989 / 2009	11 games
Penal colony	A settlement or area where criminals are incarcerated in. Often maintained and governed by the criminals themselves with minimal control by who put them there.	1995 / 2015	40 games
Pennsylvania, USA	Includes the state of Pennsylvania as location.	1989 / 2016	7 games
Persia	Includes the historical region of Persia known as the Iranian Plateau and the country of Iran in modern times.	1983 / 2016	3 games
Persian Gulf (Arabian Gulf;The Gulf)	Takes place in the Persian Gulf.	1984 / 2004	7 games
Plains (plain;grasslands;grassland;prairies;prairie;steppes)	A large open flat area or areas of relatively little vegetation are featured as a location.	1984 / 2019	74 games
Planet Earth (Terra)	The story and gameplay takes place all over earth, over several continents.	1978 / 2024	4437 games
Plano, Texas, USA	Includes Plano as a location.		5 games
Plateau			1 game
Playa El Peligro	"The Hazardous Basin"?. A desert island off the coast of the Ica Region of Peru in South America.		4 games
Pluto	Includes the planet Pluto of the Sol star system as location.	1979 / 2024	14 games
Polar setting (Polar climate)	Includes polar climate setting. Characterized by tundras, nonexistant or sparse poorly grown trees, distinctly mossy ground as opposed to grass, and so forth.		3 games
Portland, Oregon, USA	Includes the city of Portland as a location.		3 games
Power plant		1980 / 2016	23 games
Punta del Este, Uruguay	A city in Uruguay with under 10,000 residents and over 55,000 people in it depending on the time of year.		2 games
Purgatory	Includes purgatory or equivalent location.	1982 / 2017	7 games
Pyramid(Ziggurat;Step pyramid)		1980 / 2017	46 games
Quantum Scale	Player interacts on a scale allowing them to 'see' quantum particles (smaller than electrons).	2010 / 2015	5 games
Quarantine	Includes any location in quarantine for whatever reason.	2009 / 2015	18 games
Quintana Roo, Mexico	Set in the state (formally a region) of Quintana Roo	1984 / 2009	7 games
Race Track: Adelaide Street Circuit, Australia	Includes the Adelaide Street Circuit race track.	1987 / 1994	24 games
Race Track: Atlanta Motor Speedway, Hampton, Georgia, USA (Atlanta International Raceway)	Includes Atlanta Motor Speedway as a Location. Until Talladega, Atlanta was the fastest NASCAR track with speeds exceeding 190 mph.	1990 / 2020	7 games
Race Track: Autódromo do Estoril, Portugal	Includes the Autódromo do Estoril race track.	1987 / 1994	24 games
Race Track: Autodromo Enzo e Dino Ferrari, Imola, Italy	Includes the anti-clockwise Autodromo Enzo e Dino Ferrari race track.	1985 / 2001	43 games
Race Track: Autódromo Hermanos Rodríguez, Mexico City	Includes the Autódromo Hermanos Rodríguez race track.	1987 / 1991	22 games
Race Track: Autódromo Internacional Ayrton Senna, Goiânia, Brazil	Includes the Goiânia race track.	1989 / 1991	7 games
Race Track: Autódromo Internacional de Curitiba, Pinhais, Brazil	Includes the Autódromo Internacional de Curitiba race track. Also known as Autódromo de Pinhais and Circuito Raul Boesel.		1 game
Race Track: Autódromo Internacional Nelson Piquet, Jacarepaguá, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil	Includes the Jacarepaguá race track.	1987 / 1991	43 games
Race track: Autódromo José Carlos Pace, Interlagos, Brazil	Includes the Autódromo José Carlos Pace race track.	1990 / 1994	13 games
Race Track: Autodromo Nazionale Monza, Italy	Includes Autodromo Nazionale Monza's race track.	1982 / 1994	48 games
Race Track: Autodromo Parque Ciudad de Rio Cuarto, Rio Cuarto, Cordoba, Argentina	Includes the Autodromo Parque Ciudad de Rio Cuarto race track.		1 game
Race Track: Autodromo Vallelunga (Campagnano di Roma, Italy)	Includes the Autodromo Vallelunga racetrack.	1984 / 1985	2 games
Race Track: Automotodrom Grobnik, Rijeka, Croatia	Includes the Automotodrom Grobnik, race track.	1984 / 1991	43 games
Race Track: Belle Isle Park, Detroit, Michigan, USA	Includes the Raceway on Belle Isle race track.		1 game
Race Track: Brands Hatch (Kent, England)	Includes the Brands Hatch racetrack	1982 / 1991	33 games
Race Track: Cadwell Park, Lincolnshire, England	Includes the Cadwell Park race track.	1989 / 1991	3 games
Race Track: Castle Combe Circuit, Wiltshire, England	Includes the Castle Combe Circuit race track.		1 game
Race Track: Charlotte Motor Speedway, Concord, North Carolina, USA	Includes the Charlotte Motor Speedway race track.		5 games
Race track: Circuit d'Albi, France	Includes the Circuit d'Albi race track.	1983 / 1984	4 games
Race Track: Circuit de Catalunya, Barcelona, Spain	Includes the Circuit de Catalunya race track.		1 game
Race Track: Circuit de la Sarthe, Le Mans, France	Includes the Circuit de la Sarthe race track, also named "Circuit des 24 Heures". Also includes the "Bugatti Circuit", which is a shorter course and build inside the larger "Circuit de la Sarthe".	1983 / 1991	52 games
Race Track: Circuit de Monaco (Monte Carlo)	Includes the ever changing, always most challenging, Circuit de Monaco.	1979 / 2014	71 games
Race Track: Circuit de Nevers Magny-Cours, Magny-Cours, France	Includes the Circuit de Nevers Magny-Cours race track.	1988 / 1990	8 games
Race Track: Circuit de Spa-Francorchamps, Belgium	Includes Circuit de Spa-Francorchamps race track.	1984 / 1994	64 games
Race Track: Circuit Gilles Villeneuve, Montreal Canada 1988 configuration (Île Notre-Dame circuit)	Includes the Circuit Gilles Villeneuverace track in its 1988 configuration.	1988 / 1994	27 games
Race Track: Circuit Mont-Tremblant, Quebec, Canada	Includes the Circuit Mont-Tremblant race track. Also known in the past as "Circuit Saint-Jovite".		3 games
Race Track: Circuit Park Zandvoort, Zandvoort, Netherlands	Includes the Circuit Park Zandvoort race track.	1984 / 1987	7 games
Race Track: Circuit Paul Armagnac, Nogaro, France	Includes the Circuit Paul Armagnac race track. Also known as Circuit de Nogaro.	1988 / 1990	7 games
Race Track: Circuit Paul Ricard, Le Castellet, France	Includes the Circuit Paul Ricard race track.	1983 / 1994	57 games
Race Track: Circuit Zolder, Heusden-Zolder, Belgium	Includes the Circuit Zolder race track.	1984 / 1987	6 games
Race Track: Circuito de Jerez, Spain	Includes the Circuito de Jerez race track.	1985 / 1991	61 games
Race Track: Circuito del Jarama, Madrid, Spain	Includes the Circuito del Jarama race track.	1983 / 1991	34 games
Race Track: Daytona International Speedway (Daytona Beach, Florida, USA)	Includes Daytona International Speedway as a location. A large tri-oval with up to 31° banked turns was designed for maximum spectator & driver views.	1985 / 2020	15 games
Race Track: Detroit street circuit, Michigan, USA	Includes the street and highway Detroit street circuit race track.	1987 / 1991	34 games
Race Track: Dijon-Prenois, Dijon, France	Includes the Dijon-Prenois racetrack.	1987 / 1990	15 games
