Things I'm NOT looking for:
- Books that already ARE a video game/have video game offshoots (regardless of which came first)
- Books about video games/where playing video games are a central theme
- Tom Clancy, or really anything war-related on a human-to-human level (supernatural/mythological is on the table). Humans can be involved of course, but it shouldn't be ONLY humans. Basically I'm not looking for anything that would be just a human-to-human FPS game. Something similar to Halo would be acceptable, but Halo itself doesn't meet the first bullet point.
- Graphic novels/manga. These often have GREAT options for this prompt, however I'm looking for a standard novel.
- Dungeon Crawler Carl. Not because it might not fit, but because it's already on my TBR!
Bonus points if it's a puzzle-type video game, but that's not entirely a requirement. I'm curious to see what you all can come up with! All genres are on the table.
by PsyferRL
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Cradle by Will Wight, definitely, if you didn’t read it already.
Great idea. I’ve recently finished Vengeance and Honour by Ben Dixon which would work very well. You could play as the nimble elf, drunken knight, sexy cleric or randy archmage fighting the undead, a dragon, orcs and negotiating with dwarves, collecting clues and allies in taverns etc.
Veniss Underground by Jeff VanderMeer would be so stunning visually, and I think the way the story is told would make an excellent puzzle/walking simulator game.
American Rapture by CJ Leede would be well suited to zombie apocalypse-style combat, with a really strong narrative heart
I feel like children of time could make an excellent mass effect style RPG
Stormlight archive series or mistborn would both make pretty good rpgs
Implied Spaces, by Walter Jon Williams.
The Future Quest, by Varsham Rudra
Red rising, stormlight, mistborn