There was a time when major films frequently got their own video game tie-in regardless of whether they were suitable fodder or not. Director Oliver Stoneās Oscar-winning Platoon, for example, was turned into a 2D run-and-gun for assorted 1980s computers. Itās fair to say the game didnāt exactly capture the full horror of the Vietnam war in quite the same way Stoneās film did. Which brings us Banshees: The Game, a charmingly lo-fi browser diversion based on the multiple BAFTA-winning 2022 drama, The Banshees of Inisherin. The film was a black, quietly poignant comedy about a dying friendship on a remote Irish Island, with likeably crumpled turns from Brendan Gleeson and Colin Farrell. Banshees: The Game turns it all into a Pac-Man-like maze game in which you play a 16-bit Brendan Gleeson, frantically trying to avoid the attention of Colin Farrell (and other characters from the film) as you try to collect all your severed fingers.
Collect the fingers, avoid Colin and get to the pub. Sounds like a regular day to us. Credit: Cogs & Marvel.