Race Track: Donington Park Circuit, Castle Donington, England	Includes the Donington Park Circuit race track.	1984 / 1991	37 games
Race Track: Dover International Speedway, Dover, Delaware, USA	Includes the Dover International Speedway as a location.	1990 / 2020	2 games
Race track: Fuji Speedway, Japan	Includes the Fuji Speedway race track.	1982 / 2005	17 games
Race Track: Hawaii Super Prix	Was to be a street course in Honolulu Hawaii. An exhibition event with a $10 prize for 1st, $5 million for 2nd, etc. Canceled 25 days before.		0 game
Race Track: Hockenheimring, Baden-Württemberg, Germany	Includes the Hockenheimring racetrack.	1984 / 1999	82 games
Race Track: Honda Indy Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada	Includes the Honda Indy Toronto street circuit race track.		1 game
Race track: Hungaroring, Mogyoród/Budapest, Hungary	Includes the Hungaroring race track.	1987 / 1993	38 games
Race track: Indianapolis Motor Speedway, Indiana, USA	Includes the Indianapolis Motor Speedway. Noted as the location of the Indianapolis 500 race (Indy 500); the final race of the IndyCar Series season.	1982 / 2007	8 games
Race Track: Karlskoga Motorstadion, Karlskoga, Sweden	Includes the Karlskoga Motorstadion race track.		1 game
Race Track: Knockhill Racing Circuit, Fife, Scotland	Includes the Knockhill Racing Circuit race track.		2 games
Race Track: Kyalami, Midrand, South Africa	Includes the Kyalami race track.	1983 / 1993	16 games
Race Track: Laguna Seca Raceway, Monterey, California, USA	Includes the Laguna Seca Raceway race track. Also known as Mazda Raceway Laguna Seca.	1989 / 1993	30 games
Race Track: Long Beach street circuit, Long Beach, California, USA	Includes Long Beach street circuit race track.	1987 / 2014	9 games
Race Track: Lydden Hill Race Circuit, Great Britain	Includes the Lydden Hill Race Circuit race track.		1 game
Race Track: Mallory Park, Kirkby Mallory, England	Includes the Mallory Park race track.	1987 / 1991	4 games
Race track: Mazaryk Circuit	Includes the Mazaryk Circuit race track, also known as Brno Circuit.	1988 / 1991	30 games
Race Track: Michigan International Speedway, Brooklyn, Michigan, USA	Includes the Michigan International Speedway race track.	1990 / 2020	3 games
Race Track: Mid-Ohio Sports Car Course, Troy Township, Ohio, USA	Includes the Mid-Ohio Sports Car Course race track.		1 game
Race Track: Milwaukee Mile, West Allis, Wisconsin, USA	Includes the Milwaukee Mile race track.		1 game
Race Track: Mine Circuit, Japan	Includes the Mine Circuit race track, also known as Nishinihon		1 game
Race Track: Misona World Circuit, Misano, Italy	Includes the Misona World Circuit race track. Until 2006 named as Circuito Internazionale Santamonica.	1984 / 1991	38 games
Race Track: Mosport International Raceway, Bowmanville, Ontario, Canada	Includes the Mosport International Raceway race track. Also named "Mosport Park" and since 2012 "Canadian Tire Motorsport Park".		2 games
Race Track: Mugello Circuit, Mugello, Italy	Includes the Mugello Circuit race track.	1984 / 1987	9 games
Race Track: Nazareth Speedway, Lehigh Valley, Pennsylvania, USA	Includes the Nazareth Speedway race track.		1 game
Race Track: New Hampshire Motor Speedway, Loudon, New Hampshire, USA	Includes the New Hampshire Motor Speedway race track.		1 game
Race Track: Nürburgring, Nürburg, Germany	Includes the Nürburgring race track.	1984 / 1998	31 games
Race Track: Olivers Mount Race Track, Scarborough, North Yorkshire, England	Includes the Olivers Mount race track.		2 games
Race Track: Österreichring, Spielberg, Austria	Includes the Österreichring race track.	1983 / 1990	19 games
Race Track: Oulton Park Circuit, Little Budworth, Cheshire, England	Includes the Oulton Park Circuit race track.	1981 / 1989	5 games
Race Track: Phillip Island Grand Prix Circuit, Victoria, Australia	Includes the Phillip Island Grand Prix Circuit race track.	1989 / 1991	23 games
Race Track: Phoenix International Raceway, Avondale, Arizona, USA	Includes the Phoenix International Raceway race track.	1990 / 2020	8 games
Race Track: Phoenix Street Circuit, Phoenix, Arizona, USA	Includes the Phoenix Street Circuit race track.	1989 / 1990	2 games
Race Track: Pocono Raceway, Long Pond, Pennsylvania, USA	Includes the Pocono Raceway as a location.	1990 / 2020	2 games
Race Track: Portland International Raceway, Portland, Oregon, USA	Includes the Portland International Raceway race track.		1 game
Race Track: Road America, Elkhart Lake, Wisconsin, USA	Includes the Road America race track.	1985 / 1993	2 games
Race Track: Road Atlanta, Braselton, Georgia, USA	Includes the Road Atlanta race track.		2 games
Race Track: Rouen-Les-Essarts (Rouen, France)	Includes the Rouen-Les-Essarts racetrack.	1984 / 1985	3 games
Race Track: Salzburgring, Salzburg, Austria	Includes the Salzburgring race track.	1986 / 1991	37 games
Race Track: Scandianavian Raceway, Anderstorp, Sweden	Includes the Scandianavian Raceway race track.	1984 / 1991	44 games
Race Track: Schaltung Flughafen Berlin-Tempelhof [Berlin-Tempelhof Airport Circuit]	This race track in Berlin is constructed out of the former airport. It is part of the city park.		2 games
Race Track: Sebring International Raceway (Sebring, Florida, USA)	Includes the Sebring International racetrack.	1984 / 1985	5 games
Race Track: Sendai Hi-Land Raceway, Japan	Includes the Sendai Hi-Land Raceway race track.		1 game
Race Track: Silverstone, England	Includes the Silverstone race track.	1983 / 1997	76 games
Race Track: Snetterton Motor Racing Circuit, Norfolk, England	Includes the Snetterton Motor Racing Circuit race track.		2 games
Race Track: Sportsland Sugo, Japan	Includes the Sportsland Sugo race track.	1988 / 1991	2 games
Race Track: Surfers Paradise Street Circuit, Queensland, Australia	Includes the Surfers Paradise Street Circuit race track.		1 game
Race Track: Suzuka International Racing Course, Japan	Includes the Suzuka International Racing Course race track.	1983 / 1991	77 games
Race Track: Talladega Super Speedway, Talladega, Alabama, USA	Includes Talladega Super Speedway as a location.	1984 / 2020	9 games
Race Track: Thruxton Circuit, Great Britain	Includes the Thruxton Circuit race track.	1987 / 1991	2 games
Race Track: Tsukuba Circuit, Japan	Includes the Tsukuba Circuit race track.	1988 / 1991	2 games
Race Track: TT Circuit Assen, Assen, Netherlands	Includes the TT Circuit Assen race track.	1986 / 1991	45 games
Race Track: Warwick Farm, Sydney, Australia	Includes the Warwick Farm Racecourse race track.		1 game
Race Track: Watkins Glen International, Watkins Glen, New York, USA	Includes the Watkins Glen International racetrack.	1982 / 1989	11 games
Race tracks			0 game
Rail yard (Railroad yard;Train yard;Classification yard;Marshalling yard)	Includes a rail yard or similar facility as location.	1997 / 2015	17 games
Railway (Rail track;Railroad track)	A significant time is spent on or in the vicinity of railway tracks otherwise than on a train or similar vehicle.	1982 / 2017	47 games
