The Locked Door

CONCEPT

It's the designer's go-to guy. If they want to steer a player in a given direction they'll lock an in game door and force the player to find a way to either unlock it or find an alternate route.

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Overview

In some games locked doors will be clearly visibly different from other doors, indicating its locked state, while in others the player may have to interact with these doors to receive a text prompt telling them it is locked. Doors can be locked through conventional mechanical locks, through means of magic, or electronically. Methods to unlock doors can involve retrieving keys, using lockpicks, solving puzzles, pressing switches or entering special passwords.

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• 1001 Spikes (Game)
• 40 Winks (Game)
• 8bit Killer (Game)
• 999: 9 Hours, 9 Persons, 9 Doors (Game)
• A Plague Tale: Requiem (Game)
• AI: The Somnium Files (Game)
• Abzû (Game)
• Aggelos (Game)
• Albedo: Eyes from Outer Space (Game)
• Albion (Game)
• Alice: Madness Returns (Game)
• Alien: Isolation (Game)
• All is Dust (Game)
• Alone in the Dark (Game)
• Alone in the Dark 2 (Game)
• Alpha Prime (Game)
• Alundra (Game)
• Amberstar (Game)
• Amnesia: A Machine for Pigs (Game)
• Amnesia: Rebirth (Game)
• Among the Sleep (Game)
• Anachronox (Game)
• Antichamber (Game)
• Arabian Nights (Game)
• Army of Two: The 40th Day (Game)
• Atic Atac (Game)
• Avoid the Noid (Game)
• BS Zelda no Densetsu: Kodai no Sekiban (Game)
• Baba Is You (Game)
• Back to the Future: The Game (Game)
• Barbarian II (Game)
• Beyond Oasis (Game)
• Big Brain Wolf (Game)
• BioShock (Game)
• BioShock 2 (Game)
• BioShock Infinite (Game)
• BioShock: The Collection (Game)
• Blade (Game)
• Blair Witch (Game)
• Blake Stone: Aliens of Gold (Game)
• Blake Stone: Planet Strike (Game)
• Bloodstained: Ritual of the Night (Game)
• Borderlands 3 (Game)
• Braid (Game)
• Brain Breaker (Game)
• Brogue (Game)
• Broken Age (Game)
• Call of Cthulhu: Dark Corners of the Earth (Game)
• Call of Cthulhu: Shadow of the Comet (Game)
• Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3 (Game)
• Calling (Game)
• Captain America: Super Soldier (Game)
• Castle Crashers (Game)
• Castle Wolfenstein (Game)
• Catechumen (Game)
• Cayne: A Stasis Story (Game)
• Chex Quest (Game)
• Chex Quest 3 (Game)
• Child of Light (Game)
• Chrome (Game)
• Chrome SpecForce (Game)
• Clock Tower 3 (Game)
• Clone (Game)
• Closure (Game)
• Condemned 2: Bloodshot (Game)
• Condemned: Criminal Origins (Game)
• Conker's Pocket Tales (Game)
• Control (Game)
• Covert Ops: Nuclear Dawn (Game)
• Creepy Castle (Game)
• Croc 2 (Game)
• Croc: Legend of the Gobbos (Game)
• Crookz: The Big Heist (Game)
• Crossing Souls (Game)
• Cryostasis (Game)
• Crysis (Game)
• Crysis Warhead (Game)
• Crystal Caves (Game)
• Cuphead (Game)
• Curse of the Catacombs (Game)
• Danger Girl (Game)
• Dangerous Dave (Game)
• Dangerous Dave's Risky Rescue (Game)
• Dark Arms: Beast Busters (Game)
• Dark Messiah of Might & Magic (Game)
• Dark Savior (Game)
• Dave Goes Nutz (Game)
• Daylight (Game)
• Dead Space (Game)
• Dead Space 3 (Game)
• Deadfall Adventures (Game)
• Dementium: The Ward (Game)
• Deponia (Game)
• Descent (Game)
• Descent 3 (Game)
• Descent II (Game)
• Descent Maximum (Game)
• Despair (Game)
• Detritus: The Daemons Quest (Game)
• Deus Ex (Game)

Concept details

Name

The Locked Door

Aliases

Locked Doors

Games

• 1001 Spikes (Game)
• 40 Winks (Game)
• 8bit Killer (Game)
• 999: 9 Hours, 9 Persons, 9 Doors (Game)
• A Plague Tale: Requiem (Game)
• AI: The Somnium Files (Game)
• Abzû (Game)
• Aggelos (Game)
• Albedo: Eyes from Outer Space (Game)
• Albion (Game)
• Alice: Madness Returns (Game)
• Alien: Isolation (Game)
• All is Dust (Game)
• Alone in the Dark (Game)
• Alone in the Dark 2 (Game)
• Alpha Prime (Game)
• Alundra (Game)
• Amberstar (Game)
• Amnesia: A Machine for Pigs (Game)
• Amnesia: Rebirth (Game)
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Franchises

