VIDEO GAME Maps Size Comparison | 3D 

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"we want bigger game maps!" game devs: "did someone say 80% water?"

What this actually makes me realize is how small most game worlds are but how good a job the developers do at making them FEEL vast.

Best evidence that "Bigger isn't better." Interaction with the world is what's most important in these maps.

Man shout out to the developers for building entire fictional country size maps that’s actually insane

It's so interesting how a map 4× smaller than other maps can feel 10× bigger by being filled with actual content

Weird how game maps always feel so huge, almost limitless when you first play it but when you get used to it you're like "ah yes, I shall run across the whole map in ten minutes"

I think what would help us comprehend the sizes of these maps is to have real world cities and countries as a comparison, so that we can appreciate and learn just how large some of these maps really are.

I wish I could re-like this video every time I re-watch it. So amazing

At the end of the day it’s how fast your character moves across the map

Pokemon GO is pretty big, isn´t it?

God, i remember waking around Guild Wars Nightfall back in the day. Took forever as you had to actually *walk* everywhere 😅

I wonder how much larger places like skyrim and fallout would be if you factored in buildings that are way larger on the inside than the outside. Or if it counted second floors because there's more liveable space there. Like nobody has ever actually calculated the total square footage of all of New York's buildings. Some really tall cities probably have more square feet of liveable space than some of the smaller states.

I find it’s not about the size of the map, it’s about how well-populated it is. I would take a small and intricate map over a big and empty one.

Company: We have a 400 square kilometre map in our game Map: **is 80% ocean**

For the record, that No Man's Sky map number in words is three sextillion, one hundred and seventy quintillion SQUARED. Which is 1.00489e+45 or in long form: 1,004,890,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000 which has 46 zeroes at the end. Aka a quindecillion

Kingdom Come Deliverance seems here between all the other maps small, but It feels 100x bigger because of all that details and content that is hidden in the map!

If anyone's curious, Elden Ring is roughly 79 square kilometers, slightly larger than BotW.

I think its crazy that Unity's map is the smallest on this list but feels so big and detailed when you're actually exploring it.

I can't say how grateful I am for the developers that they did a lot of work for us.❤

Surprised to see some of the older games so high up. Also surprised to see the Bethesda games so small. I guess Bethesda's maps are just so full of stuff, it makes them seem bigger, as opposed to the witcher, where theres just lots and lots of trees. Very cool infographic

Every time I see a bigger map in the bottom of the screen I get progressively more terrified.

Camera : *goes to minecraft* Me : wants to close the video Camera : *there is another*

The crew was amazing. Loved every bit of it. Hope it can get a remaster some day.

Just cause 2 had a pretty big map and was my favourite game when I first started pc gaming

Zooms out so fast* :Wtf is this game? : Oh it’s minecraft.. ofcourse.

Minecraft: My map is ∞. No Man's Sky: My ∞ is bigger than yours.

I like that those last two are the only ones I was thinking of besides daggerfall :)

WOW !!! Amazing to see the comparison. Makes me wonder how big EVE Online, Elite Dangerous & Star Citizen would be LOL.

San Andreas is so impressive when you consider the year (2004) and how rich of details, activities and explorable interiors the map is

By that scale, Minecraft's map unrolled at lightspeed

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love the way this was presented

Mad props to the guy who went this far out of bounds to rec this.

So many of these games are "wide as an ocean, deep as a puddle."

Where tf is rdr2 map?

I’m most amazed with Breath of the Wild. The amount of content by just walking a few minutes in this world is incredible.

It's interesting to see how disproportionate some maps are to others. While some games span a whole continent, another game will span a single city that is nonetheless larger than the other game's entire continent.

Other factors that come to mind as important: Size of player character relative to the units used here, Speed of the player character, density of content, Amount of map that is playable rather than "out of bounds", etc.

I miss Ultima Online in this list... not sure how large the map is, but feels larger than some of these at least!

Players: we want big maps! Devs: All I can do is water.

