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* These sorts of wreckages are strewn about the New Zealand film ''The Quiet Earth'' in its visual composition, and also affect the plot...or action, however little there is.

* ''Film/StarTrekGenerations''. The Amargosa observatory is TechnoWreckage after the Romulans get through with it.

* ''TabletopGame/{{Warhammer 40000}}''[='s=] Space Hulks are TechnoWreckage {{Ghost Ship}}s.

** The B.S.L of ''VideoGame/MetroidFusion'' starts becoming technowreckage the longer Samus is there, culminating in her [[ColonyDrop ramming it into a planet.]] Worse, the WHOLE game takes place inside it.

* Both ''VideoGame/SystemShock'' games consist entirely of TechnoWreckage, except for when you enter a WombLevel ''inside'' a TechnoWreckage, and when you hack in {{cyberspace}}, from an interface ''in'' the TechnoWreckage.

* ''VideoGame/DeusEx'' has the Ocean Lab, where after Illuminati sabotage half the place is submerged, turrets automatically fire at anything and can't be turned off (in the rest of the game they only attack after an alarm activates) and [=MJ12=] experiments have been released from their cages. [[spoiler:Walton Simons]] who follows you here, is the only human (at least, living human) other than JC Denton in the whole underwater segment.
** ''VideoGame/TheNamelessMod'' has both Shadowcode's level and '''D'''eus E'''x''' '''I'''ncarnate. The first is one that you are actually trying to shut it down completely. The 2nd [[HailfirePeaks also contains]] [[LethalLavaLand lava]] and [[UndergroundLevel is underground]].
* ''Franchise/{{Metroid}}''
** The abandoned ship in ''VideoGame/SuperMetroid'' is a typical example, with everything listed above. It even lives up to its title of "the ghost ship" by having an actual ''ghost'' living in it as the area boss!
** The crashed Space Pirate frigate in ''VideoGame/MetroidPrime'', and the GFS ''Valhalla'' in ''VideoGame/MetroidPrime3Corruption''. The ''Valhalla'' probably takes the cake among the three as far as scariness goes, what with freaktastic music, corpses everywhere (with scans revealing how they died), dreadful Phazon monsters in every room, and more Metroids in this one area than has been seen in the entire franchise except possibly Tourian in the original game.
** The B.S.L of ''VideoGame/MetroidFusion'' starts becoming technowreckage the longer Samus is there, culminating in her [[ColonyDrop ramming it into a planet.]] Worse, the WHOLE game takes place inside it.
* 2300 AD in ''VideoGame/ChronoTrigger'' has pretty much everything listed above, combined with RuinsOfTheModernAge.
* The Glow in ''VideoGame/{{Fallout 1}}'' is a typical example, with no other [=NPCs=] except the security bots (that are inactive for the most part, and can be turned off at the same console the power is activated through) and a friendly computer AI (that provides some interesting back story) ''and'' it's highly radioactive all around (lingering to play chess with the AI is considered harmful). The two abandoned vaults also qualify. The Sierra army depot in the sequel also qualifies.
** ''VideoGame/{{Fallout 3}}'' and ''VideoGame/FalloutNewVegas'' provide more abandoned vaults, alongside with {{Apocalyptic Log}}s to detail exactly how bad things went.
* ''TabletopGame/{{Warhammer 40000}}''[='s=] Space Hulks are TechnoWreckage {{Ghost Ship}}s.
* The Tower of Geddon from ''VideoGame/ChronoCross''.
* Several environments in ''VideoGame/{{Xenosaga}}'' probably qualify, as well, including every time you visit Miltia.
* The 1st Edition ''TabletopGame/{{Traveller}}'' adventures ''Annic Nova'' and ''Death Ship'', with the title derelict ships which the {{PC}}s explore.
* ''[[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Morrow_Project The Morrow Project]]'' adventure ''Prime Base''. The {{PC}}s must enter and restore the title base to working order.

* Both ''VideoGame/SystemShock'' games consist entirely of TechnoWreckage, except for when you enter a WombLevel ''inside'' a TechnoWreckage, and when you hack in {{cyberspace}}, from an interface ''in'' the TechnoWreckage.

* Non-videogame example: the lowest levels in any high-tech city in ''Franchise/StarWars''. Coruscant is essentially a pristine ultra-hi-tech city standing on a layer of decaying buildings and destroyed electrical conduits. Nar Shaddaa is even more so, in that even its highest levels aren't pristine at all, and the decay starts from the second level downwards - the lowest levels are filled with sewage, destroyed pipework and mutant abominations.
* These sorts of wreckages are strewn about the New Zealand film ''The Quiet Earth'' in its visual composition, and also affect the plot...or action, however little there is.