Rain	Rain is either a constant or (somewhat) frequent weather condition the player encounters.	1993 / 2023	85 games
Rapid	A rapid is a section of a river where the river bed has a relatively steep gradient causing an increase in water velocity and turbulence. A rapid is a hydrological feature between a run (a smoothly flowing part of a stream) and a cascade. A rapid is cha	2009 / 2016	6 games
Real world		1978 / 2023	205 games
Red-light district		1996 / 2016	15 games
Refinery (Distillery)	Includes any kind of facility meant to reprocess materials into purer forms as a location.	2010 / 2011	6 games
Religious structures			0 game
Research facility (Research station)	Includes any kind of research facility as location.	1988 / 2023	155 games
Resort(Holiday resort)	Any location meant for recreation via entertainment and relaxation that also includes lodging.	1999 / 2015	12 games
Respublica Romana (Roman Republic)	Takes place during The Roman Republic from its founding date (508 BC by tradition) until its shift to autocratic rule (The Roman Empire) in 27 BC.	1986 / 2019	8 games
Restaurant (Pub;Tavern;Cafe;Bar)	Features any restaurant type location.	1986 / 2024	36 games
Retail store(Department store)	A significant portion of the story is spent in one or more retail stores of any kind.	1985 / 2007	3 games
Rhode Island, USA	Includes the state of Rhode Island, as location.	1989 / 2009	5 games
Rigel	The solar system of Rigel or planet(s) therein. Rigel is a binary star system that can be seen with the eye from Earth in Orion constellation.		1 game
River	Features natural or artificial rivers as locations.	1971 / 2023	188 games
Rooftops	All or part of the story takes place on rooftops.	1987 / 2018	82 games
Rough terrain (Rugged terrain)		1998 / 2019	23 games
Ruined world	Depicts a world hardly capable of sustaining life, riddled with ruins, devastated landscapes, and so forth.	1988 / 2016	32 games
Ruins	Includes ruins of some larger structure or collection of structures (such as a city or town) as location. Also any structures that seem to be falling apart regardless of their current active usage.	1985 / 2024	671 games
Rural setting (Farmlands;Countryside)	Includes a location in any rural area, farmlands, or similar sparsely populated lands.	1982 / 2023	152 games
Saint Petersburg, Russia (Санкт-Петербург)	Includes the city of Saint Petersburg as a location.	1997 / 2013	5 games
San Diego, California, USA	Includes the city of San Diego as a location	1980 / 2016	23 games
San Francisco, California, USA	Includes city of San Fransisco as a location	1979 / 2020	106 games
San Luis Obispo, California, USA	Includes the city of San Luis Obispo as a location	1980 / 2016	21 games
Sandstorms	Player is subjected to sandstorms.		1 game
Santa Barbara, California, USA	Includes the city of Santa Barbara as a location	1980 / 2016	21 games
Saturn	Includes the planet Saturn of the Sol star system as location.	1979 / 2024	15 games
Savage Frontier of the Forgotten Realms	A region east of the Sword Coast and west of the Silver Marches, though not as savage as its name would imply.	1991 / 2015	7 games
School	Includes a school of any kind (elementary, college, university, etc.) as location.	1982 / 2024	202 games
Scrapyard (Junkyard)	All or part of the story takes place on a scrapyard.	2003 / 2012	15 games
Seattle, Washington, USA	Includes the city of Seattle as a location.	1988 / 2013	18 games
Secret facility	Takes place in any kind of secret facility.	1995 / 2020	87 games
Settings	The broadest terms that describe where a story takes place.		0 game
Sewers(Storm drains)	Includes sewers or similar structures, such as storm drains, as a location.	1983 / 2024	208 games
Sex industry(Porn industry)	Depicts sex industry to a certain degree (besides prostitutes).	1999 / 2019	26 games
Shallow water	Player encounters water too shallow to swim/dive in (or to die in).	1985 / 2021	224 games
Shanty town(Junk town)	A town, village, or such made out of scavenged or recycled pieces of anything.	2008 / 2018	15 games
Sharpsburg, Maryland, USA		1985 / 1986	4 games
Shattered world		2000 / 2011	7 games
Shell world		1999 / 2016	4 games
Shifting locale (Reconfiguring locale;Re-arranging locale)	Includes a locale, usually a dungeon or a labyrinth or such, that changes shape occasionally.	1981 / 2009	12 games
Shore (Waterfront;Coast)		1985 / 2018	54 games
Singular locale	All the events of the story happen in singular locale, such as an estate, a facility, park or such.	1994 / 2019	21 games
Slaughterhouse		2001 / 2011	10 games
Slums		1997 / 2019	20 games
Smolensk, Russia	A town on the Dnieper River near Moscow that has been destroy many times in war due to its location on the way to Moscow.		2 games
South America	All or at least a significant portion of the story takes place on the South American continent.	1981 / 2019	136 games
South Carolina, USA	Includes the state of South Carolina as location.	1989 / 2009	5 games
South Dakota, USA	Includes the state of South Dakota as location.	1989 / 1991	3 games
Space (Deep space)	All or part of the story takes place in (deep) space. Either as is, on some form of a vessel, or artificial structure (such as a space station).	1970 / 2024	2017 games
Space colony	Includes a space colony as a location.	1989 / 2014	11 games
Spaceport (Starport;Cosmodrome)	Includes a spaceport or similar facility.	1994 / 2016	12 games
Spain	Includes Spain as a alocation.	1983 / 2023	70 games
Spinning levels (Spinning game world)	All or some levels or the whole game world spins around.	1991 / 2017	7 games
State of Jefferson, USA	Includes the state of State of Jefferson as location.	1980 / 2016	29 games
Static environment	The environments are largely static with no movement, as if everything had frozen solid.	2009 / 2013	4 games
Sub-atomic Scale	Player interacts on a scale allowing them to 'see' subatomic particles.		2 games
Submicroscopic Scale	Player interacts on a scale allowing them to 'see' submicroscopic particles (smaller than can be seen with light).	1983 / 2008	5 games
Subterranean forest	A forest or similar large vegetation that should only grow above ground with help of sun, rain, etc. can be found underground.	1994 / 2015	11 games
Subterranean realm	Not simply subterranean locale but a vast network of tunnels, caverns and such underground.	1988 / 2016	40 games
Subterranean setting (Underground setting)	All or part of the story takes place in a subterranean environment.	1973 / 2024	1406 games
Subtropic setting (Subtropic climate)	Includes subtropical climate setting. Characterized by tropical-like flora but otherwise much more similar to temperate climate, including even arid environments. Oases, (sub)tropical beaches with palm trees, and such are the stereotypical environments.	1995 / 2018	15 games
Suburb	A residential area with large number of detached houses with their own yards and so forth.	2003 / 2015	5 games
