Summary

• Kingdom Hearts is a unique franchise that combines Disney and Final Fantasy elements, creating its own identity.
• The series features a variety of Disney and original worlds, with each game introducing new locations and storylines.
• With a total of 48 unique worlds across the series, Kingdom Hearts offers a ton of locations to discover.

Ah, 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:Kingdom Hearts. It truly is a franchise unlike most others. Disney an🌌d Final Fantasy mashed together, yet somehow neither of those aspects even matters in the grand scheme of it al𒉰l. Kingdom Hearts is Kingdom Hearts, and playing it is really the only way of understanding that statement.

That said, Disney does definitely get some preferential treatment over Final Fantasy, with almost every world pulled directly from Disney's IPs. However, there are quite a few Kingdom Hearts games at this point which makes it a little hard to track how many worlds there even are. So let's whip out our calculators and work it out!

Updated on June 26, 2024, by Hilton Webster: Although we're still (Im)patiently awaiting the latest entry in the Kingdom Hearts series, that doesn't mean we don't have plenty of the series to revisit, especially with its recent launch on Steam. Let's take a closer look at every world in the series, including the one entry still not found on Steam.

Kingdom Hearts - 13 Worlds

The beginning of the franchise, and arguably the purest in terms of the original premise of Kingdom Hearts. Each Disney World comes with its own gimmicks and there's a childlike whimsy to it all, free of many of Kingdom Hearts's more... eccentric elements until the endgame.

Here are🌌 all the worlds that appear in the very first game in the franchise.

• Disney Worlds
  • Wonderland, based on Alice In Wonderland.
  • Deep Jungle, based on Tarzan.
  • Olympus Coliseum, based on Hercules.
  • Neverland, based on Peter Pan.
  • Hundred Acre Wood, based on Winnie The Pooh.
  • Agrabah, based on Aladdin.
  • Halloween Town, based on the Nightmare Before Christmas.
  • Monstro, based on Pinnochio.
  • Atlantica, based on The Little Mermaid.

• Kingdom Hearts Original Worlds
  • Destiny Islands, where Sora's journey begins.
  • Traverse Town, a Kingdom Hearts original world.
  • Hollow Bastion, a Kingdom Hearts original world and the home of Final Fantasy characters.
  • End Of The World, a Kingdom Hearts original world that is, well, the nexus at the end of all worlds. Dramatic.

There's a good variety there, from classic Disney entries to a handful of original worlds too. Altogether, that comes up to 13 Worlds.

Kingdom Hearts: Chain Of Memories - 13 Worlds

Chain of Memories is a game that, sadly, can't be played in its ideal form anymore. Though the 3D remake exists in Re:Chain of Memories, the original pixel art entry for the Gameboy Advance is unrivalled in looks, and the unique card battling system works better in 2D than 3D.

You play as Riku after completing Sora's campaign, who has a much more bearable combat style in the remake.

The worlds, which are rea🍷lly just glorified recaps of Kingdom Hearts 1, are as ꧟follows.

• Disney Original Worlds
  • Wonderland, based on Alice In Wonderland.
  • Deep Jungle, based on Tarzan.
  • Olympus Coliseum, based on Hercules.
  • Neverland, based on Peter Pan.
  • Hundred Acre Wood, based on Winnie The Pooh.
  • Agrabah, based on Aladdin.
  • Halloween Town, based on the Nightmare Before Christmas.
  • Monstro, based on Pinnochio.
  • Atlantica, based on The Little Mermaid.

• Kingdom Hearts Original Worlds
  • Castle Oblivion, the hub for the entire game.
  • Traverse Town, a Kingdom Hearts original world.
  • Hollow Bastion, a Kingdom Hearts original world and the home of Final Fantasy characters.
  • Twilight Town, though this is only as a brief appearance in a cutscene.

So yeah, it is mostly just retreading old ground. You can't ignore it though either, or else you won't know why half of Organization XIII is dead by the time Kingdom Hearts 2 rolls around. Once again, including the cutscene-only Twilight Town, we have 13 Worlds.

Kingdom Hearts 2 - 16 Worlds

The most beloved eꦆntry in the series that truly defined what Kingdom Hearts is as a series, and an Action-RPG high that Square Enix has never managed to achieve since.

