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** {{justified|Trope}} in ''[[VideoGame/CastlevaniaSymphonyOfTheNight Symphony of the Night]]''. The shopkeeper is Dracula's librarian and an old friend to Alucard. Note that he won't help Richter at all.
** In ''VideoGame/CastlevaniaHarmonyOfDissonance'', a wandering merchant got lost in the castle,and so he set up shop there. No idea who the rest of his customer base is, though.
* The merchant in ''VideoGame/PrehistorikMan'' sets up shop in pretty much any non-friendly territory...though he'd not get close to the haunted [[NothingButSkulls Dinosaur Graveyard]].

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* The Kecleon shops in the ''VideoGame/PokemonMysteryDungeon'' Games are found in various dungeons, selling some rare items like stones, scarves, looplets and TMs. Possibly justified by the fact that they're always at ridiculously high levels and will most likely kick your ass if you steal from them.

* The [[PunnyName Convenient Store Yoshi]] runs one in the Black Rock Fortress in ''Distorted Travesty''.

* ''VideoGame/TheLegendOfZelda'':

* While not particularly prone to appearing in proper dungeons, wandering merchants can appear in ''VideoGame/Fallout3'' and ''VideoGame/FalloutNewVegas.'' In the latter, they have established trade routes that take them through some of the more dangerous areas of the Mojave and occasionally pit them against some of its myriad threats. It's not uncommon to exhaust yourself fighting a den of nightstalkers in a canyon, then turn around to find a merchant caravan behind the next rock, ready to sell you food, ammo, and stimpaks (at a price). Wandering merchants are not particularly powerful fighters on their own, however, but they'll usually travel in numbers and often have much better armed mercenary bodyguards accompanying them.

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* The first ''VideoGame/PaperMario'' game has a bored storeroom guard in [[TheVeryDefinitelyFinalDungeon Bowser's Castle]] that will gladly sell Mario his inventory (at [[AdamSmithHatesYourGuts heavily inflated prices]], of course).
** A shopkeeper randomly appears every 10 floors of the [[BonusDungeon Pit of 100 Trials]] in both ''VideoGame/PaperMarioTheThousandYearDoor'' and ''VideoGame/SuperPaperMario''.
** ''[[VideoGame/MarioAndLuigiPartnersInTime Mario & Luigi: Partners in Time]]'' has Monty Mole's Mole Mart, which is not just in a dungeon, but ''hidden'' in a dungeon. And Fawful's Bean'n'Badge, which is in the castle sewers (counts as a dungeon, since they're swarming with Goombas).

** Don't forget Hinopio's shop in Barrel Volcano in ''VideoGame/SuperMarioRPG!'' Also, Toad catches up to you at the end of the final dungeon - [[DungeonBypass how did he get there?]]

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* ''VideoGame/DeusExHumanRevolution'' has a LIMB clinic semi-hidden within TheVeryDefinitelyFinalDungeon. Mostly {{justified|Trope}} because the area only became a "dungeon" when an event caused most of the population there to go insane, and the shopkeeper managed to barricade herself. Transactions are all computer-based, which explains why the shopkeeper simply can't give you free merchandise. Still, it does come off as a bit silly.
** In an earlier level, the player encounters some gang members willing to sell weapons and ammo - on the perimeter of a FEMA base/detention center. Though the gang members at least have the sense to set up shop where there are no enemy patrols.
** In ''The Missing Link'' DLC, the player can buy weapons and Praxis kits from a shop in the ''middle'' of a Belltower base/detention camp. Somewhat justified, as the shop is also the base's official supply office, though it's noted that the shopkeeper also runs a black market side business and would otherwise not have access to such powerful weapons.
** Averted by the black marketeers in the Alice Garden Pods, who do not stick around when Belltower raids the building.[[note]]They ultimately set up shop elsewhere in Hengsha.[[/note]]

* The Kecleon shops in the ''VideoGame/PokemonMysteryDungeon'' Games. Possibly justified by the fact that they're always at ridiculously high levels and will most likely kick your ass if you steal from them.
** Can be done, however. Requires a Pure Seed or a Trawl Orb depending on where you are in the level. One teleports the eater straight to the stairs, the other drags every item to you.

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* Santa shows up in ''VideoGame/StarOceanTheSecondStory'' in the BonusDungeon and sells you stuff.

** Don't forget Hinopio's shop in Barrel Volcano in ''VideoGame/SuperMarioRPG!'' Also, Toad catches up to you at the end of the final dungeon - [[DungeonBypass how did he get here?]]

* ''VideoGame/AVeryLongRopeToTheTopeOfTheSky'': There's a merchant that sells you things at the beginning of a monster-infected corrupted area.

** Considering that items can also be found lying around in boxes, maybe they already tried getting the gold for themselves and decided it'd be easier to get the next sucker that comes along to collect gold for them by way of marking up the prices on otherwise free items.

