Adaptations of books serve an obvious purpose: They make substantial something you’d previously only imagined. A video-game adaptation doesn’t have the same raison d’être. Arguably very few have improved upon their source material. Yet critics agree that "The Last of Us" is high art, perhaps the greatest video game ever created, in large part because of the moral conundrums into which it regularly thrusts players. The new HBO adaptation of "The Last of Us," which debuts today, tries to capture the video game’s complex morality. Tap the link in our bio to read more. Illustration by @peterstrain for TIME