History WretchedHive / VideoGames

* Many ''VideoGame/{{Dwarf Fortress}}''es, especially the infamous LetsPlay/{{Boatmurdered}}, end up like this. While crime is not quite implemented yet, invading thieves, tantrums, insanity, [[ArtificialStupidity stupidity]], [[NoOshaCompliance accidents]], the occasional vampire, and [[VideoGameCrueltyPotential neglectful overseers]] more than make up for it.

* ''VideoGame/Cyberpunk2077'': The entire United States of America has become this by the titular year, with rampant MegaCorp corruption, evil governments, balkanized states and so on... and Night City is ''worse''.

** [[TheRez The Wapiti Indian Reservation]] is one of these ''by design'', with the U.S. government sticking the tribe on land they cannot farm, cut off from decent hunting territory, no way to find gainful employment, and ''now'' they'll be moved to an even ''worse'' place because oil has been discovered under it. [[spoiler: More than that, [[GeneralRipper the local army commander]] is hideously abusing the Wapiti, tacitly ordering assault, rape, arson, murder and ''withholding medicine from the sick'', all to provoke the tribe into a rebellion he can crush so he can look good.]]

** The city of Kamurocho is a neon-covered cesspool of crime. The streets are littered with belligerent punks looking to beat anyone for so much as looking at them funny, homelessness is so rampant that the local all-knowing InformationBroker has his own ''army'' of them, the Yakuza are always on the prowl for people to extort, beat or murder, the biggest building in town has a nasty habit of exploding every few years, any girl attracted by the bright lights and promises of fame has a good chance of running into a CastingCouch situation, and the police are all but powerless. In short, Kamurocho is a hellhole.

* If you thought [[Franchise/{{Batman}} Gotham City]] was bad, try '''[[VideoGame/BatmanArkhamCity Arkham ]]'''[[VideoGame/BatmanArkhamCity City]]. If the page image wasn't enough indication, this is a section of Gotham that's been walled off and is being used as a dumping ground for some of Gotham's most violent and dangerous criminals and supervillains. And with no guards and no rules other than "no escaping", it didn't take long to devolve into a warzone with different criminals fighting for dominance. If not for Batman, the poor political prisoners kept there for getting in Hugo Strange's way would have no hope at all.

* Jubei from ''VideoGame/BlazBlue'' directly quotes this trope in Ragna's story mode.

* ''VideoGame/TheWitcher3:WildHunt'' : Novigrad to the full extent, it is a city polluted with extreme hatred for anything non-human, serial killers, thieves, crime lords, bandits, corrupt guards, and generally the worst of humanity. Anyone that has anything to do with magic gets burnt at the stake for everyone's amusement, the city is run rampant with beggars and poor folk who must resort to thieving in order to survive, and the church of the Eternal Fire could very well be seen as the core-evil of Novigrad since their belief and hatred of magic users runs wild in the city and is solely responsible for all the sorceresses/witches/alchemists/mages/dopplers being burned at the stake, anyone who has a problem with this gets bullied and beaten or straight up butchered. Not to mention the church has the support of Radovid and his Witch-Hunters so the priests are untouchable.
* The city of Kamurocho from the ''VideoGame/{{Yakuza}}'' series. A neon covered cesspool of crime. The streets are littered with belligerent punks looking to beat anyone for so much as looking at them funny, homelessness is so rampant that the local all-knowing InformationBroker has his own ''army'' of them, the Yakuza are always on the prowl for people to extort, beat or murder, the biggest building in town has a nasty habit of exploding every few years, any girl attracted by the bright lights and promises of fame has a good chance of running into a CastingCouch situation, and the police are all but powerless. In short, Kamurocho is a hellhole.
** Other locales in the series like Sotenbori, Osaka, and Ijincho, Yokohama, aren't much better. Sotenbori is the base of operations for the Tojo's main rival, the Omi Alliance, and it has a similar collection of crooks and lowlifes as its Kansai counterpart, only more so as the Omi are more HotBlooded and belligerent than the Tojo in Kamurocho. Ijincho, meanwhile, is divided between three rival gangs who skirmish with each other frequently and is also crawling with homeless people, and it has a higher level of delinquents due to a school system with a severe bully problem.

