5 story driven video games inspired by novels

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Converting video games into novels has been a common practice for quite a while now. However, there has been widespread practice the other way around too. The recently released Witcher series is a popular book adaptation that every gamer might be aware of.

Interestingly, the all-time favorite action-adventure series Assassin Creed’s first-ever entry was also inspired by a 1938 novel named Alamut by Vladimir Bartol. The novel depicts the 11th-century Persian fortress located 60 miles from the city of Tehran.

Below is a list of five other video games that have been adapted or taken inspiration from novels:

Note: This article reflects the authors' personalized list

The Stalker series is a popular first-person shooter loosely based on the 1972 novel Roadside Picnic, co-authored by the Strugatsky brothers. The original novel follows the journey of Redrick "Red" Schuhart – an experienced Stalker venturing into the dangerous zones often visited by extra-terrestrials to find artifacts for profit. Stalker games have a handsome amount of mysterious secrets to solve and supernatural abilities to keep one engaged for days.

The Bioshock games have Ayn Rand written all over it. The City of Rapture, in BioShock, is founded on the principles of Ayn Rand’s objectivist philosophy. Her philosophical ideas lay heavy emphasis on individualism over everything else, and the dangers of such an ideology in creating a grandiose and utopic society, which is inherently destructive. All these dark aspects are very well portrayed in the Bioshock games’ storylines.

Andrew Ryan, the founder of Rapture and the owner of the Ryan industry, is himself named after the author. The character Frank Fountain is named after one of Ayn Rand’s most popular novels, The