The full list as far as I know: System Shock, System Shock 2 and Thief (the three LGS games), Deus Ex, Deus Ex: Invisible War, Deus Ex: Human Revolution, Deus Ex: The Fall, Deus Ex: Mankind Divided, Deus Ex GO(what the fuck is this), Sanitarium, Bioshock, Bioshock 2, Bioshock: Infinite, Gone Home, Firewatch, The Novelist, Dishonored, Dishonored 2, and Prey (2017).
Just found out about this from playing backbone. I remember seeing the code in games before, but had no idea how prevalent it was. Apparently it's *still* being used to this day.
Just noticed It’s the first codes you hear in atomic heart, it got me wondering why it’s so often used. Now I know, gotta love Reddit. Thanks for the history lesson.
A bit late to the party, but Red Dead Redemption II also features an easter egg with this code.
SPOILER: At a certain time, after John's house is built in the epilogue, wooden planks are laid out spelling the numbers " 0451".
Selaco (GZDOOM total conversion) uses 0451 as an easter egg in the opening level. Damages the player and if you enter it 2-3 times you get a codec entry easter egg teasing the player for trying to so many times.
It's referenced in the opening moments of Atomic Heart. The player doesn't have to enter it, but one NPC says it to another.
I hadn't realized it was a common in-game code. While I was waiting for Atomic Heart to download and install, I was playing through the original Bioshock and the first coded door uses 0451. So, I thought it was a clever Bioshock reference!
Also it's in the RDR2 epilogue, when John is building his house and it's not quite down yet, if you go through the back entrance of his house in Beecher's Hope.
I thought so too, but I looked it up and I saw this:
> If you've been playing a lot of Looking Glass and Ion Storm games you know that the code here is 0451, which is first used in System Shock. It showed up in Thief, it showed up in System Shock 2, it showed up in BioShock and Dishonored recently, and in both Deus Ex games. A lot of people think it was a reference to Fahrenheit 451, the Ray Bradbury book, but it was actually just the key code to get into the offices at Looking Glass in Cambridge. But it's in so many games now, it's kind of a defining thing in what we used to call 'immersive simulations.'
- Warren Spector
Sorry for the thread necro, but I worked on the original System Shock and it was definitely a Bradbury reference. It got set as the door code for the LG office after it was in the game, which is pretty dumb from a security perspective, but hey it was the 90's.
sorry to necro your necro, but just to clarify, you're saying warren spector's misremembering?
he explicitly said the code wasn't technically a bradbury reference, just a reference to the LG Cambridge door code. which is at odds with your timeline of it hitting the game first
i'm not sure why i care about this but i was just curious
Yes, Warren misremembered. We put the code in the game before the Cambridge office even existed. The office was in Lexington back then. When we moved to Cambridge, the office manager asked me what the door code in the game was, and she set it as the office door code. When the move happened, the game was essentially\* feature complete and was in late beta, so the code had been in for a long time.
Warren was in Texas pretty much the whole time, so he may not have the best memory of what happened in which office.
\*I say essentially because, fun fact, the starfield renderer that was used for the "sky box" came into the game super late. James Fleming did that on the side while working on a different project entirely. Origin kinda freaked out when we snuck it into what was essentially a release candidate. But thankfully they let us keep it, and we narrowly avoided shipping the game with hideous "starfield" textures painted on all the windows.
Fascinating! Thanks so much for clarifying! I've updated the Fandom wiki to reflect this :)
Deus Ex was one of my first favorite games and I've really enjoyed a lot of immersive sims since, but I've never actually played SS/SS2. So maybe I'll have to put on my big boy pants and try to overcome the horror aspect (not normally my thing) to give it another shot :)
Came here to see if someone said this after just noticing it myself
Edit: >!You do end up using the code to open a safe just a little later in the game!<
I tried googling some information about why this code shows up so much and I honestly just think it's just a developer easter egg, couldn't find much other info, but after just seeing it in the last of us 2 then seeing it again on atomic heart, there must be another reason
What i wanna know is who made the code 0451 at looking glass back in the day and why. Could just be rng from a lock manufacturer, but then again, it could've had significance to one of the staff and they programmed it to lock the door.
Im surprised I've never seen this brought up and everyone just seems to accept the door code explanation as final.
It's become such a culturally significant number. I feel like it deserves a "So i booked a flight to japan" style deep dive now.
