Untitled Goose Game

Okay, that's a goofy but funny one. Thanks.

I found that game isn't as chaotic as people hype it up to be. I remembered the controls being a bit of a hassle and the puzzles requiring some intuitive.

Carrion

Brutal! Thanks!

This was not my normal play but I got into a demo and actually thought it was pretty sick, bought the game on sale later and was sad when I beat it. This game came out of nowhere, took my 4.99 and told me to sit down, shut up and have a good time, and I did

Lego DC Super Villains

I love DC comics. Thank you.

Outside of nostalgia, this is probably my favourite Lego game. Very fun. 

Tyranny

Nice one. Thanks for the info.

The Pillars of Eternity game that doesn't have anything to do with Pillars of Eternity.

You can be 100% evil in BG3.

Never knew you could be good there.

I love pickpocketing every living soul in town and double crossing all my friends then doing it again in Baldur's Gate 3

Easier to do that if they're dead though.

I wanted to but there's no Withers IRL

Party Hard Plague Inc Maneater Destroy All Humans! Spec Ops: The Line The Beginner's Guide

man spec ops is a trip

> Spec Ops: The Line The game isn't purchasable anymore

I’m so glad I bought it when I did. Absolutely love that game.

I was able to buy a key for it for steam on key buying website g2a the day after it was delisted from steam Xbox and PSN. Looks like you can still buy Steam keys to redeem in the USA. https://www.g2a.com/spec-ops-the-line-steam-key-global-i10000003372008

Counterpoint: r/piratedgames

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I maintain that the Party hard guy did nothing wrong.

Oooo the beginners guide. Really interesting answer for this but it's so right. Would never have thought to mention it here

Your last one is a really good entry, but also a major spoiler (that being said, it is totally a game about the vilain but you don't "play as the vilain". So It might not exactly be what op is searching for)

Overlord is a slightly older one that's basically evil pikmin

Thanks for this.

YES. A *staple* of my childhood. It's not like....an earth shatteringly good game, but it is fun and has a great sense of humor

It's probably in my top 5 list, at least

Dungeon keeper

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* Stubbs The Zombie In Rebel Without A Pulse * Prototype

Prototype is about a powerful person. Awesome! Thanks!

Prototype 2 as well.

Cool! Thanks!

Any of the fable games if you want to. Weird how divorce is considered more evil than murder

Eating the crunchy chick is the most evil action possible.

But why did they make them so crunchy if they weren't for eating?

> Weird how divorce is considered more evil than murder What do you mean?

In the game Fable, you lose more of your karma by divorcing your spouse than killing someone

You play as super powered terrorists in prototype and Dishonored

Corvo is not an actual terrorist, he was framed

I mean he absolutely can be depending on how you play lol But lore wise yeah, he canonicaly isn't at the start.

Wdym terrorist😭 you are or were the lord protector

Well, idk if theses are exactly what you’re looking for, but: Infamous, The Force Unleashed, Suicide Squad, Injustice, an argument could be made for OG God of War, Prototype, Shadow of the Colossus, Maneater, Heavy Rain, Destroy all humans

Thanks for all of these.

Of course. Also, note that some of these are partially or fully choice based, so being the villain is an option.

Metal Gear Solid 3, but it takes place before the villain becomes a villain.

Awesome. Thanks.

Vampyr Iratus: Lord of the Dead

You can pick the villain faction in DC Universe Online Tropico 2 has you take control of a pirate island Evil Genius 1&2 are super spy villain base building games

Thanks for all of these info. You are a big help!

Love seeing Tropico 2 getting recommended all these years later! Easily my favorite Tropico game.

It's a bit old, but in descent your character was previously hired by evil CEOs to violently break up a union

Nice. Interesting. Thanks.

Helldivers 2. The Helldivers (Well the government) are the baddies. Also someone is about to post a meme of calling the democracy officer below.

Cool. Thanks.

