Games
This is a list of the various games based on Pratchett’s works, most of which are not direct adaptations. We’ve put videogames and tabletop games into separate lists.
Videogames
| Title | Release Date | Based on | Genre | Format(s) | Developer | Publisher | #[1] |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| The Colour of Magic | 1986 | The Colour of Magic | Text adventure | ZX Spectrum, Commodore 64, Amstrad PC | Delta 4 | Pirahna | 1 |
| Discworld MUD | 1991[2] | The entire Discworld series | Multi-User Dungeon[3] | Web browser or MUD client | The player community[4] | N/A | |
| Discworld | 1995 | Guards! Guards! etc | Point and click adventure | DOS, Classic Mac, PlayStation, Sega Saturn | Perfect Entertainment | Psygnosis | 8 |
| Discworld II: Missing, Presumed...!? | 1996 | Reaper Man, Moving Pictures etc | Point and click adventure | DOS, Windows, PlayStation, Sega Saturn | Perfect Entertainment | Psygnosis/Sega | 10, 11 |
| Discworld Noir | 1999 | Original story | Point and click adventure | Windows, PlayStation | Perfect Entertainment | GT Interactive | |
| Discworld: The Colour of Magic | 2006-05-23 | The Colour of Magic | Puzzle game | Mobile phones | Blue Sphere Games | Blue Sphere Games | 1 |
More to be added.
Tabletop games
| Title | Release Date | Inspired by[5] | Format | Designers | Publisher | #[6] |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Thud | 2002 | Thud! | Hnafltafl-inspired board game | Trevor Truran | The Discworld Emporium | 34 |
| Ankh-Morpork | 2011 | The Ankh-Morpork books | Competitive board game | Martin Wallace | Treefrog Games/Mayfair Games | |
| Guards! Guards! | 2011 | Guards! Guards! and the Watch books | Competitive board game | Leonard Boyd and David Brashaw | BackSpindle Games | 8 |
| The Witches | 2013 | The Witches and Tiffany Aching series | Semi-cooperative board game | Martin Wallace | Treefrog Games/Mayfair Games | |
| Clacks | 2015 | Going Postal | Semi-cooperative board game | Leonard Boyd and David Brashaw | BackSpindle Games | 33 |
| Good Omens: An Ineffable Game | 2023 | Good Omens | Collection of seven card games | TBC | Renegade Games |
Footnotes
- ↑ Use this column to sort by Discworld publication order. Where multiple stories were used as inspiration, we’ve listed all of them in order.
- ↑ It was opened to the public in 1992.
- ↑ If you’re not familiar with this term, it’s essentially a text-based multiplayer online roleplaying game (like an MMORPG, but with no graphics).
- ↑ Discworld MUD has been massively expanded and continues to be maintained by a large subset of the player community. The folks credited with originally creating it in 1991 are David “Pinkfish” Bennett, Craig “Furball” Richmond, Sean A. “Lynscar” Reith and Evan Scott. Derek "Ceres” Harding and Jacqui "Sojan” Greenland are also named as major contributors.
- ↑ The work or works on which this game draws.
- ↑ If the game is based on or heavily references a specific book, we’ll add it’s position in the Discworld series here.