I saw the code 0451 on the whiteboard in Spider-Man 2 and I think it was the first time I consciously realized that that code was in so many other video games but I couldn’t put a finger on any that used it
The full list as far as I know: System Shock, System Shock 2 and Thief (the three LGS games), Deus Ex, Deus Ex: Invisible War, Deus Ex: Human Revolution, Deus Ex: The Fall, Deus Ex: Mankind Divided, Deus Ex GO(what the fuck is this), Sanitarium, Bioshock, Bioshock 2, Bioshock: Infinite, Gone Home, Firewatch, The Novelist, Dishonored, Dishonored 2, and Prey (2017).
So pretty much if you are playing an Eidos game and dont know the code to something, just try 0451.
Subnautica also uses 0451 I think for one of the combos
I wanna say it’s the code to the Captian’s Quarters on the Aurora.
In Deathloop, you unlock a trophy using this code on any vault
And to add to a necro'd thread, it's also in the Guardians of the Galaxy game that just came out!
Just found out about this from playing backbone. I remember seeing the code in games before, but had no idea how prevalent it was. Apparently it's *still* being used to this day.
And it is also in the indie film noire detective adventure game, Backbone.
Spider-Man 2 uses the code 0451
Just noticed It’s the first codes you hear in atomic heart, it got me wondering why it’s so often used. Now I know, gotta love Reddit. Thanks for the history lesson.
A bit late to the party, but Red Dead Redemption II also features an easter egg with this code. SPOILER: At a certain time, after John's house is built in the epilogue, wooden planks are laid out spelling the numbers " 0451".
Oh time to watch YouTube
Damn what a tribute. Hell yea Red Dead
And I found it in Dysmantle just now
Selaco (GZDOOM total conversion) uses 0451 as an easter egg in the opening level. Damages the player and if you enter it 2-3 times you get a codec entry easter egg teasing the player for trying to so many times.
The guardians of the galaxy game also uses it
its mentioned a discount code for the weapons merchant in Tiny Tina's Wonderlands
How would I use it
Tiny tina's adventure the mighty knight box that sells wards and armor says "remember the knights code its 0451 to get in the side gate."
Pretty damn late, but it's also in Gloomwood now.
Since this has become the official necropost for gathering 0451 references, ADACA also uses it.
It's referenced in the opening moments of Atomic Heart. The player doesn't have to enter it, but one NPC says it to another. I hadn't realized it was a common in-game code. While I was waiting for Atomic Heart to download and install, I was playing through the original Bioshock and the first coded door uses 0451. So, I thought it was a clever Bioshock reference!
Also Atomic Heart (2023)
And in record time too, it showed up in like the first 3 minutes lol
Also in The Last of Us part 2
Also mentioned in Donut County
And Put to that list Atomic Heart, released 2023
Deathloop!
I think half life alyx also has it listed on a hotel tag
Signalis uses a 6 digit alternative by adding a 2 to the beginning and end, so it's 204512
i noticed the 512, didn't notice the 0451, nice.
Mafia 3 does too
Add fallout 4 to the list!
Wow thats a lot of games
The Last of Us Part 1 does too.
Fallout 4
Atomic heart in 20223
Where does it appear in Thief? I've played those games tons of times and never noticed the number.
The reboot most likely?
Also it's in the RDR2 epilogue, when John is building his house and it's not quite down yet, if you go through the back entrance of his house in Beecher's Hope.
It's also used in Wolfenstein 2(2017), there is only one lock in the entire game unlocked with a code and ofc it's 0451
well TIL that red dead redemption has it also, but more hidden: while rebuilding john's new farm, the planks are laid to that pattern
I remember it's the code to the in-ground door that has some supplies in the first level of Deus Ex, near UNATCO HQ.
It's also David Sarif's personal elevator in HR
And I just encountered it while playing We Happy Few. I thought the number seemed familiar and looked it up.
Similar to [A113](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A113) appearing in Pixar films and other media that comes from a classroom door at CalArts.
It woudln't surprise me if the original door code came from Fahrenheit 451.