Subway tunnels (Metro tunnels;Railway tunnels)	Includes subway station, tunnels and/or any vehicles in these as location.	1993 / 2019	86 games
Summery (Summer setting)	The events are set in summer-like setting, with trees and plants in full bloom, animal activity at highest of the seasons, possible heat waves and variable weather, etc.	1990 / 2022	121 games
Swaying levels (Tilting levels)	Some or all levels sway about.	2005 / 2013	9 games
Taiwan (臺灣;台灣;Táiwān;Republic of China)	Includes Taiwan as a location, an island nation surrounded by mainland China, Philippines and Japan.	1994 / 2017	9 games
Teleport maze(Teleport labyrinth;Portal maze)	Includes a teleport or impossible geometry maze where player the directions do not clearly match actual physical locations where they end up in.	1991 / 2017	12 games
Temperate climate (Mesothermal climate)	Includes temperate climate setting.	2003 / 2009	7 games
Temple[Cathedral;Church;Mosque;Synagogue]	Includes a temple of any faith as location, or temple-like structure. This includes churches, mosques, and other places of veneration and worship of deities.	1982 / 2019	146 games
Tennessee, USA	Includes the state of Tennessee as location.	1981 / 2009	9 games
Terminal (Port;Station)	Includes a terminal – train station, airport, etc. – or similar as a location.	1970 / 2016	26 games
Texas, USA	Includes the state of Texas as location.	1982 / 2015	28 games
Thailand	Includes Thailand as a location.	1987 / 2017	17 games
The Black Forest, Germany (Schwarzwald;Silva Nigra)	Baden-Württemberg's Densely wooded mountain range, southwest Germany, famous for thick growth of trees, wood carvings, fasnet, & foods like ham & cake	2002 / 2010	2 games
The uncharted (The unexplored)[uncharted regions;unexplored regions]	Usually a vast expanse of "nothing" where no-one has officially gone and come back to tell about it. The regions beyond the "known world".		2 games
Theatre[theater]		1994 / 2014	12 games
Thick vegetation	Abundant vegetation, brush and long grass, providing simple but efficient cover for both the player character and their opponents.	2006 / 2018	16 games
Tight corridors (Narrow tunnels)	Includes any kind of narrow passageways, either natural or artificial, where one has so little space they can't go around anyone else in them without extreme discomfort. Commonly air ducts, maintenance shafts or trench tunnels.	1993 / 2014	19 games
Tokyo, Japan	Includes the Tokyo metropolis area as location, which covers the Tokyo City and Tokyo prefecture.	1988 / 2022	73 games
Traproom (Quarantined room)	Includes one or more locations where the player is locked in a room where they either have to fight off a horde of monsters or struggle against time to solve one or more problems to escape before dying.	1986 / 2020	88 games
Treetop town (Treetop city)	A permanent habitat built high above ground in (gigantic) trees, often connecting individual trees with skybridges.	1994 / 2018	24 games
Tropical setting (Tropical climate;Megathermal climate)	Includes tropical climate setting. Characterized by abundant and colorful flora and fauna, high average temperature and humidity, and so forth. Rainforests and jungles are the stereotypical environments.	1982 / 2021	348 games
Tunnels		1983 / 2018	40 games
Tuscon, Arizona, USA	The city of Tuscon is included as a location.		1 game
Undefined setting (Vague location)	The setting is undefined or extremely vague.	1997 / 2009	7 games
Underwater (Undersea;Aquatic)	All or part of the story takes place in underwater environment, either as is or in a vessel or some structure.	1975 / 2023	554 games
Underwater facility(Underwater habitat)	Features any kind of underwater facility or habitat as a location.	1995 / 2016	19 games
Unibiome world (Single biome planet)	Takes place on one or more worlds that are made out of singular biomes, or otherwise features them more or less prominently.	1993 / 2016	20 games
Uranus	Includes the planet Uranus of Sol star system as location.	1979 / 2024	16 games
Utah, USA	Includes the state of Utah as location.	1989 / 2014	5 games
Vague location	The exact location is hard to pinpoint due to insufficient or too broad information, such as providing location name that is used in multitude of places within the confines of any other indicators.	1996 / 2015	12 games
Valley	Includes a valley as a major location.	2009 / 2014	6 games
Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada	Includes the city of Vancouver as a location.		1 game
Vehicle repair shop(Automobile repair shop;Repair depot;Body shop)	Features any kind of vehicle repair shop or similar as a location.	1997 / 2013	5 games
Venezuela			5 games
Venus	Takes place on the planet Venus; for the whole game or at least a significant portion of it.	1979 / 2024	35 games
Vermont, USA	Includes the state of Vermont as location.	1989 / 2009	6 games
Vernal setting (Spring setting)	The events are set in vernal/spring-like setting, with trees plant life starting to regrow, early flowering, light rains, possibly some scattered remaining ice/snow, etc.	1993 / 2021	67 games
Virginia, USA	Includes the state of Virginia as location.	1983 / 2017	14 games
Virtual reality (Cyberspace)	Part or all of the game takes place in one or more virtual realities.	1983 / 2023	112 games
Volcanic setting	Includes any places with ongoing volcanic activity, most prominently magma/lava flows.	1992 / 2018	88 games
Volcano	Includes one or more volcanoes as a location.	1981 / 2018	59 games
Wall Street, New York City, New York, USA	A Lower Manhattan street from Broadway to South St in NY's historical center/Financial District. The New York Stock Exchange, world's largest, is there	1978 / 2000	11 games
Warehouse	An unspecific storage building, commonly filled with crates, cardboard boxes, or large metal freight containers.	1989 / 2013	20 games
Warsaw, Poland	Includes the city if Warsaw as a location.	1998 / 2014	4 games
Washington, D.C., USA	Includes the city of Washington, D.C. as a location.	1984 / 2009	19 games
Washington, USA	Includes the state of Washington as location.	1989 / 2016	13 games
Waste processing station(Waste processing facility;Waste treatment plant)	Includes any facility or such meant for processing waste of any kind as a location.	1998 / 2020	7 games
Wasteland (Barrens;Desert;Badlands)	A significant portion of the gameplay takes place in wasteland-like location, a place with notable lack of macroflora (except maybe few shrubs and tufts of grass).	1977 / 2023	469 games
Weather	This is a guide tag for all weather related things.	1992 / 2010	14 games
Well cave	Player visits a cave or such found inside a water well.	1996 / 2024	20 games
West Virginia, USA	Includes the state of West Virginia as location.	1989 / 1991	3 games
Wetland (Swamp;Marsh;Bog)	Includes any kind of wetland environment.	1980 / 2021	197 games