* In one of the ''{{Norby}}'' books, the titular robot and his companion end up prisoner in an underwater city belonging to the enigmatic Invaders. After a few adventures they end up accessing the deeper, forbidden levels of the city, where they find that not only is the whole area long abandoned, in severe disrepair and leaking all over the place, but the survival of the newer side of the city is entirely dependant on the progressively failing machinery housed in the old area. The Invaders go "uh-oh".

* In ''ComicStrip/DickTracy'', while reports of [[GreenSkinnedSpaceBabe Moon Maid]] sightings were circulating, Dick, his granddaughter Honeymoon, and their GadgeteerGenius friend Diet Smith secretly return to Moon Valley for the first time since TheSixties, only to find it completely abandoned, in ruins and lacking oxygen. Diet explains that when the Moon Governor banished the Earthlings, he had many Space Coups in production. With the Space Coups on the moon misssing as well, Diet assumes the Moon People had left for another place, with no way to track them.

** ''TheNamelessMod'' has both Shadowcode's level and '''D'''eus E'''x''' '''I'''ncarnate. The first is one that you are actually trying to shut it down completely. The 2nd [[HailfirePeaks also contains]] [[LethalLavaLand lava]] and [[UndergroundLevel is underground]].
* The abandoned ship in ''Super {{Metroid}}'' is a typical example, with everything listed above. It even lives up to its title of "the ghost ship" by having an actual ''ghost'' living in it as the area boss!
** There's also the crashed Space Pirate frigate in ''VideoGame/MetroidPrime'', and the GFS ''Valhalla'' in ''Metroid Prime 3: Corruption''. The ''Valhalla'' probably takes the cake among the three as far as scariness goes, what with freaktastic music, corpses everywhere (with scans revealing how they died), dreadful Phazon monsters in every room, and more Metroids in this one area than has been seen in the entire franchise except possibly Tourian in the original game.
** The B.S.L of ''Metroid Fusion'' starts becoming technowreckage the longer Samus is there, culminating in her [[ColonyDrop ramming it into a planet.]] Worse, the WHOLE game takes place inside it.

* The 1st Edition ''{{Traveller}}'' adventures ''Annic Nova'' and ''Death Ship'', with the title derelict ships which the {{PC}}s explore.

* ''SkiesOfArcadia'' has a very light version of this in the early areas of the [[TheVeryDefinitelyFinalDungeon final dungeon]]. As these outer areas have been exposed to the elements for centuries, they have decayed dramatically. the deeper you go, the more clean and pristine the tech becomes.

* Possibly averted in ''VideoGame/{{La-Mulana}}'', where most of the ruins are...well, in ruins, but one of the few areas not in ruins--the [[spoiler:Tower of the Goddess]]--appears to be a high-tech area in pristine condition with futuristic interior lighting and even monitor screens still running. The Tower of Ruin fits this trope better.

* Non-videogame example: the lowest levels in any high-tech city in ''StarWars''. Coruscant is essentially a pristine ultra-hi-tech city standing on a layer of decaying buildings and destroyed electrical conduits. Nar Shaddaa is even more so, in that even its highest levels aren't pristine at all, and the decay starts from the second level downwards - the lowest levels are filled with sewage, destroyed pipework and mutant abominations.

* The Space Junk Galaxy in ''SuperMarioGalaxy'' is a [[SubvertedTrope subversion]]. It's a deep space debris field that feels peaceful and idyllic, having its own UnkemptBeauty.

* One of the early dungeons of ''{{Opoona}}'' is the destroyed wreckage of a dome that's been overrun with monsters.
* ''SkywardSword'' has Lanayru Desert, which had been a bustling center of technology in the past. Now the robot [=NPCs=] are nonfunctioning, the advanced tech doesn't work, and sand is everywhere. The repowering puzzles consist of turning back time to when the machinery was working.

* ''PerfectDark'' has the Battle Shrine, which has inconsistent lighting and exposed wires inside. You have to reactive the generator in order to progress through a door.

* ''FinalFantasyVIII'': The Deep Sea Research Center. The scientists wanted to create the strongest GF in the world, but wisely decided to tap out of there when they realized that [[GoneHorriblyRight they wouldn't be able to control it]]. Said GF, Eden, looks like something out of cyberpunk movie and can naturally go beyond the damage cap of the game.

* The abandoned ship in ''Super {{Metroid}}'' is a typical example, with everything listed above.

* The Lost Colony Level in ''VideoGame/SonicAdventure2''.
** The BadFuture levels in ''VideoGame/SonicTheHedgehogCD'' are a result of Dr Eggman taking over the Little Planet.

** There's also the crashed Space Pirate frigate in ''MetroidPrime'', and the GFS Valhalla in ''Metroid Prime 3: Corruption''. The Valhalla probably takes the cake among the three as far as scariness goes, what with freaktastic music, corpses everywhere (with scans revealing how they died), dreadful Phazon monsters in every room, and more Metroids in this one area than has been seen in the entire franchise except possibly Tourian in the original game.