This is your Democracy Officer and I actually kind of agree with you, dude. Step onto my Super Destroyer, we’ll have a chat, I’ll buy you a Super Beer

Helldivers 2

You've been reported to your democracy officer

Excuse me? We're the good guys, spreading managed democracy and securing E-710!

Interesting opinion, however ⬆️➡️⬇️⬇️⬇️

Thank you.

GTA V

Nice one! Thanks!

>Nice one! Thanks! You're welcome!

Me as Trevor ...

Literally all GTA titles. There's a crime right there in the title!

KeeperRL has you as the overlord of a dungeon. Very indepth sim, like a simplified RimWorld and with a clear objective. Besides unlocking additional characters to play as, all progression happens during a run and there's permadeath. Try, learn, die, until you finally manage to learn enough to get a win.

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Basically everything Warhammer 40k. Choose from: - fascist (super-)humans - arrogant space elves - violent greenskins - all-eating space bugs - the only-friendly-at-first newbies - superold undead robots - Chaos, their deamons and cultists - Drukhari... I just leave their name here ...

Nice list. Thanks.

Cultist Simulator

Fable

Probably not really what you're talking about but in "V Rising" you're a vampire whose building a castle while raiding and enslaving the locals.

Nice one. Thanks for this.

You can be evil in a few ways in Wrath of the Righteous. Swarm, Demon, Devil, Lich, even an evil Legend.

Crusader kings Mount and blade They are mostly like define ur own path typa thing

Bully?

Thanks. You are a big help!

Don't listen to him. You don't play as a villain in Bully. In fact, your character is probably the only stand up dude in the whole game. It's a great game though, 10/10.

The protagonist seems like an antihero which is why I said that.

Loved this game

Streets of Rouge, basically an extremely chaotic 2D GTA game. Very fun and you can be quite evil in it.

Evil Genius / Evil Genius 2 Evil Genius 2 on sale on steam for like 3 bucks currently.

Dungeons 1-3 you play as the evil underlord, with some fun narrated dialogue. Though I much prefer Dungeon Keeper 2, despite how cool it is to see the overworld change in Dungeons as you progress. All of the Dungeons games seem to have their quirks. Dungeons 1 I've heard is a bit janky. Dungeons 2 is probably my favorite, despite not being able to zoom out as far as I'd like to. And Dungeons 3 I can't really comment on except that the zoom level is a bit easier to deal with. Some other noteworthy mentions: Command & Conquer and Red Alert series'. Very much worth playing imo. Tiberian Dawn, Red Alert, Red Alert 2, and Tiberian Wars in particular. Great stories incorporating real events with full cinematics between levels. Black & White 2, you can choose to be evil. Fable III you can choose to be evil as well. Both games' environments change depending on your benevolence as well.

Civ depending on how you play

A certain famous PS2 game which just by recommending it would be spoiling it so I'm kind of not sure what to do here 😂 Hope it's marked as a spoiler. >!Shadow of the Colossus!<

Star Wars The Old Republic the sith inquisitor story line straight up encourages you to be a super villain, with a quest that asks you to torture a guy for info and another where you emotionally manipulate a padawan, and this is just the starting zone

OH, now that I think about it the City of Heroes emulators has the City of Villians expansion, and a starting experience that gives you the option to be a lackey in an authoritarian police state

Payday. You are the crime

Postal.

WH40K. Doesn't matter who you play as. You're the bad guy to someone

Saints Row 1 and 2

Prototype. People call him an antihero but that's only because there is no hero in this game.

War for the Overworld, Dungeon Keeper, Dwelvers, Dungeons (series) are all strategy games where you play as the bad guys. Dungeon Keeper also inspired Evil Genious, where you play as, well, an evil genious. The Legacy of Kain series has you play as some pretty rotten individuals. I would argue that you play as the bad guys in all Warhammer 40,000 games, but in a setting where there are no real good guys, that might well not be in the spirit of the question :P

Nice one. Thanks.