In many ways, Kingdom Hearts 2 is tonally quite different than the original and definitely uses its Disney Worlds more for utility than the more unique style of the original. That said, t🥂here are still some bangers in there, such as:

• Disney Worlds
  • Disney Castle, seen in the original but only in a cutscene. Fully explorable now, oversized doors and all.
  • Land Of Dragons, based on Mulan.
  • Beast's Castle, based on Beaty and the Beast. You finally get to see Beast in his natural habitat!
  • Olympus Coliseum, because no Kingdom Hearts is complete without it.
  • 100 Acre Wood, because we never get tired of the honey-loving bear.
  • Agrabah, because everyone loved it so much in the original game.
  • Atlantica, but this time as a singing world. Fitting for a Disney world at least.
  • Port Royal, the unsettlingly real-looking world based on Pirates of the Caribbean.
  • Pride Lands, based on the Lion King where Sora is revealed as a furry.
  • Space Paranoids, based on Tron where Sora is once again faced with his worst enemy - computers.
  • Halloween Town once again, this time with us actually seeing the Christmas side of it all!
  • Timeless River, which is now the only part of Kingdom Hearts in the Public Domain.
  • Hundred Acre Woods, a wonderful revisit to Winnie The Pooh.

• Kingdom Hearts Original Worlds
  • Twilight Town, fully explorable this time and the very beginning of our time with Roxas.
  • Radiant Garden, the restored form of Hollow Bastion from the original.
  • The World That Never Was, a Kingdom Hearts original that sums up the series in its entirety.

• Mysterious Tower, a small world that exists exclusively for Yen Sid to drop lore on you. It's somehow both original and based on Fantasian.

With that, we have 15 Worlds, the highest number so far.

Kingdom Hearts: Coded - 10 Worlds

Kingdom Hearts Coded is another of the wonderful entries in the series that exists exclusively as a recap entry, and one of the few games that Square Enix had no interest in even remaking. It's probably the least known game, owing possibly to the rumour that the concept was developed by a drunk Tetsuya Nomura. Anyway, here are the worlds.

• Disney Worlds
  • Wonderland
  • Olympus Coliseum
  • Agrabah
  • Wonderland
  • Atlantica

• Kingdom Hearts Original Worlds
  • Destiny Islands
  • Traverse Town
  • Castle Oblivion
  • Hollow Bastion
  • The Datascape, which is the digitised parts of Jiminy's Journal that fall between the actual worlds. Reading between the lines, if you will.

This game does, however, have the line of "It's Riku. They put bugs in him!" referring to data corruption put into an actual human. Except it's actually a replica of Riku, but Sora doesn't know that. He thinks they put data bugs in an actual person, bless his heart. That's ten Worlds, by the way.

Kingdom Hearts: Birth By Sleep - 12 Worlds

Birth By Sleep was the moment that Kingdom Hearts soared into unknown skies. It had now fully committed to its own lore rather than simply being a collaboratiඣve project between Disney and Square Enix. No, Birth by Sleep is the epitome of Kingdom Hearts - Disney characters butting their noses into a story about Light and Darkness and Heartless and Nobodies and the Power of Friendship.

Here are all of Birth By Sleep's worlds.

• Disney Worlds
  • Enchanted Dominion, based on Sleeping Beauty.
  • Dwarf Woodlands, based on Snow White.
  • Castle of Dreams, based on Cinderella.
  • Disney Town, the town that surrounds Disney Castle and is host to a series of minigames.
  • Olympus Coliseum, where Zack awkwardly flirts with Aqua. Funny he never appears again to meet Aerith.
  • Deep Space, based on Lilo and Stitch.
  • Neverland, but this time set on land rather than a ship.

• Kingdom Hearts Original Worlds
  • Land Of Departure, where our story begins and ends, with it eventually also becoming Castle Oblivion.
  • Mirage Arena, a Kingdom Hearts original World that really doesn't have much beyond being a battle arena.
  • Keyblade Graveyard, a Kingdom Hearts original world that serves as the grand finale for every character in Birth By Sleep.
  • Radiant Garden, this time as the form of Hollow Bastion before it was corrupted.
  • The Realm of Darkness, an oft-mentioned but never playable section until Aqua's grand finale.

That makes up 12 Worlds for Birth By Sleep, a respectable number for a handheld entry.

Kingdom Hearts: Dream Drop Distance - 7 Worlds

If Birth By Sleep is the point when Kingdom Hearts became fully self-indulgent, then Dream Drop Distance is the base of the iceberg. You cannot possibly imagine the events that go on in this story, and you will assuredly struggle to keep up with literally anything in Kingdom Hearts 3 if you haven't played it. You also have Pokemon.

Let's check out the worlds of this frankly bizarre game.

• Disney Worlds
  • La Cíte des Cloches, based on The Hunchback of Notre Dame with Frollo still amazingly prejudiced.
  • Prankster's Paradise, another world based on our favourite Wooden Boy, Pinnochio.
  • The Grid, another Tron world though this time based on the newer films. Hyperreal actors included.
  • Country of the Musketeers. Based on Disney's Three Musketeers, rather than the actual Three Musketeers story. Another France world.
  • Symphony of Sorcery, based on Fantasian. A fever dream of a world based on a fever dream of a film that fits wonderfully in this fever dream of a game.

