Secrets

Video game concept

Various secret locations are scattered across the levels with possibly helpful but non-vital items or other objects await plundering. Often accompanied with a notice that you've found a secret.

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games

platforms

Alternate names: Secret locations, Secret caches

Quake II

BEOS 1998-01-06

Amok

DOS 1996-10-31

Magicka

WIN 2011-01-26

Shattered Origins: Guardians of Unity

WIN 2011-04-06

NyxQuest: Kindred Spirits

WIN 2010-09-27

WIN 1997-06-22

NES 1988-09-27

WIN 2011-04-29

WIN 2015-01-27

WIN 2013-09-26

WIN 2010-01

NES 1986-12-15

Related:
* Secret tasks

See also (may or may not lead to secrets): illusory walls, invisible platforms

Child groups

Mandatory secrets, Secrets: Tasks, Secrets: Levels, Secrets: Discover by Falling, Secrets: Discovered by finding specific spots, Harmful secrets, Secrets: Invisible, Disguised triggers, Meta secrets

Games by year

The first Secrets video game was released on March 1980.

Nintendo, Activision and Bethesda Softworks published most of these games.

Platforms

Windows		194
Linux		159
Mac OS X		41
NES		28
PS3		26
X360		24
MS-DOS		23
PS2		8
SNES		8
BSD		8
GameCube		7
Wii		7
GB		7
Xbox		6
Famicom Disk System		6
PS		6
N64		6
Wii U		5
GBC		5
C64		5
ZX Spectrum		5
3DS		5
GBA		5
BeOS		4
Amiga		4
Atari ST		4
Atari 2600		4
MSX		3
MSX2		3
Pandora		3

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