If you liked Pandorum, you'll like...
I'm making this thread as a follow-up to this one from 2012, when the OP lists other movies and TV shows similar to Pandorum:
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1188729/board/thread/195374661
Since that thread does a good job of including similar movies, I thought I'd add video games and books to the list:
Games:
- Dead Space - When Pandorum's trailer came out, at first a whole lot of people thought it was a movie adaptation of Dead Space. The plots are similar and Pandorum borrows from Dead Space's visual style. In Dead Space you play the role of an engineer sent to investigate the Ishimura, a "planet cracker" type ship inhabited by thousands. And of course when you arrive the ship isn't answering hails, the people are missing, and terrifying creatures are running around inside it...
- STASIS - You wake up on a ship to find everyone missing and evidence of violence everywhere. You spend the game trying to piece together what happened, and trying to find your wife and kids before the ship blows up.
- Alien: Isolation - Not only is this the best Alien game ever made, and not only is it almost photo-realistic and looks exactly like Ridley Scott's original Alien (1979), but almost the entire game involves trying to get off a ghost ship and an abandoned starbase. The derelicts have a xenomorph stalking them, and the AI has gone rogue with androids who will try to kill you on sight. You can also play missions that are recreations of the movie, playing as Ripley, Dallas, Parker, etc. The interior of the Nostromo is so detailed and so painstakingly recreated that immersion is through the roof.
- Mass Effect - Although this is not a series about ghost ships, there are several extended sequences involving investigating and battling through derelict ships in all three games. IIRC the second Mass Effect had several missions of that type.
- Deadnauts - The entire game is based around finding derelict ships, sending teams inside to loot them, and dealing with everything from hostile survivors to aliens and rogue AI. This is more of an abstract game, but it's creepy as hell, and you never know what's on the ship until you breach it and go in.
Books
- Revelation Space by Alastair Reynolds - Most of the book is set on the "Nostalgia for Infinity," a massive ship that's so old, no one is sure who built it or when. While it was built to carry hundreds of thousands of passengers in comfort, when the book opens the NFI is crewed by only 7 people, who are biomechanical traders/criminals. The ship is dilapidated, with entire districts abandoned, huge empty sleeper chambers, and an agricultural section that's overgrown, forming an expanding jungle that's swallowed several decks. Some of the crew won't even venture down to the decks in the lower hundreds because they don't know what's down there. Awesome book, awesome ship.
- Aurora by Kim Stanley Robinson - A huge human colony ship inhabited people from a dozen different countries and cultures, on a 250 LY journey to colonize an Earth-like planet. The book splits between scenes when there's peace on the ship, and scenes when all order is lost, the factions are fighting each other, and the ship interior has turned into a warzone.
Got one to add? Let me know!