The Chronicles of Riddick

The Chronicles of Riddick is Vin Diesel's passion project, a strange saga that lurches between genres around one murderous, night-seeing antihero. Pitch Black is a lean creature-feature survival film, while the title installment The Chronicles of Riddick swings hard the other way into operatic space fantasy. Riddick later strips things back to basics, and Riddick: Furya promises to take the character home.

The surprise is that the best entries may be the games. The Chronicles of Riddick: Escape from Butcher Bay and its remaster-sequel Assault on Dark Athena are widely held to be among the finest film-licensed games ever made, and they sit early in the timeline. Because the saga jumps around its own chronology, the in-universe order differs from release order, with the prison-break games preceding the events of Pitch Black.

The The Chronicles of Riddick franchise spans 2 games, 4 films in the CrossBinge catalog.