History Main / AlternateWorldMap

* ''VideoGame/{{Minecraft}}'' has three distinct maps: The Overworld, where players start; the Nether, a dangerous LethalLavaLand; and the End, which is essentially the VeryDefinitelyFinalDungeon writ large.

* Bored with Website/{{Google}} Maps? Try Google Moon or Google Mars. In a major {{subversion}} of this trope, you can't actually go there (as of 2013).

The tendency for modern {{RPG}}s to have more than one world map: sometimes this is a DarkWorld 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).

* The ''Franchise/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...]]

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* Commonplace in the ''{{Driver}}'' series:

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* The ''Franchise/StarOcean'' series: some of the games let you travel between worlds (like in ''[[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...]]

* Extremely common in the ''Franchise/TalesSeries'':

** ''VideoGame/TalesOfTheAbyss'' has the surface, referred to as the Outer Lands, and the subterranean Qliphoth.

* ''VideoGame/TalesOfDestiny'' covers its planet in a shell of impacted earth. However, the only thing thing of interest on said shell are several dungeons.
* ''VideoGame/TalesOfEternia'' has Celestia right after you can visit pretty much every obviously visitable place on Inferia.
* ''VideoGame/TalesOfPhantasia'' has time periods.
* ''VideoGame/TalesOfSymphonia'' has the worlds of Sylvarant and Tethe'alla.

** ''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 LostForever.

** ''[[VideoGame/TheLegendOfZeldaALinkToThePast A Link to the Past]]'' has the DarkWorld.

* ''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.

A supertrope of DarkWorld. Usually asociated to a DualWorldGameplay.

* ''VideoGame/{{Final Fantasy XIII-2}}'' 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.

** ''[[VideoGame/FinalFantasyIVTheAfterYears Final Fantasy IV: The After Years]]'' has ''another'' moon, in addition to the other 3 maps.

* ''UltimaII'' had 5 time periods: Pangea, B.C., A.D., Aftermath, and Legends.

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* ''TheLegendOfZelda'' series:
** ''[[TheLegendOfZeldaALinkToThePast A Link to the Past]]'' has the DarkWorld.

** ''TheLegendOfZeldaALinkBetweenWorlds'' has Link traveling between Hyrule and Lorule. Lorule resembles the Dark World from ''A Link to the Past'' but it's an entirely different place altogether. [[spoiler:It's a counterpart of Hyrule complete with princess, hero and villain. But instead of sealing their version of the Triforce, they destroyed it, only to find that it was the CosmicKeystone holding their entire world together.]]

* ''{{Castlevania}}: Harmony of Dissonance'' has the normal castle and the same castle in an alternate dimension. You travel between them using special portals.

* ''[[VideoGame/{{Makai Toshi SaGa}} The Final Fantasy Legend]]'' has four different main worlds, several minor ones, as well as the tower which connected them all.

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.

* ''VideoGame/{{Final Fantasy XIII-2}}'' 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 its another, late-game variation.