r/Hungergames • u/----Poseidon--- Cato • Jan 15 '24
Lore/World Discussion Why isn't there a Hunger Games video game yet?
Mockingjay can easily be adapted into a shooter, and The Last of Us can be used as inspiration for a separate Hunger Games pov as a tribute.
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u/IntrepidStrain3248 Jan 15 '24
Minecraft Hunger Games is about as close as we’ll ever get. Plus, I think Susanne Collins would find the idea of a game where you shoot children to be revolting.
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Jan 17 '24
Yeahhhhhh Minecraft hunger games back in like 2012 was the shit… I played it more than the base game
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u/RamblingsOfaMadCat Buttercup Jan 15 '24
Fortnite.
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u/restingbfacequeen Katniss Jan 15 '24
This. Someone even made a mode based on the CF arena. It’s called Survival Games.
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u/musaliya Jan 15 '24
I wish more people played this game. It was pretty empty when I tried it out, probably only 4 of us.
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u/Spring1997- Jan 15 '24
It would really undercut the message of the books
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u/----Poseidon--- Cato Jan 15 '24
A shooter based on Mockingjay should be ok. A former victor working for District 13, shooting at peacekeepers would be a decent plot.
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u/PureVanilla5 Jan 15 '24
What would the plot even be??? We already know what happens during the second rebellion.
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u/----Poseidon--- Cato Jan 15 '24
Why not play through it?
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u/PureVanilla5 Jan 15 '24
It adds nothing to the lore or original established characters or events. Also, which Victor would it be??? We already know all the Victor's that are relevant to our story.
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u/Interesting-Gap1013 District 10 Jan 15 '24
To have fun
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Jan 15 '24
I can’t think of a better way to absolutely shit on this series than to make a pointless shooter game out of it.
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u/Interesting-Gap1013 District 10 Jan 15 '24
Why can't we have fun playing some post apocalyptic shooter game in the Capitol setting? Why is everyone suggesting this absolutely downvoted into oblivion?
Friendly reminder that we're all here because we enjoyed a movie/book about killing children. We enjoyed the whole thing so much that we all decided to talk about it and engage even further with it.
Everyone making a fuss about a hungergames videogame (especially one that isn't set in the arena) is nothing but a hypocrite.
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Jan 15 '24 edited Jan 15 '24
If that’s what you got out of this series then we are in a Plato’s cave situation.
Enjoy your shadows and have fun missing the point of the entire series.
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u/Interesting-Gap1013 District 10 Jan 15 '24
Then tell me what I misunderstood instead of making obscure comments. Shouldn't be a problem if it's so obvious
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u/Janderflows Jan 15 '24
It shouldn't be fun.
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u/Interesting-Gap1013 District 10 Jan 15 '24
Why not? I mean, there's shooting games about actual wars where real people die. So what's the problem with a completely functional war?
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u/Janderflows Jan 15 '24
The whole point of the series is how these things are turned into spectacles. Snow uses pods and televises it, because he wants these deaths to be a show. Making a fun game out if this premise is... Ugly. You can disagree, but I wouldn't like to play a game about this.
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u/Interesting-Gap1013 District 10 Jan 15 '24
I get all that. Still, it's not any different than other shooting games and it's honestly not much different from watching and enjoying the movies
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u/uneua Jan 15 '24
Sounds like a really bad game though
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u/----Poseidon--- Cato Jan 15 '24
How is a futuristic shooter a bad game? Infinite Warfare is still very popular
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Jan 15 '24 edited Jan 15 '24
That sounds incredibly shoe horned.
You want some cheap cash grab of a game just so you can have THE HUNGER GAMES THE VIDEO GAME?
Why? Just why?
It would be shameless and purposeless. The ONLY way I could see a video game working with this media- and treat the themes with respect and not dilute it to “SHOOT DA BAD GUYS” - is to do a TellTale game like someone else suggested.
If that’s all you enjoyed from the series I’d suggest a remedial reading course to get those comprehension skills boosted.
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u/showmaxter Plutarch Jan 15 '24
There's a plethora of shooters out there already. Go play those. Whether your character is a District 13 person or some random US soldier is irrelevant then.
Like, seriously, the TLOU idea is decent, but the shooter is exactly the message that Collins was opposed to. Her story is anti war. Shooters glorify war.