* In ''VideoGame/{{Xenogears}}'', a couple of dungeons had shops run by [[FriendlyEnemy Fixbots]]; one could choose "I don't trust you" when talking to them, leading to a fight...but doing so would (obviously) remove the shop, seeing as you just killed the owner.

* ''VideoGame/TheHauntedRuins'': There's only one of these shopkeepers, but she keeps showing up lower and lower down. As she does, her sprite [[GlamourFailure slowly shifts]] (and she keeps insisting that the change is all in your head.)

* ''VideoGame/DeusExHumanRevolution'' has a LIMB clinic semi-hidden within TheVeryDefinitelyFinalDungeon. Mostly [[JustifiedTrope Justified]] because the area only became a "dungeon" when an event caused most of the population there to go insane, and the shopkeeper managed to barricade herself. Transactions are all computer-based, which explains why the shopkeeper simply can't give you free merchandise. Still, it does come off as a bit silly.

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** [[JustifiedTrope Justified]] in ''[[VideoGame/CastlevaniaSymphonyOfTheNight Symphony of the Night]]''. The shopkeeper is Dracula's librarian and an old friend to Alucard. Note that he won't help Richter at all.

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** In ''VideoGame/PaperMarioColorSplash'', there is a Toad café deep within [[RemilitarizedZone Fort Cobalt]], Ludwig's HQ. There is in-game [[JustifiedTrope justification]] for it: The Toad who runs the place is undercover, selling drinks and food to the Shy Guys there while slipping information about Ludwig's plans, and its weaknesses, to Mario.

* There's only one of these shopkeepers in ''The Haunted Ruins'', but she keeps showing up lower and lower down. As she does, her sprite [[GlamourFailure slowly shifts]] (and she keeps insisting that the change is all in your head.)
* ''VideoGame/DeadIsland'' has several merchants in the [[WretchedHive City of Moresby]], Jungle, and [[TheVeryDefinitelyFinalDungeon Prison]] that hold out in fenced off areas that sell you things at [[AdamSmithHatesYourGuts insanely inflated prices]] in the middle of a ZombieApocalypse.

* The final dungeon of ''VideoGame/ShinMegamiTenseiIIINocturne'' has one, as well as in a few other dungeons. However, considering that the towns in the game also obviously has a shop and is filled with RandomEncounters, every shop may in fact be a DungeonShop.
* Johnny owns the Express Mart which appears in almost every dungeon of the second game in the ''VideoGame/DigitalDevilSaga'' series, even when [[spoiler: the Embryon die and the final dungeon is the surface of the sun, he dies too and still sets up shop]].
* ''Series/Persona'' has several examples in each game. There's a door to the Velvet Room in some dungeons in Persona 2 and Persona 1, 2 and 4 have [=NPC=]s in dungeons that will heal you for a price[[note]]Trish the Pixie and the Fox heal you for ¥100 per HP/SP. You can get a discount from the Fox through the Hermit Social Link, though. Trish, however, is stated in-universe to be conning you because she was so greedy about money and forced to watch over the healing spring. [[{{Unishment}} Since she turned it into a shop...]][[/note]]

* While not particularly prone to appearing in proper dungeons, wandering merchants can appear in ''VideoGame/{{Fallout 3}}'' and ''VideoGame/FalloutNewVegas.'' In the latter, they have established trade routes that take them through some of the more dangerous areas of the Mojave and occasionally pit them against some of its myriad threats. It's not uncommon to exhaust yourself fighting a den of nightstalkers in a canyon, then turn around to find a merchant caravan behind the next rock, ready to sell you food, ammo, and stimpaks (at a price). Wandering merchants are not particularly powerful fighters on their own, however, but they'll usually travel in numbers and often have much better armed mercenary bodyguards accompanying them.

* Osohe Castle in ''VideoGame/{{Mother 3}}'' features a small shop run by a ghost. Since there is no money system at that point in the game, you buy stuff with rotten eclairs (the ghosts' favourite food) instead. One such item, the Rope Snake, is required to proceed through the castle.

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* In ''[[VideoGame/{{Wolfenstein2009}} Wolfenstein]]'', BJ Blazkowicz encounters a black marketeer just prior to entering the zeppelin hangar[[hottip:*:in the middle of a heavily defended airfield]] who takes time from looting supplies to offer BJ pick of his find. Somewhat justified by all the intelligence BJ has found ranting about supply thefts and black market infiltration, though the fact that it's possible to have multiple firefights within sight of the black marketeer still tends to stretch the credibility of this one.

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* One long dungeon in the first ''VideoGame/PhantasyStar'' game contains... [[BigLippedAlligatorMoment a bakery]], in which you must buy cakes and return them to town to progress the story.