History Main / ConstructedWorld

* ''VideoGame/StarFox'': The Lylat System.

* ''WebOriginal/AscensionAcademy'': A pre-industrial mixed technology and magic fantasy world brimming with monsters. Ravaged by the Dark War 300 years ago, the Cross-Allied Forces enforces the Ancestra Charter and the various alliances between the races and nations of the world to maintain peace while the world rebuilds after having lost over 80% of its population. But that noble cause has been laden with beurocracy and corruption over the years as the threat of the Darkness grew ever more distant and faded in the minds of the world. Now all that stands to stop the Darkness from breaking free once more is Ascension Academy and its Cadets. But will they be enough?

* ''Literature/DragonarAcademy'' is set in a completely isolated world built on magic and dragons.

* ''Roleplay/RecordOfLodossWar'', and its spinoff ''Legend of Crystania''. ''Literature/RuneSoldierLouie'' also turns out to be set in the same world.

* ''Literature/{{Slayers}}'' takes place in a MedievalEuropeanFantasy world whose only very occasional similarities to the real world fall under RuleOfFunny (like a bandit leader disguising himself as [[UsefulNotes/KentuckyFriedChicken Colonel Sanders]] because reasons).

* ''Literature/DragonQueen''
* The setting of ''Literature/{{Dragonlance}}'' definitely qualifies.

This world might be built from standard components, but there is deliberate WorldBuilding going on. It may or may not have a FantasyWorldMap. The world may have been based on Earth in a lot of aspects early on, but may have gone through an EarthDrift to make it more distinct.

Compare ALongTimeAgoInAGalaxyFarFarAway, usually used in [[JustForFun/SciFiCounterpart science fiction]], where there are ''multiple'' worlds all separate from Earth. Contrast MagicalLand, where the focus is on visitors to the setting and LikeRealityUnlessNoted, and AlternateUniverse and AlternateTimeline, where the fictional world coexists with "our" real one. EarthAllAlong is a subversion of this trope. A world still called Earth but otherwise similar to a Constructed World is a FictionalEarth.

* Creator/JRRTolkien's Arda[[note]]Middle-earth is a far more popularly used name for Tolkien’s setting, and the vast majority of Tolkien’s stories take place there; however, Middle-earth is technically only one continent in the world of Arda [[/note]], as depicted in ''Literature/TheHobbit'' and ''Literature/TheLordOfTheRings'', as well as numerous works published after his death, is the TropeCodifier. His own term for this type of setting was Secondary World. HilariousInHindsight, since according to WordOfGod Middle-earth is our earth -- only set in [[TheTimeOfMyths the far-gone mythical past of gods and monsters]], as a far, far prequel to all Anglo-Saxon myths. So, in theory, it's EarthAllAlong.

* Creator/JRRTolkien's Arda[[note]]Middle-earth is a far more popularly used name for Tolkien’s setting, and the vast majority of Tolkien’s stories take place there; however, Middle-earth is technically only one continent in the world of Arda [[/note]], as depicted in ''Literature/TheHobbit'' and ''Literature/TheLordOfTheRings'', as well as numerous works published after his death, is the TropeCodifier. His own term for this type of setting was Secondary World. HilariousInHindsight, since according to WordOfGod Middle-earth is our earth -- only set in [[TheTimeOfMyths the far-gone mythical past of gods and monsters]], as a far, far prequel to all Anglo-Saxon myths. So, in theory, it's EarthAllAlong. This also applies to its TV adaptations, ''Film/TheLordOfTheRings'', ''Film/TheHobbit'' trilogies and ''Series/TheLordOfTheRingsTheRingsOfPower'' series.

* Creator/JRRTolkien's Arda[[note]]Middle-earth is a far more popularly used name for Tolkien’s setting, and the vast majority of Tolkien’s stories take place there; however, Middle-earth is technically only one continent in the world of Arda [[/note]], as depicted in ''Literature/TheHobbit'' and ''Literature/TheLordOfTheRings'', as well as numerous works published after his death, is the TropeCodifier. His own term for this type of setting was Secondary World. HilariousInHindsight, since according to WordOfGod Middle-earth, also known as [[Myth/NorseMythology Midgard]], is our earth -- only set in [[TheTimeOfMyths the far-gone mythical past of gods and monsters]], as a far, far prequel to all Anglo-Saxon myths. So, in theory, it's EarthAllAlong. This also applies to its TV adaptations, ''Film/TheLordOfTheRings'', ''Film/TheHobbit'' trilogies and ''Series/TheLordOfTheRingsTheRingsOfPower'' series.

