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1	The tendency for modern {{RPG}}s to have more than one world map: sometimes this is a DarkWorld, a FictionalEarth or an AlternateUniverse, but sometimes it's another planet, or a different time period, or simply an AfterTheEnd scenario. A very common way to make DiscOneFinalDungeon less obvious (because you can have the entire world visited before you get to it).
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3	Note: This isn't the case when they make minor changes to the map (like in ''VideoGame/FinalFantasyVII'' when Diamond Weapon scars the world map) or in cases where there isn't really a world map or the worlds are just extensions of the same multi-world map. This is for if there's a world map and then, surprise, you've got another one.
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5	A supertrope of DarkWorld. Usually a part of DualWorldGameplay.
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7	As the existence of an additional world map may be kept as a surprise, some of these examples may be '''spoilers'''.
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16	* ''VideoGame/CastlevaniaHarmonyOfDissonance'' has the normal castle and the same castle in an alternate dimension. You travel between them using special portals.
17	* The endgame of ''VideoGame/DragonsDogmaII'' has [[spoiler:the "Unmoored World", a world created from telling the Worldforged your intent to ScrewDestiny, thus creating a world slowly being destroyed. In this world, [[RedSkyTakeWarning the skies are a foreboding red]], monsters are more powerful, and an impenetrable fog is closing in around the region surrounding Vermouth.]]
18	* ''Franchise/TheLegendOfZelda'':
19	** ''VideoGame/TheLegendOfZeldaALinkToThePast'' has the Light World and the DarkWorld.
20	** ''VideoGame/TheLegendOfZeldaOcarinaOfTime'' and ''[[VideoGame/TheLegendOfZeldaOracleOfAges Oracle of Ages]]'' both involve traveling between two time periods; in ''Ocarina of Time'', you travel to and from seven years in the future (with Link aging or deaging respectively), in ''Oracle of Ages'' you travel to and from several centuries in the past (with Link, obviously, ''not'' aging).
21	** ''VideoGame/TheLegendOfZeldaOracleOfSeasons'' has an underworld and an overworld, and on the overworld features are changed by the passing of the seasons (which Link can accelerate).
22	** ''VideoGame/TheLegendOfZeldaSkywardSword'' has the Sky and the Surface, [[spoiler:the latter being in either the past or the present.]]
23	** ''VideoGame/TheLegendOfZeldaALinkBetweenWorlds'' has Link traveling between Hyrule and Lorule, which resembles the Dark World from ''A Link to the Past'' but crossed by a number of deep, bottomless rifts that render several sections of inaccessible from each other. This requires Link to travel back to Hyrule at several points, travel to another dimensional rift, and cross back through in order to reach his destination. One dungeon, the Desert Palace, requires Link to cross between Hyrule and Lorule four times in succession in order to reach the area the dungeon is in, reach the dungeon itself, enter it and face the boss.
24	** ''VideoGame/TheLegendOfZeldaTearsOftheKingdom'' has the Sky, the Surface, and the Depths. They're a singular WideOpenSandbox, but traveling to and from the Depths without the use of a WarpWhistle can only be done in certain locations.
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30	* In ''VideoGame/SuperSmashBrosUltimate'''s World of Light mode, the first half of the game takes place in the titular "World of Light". After you defeat Galeem, [[spoiler:Dharkon]] takes over and creates his own twisted Dark Realm. [[spoiler:After defeating Dharkon, there is a third map where the forces of both sides battle, which you can alter by defeating minions of one side or the other.]] Both world maps also contain several sub-worlds that can be accessed from within the overworld, ranging from a molten fortress to a [[Franchise/{{Splatoon}} Zapfish]]-powered power plant to a ''VideoGame/StreetFighterII''-style World Tour to [[Franchise/{{Castlevania}} Dracula's Castle]].
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36	* ''VideoGame/KirbysReturnToDreamLand'' has both Halcandra and Pop Star.
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41	* ''VideoGame/The7thSaga'' has the player character(s) sent to the past.
42	* ''VideoGame/ChronoTrigger'' uses time periods.
43	** ''VideoGame/ChronoCross'' has an AlternateUniverse.
44	* ''VideoGame/DragonQuest'':
45	** ''VideoGame/DragonQuestIII'', ''VideoGame/DragonQuestIV'' and ''VideoGame/DragonQuestV'' each have an overworld and [[DarkWorld underworld]].
46	** ''VideoGame/DragonQuestVI'' has the dream world and real world. [[spoiler:[[DarkWorld The Dread Realm]] opens up after exploring both of those and aside from the fact that it's reached by air (specifically, by having Pegasus fly there), it's basically the equivalent to the underworld in the rest of the Zenithia trilogy (i.e. IV and V).]]
