Recursive reference

Culture theme

Player can find references back to the original source material (or to itself), such as copies of the source material (or copies of itself), whether or not the player can interact or use them.

games

platforms

WIN 2013-05-17

WIN 2016-01-04

N64 1997-08-24

WIN 2013-10-23

NES 1990-08

X360 2010-05-14

WIN 2010-03-16

X360 2010-03-16

WIN 2013-10-17

WIN 2012-02-10

WIN 2012-02-16

LIN 2015-02

Note: This tag may need different name.

Solely for games flagged as tie-in.

Examples:
* Games based on a book have that book somewhere in the game world. Or any other media, such as a DVD case.
* Player can find posters advertising the source material (and effectively themselves)
... and so forth.

Technically this is metafiction, but if it's only limited in this manner, then please do not add the parent tag.

Parent group

Metafiction

Games by year

The first Recursive reference video game was released on August 1990.

Deep Silver, Daniel Mullins Games and Galactic Cafe published most of these games.

Platforms

Windows		9
Mac OS X		4
Linux		4
X360		2
NES		1
N64		1

Recursive reference

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Games by year

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