few (with only very small maps available), so most players actually never figured it out. If by "very small" you mean "obviously shows Crimea, the Black Sea and the Caucasus" (e.g. a good chunk of southern Russia and Ukraine). Video Games City of Heroes has a weird version of this: much of the game's plot revolves around an alien invasion from a world in a parallel dimension. Which turns out to be an alternate version of Earth, where humans have been heavily modified into killing machines. The ending of Illusion of Gaia reveals that the game took place on Earth all along, but just the the cause of evolution had been altered by Dark Gaia. In Drakengard 's bonus ending, Caim and his dragon chase the queen beast into another dimension, but that dimension happens to be modern-day Tokyo. It's still an alien dimension to Caim, and this is illustrated by the fact that Tokyo is entirely in black and white. Just being on this page is a massive spoiler for the following game. Solatorobo. Web Comics This is reversed in Dawn of Time . At first it appears to take place in the past, with the addition of the cavegirl-alongside-dinosaurs Flintstones device. However, as more of the world is shown through the story it's revealed that there are large cities, more advanced technology, and trading routes, showing that the world is more of an alternate universe. It's just Dawn who's incredibly primitive and possibly not even human. Possibly subverted