Video games are a massive industry, bringing in billions globally and enjoyed by millions across the world. It's a medium that can tell stories in creative ways many other mediums never could. Of course, that's not stopped many of those worlds from being turne🍬d into shows in their own right, like Riot's Arcane or Powerhouse's Castlevania.
Less common, however, are video games adaptations of actual shows. You might get the 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:odd adaptation of a book (like the excellent Metro series) or even tie-in video games. But what about the lesser-known games, those𝔍 based in existing franchises without being a direct tie-in? There are more than you might expꦗect.
8 🍸 Stranger Things 🎐
Netflix shows have a tendency to appear out of nowhere, fully formed with a seemingly pre-🃏decided fate and popularity. But Stranger Things is one of the rare shows of theirs that actually garnꦍered its reputation after time, becoming big enough to get its own games, judging by its presence in this article.
Stranger Things is set in the '80s, drawing on a love of nostalgia for the period while incorporating more modern film standards. So it's only natural then that its two games are styled after 80's and 90's games. Many people may be aware of Stranger Things 3: The game, the beat 'em Up. But there's also Stranger Things: 1984, styled heavily after A Link To The Past.
7 🌊 🐭 The Avatar Series
The Legend of Aang is a beloved animated series, one of the best. It's also one that's willing to break its relatively light tone to showcase the horrors that exist in a world at war, and how the effects of propaganda and deep-seated hatreds can alter our view.
But the element bending of the series lent itself perfectly to the medium of video games There are a few tie-ins, some only loosely following the story, and none incredibly well-received. The Xbox 360 version of the Burning Earth is famed for its five achievements being unlockable in the tutorial. Of course, Korra also got her own game developed by PlatinumGames, but it generally wasn't a hit among fans.
6 T𝄹w🔯in Peaks
Twin Peaks is a series that has mystified audiences throughout its entire existence, the surrealism of how everyone acts playing clear parallels to reality while simultaneously being incomprehensible to everyone. It's a fascinating work with a deep-rooted regard for community and the world, even if it has a funny way of saying it.
Twin Peaks isn't the first series you'd expect to get a game. Sure, it has inspired plenty, like Deadly Premonition, Twin Mirror, and even Life is Strange, but it didn't get a game itself. Though a 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:canceled NES game was in development in the '90s, it was only Twin Peaks VR that survived, a brief adventure that let you journey around the famed Red Room.
5 🐼 Ghost In The Shell
Ghost in the Shell is a work that has far surpassed its roots. The original manga portrayed a broad vision of a cyberpunk future. It went on to influence the Matrix, and just about every other cybeꦓrpunk property since, regardless of whether or 🌺not the intent was understood.
Ghost in the Shell actually has four games. The first game is actually somewhꦚat independent with a story and art by the original manga creator that has you play as a mech. The next duology was for PS2 and PSP, featuring a third and first-person perspective. The newest is actually a mobile game that is mostly well-received and well-made.
4 Doctor Who ꧂
Doctor Who is a long-running BBC series about the famed timelord who continually regenerates in a new form every so often. The series has an odd history, having all been burned in a fire before being resurrected many years later — somewhat fitting for the show's themes. But across its long run, it's had a surprisingly small number of adaptations until more recent years.
Many of them are poor-quality tie-ins, with plenty of them based on Matt Smith's Doctor. Though more recently there is The Lonely Assassins, a found-phone mobile game about uncovering a mystery with your own phone being the found-phone (think Mystic Messenger). There are also VR games, allowing you to walk around a life-sized Tardis.
3 Gam꧒e Of Thron♎es
Beginning as George R.R. Martin's A Song of Ice and Fire book series, Games of Thrones has far outgrown its source because of the TV show. The show, of course, used its licensing rights to the greatest extent it could, and actually ended up encompassing several games across its ten-year run. Many of them were mobile games, the most lucrative.
However, two stand out. There's the TellTale series, an episodic adventure that tells its own story with some brief crossovers with the show. The other is a 2012 RPG just titled Game of Thrones. It's an odd game, the rights acquired before the show hit major fame. It's styled a lot like Dragon Age Origins, featuring a similar HUD style, combat, and choices that impact the endings.
2 𒈔 Neon Genesis Evangelion 𒆙
Evangelion is impossible to avoid. It's a work that revitalized the anime industry in Japan and set the basis for many tropes that are now incredibly common. It's a deeply emotional work, tied directly to the life experiences of creator Anno. Hell, the End of Evangelion film has the death threats he and the studio received included.
It also has 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:a bunch of video games! Around 30 in fact, excluding pachinko machines. Just about all of them are Japan-exclusive, so no wonder they're uncommon in other markets. They span a massive number of genres — visual novels, mysteries, puzzles, rhythm, and so on. Kinda funny for a series with such unsettling visuals.
1 🙈 🤡 Cowboy Bebop
Cowboy Bebop. It's a series that speaks for itself. It's a wonderful example of an episodic show, each episode telling the story of its characters in a disconnected way by showing how they react to each other and the world rather than having to stop and give you exposition at every twist and turn.
It's actually a rare example of a major success that didn't expand much outside of its influences, spawning only a film, manga, and the more recent Netflix live-action. Oh, and two video games — both Japan-exclusive. The first was a Star Fox-esque game where you piloted Spike's ship to chase down bounties in space. The second is closer to Yakuza games in its way, focused heavily on brawling style combat and various mini-games.