10 Board Games That Would Make For Great Video Games

Games set during classical antiquity are a dime a dozen and instantly recognisable by their white marble and flowing togas, with even the more fantastical entries like Titan Quest sticking to the traditional sword and sandals aesthetic.

Lords of Hellas, on the other hand, breaks with tradition by injecting a healthy dose of glowing cyber-futurist neon into the dusty old marble while somehow remaining as quintessentially mythically Greek as it is possible to be.

But a truly novel, incredibly striking aesthetic is not all that sets this game apart. Any story involving the Greek pantheon is always going to be compelling, with betrayal, murder and amorous shenanigans par for the course.

That pantheon, however, is not all talk. The board game allows for the construction of avatars of the Greek gods. There it is a mere victory condition. In the video game those avatars would be able to rampage across the battlefield at will, to be met in combat by heroes of legend with armies of Cyber hoplites at their back. Add the mythology’s famed monsters, now reinforced with energy weapons and cybernetics, and the promise of game-changing items for those who slay them, and we’re talking an RTS that promises absolutely mind-blowing spectacle.