The best based on a novel games

Based on a novel games

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  Dune 2000

  Windows XP/98/9519984.2/5 Westwood Studios

  Dune 2000 is an abandoned science fiction classic real-time strategy game based on the popular Dune franchise. The Dune "universe" took form in the books of science fiction writer Frank Herbert and went on to include movies, TV series, comics, and of course video games. Dune 2000 is one of the finest RTS of its era; it was developed by We...

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  Pacific Islands

  DOS19924.2/5 Oxford Digital Enterprises
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  9 Princes in Amber

  DOS19854.2/5 Telarium
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  Dune II: The building of a dynasty

  DOS19924.2/5 Westwood Studios

  Dune 2 is a real time strategy game set on Arrakis, the planet made famous by the popular series of science fiction books written by Frank Herbert. Dune 2 established the classic RTS genre that later spawned games like Starcraft, Warcraft and Red Alert.

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  Discworld

  DOS19954.2/5 Perfect Entertainment
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  Team Yankee

  DOS19904.2/5 Oxford Digital Enterprises
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  The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy

  DOSMac1984freeware4.2/5 Infocom

  The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy is a humorous free text adventure game based on the novel of the same name written by Douglas Adams (if you never read it, shame on you!). The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy was designed by Douglas Adams himself and interactive fiction god Steve Eric Meretzky, it was released by Infocom in 1984 for DOS and for...

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  Conan: the Cimmerian

  DOS19914.2/5 Synergistic Software
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  Frederik Pohl's Gateway

  DOS19924.1/5 Legend Entertainment

  Frederik Pohl's Gateway is one of the best abandoned adventures games from Legend Entertainment. Gateway is an interactive fiction with graphics and an improved interface (unusual for IFs), based on the Frederik Pohl's novel Gateway. Tt was designed by Michael Verdu and Glen R. Dahlgren and published by Legend Entertainment in 1992.

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  Discworld 2: Mortality Bytes!

  DOS19964.1/5 Perfect Entertainment
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  War of the Lance

  DOS1990protected4.1/5 SSI Strategic Simulations Inc.
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  Dune

  DOS19924.1/5 Cryo Interactive Entertainment
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  Arthur: The Quest for Excalibur

  DOS19894.1/5 Infocom
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  Prisoner of Ice

  DOS1995protected4.1/5 Chaosium Inc.
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  Transarctica

  DOS19934.1/5 Silmarils
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  J.R.R. Tolkien's Riders of Rohan

  DOS19974.1/5 Papyrus Design Group
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  James Clavell's Shogun

  DOS19894.1/5 Infocom
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  Mixed-up Mother Goose

  DOS19874.1/5 Sierra On-Line
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  Shannara

  DOS1995protected4.1/5 Legend Entertainment
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  Romance of the Three Kingdoms 2

  DOS19904.1/5 KOEI
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  Betrayal at Krondor

  DOS1993protected4/5 Dynamix
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  I have no Mouth and I Must Scream

  DOS1995protected4/5 The Dreamers Guild
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  La Abadia del Crimen

  DOS19874/5 Opera Soft
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  The Fellowship of the Ring

  DOS19864/5 Beam Software
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  Circuit's Edge

  DOS19904/5 Westwood Studios

  Circuit's Edge is a single-player science fiction blend of adventure game and RPG, developed by Westwood Studios and released by Infocom in 1990. Circuit's Edge is based on George Alec Effinger's cyberpunk novel "When Gravity Fails".

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  Megafortress

  DOS1991protected4/5 Artech Studios
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  Gateway 2: Homeworld

  DOS1993protected4/5 Legend Entertainment
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  Flight of the Intruder

  DOS19904/5 Rowan Software
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  Hook

  DOS19924/5 Shadow Software
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  Red Storm Rising

  DOS19894/5 MicroProse Software