Phlebotinum

Other (objects, etc.) entity

Involves an exceedingly rare, valuable or inexplicable substance (or possibly device) that often has so many (often unpredictable) uses that everyone wants it, and it's (of course) important for the plot.

38
games
11
platforms

Alternate names: Unobtainium, Handwavium, Eludium, Wishalloy

Often the substance is completely unexplained beyond its names and the countless applications it has, but it is rarely explained what its actual properties are.

Real world examples would be water and petroleum (oil) if there ever was scarcity for them (current future predictions indicate there will be in a few hundred years). As these are used in pretty much everything there is (and if there's something that doesn't contain either, you can bet these were used in the production of whatever that is somewhere along the line).

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Games by year

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The first Phlebotinum video game was released on August 31, 1995.

Electronic Arts, Nintendo and Fatbot Games published most of these games.

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Platforms

Windows 15
Mac OS X 5
X360 5
PS3 3
Linux 3
GameCube 2
iOS 1
Switch 1
MS-DOS 1
Nintendo DS 1
Wii 1