Wilayah Persekutuan Putrajaya, Malaysia;[ولايه ڤرسكوتوان ڤوتراجايا]	Capital city of Malaysia is Kuala Lumpur. But it became so overcrowded; in 1999 all federal administration (but not King & Parliament) moved to Putrajaya		2 games
Wilderness	All or significant portion of the story takes place in wilderness with no human or any similar habitation or any human made structures, at the tender mercies of mother nature.	1985 / 2024	141 games
Windy		1990 / 2015	18 games
Wintery setting (Snow setting;Ice setting)	The events are set in winter-like setting, with most of the plants covered in snow, rivers and lakes (and possibly seas) frozen except at rapids, minimal animal activity, etc.	1979 / 2021	855 games
Wisconsin, USA	Includes the state of Wisconsin as location.	1989 / 2014	4 games
World edge[edge of the world;world border]	The farthest reaches of non-spherical worlds or possibly spherical ones as well (e.g. it has single continent). Commonly abnormally dangerous place with laws of nature being broken or twisted.	1986 / 2015	4 games
WuHu Island	A fictional island somewhere in the Pacific.	2007 / 2013	4 games
Wyoming, USA	Includes the state of Wyoming as location.	1971 / 2016	20 games
Yellowstone National Park	Includes Yellowstone National Park as a location.		1 game
Zero gravity environment (Weightless environment)	Includes a Zero-G environment as location.	1994 / 2017	18 games

entities

Abbey	A community usually consisting of mainly monks under the leadership of one.	1984 / 2013	3 games
Afghanistan (Afghānistān;افغانستان)	A country in southern part of Central Asia.	1982 / 2009	17 games
Albania			1 game
Alcatraz Island, California, USA (The Rock)	Includes Alcatraz Island (located within sight of San Fransisco) as a location.	1981 / 1997	9 games
Alexandria, Egypt	Includes the city of Alexandria as a location.		1 game
Algeria	Includes Algeria as a location.	2006 / 2020	3 games
Alpha Centauri star system	Includes Alpha Centauri star system as location, the closest star system to Sol star system.	1983 / 2004	5 games
Amazon (Amazonia;Amazon rainforest;Amazon basin)		1993 / 2014	13 games
America (New World)	The North, Central and South America.	1982 / 2017	58 games
Amphitheatre [Coliseum;Colosseum;Stadium]	An open air theatre, commonly circular or oval or half of either with seats placed in a slope around it so viewers are looking mostly slightly downward at the action. Modern stadiums follow this setup.	1998 / 2016	19 games
Anatolia (Anatolian peninsula;Asia Minor)			0 game
Angola	Includes Angola as a location.		1 game
Antarctic Ocean (Southern Ocean;Great Southern Ocean;South Polar Ocean)			0 game
Apennine peninsula (Italian peninsula)	A peninsula in southern Europe that is mostly covered by Italy.		0 game
Arcology	Includes an arcology - a self-sufficient habitat - as a location.	1994 / 2016	19 games
Arctic Ocean		2008 / 2012	6 games
Arena (Fighting pit)	A place to participate in arranged fights and watch and bet on them.	1983 / 2018	42 games
Argentina	Takes place on the country of Argentina; for the whole game or at least a significant portion of it.		2 games
Astoria, Oregon, USA	Includes the city of Astoria, OR as a location.	1985 / 2006	13 games
Atlanta, Georgia, USA	Includes city of Atlanta as a location	1989 / 1996	5 games
Atlantic [Atlantic Ocean]	Features Atlantic Ocean as a location, including any islands or structures there and any craft traveling in the general area of it.	1978 / 2015	88 games
Atlantic City, New Jersey, USA	Includes the city of Atlantic City as a location		2 games
Australia	All or at least a significant portion of the story takes place in Australia.	1983 / 2020	54 games
Austria		1989 / 2013	9 games
Baghdad, Iraq (بغداد‎;Baġdād;Bagdad)		1983 / 2016	10 games
Balkans (Balkan Peninsula;Southeast Europe)		2000 / 2015	12 games
Baltic Sea			1 game
Bank	Includes a bank or similar location.	1983 / 2016	17 games
Barcelona, Spain	Includes the city of Barcelona as a location.	1986 / 2012	13 games
Base of operations	Player interacts with some kind of base of operations where they frequently come back to to manage gear, missions, minions, and other such things.	2005 / 2018	3 games
Beach (Sand beach)		1982 / 2017	107 games
Beijing, China	Capital of The People's Republic of China	1999 / 2014	4 games
Belarus	Includes Belarus as a location.	1984 / 2012	7 games
Belgium	A small country in north-west Europe.	1980 / 2016	38 games
Berlin, Germany	Capital city of Germany.	1984 / 2021	32 games
Bermuda Triangle(Devil's Triangle)	A triangle shaped geographic region with its points somewhere between Bermuda, Puerto Rico and Straits of Florida.	1985 / 2010	10 games
Bosnia	A region that covers almost all of the country of Bosnia-Herzegovina.	1998 / 2009	4 games
Bosnia and Herzegovina[Bosnia-Herzegovina]			0 game
Brazil	Takes place on the country of Brazil; for the whole game or at least a significant portion of it	1985 / 2018	17 games
Bulgaria	Includes Bulgaria as a location.	2006 / 2009	2 games
Cambodia	Includes Cambodia as a location.	2006 / 2009	2 games
Canada	Parliamentary democratic monarchical common wealth of 10 provinces & 3 territories occupying most of the northern half of North America.	1983 / 2021	41 games
Cannes, France	Includes the city of Cannes as location.	1986 / 1987	3 games
Cape Town, South Africa, Africa	Includes the city of Cape Town as a location.		4 games
Casino		1972 / 2017	45 games
Caucasus	The geopolitical region of Caucasus.		0 game
Central Africa		1988 / 1991	5 games
Central America		1984 / 2014	61 games
Central Asia (Inner Asia;Middle Asia)		1988 / 2008	5 games
Central Europe			0 game
Chapel (Oratory;Sanctuary)	A structure set aside for meetings, prayer and/or worship. Commonly sanctified in one manner or another. Usually part of a larger structure, though can exist on its own.	1987 / 2016	30 games
Chile	Includes Chile as a location.	1996 / 2014	2 games
Cities			0 game
City (Metropolis;Megapolis;Urban)	Takes place in any large city.	1975 / 2023	1572 games
city-augusta-ga	Includes the city of Augusta, Georgia as a location. Best known for its luxury golf course of the same name, home to the U.S. Masters - one of the premier golfing events in the world.		1 game
City: Karnak, Egypt	A former city in Egypt that nowadays is only an archaeological site, abandoned by its original citizens by 323 CE and rediscovered around 1589 CE.	1991 / 2017	9 games
City: Luxor, Egypt (أَلْأُقْصُر;Al 'Uqṣur)	A city in Egypt that notably houses the ruins of Thebes.	2011 / 2012	4 games
City: Memphis, Egypt (منف‎;Μέμφις;Moph;Noph)	A former city in Egypt that nowadays is only an archaeological site, abandoned between 7th and 12th centry.	2009 / 2017	2 games
City: Teotihuacan, Mexico	A former city in the basin of Mexico, abandoned by the 8th century and rediscovered in 1905.		1 game
City: Thebes, Egypt (Θῆβαι;Thēbai;طيبة‎;Ṭībah)	A former city in Egypt that nowadays is only an archaeological site within the modern city of Luxor.	2009 / 2017	2 games
