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* [[spoiler:Orphan's Cradle]] in ''VideoGame/FinalFantasyXIII'' is a surreal dimension said to be reality and dreams where data processed by [[DeusEstMachina Eden]] manifests in physical form, forming flying blocks, rotating machinery, and floating platforms that can be used to traverse the area. A sunset sky can be seen outside the rotating panels that form its boundaries. Somehow, despite this being Eden's MentalWorld, it also acts as a shell around [[spoiler:the ever-sleeping [[LivingBattery Orphan]].]]

** Again, the Trap Books, both from ''Myst'' and ''VideoGame/Riven''. In all versions of ''Myst'', they lead to dark voids, where the only view is that of the library, and should any pages be torn out, you are greeted with a colored static. Made even worse in ''MYST'' (2020 VR), where the entire void is made up of this static. In Riven, though, the concept is even worse. There is NOTHING in the book that you are given to trap Gehn. Not even the static. In any of the endings where you have trapped Gehn before, and then released him, you are treated to him gloating at you through that tiny window, and then literally shutting the cover on you, to be trapped in a dark void for all eternity...

* Orphan's Cradle in ''VideoGame/FinalFantasyXIII'' is a surreal dimension said to be reality and dreams where data processed by [[DeusEstMachina Eden]] manifests in physical form, forming flying blocks, rotating machinery, and floating platforms that can be used to traverse the area. A sunset sky can be seen outside the rotating panels that form its boundaries. Somehow, despite this being Eden's MentalWorld, it also acts as a shell around the ever-sleeping [[LivingBattery Orphan]].

** Giant's Deep is a mostly-ocean world wracked by storms, where the waterspouts are strong enough to fling its floating islands out of the atmosphere before the landforms come crashing back below. Its "core" is a semi-permeable black sphere that crackles with electricity, surrounding a weird coral growth.

** And then there's the Quantum Moon, which can appear around any body in the solar system, but will change location as soon as you stop looking at it, or so much as blink. If you figure out how to reach its surface, [[spoiler:you'll find that it mimics the terrain of whatever it's orbiting, but the features will similarly change as you look elsewhere.]]
** The doozy is [[spoiler:the Eye of the Universe, a spatial anomaly that once emitted a signal older than the current universe. Its northern hemisphere is trapped in endless night, while the southern hemisphere is covered in a massive, stormy maelstrom, each flash of lightning changing the locations of the rocks and trees that can be found there. Above the south pole is a vortex in the clouds leading to... well, it could lead to anywhere, but only an active observer will know for sure.]]

%%* The inside of [[EldritchAbomination Sin]] in ''VideoGame/FinalFantasyX''.
* ''VideoGame/FinalFantasyX'': [[spoiler:Sin. Once you enter it, instead of WombLevel you probably expected you find yourself on ethereal bridges marked by glyphs and runes and suspended over water flowing in unnatural directions and with unlimited horizon despite being inside a what is essentially a giant flying whale. The second part is Dream Zanarkand. Makes sense though considering it ''is'' perpertual summoning of said city.]]

* ''[[VideoGame/{{Myst}} Myst Series]]'':

** Again, the Trap Books, both from ''Myst'' and ''VideoGame/Riven''. In all versions of ''Myst'', they lead to dark voids, where the only view is that of the library, and should any pages be torn out, you are greeted with a colored static. Made even worse in ''MYST'' (2020 VR), where the entire void is made up of this static. In Riven, though, the concept is even worse. There is NOTHING in the book that you are given to trap Gehn. Not even the static. Any of the endings where you have trapped Gehn before, and then released him, you are treated to him gloating at you through that tiny window, and then literally shutting the cover on you, to be trapped in a dark void for all eternity...

** The Hourglass Twins are a double planet, Ember Twin and Ash Twin, orbiting each other close enough to exert extreme tidal gravity on each other. This results in an enormous torrent of sand draining from the latter onto the former, filling Ember Twin's caves and canyons as time goes on, while exposing alien structures buried beneath Ash Twin. Astronauts note that eventually this process will reverse, and Ash Twin will get buried in sand again.
** Brittle Hollow is, well, hollow. The alien ruins beneath its surface are built on ledges in the side of inverted mountains, suspended from the ceiling, or use anti-gravity technology to allow passage. It also has a ''black hole'' for a core. And it's also ''brittle'', being bombarded by meteors spat out by its moon Hollow's Lantern, which causes whole chunks of the planet to fall into the singularity below.

** The Interloper is a frozen comet in an exaggerated eliptical orbit, which would be a standard snowball save for what's inside it - some of its tunnels and caverns are filled with "Ghost Matter," a substance invisible to the naked eye but detectable by camera, and which kills organic life by both burning it and causing victims to erupt in odd crystals. It's actually the source of all the Ghost Matter in your solar system, as attested to by the exploded core in the center of the comet, [[spoiler:which is what wiped out the [[{{Precursors}} Nomai]] 281,042 years ago.]]

** The doozy is [[spoiler:the Eye of the Universe, a spatial anomaly that once emitted a signal older than the current universe. Its northern hemisphere is trapped in endless night, while the southern hemisphere has a massive, stormy maelstrom that covers it in its entirety, each flash of lightning changing the locations of the rocks and trees that can be found there. Above the south pole is a vortex in the clouds leading to... well, it could lead to anywhere, but only an active observer will know for sure.]]

** Dark Bramble is not a planet. It's [[ShatteredWorld the remains]] of an ice world that fell victim to some AlienKudzu, incredibly thick, gnarled, thorny growths that extend out from huge knots with holes that shine with light. Entering one of those holes puts you in a foggy, softly-glowing interior that is BiggerOnTheInside, with no reference points but the lights of other holes that take you an impossible distance deeper into the Dark Bramble... as well as the [[LuringInPrey glowing lures]] of anglerfish large enough to eat your spaceship. The whole place breaks physics, so that if you shoot a probe into a glowing knothole, you'll receive two signals from it at different distances. What's also disturbing is that seeds from the Dark Bramble can be found on other bodies in the solar system, suggesting it might someday expand to destroy other worlds.

