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24 games
01 · 2015 · CD Projekt
The Witcher saga — Andrzej Sapkowski
A sequel to the books, not a retelling. It treats the saga's ending as history.
02 · 2011 · CD Projekt Red
The Witcher saga — Andrzej Sapkowski
Another post-saga Geralt story, tighter and more political than the first game.
03 · 2007 · CD Projekt Red
The Witcher saga — Andrzej Sapkowski
The first game, and already a sequel. The story starts after the books.
04 · 2018 · CD Projekt Red
The Witcher saga — Andrzej Sapkowski
Queen Meve's campaign during the books, including the day she knights Geralt.
05 · 2007 · Turbine, later Standing Stone Games
The Lord of the Rings — J. R. R. Tolkien
Your own character, walking through the war of the book.
06 · 2003 · Inevitable Entertainment, The Fizz Factor, and Saffire
The Hobbit — J. R. R. Tolkien
A pre-film action game that sticks closely to Tolkien's plot.
07 · 1982 · Beam Software
The Hobbit — J. R. R. Tolkien
The 1982 illustrated text adventure. It is the book, plus puzzles.
08 · 1990 · Interplay Productions
The Fellowship of the Ring — J. R. R. Tolkien
Interplay's 1990 role-playing adaptation of The Fellowship of the Ring.
09 · 1995 · Teeny Weeny Games and Perfect 10 Productions
Guards! Guards! — Terry Pratchett
Rincewind, voiced by Eric Idle, in a plot loosely taken from Guards! Guards!
10 · 1996 · Perfect Entertainment
Reaper Man — Terry Pratchett; Moving Pictures — Terry Pratchett
Rincewind again, borrowing the spine of Reaper Man and bits of Moving Pictures.
11 · 1999 · Perfect Entertainment
The Discworld novels — Terry Pratchett
An original hard-boiled case in Ankh-Morpork. Pratchett interfered, on purpose.
12 · 1986 · Delta 4
The Colour of Magic — Terry Pratchett
The one early Discworld game that follows a novel closely. It did not sell.
13 · 1999 · Legend Entertainment
The Wheel of Time — Robert Jordan
A 1999 first-person shooter based on the series, not billed as a retelling of one volume.
14 · 1988 · U.S. Gold and Strategic Simulations
Dragons of Autumn Twilight — Margaret Weis and Tracy Hickman
A 1988 brawler wearing the first Dragonlance novel.
15 · 1985 · Telarium
Nine Princes in Amber — Roger Zelazny; The Guns of Avalon — Roger Zelazny
Telarium's 1985 illustrated interactive fiction of the first two Amber books.
16 · 2012 · Cyanide
A Song of Ice and Fire — George R. R. Martin
Cyanide's 2012 RPG, based on the novels, with television details added late.
17 · 2014 · Telltale Games
A Song of Ice and Fire — George R. R. Martin
A show-licensed side story that also uses the novels' places and people.
18 · 2005 · Traveller's Tales and Amaze Entertainment
The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe — C. S. Lewis
A movie game of a book. The novel is the better version, and the shorter one.
19 · 2001 · KnowWonder (Windows) and Westlake Interactive (Mac)
Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone — J. K. Rowling
The PC game is based on the novel, and it follows Harry's first year through the confrontation.
20 · 2007 · Shiny Entertainment and A2M
Northern Lights (The Golden Compass) — Philip Pullman
Mostly the film, partly the novel, and finished from a shooting script the film then changed.
21 · 2000 · Rogue Entertainment
Alice's Adventures in Wonderland — Lewis Carroll; Through the Looking-Glass — Lewis Carroll
A cruel Wonderland after the books, not a retelling of them.
22 · 2011 · Spicy Horse
Alice's Adventures in Wonderland — Lewis Carroll; Through the Looking-Glass — Lewis Carroll
The sequel to American McGee's Alice. Carroll is the landscape, not the plot.
23 · 2010 · Visceral Games
Inferno — Dante Alighieri
A hack-and-slash that borrows Hell's floor plan and invents a Crusader named Dante.
24 · 2013 · Inkle
Sorcery! — Steve Jackson
The gamebooks, rebuilt. Playing this is a way of reading them.