Boss battles

Video game concept

Includes one or more battles with enemies who are significantly more powerful than anything else thrown at the player prior, usually found at the end of a level.

2334

games

platforms

Alternate names: Boss fights, Raid bosses, End level bosses

Crystal Catacombs

WIN 2014-06

The Titan's Quest

LIN ? *

Pandora's Tower

WII 2011-05-26

Teenage Mutant Hero Turtles

OCS 1990

Borderlands 3

WIN 2019-09-13

U.N. Defense Force: Earth Joker

ARCD 1993

WIN 2017-09-01

SPC 1987

WIN 2002-08-09

ARCD 1989

Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles 2: Battle Nexus

WIN 2003

Veigues Tactical Gladiator

8801 1988-12-16

The first video game about Boss battles was released in 1980.

Sega, Konami and Capcom has published most of these games

Related:
* Elite NPCs

Obviously being literally a boss does not alone qualify for this. These may also exist even if no other battles are fought, though such cases are likely quite rare.

Battles against literal boss characters or other major antagonists that do not differ from other battles fought significantly (equally weak and such) this tag no longer conveys anything useful for them and should not be used for them (you might want to add a note about them why you think they do not deserve this, though).

Raid boss is an MMO variant of the end level boss (raid being a combination of multiple player groups/parties, usually established for the sole purpose of fighting the raid bosses).

Child groups

Bonus bosses, Mini-bosses, Puzzle bosses, Boss meter, Boss arenas, Joke boss, Multi-stage bosses

compare with these groups

Platforms

Windows		404
Linux		325
NES		225
Arcade		130
PCE		75
Mac OS X		71
X360		64
Mega Drive		64
Amiga		59
MS-DOS		59
PS3		55
Atari ST		50
C64		48
PS2		42
Amstrad CPC		40
ZX Spectrum		39
Famicom Disk System		39
Master System		38
GB		34
MSX		31
X68000		25
PS4		23
PS		18
SNES		17
MSX2		16
Wii		15
Xbox		15
Tandy Coco		13
PCE CD		13
Android		12

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