Club(Nightclub;Disco;Discothèque)	An establishment for food, drinks, music and dancing usually open late at night.	1983 / 2016	15 games
Colombia	All or significant parts of the story take place in Colombia.	1986 / 2000	12 games
Continents			0 game
Costa Rica	A small country in Central America.	1993 / 2011	25 games
Countries			0 game
Crete	All or significant part of the story takes place on the island of Crete.	1980 / 2014	5 games
Croatia		1991 / 2014	7 games
Cuba	Includes Cuba as a location.	1991 / 2009	8 games
Cybertron	A fictional planet in the Transformers universe, homeworld of both Autobots and Decepticons.	2010 / 2012	9 games
Czech Republic		1985 / 2016	18 games
Czechoslovakia	Includes Czechoslovakia as a location.	2006 / 2009	2 games
Dam (Water powerplant)	Includes an artificial structure intended to control the flow of water and possibly to draw power from it.	1997 / 2020	32 games
Delhi, India	Includes the city of Delhi as a location.		1 game
Denmark	Includes Denmark as a location.	1984 / 2009	5 games
Detroit, Michigan, USA		1988 / 2013	23 games
Dock (Harbor)		1992 / 2015	31 games
Dubai	Name used for both the Emirate of Dubai and its capital city. Located in Middle East, it is famous for its luxurious lifestyle and its skyline.	2012 / 2016	3 games
Dubai, United Arab Emirates	Capital city of the emirate of Dubai in United Arab Emirates in Arabian Peninsula, south east of Persian Gulf.	2012 / 2015	2 games
East Asia		1982 / 2015	273 games
Eastern Africa		1991 / 1999	3 games
Eastern Europe			0 game
Ecuador	Includes Ecuador as a location.		1 game
Egypt	All or significant part of the story takes place in Egypt.	1980 / 2022	195 games
El Dorado	The legendary lost city of gold. Considered fictional by modern scholars.	1985 / 2008	19 games
Ethiopia	Includes Ethiopia as a location.		1 game
Eurasia			0 game
Europe	All or at least a significant portion of the story takes place on the European continent.	1972 / 2023	854 games
Faerie realm[land of fae;land of fairies;fairy realm]	Includes a place that is identified as faerie realm or similar, often a parallel world to our own or some other place not accessible by mundane folk without help.	1995 / 2007	4 games
Finland (Suomi)	All or significant portion of the story takes place in Finland.	1992 / 2017	12 games
Florence, Italy		2009 / 2015	5 games
France	All or part of the story takes place in France.	1980 / 2024	298 games
Frankfurt, Gernany	Includes the city of Frankfurt as a location.	1999 / 2014	2 games
Fury 161(Fiorina 161)	A planet on which a mining colony was built by Weyland-Yutani. Notably the location of the third movie, Alien 3.	1992 / 1999	11 games
Greece	All or significant part of the story takes place in Greece.	1981 / 2022	58 games
Guatemala	A small country in Central America.	1991 / 2014	4 games
Hamburg, Germany	Second largest city of Germany.	1986 / 1989	7 games
Herzegovina		2006 / 2009	2 games
Highway	Significant portion of the game is spent on some highway.		1 game
Holland, Netherlands	A region of Netherlands.	2004 / 2011	4 games
Hungary	All or significant parts of the story take place in Hungary.	1993 / 2009	4 games
Iberia (Iberian Peninsula)		1985 / 2023	17 games
Iceland		1987 / 2015	8 games
India	Includes India as a location.	1985 / 2023	64 games
Indonesia	Includes Indonesia as a location.	1988 / 2023	4 games
Iran (ایران)	Includes Iran (formally Persia) as a location.	2004 / 2011	6 games
Iraq (Republic of Iraq;العراق;Al-Irāq;جمهورية العراق;Jumhūrīyat Al-Irāq;ܥܸܪܵܩ;كؤماری عه‌راق‎;Komara Îraqê)		1990 / 2021	17 games
Island of Ireland	An island in Northwest Europe, occupied by Republic of Ireland and Northern Ireland (UK).	1985 / 2013	21 games
Istanbul, Turkey		1990 / 2009	7 games
Italy	Includes Italy as a location.	1987 / 2026	104 games
Jamaica		2000 / 2014	4 games
Japan	Takes place in Japan.	1980 / 2023	492 games
Kansas	Includes the state of Kansas as a location.	1971 / 2013	18 games
Karachi, Pakistan	Includes Karachi as a Location. Pakistan's most populous city.		1 game
Karelia	A region in Northern Europe, in the area between White Sea and Gulf of Finland, as well as crossing over the political border of Finland and Russia.	2008 / 2016	5 games
Kazakhstan (Kazakstan;Қазақстан;Казахстан;قازاقستان)	A large country in Central Asia.	1999 / 2015	3 games
Kenya		1987 / 1999	6 games
Kingdom of Prussia	A German kingdom that existed from 1701 till 1918.	2010 / 2015	5 games
Korea (한국;조선;Korean peninsula)	Includes the Korean peninsula as a location.	1988 / 2015	32 games
Kuwait		2000 / 2009	3 games
Kyoto Prefecture, Kansai, Japan	Includes the prefecture of Kyoto Japan as a location.		1 game
Land of the dead(Underworld;Netherworld)	A place where the souls of the dead go.	1987 / 2015	46 games
Laos	Includes Laos as a location.	2006 / 2009	2 games
Latvia	Includes Latvia as a location.	1998 / 2009	3 games
Lebanon		2003 / 2007	6 games
Library		1990 / 2018	36 games
Libya	All or significant part of the story takes place in Libya.	1986 / 2020	7 games
Lighthouse		1993 / 2012	17 games
Lithuania	Includes Lithuania as a location.	2006 / 2009	2 games
Location: Iga Province, Japan(伊賀国;Mie Prefecture)	Iga was a province of Japan, it was located where the western Mie Prefecture is today. Iga and Koga are the traditional birthplaces of ninjutsu		1 game
London, United Kingdom	Includes the city of London as a location.	1981 / 2021	189 games
Luxembourg	A small landlocked country in north-west Europe bordered by Belgium, France and Germany.	1980 / 1984	7 games
Luxembourg, Luxembourg	Capital city of Luxembourg.	1980 / 1984	7 games
LV-426(Acheron)	A planet in Aliens mythos upon which Hadley's Hope colony was built on and where Nostromo's crew encountered the Derelict, as such it is also the location of the first and second movies.	2007 / 2013	8 games
Macedonia(Μακεδονία)[Macedon]	An ancient Greek kingdom, perhaps best known as the seat of power for Alexander the Great.	2004 / 2006	2 games
Madagascar	An island country in the Indian Ocean, south-east of Africa mainland.	1999 / 2005	7 games
Madrid, Spain	Includes city of Madrid as a location.		2 games
Malta		1980 / 2005	5 games
Mediterranean		1980 / 2013	30 games
Milan, Italy			1 game
Mogadishu, Somalia			1 game
Monastery (Priory;Convent;Friary;Nunnery)	A place of residence for a monastic order, commonly walled from outside world.	1985 / 2018	22 games
Mongolia	Takes place in Mongolia.		1 game
Montreal, Quebec, Canada		2011 / 2015	7 games
Moon: Luna (The Moon)	Takes place on Earth's largest natural satellite; for the whole game or at least a significant portion of it.	1971 / 2024	169 games
Morocco	Includes Morocco as a location	1988 / 2017	9 games
Moscow, Russia (Москва)	Includes the city of Moscow as a location.	1978 / 2016	39 games
Mu, lost continent	Takes place on the lost continent of Mu or uses it as a thematic element.	1993 / 2004	6 games