47	** ''VideoGame/DragonQuestVIII'' has a Dark World map for Empychuu island.
48	* ''VideoGame/FinalFantasy'':
49	** ''VideoGame/FinalFantasyI'' is an odd case -- in the ''Dawn of Souls'' remake on Game Boy Advance and on [=PlayStation=] Portable, some of the BonusDungeon floors are entire world maps rather than being one of the expected cave environments. There are no towns on these floors, although you might find an airship to use exclusively on the floor you discover it. One subtype of map is the "floating continent" map, which makes about as much sense to find in a dungeon that's supposed to be underground.
50	** ''VideoGame/FinalFantasyIII'' has the floating continent and the surface world.
51	** ''VideoGame/FinalFantasyIV'' has the main world, the underworld, and the Moon.
52	*** ''[[VideoGame/FinalFantasyIVTheAfterYears Final Fantasy IV: The After Years]]'' has ''another'' moon, in addition to the other 3 maps, although huge portions of it are identical to the first moon.
53	** ''VideoGame/FinalFantasyV'' has two planets, [[spoiler:and a third world map when they combine]].
54	** ''VideoGame/FinalFantasyVI'' had the World Of Balance and [[AfterTheEnd World Of Ruin]].
55	** ''VideoGame/FinalFantasyXIII2'' occasionally has several maps of the same locations in the different time periods (e.g. New Bodhum and Academia). Annoyingly, you have to explore 100% of each version of every location for the [[CartographySidequest Paradox Professor sidequest]], leading to situations when the QuestGiver refuses to accept the seemingly complete map of the area because you still haven't visited the area's alternate version in a different time period.
56	* ''VideoGame/MightAndMagic World of Xeen'' has two separate "worlds" connected mainly by a few scattered portals -- the reason being that ''World of Xeen'' is the combined version of ''IV'' and ''V'', with each game covering [[FlatWorld one side]] of Xeen (having both games unlocks the aforementioned connections between the sides, and adds a short questline to provide the ''real'' end of the game after you've beaten the main quests of both of the component games).
57	* ''VideoGame/OracleOfTao'' has Earth (a second version of it), and once done exploring that, there's another world called the Void [[spoiler: which is presumably based on the original Earth, but is barren and has some different rules, like that nothing can exist for very long outside its towns at night]].
58	* Every game in the classic ''VideoGame/PhantasyStar'' series: ''{{VideoGame/Phantasy Star\|I}}'' and ''VideoGame/PhantasyStarIV'' both have 3 worlds, ''VideoGame/PhantasyStarII'' has two (one after the other, in perhaps the straightest example of this trope), and ''VideoGame/PhantasyStarIII'' has a whopping ''eight worlds'' (if you count the underworld), though they're much smaller than the worlds of the other games.
59	* ''VideoGame/PokemonGoldAndSilver'', and its remakes, are the only games in the series to have two visitable regions (not counting ''[[VideoGame/PokemonRedAndBlue FireRed and LeafGreen]]'' with its Sevii Islands). The only way to get between Kanto and Johto in the original games is to either use the Abra at the Indigo Plateau, use travel on the S.S. Aqua, use the Magnet Train or travel on the waters between New Bark Town and Route 28. The remakes removed the ability to travel back to Kanto via the Abra at the Indigo Plateau, but added the ability for the player to fly between any Kanto and Johto location if they happen to be on Route 26, Route 27, Route 28 or the Indigo Plateau.
60	* ''VideoGame/SaGaRPG'': %%Yes, Final Fantasy Legend is a part of the [=SaGa=] series
61	** ''VideoGame/FinalFantasyLegend'' has four different main worlds, several minor ones, as well as the tower which connects them all.
62	** ''VideoGame/FinalFantasyLegendII'' has twelve different worlds all connected by a celestial-based hub.
63	** ''VideoGame/FinalFantasyLegendIII'' went a bit nuts with this concept. It has three time periods, each with an overworld and an under(water)world. It also has a floating island and a separate dimension, the latter of which had its own underworld.
64	* ''Franchise/ShinMegamiTensei'' uses this often:
65	** ''VideoGame/ShinMegamiTenseiI'' has pre- and post-[[TheEndOfTheWorldAsWeKnowIt cataclysm]] maps.
66	** ''VideoGame/ShinMegamiTenseiII'' has the normal world and the Abyss.
67	** ''VideoGame/ShinMegamiTenseiIIINocturne'' has pre- and post-conception maps much like the first game. However, you don't see the pre-conception map as much, since TheEndOfTheWorldAsWeKnowIt happens very early on.
