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by danielbln 33 days ago
Which game would that be apart from Minecraft?
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Dwarf fortress, no man's sky, elite dangerous, ...

The combination of "many", "most popular", and "nothing" is overstating it by a wide margin but for example the majority of the vegetation in games as far back as oblivion was procedurally placed.

Battlefield 2 had procedural trees and terrain the year before. I think it more or less came with open world maps?
No Man's Sky, Terraria, Dead Cells, to name a few.
Dead Cells just arranges a few pre-designed rooms together for each stage, doesn't it?
If it does do that, it doesn't feel that way. I never found it particularly repetitive.
To be clear, "a few" qualified the chosen rooms that get procedurally connected for each stage. I'm confident the pools of premade rooms are rather large, although I certainly noticed some repetition back when I played.
A recent example is Megabonk, a rouge-like with procedural levels. Each run is unique but the levels have a consistent theme.