** ''TheNamelessMod'' has both Shadowcode's level and '''D'''eus E'''x''' '''I'''ncarnate. The first is one that you are actually trying to shut it down completely. The 2nd [[HailfirePeaks also contains]] both [[LethalLavaLand lava]] and [[UndergroundLevel is underground]]

* ''The Secret Of The Nautilus'', a sequel to ''[[TwentyThousandLeaguesUnderTheSea 20,000 Leagues Under The Sea]]'', is set in the abandoned ''Nautilus'', the only humans being the player and a madman trying to bring it down.

* 2300 AD in ''VideoGame/ChronoTrigger'' has pretty much everything listed above.

* Possibly averted in ''VideoGame/{{La-Mulana}}'', where most of the ruins are...well, in ruins, but one of the few areas not in ruins--the [[spoiler:Tower of the Goddess]]--appears to be a high-tech area in pristine condition with futuristic interior lighting and even monitor screens still running.

* In ''{{Gradius}} Gaiden'', one level takes place in a wrecked Bacterian Mothership.
* The Derelict Ship in ''AdventuresOfRadGravity''.

* ''{{Ghostbusters}}'' has Shandor Island. Granted, it's not high-tech by our 21st Century standards, but Egon notes that Ivo Shandor was considered ''the'' paranormal expert of his time. There's a lot of fun stuff to look out for here, like open vats of highly toxic black slime (with ghosts and other assorted beasties emerging from the Black Slime portals), cosmic machinery powered by said slime, loads of Iron Maidens, and an astral orrery [[spoiler: with a Juvenile Giant Slor imprisoned underneath. If that's a Juvenile Slor, you'd hate to see how big they get when fully grown...]]

* Both ''SystemShock'' games consist entirely of TechnoWreckage, except for when you enter a WombLevel ''inside'' a TechnoWreckage, and when you hack in {{cyberspace}}, from an interface ''in'' the TechnoWreckage.

* More or less everywhere in ''TheDig''.

* ''{{Warhammer 40000}}''[='s=] Space Hulks are TechnoWreckage {{Ghost Ship}}s.

** The BadFuture levels in ''VideoGame/SonicTheHedgehogCD'' are a result of Dr Eggman taking over the Little Planet.

* ''VideoGame/{{Portal 2}}'' starts with the first game's Enrichment Center in this state (thanks to the Chell and the player last time round, and an indefinite period of neglect), though [=GLaDOS=] clears up a lot of it during Act One.
* One of the early dungeons of ''{{Opoona}}'' is the destroyed wreckage of a dome that's been overrun with monsters.

A high-tech area that is abandoned and in disrepair. Expect to see exposed wires, damaged wires that screw with the power, bad lighting that is most likely powered through the damaged wiring, and at least one puzzle devoted to restoring power. Don't expect to see sentient {{Mook}}s here; you may find rats or some fantastic vermin that have been chewing the wiring, various mutant monsters, and security drones (that will only turn on after the above mentioned "restore the power" puzzle), but expect your biggest foe to be the environment. [[NightmareFuel Scary all around]] (or at least it keeps you on edge). This one is rarely found in linear titles, because a key factor in these levels is exploration.

* The Glow in ''{{Fallout}}'' is a typical example, with no other [=NPCs=] except the security bots (that are inactive for the most part, and can be turned off at the same console the power is activated through) and a friendly computer AI (that provides some interesting back story) ''and'' it's highly radioactive all around (lingering to play chess with the AI is considered harmful). The two abandoned vaults also qualify. The Sierra army depot in the sequel also qualifies.
** ''{{Fallout 3}}'' and ''FalloutNewVegas'' provide more abandoned vaults, alongside with {{Apocalyptic Log}}s to detail exactly how bad things went.

* ''SkywardSword'' has Lanayru Desert, which had been a bustling center of technology in the past. Now the robot NPCs are nonfunctioning, the advanced tech doesn't work, and sand is everywhere. The repowering puzzles consist of turning back time to when the machinery was working.

** The BadFuture levels in ''SonicCD'' are a result of Dr Eggman taking over the Little Planet.
* Possibly averted in ''{{La-Mulana}}'', where most of the ruins are...well, in ruins, but one of the few areas not in ruins--the [[spoiler:Tower of the Goddess]]--appears to be a high-tech area in pristine condition with futuristic interior lighting and even monitor screens still running.
* The abandoned gas mines on Ord Ibanna in ''StarWars: Episode 1 Racer'', which also qualify as a WorldInTheSky.

* ''StarTrek Generations''. The Amargosa observatory is TechnoWreckage after the Romulans get through with it.