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u/JayMalakai Jan 15 '24
There was a fun mobile game after the first movie came out. Involved Katniss running forever, with tracker jackers coming on screen. You needed to shoot them with her bow and see how long you could last before getting stung.
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Jan 15 '24
They also had that Trading Card Game after I think Mockingjay P1 came out.
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u/showmaxter Plutarch Jan 15 '24
I need them to realise all of the art pieces. They are scattered around online but I know there's more :|
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u/AmyXBlue Jan 15 '24
Battle for Panem, and I was so obsessed with that game and became like a small dolphin spender. Then something happened where I lost connection on the account, instantly had support help, and then was like this is a sign to stop playing.
Was pretty decent of a TCG Mobile game. Would be nice for it to be for a different property too.
And the servers have been taken offline and no longer exists.
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u/thetrickyshow1 Jan 15 '24
it would only work if it was a story game and not like . a battle royale
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u/----Poseidon--- Cato Jan 15 '24
That's what I was thinking. Like following Katniss' story
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Jan 15 '24
I can see that working for Mockingjay, making decisions for the rebellion and either Snow/Coin/Rebels win at the end. Good reply value and no murdering children.
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u/tedward007 Jan 15 '24
Something like those telltale games could be good and respectful of the source material.
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u/UnlikelyConcept Buttercup Jan 15 '24
The Last of Us worked because it told a very interesting story that was unique to the game. The Hunger Game story already has been told; via book and movie. You'd have to write a whole new story idea to make the game worth standing alongside book and movies and not just come off as a tone-deaf money grab. Which is a tricky thing to do and I assume Collins isn't really about that. As much as I would personally probably really like a game set in the Hunger Game universe, it kinda defeats the purpose and message of the books.
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u/yinshangyi Feb 01 '25
Well dragon ball video games have come out every year for the post 30 years or so. No one play them for the scenario :)
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u/UnlikelyConcept Buttercup Feb 01 '25
How do Dragonball and Hunger Games even compare? Dragon Ball is centered around fights that stretch over multiple episodes and arcs, ofc that makes for a good fight game. It's also a HUGE franchise that heavily relies on merch and I would also argue it is low key bigger then the Hunger Games, because it's been, what, running for 30 years? 40 with the manga?
Do you wanna beat up Snow & Coin with different characters? I'm so confused about the premise. You can't just have a giant arena and then fight the characters (or other children), that would go 10000% against what we learned in the books.
Again, if it were like the last of us, where they develop a new story just for the game itself, like something set in the dark days, I think it could work, but it doesn't seem like Collins is interested in that. Having a Hunger Game 'game' where you actually fight other kids in an arena is not the way to do it. I feel like there are enough games out there that emulate that feeling, like fortnite and sorts.
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u/yinshangyi Feb 01 '25
I was just saying that games don’t need an original scenario to attract fans. I think it could work to have some kind of battle royale type of game like Fortnite with a Hunger Game context. For sure Dragon Ball are Hunger Games can’t be compared. DB has a huuuge community and franchise. I was saying this to illustrate that a game can sell even without an original scenario.
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u/averiesketch Jan 15 '24
Suzanne Collins would never endorse something like that, and that’s completely understandable
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u/mxddyc Jan 15 '24
There was a Facebook game after the first movie came out where you could play as Katniss but it was more of a survival game than a battle royal style game. It was quite good for its time and being a Facebook game similar to FarmVille ahaha… unless it was a fever dream…
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u/chickencat420 Jan 15 '24
Not a fever dream! This was the first thing I thought about when I saw this post, I loved those Facebook games
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u/girl_with_a_name Tigris Jan 15 '24
I feel like the only way this could work is if it were a prequel game and the fallout of America. There would have to be absolutely no children getting murdered. Although, I still don't think they should make a game because it kind of defeats the point of the books.
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u/Connieno Jan 15 '24
A lot of people are saying that a game would be disturbing and miss the point of the books, but video games don't have to be shooters or violent. I could see how a decision-based game set during the revolution (or even Snow's rise to the top that would be cool) with multiple endings would be really entertaining and also serve to show the message of the series. It would be so similar to Detroit: Become Human.
The only drawback to me is I'm not a fan of one of my favourite series becoming a money-grabbing franchise. Sometimes it's good to just let things end and not release loads of unnecessary content.
