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- The Witcher Series. With three mainline games and a number of expansions and spin-offs, The Witcher is one of the most beloved RPG franchises in gaming.
- Metro Series. In the Metro series, players try to survive life in a post-apocalyptic Russia that has seen its surface become completely inhospitable after nuclear bombs leave the area bathed in intense radiation.
- I Have No Mouth, And I Must Scream. Harlan Ellison's short story I Have No Mouth, and I Must Scream is an intense short story from his collection of the same name that brings together science fiction and pure horror.
- Cyberpunk 2077. Cyberpunk 2077 continued CD Projekt Red's tradition of basing their games on established properties, though, with this open-world foray into science fiction, they found their inspiration in a different type of book.
- The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt. 2015 | CD Projekt Red. The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt may be the greatest video game adaptation of a book ever made. Based on the book series by Polish author Andrzej Sapkowski, the game continues the adventures of Geralt of Rivia, a witcher (monster hunter) who must find his adopted daughter, Ciri, a long lost witcher who is being hunted by supernatural beings from a parallel dimension.
- Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic. 2003 | BioWare. While this BioWare RPG masterpiece bears more than a little inspiration from the Star Wars movies, Knights of the Old Republic is actually based on a Dark Horse comic book called Tales of the Jedi, a series that ran from 1993 to 1998 penned by Tom Veitch and Kevin J. Anderson.
- Telltale’s The Walking Dead. 2012 | Telltale Games. Like the comics by Robert Kirkman and Charlie Adlard and the AMC series before it, Telltale Games’ The Walking Dead packs an emotional punch that will leave you lost for words by the time the credits roll.
- Call of Cthulhu. 2018 | Cyanide. Cyanide’s Call of Cthulhu is an excellent distillation of the mythos that make H.P. Lovecraft such a pivotal part of the history of horror fiction to this day.
Jun 2, 2015 · Below are 11 beloved video games based on (or heavily influenced by) works of literature: The Witcher is based on The Witcher book series by Andrzej Sapkowski, which started out first as a...
Judit Berg has 71 books on Goodreads with 4300 ratings. Judit Berg’s most popular book is Rumini (Rumini, #1).
Enslaved: Odyssey to the West. One of the oldest and most influential books to have the video game treatment is Journey to the West, an epic tale written in 16th century Ming Dynasty, China.
Mar 10, 2023 · The best video games based on books take themes, characters, and settings from the written word into the realm of gaming. Updated on March 7th, 2023 by Jackson Lockhart: With more and more games drawing inspiration from books, and with many classic games having their literary inspirations forgotten, this list has been updated to reflect the ...
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