Original stories set within the worlds of iconic video games are featured in this animated anthology series.
To be fair, I didn’t even know about many of these games, so I find the “this is an ad” approach fairly interesting. Some episodes are really good, some are only pretty, some are just meh. I’ll explain each one by one, along with my familiarity of the title:
1. Dungeons and Dragons
All fantasy games are somehow based on D&D and the episode is not only pretty, but also good. Loved it! 7x🍿
2. Sifu
I had this on my wishlist for some time, and while it’s not my favourite kind of game, the episode was absolutely great! 7x🍿
3. New World
Didn’t know about the game, but the video was absolutely brilliant! Loved the voice of Arnold Schwarzenegger as King Aelstrom and the story is decent. 5x🍿
4. Unreal Tournament
Playing a lot of UT in all its incarnations, I have to say this episode was excellently done. Loved to see the weapons, the teams and the re-imagined robots. Brilliant! 9x🍿
5. Warhammer 40k
The Warhammer lore is immense and this episode for someone that never touched it, you couldn’t get a better introduction to the universe. 5x🍿
6. Pac-Man
Lovely thriller/horror/fantasy based on the Pac-Man game. This is the most creative so far and it’s well done. 5x🍿
7. Crossfire
Another huge game that I didn’t know about. Really well made warzone/action episode, although not my cup of tea. 3x🍿
8. Armored Core
Another brilliant game I never learned about. This fast-paced action episode starring Keanu as Keanu is the perfect introduction to a brilliant cyberpunk universe. 5x🍿
9. The Outer Worlds
The action RPG created by the same people that created Fallout gets a good colourful retro-futuristic steampunky episode with a good moral story. 5x🍿
10. Mega Man
Another brilliant episode based on a game I played a lot as a kid (Rockman by its Japanese name). This is a brilliant starting point for something that would work really nice as a cinematic universe. 5x🍿
11. Exodus
This is a game that hasn’t even been released, but man, the video is selling it hard. 4x🍿
12. Spelunky
Spelunky is another nice game that I’ve never got to playing because of its difficulty, but the episode is really funny and throws some really nice punches at the gameplay. 4x🍿
13. Concord
At least something remained behind Concord, the Overwatch-clone made by Sony that was scrapped only 2 weeks after release. While sporting a good cyberpunk theme, the short movie is fine as a Guardians of the Galaxy clone. See a pattern? Yeah, that’s why it failed. 3x🍿
14. Honor of Kings
Confucius say: play go to be more Confusius. Nice execution, but the story is meh. 3x🍿
15. Playtime
Just skip this. While not based on a game, it shows what’s wrong with the gaming industry in 2025: shiny colours, neon lightning, hardcore gamification. It features some cameos from some Playstation franchises, but all in all it seems a Playstation advert made for damn 10 year old kids with 3 seconds attention span, but created by people who never actually saw a kid in their life. This is just slop. No 🍿 for this junk.