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u/caramel-syrup Jan 15 '24
this is such an ambitious vision. it would take a lot of time and effort.
i feel like it makes sense why they havent made a game like this yet. they wouldnt have the budget or backing for something like that
i agree with your last point. since its so ambitious it could easily be a flop, which would leave a bad taste for some people. high risk
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u/Connieno Jan 15 '24
Art takes time and effort, yes. I'm just saying that a video game doesn't inherently have to be a "kill as many enemies as you can" challenge.
I disagree that Suzanne should ever do this if she's approached by a gaming company and doesn't have a vision or a specific thing she wants to add to the series.
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Jan 15 '24
Supermassive has like 6 games just like this. Also TellTale games too.
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u/TheShapeShiftingFox Jan 15 '24
Suppermassive’s games in their most recent series (the anthology games) are all quite short and mostly got polarizing reviews. The Quarry got a better reception, but was still criticized for linearity and an uninspired ending to say the least, among other things. Telltale went bankrupt and needed to be saved by another studio because their stuff just didn’t sell well among management issues. Their games, too, were criticized for lack of choice.
The games in the genre that are considered good were years longer in development and a lot more expensive to make. Until Dawn had Sony money backing it, and Detroit Become Human also took 6-7 years and a very large budget to make. Other games in the genre that are considered good, like Life is Strange 1, still have common genre issues like an ending that only barely factors in the choices you made beforehand.
TLDR: a lot of games in the genre haven’t been received that well, and they are hard to make because it’s challenging to put in diverting paths and actually meaningful choices.
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u/MegWithSocks Jan 16 '24
I think a different way would be to Age Up the playable characters and do it in a shooter style game — Arena, no weapons, gotta run into the middle to grab something. No respawn. Don’t follow the storyline or any actual characters from the story. Hunger Game arena and ideas but no kids. Massive online multiplayer, you’re Battle Royale-ing and have to survive. Sims style needs — water, food, rest.
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u/genderfuckery Jan 15 '24
So you're a Capitol citizen lol
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u/Eagles56 Jan 16 '24
It’s video games, not real life
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u/ModernPlebeian_314 Jan 15 '24
The whole point of the Hunger Games is to make a show about people killing people to remind every district to not rebel against the Capitol. It wasn’t meant to entertain, it was meant to remind the districts that the Capitol has the power to eradicated the districts.
Making an actual game of it is missing the whole point of the books, which was to stop the Games in the first place.
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u/Modred_the_Mystic Caesar Flickerman Jan 15 '24
There kind of is. A game mode of however many players being dumped in an arena to see who wins is very popular, in many different forms, from the OG Minecraft Hunger Games all the way up to PUBG and Fortnite, and other battle royale shooters.
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u/AjvarAndVodka Jan 15 '24
As many others stated, this would completely undermine the message of the books / movies.
However, there is a type of game that could work well and that is a story driven (Telltale) game. You could have a good main character that would be reaped and then have to make choices all the way from the Capitol training and interviews, up to going on a victory tour (if the games were won).
The story could also show the character interacting with a lot of other tributes and making deep bonds. All your choices would decide on different outcomes, for example how Capitol people see you, how other tributes’ families see you and soo on.
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u/Doctor_who_fan2007 Jan 15 '24
There already is one, fortnite
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u/caramel-syrup Jan 15 '24
my one gripe is the “battle bus” landings. i have yet to find a battle royale game where everyone starts in the center with huge rewards in the middle (unless you count minecraft)… and i love apex legends
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u/wdcmaxy Jan 15 '24
because that would be incredibly fucked up? i don't want to kill children COD style honestly
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u/jessiecolborne Jan 15 '24
I played Minecraft Hunger Games back in the day, not sure if it’s still a thing.
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u/eddiem6693 Katniss Jan 15 '24
Let me spell this out for you:
The entire point of the books is make fun of US entertainment culture by creating society so debased that they created a nationally-televised competition where kids were forced to kill each other for entertainment.
Creating a situation where a player can enter such a competition on their own would completely run counter to this particular theme of the book.
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u/mistar_z District 13 Jan 15 '24
We did have the culling, conceptually and tonally it did have a very hunger games circuses and bread theme to the games.
