Playing Game of Thrones the Game Will Tide You Over Until Season 6

That promotional image from HBO's Game of Thrones is probably still stuck in your head, right? Jon Snow, bleeding from where his eyeball should be? And the word "April"? Who the hell can wait until April? That's, like, next year! You've already re-watched all five seasons. This Game of Thrones jones is not going away.

Well, have you considered playing the videogame? Telltale Games just finished up its epic six-part Game of Thrones adventure, and there's a lot to like about it.

Not only do you interact with some of the series' most intriguing characters (played by the show's actors), but rather than simply re-enacting scenes from the books or show, it's sort of a Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead take in which you play as many different members of a minor house, embroiled in a smaller-scale conflict tangentially related to the major events of the show.

This allows the game to bring in fan favorites (Cersei! Jon Snow! Peter Dinklage!) while leaving you with no idea as to how anything's going to play out in the end. Telltale's point-and-click adventure games are less about puzzles and more about choices, which also dovetails nicely with the source material: Do you betray your friend and survive, or sell them out and die? With so many "main characters," like the show, you can't be sure that simply being the protagonist of the game will carry you safely through each situation.