This list explores the instances of which the city of Venice, Italy, has been mentioned or alluded to in various media.
Games referencing Venice
Board games
- Inkognito (1988) is a board game set in Venice.
Video games
(Alphabetical by series or game title)
- Assassin's Creed II features the city during the Renaissance Era.
- In the online game City of Heroes, the zone named "Founder's Falls" has an architectural resemblance to Venice.
- In the SNK game Fatal Fury 2, Andy Bogard's stage features Venice (with some inaccuracies, such as having the Leaning Tower of Pisa in the background) as you fight in a gondola down a canal. This is revisited in King of Fighters '96, where the Boss Team's Stage is set in Venice.
- Gears of War features a map that resembles Venice's canals
- You are able to take photographs of your tuned-up car in Gran Turismo 4 released on the PlayStation 2, in two locations in Venice, St. Marks Square, and also on a barge going under the Rialto Bridge.
- The canals of Venice are featured in the arcade racing game Hydro Thunder, in the hard-level track modeled after the city.
- The catacombs and the church of San Barnaba are visited in Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade: The Graphic Adventure.
- The Republic Of Venice is available as an initial playable faction in the game Medieval 2: Total War
- The Merchant Prince series is based on the trading and politics of Venice during the Renaissance era. The player plays one of the competing Venetian merchants trying to gain wealth and power through trades, power plays, and Machiavellian skullduggery.
- Ninja Gaiden Sigma 2 feature a city canals in chapter 6
- The first-person shooter Painkiller features a level called City On Water inspired by Venice.
- In Sid Meier's Civilization V, Venice appears as a playable nation.
- Venice is the second playable level in Sly 3: Honor Among Thieves.
- The 2006 version of Sonic the Hedgehog features a city based on Venice, Italy.
- A fighting arena based around Venice can be found in Soulcalibur. The fight takes place upon a stone platform isolated in Venice's water-filled streets. Typical residential Venice buildings are portrayed in the background of the level, although the fight does not take place in any of them.
- Venice was a location in the mobile game Subway Surfers as apart of "World Tour" updates in 2015, 2016, and 2019.
- The city of Venezia in Tales of Phantasia is modeled after Venice.
- Venice appears as a fighting arena in the first Tekken game released on the PlayStation.
- Venice is a multiplayer level in Free Radical Design's TimeSplitters: Future Perfect.
- Venice appears in Core Design's Tomb Raider 2.
- Venice by Cryo Networks is a strategy game set in 16th century Venice
- Venice is a casual game for Windows developed by Retro64
- Venetica features the city during the Renaissance Era. It is the main setting for the game.
- Voyage Century Online is a free nautical MMORPG developed by Snail Games and published by IGG, that features Venice as one of the Port Cities that can be used for commerce and exploration.
- The Sega video game House of the Dead 2 takes place in Venice.
Written works referencing Venice
Fiction (drama and literature)
(Alphabetical by author's surname)
Non-fiction
(Alphabetical by author's surname)
Poetry
(Alphabetical by author's surname)
- T. S. Eliot - "Burbank with a Baedeker: Bleistein with a Cigar" (1920)