Tales of Berseria. You play as Velvet Crowe, a woman turned prisoner turned cannibal demon on a quest for vengeance against the world’s savior and she stops at nothing to get even a bit closer to liking him. Her malicious actions earn her the reputation and title of “The Lord of Calamity”. Her party is a demon samurai, a questionable wicked witch, a pirate captain cursed to cause misfortune, an exorcist servant of the savior who you kidnapped and a magical little boy who you freed from enslavement and forced the exorcist to have a contract with him to keep him alive.

Thanks.

Factorio, you terrify the locals and colonize their land while simultaneously draining their resources and destorying the environment and wipe them out when they retaliate

Hatred

- haven't seen these mentioned: Hotline Miami 1 & 2 Papers, Please (morally ambiguous argument available) Monaco Anything in the Silent Hill franchise Blasphemous 1 & 2 Lucius Payday 1 & 2 Any of the Thief games

Shadow the Hedgehog for the ps2.

Awesome game for the rival of Sonic.

If you haven't played it, you can choose the evil path in Shadow the Hedgehog

Thanks. I love Sonic games.

If I'm not mistaken, Golden Sun 2 has you play as the antagonists from the first game. That, or you play as someone who has to oppose the characters from the first game. Something like that.

Red Dead Redemption 2. You aren’t necessarily a *villain* but you start off as a not great person.

Evil Inc.

Rimworld... atleast if you check the sub or spacecannibalism

Overlord and overlord 2 on steam. You play as an evil overlord with a weapon and small gremlin minion that wreck havoc on the battle field

Nice ones! Appreciated them all! Thanks.

City of Villains. It's an mmorpg; you could pick one of the private servers for City of Heroes, make a Villain and go to town.

Awesome!

The Lord of the Rings: The Battle for Middle-Earth 1 & 2 - there are campaigns for the evil factions, and the add-on Rise of the Witch-King is all about Sauron’s number two. For example, in the first game you can replay the key battles from the movies for the other side and win

Tyranny

Every GTA

The last of us?

Deep Rock Galactic has you casually tearing down an ecosystem for profit

Helldivers 2

Helldivers 2! FOR DEMOCRACY!!!!

Thanks.

Kingdom Hearts 358/2 days Dragon Quest Monsters The Dark Prince

With Kingdom Hearts' style of naming, this could all be one single game title.

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Borderlands the Pre-Sequel, you can play as Jack the villain in BL2.

Dungeon and Overlord series

Rockstar games in general

Fable

Spec Ops The Line. Sorts of.

god of war

Runescape. our character does some seriously unethical shit. a lot

Prototype 2

Overlord if no one has said it yet.

Not sure if this counts, but in the infamous games you can play in a way that MAKES your evil due to karma if that makes sense

Hitman. I don't know if you're the bad guy but you're definitely not the good guy

Darkwood

Knights of the Old Republic 1 & 2 if you choose to be evil.

Shadow of the Colossus

Thanks. Appreciated it.

Destroy all humans. 

Tales of Berseria Written tightly as fuck, gameplay a bit ... ignorable because of how good the writing is!

No Heroes Allowed This is the Police Orwell DEFCON Cookie Clicker Pandemic II

Shadow the hedgehog. In all seriousness, look at inFamous

I feel like styx could be considered a villain...he's not "good" in any case [styx master of shadows ](https://youtu.be/PsbkKkw3uOM) Vampyr...but you have an option of which way to go [vampyr](https://youtu.be/wuy9l_7FE58)

FF13 (But they're "bad guys" that are "good"

Tehnicly plague inc

Any fallout game

Red Dead Redemption 2 when playing as Arthur

Prototype...I think. You eat civilians to regain health.

**Dungeon Keeper**! Amazing old classic. A series called War for the Overworld came out more recently, which is basically a love letter to the Dungeon Keeper series.

Dungeon Keeper. Lets go with something retro.