68	** ''VideoGame/ShinMegamiTenseiIV'' has Mikado (which isn't so much a map as a menu), Tokyo, [[spoiler:Blasted Tokyo, and Infernal Tokyo]]. Depending on your choices, one or more of these may be [[PermanentlyMissableContent lost forever]].
69	* The ''VideoGame/StarOcean'' series: some of the games let you travel between worlds (like in ''[[VideoGame/StarOceanTillTheEndOfTime Till the End of Time]]''). ''[[VideoGame/StarOceanTheSecondStory The Second Story]]'' [[spoiler: destroys the planet you're on at the end of Disc 1 during the DiscOneFinalDungeon. As a result this might actually be surprising in the PSP remake which is on one disc…]]
70	* ''VideoGame/SwordAndFairy7'' has separate maps for Human and Demon Realms.
71	* Extremely common in the ''VideoGame/TalesSeries'':
72	** ''VideoGame/TalesOfTheAbyss'' has the surface, referred to as the Outer Lands, and the subterranean Qliphoth. The two maps change dynamically as landmasses are lowered from the Outer Lands to the Qliphoth.
73	** ''VideoGame/TalesOfDestiny'' has the surface of the planet, called the Er'ther Lands, and the Aethersphere, a floating outer shell.
74	*** ''VideoGame/TalesOfDestiny2'' has time periods.
75	** ''VideoGame/TalesOfEternia'' has the worlds of Inferia and Celestia.
76	** ''VideoGame/TalesOfGraces'' has the planets of Ephinea and Fodra.
77	** ''VideoGame/TalesOfHearts'' has the planet of Organica and its moon Gardenia.
78	** ''VideoGame/TalesOfLegendia'' has the exterior of the Legacy and the interior Quiet Lands.
79	** ''VideoGame/TalesOfPhantasia'' has time periods.
80	** ''VideoGame/TalesOfSymphonia'' has the worlds of Sylvarant and Tethe'alla.
81	** ''VideoGame/TalesOfXillia'' and ''VideoGame/TalesOfXillia2'' have the worlds of Rieze Maxia and Elympios. ''Xillia 2'' additionally divides Elympios into three separate maps for the Trigleph, Duval, and Drellin regions.
82	* ''VideoGame/{{Ultima}}'':
83	** ''VideoGame/UltimaII'' had 5 time periods: Pangea, B.C., A.D., Aftermath, and Legends.
84	** ''VideoGame/UltimaIII'' had an alternate world, Ambrosia, accessible via a whirlpool, which was also pretty important as it was the only place to increase character stats.
85	* ''VideoGame/WorldOfWarcraft'' goes hard on this after the ''Cataclysm'' expansion, with the then-new ability of the game to phase areas. Any area, depending on your progress in the zone's storyline, can be a ten thousand year old village filled with life or a burned out wreck filled with corpses. Many of the older zones have a member of the [[TimePolice Bronze Dragonflight]], holders of the TimeyWimeyBall, who can send you to previous versions of the zone.
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91	* Commonplace in the ''VideoGame/{{Driver}}'' series:
92	** The first game took place in Miami, then San Francisco, Los Angeles, and New York City.
93	** The second game started in Chicago, then moved to Havana, Las Vegas, and Rio de Janeiro.
94	** The third game started in Miami, then moved to Nice and Istanbul.
95	** The fourth game ''(Parallel Lines)'' took place in New York City of 1978, then [[TimeSkip 28 years passed]] and the game took place in New York of 2006.
96	* ''VideoGame/{{Minecraft}}'' has three distinct dimensions: The Overworld, where players start; the Nether, a dangerous LethalLavaLand; and the End, which is essentially the VeryDefinitelyFinalDungeon writ large. Except that maps (as in, the item) don't actually work in the Nether because there's no "ground level" for them to display; the whole dimension is a giant cave system with a solid bedrock ceiling.
97	* All of the ''VideoGame/{{Yakuza}}'' games take place in Kamurocho (Tokyo), but all of the main series games other than ''1'' and ''4'' feature at least one other city to explore. In ''2'' and ''0'' it's Sotenbori (Osaka); in ''3'' it's Ryukyu (Okinawa); in ''5'' it's Sotenbori again, along with the new cities of Nagasu (Fukuoka), Tsukimino (Sapporo) and Kineicho (Nagoya); and in ''6'' it's Jingaicho (Onomichi, Hiroshima). Starting with the seventh title, Kamurocho becomes the alternate world map as the game's main setting shifts to Ijincho (Yokohama).
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