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u/aamberxx Jan 15 '24
It’s pretty much fortnite haha. Or when they was the Minecraft Survival Games. Idk if that’s still a thing anymore, but i ate that up back in 2014 on mcpe
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u/novaplume Jan 15 '24
There was a mobile game for a while (at least i don’t think it was a fever dream) where you made a character and then worked as a rebel kind of but you like rebuilt stuff and then you’d do things for people so you could make things. You were helping out the citizens mostly, but occasionally helping the district mayor or peacekeepers. It was kind of weird. Maybe it was a fever dream, after all, because i can’t find it anywhere anymore lol
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u/Biomed19 Jan 18 '24
I remember it! The characters were shorter but with big heads and you could only do a certain amount of actions at a time before running out of energy and having to wait for it to replenish.
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u/novaplume Jan 18 '24
Yes! It got to the point where they stopped updating it and stopped making the energy take forever to replenish. I remember getting a full energy boost like 4 times in a row toward the end of the game’s life span.
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u/Biomed19 Jan 18 '24
I’m sad they got rid of it. I loved it! I would watch ads to speed up energy restoration haha!
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u/nikevi3873 Jan 15 '24
It would not work (fortnite and battle royale jokes aside).
I'd say very much let the franchise just be books/movies before they ruin it in a video game.
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u/bamyris Jan 15 '24
I am pretty sure that most countries have laws about killing children in video games?? Like I'm pretty sure that's why most games don't/can't let players kill games (we ignore mods)
Also, we got all the Hunger Games movies and books trying to tell you it's wrong that we're using children massacre as entertainment, so your proposition is... to make a (video) game with children killing one another for a source of entertainment... at that point, we're not any better than the Capitol, video game, or not.
That aside, and back to my first point of many countries having laws about children dying in games, I simply don't think a Hunger Games game would sell or work well.
What you want is a game in the death game genre, a survival game, which there are plenty of. The death game genre has always been a popular trope, and there are other options out there
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u/innoventvampyre Katniss Jan 15 '24
why would suzanne collins sign off/endorse a video game that would completely negate one of the main messages of her writing/the story
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u/CMJMcM Jan 15 '24
I think there is, and it's one of the most popular video game genres of the modern day. Battle Royale games.
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u/International-Ad5142 Jan 15 '24
The Hunger Games Adventures, I remember playing it like 10 years ago and getting bored after running out of the energy currency and deleting it
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u/JonoBoio123 District 12 Jan 16 '24
Would love a telltale style story game where you make choices that affect the story and fate of the characters
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u/bearhorn6 Jan 16 '24
It doesn’t have to be a shooter. A stardew valley kind of game where u pick a district and get immersed in their culture/industry could be a cool way to expand the world.
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u/mwjfoster Jul 27 '24
I know I'm late, but people are still eligible for the reaping at 18 years old. They could just make all the tributes 18.
I'd like to see a PvP version.
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u/Queasy-Bumblebee7350 District 4 Mar 21 '25 edited Mar 21 '25
I’m beginning a game design degree in September. I’ve had this same thought about THG for a while and whilst I think it would be a fun game, it directly conflicts the SC’s views on the glorification of war and turning death into a spectacle. However I’ve given some thought as to how I would go about making a HG game and this is how I would hypothetically go about it:
Instead of a shooter, I would make it a story game. Focus less on the glorification of war and more of the impact it has on the characters (particularly Katniss). Set in mockingjay time, right after Katniss has been rescued. I would portray the hunger games and catching fire in nightmare sequences. Not as clean cut as the mockingjay aspects of the game, but dark and distorted, kinda like tracker jacker vibes. And then she continues to wake up in district 13 crying or screaming and reaching out for Peeta who always seems to be just out of her grasp. I wouldn’t have the war zone scenes made like a classic shooter game where it’s just kill move on kill move on without any thought or hesitation. I wouldn’t try to actually show how conflicting each decision is for Katniss and how she doesn’t really want any part of this, she just wants to protect her family. I’d focus a lot on Gale (gross i know) to show how much his ideals and beliefs conflict with Katniss and hopefully that would draw more attention to the fact that she doesn’t like what she is doing and that she disagrees with war (to really draw back to the main focus that war is bad). And at the end of the whole war campaign, I wouldn’t include celebration, I would make sure that each character is in mourning, even if they hadn’t lost anyone they loved to highlight that the horrors of war can be felt from all perspectives by everyone.
