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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 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]
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

  1. Use this column to sort by Discworld publication order. Where multiple stories were used as inspiration, we’ve listed all of them in order.
  2. It was opened to the public in 1992.
  3. 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).
  4. This is the username of David Bennett, who created the MUD in 1991.
  5. The work or works on which this game draws.
  6. If the game is based on or heavily references a specific book, we’ll add it’s position in the Discworld series here.