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Circadian cycle

Other (objects, etc.) theme

Day and night cycles on their own outside of plot, location, or triggered events, possibly influencing NPC activities accordingly.

488
games
71
platforms

Alternate name: Day/night cycle

The Count (Tandy Color Computer)
The Count
COCO 1983
The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time (GameCube)
The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time
GC 2002-11-28
Perfect World (Windows)
Perfect World
WIN 2005
Destiny (PlayStation 4)
Destiny
PS4 2014-09-09
The Count (TRS-80)
The Count
TRS 1979-07
Animal Crossing: New Horizons (Nintendo Switch)
Animal Crossing: New Horizons
SWTC 2020-03-20
The Hobbit (MSX)
The Hobbit
MSX 1985
The Sims Medieval (Windows)
The Sims Medieval
WIN 2011-05-27
Bully: Scholarship Edition (Wii)
Bully: Scholarship Edition
WII 2008-03-03
This War of Mine (Windows)
This War of Mine
WIN 2014-11-14
The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion (PlayStation 3)
The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion
PS3 2007-04-27
Breath of Fire II (Super Nintendo)
Breath of Fire II
SNES 1994-12-02
Related:
* Dynamic weather
* Weather effects
* Seasons
Preferably not if this is tied to level/mission changes and does not progress naturally by itself, a note should be added if it does not.

Editor note: Circadian cycle technically refers to primarily biological cycle tied to the dark-light cycle rather than the dark-light cycle itself, so this should be renamed.

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Parent groups

Dynamism, Nature simulation, Time, Story time span, UVL: Tags that may need renaming, Visibility

Child group

Obscured time

Games by year

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The first Circadian cycle video game was released in 1979.

Bethesda Softworks, Nintendo and Deep Silver published most of these games.

Platforms

Windows 141
Linux 109
Mac OS X 30
X360 23
PS3 20
MS-DOS 15
Apple II E 11
PS4 10
C64 8
NES 6
PS2 5
Switch 5
Xbox One 5
GameCube 4
Amiga 4
Mac OS Classic 4
Famicom Disk System 4
Amstrad CPC 4
ZX Spectrum 4
Nintendo DS 3
N64 3
Android 3
Atari ST 3
GBC 3
PS Vita 3
Xbox 3
Wii 3
3DS 2
Atari 400/800 2
Tandy Coco 2