Edit: holy shit I turn my head around for one second and I got 40 replies? THANK YOU ALL :D <3
I just rewatched Christopher Nolan’s The Dark Knight trilogy and following Bane’s and Miranda’s story made me realize that I’m a bit saturated in regards to playing as the hero, the protagonist, the “good guy” in PC games. While I love saving the world as much as the next person, I’d love to play as some perhaps self-righteous villain, or antagonist, or simply somebody portrayed in a way that’s meant to make the player sympathize with questionable morality or, at the very least, be conflicted about why you suddenly find yourself rooting for them.
I’m mostly looking for story driven open world single player games, but any recommendations are welcome. :)
minecraft
you show up in a mostly peaceful world and just start destroying it, enslaving villagers and treating a peaceful mobs inhumanly to farm them so you can go kill more mobs that were leaving you alone
Stray. You’re a cat. Cats are evil.
Helldivers games, you’re the exploitative, fascist empire who creates its own problems.
Mafia series - You play as a murderous mobster
Tropico series - You play as the dictator of a small banana republic
Red Dead Redemption - You’re Arthur Morgan, an outlaw who kills for money
Buuuuut I kill bad guys when I play RDR2 so I feel good about it!
This game isn’t exactly niche, but Red Dead Redemption II is a really good one. You play as an outlaw on the run from bounty hunters while your gang is falling, their ideals are crumbling, and society no longer wants them. Arthur Morgan is part of a dying way of life.
The game also has an honor system where your status is determined by how evil or good you are. Help strangers = high honor. Rob and murder indiscriminately = walking nightmare
Tie Fighter. Flying as a pilot for the Empire in Star Wars including flying alongside Vader to save the Emperor. Includes getting pulled into a secret society with a cool glowing force tattoo showing your rank in service to the Emperor.
The game never says your name but I. The old expanded universe books you are basically the Empire version of Wedge.
shadows of forbidden gods. the story is kind of what you make it, but you are basically the dark lord in world similar to many fantasy novels. It got multiple evil beings too and each has different playstyle.
Tyranny. I mean, you could end up being the good guy, depending on what that means to you, but you start leading an army to conquer part of the world at the behest of Kyros the Overlord. I think I would classify Kyros as a sort of Lawful Evil type. He seems to want to bring peace and order to the world, but chooses to do it through conquest and harshly enforced laws.
Overlord
the Knihgts of the Old Republic SW games. You can join the dark side.
Command & Conquer 3
Kane was really rocking that Evil Abed™ look before Abed even existed
Kane just copied the look of Derek Vinyard.
Fallout New Vegas
The number of opportunities the game gives you to be an absolute piece of shit is ridiculous.
Here are some examples:
Get the Terrifying Presence perk and literally become evil incarnate: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JXBC2OYLM0k
Or just level up speech and be mean in general: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=STptNbHOXWg
Peacemaker The Game.
Spec Ops: The Line
The willy pete scene fucked me up for a while.
Prototype