* Creator/JRRTolkien's Arda[[note]]Middle-Earth is a far more popularly used name for Tolkien’s setting, and the vast majority of Tolkien’s stories take place there; however, Middle-Earth is technically only one continent in the world of Arda [[/note]], as depicted in ''Literature/TheHobbit'' and ''Literature/TheLordOfTheRings'', as well as numerous works published after his death, is the TropeCodifier. His own term for this type of setting was Secondary World. HilariousInHindsight, since according to WordOfGod Middle Earth, also known as [[Myth/NorseMythology Midgard]], is our earth -- only set in [[TheTimeOfMyths the far-gone mythical past of gods and monsters]], as a far, far prequel to all Anglo-Saxon myths. So, in theory, it's EarthAllAlong. This also applies to its TV adaptations, ''Film/TheLordOfTheRings'', ''Film/TheHobbit'' trilogies and ''Series/TheLordOfTheRingsTheRingsOfPower'' series.

* Creator/JRRTolkien's Arda[[note]]Middle-Earth is a far more popularly used name for Tolkien’s setting, and the vast majority of Tolkien’s stories take place there; however, Middle-Earth is technically only one continent in the world of Arda [[/note]], as depicted in ''Literature/TheHobbit'' and ''Literature/TheLordOfTheRings'', as well as numerous works published after his death, is the TropeCodifier. His own term for this type of setting was Secondary World. HilariousInHindsight, since according to WordOfGod Middle Earth, also known as [[Myth/NorseMythology Midgard]], is our earth -- only set in [[TheTimeOfMyths the far-gone mythical past of gods and monsters]], as a far, far prequel to all Anglo-Saxon myths. So, in theory, it's EarthAllAlong. This also applies to its TV adaptations, ''Film/TheLordOfTheRings'', ''Film/TheHobbit'' trilogies and the ''Series/TheLordOfTheRingsTheRingsOfPower'' series.

** In the ''Literature/TheScienceOfDiscworld'' books, a clear connection is finally established, but characteristically it goes the other way around than you'd expect: the wizards at the Unseen University conduct an experiment to [[AntiMagic remove all magic]] from an area, which unexpectedly creates a BiggerOnTheInside universe -- ours, baffling in its lack of NarrativeCausality. This also clearly establishes that the Discworld is set in an [[AnotherDimension alternative universe]] with different natural laws.

* Creator/BrandonSanderson's adult fantasy all takes place in the same [[TheVerse verse]] called the Literature/TheCosmere. WordOfGod has officially stated that Earth does not exist in the Cosmere.

** ''VideoGame/DarkSouls'': [[VideoGame/DarkSoulsI Lordran]], [[VideoGame/DarkSoulsII Drangleic]], and [[VideoGame/DarkSoulsIII Lothric]], which all ([[JigsawPuzzlePlot probably, given the nebulous nature of the franchise's lore and storytelling]]) exist in the same ConstructedWorld, just during a different Age of Fire. ** ''VideoGame/DarkSouls''[==]' spiritual predecessor and successor, ''VideoGame/DemonsSouls'' and ''VideoGame/{{Bloodborne}}'', take place in the kingdom of Boleteria and the city of Yharnam, respectively, both of which are obviously single locations in a larger fantasy setting.

** [[WordOfGod Pendleton Ward]] has stated that Ooo was originally conceived as a straight example, but then ended up being set on a post-apocalyptic Earth when the episode with the unfrozen businessmen was written.

** [[WordOfGod Pendleton Ward]] has stated that Ooo was originally conceived as a straight example, but then was established to be set on a strange, post-apocalyptic Earth when the episode with the unfrozen businessmen was written.

