Games We’d Like To See Turned Into Movies/TV Shows

As gamers, we all know that feeling of reaching the final mission of a really good video game. The emotion and intensity builds to a crescendo and then… nothing. Credits roll, the story's over. But for us, that’s never quite enough. We’re still hungry for more.

Fortunately, Hollywood has been listening. From The Witcher to The Last of Us, Fallout to Minecraft, the last few years have seen gaming franchises make the jump to screens big and small. So we got to thinking - which games deserve the same treatment?

Here are our top picks for video games we'd love to see turned into movies or TV shows.

Days Gone

2019, Bend Studio Sons of Anarchy meets The Walking Dead - that's the easiest way to describe Days Gone to the uninitiated. Brooding biker Deacon St. John is surviving post-apocalyptic Oregon two years after a zombie-like outbreak has turned most of humanity into "Freakers", all while clinging to the hope that his missing wife Sarah is still alive out there somewhere. Freakers are the least of his problems, though. Militias, marauders, and a cult that actually worships the infected all stand in his way - and that's before he starts pulling on the threads of a shady government organisation called NERO and their role in the outbreak.

The Last of Us proved that zombie-adjacent stories can work brilliantly on screen, and Sons of Anarchy showed there's a real appetite for morally complex biker protagonists, which makes Days Gone feel like a no-brainer. Someone greenlight this, please.

Kingdom Hearts

2002 - 2020, Square Enix Disney and Square Enix worlds collide in this tale of friendship, light vs dark, and (somehow) Donald Duck actually being useful in a fight.

Hero Sora is swept away from his tropical island home and thrown into a sprawling multiverse, where he discovers he's the chosen Keyblade warrior destined to protect everything from the shadowy Heartless and a rogue's gallery of Disney villains. With Goofy and Donald by his side, naturally.

The sheer scale of it - multiple universes, beloved characters and mythology that spans several games - makes this one for TV rather than a single film. Done right, it could be the next great animated series. Done wrong, and well… we don't want to think about that.

Red Dead Redemption 2

2018, Rockstar Games Let's be honest, you knew this one was coming. Set in 1899, in the final years of the American Old West, Rockstar’s RDR2 follows the slow, painful decline of the Van Der Linde gang. As the world modernises around them, pushing this “family” of outlaws to make increasingly desperate choices, their way of life starts to crumble.

Bar brawls, dramatic train heists, pressure from the law, rival gangs and enemies within their own ranks - it all forces protagonist Arthur Morgan to question everything he's ever believed while staring down his own mortality. It's a story about loyalty, consequences and whether redemption is even possible.

With Yellowstone, Justified and Billy The Kid paving the way for a new era of Western television, we believe the Red Dead Redemption series would fit right in. The fact that some of Hollywood's biggest names have already expressed interest in bringing it to screen tells you everything you need to know. This one feels inevitable - and we’re ready to saddle up.