10 Tiny But Excellent Open World Maps In Video Games

8. Bullworth - Bully

Rockstar Games are absolutely not known for creating tight but enormously effective maps of late, but they used to be. They still make beautiful game worlds thriving with life, secrets, and things to do, but they’re anything but little.

Not so for the fictional town of Bullworth and the primary location Bullworth Academy that sets the scene of Rockstar’s 2006 action-adventure Bully.

Due to its small size the game world feels completely alive. Wherever you are wandering in the boarding school you can hear kids talking, arguing, going about their days, and altering their routines based on what time it is. You have so much freedom about how you want to interact with the world but the world also logically reacts back. If you skip class you get in trouble, and the school does close at the end of the day. The music is excellent, there’s something interesting to see or do around every corner, and because it’s so densely packed in a small package, it genuinely feels like there’s little to no filler.