** The backstreets play the trope straight, with [[OrganTheft organ-harvester]] being a common occupation, cannibals running gourmet restaurants, and nightly visits from the monstrous Sweepers who 'sweep the streets clean' of life. And that's all on top of the mor mundane [[MobWar Syndicates wars]], rampant murder, and other unpleasantness.

** The backstreets play the trope straight, with [[OrganTheft organ-harvester]] being a common occupation, cannibals running gourmet restaurants, and nightly visits from the monstrous Sweepers who 'sweep the streets clean' of life.

* [[FirstTown Taris]] in ''VideoGame/KnightsOfTheOldRepublic'' has this trope mixed with CrapsaccharineWorld. The upper-city on the surface is a shiny, well-kept city of CrystalSpiresAndTogas that's a pretty okay place to live... were it not run by ultra-wealthy humanocentric bigots who hoarded all the wealth to themselves, and keep the aliens down in the lower parts of the city where all the crime and grime is. Every layer reveals more and more wretchedness to the hive, from the Lower Cities being a crime-ridden craphole caught in an endless turf war between the Black Vulkars and Hidden Beks, right down to the abandoned and filthy Undercity, home to those too poor for the upper layers and infested with [[HumanoidAbomination rak]][[EvilMakesYouMonstrous ghouls]] and Gamorrean slavers. While [[TokenMiniMoe Mission]] [[BadassAdorable Vao]] has a [[ConditionedToAcceptHorror worryingly accustomed-to]] [[WideEyedIdealist opinion of the planet]], [[TheLancer Carth]] [[OnlySaneMan Onasi]] pretty much ends up telling her directly during some of their banter that of all the planets he's visited in his time as a veteran and well-traveled pilot, [[UpToEleven Taris is definitely near the bottom]]. Ultimately, [[spoiler:the city ends up being completely bombarded from orbit into rubble, making it an outright CrapsackWorld to live in for the next millennia. Whether this is a good or bad thing depends on how short-term or long-term your view on it is; by the time of the Galactic Civil War, all of the damage has been undone, [[ThrowTheDogABone and the city finally pulled itself out of this trope]]]].

--> '''Miranda:''' ''"Omega. What a a pisshole."''

* [[FirstTown Taris]] in ''VideoGame/KnightsOfTheOldRepublic'' has this trope mixed with CrapsaccharineWorld. The upper-city on the surface is a shiny, well-kept city of CrystalSpiresAndTogas that's a pretty okay place to live... were it not run by ultra-wealthy humanocentric bigots who hoarded all the wealth to themselves, and keep the aliens down in the lower parts of the city where all the crime and grime is. Every layer reveals more and more wretchedness to the hive, from the Lower Cities being a crime-ridden craphole caught in an endless turf war between the Black Vulkars and Hidden Beks, right down to the abandoned and filthy Undercity, home to those too poor for the upper layers and infested with [[HumanoidAbomination rak]][[EvilMakesYouMonstrous ghouls]] and Gamorrean slavers. While [[TokenMiniMoe Mission]] [[BadassAdorable Vao]] has a [[ConditionedToAcceptHorror worryingly accustomed-to]] [[WideEyedIdealist opinion of the planet]], [[TheLancer Carth]] [[OnlySaneMan Onasi]] pretty much ends up telling her directly during some of their banter that of all the planets he's visited in his time in the Republic army, [[UpToEleven Taris is definitely near the bottom]]. Ultimately, [[spoiler:the city ends up being completely bombarded from orbit into rubble, making it an outright CrapsackWorld to live in for the next millennia. Whether this is a good or bad thing depends on how short-term or long-term your view on it is; by the time of the Galactic Civil War, all of the damage has been undone, [[ThrowTheDogABone and the city finally pulled itself out of this trope]]]].

