History Main / SteamVentObstacle

* ''VideoGame/BatmanReturns'' for the UsefulNotes/SegaGenesis has annoying steam vents throughout the collapsed building level.

* ''VideoGame/MissionImpossibleKonami'': Open discharge valves with steam spewing out at regular intervals are a common stage hazard. Fortunately, they do only one unit of damage if they hit. The trap even gets a write up in the instruction manual.

These obstacles can be most commonly found in EternalEngine settings. Sometimes they also come out from broken pipeworks.

If the vents are being pushy rather than harmful, see VentPhysics or SpringsSpringsEverywhere, depending on how they propel the player upwards.

* ''First level of ''VideoGame/CyberShadow'' features steam outlets most prominently, some venting steam periodically while others vent steam constantly. Steam hurts upon contact.

If the vents are being pushy rather than harmful, see VentPhysics.

%%(ZCE)* There are a few of these in the construction zone level of ''VideoGame/KendoRage''.
* ''VideoGame/SuperMarioBros2'' has whales in World 4 that spray geysers of water out of their blowholes. Touching the water spray from the side is dangerous, but [[BlownUpwardByABlowhole standing on the spray]] is safe.
* ''Videogame/MegaMan5'' features damaging puffs of steam appear in Wave Man's stage. They also appear in Neptune's stage in ''VideoGame/MegaManV''.

* ''VideoGame/AnotherWorld'' had deadly steam vents in the area where you're rolling your way through pipes.

* ''VideoGame/BatmanReturns'' for the UsefulNotes/SegaGenesis has annoying steam vents throughout the collapsed building level.

* ''VideoGame/CrashBandicoot'' games have them too; they range from classic steam vents in factory levels to volcanic craters working the same.

* A number of these occur in ''VideoGame/BatmanArkhamCity''.

* VideoGame/{{Infamous}} has a couple of sections where Cole [=MacGrath=] must avoid some vents slewing some steamy ooze.

%%(ZCE)* This is often used in the ''VideoGame/SonicTheHedgehog'' games.
* ''Batman Returns'' for the UsefulNotes/SegaGenesis has annoying steam vents throughout the collapsed building level.

* ''VideoGame/TheSpongeBobMovieGame'' features hazardous steam geysers, most notably in the desert and Planktopolis stages. They do damage most of the time, but [=SpongeBob=]'s "Spongeball" form allows him to harmlessly ride the gusts of air instead.

* ''Series/DoctorWho'': [[Recap/DoctorWhoS32E5TheRebelFlesh "The Rebel Flesh"]]. The lower levels of the factory suffer from this. For bonus points, it's HollywoodAcid steam to boot.

* The alien ship in ''VideoGame/CastleCrashers'' has an area where the floor is covered in air vents that periodically shoot out high-pressure gas. The damage they inflict is negligible, but since you're on a time limit...

* ''VideoGame/{{Blood}} II'''s [[DownTheDrain obligatory sewer level]] consists near-entirely of finding switches to turn off a series of steam vents blocking you from crossing a bridge to the exit.
* Played around with in ''VideoGame/FirstEncounterAssaultRecon'' - steam itself is rarely directly harmful to you, but half the time when you do see it something invariably explodes near it and replaces it with ''fire'', which is the real obstacle you need to get around.
* These appear in ''VideoGame/RiseOfTheTriad'' in both static and moving versions.
* ''VideoGame/MedalOfHonorFrontline'' has a couple of these, most prominently in the U-Boat level... which doesn't actually make a whole lot of sense.

* There are a few of these in the construction zone level of ''VideoGame/KendoRage''.

%% * This is often used in the ''VideoGame/SonicTheHedgehog'' games.

* ''Series/DoctorWho'': [[Recap/DoctorWhoS32E5TheRebelFlesh "The Rebel Flesh"]]. The lower levels of the factory suffer from this. For bonus points, it's [[HollywoodAcid Hollywood acidic steam]] to boot.

* ''VideoGame/MetroidPrime'': Steam vents produce steam that can clog up Samus's visor temporarily.
** In the intro level for ''Super VideoGame/{{Metroid}}'', Samus needs to escape a space station, while avoiding gushes of steam coming out from practically everywhere. If you get hit by the steam, you lose precious time to escape.
** Happens again during the escape from planet Zebes, only the steam's escaping ''from the ground'' itself.

* ''VideoGame/SuperMarioBros2'' has whales in World 4 that spray geysers of water out of their blowholes. Touching the water spray from the side is dangerous, but standing on the spray is safe.