• Kingdom Hearts Original Worlds
  • Traverse Town, this time massively expanded from its original Kingdom Hearts appearance.
  • The World That Never Was, a world that shows up a surprising amount of times for one that supposedly 'never was'.

This game ends with Riku becoming a keyblade m༒aster after saving his (boy)friend, Sora, while the latter is stuck as a regular ol' keyblade user once again. Dream Drop Distance comes with only seven Worlds, though that's a fair compromise considering they have to be completed by both characters.

The title has three D's. As in 3D, because it was for the 3DS.

Kingdom Hearts 3 - 10 Worlds

The long-awaited and oddly-received third mainline entry in the long-running series, Kingdom Hearts 3 put a capstone on much of the plot established up to this point, and was also Nomura's attempt to bring Final Fantasy Versus XIII back into reality. Without delving into all that, let's look at all the worlds.

• Disney Worlds
  • Olympus, though this time without the Coliseum.
  • Arendelle, based on Frozen. Yes, it has the song.
  • San Fransokyo, based on Big Hero 6. This is actually a sequel to the film.
  • Monstropolis, based on Monsters Inc. featuring Sora once again embracing his inner furry.
  • Toy Box, based on Toy Story and maybe the best Kingdom Hearts world ever.
  • The Caribbean, based on Pirates of the Caribbean except everyone is hyperrealistic this time.
  • Kingdom of Corona, based on Tangled and actually makes companions fun to have for once.

• Kingdom Hearts Original Worlds
  • The Keyblade Graveyard, because Kingdom Hearts just can't get enough of showing it off.
  • The Final World, which is...the afterlife? It's a little vague.
  • Scala Ad Caelum, the actual final world of Kingdom Hearts 3.

Kingdom Hearts 3 only came with ten Worlds,𒅌 which is easily the lowest amount of෴ any mainline entry.

Kingdom Hearts: Melody Of Memory - 47 Worlds

As you can already see from the title there, the number of worlds in Melody of Memory is just hilarious. 47 worlds. That is almost every single world in the entire series! With good reason though, as Melody of Memory is another recap game akin to Chain of Memories and Coded, except this time it's truly trying to catch the entire series.

We're not going to list every world that appears in the game because it is literally all of them. Read any other entry and realise to yourself, "Huh, that world is in Melody of Memory too!". On the flip side, the game comes with no unique worlds of its own, a first for the series!

Kingdom Hearts χ - 12 Worlds

Ah, but how could we forget Kingdom Hearts χ and its various spin-offs? It's hard to articulate exactly what this game is, but it's best to say it did a similar thing to the series as Birth By Sleep by expanding the lore in a way you simply didn't think was possible. This is set way in the past.

That's pronounced 'Cross', by the way. Contrary to Xehanort's pronunciation of 'key' or 'chi'.

• Disney Worlds
  • Dwarf Woodlands
  • Wonderland
  • Agrabah
  • Olympus Coliseum
  • Beast's Castle
  • Enchanted Dominion
  • Castle Of Dreams
  • Game Central Station, a world unique to the game based on Wreck-it Ralph. It also comes with its own sub-worlds.
    • Niceland
    • Cy-bug Sector
    • Candy Kingdom

• Kingdom Hearts Original Worlds
  • Daybreak Town, the hub of the game and the world that would in time become Scala Ad Caelum.

Kingdom Hearts χ comes with nine worlds, or 12 if you count the sub-worlds of Game Central Station.

How Many Worlds Are Revisited?

While Kingdom Hearts likes to break new ground with each entry and include new worlds from Disney's ever-expanding media empire, nostalgia plays a large role in both corporate monopolisation and Kingdom Hearts' own themes. So you can bet more than a few worlds are revisited.

Let's get a nice listing here of every world that reappears, and how many times it does pop up across the series.

Due to the recap games, every world appears at l😼east twice so those will be discounted for the sake of clarit♐y.

Some worlds, as you can see, appear quite a few times, though there is a clear stand out in Olympus Coliseum with a grand total of seven appearances, and even more if you count the recap games. It's hilarious that it reappears more than Sora's own home world.

How Many Worlds In Total?

So, stretching across the whole series, how many unique worlds does that present to us? That makes up a total of 48 unique Worlds, or 51 if counting Game Central Station's sub-worlds.

And which game has the most worlds? That prize goes to Melody of Memory with a staggering 47 worlds. Though considering all of them are revisited worlds, the real award goes to Kingdom Hearts 2 with 15 Worlds.

And finally, which world is the most recurring in the series? Surprising no one, that would be Olympus which is only absent from two games.

And for now, that's our total. Of course, Kingdom Hearts shows no signs of ending, and Disney has no sign of slowing down its monopolisation. So for now, the potential worlds in Kingdom Hearts are endless.