History Main / PlanetHeck

* ''WesternAnimation/EarthwormJim'': The trope namer appears, more or less unchanged from the videogame version, as the base of operation of Evil the Cat. We also get to witness the [[FauxHorrific unspeakable tortures]] the damned are subjected to: the Pit Sharp Cornered Coffee Tables, a DMV Office, and most terrible of all: the [[BitingTheHandHumor TV Network's Conference Room]].

* In ''TOCA Touring Car Championship'', a realistic racing game for the UsefulNotes/PlayStation, the bonus track is Hell. It is not as awesome as it sounds; scarcely more exciting than the rest of the game, in fact.

* One of the secret wrestling rings from the [[UsefulNotes/PlayStation PS1]] video game ''Wrestling/{{WCW}} Thunder'' is titled Hades and is pretty much the standard depiction of Hell with fire, brimstone, and blood.

* The last galaxy in the Japanese version of ''VideoGame/SuperMarioGalaxy'' is known as Hell Prominence. Naturally, [[{{Bowdlerize}} this was changed to Melty Molten for the English language releases]], despite the other language versions giving the level similar names to the original.
* The last level of ''VideoGame/{{Eversion}}''. [[spoiler:Actually, the ending suggests that the ''entire game'' takes place in a Lovecraftian equivalent of Hell; everything except World X-8 was an illusion caused by dimension distortion.]]
* ''[[VideoGame/MeatBoy Super Meat Boy]]'' has the aptly named Hell World which is pretty much this.
* ''VideoGame/JazzJackrabbit 2'''s last levels are set in punny named hell levels that include ripped graphics from the Earthworm Jim example above.

* ''VideoGame/SuperPaperMario'' manages to [[HailfirePeaks combine]] this with BonusLevelOfHeaven in Chapter 7. You start in the "Underwhere" (hell) and climb up to the "Overthere" (heaven) throughout the course of the chapter.
** Unlike most Planet Heck levels, however, the Underwhere is more based off of the [[Myth/GreekMythology Greek's interpretation of the afterlife.]]
* "Thy Farts Consumed" from ''VideoGame/TheAngryVideoGameNerdAdventures'' is explicitly set in {{Hell}}, complete with ''VideoGame/{{Doom}}'' references.
* ''VideoGame/GianaSistersDS'': About half of World 8 takes place in a maze of lava-filled caverns. The time limit even increases from 300 to [[NumberOfTheBeast 666]].

* ''[[VideoGame/FZero F-Zero GX]]'' has a track in the underworld, full of mines and lava strips so you can die quickly. You race against the BigBad here one-on-one in Story Mode. Sadly, it's not available elsewise, although [[NintendoHard for]] [[ThatOneLevel good]] [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dOZS2U1TAnA reason]].

[[JustForFun/IThoughtItMeant Not]] a LighterAndSofter version of "[[Music/{{Nightwish|Band}} Planet Hell]] or of "[[DeathWorld Hell Planets]]."

** Naturally, players were already planning to [[spoiler:''invade Hell'']] almost as soon as they knew it was there. Sure, Toady [[LordBritishPostulate knew it was coming]] and tried to make it as hard as possible with [[spoiler: almost as many demons as your memory can handle]], but it still happened; at least one fortress managed to [[spoiler:not only colonize it, but use the ominous glowing pits as garbage dumps and grow mushrooms down there.]]

* ''VideoGame/{{Doom}}'' is the archetypal example, with the player tasked with stopping an [[TheLegionsOfHell invasion of demons]] at their source, after fighting them off at a series of Mars bases. In ''VideoGame/DoomII'', it's the same thing all over again, except this time [[HellOnEarth you fight them on Earth]] before going to Hell, and this time you actually [[DidYouJustPunchOutCthulhu destroy Hell]], and afterwards idly wonder [[Music/MeatPuppets where bad folks will go when they die]].
* ''VideoGame/Doom3'' plays this about as straight as you can get, with a trip to hell and back in the middle of the game.

* The second half of ''VideoGame/SuperColumbineMassacreRPG'' has the UsefulNotes/{{Columbine}} killers being sent to Hell, which is one part [[Literature/TheDivineComedy Dante's Inferno]] and ten parts ''VideoGame/{{Doom}}'', complete with demon soldiers, shotguns, and the {{BFG}}. It ends with the two killing a Cyberdemon and becoming Satan's minions, upon which they watch and mock the memorial service for their earthly massacre.

* The [=UnderNet=] in the ''VideoGame/MegaManBattleNetwork'' games is sometimes this, sometimes a villain base, or a BadGuyBar at its lightest.
** It was only like that in 1. There was then the WWW Zone in 2, the Secret Area (really) in 3, Black Earth in 4, Nebula Area in 5, and the Graveyard in 6. The first three were a sort of noncanonical extension to the main plot, and the last three were just Internet Hell (Graveyard even had gravestones for all the bosses of the series, along with yourself and everyone else you knew). All of them contained the BonusBoss, Bass.

* ''VideoGame/Doom3'' plays this about as straight as you can get, with a trip to hell and back in the middle of the game. But it was pretty [[BestLevelEver Cool]].

* ''VideoGame/{{Doom}}'' is the archetypal example, with the player tasked with stopping an [[TheLegionsOfHell invasion of demons]] at their source, after fighting them off at a series of Mars bases. In ''Doom II'', it's the same thing all over again, except this time [[HellOnEarth you fight them on Earth]] before going to Hell, and this time you actually [[DidYouJustPunchOutCthulhu destroy Hell]], and afterwards idly wonder [[Music/MeatPuppets where bad folks will go when they die]].

** ''Doom 3'' plays this about as straight as you can get, with a trip to hell and back in the middle of the game. But it was pretty [[BestLevelEver Cool]].

** But didn't the darkness buy a one way ticket to hell and [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NaaCOHmAbR0 back?]]