What tabletop RPG hasn’t gotten its deserved video game?
D&D has had many video games over the years, with Baldur’s Gate 3 merely the latest one, and with two Pathfinder offerings also available. But what tabletop RPG hasn’t really gotten the adaptation to the video game format that you might have expected by now? Shadowrun has gotten a few, but Earthdawn, the sister game set in the distant past of an Earth losing its magic and beset by magic devouring Horrors, seems like it would have been ripe for a video game adaptation of some kind — perhaps a straight up CRPG, maybe a RTS or even a weird hybrid magic based looter shooter. Yet it never happened.
Some games, you could argue for being a bit obscure — I mean, I love Fading Suns, but do many people aside from a few dedicated nerds know that it had a video game called Emperor of the Fading Suns? Much less that it was a 4x with RTS elements? It’s true! Yet Exalted, which is significantly more well known, has never had a video game of any kind. This baffles me. Likewise, of all of White Wolf/Onyx Path’s many properties over the years, we’ve of course gotten games like Vampire the Masquerade Bloodlines and Werewolf the Apocalypse — Earthblood, but we’ve never gotten a Mage the Ascension or any of the Aeon/Aberrant/Adventure games made into a video game of any kind.
I was inspired by the fact that the Paranoia TTRPG does in fact have a video game adaptation. If that can get a CRPG adaptation, can Ten Candles or Monsterhearts be far behind? What TTRPG do you think should get a video game adaptation, or are surprised hasn’t by now? And why is it Time Cube? It’s not Time Cube, don’t even joke about that.
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