Major Procedural Games

The following games feature procedural content generation as a main or the main feature of the game play:

• Dwarf Fortress is a fantasy world and story generator.
• Borderlands as well as its successor Borderlands 2 have extensive procedural content, particularly weapons.
• Elite and games inspired by Elite such as Infinity: The Quest for Earth and Noctis
• Rogue and its descendants such as Nethack and Angband
  • The Diablo series of games being the most well known commercial example of this genre
• Spore featured extensive use of procedural content
• Earlier games in the Elder Scrolls series of games, particularly Daggerfall
• Procedurally generated plot or narrative features in first person shooters such as Far Cry 2 and Left4Dead
• .kkrieger is an FPS in only 96 kb, using procedural generation techniques
• Many turn based strategy and real time strategy games include the ability to randomly generate maps
  • Tribal Trouble features random generation of 3d maps
  • The X-COM series used this to memorable effect.
  • Planetary Annihilation features procedurally generated planets and star systems