History BigFancyHouse / VideoGames

* Kanai Tower in ''VideoGame/MasterDetectiveArchivesRainCode'' is the tallest city in the building, and Makoto Kagutsuchi's state of residence. The reason he owns the magnificent building is because [[spoiler:he's the CEO of Amaterasu Corporation, and so his position is prestigious enough to be able to own such a place for himself.]]

* In ''VideoGame/TheKingOfFighters'': KYO RPG game, the players get again to see Kyo Kusanagi's home. [[ContinuityNod It's still]] the same and very big traditional complex from the KOF: KYO manga, TheThingThatGoesDoink included.

* ''VideoGame/LuigisMansion''. Okay, so it's a bit haunted, but you can literally vacuum money and pearls right out of the furniture! If you get enough money in the course of the game, this also applies to the house Luigi gets after the haunted mansion vanishes.

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%%* Petra's stage in ''VideoGame/ArcanaHeart''. Justified since she is an [[TheOjou Ojou]].

%%* ''[[VideoGame/TheIdolmaster2 The iDOLM@STER 2]]'' - Takane's has one.

%%* Dorne Manor (the Operation Repunzel level) in ''VideoGame/MedalOfHonorFrontline''.

%%* The Shacklethorne Mansion from from ''VideoGame/PAYDAY2''.

%%* Croft Manor in the ''Franchise/TombRaider'' series.

%%* With enough money, the players in ''VideoGame/TornCity'' can upgrade all the way up to an entire private island!

* The Valentine Mansion, London - home to the English Countess Isabella "Ivy" Valentine from the ''VideoGame/SoulSeries''. The grand staircase and library are used as fighting arenas in ''SC 1'' and ''SC 3'' respectively.
* In ''VideoGame/FinalFantasyXIV'', the Levellieurs live in an enormous estate that a foreign visitor initially mistakes for the Studium, Sharlayan's equivalent to an Ivy League university. In fact, the estate is so vast that [[spoiler:Fourchenault can remain completely LockedOutOfTheLoop regarding Ameliance's foreign exchange student project. A Hannish girl, Miladeen, can eat meals, sleep, and study at the Levellieur house as well as go to and from school with Fourchenault none the wiser.]]
* Yai's house in the ''VideoGame/MegaManBattleNetwork'' games -- though it appears [[{{Hammerspace}} roughly the same size as her neighbors' houses from the outside]].
* Croft Manor in the ''Franchise/TombRaider'' series.

* ''VideoGame/WarioLand'':
** The ''VideoGame/WarioLandII'' version of Wario's castle/house has tons of rooms, is probably the size of a small town when mapped out, and has TEN LEVELS set in the building. Getting to his alarm clock requires going through about twenty rooms for goodness sake!
** Wario's Castle in ''VideoGame/WarioWorld''. It's a solid gold castle people, complete with fancy throne and lots and lots of treasure lying around just about everywhere.
* The Shinra Mansion at Nibelheim in ''VideoGame/FinalFantasyVII'', considered to be the largest house in the game, with 2 wings, 2 floors, and a deep underground basement. Gets further expanded in ''VideoGame/CrisisCore'' to have larger rooms, a huge entrance hall, wider corridors, and 2 levels of basements. Funnily enough, for a former scientist's base, the only room to contain anything actually scientific is the deepest, furthest room in the basement.
* ''VideoGame/{{Phantasmagoria}}'' begins with a young couple moving into a gothic castle. It's never explained how they could possibly afford it, or why the original owner's belongings are untouched decades after his death.
* ''VideoGame/LuigisMansion''. Okay, so it's a bit haunted, but you can literally vacuum money and pearls right out of the furniture!
** If you get enough money in the course of the game, this also applies to the house Luigi gets after the haunted mansion vanishes.
* ''Franchise/TouhouProject'''s Eientei and Scarlet Devil Mansion. Both are also cases where they are BiggerOnTheInside. Interestingly, the Scarlet Devil Mansion is a..well, [[ShapedLikeItself Western-style mansion]], while Eientei is very much Japanese.
* ''VideoGame/MassEffect2'': Donavan Hock has a ridiculously large house, especially after you get through the large room where the party is held, the balcony, the vault that's large enough that the Statue of Liberty's head is a display on one end, the underground security bunkers, the [[HumongousMecha YMIR mechs]], the garage full of tanks and fuel canisters, the secondary landing pad...and that gunship and the rest of the squadron Hock talks about had to have come from somewhere...
* ''VideoGame/FableII'' and ''[[VideoGame/FableIII 3]]'' have Fairfax Mansion and Bowerstone Castle respectively. Both are huge, contain any kind of real world room you could want. Both however seem to have large, rather complex escape routes that are actually filled with danger.
* Dorne Manor (the Operation Repunzel level) in ''VideoGame/MedalOfHonorFrontline''.
* In the backstory comics for VideoGame/TeamFortress2, we see that the Demoman lives in a very fancy mansion with his mother. The Heavy also seems to live in a big fancy cabin.
* The Tohno mansion of ''VisualNovel/{{Tsukihime}}'', big and fancy even for Japanese standards.
* In ''Battlefield 3,'' the Russian protagonist storms a mansion positioned on a cliff overlooking an enormous beach and a breathtaking view of the ocean. This mansion has numerous sections that could be considered houses in their own right, lavish gardens, multiple pools, and an entire underground Military facility.
* ''VisualNovel/KiraKira'': Due to being extremely rich, Sarina's family have several of these.
* ''[[Videogame/TheIdolmaster2 The iDOLM@STER 2]]'' - Takane's has one.

