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** Most mods, particularly mods developed by one of the ''game designers'' fix this by allowing identical items to be stacked. Additional mods (of even the same ones) can allow items to be stacked infinitely, making the game ''much'' less annoying for inventory management.

* The game ''[[Darkstone]]'' is annoying in this, as you have a comparatively small inventory grid and are required, among other things, to collect seven magical [[MacGuffin]]s with which to defeat the [[Big Bad]]. It becomes forgivable, however, once you learn that you can place an object ''anywhere'' in the game and it will stay there until you come back for it; thus, all those conveniently abandoned houses back in the starting village become handy places to store the crystal shards, weapons you're not strong enough to use, books of spells you can't master yet, and other things you want to keep but don't want to be lugging around.

* The ''Dark Sun'' games had an inventory system similar to ''[[Baldur's Gate]]'' (which owes ''Dark Sun'' a lot in terms of UI), where each item took one slot and there was also a weight limit. However ''Dark Sun'' had a lot of chests and bags which you could use to multiply inventory size several times.

* Basically every single game made by Level-5:

* The main gameplay mechanic in ''[[Kingdom Hearts: 358/2 Days|Kingdom Hearts 358 Days Over 2]]'' everything, including weapons, spells, skills, items, accessories, backpacks (the amount of mission-found items you can carry) and even levels take the form of panels, which you need to place into an ever-expanding grid to make use of them. There's also multiplier panels that multiply the effect of all panels of given type by up to 4 and a lot of skills can be enhanced a variety of ways in the same manner. The varied shapes and sizes of panels creates a far more [[Tetris|literal]] form of [[Inventory Management Puzzle]] than most games.

* ''[[Fate]]'', a [[Diablo]][[Roguelike|like]], featured this in all its irritating glory. There was nothing more fun than warping home with an inventory "full" of six double-bladed axes, and about 33% of your grid actually empty.

* The [[Car Wars]] like boardgame ''Battlecars'' used this. Each car had several weapon bays, usually 2x4 squares. You could carry 8 volleys of machinegun ammo (1x1), four 1x2 artillery shells, or two 1x4 missiles, of increasing power, mixing and matching as you wish.

* ''[[Dead Space (video game)|Dead Space]]'' and ''[[Dead Space 2]]'' have a simple system of inventory with most things taking up on square but ammo and stasis refills stack. Weapons have their only separate section, as do plot items. Getting better suits increases you storage space.

** Though in ''[[Dead Space 2]]'' weapons go int the same inventory as the rest of the items, and only take up one space like everything else.

* ''[[Solatorobo]]'' allows the Dahak to be upgraded with modules slotted into a grid, but the entire grid isn't available at first. Finding Power Crystals to unlock new slots is one of the main reasons to search areas thoroughly! The modules come in all shapes and sizes, including some of the classic Tetris blocks. Once you get the Mk 2, the total unlockable space increases as well, allowing for further enhancement.

* ''[[Kid Icarus: Uprising]]'' uses this for equippable powers.

 

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