10 Criminally Underrated Comic Book Video Games You Must Play

6. Guardians Of The Galaxy: The Telltale Series

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Until its demise the other year, Telltale Games had built up a solid rep for delivering compelling comic book video games, channelling the spirit of old-school, LucasArts-esque point-and-click adventures into solid works like The Walking Dead, The Wolf Among Us and Batman.

There is one offering from the studio that's gone a little under-appreciated through, and that is Guardians of the Galaxy.

Released just after Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2 premiered in 2017, Telltale's interpretation of the team borrowed heavily from the films but adopted an aesthetic more in line with Marvel's comics. It shares continuity with neither, which gave the studio's writers the freedom to craft their own story without any potential restrictions.

The end is result is really enjoyable, and if you're familiar with Telltale, you'll know what to expect.

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WhatCulture's very own resident movie guy, Ewan has been working in the content creation biz for over 10 years now, having started as a freelance contributor to WhatCulture Gaming all the way back in 2015. After graduating with a First-Class Honours in History from Northumbria University in 2017 (where he won a prize for a totally killer dissertation on the Watergate years), Ewan took on the role of Comics Editor at WhatCulture and quickly developed WhatCulture Comics into one of the biggest superhero-focused channels on YouTube. He followed this with a brief hiatus at Screen Rant in 2021, where he worked across the Gaming and Film sections as a writer and editor, before returning to WhatCulture as a Senior Content Producer / Presenter in 2023. He started his own podcast, We Love Dad Movies, in 2022, and has contributed several written pieces to the Eisner-nominated comics website Shelfdust as well. In his current role, Ewan incorporates his love of cinema, comic books, and history into written pieces and video essays for WhatCulture's Film & TV channel, as well as WhatCulture Gaming and WhatCulture Horror, with a particular focus on nineties-era Dad Movies, old school Westerns, and Golden Age Hollywood Noir. John Carpenter is his fave, and he thinks Batman Beyond should never have been cancelled. If that's your vibe, you'll probably like his stuff.