History Main / AbandonedLaboratory

** The first one is Biolab dungeon, the most famous of all abandoned lab dungeon in the game, due to its status as endgame dungeon. Many clones of spirits belonging to past ''human experiments'' roam the area, and the ones on deeper floors are so powerful, that the final floor cannot be accessed through a simple warp point like the previous floors, instead it has a separate entry point via an [=NPC=] to prevent unprepared players from accidentally walking into it.
** The second one is the lab OPTATIO in the wreckage of Verus, which is a highly advanced civilization from hundreds of years ago, doomed by their own technology malfunctioning and causing a huge explosion. Verus was so advanced that the explosion was caused by their computers overheating and malfunctioning in their attempt to connect into another dimension. And that happened '''500 years''' ''before the medieval-like era'' the game is set in. And yet, despite the explosion, their robots not only survived, but also still actively the area to this day, although most of them malfunctioned and attacked everyone.
** The third one is Werner's Laboratory. Which is actually not entirely abandoned, at least until you finished the quest and Werner fled from the place. After that, the only ones in the dungeon are lots of cloned monsters implied to be past experiments, and few agents trying to secure the place, with you in the role of helping them.

* This is common in the ''VideoGame/{{Metroid}}'' games, with the earliest example being Tourian in the [[VideoGame/{{Metroid1}} first game]]. Tourian would appear again in ''VideoGame/SuperMetroid'' and ''VideoGame/MetroidZeroMission'', the latter of which is a remake of the first game; both of these later games make clear that the reason Tourian is abandoned is because the Metroids escaped and killed off the Space Pirates.

** ''VideoGame/MetroidOtherM'' takes place in a station quite similar to the one from Fusion, used as laboratory for researching biological weapons. In fact, it appears to be the predecessor to the secret research carried on the B.S.L station.

* ''VideoGame/TheWhiteChamber'' has one or two, depending on how you count. With card keys, at least one MadScientist and a GirlInABox (the player character).

* All the ''Videogame/BioShock'' games have them, given the sheer setting (an UnderwaterCity in the 50s and a [[FloatingContinent Floating city]] in the late 19th century) implies there will be anachronistic science - and along with making the locations possible, the scientists also created the mutagenics that give both the player character and the enemies powers, and some scary biomechanical mooks such as the Big Daddy and the Handyman.

* ''VideoGame/{{Killing Floor}}'' with the Biotic Labs, Biohazard and the Bedlam map bunker. And there's more, like an abandoned underground complex in Wyre and a secret laboratory under a subway station in Transit.

* The [=BioSytems=] lab in ''VideoGame/PhantasyStarII''. Birth Valley in ''VideoGame/PhantasyStarIV'' is hinted to be the same location. In both games it's the birthplace of the cute CatGirl in your party.

* The ''Franchise/ResidentEvil'' series is utterly in ''love'' with this: almost every game has at least one. The Underground Laboratory, first explored in ''VideoGame/ResidentEvil2'', appears in three games and ''possibly'' ''VideoGame/ResidentEvil0'' as well[[note]]It's appearance in that game created a PlotHole as to it's location and, with no concrete proof it's the same facility, fans are divided on whether it is or a similar facility elsewhere[[/note]].

* ''VideoGame/TheBlakcpineOutbreak'': There appears to be one located underneath the farm. It's accessible by an elevator in the barn, and you need to go there to get Alsulin.

* ''VideoGame/BugFables'' has the [[spoiler: Upper Snakemouth area, where the [[MadScientist roaches]] conducted horrible experiments involving cordyceos fungi before one of their creations [[HoistByHisOwnPetard broke out and killed them.]]]]

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* ''Roleplay/DestroyTheGodmodder'' features [[VideoGame/{{Portal}} Aperture Science]], which actually exists in the game's version of Earth.

* ''VideoGame/{{Killing Floor}}'' with the Biotic Labs and the Bedlam map bunker.

* ''[[VideoGame/HalfLife1 Half-Life]]'''s Black Mesa Research Facility.

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* Shandor Island in ''VideoGame/GhostbustersTheVideoGame'', which overlaps with a HauntedCastle. It's abandoned, all right; it's loaded with black slime and filled with all manner of ghosts and ghoulies; there's untold amounts of weird occult science going on; and an imprisoned Juvenile Giant Sloar serves as the icing on this very nasty cake.

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* VideoGame/TheWhiteChamber has one or two, depending on how you count. With card keys, at least one MadScientist and a GirlInABox (the player character).

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* ''VideoGame/{{Killing Floor}}'' with the Biotic Labs and the Bedlam map bunker.
* ''[[VideoGame/HalfLife1 Half-Life]]'''s Black Mesa Research Facility.

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* Carpaccio's Lab in ''[[VideoGame/WarioMasterOfDisguise Wario: Master of Disguise]]''. It actually isn't abandoned, but Wario's enemies cut the power to slow him down.
* In ''VideoGame/SonicAdventure2'' and ''VideoGame/ShadowTheHedgehog'', several levels on the Ark have this sort of vibe.

* Split Mushroom's stage in VideoGame/MegaManX4 is described as this.

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** At first in Portal 1, this is somewhat misleading, as [=GLaDOS=] is still maintaining the test area (where the player spends the majority of his/her time in) where everything is as white and shiny as an iPod, everything that's supposed to move moves, and it seems to be all good, until the player finally reaches the last chamber where [=GLaDOS=] tries to kill you and you make your way through the unmaintained area, you finally get a sense of how long this place has been abandoned. Even more so in Portal 2 where, [=GLaDOS=] is dead, and the whole place is overrun by plants. But the area underground the more modern labs [[TheCakeIsALie takes the cake.]] By the look of things, it was used in the 1950s and abandoned much later. Not to mention that the announcer in the stasis chambers says that you've been in stasis for nine nine nine nine nine nine nine.... days. Which means you've been asleep for quite a while.

