Room-based

Video game concept

The game world is split into rooms or other small regions (enclosures) with exits that lead to other similarly small rooms. Commonly same size or smaller than the screen but can be larger.

196

games

platforms

WIN 2011

LIN 2003-12-18

CPC 1988

C64 1985

SPC 1984

NES 1990-12-26

SPC 1987

CPC 1986

SPC 1985

Nosferatu the Vampyre

CPC 1986

Alien 8

BBC 1985

Chimera

C64 1985

See also: screen-based

They may give off the impression of separate regions in some obscure place with portals that lead to similarly disconnected rooms. Moving between the rooms often but not always produces a vague transition, giving the impression that the rooms are not even connected physically.

If these include a map of any sort, each room tends to be represented by same shaped and sized square block regardless of their actual shape and size or the actual shape/size is represented inside that uniform map point (extremely disproprortional).

Parent group

Level design

Games by year

The first Room-based video game was released in 1981.

Ocean, Ultimate Play The Game and The Edge published most of these games.

Platforms

ZX Spectrum		38
Amstrad CPC		28
Windows		22
Linux		13
C64		13
MS-DOS		10
Mac OS X		8
Atari ST		8
MSX		7
Amiga		7
NES		5
Thomson		5
Atari 400/800		4
Amstrad PCW		4
BBC		3
Tatung Einstein		2
GB		2
Dragon32		2
Coleco Adam		1
Supervision		1
PS4		1
Pandora		1
Jaguar		1
ColecoVision		1
Enterprise		1
SNES		1
Famicom Disk System		1
GBC		1
Apple II E		1
BeOS		1

Most common companies