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12 games
01 · 2010 · 4A Games
Metro 2033 — Dmitry Glukhovsky
The same journey through the Moscow Metro, with Glukhovsky letting 4A change things.
02 · 2019 · 4A Games
Metro 2035 — Dmitry Glukhovsky
A sequel to the novel Metro 2035, not a retelling of it. The game is the journey out.
03 · 1984 · Infocom
The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy — Douglas Adams
Adams and Steve Meretzky, riffing on the book and hiding the jokes behind cruel puzzles.
04 · 1988 · Interplay Productions
Neuromancer — William Gibson
A loose 1988 adventure in Gibson's novel. The prose is the part that matters.
05 · 1995 · Cyberdreams and The Dreamers Guild
I Have No Mouth, and I Must Scream (short story) — Harlan Ellison
Ellison expanded his own short story into a grim point-and-click. Read the story first. It is short.
06 · 1996 · Dynamix
Rendezvous with Rama — Arthur C. Clarke; Rama II — Arthur C. Clarke
Sierra's expedition game, built from Rendezvous with Rama and Rama II together.
07 · 2023 · Starward Industries
The Invincible — Stanisław Lem
A 2023 first-person adaptation of Lem's novel. The discoveries are the story.
08 · 1998 · Square
Parasite Eve — Hideaki Sena
Not the novel. The sequel to the novel, with a New York cop named Aya.
09 · 1984 · Byron Preiss Video Productions and Trillium
Fahrenheit 451 — Ray Bradbury
Bradbury helped. The game still starts five years after his novel.
10 · 1987 · Atlus (Famicom) and Telenet Japan (computers)
Digital Devil Story — Aya Nishitani
The start of Megami Tensei, and an adaptation of Nishitani's novels. He worked on it.
11 · 1992 · Cryo Interactive
Dune — Frank Herbert
Cryo's 1992 mix of adventure and strategy, loosely following Paul Atreides.
12 · 2023 · Shiro Games
Dune — Frank Herbert
A 4X about dominating Arrakis. The books supply the world, not Paul's chapters.