One of the most iconic video games based on The Simpsons could be making a comeback. Since the hit TV show debuted in 1989, numerous video games have featured the Springfield family and other iconic characters. So, with The Simpsons Movie making a return in 2027, will the same happen for this notable gaming title? The Simpsons: Hit & Run was a 2003 game often described as “The Simpsons meets Grand Theft Auto.” In it, you play as different Simpsons characters, taking on various missions across Springfield, and it is still being played to this day through physical copies and mods. Since its release, The Simpsons: Hit & Run has been praised, earning a 78 critic score and an 8.5 user score on Metacritic. Now, over two decades later, the game could make its return.
The D23 Expo held a The Simpsons: Stories from Springfield panel, where creator Matt Groening and the show’s staff spoke about the long-running TV series. During the Q&A session, a fan asked whether The Simpsons: Hit & Run would release a sequel, since The Simpsons Movie was also making a comeback. In response, Groening teased that it could return, saying that the “original game is coming back in some form,” but showrunnerMatt Selmanchimed in with “or not,” in case things changed. After that response, the rest of the panelists talked about The Simpsons’ success with recent collaborations like Fortnite and Monopoly GO, and joked that The Simpsons collab was what’s “keeping Fortnite going.”
Collider Exclusive · Universe Personality Quiz Which Iconic Universe Do You Belong in the Most? Star Wars · Lord of the Rings · Harry Potter · Game of Thrones · Star Trek
Five legendary universes. Five completely different visions of what the world could be — or already was. One of them is the world your instincts, your values, and your particular way of existing were built for. Eight questions will tell you which one.
🚀Star Wars
💍Lord of the Rings
🧙Harry Potter
👑Game of Thrones
🖖Star Trek
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What gives your life its deepest sense of meaning? Every universe is built around a different answer to this question.
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Which kind of world do you most want to inhabit? The environment shapes who you become. Choose carefully.
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How do you prefer your conflicts resolved? The shape of a world’s conflicts tells you everything about its soul.
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Who do you want beside you when things get difficult? Your ideal companions reveal the world you were made for.
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What is your relationship with power? How you seek, wield, or resist power is the map of who you are.
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How does your universe treat good and evil? A world’s moral architecture tells you more about it than any map.
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What role would you naturally fall into? Every universe has archetypes. Which one fits you without trying?
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What do you ultimately believe about the future? The answer to this is the clearest window into which universe already lives inside you.
Your Universe Has Been Chosen You Belong In…
Your answers point to the iconic universe your values, your instincts, and your particular way of seeing the world were built for. This is where you would find your people — and your purpose.
A Galaxy Far, Far Away
Star Wars
You believe in the cause — in the idea that freedom is worth fighting for even when the odds are impossible and the empire is vast.
You are drawn to the moral clarity of a universe where hope itself is a form of resistance.
You’d find your people in the Rebellion — a ragtag coalition of true believers held together by conviction more than resources.
Star Wars is fundamentally a story about ordinary people choosing to matter in an extraordinary conflict — and that is exactly your kind of story.
The Force may or may not be with you. But the will to use it for something larger than yourself certainly is.
Middle-earth
Lord of the Rings
You understand, in the deepest part of yourself, that the journey matters as much as the destination — and that the world’s beauty is worth protecting even at great cost.
Middle-earth is a world of ancient wonder, deep friendship, and a darkness that only retreats when enough small acts of courage accumulate.
You would thrive here because you value the fellowship more than the glory — the road more than the arrival.
Tolkien’s universe rewards patience, loyalty, and the willingness to carry something heavy across a very long distance.
Those are not burdens to you. They are simply how you move through the world.
The Wizarding World
Harry Potter
You believe that love, loyalty, and doing what’s right are not naive sentiments — they are the most powerful forces in any world, magical or otherwise.
The Wizarding World is a place of wonder hidden in plain sight, where learning is transformative and the bonds you form at school follow you into every battle.
You would flourish here because you take both the magic and the friendships seriously — and you understand that one without the other is incomplete.
Harry Potter’s universe ultimately rewards those who choose to stand for something even when standing is terrifying.
That choice — made quietly, without guarantee — is something you understand completely.
Westeros · The Known World
Game of Thrones
You see the world clearly — its power structures, its hypocrisies, its brutal arithmetic — and you are not paralysed by that clarity. You use it.
Westeros is a world that rewards intelligence, adaptability, and the willingness to understand that every alliance is also a negotiation.
You would survive here — possibly thrive here — because you don’t confuse the world as it is with the world as you’d like it to be.
Game of Thrones is a story about what happens when the idealists and the realists collide. You are sharp enough to know which one lasts longer.
Winter always comes. You are already prepared.
The United Federation of Planets
Star Trek
You believe the future is worth building — that curiosity, cooperation, and the expansion of understanding are not just ideals but the most practical path forward for any civilisation.
Star Trek is a universe where the questions matter as much as the answers, and where encountering something utterly alien is cause for wonder rather than fear.
You would belong here because you are fundamentally optimistic about what intelligence and decency can achieve — while being honest about how hard that achievement is.
The Federation is the universe’s most ambitious thought experiment: what if we actually got better?
You don’t just hope that’s possible. You think it’s the only thing worth working toward.
Other Video Games Based on ‘The Simpsons’
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The Simpsons: Hit & Run was one of many video games based on this media franchise, and the last one was released in 2021. The first video game based on The Simpsons was Bart vs. the Space Mutants, released in 1991 for numerous consoles, including the NES, Sega Genesis, Atari ST, and Commodore 64. In this game, players play as Bart Simpson, whose goal is to stop the aliens from taking over the world. In 2007, Electronic Arts released The Simpsons Game, which was available on Xbox 360, Nintendo Wii and DS, and PSP/2/3.
Although it was released the same year asThe Simpsons Movie, it was not based on the film. Instead, it told an original story that followed The Simpsons, who, thanks to Bart, learn that they have superpowers. At first, they were using them for their own gain, but when aliens Kang and Kodos decide to invade Earth, the family teams up to save their planet. The most recent Simpsons video game was The Simpsons Arcade, an arcade game released in August 2021; before that was The Simpsons: Tapped Out, a city-building mobile game released in 2012 and developed by EA Mobile, but it was shut down in January 2025.
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