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* ''[[Cave Story]]'''s Sacred Grounds level, the hardest area of the game, is only accessible if you've fulfilled [[Guide Dang It|a number of obscure requirements.]] Beat it to get the [[Multiple Endings|best ending]]. Despite the name "Sacred Grounds", everything is dull red or orange-red and covered in spikes, and it's filled with evil angels.
** It's [[Lampshade Hanging|lampshaded]], too, which is the only reason it's on this page with the name "Sacred Grounds". If you head right from the entrance and drop through the floor, you can read a sign that quite literally says "[[Welcome to Hell]]!" Of course, most [[Speed Run|Speedrunners]] just avoid it entirely...
* The video game adaptation of ''[[Dante's Inferno (video game)|Dantes Inferno]]'' is set among the [[Circles of Hell]] as envisioned in the [[Divine Comedy]].
* ''[[Ganbare Goemon]] 2'' had hell as a secret level with Dracula and Kabuki as bosses. The entrance is an amusement park apparently.
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== [[Adventure Game]] ==
* The original ''[[The Secret of Monkey Island]]'' features caverns near the titular island that shift positions, smell of sulfer, have strange growths of hands, eyes, and mouths, where the walls constantly drip with blood. tourists used to line up for hours to see it.
* The [[Episodic Game|Season 2 final episode]] of [[Telltale Games]]'s ''[[The Adventures of Sam & Max: Freelance Police|Sam And Max]]'' takes place in Hell. The entire place is a buracratic nightmare.
* [[Minecraft]] has the Nether, which is all a Fire and Brimstone Hell world, complete with floating ghost-demons and zombie pigs. Wait... What the heck?!?
* ''[[Terraria]]'' has "The Underworld" at the bottom of the map. It's literally made up of lava, piles of ash, and Hellstone, and is populated by living lava blobs, demons, fire imps, and bats made of flame. So, yeah, basically hell. It's also where the player summons Wall of Flesh, the boss required to unlock the endgame.
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* ''[[Doom]]'' is the archetypal example, with the player tasked with stopping an [[The Legions of Hell|invasion of demons]] at their source. In ''Doom II'', it's the same thing over again, and this time you actually [[Did You Just Punch Out Cthulhu?|destroy Hell]], and afterwards idly wonder [[Nirvana|where bad folks will go when they die.]]
** ''Doom 3'' plays this about as straight as you can get, with a trip to hell and back in the middle of the game. But it was pretty [[Best Level Ever|Cool]].
* ''Spear Of Destiny'', the [[Mission Pack Sequel]] to ''[[Wolfenstein 3D]]''.
* Id software's pre-Wolfenstein FPS ''Catacomb 3D'' has its last levels in hell, with some really big scary demons!
** So too does Wolfenstein 3D's sequel ''Spear of Destiny'', the last level of which takes place in Hell and feels somewhat like a forerunner to [[Doom]], which it sort of is.
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* World 8 in ''[[Super Mario Bros 3]]''.
* The last level of ''[[Eversion]]''. {{spoiler|Actually, the ending suggests that the ''entire game'' takes place in a Lovecraftian equivalent of Hell; everything except World X-8 was an illusion caused by dimension distortion.}}
* ''[[Meat Boy|Super Meat Boy]]'' has the aptly named Hell World which is pretty much this.
* ''[[Jazz Jackrabbit]]'''s last levels are set in punny named hell levels that include ripped graphics from the Earthworm Jim example above.
* The second part of Red Mountain in [[Sonic Adventure]] appears to take place in hell.
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* Occurs, somewhat, in ''[[Jade Empire]]''. {{spoiler|After the [[Treacherous Advisor]] kills you, the Water Dragon guides you to her defiled temple, where if it is purified, she can resurrect you. However, its defilement has drawn demons intent on bringing their master, a [[Cosmic Horror|nameless entity of pure evil from outside the cosmic order.]]}}
* ''[[Saga Frontier]]''. {{spoiler|In Blue's quest, the twist is that the reason for the main quest was so that you could become powerful enough to keep Hell from invading the universe the rest of the game is set in. However, you don't accomplish this by ''defeating'' the King of Hell, but by engaging him in an endless battle which neither of you can win -- the game ends "midway" through it, with the apparent implication that it just continues forever: [[Sealed Evil in a Duel]].}}
* In ''[[Final Fantasy II]]'', the last dungeons; Jade Passage and Pandemonium Castle, takes place in Hell. If the party talks to the NPC Paul, he flips out, calling the lot of them insane before wishing them safe passage back (this being the latest in a number of increasingly incredulous reactions to the party's destinations from him).
** In ''Dawn of Souls'', the Soul of Rebirth mode has the player take control of four party members (or almost party members) who suffer [[Plotline Death]] during the game. They wake up in what appears to be Jade Passage, and later Pandemonium, and go about figuring out what's going on. Turns out that {{spoiler|they were actually in Raqia, and then Arubboth, the heavenly counterparts to Jade and Pandemonium. So this second part [[Subverted Trope|subverts]] this trope and reveals itself to be a [[Bonus Level of Heaven]]}}.
* The UnderNet in the ''[[Mega Man Battle Network]]'' games is sometimes this, sometimes a villain base, or a [[Bad Guy Bar]] at its lightest.
** It was only like that in 1. There was then the WWW Zone in 2, the Secret Area (really) in 3, Black Earth in 4, Nebula Area in 5, and the Graveyard in 6. The first three were a sort of noncanonical extension to the main plot, and the last three were just Internet Hell (Graveyard even had gravestones for all the bosses of the series, along with yourself and everyone else you knew). All of them contained the [[Bonus Boss]], Bass.
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== [[Turn-Based Strategy]] ==
* The [[Bonus Dungeon]] in ''[[La Pucelle]] Tactics.'' It's called "the Dark World" in the English translation; originally it was simply "Hell."
** ''[[Disgaea]]'' takes place mainly inside the "Netherworld", but it has several bonus levels in alternate Netherworlds, one of which is the same one from ''[[La Pucelle]]''.
== [[Visual Novel]] ==
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