Grid-based movement
Video game concept
First person games where the movement and other elements are locked to a grid.
464
games
61platforms
Alternate names: First-person grid
Name variations: Grid-based first-person
The first video game about Grid-based movement was released on September 1981.
ASCII, Electronic Arts and Sir-Tech has published most of these games
This is a specific variation of 3DoF (three degrees of freedom): forward/back, left/right, and yaw (in 90 degree increments). Many are also only 2DoF with the lack of side stepping.
Better name for this concept is needed, but since there's no agreement on it besides grid based movement or similar elsewhere and that doesn't distinguish from other uses of grids, we're limited to this currently.
Better name for this concept is needed, but since there's no agreement on it besides grid based movement or similar elsewhere and that doesn't distinguish from other uses of grids, we're limited to this currently.
Platforms
| MS-DOS |  | 79 | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Linux | | 50 | |
| Amiga | | 33 | |
| Windows | | 30 | |
| NEC PC9801 | | 22 | |
| C64 | | 20 | |
| Mac OS Classic | | 18 | |
| Atari ST | | 17 | |
| Apple II E | | 16 | |
| NES | | 10 | |
| NEC PC8801 | | 10 | |
| BeOS | | 9 | |
| MICRO 7 - FM7 | | 9 | |
| Sharp X1 | | 9 | |
| Mac OS X | | 7 | |
| GB | | 7 | |
| Amiga AGA | | 7 | |
| SNES | | 6 | |
| GBC | | 6 | |
| MSX | | 5 | |
| MSX2 | | 5 | |
| Amstrad CPC | | 5 | |
| Saturn | | 5 | |
| C128 | | 5 | |
| Mega-CD | | 4 | |
| Atari Falcon | | 4 | |
| iOS | | 4 | |
| Mega Drive | | 4 | |
| BSD | | 4 | |
| X68000 | | 4 |