Which pen 'n paper RPGs / boardgames would you like to see adopted in a videogame (and what form would it take)?

PnP RPGs (and tabletop games in general) have inspired the videogame market from the beginning, whether we're talking about the ongoing quest to replicate Advanced Dungeons & Dragons in videogame form, or inspiring legends like Sid Meier to videogamify Avalon Hill's Civilization. Below is an (incomplete) list of the ones that've been attempted so far:

- Dungeons & Dragons
- Avalon Hill's Civilization
- Vampire: The Masquerade
- Pathfinder (which itself is intended as a spiritual successor to AD&D 2.5)
- Fallout (uses a rebranded GURPS)
- Shadowrun
- Warhammer and Warhammer 40k

For the sake of argument, I am excluding 1:1 conversions of a boardgame into digital form like Scythe, Ascension, Neuroshima Hex, etc.

Which other PnP RPGs or boardgames would you want to see in videogame form?
 
A proper Call of Cthulhu RPG would be awesome! I would love a huge open Lovecraftian world world but a CRPG would suit me just fine as well.
 
A proper Call of Cthulhu RPG would be awesome! I would love a huge open Lovecraftian world world but a CRPG would suit me just fine as well.
Call of Cthulhu Official Game is based off the Chaosium tabletop game.

Maybe you don't consider it proper, but keep in mind the publisher has a deal with Chaosium for the next ten years to make Chaosium based CoC games.

 
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Nice thread!

I wish we had a proper GURPS RPG. Fallout 1, despite being one of my favorites -if not my favorite- CRPG, has a simplified GURPS system, not true GURPS since Steve Jackson games didn't like the amount of violence in the game. I played GURPS only one time, but it was very fun.

A Warhammer 40k RPG would be glorious! I never played the boardgame or the pen and paper RPG but I like the atmosphere and lore a lot. I imagine nobody did a 40k CRPG because it is a very brutal and morally grey (a very dark grey) campaign setting and would be many messed up situations which a proper CRPG would need to tackle. Tactics/FPS/TPS games can more easily ignore this aspect.

Warhammer fantasy is very cool also. But since 90% of CRPGs are medieval fantasy, I prefer its sci fi counter part.


Gloomhaven. They have a game in development bit it doesn't seem to do the franchise justice

This one here?


I was thinking of buying despite being on early access. Most reviews are very positive and say it is faithful to the original game. There isn't a good tutorial explaining the system so I'm waiting more development.
 
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