QotW #83 Video games based on books

[Chris, Moderator]

Do you play any video games that are based on books? What are your favorites?

[Random]

Well The Witcher games immediately come to mind. Rreally excellent RPG series though the first game's interface was a little clunky.

Strolling down memory lane

Discworld adventure games from the 90s. A whole lot of insane fun. Really loved them.

Nifty bit of trivia. I played the first two Discworld games before I ever read any of the books. :)

Oh and there was a Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy text adventure game from Infocom back in the 80s. Took me years to solve but I adored the Infocom text adventure games. Still do technically. :)

On the not so good side

I remember trying to play a game based on the Pern series on the C64 when I was a kid. Didn't have any of the docs and you REALLY needed docs in games at the time. But I adored Pern, so I kept trying and trying and trying. Never got very far.

[Kathi, Moderator & Book Lover]

This is kind of the reverse—many years ago my husband & I played Myst and then I bought & read the three novels based on the video game: The Book of Atrus, The Book of Ti'ana, & The Book of D'ni by Rand Miller & Robyn Miller.