* ''VideoGame/{{Warframe}}'': [[HyperspaceIsAScaryPlace The Void]], a dimension that can only be accessed through special keys. The area appears as a vast expanse of space and pure energy, with only the occasional abandoned Orokin tower [[spoiler:or the moon]] floating in its space. It is the source of all energy that the Tenno use, and it has close ties to the lost god-like race of the Orokin. It does not obey conventional physics; for instance, argon gas, which is normally inert, can crystallize there. Occasionally fissures in space leak void energy and allow the Orokin towers to use their mind controlling power to extend their reach. [[spoiler:General Vor was even able to become a pure godlike being of energy with the use of a special void key.]] Oh, and by the way, it's apparently sentient and thinks nothing of driving people insane.

*** Special points to the Warped Forest, a bizarre biome by the standards of the Nether. It is filled with large Warped fungus at uneven canopy levels. covered with a myriad of dark royal blue particles and a dark pueple-blue fog. Its ambient sounds are the most disturbing, full of glitchy record-scratch-like noises, reversed audio, creepy ringing, very loud creaking in the ground, and rarely, distorted shrieking. Strangely enough, there is little life in these turquoise woodlands, save for Endermen

* ''Videogame/TheShore'' has the Void dimension, a dark, inky black, Giger-esque plane dominated by colossal Shoggoths, servitors of EldritchAbominations, dark temples and corridors and avatars of a few Franchise/CthulhuMythos deities.

* ''Videogame/TheShore'' has the Void dimension, a dark, inky black, Giger-esque plane dominated by colossal Shoggoths, servitors of EldritchAbominations, dark temples and corridors and avatars of a few CthulhuMythos deities.

* The Room in ''VideoGame/{{OFF}}''. The rest of the game is [[WidgetSeries bizarre,]] but internally consistent and stable, [[spoiler:if undergoing some sudden changes after being purified]]. The Room is a small area that the Batter goes through multiple times spread across different "chapters" in reverse chronological order. The place changes in each iteration, there's one section where the camera inverts for no explainable reason (and remains upside-down until after solving a puzzle), a portion where you're taken to a mock-up of the main menu and pick three different "save files," a gigantic NPC that wants to play a game where you tell him numbers that appear in other sections, and it includes a segment that appears like a child's crayon drawings. It's implied that the whole thing is ''some'' sort of flashback from [[spoiler:its guardian, a sickly boy seen briefly after beating the first two bosses]].

* ''VideoGame/FinalFantasyV'' has the [[VeryDefinitelyFinalDungeon Cleft of Dimensions]], which is a patchwork of areas earlier swallowed up in the Void and home to many {{Eldritch Abomination}}s including the game's two NintendoHard {{Superboss}}es. The UpdatedRerelease added the [[BonusDungeon Sealed Temple]], home to even more {{Superboss}}es, including the HumanoidAbomination who the legendary weapons were crafted specifically to fight.

** The VideoGame/SuperMario64 fangame VideoGame/{{B3313}} makes a giant Eldritch maze out of the already eerie Peach's Castle. For starters, [[AlienGeometries the main hub has four variants]] (and each one of them has its own levels and exits), and you find yourself [[RecursiveReality warping into castles within castles within castles]]. The connection between all this hubs has a form of logic, but even with a walkthrough, intuiting your way through the castle is an amazingly disorienting experience.

* ''VideoGame/Viewfinder'' lets you create these by turning pictures and photographs into three dimensional locations.

* [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xcBf_Fib91Q ''Viewfinder'']] lets you create these by turning pictures and photographs into three dimensional locations.

* ''VideoGame/BlazBlue'': The Boundary can be classified as this - a nexus for all timelines, and so chock-full of nastiness and {{mindrape}} that mere ''entry'' can destroy you in some shape or form. Precisely eight beings are known to have traveled through the Boundary, either for TimeTravel or some other reason.

* ''[=BlazBlue's=]'' predecessor, ''VideoGame/GuiltyGear'', has the Backyard, a parallel world teeming with information which also serves as the source of magical energy for the world. Entry for most people into the Backyard is dangerous: without "tuning" to the Backyard's frequency, they risk being destroyed by the information inside it.

* ''VideoGame/AmidEvil'' has The Void. It consists largely of abstract shapes, often unnaturally warped. The shapes themselves are coated with strangely glossy material.

* In ''Fade to Silence'' an EldritchAbomination has turned the world into a frozen wasteland, both the trees and animals are infected with MeatMoss that reduce their ability to burn and nutritional value respectively in order to finish off any surviving humans, there are more blobs of MeatMoss on the ground that need to be cleared out and locations where you can make outpsts have multiple blobs and towers covered in tentacles to destroy, finally theres what lools like an upside down piece of city floating over the game world the sky which rains blobs of MeatMoss and cars when you walk under it and looking straight up reveals that the "ground" the buildings are supposed to be standing on/ hanging down from is just bright light.

* [[SubvertedTrope Subverted]] with Season 19 of ''VideoGame/BrawlStars'': Enchanted Woods, where [[https://pbs.twimg.com/media/FzThj-9WIAAz-NE?format=jpg&name=4096x4096 the Twitter Post before the Brawl Talk's premiere]] made the environment seem [[RedFilterOfDoom red]], hellish and like something out of ''Series/StrangerThings''. However, the actual location is anything but hellish and is like every other EnchantedForest.