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King of Posters Galaxy Oddity
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I feel like Monster Party belongs here.

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the true end of cave story is my favorite hell-related gaming thing

spoilers

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Whatā€™s that SimCity 2000 clone where you build Heaven and Hell and zone for the 7 virtues and the 7 sins to house the faithful and the damned? That one. Afterlife I think it was called?

FAKE EDIT: Yes, thatā€™s the one.

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Super Metroid follows the ā€œLayer of Depths to Hellā€ kind of atmosphere pretty well, but I would have to say the first Diablo captures the ā€œessenceā€ of hell like no other.

A sorely neglected title on Blizzardā€™s part. Ohwell.

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Does Otogi count as hell enough?

Itā€™s more demons unleashed onto earth but still as hell-themed as Doom.

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Does Unholy Heights count?

Also Saints Row Get Gat out of hell
and Hell Yeah .

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Bubsy Visits the James Turrell Retrospective.

How dare you.

I wonder if itā€™d be possible to include one or more of the Silent Hill games in this category.

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I would mention that the original God of War has a level in Hades, which it really just takes as code for the cheesiest version of the Christian hell possible, but I scrubbed that game from my memory entirely so I canā€™t say this.

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Escape From Hell was a Wasteland-esque CRPG where you ironically play as an EA employee in hell. Hitler is recruitable.

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I absolutely love Afterlife but I suspect its design is flawed in a fundamental way.

Iā€™ve never even reached the requisites to build the endgame structures because as you plane grows, you end up mired in micromanaging zones, which is a nightmare to do. At some point getting past a certain amount of souls is excruciatingly slow.

Itā€™s so bad, thereā€™s actually a game mechanic that optimizes the zones for you (and costs a prohibitive amount of in-game money, so it doesnā€™t really solve anything)

And thatā€™s if you only focus on building a heaven or a hell. If you build both you have to deal with wars between angels and demons wrecking your planes in addition to all the other bullshit.

Amazing soundtrack and cool artwork, though.

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Never played it! I was an absolute nut for SC2K and always admired Afterlife from afar. Looking at it zoomed-in on those mobygames screenshots though actually make it look pretty ugly. Now that you tell me its mechanics are wack Iā€™m sort of glad I never dumped hours into it.

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Cosmology of Kyoto sends the player to hell upon death.

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