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] |
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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 | Pinkfish[4] and the player community | ||
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 | Designer | Publisher | #[6] |
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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).
- ↑ This is the username of David Bennett, who created the MUD in 1991.
- ↑ 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.