Rules: only places that don’t exist, so no “NY from Spider-Man” also if you can limit to a building or little town, not an entire city or map.
My pick: The Spencer Mansion from 1996 Resident evil. I always loved that place. Of course without the creatures.
That garden of sleepy flowers from every JRPG
Something I haven’t seen mentioned: there were a lot of tracks in the original Need For Speed III: Hot Pursuit and its immediate sequels that looked like nice areas.
Aladin’s Castle 1980
The fictionalised Celeste Mountain in Celeste. Though it is a real location, the real place doesn’t have dashing, abandoned cities, hotels and temples, feathers that allow you to fly, or anything else the game has.
So, I’d like to see things I ain’t ready to see. That’s kind of my life story.
citadel, mass effect
Same.
Do avoid the elevators and take the stairs
Plainsong - Horizon Forbidden West
Agrarian society built after the major extinction event and with no need or desire for capitalism? Yes please.
One time I was playing The Talos Principle in VR and I just took a minute to lay down under some trees
Stardew Valley would be calming and escapist. Skellige from The Witcher 3 would be beautiful, but I probably wouldn’t live long there.
Well I guess that disqualifies Belle Epoque Paris from AC Unity.
Would love to visit the space station from Prey. On the condition the Typhon have been exterminated of course. It’s such a beautiful map and I loved cleaning up my makeshift base of operations in the main lobby.
night city, stardew valley or red dead 2
Riven
Martinaise
Stardew Valley
Their country is at war though and it’s not clear how much it affects people outside the valley.
But they’d be inside the valley.
Wait until the enemy hears about this billionaire living there…
The quarry from Control.
I’m sorry sir, but skyrim belongs to the nords. May I interest you in a ticket to the imperial city instead?
