History Main / PlanetHeck

* ''Spear Of Destiny'', the MissionPackSequel to ''VideoGame/Wolfenstein3D'', has its last level take place in Hell and feels somewhat like a forerunner to VideoGame/{{DOOM}}. Given how id Software decided to use this level as inspiration for their newest game after an attempt to do an ''Film/{{Aliens}}''-based FPS fell through, it sort of ''is'' one.

* Technically, ''VideoGame/GodOfWar'' involved a level in Hades [[spoiler:once the main character died]]. This happened in ''both'' games.

[[caption-width-right:250: And that's just level 2.]]

* The Reaches from ''VideoGame/TheWay''.

* The ''ShinMegamiTensei'' series have gone there so often, it's probably got a condo there.

* ''VideoGame/{{Diablo}}'', and its sequel.

* The first three ''Franchise/DevilMayCry'' games have had (near-)endgame levels set in the demon world.

* Creator/MarvelComics has Mephisto's Realm. It is not another planet so much as it is another dimension that looks like a FireAndBrimstoneHell complete with a Satan {{Expy}} who is really just a mystical being that happens to be named [[{{Faust}} Mephisto]]. For all intents and purposes, it's {{Hell}} but without the religious implications and inescapabaility, allowing the heroes the ability to punch their way out.

* ''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 over again, and this time you actually [[DidYouJustPunchOutCthulhu destroy Hell]], and afterwards idly wonder [[{{Music/Nirvana}} where bad folks will go when they die.]]

* In ''[[Franchise/MightAndMagic Might & Magic VII]]'', the Pit is a place resembling a FireAndBrimstoneHell that is a Planet Heck if your characters are allied with the Path of Light. If you're on the Path of Dark, however, the place is the PlayerHeadquarters.

* ''[[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 [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dOZS2U1TAnA for good reason]].

[[IThoughtItMeant Not]] a LighterAndSofter version of "[[Music/{{Nightwish}} Planet Hell]]."

* ''VideoGame/CaveStory'''s Sacred Grounds level, the hardest area of the game, is only accessible if you've fulfilled [[GuideDangIt a number of obscure requirements.]] Beat it to get the [[MultipleEndings best ending]]. Despite the name "Sacred Grounds", everything is dull red or orange-red and covered in spikes, and it's filled with evil angels.
** It's [[LampshadeHanging lampshaded]], too, which is the only reason it's on this page with the name "Sacred Grounds". If you head right from the entrance and drop through the floor, you can read a sign that quite literally says "WelcomeToHell!" Of course, most {{Speedrun}}ners just avoid it entirely...

* The BonusDungeon in ''VideoGame/LaPucelle Tactics.'' It's called "the Dark World" in the English translation; originally it was simply "Hell."
** ''Franchise/{{Disgaea}}'' takes place mainly inside the "Netherworld", but it has several bonus levels in alternate Netherworlds, one of which is the same one from ''LaPucelle''.

* The BrutalBonusLevel "Nebulous" in ''JetMoto 2'', which [[ToHellAndBack alternates between heaven and hell]], the hell sections are [[NintendoHard hellishly difficult]].

* ''GanbareGoemon 2'' had hell as a secret level with Dracula and Kabuki as bosses. The entrance is an amusement park apparently.

* ''VideoGame/SaintsRowGatOutOfHell'' Takes place in hell. Much of the map is recycled from previous SaintsRow games so we have a downtown hell and slums of hell etc.

* ''[[VideoGame/{{F-Zero}} 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 [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dOZS2U1TAnA for good reason]].

* The second half of ''VideoGame/SuperColumbineMassacreRPG'' has the UsefulNotes/{{Columbine}} killers being sent to Hell, which is one part [[Literature/DivineComedy 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.

* In ''[[Franchise/MightAndMagic Might & Magic VII]]'', the Pit is a place resembling a FireAndBrimstoneHell that is a Planet Heck if your characters are allied with the Path of Light. (If you're on the {Path of Dark, the place is the PlayerHeadquarters.)

* The entirety of ''{{Painkiller}}'' takes place in Purgatory, and only at the very end of the game does the player actually reach Hell itself. [[spoiler:Where you fight Lucifer amidst a diorama of man-made horrors and wars frozen in time.]]

* Mephisto's Realm in ''MarvelUltimateAlliance''.