Looting
Video game concept
Any and all tags describing how or what items are acquired from other characters, usually after they're dead.
11
games
6platforms
Parent group
Games by year
The first Looting video game was released on December 16, 2004.
Brøderbund published all these games.
Most common companies
This is a container group; its children are:
| Corpse looting | Player must search through corpses to gain any valuables they were carrying. (too short) | 1994 / 2020 | 134 games |
| Procedural item generator | Uses a procedural item generator to create a vast number of "unique" items by combining various traits with base items. Does not necessarily affect appearance of said items. | 1996 / 2021 | 103 games |
| Loot: No items | Whatever NPCs drop upon defeat is never any kind of usable items (besides money or such), except in case of plot items. | 2005 / 2006 | 2 games |
| Loot: None | NPCs have no loot to speak of, usually meaning player is limited to what they can find from the environment or even what they start with. | 1982 / 2017 | 11 games |
| Loot: Predefined | NPCs have predefined items, causing same character to drop same item(s) on each playthrough. (too short) | 1 game | |
| Loot: Random | NPCs drop semi-random items when they're enough hurt. (too short) | 1982 / 2021 | 197 games |
| Loot: Unexpected | NPCs have unexpected items, such as spiders carrying gold coins, dogs carrying plate mail, and so forth. | 1989 / 2021 | 104 games |
| NPC inventory | NPCs have in their inventory exactly what you saw on them and saw them use and possibly some smaller items in addition. | 1995 / 2012 | 28 games |
| Scavenging | A significant amount of player's material resources are acquired from pillaging anything that comes across, stealing from the dead, and so forth – rather than by purchase/bartering, being gifted or starting out with it. | 1994 / 2021 | 119 games |
| Skinning | Player can remove the skin from dead critters. (too short) | 2001 / 2014 | 12 games |