They’re all so cool! I love huge worlds! **Opens map and clicks fast travel** 😂

Gta 6 joined the chat 💀

I don't think GW:Nightfall map is that big. It's got some big zones, but end to end, the map isn't more than 10km. 38,500km^2 is a bit much. The zones themselves aren't more than 10 square km each. Now it would be interesting to see how big ESO's Tamriel map would rate, but they have a scale problem with some of their zones. Some don't look big, but are expansive, and others that do look big, are actually small. A GW2 Tyria map might be interesting to see in comparison, though.

**When you realize Microsoft Flight Simulator 2020 is now bigger than Daggerfall**

Microsoft Flight Sim always gets left out. It's been a 1:1 Earth for decades now. That was really impressive on Windows 98.

It would be good to give not only km 2 but also Gb memory map to make a better comparision, and dont forget to start with old map of spectrum games or amiga.

The lord of rings being that massive is incredible for a 2007 game, also horses are too slow compared to the size and swift (instant) travel to different parts of the map unlock when you visit stables by yourself or by spending money

Just like to remind you, bigger isn’t always better. There’s no point in having a massive open world with nothing to do. Sometimes, smaller maps can be better because the content is more concentrated.

You should include Google Maps

It still amazes me how big fallout 4 feels even though it’s 10km

From No mans sky , Elite Dangerous is a 1:1 scale of the whole milky way galaxy

I think this video really shows that “bigger” does not always mean “better.”

Honestly it feels wrong to have procedurally generated maps on this list, the other maps were hand crafted which makes there sizes an even more impressive feat.

Minecraft : We have the biggest map No Man's Sky : Hold our bear

This could be a great No Man's Sky ad if it literally zoomed out into a whole Galaxy scene

Who else kept getting surprised by how many older open world games had bigger maps than most modern ones?

This video is made with a quality that touches an old gamer heart

Honestly thia muaic got me relaxed and im fried 😂😂

If you look closely. All of those maps are actually on the wall of Mario’s Never Ending Stair Case

Interesting how the racing games on this list are way larger than I realized. It makes sense because you aren't regularly traveling at 80 mph through the rest of the maps

the last one is dope!!!!

I was thinking that most of these maps are small, but I realised that nobody wants to spend hours on traveling during the quests. For example: RDR2 that has huge and beautiful map and landscapes had some negative opinions that traveling is through the map is quite tiring (for me personally that is sometimes true, especially carring hunted animals). Just think about it - if we have map 30km long, and our character moving about 10 km/h, going across whole map in striaght way take us 3h, but in most of cases there are mountains, rivers etc. so our path isn't straight. I mean - huge map is a lot of fun, but in most of games is totally unnecessary, and generate more costs for producents, and a lot of frustration for some players (especially if you have to repeat few times a mission where you can't avoid long travels...). So bigger map doesn't mean better game.

Yeah but the scaling is what’s important, and how effectively they fill the map. Like Dying Light 2 doesn’t feel like a MASSIVE MAP (still large) but it is filled with a lot to do, so it feels larger

Me before watching this: wow, GTA V is so big omg. Me after: ah yes, minecraft.

Runescape should have definitely been here, considering it's probably the biggest out of all of them in this video (except of course for Minecraft). Total War Warhammer 3 should also probably been included as well.

What is about Commodore 64's Elite. There were 9 galaxies in 64kB...

It doesn’t matter how big a map is, if it’s completely empty and void. Breath of the wild has a pretty good sized map and has so much stuff to see and explore. But then you have other maps that are insanely huge with absolutely nothing to do.

i would rather the city maps be smaller with the trade of being able to enter every building.

The ending was perfect- the whole time I was like I wonder what a no man’s sky map would look like

It's amazing to me because RuneScape has a map size of apx 4.1 km^2 (not including undergrounds), but feels bigger than some of these other games I've played.

When I saw burnout paradise's map I first thought "no way, it feels smaller than skyrim!" then I remembered you're in a car and not on foot lol.

