5 Books That Would Make Great Video Games

Skeletons? Check. Detective work? Check. Kick-ass assistant? Check. Awesome new game... check?

Skulduggery Pleasant has such groundwork for a fantastic game that reading Derek Landy’s stories often feel like you’re playing a game anyway.

While ghostly collect-a-thon Murdered: Soul Suspect was overly simplistic, glitchy and inexplicably lacked a map, it was easy to see the core gameplay had potential. That’s where Skulduggery Pleasant comes in. Suiting an art style which could recall the forgotten classic Grim Fandango, the game would see players take control of the detective himself: solving crimes, fending off demons and hurling fireballs at all those who dared cross their path.

Sandbox style, Skulduggery Pleasant would see gamers following a story thread of main missions, all while having side quests and optional challenges to unlock power ups. Perhaps like other detective games such as LA Noire, Batman and the aforementioned Murdered, there could be unsolved cases scattered about the map, needing Pleasant’s wit to finally bring the perp to justice.

Throw in assistance from Valkyrie Cain, or even the ability to switch between the two characters, and a Skulduggery Pleasant game could be positively spook-tacular.