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If you are tempted to turn your hand to a Thrones-inspired game night, we have compiled a list of some of our favourite games for you below, plus our take on which GOT characters might like them.

As always, here at Dicebox, we like to intersperse our box set binging with some suitably thematic board games.

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Rumours of a follow-up series have permeated popular culture since before the last episode ended, and with it looking more likely than ever that we will see some sort of prequel in the next year or two, now is a great time to head back to Westeros for another watch. The show may be over, but the impact still carries.

The important thing is that almost everybody had an opinion on it. It doesn’t matter whether your opinion of it was good, bad, or you weren’t quite sure either way. You see, like many great shows, the success of Game of Thrones lies not just in its popularity but in its ability to be surprising, divisive, and shocking in equal measure. Even if his failings were less calculated and more, well, miscalculations. It could be argued that Jaime Lannister was just as much or as little a hero as Jon Snow, the more traditionally styled good guy who, in many ways, was responsible for just as many deaths. For example, the saving of Brienne of Tarth from a bear pit, abandoning his position to ride north to fight at Winterfell, not to mention him saving an entire city of people from being burnt to death by Wildfire. Despite an incestuous relationship with his sister, his attempted murder of a small child, the actual murder of his cousin, and other heinous crimes, Jaime performed some of the most heroic acts in the show. Take Kings layer Jaime Lannister, for example. It gave us characters we loved, characters we hated, and characters that prompted us to ask do I really like this person? Is it OK to root for them? So we did pay attention.Īnd we were rewarded with characters like Syrio Forel, whose line ‘What do we say to the God of Death?’ has been uttered a million times despite his character only having just over six minutes of screen time in a show running for eight years.Ĭharacterization played a massive part in the popularity of the series. In the words of Ramsay Bolton – if you think this has a happy ending, you haven’t been paying attention. The difference between GOT and other works of similar style was that, of course, in this show, the good guys didn’t all live to see the end.Īll bets were off and nobody was safe. That had a cast longer than Arya’s list after the Red Wedding.

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Take Peter Jackson’s Lord of the Rings movie trilogy. Seeing bars and sports centers offering screenings to audiences of hundreds, all gathered to see the final undoing of the Night King made the ‘Long Night’ episode akin to the Super Bowl of fantasy.Įnsemble casts in fantasy are nothing new. In a sense, it made fantasy mainstream and provided those who had previously thought of the genre in terms of Tolkienesque tones with something accessible. While swords, sorcery, and dragons had always been staples of the genre, very few shows before it have culminated in bringing together such a widely spread army of fans, both inside and outside the fantasy community.įor many, Thrones was a gateway show. Possibly the most impressive thing about Game of Thrones was how it bridged the gap between traditional fantasy fans and newcomers to the genre. It also prompted increases in network budgets for serialized fantasy shows, paving the way for new television adaptations of works by authors like Neil Gaiman and Andrzej Sapkowski. The success of the show directly contributed to an enormous resurgence in sales of fantasy classics. Regardless of whether you loved or hated the way the show ended, GOT provided some of the most memorable, most intense, and most hotly debated topics in popular culture of the last decade. ‘When You Play the Game of Thrones, You Win or You Die.’ So, in this triumphant return to our games and culture blog, we bend the knee and offer up a salute to the legacy of Westeros and the incredible way in which the adaption of George RR Martin’s ‘A Song of Ice and Fire’ reignited the flames of fantasy. While Lord Eddard Stark might have lasted about as long as a packet of chocolate biscuits in the Dice Box office, the impact that HBO series Game of Thrones had on popular culture is still as strong today as a decade ago. Ten years have passed since we first heard the gravel-toned voice of fantasy film favourite Sean Bean uttering the immortal phrase ‘winter is coming’.

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