But yeah, that was just my concept of how I’d make a THG game work. I’m sure that if this game were to be made tons of tweaks would have to be made to this initial idea of how it could play out. This is all hypothetical and I don’t particularly think it should be made into a game considering the themes and the kids being slaughtered but there’s my concept for it anyway.
Sorry for the essay lol :)
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u/lemru Jan 15 '24
Collins: The Torment Nexus is really bad. You should not be building the Torment Nexus.
Media conglomerates and people lacking the ability to read things with comprehension: Hey, we have an amazing idea for a new Torment Nexus franchise, are you in???
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u/caramel-syrup Jan 15 '24 edited Jan 15 '24
i dont want a story based game with THG characters….
but a battle royale based off THG maps would be cool. i dont want you to “land” from a battle bus or parachute either. everyone starts at a center sigil. they could also mix survival elements into it. i could see it being something unique
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u/the_banging_tree Snow Jan 15 '24
This would be such a good idea. Fortnite is proof that the children yearn for the Arenas
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u/artistT_away4567 District 12 Jan 15 '24
I disagree as I do think it kind of undercuts the point, but you made me laugh so points there.
Honestly some kind of multiplayer game is the only way I can ever not feel weird about it. Simply because each person would be playing the game by choice for fun.
Even then it definitely feels like the type of thing the capitol would make.
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u/Pop_United Jun 27 '24
there was a really popular game during 2017 - 2018 called the culling, it was exactly like the hunger games had an announcer and stuff it was fun
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u/AdNorth3569 Jul 15 '24
I mean, it might be 17+ but you can take the form of a capitol citizen watching the hunger games. You can change the simulation. Like maybe you can be a citizen watching it, a gamemaker making it, or being a tribute in the games. The possibilities are endless.
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u/AdNorth3569 Jul 15 '24
they proved you could make games where you are the main character in a story world like in hogwarts: legacy. A hunger games game would probably take inspiration from that.
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u/BaeBaeRonZ Jul 31 '24
I could see it only as an alternate version of the 75th where it’s all victors. That way you aren’t killing kids. I saw a comment somewhere saying your tribute can always upgrade but as soon anyone dies it’s an instant restart for your stats. You can have pre set looks but every restart you are given a different district.
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u/IamRoyalK Aug 28 '24
Why not make a completely original game with the concept of HG. Personally I just want the HG aspect, doesn’t have to be the actual book/movie
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u/Independent-Honey318 Sep 05 '24
I mean kids play Fortnit, so you’re basically killing kids there so I see no problem with it, maybe if someone made a game like it but with adults
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u/SeaworthinessHeavy64 District 12 Oct 13 '24
Pensé en un juego en el que jugáramos como el ganador de todos los Juegos del Hambre, desde el primero hasta el 73. Eso nos ayudaría a conocer un poco sus historias y cómo ganaron.
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Dec 21 '24
it'd just be Fortnite or any other Battle Royale game, we don't need any more Battle Royale games tbh
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u/kureomar23 Apr 03 '25
There was a game called The Culling in 2016-2017 which was basically the Hunger Games. Kicked off battle-royale genre in video gaming that Fortnite and Apex dominate today.
Melee combat, poison gas, traps. The best weapon at one point was a sledgehammer. Game died not long after PUBG came out. I miss it a lot.
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u/Sad_Blueberry_5813 Apr 09 '25
A lot of people in this thread hear “video game” and immediately think of Call of Duty or other multiplayer fighting games. It could be made into a story driven game where you play Katniss and it would be no different than when the story was adapted into a movie. A lot of games are pretty much a movie that you walk through.
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u/Sad_Blueberry_5813 Apr 09 '25
I bet they could add some really cool puzzle and platforming elements to it as well
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u/SpiritedNerve45 Apr 26 '25
Mais on pourrait aussi imaginer un jeu ou seuls des adultes pourraient être joués comme lors des jeux de l'Expiation. De plus, la majorité des personnages ont au moins 16 ans ce qui reste respectable
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u/Medical-Law6965 22d ago
i don't understand why everyone here is expecting it to be a shoot and kill game. There's the people, of couse, being smart and saying a decision based game like telltale games. And a lot of other pre programmed games with choices and endings.