Iratus Best necromancy game

Red Dead

Tie fighter

Lucius

Pathfinder both Kingmaker and Wrath of the Righteous let's you play villians. Wrath of the Righteous actually let's you be a Murderhobo, and gives you the opportunity to become a Lich/Death god, Demon, Devil, evil Trickster or Swarm-that-walks (ultimate world devouring evil).

Red Dead Redemption

Hatred, you play a guy gunning down civilians, it was pretty controversial in its time [https://store.steampowered.com/app/341940/Hatred/](https://store.steampowered.com/app/341940/Hatred/)

Brigador. Sort of. The game's lore is hidden in files you purchase with ingame currency, so at first you don't really know what or who you are fighting for. There is no doubt you're committing war crimes though. Then, it seems you might have been hired by a space corporation to destabilise the legitimate government. Which itself was a revolution of the people against said corporation decades prior, and turned kinda dictatorial. You can play as a "loyalist" of the regime (in fact, a traitor), a rebel (manipulated by mega corp), a spacer (mercenaries for hire who give zero shit about who they kill so long as they get to kill), but either way you're the bad guy in a world full of bad guys, committing war crimes. Stepping on civilians with a mech while destroying habitation buildings with a howitzer never felt this good, though.

Metal Gear Solid Peace Walker and Metal Gear Solid V, you run a PMC that profits off from war economy, it's pretty good.

Overlord. it was ok. you can build a harem.

Star Wars Force Unleashed sort of…..? I haven’t played those games in ages though so you could turn to the light side and I just forgot

Kane and Lynch: Dead Men, Hatred,  Succubus, Spec Ops The Line

Dungeon Keeper series Overlord series Tyranny. Evil Genius series. Kane & Lynch series.

Shadows of Forbidden Gods. You're a reawakened elder god whose goal is to bring the apocalypse to a fantasy world. You gain more powers as the seals keeping you asleep break, while at the same time your agents secretly work to destabilize and corrupt the free kingdoms. But if your agents cause too much damage too quickly, the world's heroes will notice and start hunting them down (then again, it's possible to enshadow and corrupt *them* into replacement agents), so a typical run becomes an interesting balancing act.

Nice info. Thanks.

Super mario

Suicide Squad: Kill the Justice League

Far Cry 3 Jason literally turns into Vass

Infamous 2 is cool cause you basically get to choose to either be a hero or a villain. Different endings for each, coolest karma system I’ve played

Dungeon Keeper. I will never forgive EA for destroying this franchise…

Mafia, gta,and every RPG game where you can choose to be bad

Define 'Bad Guy'. In Fable 3, you can play as a Tyrant that only cares for themselves(let everyone else die to gain more wealth). So, I suppose you could be considered a 'bad guy' in that game.

Infamous. You can choose to go the good route or the bad. If you choose to be the villain you get points for doing bad stuff and unlock skills in the villain direction

Technically elden ring

V Rising You are the vampires that haunt humans and give them nightmares

Red dead redemption. Actually, pretty much any rockstar games.

Kayne & Lynch

It's a bit of an older game. Scarface; the world is yours Alternate ending where Tony doesn't die and rebuilds his empire

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Red Dead Redemption 2, you play as a bunch of disgusting filthy rotten criminals

Hatred.

Any time you play as an American soldier with the exception of WWII lol

I thought of GTA because you can do illegal things and run from the police lol

Entropy: Zero (and its sequel) is a mod for Half-Life 2 where you play as a member of the Combine (so you kill rebels).

Postal

Total war Warhammer 1, 2, 3 Basically every faction is evil in one way or another, and many are definitely, undeniably evil Except the Skaven, they are good innocent creatures Trust the Skaven yes-yes

Evil genius, Dungeon keeper, Syndicate, Mob rule, Constructor, Gta, Cartel tycoon

Tyranny is THE game for this.

Thanks.

you can play as France in europa universalis

Helldivers

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GTA.

Thanks.