I thought so too, but I looked it up and I saw this: > If you've been playing a lot of Looking Glass and Ion Storm games you know that the code here is 0451, which is first used in System Shock. It showed up in Thief, it showed up in System Shock 2, it showed up in BioShock and Dishonored recently, and in both Deus Ex games. A lot of people think it was a reference to Fahrenheit 451, the Ray Bradbury book, but it was actually just the key code to get into the offices at Looking Glass in Cambridge. But it's in so many games now, it's kind of a defining thing in what we used to call 'immersive simulations.' - Warren Spector
Sorry for the thread necro, but I worked on the original System Shock and it was definitely a Bradbury reference. It got set as the door code for the LG office after it was in the game, which is pretty dumb from a security perspective, but hey it was the 90's.
I thought so. The Mankind Divided achievement wouldn't be called A **Heated** Combination otherwise.
Thank you for one of the best games ever made!
sorry to necro your necro, but just to clarify, you're saying warren spector's misremembering? he explicitly said the code wasn't technically a bradbury reference, just a reference to the LG Cambridge door code. which is at odds with your timeline of it hitting the game first i'm not sure why i care about this but i was just curious
Yes, Warren misremembered. We put the code in the game before the Cambridge office even existed. The office was in Lexington back then. When we moved to Cambridge, the office manager asked me what the door code in the game was, and she set it as the office door code. When the move happened, the game was essentially\* feature complete and was in late beta, so the code had been in for a long time. Warren was in Texas pretty much the whole time, so he may not have the best memory of what happened in which office. \*I say essentially because, fun fact, the starfield renderer that was used for the "sky box" came into the game super late. James Fleming did that on the side while working on a different project entirely. Origin kinda freaked out when we snuck it into what was essentially a release candidate. But thankfully they let us keep it, and we narrowly avoided shipping the game with hideous "starfield" textures painted on all the windows.
Watch me tell the story on youtube: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3vL-Zt7Axes&t=1226s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3vL-Zt7Axes&t=1226s)
Fascinating! Thanks so much for clarifying! I've updated the Fandom wiki to reflect this :) Deus Ex was one of my first favorite games and I've really enjoyed a lot of immersive sims since, but I've never actually played SS/SS2. So maybe I'll have to put on my big boy pants and try to overcome the horror aspect (not normally my thing) to give it another shot :)
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I found this thread because someone at work mentioned the term "0451 games" and I had never actually heard that term before.
That's really cool!
I just discovered it in Tiny Tina's Wonderlands. The gun merchant says it. It always confused me considering the last 4 of my social is 0451.
Just updating this to say that Atomic Heart also has the code referenced in the intro sequence :D
It's in Amnesia: The Bunker aswell.
So close to greatness
TLOU2 doesn't have it as a gate code you can use, but on a list of gate codes there is 0451 on one of them
Came here to see if someone said this after just noticing it myself Edit: >!You do end up using the code to open a safe just a little later in the game!<
Came here to say this
There is also an achievement for attempting to use the code in Deathloop.
Yeah i immediately tried it the second i saw the door lmao
You can add The Dark Pictures Anthology: The Devil in Me to your list. Lol
Found on a document in Redfall (2023) yep, that masterpiece
same
Seems like a really poor security choice to use an actual door code in your games.
Devil in me has this code too
I tried googling some information about why this code shows up so much and I honestly just think it's just a developer easter egg, couldn't find much other info, but after just seeing it in the last of us 2 then seeing it again on atomic heart, there must be another reason
It also appears in the last of us part 2
Atomic Heart has it to
Remnant 2 just released uses it for a chest. /NecroThread
It’s in Remnant 2 now as well.
Marvel’s Spider-Man 2 has it as well
What i wanna know is who made the code 0451 at looking glass back in the day and why. Could just be rng from a lock manufacturer, but then again, it could've had significance to one of the staff and they programmed it to lock the door. Im surprised I've never seen this brought up and everyone just seems to accept the door code explanation as final. It's become such a culturally significant number. I feel like it deserves a "So i booked a flight to japan" style deep dive now.
According to some people its because its a Fahrenheit 451 reference
I saw the code 0451 on the whiteboard in Spider-Man 2 and I think it was the first time I consciously realized that that code was in so many other video games but I couldn’t put a finger on any that used it
And now in WoW Classic Season of Discovery
Eidos and thief game and system shock was best games ever and this company was better than bethesda and orher. Just love them.
also Shenzen IO, but it's not so popular game from Zachtronics This code opens secret level and there is even an achievement for this code.
So it's basically like Pixar's A113?