14 March 2026

Reacher Fans Are Basically Begging for a Video Game

By newsgame

Reacher‘s popularity is arguably at an all-time high, as the 2022 Amazon Prime Video action-crime series is set to release Season 4 sometime in 2026. While Season 4 is set to adapt the 13th novel written by Lee Child, Gone Tomorrow, there’s plenty of unexplored territory, given that there are 30 books and a short story collection as of November 2025. And in those novels, there is plenty of room for a Reacher video game adaptation.

For the uninitiated, Jack Reacher is a series of novels, novellas, and short stories written by Jim Grant under the pseudonym Lee Child. Reacher is a former major in the United States Army Military Police Corps who becomes a drifter to see his country, taking odd jobs and using his pension to live day to day. However, Reacher’s skills often bring him into dangerous situations across the U.S. The Amazon Prime Video series has adapted 4 of the novels so far, so even if fans revisit a storyline or two, a video game (or series) feels like the next logical step. After all, if James Bond and John Wick can get video games, why can’t Jack Reacher?

Reacher: The Video Game

And of course, Reacher fans have plenty of ideas about what a video game could entail. One popular comment on Reddit is about a mechanic dubbed Reachervision that could “help you notice small details (like rdr dead eye) that gets replenished with coffee and pancakes.” Another loved the idea of having to go into a “secondhand shop every few days” to replenish torn clothes. Many video games are about making all the money you can, or at least there’s a benefit to it, but adapting Reacher’s humble lifestyle would create many interesting scenarios.

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Others highlighted specific video game styles for a theoretical Reacher game. Some love the idea of a TellTale-style Reacher game where players can create their own story, lean into either his wit or stoicism, while others suggested an action game with Batman: Arkham-like combat would be a strong fit for Reacher. Of course, other redditors suggested that the gameplay would need to have plenty of puzzles and detective gameplay too. Reacher’s combat abilities are important, but so are his deductive reasoning and investigation skills.

Perhaps the biggest decision of a Reacher video game would be which storyline to adapt, if not a completely original story. The most popular, based on this Reddit thread, seems to be:

Blue Moon
Killing Floor
Bad Luck and Trouble
Persuader
Midnight Line
Without Fail
Night School
The Affair
One Shot
Past Tense
Never Go Back

Reacher is a Perfect Fit for a Video Game

Tripwire and 61 Hours would also be excellent storylines to adapt, where a 61 Hours game could easily adapt the ticking clock into a game mechanic. Overall, the novels offer a plethora of stories to, at the very least, inspire a Reacher game, while the Reacher’s fight scenes in the Amazon series show a lot of ways to adopt the combat. At the heart needs to be the investigative nature of a Jack Reacher story, but none of this is impossible in a video game. Reacher, like John Wick and James Bond before him, fits video games like a glove.

Not to mention, the trope of “wandering investigator” is not absent from video games, but perhaps nothing fits the scope and skills of Reacher. Something like the Professor Layton series is perhaps the closest, although far from what a Reacher video game would entail. Still, in it, Ace Attorney, Disco Elysium, L.A. Noire, Alan Wake, and Control are the chops to pull off a Reacher video game. It would be drastically different from all of these, of course, but the sheer potential, the sheer adaptability, are all there.

Release Date: February 3, 2022
Network: Prime Video
Showrunner: Nick Santora
Directors: Omar Madha, Carol Banker, Julian Holmes, Lin Oeding, M.J. Bassett, Norberto Barba, Stephen Surjik, Thomas Vincent
Writers: Cait Duffy