History Main / ConstructedWorld

-->-- '''[[Franchise/StarWars Star Wars']] famous opening text crawl'''

* 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 [[VideoGame/AceCombatZeroTheBelkanWar 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.

* ''Franchise/RatchetAndClank'' is set in a vast sci-fi universe full of aliens and robots, but humans and Earth are nowhere to be seen at all.

* While ''Franchise/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.

* 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!

* The Junkyard in ''VideoGame/DigitalDevilSaga'' can be described as a bunch of military outposts based off ancient ruins surrounding a massive hypertechnological tower, with a lot of Hindu-inspired architecture and decoration and a lot of unusual attention to the region's waterways and sewers, all in a perpetually-raining land of grey sands. But there are weird details around, like a perfect Disney-style fairytale castle, a massive yacht half-buried in the desert, or a strange European manor in the middle of one of the outposts. And then, the inhabitants start realizing that even though they've never known any other setting, it's strangely unreal to them, and they start remembering things about another place with bizarre rules that somehow make more sense than the Junkyard's simplicity... and most worryingly, despite never having personally seen or been one, they all know what a child is. [[spoiler:Eventually it's revealed that the entire Junkyard it's a ConstructedWorld... ''InUniverse''.]]

** ''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.

* ''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 Pokémon entries, and a Team Aqua grunt mentions [[Myth/ClassicalMythology Poseidon]] in ''[[VideoGame/PokemonRubyAndSapphire Omega Ruby and Alpha Sapphire]]''. 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.

* The setting of Robert Jordan's ''Literature/TheWheelOfTime'' is implied to be set in a distant future Earth AfterTheEnd, but the setting, geography, and cosmology are so utterly different from ours that it qualifies as much as Middle-Earth does.

* Margaret Weis and Tracy Hickman's ''Literature/TheDeathGateCycle'' is, like ''Literature/TheWheelOfTime'', highly implied to be a distant future timeline of Earth's AfterTheEnd, but between the magic, the sundering into a number of different worlds, and various other factors, it also qualifies as a ConstructedWorld.

* ''Literature/TheBrokenEarthTrilogy'' is set in the supercontinent of the Stillness, in a planet that is called Earth but doesn't seem to be the same earth we know.

* In Creator/MichaelMoorcock's ''Literature/TheElricSaga'', Melniboné and the surrounding New Kingdoms. Like Middle Earth, it's supposed to be Earth's long-forgotten past, but is so different it may as well be another world.

* 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]]. So, in theory, it's EarthAllAlong.

* 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 Fódlan]] is another continent which, itself, is divided into three countries: the Adrestian Empire, the Holy Kingdom of Faerghus, and the Leicester Alliance. Likewise, [[VideoGame/FireEmblemEngage Elyos]] is comprised of two separate landmasses, an outer ring that contains -- in its intercardinal regions -- four of the continent's nations (clockwise: Elusia, Solm, Firene, Brodia) and a central island that serves as the fifth (Lythos). [[VideoGameLongRunners And so on.]]

* ''The Last God'' from ''The Fellspyre Chronicles'' setting by the Creator/DCBlackLabel, is significantly built up from scratch. It not only has maps, religion (albeit one based on Tolkien's Silmarillion, history and folk songs. The miniseries also has various {{Apocalyptic Log}}s to flesh out what a CrapsackWorld the setting has become and even includes stats for various creatures and character classes according to TabletopGame/DungeonsAndDragons 4th Edition rules.

* ''The Last God'' from Creator/DCComics is significantly built up. It not only has maps, religion (albeit one based on Tolkien's Silmarillion, history and folk songs. The miniseries also has various {{Apocalyptic Log}}s to flesh out what a CrapsackWorld the setting has become and even includes stats for various creatures and character classes according to TabletopGame/DungeonsAndDragons 4th Edition rules.

* ''The Last God'' from Creator/DCCOMICS is significantly built up. It not only has maps, religion (albeit one based on Tolkien's Silmarillion, history and folk songs. The miniseries also has various {{Apocalyptic Log}}s to flesh out what a CrapsackWorld the setting has become and even includes stats for various creatures and character classes according to TabletopGame/DungeonsAndDragons 4th Edition rules.