Looting

Video game concept

platforms

Any and all tags describing how or what items are acquired from other characters, usually after they're dead.

Corpse looting	Player must search through corpses to gain any valuables they were carrying.	1994 / 2020	134 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.		1 game
Loot: Random	NPCs drop semi-random items when they're enough hurt.	1982 / 2024	198 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
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
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	118 games
Skinning	Player can remove the skin from dead critters.	2001 / 2014	12 games