* In ''VideoGame/DragonAgeII'' the first Act revolves around Hawke trying to gain enough money so he/she can reclaim the Amell estate for his/her mother, Leandra, after her deadbeat brother hid the will that revealed everything was left to his ''sister'', spent the entire family inheritance on himself, and then finally sold the Estate to ''slavers'' in order to cover his extensive debts. After Hawke regains the family fortune and estate in Act 2, the uncle is ''not'' allowed to live there.
** While only a fraction of the house is seen in game, just how big is the estate? Its vast cellars are mentioned as extending all the way from Hightown right through to the former mine tunnels that run beneath the city Darktown.
* In ''VideoGame/DragonAgeInquisition,'' the player character relocates after the first act to Skyhold. This is actually a castle (complete with military fortifications), but is too small and reasonably laid out to qualify for BigFancyCastle. Throughout the remainder of the main game, the castle is in a constant state of repair and upgrade; it includes an entire wall made of stained glass, a magnificent bedroom for the player character, and a massive round library.
* In ''[[VideoGame/TheElderScrollsVSkyrim Skyrim]]'' most of the houses in Solitude qualify as this - including Proudspire Manor, which is the one the player can buy and the most expensive of the player's options. It would be big and fancy by even modern standards, but even moreso in the context of the setting.

* With enough money the players in ''VideoGame/TornCity'' can upgrade all the way up to an entire private island!
* In ''VideoGame/TheKingOfFighters'': KYO RPG game, the players get again to see Kyo Kusanagi's home. [[ContinuityNod It's still]] the same and very big traditional complex from the KOF: KYO manga, TheThingThatGoesDoink included.
** There's also [[MsFanservice Mai's]] house aka the Shiranui dojo. It's a just as big Japanese mansion, including a tea ceremony pavillion.
** The backstory for KOF XIII implies that [[YamatoNadeshiko Chizuru Kagura]] lives in a similar traditional house, possibly attached to the shrine that she's a {{Miko}} for in KOF: KYO.
* ''VideoGame/FallenLondon'' has the option to buy a huge mansion for a substantial fee. They can then convert parts of it into either an Orphanage or Salon (and even have the choice about whether it's an OrphanageOfFear or OrphanageOfLove)
* In ''VideoGame/TheMatrixPathOfNeo'' you get to check out the right side of the Merovingian's dungeons, and find out that the house is '''even''' bigger due to having it's own AnotherDimension with a whole maze inside it.

* Petra's stage in ''VideoGame/ArcanaHeart''. Justified since she is an [[TheOjou Ojou]].
* The world "About the House" in ''VideoGame/MonkeyShines'' is set in a big house with [[AnimateInanimateObject moving household objects]] as enemies.
* A common setting in the [[VideoGame/NancyDrew Nancy Drew]] computer games, such as ''Message in a Haunted Mansion,'' ''Curse of Blackmoor Manor'' and ''The Ghost of Thornton Hall.''
* ''Franchise/StreetFighter'':
** The ''Anime/StreetFighterIVTheTiesThatBind'' OAV and the proper ''VideoGame/StreetFighterIV'' game show Ken's house, a ''lovely'' mansion where he and his wife Eliza take residence [[spoiler: and, in ''Super'' are joined by their newborn son Mel]].
** While the non-canon manga ''Sakura Ganbaru'' had shown [[http://streetfighter.wikia.com/wiki/Kanzuki_Estate Karin Kazuki's massive state]], it's not until ''VideoGame/StreetFighterV'' that it's seen in all its glory in the official games. And it's very, '''very''' worth the wait.

* The Shacklethorne Mansion from from ''VideoGame/PAYDAY2''.

