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The video game desert is a vast, hot and dry place, usually with [[Build Like an Egyptian|Egyptian-style pyramids]]. It can be a big part of games set in a [[Scavenger World]]. Thankfully, heat stroke and dehydration are usually not a problem.

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* The Despair Desert in ''[[Alundra]]''.

* Desert Buttes of ''[[Backyard Sports|Backyard Baseball]]''. No quicksand, though, as it's a sports game.

* Area 5 of ''[[Contra]] III: The Alien Wars'' is a top-down desert with 'shifting conveyor belt sand' and 'swirling spinning sand.' The boss of the level must be fought while on 'spinning conveyor-belt sand', forcing the player to turn at the same speed of the spinning sand in order to keep the boss's weak point at sight.

* ''[[Diablo]] II'', Act II is set in the desert surrounding the city of Lut Gholein in the region of Aranoch. Prince Jerhyn, ruler of the land, is dressed in white robes and a turban, and has (or had, rather) a harem living in his palace, which has a giant onion-shaped dome [[Qurac|typical of Mughal architecture]].

* The Noise Dunes of Fantasy in ''[[Eternal Sonata]]''.

* Pretty much every ''[[Final Fantasy]]'' game has a Huge Desert somewhere.

* The Planets Aridia and Tabora in the ''[[Ratchet and Clank]]'' series.

** Tabora is sort of a [[Hailfire Peaks|double dip]], as the caverns below the desert are filled with [[Lethal Lava Land|hot lava]].

* Most of ''[[Sands of Destruction]]'' (both the video game and the anime) takes place in a world like this.

* ''[[Secret of Mana]]'' has a massive desert in which, when you crashland in the wrong location, is an endless ocean of sand until you get picked up by an Airship. After that part you find the village and the desert becomes seemingly smaller. Odd that.

** Mirage Road in ''[[Sonic Rush Series]]''.

** An obscure example - Yellow Desert in ''[[Sonic Blast]]'', for the Game Gear.

* The second worlds of both ''[[Super Mario Bros. 2]]'' and ''[[Super Mario Bros 3]]''.

** The sixth world of ''[[Super Mario Bros. 2]]'', as well.

** And, of course, our lovely [[Trope Namer]], ''Mario 64''.

* A good 90% of the maps in ''[[Team Fortress 2]]'' used to be this, even including an Egypt-themed map. More recent maps, however, have focused on diversifying the themes, with more alpine and industrial landscapes.

* [[Tomb Raider|Lara Croft]] has been to Egypt a couple of times. Averted, in that, when you are in Mexico in ''Underworld'' it is scruby and wooded, rather than being a stereotypical American desert.

* The Wasteland levels in ''[[Video Game]]/Wonderboy'' and ''[[Adventure Island]]'', where [[Wizard Needs Food Badly|food]] [[Drought Level of Doom|is scarce]], unsurprisingly.

* In ''[[World of Warcraft]]'', the Silithus desert is home to sentient insects with quasi-Egyptian architectural tastes, and the Tanaris desert is just a massive box of sand with a few oases and troll ruins ''very'' loosely scattered around the map. Post-''Cataclysm'', Tanaris has become a popular vacation spot due to the dramatically increased size of the beach area.

* The first Ark level in ''[[Halo 3]]'', and the Sandbox/Sandtrap multiplayer maps.

* The South Shrine from ''[[Shining the Holy Ark]]'' is set within a massive pyramid. Despite the fact the closest village is made up of Ninjas and the Kingdom itself is your [[Standard Fantasy Setting]]. Inside you get to face mummies, sand monsters and also travel on the ceiling.

 

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