Naples, Italy			1 game
Nepal		1981 / 2014	27 games
Netherlands [Holland]	A small country in north-west Europe.	1984 / 2013	28 games
New Mexico	Includes the general area of the New Mexico state as location.	1989 / 2020	33 games
New Zealand		1990 / 2016	8 games
Nigeria	Includes Nigeria as a location.		1 game
North Asia			0 game
Northern Africa		1982 / 2012	68 games
Northern Europe			0 game
Norway		1982 / 2021	24 games
Oceania	A geographical and geopolitical region around Australian continent.	1994 / 2019	7 games
Office building		1993 / 2019	60 games
Oil rig (Oil platform)	An offshore oil drilling platform, quite massive compared to their land-based counterparts.	1992 / 2012	8 games
Oregon, USA	Includes the state of Oregon as location.	1971 / 2016	42 games
Orphanage		2004 / 2014	6 games
Ottawa, Canada			1 game
Pacific Ocean	Features Pacific Ocean as a location, including any islands or structures there and any craft traveling in the general area of it.	1980 / 2016	147 games
Pakistan	Includes Pakistan as a location.	1982 / 2014	5 games
Palace	Includes a palace or similar grandiose structure as a location.	1986 / 2018	18 games
Palestine	A geographic region in Arabian peninsula notably covering the territory of modern day Israel and some other countries.	1983 / 2012	10 games
Panama		1988 / 2017	14 games
Papua New Guinea	A country in the Melanesia sub-region of Oceania.	2011 / 2014	4 games
Paris, France	Includes the city of Paris as location.	1982 / 2018	114 games
Peru	All or significant part of the story takes place in Peru.	1984 / 2018	23 games
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA	Includes the city of Philadelphia as a location.	1989 / 2016	3 games
Philippines	Includes Philippines as a location.		1 game
Pisa, Italy			2 games
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA	Includes the city of Pittsburgh as a location.		1 game
Poland		1991 / 2021	31 games
Police station (Police department)	Significant amount of time is spent at a police station of one sort or another.	1993 / 2019	25 games
Pompeii, Italy(Pompeii, Rome)	A former city in Rome that was destroyed in 79 CE by the nearby volcano, Vesuvius. Rediscovered in 1592 CE.	1988 / 2011	3 games
Portugal(Portuguese Republic;República Portuguesa)		1990 / 1999	12 games
Prague, Czech		2000 / 2016	9 games
Prison	Any location where outlaws and others are incarcerated.	1982 / 2023	160 games
Puerto Rico	Includes Puerto Rico as a location.		4 games
Republic of South Africa	A country in Southern Africa that has three capitals: Pretoria, Bloemfontein, and Cape Town.	1987 / 2018	14 games
Rio de Janeiro, Brazil	Includes the city of Rio de Janeiro as a location.	1988 / 2008	4 games
Romania		1979 / 2009	17 games
Rome, Italy		1986 / 2015	19 games
Russia	Includes Russia as a location.	1980 / 2019	135 games
Rwanda			1 game
Salem, Massachusetts	A city in Massachusetts, USA that has become historically famous for witch trials back in 1690s.	2014 / 2015	2 games
Salt Lake City, Utah, USA	Includes the city of Salt Lake City as a location.	2013 / 2014	2 games
Saudi Arabia		1996 / 2010	5 games
Scandinavia (Scandinavian peninsula)	Includes Scandinavia as a location, a region that covers mostly the countries of Sweden and Norway.	1984 / 2012	5 games
Scotland		1984 / 2013	44 games
Serbia	Includes Serbia as a location.	1990 / 2009	3 games
Shanghai, China (上海;Shànghǎi)	Most populous city of People's Republic of China, found in the middle of the east coast.	2010 / 2013	10 games
Shrine	Small structures, often without any capacity to hold people inside them, that hold idols, relics, or other symbols of a religion. Usually places of veneration, worship, or prayer visited by pilgrims.	1985 / 2014	8 games
Siberia		1985 / 2020	16 games
Singapore		1989 / 2013	13 games
Slovakia	Includes Slovakia as a location.	2006 / 2009	2 games
Slovenia	Includes Slovenia as a location.	2006 / 2009	3 games
Sol star system (Solar System)	Includes the outer space of our local star system as a location. Bound by Pluto or Kuiper Belt (or hypothetical Oort Cloud, farthest edges).	1983 / 2017	38 games
Somalia			1 game
South Asia		1988 / 2014	27 games
Southeast Asia		1982 / 2010	40 games
Southern Africa		1983 / 2020	3 games
Southern Europe			0 game
Space station	A significant portion of the game's events are situated on a space station.	1971 / 2023	185 games
Star systems			0 game
Storage area	Includes any building or other area intended for short or long term storage of wares.	1997 / 2015	19 games
Sudan		1998 / 2009	4 games
Sweden	A country in Northern Europe as part of the Scandinavian Peninsula.	1984 / 2019	14 games
Switzerland (die Schweiz;Suisse;Svizzera;Svizra)		1985 / 2009	10 games
Syria		1996 / 2018	15 games
Taipei, Taiwan (北市;台北市)	Includes the city of Taipei, the capital of Taiwan, as a location		3 games
Tajikistan (Тоҷикистон;تاجیکستان)			2 games
Tau Ceti star system	Includes Tau Ceti star system as location, the closest Sun-like star besides Sun itself.	1985 / 2016	20 games
Tibet		1983 / 2010	7 games
Tower		1986 / 2018	70 games
Town (Village)	Includes a small town or similar location.	1977 / 2023	694 games
Train	Player visits a train, as a passenger or otherwise, but is not in control of one.	1985 / 2017	50 games
Transylvania	Includes the historical region of Transylvania as a location.	1979 / 2015	45 games
Tunisia	Inclused Tunisia as a location.	1989 / 2009	6 games
Turkey		1986 / 2011	16 games
Ukraine	All or significant portion of the story takes place in Ukraine.	1981 / 2012	20 games
United Arab Emirates(UAE)	Takes places in the UAE, a country in the Arabian Peninsula.		0 game
United States of America	Currently 50 states & several territories/common wealths that occupy the middle of North America plus Alaska, Hawaii, Puerto Rico & other islands.	1978 / 2024	730 games
Valhalla	The mythical place where deceased great warriors & the norse gods reside.		1 game
Venice, Italy		1984 / 2015	35 games
Vienna, Austria	Includes the city of Vienna as a location.		1 game
Vietnam	Includes Vietnam as a location.	1981 / 2017	51 games
Volgograd, Russia (Stalingrad;Tsaritsyn;Волгоград;Цари́цын;Сталингра́д)	Includes the city of Volgograd, Russia. Known as Stalingrad from World War II as it was named back then.	1995 / 2016	10 games
Wallonia, Belgium (Walloon Region)		1980 / 2013	9 games
West Asia (Western Asia;Southwest Asia)		1984 / 2009	7 games
Western Africa			0 game
Western Europe			0 game
Yemen	Includes Yemen as a location.		1 game
Yucatán Peninsula	A peninsula in the southeast end of Mexico, touching the borders of Central America.		1 game
Zoo (Zoological garden;Zoological park;Menagerie)		1972 / 2020	38 games

concepts

1-Dimensional	The game world consists of a single dimensional.		1 game
Aarklash[Confrontation]	A medieval fantasy setting of the Confrontation miniature wargame by Rackham.	2010 / 2014	3 games