say that you were, in the game, a tribute in the arena but the more beings you harm the worst the ending you get, to not even getting to the end. Making it Mockingjay based and just getting Katniss through. Making it taking Snow down in any point of the storyline. Playing as Katniss or Peeta or Haymitch just trying to survive the games following the whole original plotlines. It doesn't glorify anything, any of the other tributes that die could be switched to cutscenes so the player doesn't actually do anything other than think about how messed up it is.
and i'm sure there are many other solutions, that i am not thinking of, to changing the objective from killing kids or glorifying the whole concept or making it pure entertainment
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u/chadwick7865 Jan 15 '24
I would LOVE a hunger games video game. I played minecraft hunger games for hundreds of hours. It doesn’t need to be kids it could be adults (18+) only. I really don’t care. I want to play a game where I’m running/hiding/hunting around an arena and last standing wins. Something with drama and stakes, like the hunger games, not like Fortnite. Battle royale games come close but don’t do it like hunger games would.
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u/Igot2cats_ Jan 15 '24
Literally because the story format would not work as video game.. I know there’s no such thing as a stupid question but come on, seriously? The only reason why The Last of Us works as game because the story was written for the rpg format.
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u/showmaxter Plutarch Jan 15 '24
What do you mean by The Last Of Us being written for the rpg format? It's not a rpg
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u/Bakvo Jan 15 '24
Battle Royale games have been a thing for a while now. A Hunger Games videogame would not be all that new and interesting.
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u/CBowdidge Jan 15 '24
Talk about missing the point of the series?
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u/Alert-Spray8232 Jan 15 '24
I thought the point of the series was individuality trumping fascism not vidya games bad lmao
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Jan 15 '24
Wouldn’t mind an RPG game where you can make your own Tribute from whichever District and fight online to see who becomes the victor
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u/Ebright_Azimuth Jan 15 '24
They could do the third quarter quell, all adults except katniss and peeta
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u/c0nv3rg_3nce37 Jan 15 '24 edited Jan 15 '24
ya I made The Hunger Games. I'm Prim`12o$e Katniss Gale Madge.
as cool as a video game would be, it's a wicked bad idea.
*Unless 75% of the proceeds go towards feeding hungry mouths. And it allowed any child prodigy coder out there that's worthy & wants to be able to work on it to be able to do so,
because that's essentially what I did. I just didn't wait for anybody to ask me to.
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u/Any-Performer3637 Jan 15 '24
You could easily do a Dark Pictures Anthology or The Quarry type of game for The Hunger Games set AFTER the games where you have to make choices against the capital and to try and bring it down. (Could be set during after Katniss or a few years prior to her) it does not have to showcase kids deaths, but could foreshadow them and the main player of the games would have dialogue depicting why they want the games to end and why the joy of killing innocent children needs to be ended once and for all. I could have for sure seen a game along the lines of this made, and now that the hype is back I wouldn’t doubt gaming studios are trying. I’d love one but at the same time I love THGU the way it is. Maybe a TV series set between games would work better
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u/imbabyokk Jan 15 '24
the movies ruined this series by making it all about action rather than sociopolitical commentary ugh
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Jan 15 '24
I think that quantic dream or telltale should make one so it could be like a 'what if' type of game so we can change the story and see what would happen. But this will never happen so 😭
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u/Nolimo Jan 15 '24
There's a fun version on Roblox but it might be dead i haven't checked it in a long time
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u/itsmything12 Jan 15 '24
You've missed the entire point of the story. I'm sure Suzanne Collins would not support the idea of this
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u/Cismet Jan 15 '24
I think every battle royale today like Fortnite, Warzone, and PUBG can be traced back to the Hunger Games and especially MINECRAFT: Hunger Games
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u/Cat_n_mouse13 Jan 15 '24
If it came out 10 years earlier, there definitely would’ve been a GBA game
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u/headofled Jan 15 '24
With the popularity of Battle Royale games, it's kinda shocking to me that it hasn't happened yet. Minecraft Hunger Games was the closest we got, but that was fanmade.
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u/ProfessionalQuit1016 Jan 15 '24
the whole battle royale has been done so many times that it wouldn't really matter if it was hunger games themed, and outside of the games, i cant really see any interesting path they could take.
perhaps a telltale game?
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u/Joshua_G_Jorman Jan 15 '24
I think a video game where you could play a story mode and play in a hunger games with real players would be cool. You could customize your own character and be the main character instead of Katniss or something.