* [[FirstTown Taris]] in ''VideoGame/KnightsOfTheOldRepublic'' has this trope mixed with CrapsaccharineWorld. The upper-city on the surface is a shiny, well-kept city of CrystalSpiresAndTogas that's a pretty okay place to live... were it not run by ultra-wealthy humanocentric bigots who hoarded all the wealth to themselves, and keep the aliens down in the lower parts of the city where all the crime and grime is. Every layer reveals more and more wretchedness to the hive, the Lower Cities being caught in an endless turf war between the Black Vulkars and Hidden Beks, right down to the abandoned and filthy undercity, home to [[HumanoidAbomination rak]][[EvilMakesYouMonstrous ghouls]] and Gamorrean slavers. While [[TokenMiniMoe Mission]] [[BadassAdorable Vao]] has a [[ConditionedToAcceptHorror worryingly accustomed-to]] [[WideEyedIdealist opinion of the planet]], [[TheLancer Carth]] [[OnlySaneMan Onasi]] pretty much ends up telling her directly during some of their banter that of all the planets he's visited in his time in the Republic army, [[UpToEleven Taris is definitely near the bottom]]. Ultimately, [[spoiler:the city ends up being completely bombarded from orbit into rubble, making it an outright CrapsackWorld to live in for the next millennia. Whether this is a good or bad thing depends on how short-term or long-term your view on it is; by the time of the Galactic Civil War, all of the damage has been undone, [[ThrowTheDogABone and the city finally pulled itself out of this trope]]]].

* Taris in ''VideoGame/KnightsOfTheOldRepublic'' has this trope mixed with CrapsaccharineWorld. The upper-city on the surface is a shiny, well-kept city of CrystalSpiresAndTogas that's a pretty okay place to live... were it not run by ultra-wealthy humanocentric bigots who hoarded all the wealth to themselves, and keep the aliens down in the lower parts of the city where all the crime and grime is. Every layer reveals more and more wretchedness to the hive, the Lower Cities being caught in an endless turf war between the Black Vulkars and Hidden Beks, right down to the abandoned and filthy undercity, home to [[HumanoidAbomination rak]][[EvilMakesYouMonstrous ghouls]] and Gamorrean slavers. While [[TokenMiniMoe Mission]] [[BadassAdorable Vao]] has a [[ConditionedToAcceptHorror worryingly accustomed-to]] [[WideEyedIdealist opinion of the planet]], [[TheLancer Carth]] [[OnlySaneMan Onasi]] pretty much ends up telling her directly during some of their banter that of all the planets he's visited in his time in the Republic army, [[UpToEleven Taris is definitely near the bottom]]. Ultimately, [[spoiler:the city ends up being completely bombarded from orbit into rubble, making it an outright CrapsackWorld to live in for the next millennia. Whether this is a good or bad thing depends on how short-term or long-term your view on it is; by the time of the Galactic Civil War, all of the damage has been undone, [[ThrowTheDogABone and the city finally pulled itself out of this trope]]]].

* Taris in ''VideoGame/KnightsOfTheOldRepublic'' has this trope mixed with CrapsaccharineWorld - the upper-city on the surface is a pretty okay place to live... were it not run by humanocentric bigots who hoarded all the wealth to themselves, and keep the aliens down in the lower parts of the city. Every layer reveals more and more wretchedness to the hive, the Lower Cities being caught in an endless turf war between the Black Vulkars and Hidden Beks, right down to the abandoned and filthy undercity, home to [[HumanoidAbomination rak]][[EvilMakesYouMonstrous ghouls]] and Gamorrean slavers. While [[TokenMiniMoe Mission]] [[BadassAdorable Vao]] has a [[ConditionedToAcceptHorror worryingly accustomed-to]] [[WideEyedIdealist opinion of the planet]], [[TheLancer Carth]] [[OnlySaneMan Onasi]] pretty much ends up telling her directly during some of their banter that of all the planets he's visited in his time in the Republic army, Taris is definitely near the bottom. Ultimately, [[spoiler:the city ends up being bombarded from orbit into rubble, making it an outright CrapsackWorld to live in for the next millennia]].

