Dante: Games based on Dante's Commedia

Research tools and resources on Dante Alighieri, 1265-1321.

Board Games

These games are available for check-out from UW Libraries. The Games Collection is located on Odegaard Undegraduate Library's 1st floor, just inside and to the left of the main entry doors.

Inferno: Dante’s Guide to Hell
Vol. 1, the “player’s handbook” for the game
Inferno: Virgilio’s Untold Tales
Vol. 2, the combined “dungeon master’s guide” and “monster manual” for the game
Inferno: Dante’s Guide to Hell
Vol. 3, the illustrated English & Italian volume of Dante’s Inferno

Video Games

Video Games referencing Dante
Dante Today is a crowd-sourced repository of references to Dante and his works in popular and contemporary culture

Scholarship about Dante and Gaming

Essary, Brandon. “‘De Vulgari “Ludo-Quentia”’: Dante, Games, and Pop Culture.” In Dante Alive, Routledge, 2023, pp. 180–94.
Powlesland, Katherine. “Dante and Video Games: The Unrealised Potential of the Virtual Commedia.” Italian Studies, vol. 77, no. 2, 2022, pp. 146–56.
Rossignoli, Claudia. “Playing the Afterlife: Dante’s Otherworlds in the Gaming Age.” Games and Culture, vol. 15, no. 7, 2020, pp. 825–49.
Brandon K. Essary. “Dante’s ‘Inferno’, Video Games, and Pop Pedagogy.” Parole Rubate, vol. 10, no. 20, 2019, pp. 59–82.
Pettini, Silvia. “Translating Literature into Playability: The Case of Dante’s Inferno.” The Journal of Internationalisation and Localisation, vol. 4, no. 2, 2017, pp. 100–19.
Kline, Daniel T., editor. Digital Gaming Re-Imagines the Middle Ages. Routledge, 2014.