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* ''VideoGame/PokemonRedAndBlue'' and their remakes have the Pokemon Mansion, where the experiments to clone Mew to create Mewtwo took place (before it had GoneHorriblyRight), and which is now filled with assorted Fire and Poison-types and the scientists' logs of their experiments.
** ''VideoGame/PokemonColosseum'' has the Shadow Pokemon Lab, which has only recently been cleared out when you arrive.
** The Shadow Pokemon Lab returns in ''VideoGame/PokemonXDGaleOfDarkness'', though it's considerably less abandoned this time around, having been reclaimed by its former owners during the five years since Colosseum.
** ''VideoGame/PokemonBlackAndWhite'' has the nearly-abandoned lab where Genesect was created. It's not a dungeon per se, but you will be able to battle the lone scientist still there for two of Genesect's Drives (the other two are in the other version) if you bring it with you to the lab.
* The [=BioSytems=] lab in ''VideoGame/PhantasyStarII''. Birth Valley in ''VideoGame/PhantasyStarIV'' is hinted to be the same location. In both games it's the birthplace of the cute CatGirl in your party.
* Project Purity in ''VideoGame/{{Fallout 3}}'' when you first come upon it.
** Hell, just about any of the "scientific" Vaults will be like this, as well as various abandoned shelters and named buildings.

* The Ocean Lab in ''VideoGame/DeusEx'', where an act of sabotage has released plenty of genetic experiments and thrown the electronic security systems out of whack. The staff is dead to a man.
* ''VideoGame/MarioAndLuigiSuperstarSaga'' has Woohoo Hooniversity, a half school, half laboratory area which has been attacked by Cackletta and Fawful. Enemies include students mutated into mad doctors and [[VideoGame/DrMario viruses]].
* During ''{{VideoGame/Mass Effect 2}}'''s Jack's loyalty mission, you go to one [[spoiler: to blow it up, so she can forget her past]].

* The ''Geneforge'' series has quite a number of these, as experiments GoneHorriblyWrong or GoneHorriblyRight are major drivers of the plot.

* The Underground Research Lab underneath Emil's Mansion in ''VideoGame/NieR''

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* ''VideoGame/MarioAndLuigiSuperstarSaga'' has Woohoo Hooniversity, a half school, half laboratory area which has been attacked by Cackletta and Fawful. Enemies include students mutated into mad doctors and [[DoctorMario viruses]].

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** At first in Portal 1, this is somewhat misleading, as SelfDemonstrating/GLaDOS is still maintaining the test area (where the player spends the majority of his/her time in) where everything is as white and shiny as an iPod, everything that's supposed to move moves, and it seems to be all good, until the player finally reaches the last chamber where [=GLaDOS=] tries to kill you and you make your way through the unmaintained area, you finally get a sense of how long this place has been abandoned. Even more so in Portal 2 where, [=GLaDOS=] is dead, and the whole place is overrun by plants. But the area underground the more modern labs [[TheCakeIsALie takes the cake.]] By the look of things, it was used in the 1950s and abandoned much later. Not to mention that the announcer in the stasis chambers says that you've been in stasis for nine nine nine nine nine nine nine.... days. Which means you've been asleep for quite a while.

* ''VisualNovel/NineHoursNinePersonsNineDoors'' featured a laboratory room. Although one wonders if it was ever actually used as such (although Clover claims that it was in one of the random conversations you can get in the room).

* ''VisualNovel/NineHoursNinePersonsNineDoors'' featured a laboratory room. Although one wonders if it was ever actually used as such.
** Clover claims that it was in one of the random conversations you can get in the room.

* The [=BioSytems=] lab in ''PhantasyStarII''. Birth Valley in ''VideoGame/PhantasyStarIV'' is hinted to be the same location. In both games it's the birthplace of the cute CatGirl in your party.

** At first in Portal 1, this is somewhat misleading, as SelfDemonstrating/GLaDOSGLaDOS is still maintaining the test area (where the player spends the majority of his/her time in) where everything is as white and shiny as an iPod, everything that's supposed to move moves, and it seems to be all good, until the player finally reaches the last chamber where [=GLaDOS=] tries to kill you and you make your way through the unmaintained area, you finally get a sense of how long this place has been abandoned. Even more so in Portal 2 where, [=GLaDOS=] is dead, and the whole place is overrun by plants. But the area underground the more modern labs [[TheCakeIsALie takes the cake.]] By the look of things, it was used in the 1950s and abandoned much later. Not to mention that the announcer in the stasis chambers says that you've been in stasis for nine nine nine nine nine nine nine.... days. Which means you've been asleep for quite a while.

** At first in Portal 1, this is somewhat misleading, as GLaDOS is still maintaining the test area (where the player spends the majority of his/her time in) where everything is as white and shiny as an iPod, everything that's supposed to move moves, and it seems to be all good, until the player finally reaches the last chamber where GLaDOS tries to kill you and you make your way through the unmaintained area, you finally get a sense of how long this place has been abandoned. Even more so in Portal 2 where, GLaDOS is dead, and the whole place is overrun by plants. But the area underground the more modern labs [[{{TheCakeIsALie}} takes the cake.]] By the look of things, it was used in the 1950s and abandoned much later. Not to mention that the announcer in the stasis chambers says that you've been in stasis for nine nine nine nine nine nine nine.... days. Which means you've been asleep for quite a while.

* Almost every ''Franchise/ResidentEvil'' game has at least one of these.