10 Video Games Netflix Could Adapt After The Witcher

Netflix is everyone's go-to dream machine. The platform has proven itself a bastion for reviving old shows and developing projects that nobody thought they would ever see.

On top of that, it also has shown a surprising propensity to develop video games into TV shows and movies, something big Hollywood is reluctant to touch. It has already produced great shows like CastleVania and has a slew of upcoming ones like The Witcher starring Henry Cavill, The Division starring Jake Gyllenhall, a new Resident Evil series, and animated versions of Devil May Cry and Cuphead.

So it's fair to say Netflix is more than just dipping its toe into the world of gaming. And this is a great thing for everyone. For decades we've had to endure mediocre to horrendous movie adaptions of our favourite video games. The simple reason for their failures is that you can't condense a lengthy video game experience into two hours and expect it to work. And that's why a 10 episode Netflix series is perfect for games.

Sadly, you won't find any PlayStation exclusives here because the company is adapting all their own properties, therefore a Netflix partnership is nigh-on impossible.

For everything else though? Let's see what sounds best.

The Metro series is on an upward trajectory. It all began with Metro 2033, a novel by Russian author Dmitry Glukhovsky, which spawned two sequels. Ukranian video game developer, 4A Games, made a game based on the first book and released it in 2010. Two sequels have been released since then and the most recent - Metro: Exodus in 2019 - was a far bigger success than its predecessors.

So it's not all that surprising that, not very long ago, it was revealed via an interview that Hollywood recently attempted to make a movie based on the Metro books/video games.

Much like Splinter Cell, we're glad it didn't actually make it past the boardroom phase. And that's because the American big-wigs wanted to change the setting of the games from Russia to America - thus fundamentally changing the concept.

Well, that's where Netflix could come into play. As everyone knows, Netflix is a lot more open to creative freedom, and is more than happy to produce shows based in foreign countries, like Dark and The Rain. A TV series based in the Russian Metro underground isn't out of the realm of possibility whatsoever, and fingers crossed it actually happens.