* Stauf Manor, the setting of ''VideoGame/TheSeventhGuest'' and its sequel ''The 11th Hour''. Henry Stauf, once he had made his fortune selling his dolls and puzzles, received a vision of the house and had it built on the outskirts of Harley-on-Hudson.
* Several fans have pointed out that Icecrown Citadel in ''VideoGame/WorldOfWarcraft'' is absurdly large. It's walls stretch for miles under almost the entirety of the Icecrown zone, making much of the zone into mere courtyards. And goodness only knows what is beneath all that ice, there could be miles and miles of caverns. Especially given that a faction of the subterranean Nerubians allied with the Lich King. It is by far the largest residential building on Azeroth, even dwarfing Queen Azhara's magnificent undersea palace. This has gotten people thinking about why the building is so large: since buildings on this scale were usually only built by the Titans or their constructs. Then again, it is built into a glacier. The explanation for it's enormous size might be simply that it has to be huge in order to not get crushed by all that ice. Other royal residences in the game actually tend to avert this trope. The palaces of Stormwind and Lordaeron are larger than the surrounding buildings, but not ostentatiously so.
** Mardenholde is also extremely large for what it is: it's just a regional governor's house, but it's almost the size of Lordaeron's palace with fairly extensive grounds. Granted, the governor isn't the only one who lives on the grounds, but still. The same is true of Durnholde as well. This is possibly explained by assuming that these buildings were built before the rise of Lordaeron for Arathi lords. Also, it's not like land is at a premium in Arathor: even assuming that there are technically more buildings than actually appear in the game (since there are nowhere near enough houses to actually accommodate even all the named [=NPCs=]).
* ''VideoGame/TormentedSouls:'' The Wildberger Mansion used to be one of these, before it was converted into a hospital, which in turn was {{abandoned|hospital}}.

* The Roivas Mansion of ''VideoGame/EternalDarkness'' has existed in Rhode Island since at least the 1700s, an impressive acquisition for a family that had been [[BurnTheWitch persecuted for witchcraft]] since their arrival in America. [[spoiler:It also happens to be built over a vast subterranean city called Ehn'gha.]]

* In ''VideoGame/FinalFantasyXIV'', the Levellieurs live in an enormous estate that a foreign visitor initially mistakes for the Studium, Sharlayan's equivalent to an Ivy League university. In fact, the estate is so vast that [[spoiler:Fourchenault can remain completely LockedOutOfTheLoop regarding Ameliance's foreign exchange student project. A Hannish girl, Miladeen, can eat meals, sleep, and study at Levellieur house as well as go to and from school with Fourchenault none the wiser.]]

* ''VideoGame/MassEffect2'': Donavan Hock has a ridiculously large house, especially after you get through the large room where the party is held, the balcony, the vault that's large enough that the Statue of Liberty's head is a display on one end, the underground security bunkers, the [[HumongousMecha YMIR mechs]], the [[UpToEleven garage full of tanks and fuel canisters]], the secondary landing pad...and that gunship and the rest of the squadron Hock talks about had to have come from somewhere...

* ''VideoGame/{{Touhou}}'''s Eientei and Scarlet Devil Mansion. Both are also cases where they are BiggerOnTheInside. Interestingly, the Scarlet Devil Mansion is a..well, [[ShapedLikeItself Western-style mansion]], while Eientei is very much Japanese.

** Mardenholde is also extremely large for what it is: it's just a regional governor's house, but it's almost the size of Lordaeron's palace with fairly extensive grounds. Granted, the governor isn't the only one who lives on the grounds, but still. The same is true of Durnholde as well. This is possibly explained by assuming that these buildings were built before the rise of Lordaeron for Arathi lords. Also, it's not like land is at a premium in Arathor: even assuming that there are technically more buildings than actually appear in the game (since there are nowhere near enough houses to actually accommodate even all the named NPCs).

* In ''VideoGame/TheKingOfFighters'': KYO RPG game, the players get again to see [[TheProtagonist Kyo Kusanagi]]'s home. [[ContinuityNod It's still]] the same and very big traditional complex from the KOF: KYO manga, TheThingThatGoesDoink included.

* VideoGame/{{Touhou}}'s Eientei and Scarlet Devil Mansion. Both are also cases where they are BiggerOnTheInside. Interestingly, the Scarlet Devil Mansion is a..well, [[ShapedLikeItself Western-style mansion]], while Eientei is very much Japanese.
* VideoGame/MassEffect2: Donavan Hock has a ridiculously large house, especially after you get through the large room where the party is held, the balcony, the vault that's large enough that the Statue of Liberty's head is a display on one end, the underground security bunkers, the [[HumongousMecha YMIR mechs]], the [[UpToEleven garage full of tanks and fuel canisters]], the secondary landing pad...and that gunship and the rest of the squadron Hock talks about had to have come from somewhere...
* ''VideoGame/FableII'' and [[VideoGame/FableIII 3]]'' have Fairfax Mansion and Bowerstone Castle respectively. Both are huge, contain any kind of real world room you could want. Both however seem to have large, rather complex escape routes that are actually filled with danger.

* With enough money the players in "VideoGame/TornCity" can upgrade all the way up to an entire private island!
* In VideoGame/TheKingOfFighters: KYO RPG game, the players get again to see [[TheProtagonist Kyo Kusanagi]]'s home. [[ContinuityNod It's still]] the same and very big traditional complex from the KOF: KYO manga, TheThingThatGoesDoink included.

* VideoGame/FallenLondon has the option to buy a huge mansion for a substantial fee. They can then convert parts of it into either an Orphanage or Salon (and even have the choice about whether it's an OrphanageOfFear or OrphanageOfLove)

* The Spencer Mansion in ResidentEvil comprises the 'resident' of "Resident Evil." It is massive and lavishly furnished... and full of biological horrors and deathtraps.

* Dorne Manor (the Operation Repunzel level) in ''VideoGame/MedalOfHonor: Frontline''.