* Like the games, the ''Franchise/{{Pokemon}}'' ''Anime/PokemonTheSeries anime]] and ''Manga/PokemonAdventures'' manga are set in this -- in fact, both resemble a ConstructedWorld ''more'' than the games do!

* ''WesternAnimation/Ninjago'' is set on an Earth-like planet, but there are only two giant islands on it (that used to be one) with some smaller ones, and no continents to be seen. Most people in this world don't even seem to know what the word "earth" means, which is constantly [[LampshadeHanging lampshaded]].

* ''WesternAnimation/NinjagoMastersOfSpinjitzu'' is set on an Earth-like planet, but there are only two giant islands on it (that used to be one) with some smaller ones, and no continents to be seen. Most people in this world don't even seem to know what the word "earth" means, which is constantly [[LampshadeHanging lampshaded]].

* ''VideoGame//DiscoElysium'': Elysium, the world where the story is set, isn't even a planet, but continents called isolas surrounded by a reality-bending matter known as the pale. A conversation with one character reveals that scientists originally thought the world was a sphere, but the shape of the world seems to be more like a 'dark grey corona.' While it is possible the world was a sphere at one time, it isn't anymore.

* ''VideoGame//DiscoElysium'': Elysium, the world where the story is set, isn't even a planet, but continents called isolas surrounded by a reality-bending matter known as the pale. A conversation with one character reveals that scientists originally thought the world was a sphere, but the shape of the world seems to be more like a 'dark grey corona.'

* ''LightNovel/DragonarAcademy'' is set in a completely isolated world built on magic and dragons.

* ''LightNovel/{{Slayers}}'' takes place in a MedievalEuropeanFantasy world whose only very occasional similarities to the real world fall under RuleOfFunny (like a bandit leader disguising himself as [[UsefulNotes/KentuckyFriedChicken Colonel Sanders]] because reasons).

* ''LightNovel/VioletEvergarden'' takes place on Telsis, a continent with numerous nations that are essentially divided up into four main powers: North, South, West and East. The Great War that occurred prior to the start of the series saw every nation consolidating into one of two factions, the Northern Alliance (North and East) or the Southern League (South and West).

* It isn't relevant to the story at all, but ''Webcomic/OnePunchMan'' (at least the manga and anime) takes place in one. Distance shots of the planet shows a giant continent shaped like Saitama prefecture, cities are named after letters of the alphabet, and one brief shot of the moon landing shows a flag that doesn't exist in real life.

* Like the games, the ''Anime/{{Pokemon}}'' anime and ''Manga/PokemonAdventures'' manga are set in this -- in fact, both resemble a ConstructedWorld ''more'' than the games do!

* ''RolePlay/RecordOfLodossWar'', and its spinoff ''Legend of Crystania''. ''Literature/RuneSoldierLouie'' also turns out to be set in the same world.

* Strangereal, the original ''VideoGame/AceCombat'' setting, is a completely independent world, despite being heavily based on modern-day Earth. The world features large-scale conflicts between superpowers [[NuclearWeaponsTaboo without nuclear weapons]] (nukes still exist, but were only used in one horrific manner that led to nuclear deterrence for the rest of time). Instead, over-the-top superweapons like giant flying aircraft carriers or a network of railgun cannons take their place. Of particular importance is that many aircraft are Earth models, down to the names.

* ''VideoGame/DarkSouls'': [[VideoGame/DarkSoulsI Lordran]], [[VideoGame/DarkSoulsII Drangleic]], and [[VideoGame/DarkSoulsIII Lothric]], which all ([[JigsawPuzzlePlot probably, given the nebulous nature of the franchise's lore and storytelling]]) exist in the same ConstructedWorld, just during a different Age of Fire.
** ''VideoGame/DarkSouls''[==]' spiritual predecessor and successor, ''VideoGame/DemonsSouls'' and ''VideoGame/{{Bloodborne}}'', take place in the kingdom of Boleteria and the city of Yharnam, respectively, both of which are obviously single locations in a larger fantasy setting.

