History BiggerOnTheInside / VideoGames

%%* Lampshaded in ''{{VideoGame/Strife}}''; at one point Blackbird says "Y'know, from the outside this place looks ''tiny''."
Administrivia/PartialContextExample - What is it that looks tiny from the outside?

* ''VideoGame/StardewValley'': Your home looks about as big inside as it does on the outside... at first. Once Robin's upgraded it, you get more and more rooms, but the outside never changes. When you get married, your spouse not only moves into your home, but installs their own room next to yours. Many other houses in town are similarly bigger on the inside.
* Lampshaded in ''{{VideoGame/Strife}}''; at one point Blackbird says "Y'know, from the outside this place looks ''tiny''."

** This occurred with UsefulNotes/ZXSpectrum games as well; for instance, the Attic in ''Atic Atac'' had two overlapping rooms in the same space. This may have been done deliberately to make mapping difficult.

* The trucks in the {{UsefulNotes/NES}} version of ''VideoGame/MetalGear''. Go inside, and instantly you notice [[MythologyGag the scale have started to move]]. The UsefulNotes/{{MSX2}} version had this as well.

* In ''VideoGame/HellPie'' Nugget lampshades that the inside of the whale -- appropriately called [[WombLevel Inside Out -- is much larger than the whale itself.

* The player’s house in ''DisneyDreamlightValley'' can be expanded up to 20 floors, yet the exterior only upgrades to two floors.

* The castle levels from the original ''VideoGame/SuperMarioBros''. Even more so in the SNES remake, where their walls actually no longer extend offscreen.

* There's an interesting psychological employment of this trope in ''VideoGame/EarthBound''. The Tenda of the Lost Underworld believe they have built a cage around the dinosaurs there, even though they are the ones actually inside said cage. Therefore, to them, the cage is bigger on the inside than the outside. ''VideoGame/EarthBound'' itself, as well as predecessor ''VideoGame/{{MOTHER}}'', also played this trope straight in the usual sense. Its sequel ''VideoGame/MOTHER3'', however, did a pretty good job of averting it, or at least making it not particularly egregious.

* Happens at various structures in ''VideoGame/TitanQuest'', the game doesn't even try to hide and the Tower of Judgement in Hades takes the cake in this regard.

* PlayedForLaughs in ''VideoGame/FurFighters''. [[TheChick Juliette]] has an absolutely colossal wardrobe in her house.

* The alien spaceship you explore in, ''VideoGame/TombRaiderIII'', looks pretty small on the outside, but the inside is three times larger than the exterior.

%%* ''VideoGame/{{Rodina}}'', a space exploration game, though the developer says it's not an intended feature.

%%* Lampshaded in ''{{VideoGame/Strife}}''; at one point Blackbird says "Y'know, from the outside this place looks ''tiny''."

%%* The Comet Observatory domes from ''VideoGame/SuperMarioGalaxy''.

* The alien spaceship you explore in ''VideoGame/TombRaiderIII'' looks pretty small on the outside, but the inside is three times larger than the exterior.