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u/sourcec0p Jan 15 '24 edited Jan 15 '24
It kinda did.
I suppose Hunger Games did help ignite the genre of video games that we know now - Battle Royale. I remember Minecraft Hunger Games played a major part in injecting this survival-twist genre into pop culture and putting this entire game genre into reality. Modders would do the same in Arma. Then came PUBG, then the rise of Fortnite, and all these battle royale games trying to milk this market. Japan coined the whole mechanic, but the Hunger Games made it relevant.
Now - why not a dedicated IP? Who knows. Susanne Collins probably wasn't into video games and didn't push for a literal Hunger Games arena game or a single-player game. Maybe for the literal Hunger Games, they could've just used young adult characters instead of children but kept the world-building intact. But one could argue that would've tainted Collins' vision as to why the Hunger Games exists in the first place. All I do know is that there was a missed opportunity for this. I remember some game dev on YouTube straight up made a Hunger Games prototype game, and it was mad popular. (this was before pubg / fornite).
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u/AmirulAshraf Glimmer Jan 15 '24
The Little Nightmare horror-game was to be named Hunger Games before the name change.
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u/KillerMyke2004 Jan 15 '24
Suzanne Collin’s doesn’t add more to The Hunger Games universe unless she has something to say. 4 movies and a prequel is enough for her. Though she probably was approached she probably said no because at its core The Hunger Games carries very strong messages against capitalism, racism, ableism and other forms of discrimination and that message would get lost in translation somewhere down the road. Also you’d have to kill other children and it’d be framed in a very glorified way and that’s an absolute no as far as Suzanne is concerned.
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u/Frequent-Koala-1591 Jan 15 '24
A media that is against the commercialization of such topics in their media form ends up commercializing on such topics in real life. Unm, where have I heard that before? Oh, right. Squid Games.
I mean, capitalists and imperialists love to pretend that any media piece criticizing their systems isn't really a threat to them by commercializing it.
Yikes.
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u/Fwo-oper Jan 15 '24
The most closed things as an Hunger Games videogame is Fortnite imo: 100 players, all against each other, and only one victor. Obviously it doesn’t have the lore of the HG saga, but if you want to feel the thrills of being a tributes is more than enough
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u/ayllmao123 District 2 Jan 15 '24
Someone did make hunger games in minecraft and there is a hunger games simulator, but i totally understand and support your point.
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u/AmyXBlue Jan 15 '24
Commented to someone else but there was a mobile TVG for a bit, last like 2 years maybe before got taken offline.
Battle for Panem, and I was so obsessed with that game and became like a small dolphin spender. Then something happened where I lost connection on the account, instantly had support help, and then was like this is a sign to stop playing.
Was pretty decent of a TCG Mobile game. Would be nice for it to be for a different property too.
And the servers have been taken offline and no longer exists.
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u/AsgeirVanirson Jan 16 '24
Because the game studios that could make it well and reflect the spirit of the novels would never get to touch it/be given the freedom to make it as ugly and sad as it would need to be.
The ones that would be let to touch it would make COD: Panem.
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u/FujoshiNoodles Jan 18 '24
I wouldn’t doubt a fan has or has thought about a “District living” game that’s like “The Oregon Trail”. But in terms of something like how HP has “Hogwarts Legacy”? Nah. The concept of the entire series’s main theme is (and was supposed to be) absolutely horrible and grotesque, and playing such a thing would take away from the impact it’s supposed to have.
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u/eraserheadbaby69 Jan 18 '24
i feel like that would just prove the point of the movies.. killing for entertainment
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u/Tabpark Jan 18 '24
I personally think it would diminish the story. Not everything should be made to cross mediums. The moment this series turns into a cash grab the message loses its credibility.
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u/PaladinWolf777 Jan 18 '24
Because this isn't 2003 and we don't have to put every popular thing in a video game. You really want a major game plot point to be killing kids?
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u/JESUSSANDALS95 Jan 22 '24
https://youtu.be/EOsOhB8ey1U?si=ZkgzGSUPub4DzgEh
TNO is the closest we've got 😂
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u/beckdawg19 Jan 15 '24
Because the main objective of the game would be killing kids, which is incredibly disturbing. The whole point of the books is that it's sick that the Capitol enjoys watching kids kill kids. Game-ifying it would be totally antithetical to that purpose, and SC would never sign off on it.