* ''VideoGame/KnightsOfTheOldRepublic'' has this trope mixed with CrapsaccharineWorld - the upper-city on the surface is a pretty okay place to live... were it not run by humanocentric bigots who hoarded all the wealth to themselves, and keep the aliens down in the lower parts of the city. Every layer reveals more and more wretchedness to the hive, the Lower Cities being caught in an endless turf war between the Black Vulkars and Hidden Beks, right down to the abandoned and filthy undercity, home to [[HumanoidAbomination rak]][[EvilMakesYouMonstrous ghouls]] and Gamorrean slavers. While [[TokenMiniMoe Mission]] [[BadassAdorable Vao]] has a [[ConditionedToAcceptHorror worryingly accustomed-to]] [[WideEyedIdealist opinion of the planet]], [[TheLancer Carth]] [[OnlySaneMan Onasi]] pretty much ends up telling her directly during some of their banter that of all the planets he's visited in his time in the Republic army, Taris is definitely near the bottom.

* Nar Shaddaa in ''VideoGame/KnightsOfTheOldRepublicIITheSithLords'', a sprawling metropolis controlled by the Exchange, the ''Franchise/StarWars'' equivalent of the Mafia.

* ''VideoGame/Cyberpunk2077'': The entire United States of America has become this by the titular year, with rampant MegaCorp corruption, evil governments, balkanized states and so on... and Night City is ''[[UpToEleven worse]]''.

* Santa Destroy from ''VideoGame/NoMoreHeroes'' and ''VideoGame/NoMoreHeroes2DesperateStruggle''.

** [[OutlawTown The Van Horn Trading Post]] just south of Annesburg makes Thieves' Landing look like a convent, being a squalid, lawless port full of people who barely tolerate outsiders. [[ThereAreNoPolice The sheriff's office is a burnt-out ruin with squatters living in it]], and the only buildings ''not'' abandoned, boarded up are the saloon, the inn/post office, and the local fence. To drive it all home, a random event involves two people picking a fight outside the saloon. If you intervene, there's a good chance one of them will pull a gun on you. And if you pull yours to defend yourself? [[FromBadToWorse You've suddenly got]] ''[[FromBadToWorse everybody in town]]'' [[FromBadToWorse shooting at you]].

** ''The entirety of New Austin'', with the sole exception of Tumbleweed. Once you reach it, you can see why it took so long for civilization to get there.

* If you thought [[Franchise/{{Batman}} Gotham City]] was bad, try '''[[VideoGame/BatmanArkhamCity Arkham ]]'''[[VideoGame/BatmanArkhamCity City]].

*** The Pitt is a PollutedWasteland which, in addition to housing another group of slavers, is swarming with Wildmen and Trogs, former humans who have been driven insane or mutated by [[TheVirus the Troglodyte Degeneration Contagion]] resulting from the high radiation and pollution.

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** In ''VideoGame/FalloutNewVegas'', there is Nipton, which, by the time the Player gets to it, is already razed by a more (albeit [[AffablyEvil affable]]) evil entity, [[GratuitousLatin Vulpes Inculta]], after he duped the town into capturing and killing some visiting NCR troopers on leave. Freeside can also count, although nowhere near the degree of Nipton. Poverty is essentially omnipresent, most of the population is homeless, and those that aren't live in absurdly poor living conditions, and despite the efforts of the Kings and the Followers, crime is rampant to the point where drunks, addicts and general thugs assault people ''in the streets in broad daylight''. However, there are still some redeemably good people there (including the most moral faction in the game, actively trying to make the town a better place - which you can help achieve), unlike Nipton.