• Has franchises: Sonic the Hedgehog (Franchise), Super Smash Bros. (Franchise), The Legend of Zelda (Franchise), X-Men (Franchise), Wolverine (Franchise), Prey (Franchise), Half-Life (Franchise), Portal (Franchise), Call of Duty (Franchise), Modern Warfare (Franchise), Mario (Franchise), Mario & Luigi (Franchise), Mario RPG (Franchise), New Play Control (Franchise), Super Mario (Franchise), Super Mario Land (Franchise), Castle Wolfenstein (Franchise), Medal of Honor (Franchise), Wolfenstein (Franchise), Batman (Franchise), DC Universe (Franchise), Donkey Kong (Franchise), Batman: Arkham (Franchise), Metal Gear (Franchise), Metal Gear Solid (Franchise), Goemon (Franchise), Metroid (Franchise), Metroid Prime (Franchise), Touch! Generations (Franchise), Splinter Cell (Franchise), Tom Clancy (Franchise), The Chronicles of Riddick (Franchise), Duke Nukem (Franchise), Blake Stone (Franchise), Kid Icarus (Franchise), Uncharted (Franchise), Luigi's Mansion (Franchise), Mario vs. Donkey Kong (Franchise), Paper Mario (Franchise), Tomb Raider (Franchise), Zero Escape (Franchise), The Elder Scrolls (Franchise), Alan Wake (Franchise), Descent (Franchise), Skylanders (Franchise), Kingdom Hearts (Franchise), Onimusha (Franchise), King's Quest (Franchise), Resident Evil (Franchise), System Shock (Franchise), BioShock (Franchise), F.E.A.R. (Franchise), Dungeons & Dragons (Franchise), Fallout (Franchise), Professor Layton (Franchise), Hotel Dusk (Franchise), Spyro (Franchise), Maniac Mansion (Franchise), The Lost Vikings (Franchise), Crysis (Franchise), Monkey Island (Franchise), Silent Hill (Franchise), The Witcher (Franchise), Quake (Franchise), Rabbids (Franchise), Tales of Monkey Island (Franchise), Alone in the Dark (Franchise), Croc (Franchise), Doom (Franchise), Shadow Man (Franchise), Far Cry (Franchise), American McGee's Alice (Franchise), Darksiders (Franchise), Jurassic Park (Franchise), PainKiller (Franchise), Clock Tower (Franchise), Harry Potter (Franchise), Chex Quest (Franchise), Zork (Franchise), Wonder Boy (Franchise), Splatterhouse (Franchise), Serious Sam (Franchise), Call of Cthulhu (Franchise), Army of Two (Franchise), Might and Magic (Franchise), Dead Space (Franchise), Jill of the Jungle (Franchise), G.I. Joe (Franchise), Lupin III (Franchise), Fighting Force (Franchise), Borderlands (Franchise), SAW (Franchise), Wasteland (Franchise), Dark Messiah (Franchise), Battlefield (Franchise), Battlefield: Bad Company (Franchise), Scott Pilgrim (Franchise), Dementium (Franchise), Amnesia (Franchise), The Walking Dead (Franchise), Syndicate (Franchise), Serious Sam Indie Series (Franchise), Deponia (Franchise), Evil Dead (Franchise), Zombi (Franchise), Condemned (Franchise), Ghost Recon (Franchise), Yuji Horii Mysteries (Franchise), Zuma (Franchise), Barbarian Series (Franchise)

Characters

• Has characters: Jack (Character), Sora (Character), Doomguy (Character)

Locations

• Has locations: Turtle Rock (Location), Timber's island (Location), Arbiter's Grounds (Location), Bottle Grotto (Location), Catfish's Maw (Location), Cave of Flames (Location), City in the Sky (Location), Deepwood Shrine (Location), Eagle's Tower (Location), Face Shrine (Location), Goron Mines (Location), Inside Jabu-Jabu's Belly (Location), Key Cavern (Location), Lakebed Temple (Location), Snowpeak Ruins (Location), Tail Cave (Location), Temple of Droplets (Location), Temple of Time (Location), Haunted House (Location), Rogueport (Location), Destiny Islands (Location), Traverse Town (Location), Silent Hill (Location), Oublié Cathedral (Location), Ashfield (Location), Harry's Mansion (Location), The Galaxy of Terror (Location), Greenvale Sheriff's Department (Location), Wade Elementary School (Location), Befallen (Location), Najena (Location), Vex Thal (Location), Shrine of Winter (Location)

Objects

• Has objects: Switch (Object), Note Door (Object), Lock Picks (Object), Key (Object), Keyblade (Object), Boss Key (Object), Door (Object), Bobby Pin (Object), Silver Key (Object), Keypad Lock (Object), Lock (Object), Laser Fence (Object), Retinal Scanner (Object), Mystic Key (Object), Bone Crafted Key (Object), Hole Key (Object), Battering Ram (Object)

People

• Has people: Robert Pelloni (Person)

Related Concepts

• Has related concepts: Fetch Quest (Concept), Puzzle (Concept), Aggressive Door-Opening (Concept), Lock Picking (Concept), Phanto (Concept), Dungeon Crawling (Concept), Exit Door (Concept), Survival Horror (Concept), Inconvenient Malfunction (Concept), Code Writing (Concept), Dead End (Concept), Break Locks (Concept), Doors That Require Assistance (Concept)