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* ''[[Dungeons and Dragons]]'': Many a dungeon crawl fits (and possibly made) the trope. Don't get old-school gamers started on the ''[[Tomb of Horrors]]'' and ''[[Temple of Elemental Evil]]'', both of which might as well have been called the Tomb of Doom and the Temple of Elemental Doom.
* ''[[Warhammer 40000]]'' has some of these. In general, they tend to contain [[Things Man Was Not Meant to Know|Things]] [[Black Box|Man]] [[Eldritch Abomination|Was]] [[Omnicidal Maniac|Not]] [[Cybernetics Eat Your Soul|Meant]] [[Endofthe World As We Know It|To]] Find.<br /><br />This is part of [[Planet of Hats|the hat]] of the Necrons in particular, though their architecture is a metallic version. Imperial scholars have been studying some of the surface bits of them for generations, but it is only in recent history that the Stasis Tombs have begun to "[[Sealed Evil in a Can|wake up]]", their [[Portal Network|Inter-spacial Gates]] opening with a [[Sickly Green Glow]], and legions of [[Skele-Bot 9000|metal skeletons]] animate and begin their [[Omnicidal Maniac|terrible work]].
* ''[[Exalted]]'' has more than a few of these, but one stand-out example is the city of Denandsor. Buried in the jungles of the Scavenger Lands, it's full of the treasures and [[Lost Technology|wonders]] of the First Age, as well as the means of production to make more. So why hasn't anyone claimed it yet? Well, when [[The Plague|the Great Contagion]] hit, the guy in charge of the city (who didn't fully understand how it worked) turned on ''every'' defense at once in the vague hope that it'd do ''something''. As a result, not only is it full of giant automatons that will stomp any intruders, but it's also cloaked in a field that instills horrible dread in whoever enters the city walls. If people survive getting into the city, they usually don't stay for long.
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* All of the temples in [[Secret of Mana]].
** [[Spiritual Successor]] Secret of Evermore had one as well.
* ''[[Super Smash Bros.]]. Brawl'' has a [[Scrappy Level|classically annoying Ruins level]] in the Subspace Emissary.
* ''[[Fallout 2]]'' begins with a [[Temple of Doom]]. There's no justification for it in game or real world history, but it's so Doomy that surviving instantly makes you [[The Chosen One]], even though one of your tribesmen are waiting for you inside.
* ''[[Eternal Darkness]]: Sanity's Requiem'' features two: an ancient temple in the Angkor Thom region of Cambodia, that is home to [[Eldritch Abomination|Mantorok]] (as well as all kinds of traps), and the Forbidden City, which is home to the essences of the [[Eldritch Abomination|Ancients]] at the start of the game (though not quite as trap-filled as the former).
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