The Board Game/Sandbox



"Syd Lexia's First Law of Pop Culture: If it was popular between 1975 and 1995, then there is a board game based on it."

You've seen the movie. You've read the books. You've watched the entire TV series and achieved every ending in the video game.

Now it's time to play... the board game.

This is pretty much what it sounds like: A board-game adaptation of a popular book, movie, TV show, or even video game. A subtrope of this is the Home Game, for board-game adaptations of game shows. Common tropes include player markers shaped like characters or props from the work, landing spots on the board themed after places in the work's universe, and chance cards based on incidents from the work's history.

Sometimes, these games are lower quality, as the game was only released as a marketing gimmick. For adaptations that some tropers find particularly awful, see Bland Branded Board Game on Darth Wiki. However, they are by no means universally bad, and some of them rate quite highly on review sites such as Board Game Geek.