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* In ''VideoGame/DonkeyKongCountryReturns'' collecting all the medallion pieces, and then completing all world's secret temple levels unlocks the very definitely bonus temple on the world map. ... Which is NintendoHard with CheckPointDeprivation with brand new [[UniqueEnemy Unique Enemies]] which you won't find anywhere else in the game.

*** What's awesome is that there is a secret route in each Heaven leading back to the game proper: you can escape Heaven and shrug off death itself through sheer force of will! That's how [[CrowningMomentOfAwesome awesome]] [[LikeABadassOutOfHell little Tiki]] is!

* The [[spoiler:FinalDungeon]] to ''DigitalDevilSaga'' can be interpreted this way.

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* The Cathedral in ''VideoGame/TheBindingOfIsaac'', complete with OminousLatinChanting.

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* The Rainbow Cloud from ''VideoGame/PokemonSnap'' has you trying to get a picture of [[BonusBoss Mew.]] [[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin It is also a]] FluffyCloudHeaven.

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* The Astral Plane in ''NetHack''.

* ''Gimmick!''

* The PS2 game ''Champions of Norrath: Return to Arms'' has you hack your way through heaven and hell. Apparently, the difference between the two is largely cosmetic.

* ''{{Disgaea}}: Hour of Darkness''. Makes sense, considering the main characters are mostly demons. Notably, it's not actually a bonus level, but rather the [[VeryDefinitelyFinalDungeon finale]]. Earth, on the other hand, does show up as a bonus level.
** Later revisited in ''{{Disgaea 3}}'' in Raspberyl mode.

** For most people (those without GFs and massive Junction bonuses), if they're standing on that island they probably ''will'' be seeing the afterlife very soon...

* ''VideoGame/{{Bomberman}} 64'' had the secret final level called Rainbow Palace that fit the FluffyCloudHeaven motif, and had relaxing music that severely clashed with how unforgiving some of the puzzles were.

* The Rainbow Cloud from ''PokemonSnap'' has you trying to get a picture of [[BonusBoss Mew.]] [[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin It is also a]] FluffyCloudHeaven.

Not to be confused with FluffyCloudHeaven, which only sometimes overlaps with this.

* In ''{{Bayonetta}}'', beating the 21 Alfheim challenges (which are located in heaven) rewards you with… a massive Alfheim challenge where you have to go through 50 waves of enemies, many of them really brutal, with a progressively increasing difficulty setting (from Normal at the beginning to HarderThanHard at the end) and one BonusBoss. The soft and dreamy music that plays between the waves does little to reassure the player. Oh, and you can't use healing items. Good luck.

* The Rainbow Cloud from ''PokemonSnap'' has you trying to get a picture of [[BonusBoss Mew.]] [[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin It is also a FluffyCloudHeaven.

* ''VideoGame/SuperPaperMario'' features the Over There, where an evil force once held prisoner has taken over.
** Not ''quite'' this trope, due to not being a Bonus Level. It's still a Level of Heaven, though.

* In ''{{Bayonetta}}'', beating the 21 Alfheim challenges (which are located in heaven) rewards you with… a massive Alfheim challenge where you have to go through 50 waves of enemies, many of them really brutal, with a progressively increasing difficulty setting (from Normal at the beginnig to HarderThanHard at the end) and one BonusBoss. The soft and dreamy music that plays between the waves does little to reassure the player. Oh, and you can't use healing items. Good luck.

-->-- '''Creator/BenjaminFranklin''', ''TheSimpsonsGame''

* ''TheSimpsonsGame'' had the family traveling to Heaven to talk to God about why everyone and everything wants to destroy Springfield, beating up Shakespeare and Benjamin Franklin along the way. They then play a DDR-style game where you coordinate heavenly versions of baddies from previous levels to the beat of "Rock You Like A Hurricane". Also, God is a giant video game nerd who spends all his time playing the super-immersive Planet Earth videogame.

*** There's also an island closest to hell. Exact same thing. There is a bonus to being here, though. All the best spells in the game (except [[spoiler:Apocalypse]]) are here.

* The GameBoyAdvance port of ''VideoGame/FinalFantasyII'' lets you take on heaven with the characters who had died in the main story after you beat the game. [[spoiler: They end up meeting the Emperor, who explains that the guy who took over Hell is actually the evil half of his soul. Then it turns out that his "better half" is ''still evil'', and you have to stop him from taking over Heaven as well.]]

-->-- '''BenjaminFranklin''', ''TheSimpsonsGame''

* ''VideoGame/{{Bomberman}} 64'' had the secret final level called Rainbow Palace that fit the FluffyCloudHeaven motif, and had relaxing music that severely clashed with how unforgiving some of the puzzles were.
* In ''{{Bayonetta}}'', beating the 21 Alfheim challenges (which are located in heaven) rewards you with… a massive Alfheim challenge where you have to go through 50 waves of enemies, many of them really brutal, with a progressively increasing difficulty setting (from Normal at the beginnig to HarderThanHard at the end) and one BonusBoss. The soft and dreamy music that plays between the waves does little to reassure the player. Oh, and you can't use healing items. Good luck.

* In the arcade version of ''VideoGame/TheNewZealandStory'', when you lose your last life in the later stages of the game, Tiki will reappear in the stage Heaven. There are different layout Heavens based on when you died, but they're all rather difficult stages. If you make your way all to the right, you meet up with the Goddess and pass on to the afterlife in a sort of TheManyDeathsOfYou fashion epilogue (I think...).
** [[spoiler: ''"Tiki has met the Goddess and now went into a long sleep in the warm sunlight. But the Heavens had got an exit to the underworld."'']]
*** What's awesome is that there is a secret route in each Heaven leading back to the game proper: you can escape Heaven and shrug off death itself through sheer force of will! That's how [[CrowningMomentOfAwesome awesome]] [[LikeABadassOutOfHell little Tiki]] is!

* The Astral Plane in ''{{NetHack}}''.

* There's an indie game series called ''Legion Saga'', at the end of which the main villain turns out to be [[GodIsEvil God himself]], so the heroes and their army have to invade heaven.

* In the Time of Judgment sourcebook for the ''TabletopGame/OldWorldOfDarkness'' that detailed the ApocalypseHow of the EndOfTheWorldAsWeKnowIt for each game line, none of the Demon: The Fallen endings specifically included the angels of heaven returning to Earth to redeem or destroy the demons, but it literally had bonus rules for making and running angels as allies or (more likely) antagonists for player characters if a Storyteller wished to do so.

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* ''VideoGame/SNKVsCapcomSVCChaos'' has [[PsychoSoldier Athena]]'s original form as a bonus boss (as well as [[VideoGame/GhostsNGoblins Red Arremer]] as a counterpart). Take a wild guess at where the battle takes place.

* In SonicRoboBlast2, [[spoiler:this area is a literal bonus level. It's also a MarathonLevel, being a combination of four levels with the same theme from a popular GameMod.]]