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* ''[[Megazone 23]]''

* ''[[The Big O]]'', where the whole ''city'' is in this situation.

* ''[[Paycheck]]'', which really isn't surprising since it's based on a [[Philip K. Dick]] short story (of the same name).

* ''Eden Log''

* ''[[Alien Cargo]]''

* ''House of 9''

 

 

* An entire genre of web games, the "escape-the-room game", is based on this, with the player being trapped in a room and having to search the whole place for items in order to get out. It typically starts with some [[Easy Amnesia]] to explain why the player doesn't know how they got into the room. Examples include ''[https://web.archive.org/web/20100927183511/http://www.albinoblacksheep.com/flash/room Crimson Room]'' and its sequel ''[http://www.albinoblacksheep.com/flash/viridian Viridian Room]'', and ''[[Mystery of Time and Space]]''.

* ''Countdown'' by Access Software (released in around 1991) opens with the protagonist waking up in a mental asylum without memory

* Neku in ''[[The World Ends With You]]'', and technically any Player who {{spoiler|bet their memories on winning the Reapers' Game}}.

* ''5 days a Stranger'' from the ''[[Chzo Mythos]]'' series.

* ''[[Planescape: Torment]]'' can be seen as an example of what happens when someone makes a 50+ hour epic out of this trope.

* ''[[The Neverhood]]'' begins with our hero Klaymen trapped in a room (see above) with no information, and goes from there.

 

 

* ''[[The Ends]]'' has as a central plot element the question of whether the inhabitants really exist or are simply living out a self-inflicted hell created when they blew themselves up in a nuclear apocalypse.

* ''[[Blank It]]'' takes place entirely in this scenario, with the two main characters appearing unexplainably in a blank white void.

 

 

* The blog ''[http://hellisaplacewherenothingeverhappens.blogspot.com Ontological]'' (part of [[The Fear Mythos]]) begins when the main character wakes up in a house without doors...instead all the windows and places where the doors should be are bricked up and he is unable to escape.

 

 

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