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Obstacle translucification

Video game concept

Sight obscuring obstacles are made translucent or completely invisible when the game determines them to be obscuring player's view of things the protagonist can plainly see.

27
games
11
platforms
Diablo (Windows)
Diablo
WIN 1996-12
Dungeon Siege (Windows)
Dungeon Siege
WIN 2002-04-04
Avencast: Rise of the Mage (Windows)
Avencast: Rise of the Mage
WIN 2007-10-16
Diablo II (Macintosh OS Classic)
Diablo II
MAC 2000-06-29
Diablo (Macintosh OS Classic)
Diablo
MAC 1996-12
Dungeon Siege II (Windows)
Dungeon Siege II
WIN 2005-08-16
Diablo II: Lord of Destruction (Windows)
Diablo II: Lord of Destruction
WIN 2001-06-29
ArcaniA - A Gothic Tale (Windows)
ArcaniA - A Gothic Tale
WIN 2010-10-13
Diablo II (Windows)
Diablo II
WIN 2000-06-29
Dungeon Siege II: Broken World (Windows)
Dungeon Siege II: Broken World
WIN 2006-04
Diablo II: Resurrected (Nintendo Switch)
Diablo II: Resurrected
SWTC 2021-09-23
Hellfire (Windows)
Hellfire
WIN 1997-11-24
See also: player underexposure
Essentially mandatory, but unfortunately not "standard", feature of isometric or similar games.

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Parent groups

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Games by year

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The first Obstacle translucification video game was released on December 1996.

Blizzard and Microsoft published most of these games.

Platforms

Windows 11
Mac OS Classic 3
Pandora 3
Mac OS X 2
Linux 2
PS 1
Switch 1
PS4 1
PS5 1
Xbox One 1
Xbox Series X 1

Most common companies

Blizzard13
Microsoft2