List of fictional towns in video games
This is a list of fictional towns, villages and cities in video games organized alphabetically. This list should include only well-referenced, notable examples that are integral to the storyline of a video game.
Name |
Debut |
Developer(s) |
Publisher(s) |
Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|
nowrap|Clock Town |
The Legend of Zelda: Majora's Mask |
Nintendo EAD |
Nintendo |
Clock Town is a fictional city that marks the geographic center of Termina. It's a fairly large town, divided into four main sections: North, South, East, and West Clock Town. |
Columbia |
BioShock Infinite |
Irrational Games |
2K Games |
Columbia, a fictional floating city, uses balloons to float through the sky. |
Hollow Bastion |
Kingdom Hearts |
Squaresoft |
Squaresoft & Disney |
|
nowrap|Kakariko Village |
The Legend of Zelda: A Link to the Past |
Nintendo EAD |
Nintendo |
is a fictional village of The Legend of Zelda Series that appears in A Link to the Past, Ocarina of Time, Four Swords Adventures and Twilight Princess. Kakariko is often portrayed as a prosperous small town. |
Las Venturas |
nowrap| Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas |
Rockstar North |
Rockstar Games & Capcom (Japan) |
Las Venturas is a fictional city in San Andreas: Grand Theft Auto based on Las Vegas, Nevada. Many real Las Vegas Strip casinos are faithfully interpreted on Las Venturas' Strip. Other landmarks include a replica of the Welcome to Fabulous Las Vegas sign and interpretations of Vegas Vic and Vicki as Vice City characters Avery Carrington and Candy Suxxx. Suites in several of the hotels are available for purchase. In addition, Las Venturas features a large surrounding desert region, residential areas, and strip malls, as well as a seedy area (Old Venturas Strip) with several strip clubs and gambling parlors based on Las Vegas Downtown. |
Los Santos |
Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas |
Rockstar North |
Rockstar Games & Capcom (Japan) |
Like its counterpart of Los Angeles, Los Santos comprises several diverse areas. The urban area of Los Santos holds a population comparable to Los Angeles. Los Santos features several interpretations of many of Los Angeles' districts, landmarks, and neighborhoods, including Compton (Ganton), Willowbrook (Willowfield), Watts (Jefferson), Inglewood (Idlewood), East Los Angeles (East Los Santos), MacArthur Park (Glen Park), Downtown Los Angeles (Downtown Los Santos), Beverly Hills (Rodeo), Mulholland Drive (Mulholland), Santa Monica (Santa Maria Beach), Venice Beach (Verona Beach), Hollywood (Vinewood) and its Hollywood Sign (Vinewood Sign). Los Santos will also be part of the setting for Grand Theft Auto V. |
Oakvale |
Fable |
Lionhead Studios, Big Blue Box, Robosoft Technologies (Mac) |
Microsoft Game Studios, Feral Interactive (Mac) |
Oakvale is a fictional agrarian village in the land of Albion. |
Raccoon City |
Resident Evil 2 |
Capcom |
Capcom |
Raccoon City is a fictional city in an undetermined location in the mid-western United States, located at the southern foot of the Arklay mountain range, with a population of over 100,000 as of mid-1998. Its economy was dominated by the Umbrella Corporation, whose experiments in creating bio-weapons lead to the city's destruction after an outbreak of their T-Virus infected the entire population. The US Government eventually responded with a nuclear strike, wiping out the town and its zombified inhabitants. |
Rapture |
Bioshock |
2K Boston, Digital Extremes, Feral Interactive & Demiurge Studios |
2K Games & Feral Interactive |
Rapture is an underwater city that is the setting for the games BioShock and BioShock 2. The game's back-story describes the city as envisioned by business tycoon Andrew Ryan in the mid-1940s as a means to create a utopia for mankind's greatest thinkers to prosper in a laissez-faire environment outside of increasing oppression by the worlds' governments. However, these ideals would not hold up, turning into a dystopia, and on the eve of 1959, a class war broke out, leaving much of Rapture's population dead. The remaining citizens either become psychotic "Splicers" due to The Effects of ADAM, a substance that can alter genetic material, or have barricaded themselves from the Splicers to protect themselves, leaving the city to fail and fall apart around them. |
San Fierro |
Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas |
Rockstar North |
Rockstar Games & Capcom (Japan) |
Like its counterpart of San Francisco, San Fierro is built on a peninsula. It is characterized by a prominent cable car system and hilly terrain. San Fierro features several interpretations of many of San Francisco's districts and landmarks, including the Haight-Ashbury district (Hashbury), the Castro district (Queens), Chinatown, and the Golden Gate Bridge (Gant Bridge). Several other familiar landmarks have been recreated, from the Embarcadero Ferry Building, and the Transamerica Pyramid (Big Pointy Building) to Lombard Street (Windy Windy Windy Windy Street), alongside Edinburgh's Forth Rail Bridge (Kincaid Bridge) and Forth Road Bridge (Garver Bridge), symbolising Rockstar North's Lothian heritage. San Fierro's City Hall closely resembles San Francisco's ornate city hall. San Fierro also contains remains of the Cypress Street Viaduct which collapsed in 1989 during the Loma Prieta earthquake. A naval base near the city's airport also has an amphibious assault ship and submarine docked in the bay. |
Silent Hill |
Silent Hill |
Konami |
Konami |
Silent Hill is a fictional New England town. It lies on the northern, eastern and southern shores of Toluca Lake (the unincorporated town of Shepherd's Glen lies on the Western Shore). The town was once a mining community, coal and iron, but switched to tourism after the mines were shut down. Due to the actions of the evil cult which founded the town, the barriers between the real world and a world of nightmares made manifest are razor thin. |
Traverse Town |
Kingdom Hearts |
Squaresoft |
Squaresoft & Disney |
|
Twilight Town |
Kingdom Hearts: Chain of Memories |
Squaresoft |
Squaresoft & Disney |
|
Vice City |
Grand Theft Auto: Vice City |
Rockstar North |
Rockstar Games & Capcom (Japan) |
Vice City is a fictional city based on Miami, Florida in 1985. The city was divided into two islands, there is Vice Beach, where the player begin the game there. the island has six districts, including the Ocean Beach, Washington Beach, Vice Point, Starfish Island, Prawn Island, and Leaf Link Golf Course. The second part of Vice city is The main island. the island has five district including, Little Havana, Little Haiti, Downtown, Escobar International Airport, and Vice Port. |
Pallet Town |
Pokémon Red and Green |
Game Freak |
Nintendo |
is a fictional town located in western region of Kanto in the pokémon universe. It based on Machida, Tokyo, Satoshi Tajiri's hometown although its map location correlates better with some place in Shizuoka Prefecture. The town only has two entrances, north via Route 1 to Viridian City and Route 21 south accessible through water only. |