Arda (Middle-earth)[Middle Earth]	The world on which the stories of Lord of the Rings, Silmarillion, The Hobbit and others took place in. Perhaps better known for the continent of Middle-earth.	1982 / 2015	120 games
Ardania	A fantasy world setting originally by Cyberlore for Majesty series.	2000 / 2014	17 games
Ardon		1999 / 2002	6 games
Ashan	Set in the world of Ashan of Might and Magic fame.	2006 / 2014	14 games (16 characters)
Buffyverse (Buffy the Vampire Slayer;Angel)	Shared universe of Buffy the Vampire Slayer and Angel series.	1997 / 2009	8 games (9 characters)
Cthulhu Mythos(Derleth Mythos)	Set in H. P. Lovecraft's Cthulhu Mythos or the later variant established by August Derleth and other writers.	1983 / 2024	58 games (4 characters)
Dark Sun	Dark Sun D&D campaign setting places the players in the ravaged world of Athas where good majority of the known world is covered either by desert or the silt sea.	1991 / 2015	11 games
DC Universe (DC Comics)	Set in the DC Universe.	1978 / 2026	218 games (167 characters)
Dimensions (Planes of existence)			0 game
Discworld	Set in the Discworld universe and/or based on the Discworld novels by Terry Pratchett.	1986 / 1999	13 games (2 characters)
Dragonlance (Krynn;Ansalon)	A D&D campaign setting set on the planet of Krynn, on the continent of Ansalon or Taladas. As the name suggests, Dragons are fairly common issue either in the present or in much of the history.	1987 / 2015	46 games (6 characters)
Duck universe(Donald Duck universe;Scrooge McDuck universe)	The fictional alternate Earth setting and home of Donald Duck, Scrooge McDuck, and related characters, created by Carl Banks and Disney.	1982 / 2015	61 games (7 characters)
Earth-like	Set in Earth-like alternate universe.	2016 / 2017	6 games
Eberron	A darker pulp-noir D&D campaign setting (published in 2004) focused on the continent, Khorvaire, devastated by prior wars. Combines D&D with slightly advanced yet magic based technology.	2002 / 2006	2 games
Eisenwald	A low fantasy setting by Aterdux.	2015 / 2016	2 games
Endoria	The world on which Katauri's King's Bounty games are set.	2008 / 2013	6 games
Enroth (Erathia;Axeoth)	Set in the world and continuity of Enroth of Might and Magic fame, which includes places like Erathia and Axeoth.	1995 / 2003	15 games
Eve universe		2003 / 2016	5 games
Fallen London(Echo Bazaar)	A nameless setting created by Failbetter originally for Fallen London itself and later Sunless Sea.	2009 / 2016	5 games
Fantasy World(Constructed World)		1978 / 2024	279 games
Forgotten Realms	D&D campaign setting most commonly played out on its continent of Faerûn, on the planet of Abeir-Toril.	1987 / 2023	123 games (24 characters)
Gaia	A world in the Final Fantasy series.	1997 / 2019	13 games
Genesis universe	A shared universe created by Malibu Comics.	1992 / 1993	2 games
Glorantha	Set in the fictional world of Glorantha, originally the setting of White Bear and Red Moon (a.k.a. Dragon Pass) board wargame and later that of HeroQuest/RuneQuest and several novels.	1975 / 2019	4 games
Golarion	The main setting of the Pathfinder role-playing game.		3 games
Graxia		2010 / 2011	2 games
Greyhawk (World of Greyhawk)	A D&D campaign setting which is source of many of the spells known across all of the D&D multiverse. Also the name of a city within the world.	1975 / 2003	1 game (5 characters)
Ivalice (イヴァリース)	Set in the fictional world of Ivalice, created by Yasumi Matsuno.	1997 / 2007	8 games
Lancer universe		2000 / 2016	4 games
Llylgamyn(Werdna;Wizardry: llylgamyn)	Wizardry sub-series set in and around the city of Llylgamyn in otherwise unnamed world.	1981 / 2015	61 games
Marvel Universe	Based on any of the franchises created by Marvel Comics and set in their vaguely shared universe of countless continuities.	1982 / 2027	387 games (83 characters)
Mickey Mouse universe	A fictional universe created by Walt Disney.	1983 / 2013	23 games (5 characters)
Midkemia	A fantasy world popularized by Raymond E. Feist's Riftwar Cycle.	1993 / 1998	2 games (1 characters)
Newerth		2003 / 2010	9 games
Nosgoth	The gothic fantasy world of the Legacy of Kain series.	1996 / 2015	16 games
Oddworld		1997 / 2016	25 games (3 characters)
Other world (Other planet;Not Earth)	All or part of the story takes place on a world or planet that can't be otherwise identified.	1979 / 2024	863 games
Planescape	A Dungeons & Dragons campaign setting first published in 1994 that encompasses the whole D&D multiverse instead of just one of them.	1994 / 2017	3 games (2 characters)
Post-apocalypse	The story takes place in a world that had experienced almost complete annihilation that changed it utterly, in the aftermath of which the remaining people are trying to survive.	1977 / 2023	612 games
Ravenloft	A Gothic horror D&D campaign setting based on apprehension and fear. The player's goal is not to succumb to the dark powers of The Demiplane of Dread.	1983 / 2015	7 games
Remedy Connected Universe	A paranormal contemporary fantasy setting by Remedy.	2010 / 2019	7 games
Shadowrun	A P&P RPG game and its future Earth fantasy cyberpunk setting.	1989 / 2015	20 games
Spelljammer	A D&D campaign setting that tied the different worlds in Prime Material together without the use of the material from Planescape. Practically speaking Spelljammer was sword and sorcery in space.	1989 / 1992	1 game
Standard levels	Includes 3 or more from the standard level theme set of: forest (also jungle), fire (also volcano/factory), water (also underwater/sewers), ice (also snow), and possibly others.		0 game
Starsiege universe		1994 / 2004	12 games (1 characters)
The Dark Eye (Das Schwarze Auge;Aventuria;Realms of Arkania)	Based on the P&P RPG `Das Schwarze Auge´ created by Ulrich Kiesow, set in the world of Aventuria. Known also as Realms of Arkania.	1992 / 2015	20 games (1 characters)
Tiberium universe[tiberian]	The main CnC series and setting most recognizable from the presence of Tiberium.	1995 / 2014	21 games (5 characters)
Trineverse	The setting used originally for the Trine series but later for other games.	2009 / 2017	20 games
Ultraverse	A shared universe created by Malibu Comics.		2 games
Vegetation	Any tags relating to plants, fungi, etc. especially how they are used, cultivated, or how they affect gameplay.		0 game
Warhammer 40,000(Warhammer 40k;WH40k)[Warhammer 40000]	Based on the Games Workshops' WH40k franchise. Originally a tabletop miniature wargame but later encompassed books, RPGs, comics, board games, card games, and others.	1992 / 2019	65 games (10 characters)
Warhammer Fantasy (Warhammer Fantasy Battle)	Uses the Games Workshops' Warhammer Fantasy setting or its related franchises, such as Warhammer Fantasy Battle.	1991 / 2019	44 games (6 characters)
World of Aden	A short-lived fantasy world setting by SSI.		3 games
World Scale	Container group to house groups related to the scale of the game world.		0 game
X-Universe		1999 / 2021	20 games (2 characters)