10 Board Games That Would Make For Great Video Games

The city-builder/tycoon genre has taken us to many an exotic location – airless moons, hostile planets, Earth’s future, Earth’s past – and to less noteworthy places, like good old humdrum suburbia. But, barring a few efforts in the early 2000s there is one place video games have yet to go – underwater.

That’s strange, because for a genre that is all about overcoming technical challenges, taking to the ocean floor would offer players the kind of headaches they’ve never needed to deal with before.

You have the punishing water pressure, which could see players having to create custom-built structures to cope (or not, if your structure implodes). Food needs to be produced, along with another rather surprising resource – fresh water. Energy production is a problem, requiring geothermal stations or nuclear fission plants...possibly positioned near unstable underwater volcanoes. And getting the material to build all of this down to the ocean floor will be yet another hurdle, as will be the simple act of keeping people warm.

With missions taking the player from a tourist resort in the balmy Caribbean, to a research facility under Arctic ice, to mining operations on the Abyssal plains, and perhaps even onwards to moons like Europa, all difficulties are catered for and visuals promise to be stunning.

Oh, there’ll be Big Daddies as an Easter egg. Nuff said.