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Planetary romance

Fiction genre theme

A sub-genre of science fiction or science fantasy, characterized by adventures on (often several) unusually detail rich foreign worlds.

36
games
17
platforms
Star Ocean: First Departure (PlayStation Portable)
Star Ocean: First Departure
PSP 2007-12-27
In Other Waters (Windows)
In Other Waters
WIN 2020-04-03
Oddworld: Munch's Oddysee (Xbox)
Oddworld: Munch's Oddysee
XBOX 2001-11-06
Star Ocean: Till the End of Time (PlayStation 2)
Star Ocean: Till the End of Time
PS2 2003-02-27
Oddworld: Munch's Oddysee HD (PlayStation Vita)
Oddworld: Munch's Oddysee HD
VITA 2014-12-16
Star Ocean: Blue Sphere (Game Boy Color)
Star Ocean: Blue Sphere
GBC 2001-06
Oddworld: Munch's Oddysee (Windows)
Oddworld: Munch's Oddysee
WIN 2010-12-20
Star Ocean (Super Nintendo)
Star Ocean
SNES 1996-07
Destiny (Xbox 360)
Destiny
X360 2014-09-09
Metroid Prime (GameCube)
Metroid Prime
GC 2002-11-18
Albion (MS-DOS)
Albion
DOS 1995
Destiny (PlayStation 3)
Destiny
PS3 2014-09-09
As examples from popular media, Stargate (TV series) and Star Trek do not belong to this genre as neither spend much detail on the worlds besides superficial impressions.

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The first Planetary romance video game was released on December 31, 1991.

Oddworld Inhabitants, GT Interactive and Square Enix published most of these games.

Related sites

TV Tropes article
Wikipedia article

Platforms

Windows 6
PS3 4
MS-DOS 3
Linux 3
PS 3
Xbox 2
GameCube 2
PS2 2
PSP 2
X360 2
SNES 1
GBC 1
PS4 1
Mac OS X 1
Xbox One 1
PS Vita 1
Switch 1