Alot of these “large” maps are not scaled properly and are largely water. (Yes I understand some games like AC-Black Flag you have water travel capabilities).

Light no fire will be interesting on this chart when it comes out.

It is not all about how big the map is, it is about how vibrant and full of live a map feels to the user.

It is also about how much of the map is worth exploring: how detail rich the environment is, how many treasures and hidden items are worth finding, also there is the vertical aspect which platform heavy games greatly benefit from and that you will not find in games like Operation Flashpoint or Test Drive Unlimited.

It's weird to think Skyrim and San Andreas are so similar in size - Skyrim feels so much larger, but I suppose as others have pointed out it's about the speed you move through the map. Planes and cars versus horseback at best.

It just warmed my heart to see the The Elder Scrolls II: Daggerfall was represented here, and still one of the largest game maps even after all these years.

How is it that some of these games have smaller maps yet seem larger..? I assume it has to do with scale

Like your editing 😊

i love how the bethesda game's maps only got bigger the further back you went

I find it funny how despite Skyrim and Daggerfall looking about the same size in official maps, they are extremely differently sized in the games.

Great information always wanted to know that I'm curious about GTA

This map is goated ive memorized it its so big sometimes it takes me hour to reach from place to place realistic but not thaaaaaat bigggg its just cool

While this is very interesting to see, there's so many factors to also consider. How much of a map is just barren desert or sea, how much of a map is actually populated with things to do. How much of a map you can actually traverse.

Some of the biggest are mostly sea or unexplorable zones -.-

This need an update version! Didn't search for one. Asheron's Call, my first MMO and addiction. Good memories.

TDU definitely felt like a huge map.

This comment section: "Water should not count as map area" No man´s sky: Has 99,9% of map made of empty space. BTW, No man´s sky ir really dope now

Me waiting for Minecraft: “AND THERE IT IS! THE BIGGE- oh shit forgot about No Man’s Sky.

Elder scrolls arenas map size is also insanely huge, like australia type beat

Wow, it's interesting how some of these older games have bigger maps than some newer games, but it looks like it depends on the processing and graphical limitations and art styles used in them too. Like you can have a very simple shaded art style which doesn't use a lot of processing and lets you make a massive world mad, or what some of these games so, just go up the butt with a super realistic art style that just starts eating your processing power at an absurd rate.

The whole video i was like: - i've played that game - i love that game - i know that game . . . - Never heard of that one - when did that one came out? - is that even a game?

Botw has always stood out to me as having a great map, because you can pick any spot on the map, it can look like the emptiest most deserted area ever, and you can still find things to do there! I also like that the way the map was planned out, you can see huge landmarks in the distance, they don't render at a certain distance away, you can see Divine Beasts from aaalll the way across the map, and I think that's really cool!

I just checked it out and minecraft's map is actually 3.6T square kilometre's big (60M x 60M ÷ 1000 = 3,600,000,000,000(the minecraft world isn't 30M x 30M because of negative and positive coordinates) so idk if its wrong or outdated (no hate or anything this video was really interesting and must have taking a lot of time and effort to put together, keep up the god work 👍)

Wow I really didn’t expect there to be a world bigger than Minecraft

How far can you travel in this game? Minecraft: Yes No mans's Sky: Hold my planets

It’s a little weird to be measuring No Man’s Sky in square units.

04:17 - Asheron's Call (1999) I don't think most people appreciate this game's Open World. There were no load screens above ground. All the cities were open to the world. If too many players were in one city they had a mechanic called a "Portal Storm" that would make random characters in town start glowing pink & be teleported a distance away into the surrounding countryside...possibly dying. You could run from one side of the map to the other nonstop without a single loadscreen. It took hours. The only fast travel was a series of SG1 type portals that sent you to certain fixed points so you had to plan your trips to include overland travel to portals. They even had a dungeon called 'The Subway' that held a bunch of portals. Most amazing MMORPG ever.

I once measured a continent in World of Wacraft by walking it. From coast to coast it was like 3 km. The walk was still like 30 min or so.