Video-game biomes

[Whiny-Butthurt-Liberal]

Let's make a list of biomes/environments/areas/worlds that are found in video games (mostly RPGs, platformers, open-world types games, etc). Let's keep them meaningfully broad and avoid autism (e.g. "forest" already includes temperate forest, jungle, rainforest, etc). Very helpful if you can provide an example of an exceptional/creative rendition of any previously-mentioned biome.

1. Grasslands, a.k.a. the boring tutorial level with no personality.
2. Forest (tall trees, woodland creatures, etc.)
3. Lake world (beautiful fresh water lakes with some land here and there(
4. Ice world (tundra, polar environment, aurora borealis)
5. Fire world (volcano, magma, lakes of fire, probably the least variety and the biggest eyesore)
6. Desert (sand, sand, and more sand, ruins in the sand, sand dunes, etc)
7. Mountains (climbing, rocks, avalanches, winds).
8. Urban (some New York-type city, skyscrapers, cars, rain, etc)
9. Disgusting food worlds that Nintendo keeps putting in its stupid Mario games (a world made of food items, juice jungle, fruit world, etc)

 

[Egosphere]

Some locations in Morrowind don't line up with any of the above (unless you label mushrooms as 'tall trees')

Dungeons?

 

[Nano]

10. Music world.

 

[Somberlain]

Japanese high schools

 

[Unkillable Cat]

Mines
Sewers
Cloud cities

Some spergers may argue that the above biomes aren't "broad enough", but they've been used so many times they're almost guaranteed to appear in a game of any decent size.

Corruption - A normal landscape that's been corrupted by some malign presence. Wrongly colored scenery, blood/ichor dripping from everything, lone eyes staring out from places where they shouldn't be, the laws of physics generally not bothering to come in to work, etc.

 

[HoboForEternity]

inside a giant monsters/living things/random biomass

 

[Neanderthal]

Coasts: Cliffs, beaches, crashing waves and all that.

Extra dimensional prisons or sanctuaries, possibly with Escher architecture or more likely stars in the background.

 

[Whiny-Butthurt-Liberal]

Some locations in Morrowind don't line up with any of the above

That's because Morrowind was done on mushrooms.