Little Folks in Big Houses

Maybe you're a toy come to life, an alien, a victim of magical shrinking or just a bug - whatever your situation, you're small and a big old regular human-sized house (or at least part of one) is your playground. Steps are cliff-faces, rulers are bridges and pieces of string are makeshift ladders.

At least one room of a house must be a playable level/area, other types of building not included
Franchises with multiple examples combined into single entries (e.g. Toy Story, Hot Wheels, Army Men)

Suggested by Mettenhem

Two tracks:
Ribbon Road
Squeaky Clean Sprint
Specifically the Platinum Demo
Suggested by FallenGrace
Suggested by Drax

You're shrunk at the beginning of the game and a handful of minigames with household settings
Suggested by CMike (Discord)

Final level set in a kitchen
Specifically Tren, one of the Media Molecule designed games
Suggested by MendelPalace (Discord)
Suggested by zn0
Suggested by Cyborc
PS1-exclusive level Little Big World.
Suggested by MendelPalace (Discord)

"Level five has you run through a giant version of the main character's house"
Suggested by DJSCheddar

"In the terrible freeform Jaguar racing game "Club Drive" the first level is inexplicably in a giant house"
Suggested by Nico77A
Suggested by MendelPalace (Discord)
Suggested by MendelPalace (Discord)

"The whole game has a 'tiny people/big world' gimmick, but the first level specifically has you go through a house"

14 Comments


10 months ago

Great list idea. Kingdom Hearts has a level like this.

10 months ago

Minish Cap has moments where you have to be tiny in people their houses

10 months ago

okami has an area where you get shrunken down really small 0:

10 months ago

Toy Commander and Mario Party DS should fit

10 months ago

@FallenGrace Ah of course, completely forgot about Toy Story having a world in KH3 - cheers!

@Mettenem Good pick! I'd have been disappointed if the Zelda all about shrinking didn't have a level where you're small in a house

@moschidae Thanks for the suggestion! Great game but not sure it covers being small in a normal sized house

@Drax - Already have Toy Commander but completely escaped me there was even a DS version of Mario Party. Fits well with some of the mini-games I've seen, thanks!

10 months ago

At one point though dont you shrink down into the emperor's room, or something? Im pretty sure there was a whole section where you were platforming around trying to get to him while shrunk, though if its not significant enough of a level to be put on the list thats understandable... sorry i didnt elaborate more originally, i was typing on a steamdeck ^^'

10 months ago

This is a great list idea! In World of Warcraft Legion's Return to Karazhim dungeon, there's a part where you get shrunk down and are running around jumping over books and stuff. It's not... exactly a house, it's more like a run-down, formerly opulent castle. But it is a home (or used to be?).

10 months ago

Mr. Tiny Adventures

10 months ago

Playing the new MK8 Deluxe booster pack and immediately thinking about this list with the "squeaky clean sprint" track!

10 months ago

shining force 2
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gigThG51UXU
(skip to about 3:30)

10 months ago

Stuart Little 2's very similar to Toy Story 2 but you are still a little dude in a big world

10 months ago

In the terrible freeform Jaguar racing game "Club Drive" the first level is inexplicably in a giant house. Rest of the tracks are appropriately scaled

10 months ago

Thanks everyone for the suggestions! A couple of edge cases that I've ruled out as they don't feel 'housey' enough (technical term) but have added the rest.

2 months ago

Skylanders Superchargers has a level where you get shrunk down.


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