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.

287

games

platforms

Alternate name: Bottomless pits

Prehistorik II

CPC 1993

Deadlight

WIN 2012-10-25

The Chronicles of Riddick: Escape From Butcher Bay

WIN 2004-12-03

King Kong 2: Ikari no Megaton Punch

NES 1986-12-18

Portal 2

WIN 2011-04-19

Bionic Commando Rearmed

WIN 2008-08-14

SD Hero Soukessen: Taose! Aku no Gundan

NES 1990-07-07

Matou no Houkai

FDSY 1988-09-02

Castlevania II: Simon's Quest

NES 1988-12

Mark of the Ninja

X360 2012-09

Gremlins 2: The New Batch

GB 1990-12-21

Prince of Persia 2: The Shadow and the Flame

DOS 1993

Related:
* Deadly water
* Rope swinging
* Chasms - some death pits are these.

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.

Parent groups

Environmental hazards, Tropes

Games by year

The first Death pits video game was released in 1984.

Sega, Capcom, Titus and Konami published most of these games.

Platforms

Windows	68
NES	53
Linux	28
PS3	15
X360	15
Mac OS X	15
MS-DOS	11
Famicom Disk System	7
Wii	6
PS2	5
PC Engine	5
Amstrad CPC	4
Master System	4
Amiga	4
GB	3
Flash	3
SNES	2
C16/Plus4	2
iOS	2
Mac OS Classic	2
NEC PC8801	2
Mega Drive	2
Wii U	2
ZX Spectrum	2
C64	2
Atari ST	2
MSX	2
Internet Only	1
Sharp X1	1
Electron	1

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