* ''VideoGame/{{Dishonored}}'' is set in the city of Dunwall, on the island of Gristol, capital of the Empire of the Isles. Next to it there's the unexplored Pandyssian Continent. That's about all we know of the setting... apart from one passage from a book by a MadScientist, [[CosmicHorrorStory describing how the planet and its Sun are hurtling through a dark, howling Cosmos towards a Void that will eventually consume everything]]. [[CrapsackWorld It's that kind of setting]]...
** The [[VideoGame/Dishonored2 sequel]] is set on the island of Serkonos, the southernmost island of the Empire (and Corvo's hometown).

* The ''VideoGame/DragonQuest'' games from ''IV'' onward take place in such worlds; the first three look that way at first, but arguably subvert it as ''III'' reveals that it all takes place on a very Earth-like world, and that the differently-shaped lands of the first two games (which ''III'' is a prequel to) are its HollowWorld.

* With some exceptions, each ''Franchise/FireEmblem'' game is set on its own continent within its own, largely self-contained constructed world (though all games take place in the same [[TheMultiverse multiverse]]). These include the continents of Archanea (''VideoGame/FireEmblemShadowDragonAndTheBladeOfLight'' and ''[[VideoGame/FireEmblemMysteryOfTheEmblem Mystery of the Emblem]]''), Valentia (''[[VideoGame/FireEmblemGaiden Gaiden]]''), Jugdral (''[[VideoGame/FireEmblemGenealogyOfTheHolyWar Genealogy of the Holy War]]'' and ''[[VideoGame/FireEmblemThracia776 Thracia 776]]''), Elibe (''[[VideoGame/FireEmblemTheBindingBlade The Binding Blade]]'' and ''[[VideoGame/FireEmblemTheBlazingBlade The Blazing Blade]]''), Magvel (''[[VideoGame/FireEmblemTheSacredStones The Sacred Stones]]''), and Tellius (''[[VideoGame/FireEmblemPathOfRadiance Path of Radiance]]'' and ''[[VideoGame/FireEmblemRadiantDawn Radiant Dawn]]''), with the first three sharing the same world. [[VideoGame/FireEmblemAwakening Ylisse and Valm]], on the other hand, are simply the future versions of Archanea and Valentia, respectively. [[VideoGame/FireEmblemFates Hoshido and Nohr]] are two kingdoms situated on a different, currently unnamed continent separate from the others. [[VideoGame/FireEmblemThreeHouses Fodlan]] is another continent which, itself, is divided into three countries: the Adrestian Empire, the Holy Kingdom of Faerghus, and the Leicester Alliance.

* The continent of Zemuria in the ''VideoGame/TrailsSeries'' is set in an unnamed world, with each story arc taking place in a different country. The place names, cultures, and fashion heavily crib from Middle Ages Europe, but the different system of measurements, existence of genuine if obscure magic and apparently genuine miracles from the goddess Aidios shape its world in different ways than our own. MagiTek, in particular, is thoroughly explored as technological change and a shift in global politics sweeps through the land.

* ZigZagged throughout the ''VideoGame/PhantasyStar'' series:

* ''VideoGame/PillarsOfEternity'', its sequel ''[[VideoGame/PillarsOfEternityIIDeadfire Deadfire]]'', and the upcoming prequel ''VideoGame/{{Avowed}}'' are all set in the world of [[https://pillarsofeternity.fandom.com/wiki/Eora Eora]], which has several smallish continents separated by ocean. ''Pillars I'' takes place in the Dyrwood, ruled by the Glanfathan civilization until they were colonized by settlers from Aedyr across the ocean to the west. ''Pillars II'' takes place in the Deadfire Archipelago southeast of Dyrwood.
* ''Franchise/{{Pokemon}}'' is a strange case -- All main-series regions (and some side-series ones) are based on ones in the real world, real-world animals and locations are referenced in older Pokedex entries, and a Team Aqua grunt mentions [[Myth/ClassicalMythology Poseidon]] in ''[[VideoGame/PokemonRubyAndSapphire OmegaRuby and AlphaSapphire.]]'' However, the unusual technology, elementally-superpowered wildlife with no onscreen real-life animals in sight, increasingly complex and unique mythology and history, and plain old [[http://www.gameinformer.com/b/features/archive/2012/11/23/pok-233-mon-39-s-burning-questions.aspx?PostPageIndex=1 Word]] [[WordOfGod Of God]], among other factors, make it very much seem like a ConstructedWorld.
* ''{{Franchise/Kirby}}'' is set on a [[WorldShapes star-shaped planet]] called Popstar, inhabited by all sorts of wacky {{Cartoon Creature}}s. The title character sometimes explores other planets, but not including Earth of course.

