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. :)

  • H4CK3RN4M3D4N63R570RM@lemmy.caEnglish
    2·
    11 hours ago

    You can do some pretty evil shit in Baldur’s Gate 3. Definitely makes you question your morals. The Dark Urge player character story is pretty messed up.

  • mrgoosmoos@lemmy.caEnglish
    7·
    12 hours ago

    minecraft

    you show up in a mostly peaceful world and just start destroying it, enslaving villagers and treating peaceful mobs inhumanely to farm them so you can go kill more mobs that were leaving you alone

  • owsei@programming.dev
    3·
    1 day ago

    RimWorld RTS, survival, colony builder. Survive, stranded, on a hostile planet filled with pirates, ancient mechanoids and giant killer bugs.

    You can play however you wish. I always end up playing as drugged-up organ-harvesting slave owners.

    There is a very detailed simulation of the human body, with each organ having it’s own scars, damages and conditions, all affecting each other. There are also developed systems for drugs, combat, diseases, mood and mental breakdowns.

    Honestly it’s simpler sci-fi Dwarf Fortress

  • Godric@lemmy.world
    18·
    2 days ago

    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

    • sem@piefed.blahaj.zoneEnglish
      2·
      3 hours ago

      I loved playing trópico 4 good. Just trying to do the best for my little Sims and never squirreling money away to the swiss bank account.

      • Godric@lemmy.world
        2·
        1 day ago

        While you do get to feed KKK members to the gators and gun down anti-sufferagettes, you also loanshark and rob innocent people amongst other things

        • T00l_shed@lemmy.world
          2·
          1 day ago

          Yeah I didn’t like the loan sharking business… and there are some innocent people that get robbed, but much of that is from the story, and there isn’t much you can do about it

  • qaeta@lemmy.caEnglish
    11·
    2 days ago

    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.