Active ability set

Video game concept

Player has access to only a small subset of their total skills, abilities, spells and so forth when adventuring, requiring the player to return to some safe haven or similar if they wish to use something else.

games

platforms

Name variations: skill subset, ability subset, spell subset

Evil Islands: Lost in Astral

WIN 2006

Sentinel 3: Homeworld

ANDR 2011? *

Minecraft Dungeons

SWTC 2020-05-26

Guild Wars Factions

WIN 2006-04-28

Orcs Must Die! 2

WIN 2012-07-30

Resident Evil: Operation Raccoon City

PS3 2012-03-20

WildStar

WIN 2014-06-03

Transistor

PS4 2014-05-20

Dragon's Dogma: Dark Arisen

PS3 2013-04-26

Resident Evil: Operation Raccoon City

WIN 2012-05-18

Sol Survivor

WIN 2010-03-15

The Secret World

WIN 2012-07-03

Note that this does not cover spell memorization as seen in D&D and those inspired by it. Though similar, spell memory is much more limited form of this.

Parent groups

Abilities, spells, skills, etc., Artificial limitations

Games by year

The first Active ability set video game was released on October 26, 2000.

Blizzard Entertainment, Capcom and NCsoft published most of these games.

Platforms

Windows		24
X360		4
PS3		4
PS4		3
Mac OS X		2
Linux		2
Xbox One		2
PSP		1
Android		1
iOS		1
Switch		1

Active ability set

Video game concept

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