* ''VideoGame/RidgeRacer'', loosely tied with the above, also features a completely independent universe, mainly to justify the fictional car manufacturers and models. While the fourth game makes reference to real world countries, the places and cars are fictional.
* ''VideoGame/RiseOfLegends'' features the world of Aio, a ScienceFantasy world filled with {{Steampunk}} Empire's, Genies, Magicians and [[spoiler: Alien Gods.]]

* While ''VideoGame/SonicTheHedgehog'' tends to have a loose continuity between games, the world that Sonic inhabits from ''VideoGame/SonicAdventure'' onward is shown to be similar to our Earth. A large number of set pieces in the games are inspired by American cities, with Station Square appearing to take inspiration from Manhattan, and the "Capital City" from ''VideoGame/SonicAdventure2'' essentially being an Ersatz version of San Francisco. ''VideoGame/ShadowTheHedgehog'' would later depict these cities as being based in a countries called the United Federation. ''VideoGame/SonicUnleashed'' depicts several other locations on Sonic's version of Earth as being similar to real-world cities and countries, from the China-inspired Chun-nan to the explicitly [[BigApplesauce New York-themed]] Empire City.

* ''Franchise/SuperMarioBros'': The Mushroom Kingdom. Originally Mario and Luigi were supposed to have come from Brooklyn, where ''Donkey Kong'' and the other early games were set, and then they got sucked down a drain-pipe into the Mushroom Kingdom; later games, like the various "Yoshi" games involving Baby Mario, contradict this (at least for the Bros' childhoods), and the idea has basically been abandoned. [[TheArtifact They're still Italian though.]]

* Both of Supergiant's games, ''VideoGame/{{Bastion}}'' and ''VideoGame/{{Transistor}}'' are set in different examples of this.

* ''VideoGame/AVeryLongRopeToTheTopOfTheSky'' is set on a world (the Lydian continents and the surface below) whose history, and ''pre''history, is fairly in-depth, [[spoiler:including a few things that almost no one knows, and the [=PCs=] have to rediscover.]]

* ''WebOriginal/AscensionAcademy'': A pre-industrial mixed technology and magic fantasy world brimming with monsters. Ravaged by the Dark War 300 years ago, the Cross-Allied Forces enforces the Ancestra Charter and the various alliances between the races and nations of the world to maintain peace while the world rebuilds after having lost over 80% of it's population. But that noble cause has been laden with beurocracy and corruption over the years as the threat of the Darkness grew ever more distant and faded in the minds of the world. Now all that stands to stop the Darkness from breaking free once more is Ascension Academy and it's Cadets. But will they be enough?

* {{Zig Zagg|ingTrope}}ed in ''WesternAnimation/AdventureTime''; Ooo ''really'' seems like this, having almost no connections to our world and a completely different geology (for one thing ''the planet is missing a chunk of its mass''). Except that we later learn that Ooo is EarthAllAlong, thousands of years after the "Mushroom War", a disastrous thermonuclear event. The main character is the only human seen because he's one of the LastOfHisKind [[spoiler:except he isn't; humanity turns out to have been on a different continent]]. The reason the world is so different is that said apocalypse [[TheMagicComesBack caused magic to return to Earth]], fundamentally changing and mutating all surviving life. However, this "pre-magic" Earth still had long-lost magical relics such as the Ice King's crown, and a toddler Marceline was running around with her half-demon blood, so it can be said that Ooo is more like the post-apocalypse of a world that was once [[LikeRealityUnlessNoted very Earth-like]].

* ''VideoGame/DeBlob'' takes place on the planet of Raydia, which has its own cities, species, and even a natural ecosystem using pure color as a source of life and energy, with nary a reference to Earth in sight.

* ''LightNovel/SpiceAndWolf'' has a MedievalEuropeanFantasy setting with completely different geography and immortal gigantic creatures that can adopt ([[LittleBitBeastly mostly]]) human form.