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 a part 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.

Fiction (drama and literature)

(Alphabetical by author's surname)

• O Colar, a play by Portuguese author Sophia de Mello Breyner Andresen
• A Beautiful Crime (2020) – Christopher Bollen^[1]
• Watermark - Joseph Brodsky
• Relief - L.E.
• Invisible Cities - Italo Calvino
• Jonathan Strange and Mr. Norrell (2004) - Susanna Clarke
• The Haunted Hotel (1878) - Wilkie Collins
• Lionboy - Zizou Corder
• Little Dorrit - Charles Dickens
• Don't Look Now - Daphne du Maurier
• In the Company of the Courtesan (2006) - Sarah Dunant
• House of Niccolo series - Dorothy Dunnett
• 1634: The Galileo Affair - Eric Flint and Andrew Dennis
• The Thief Lord (2002) - Cornelia Funke
• The Silent Gondoliers - William Goldman under the name of S. Morgenstern
• Servant of Two Masters - Carlo Goldoni
• Across the River and Into the Trees - Ernest Hemingway
• The Talented Mr. Ripley (1955) - Patricia Highsmith
• Those Who Walk Away (1967) - Patricia Highsmith
• Stravaganza: City of Masks - Mary Hoffman
• Scorpia - Anthony Horowitz
• The Aspern Papers (1888) - Henry James
• The Wings of the Dove - Henry James
• Shylock's Daughter (1997) - Erica Jong
• Volpone (1606 / 1607) - Ben Jonson
• The Shadow of the Lion - Mercedes Lackey, Eric Flint and Dave Freer
• The Thief of Venice - Jane Langton
• The Time of the Cuckoo (1951) - Arthur Laurents
• Guido Brunetti crime series - Donna Leon
• The Bravo of Venice - M.G. Lewis
• Carnevale - Michelle Lovric
• The Floating Book - Michelle Lovric
• The Mourning Emporium - Michelle Lovric
• The Remedy - Michelle Lovric
• The Undrowned Child - Michelle Lovric
• Der Tod in Venedig (Death in Venice) (1912) - Thomas Mann
• The Comfort of Strangers - Ian McEwan
• The Water Mirror (2005) - Kai Meyer
• The Venice Adriana - Ethan Mordden
• Daughter of Venice - Donna Jo Napoli
• The Rossetti Letter (2007) - Christi Phillips
• The Assignation - Edgar Allan Poe
• The Family - Mario Puzo
• Vivaldi's Virgins (2007) - Barbara Quick
• Cry to Heaven - Anne Rice
• The Vampire Armand - Anne Rice
• Venise en hiver (Venice in the Winter) - Emmanuel Roblès
• The Desire and Pursuit of the Whole - Frederick Rolfe
• Der Geisterseher (The Ghost-Seer) - Friedrich Schiller
• An Equal Music - Vikram Seth
• The Merchant of Venice (1594–97) - William Shakespeare
• Othello (1603–04) - William Shakespeare
• Mystery of Venice series - Edward Sklepowich, an American Expatriate university lecturer teaching at Sousse Faculty of Arts and Humanities.
• Watteau in Venice (1994) - Philippe Sollers
• Territorial Rights - Muriel Spark
• Miss Garnet's Angel - Salley Vickers
• Candide - Voltaire
• Brideshead Revisited - Evelyn Waugh
• The Passion (1987) - Jeanette Winterson

Non-fiction

(Alphabetical by author's surname)

• John Berendt - The City of Falling Angels
• Casanova - History of My Life
• E.V. Lucas, A Wanderer in Venice
• Francesco da Mosto - Francesco's Venice
• Francesco da Mosto - Francesco's Italy
• Jane Turner Rylands - Venetian Stories
• Jane Turner Rylands - Across the Bridge of Sighs: More Venetian Stories
• John Ruskin - The Stones of Venice

Poetry

(Alphabetical by author's surname)

• T. S. Eliot - "Burbank with a Baedeker: Bleistein with a Cigar" (1920)