other games where you get to play as bad guys?

[Goose]

i think warhammer 3 is on top, but what are some others?

[Garatgh Deloi]

Don't most games do that?

Anyway for games where you can play the worst "bad guy" i'd mention Stellaris or RImworld as top contenders.
- Stellaris allows you to, among other horrible things, designate sentient species as livestock.
- Rimworld allows you to, among a list several pages long, make a children leather sofa.

[Mania]

Red Dead Redemption 2, Dawn of War, and Stellaris.

[Fryskar]

Originally posted by Garatgh Deloi:

Don't most games do that?

Anyway for games where you can play the worst "bad guy" i'd mention Stellaris or RImworld as top contenders.
- Stellaris allows you to, among other horrible things, designate sentient species as livestock.
- Rimworld allows you to, among a list several pages long, make a children leather sofa.

Games that truly allow you to be the bad guy, like these two, are rare.

[Aleera]

Pickup any Warhammer title, you're a bad guy no matter what faction or dude you play as.

Just about any RPG that's not JRPG let's you play as a complete ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ to everyone.

[Arthur two sheds Jackson]

age of wonders or to play monster and inhuman being that is pretty rare but there is alien vs predator too bad this franchise is pretty dead

[General Nuclear]

The Fallout serie comes to my mind, The early ones had no F*cks to give what so ever.

Pretty much all the old star wars games.

Adom is also pretty good (the first one that is), probably the closest you get to playing a actually dnd match.

Kill all humans. this one is pretty self explanatory.

Stubbs the zombie in rebel without a pulse.

[Imposter]

Super Noah's Ark 3D. You go around and force-feed animals that puts them to sleep.

[Ashardalon]

maneater i guess?

[Human bean]

Any game at all where you imagine that you are the opposition

[Father Ribs]

If you want to do RPG, Tyranny is the game to play. The "bad guys" won the war, and now you're one of the head honchos.

I don't know if you'd call the protagonist a "bad guy", but he isn't working for "good guys" in Disco Elysium (the most unique and well-written RPG I've ever played, but definitely not a "typical" RPG).

Strategy games, every faction you play is the bad guys to someone. Whether you're talking a 4X game or something silly like a dungeonkeeper type game.

[A.Pot]

Age of Wonders 4 is a relatively recent game that also allows to be one. It comes with a handy alignment system like one would see in RPGs like Fallout 1 - New Vegas or Knights of the Old Republic 1 and 2.

[Father Ribs]

Originally posted by A.Pot:

Age of Wonders 4 is a relatively recent game that also allows to be one. It comes with a handy alignment system like one would see in RPGs like Fallout 1 - New Vegas or Knights of the Old Republic 1 and 2.

There was a very affectionate review/podcast about that game on Three Moves Ahead. I dig the idea that faction leaders you create in one campaign can turn up as NPC factions in later campaigns.

[Enelith]

Dungeon Keeper,
Dungeons,
Tropico,
etc.

[Captain Baldy]

Thing is that one can play as the bad guy in any game if they are creative enough.

For example 1: I remember relentlessly trolling the airfield in battlefield 2 when the fad at the time was to be a team player and then punishing the player with a one of three warning before a kick from server. Or affixing C4 to a plane and waiting as he is lining up on the enemy before “click” and then starts telling me how much I just vexed him even though I didn't ask.

Example 2: Getting into a AAA vehicle as the gunner repeatedly tries to warn me not to drive it away because of the mines he placed around (and also it is his vehicle). So, I drive over a mine and blow us both to bits, for which and I promptly punish him for team killing me.

Don’t get me started on the sims franchise. I stopped playing sims 4 because I was running out of places to hide the bodies.

When games come out that use ChatGPT or other advance language model, I will make it my mission to make an AI rage quit while colourfully questioning my parentage just to see if it can be done.

In real life if I see an offensive post on YouTube for example, I might laugh but then as I stop laughing, I remember that rules are rules so… “reported”. Misanthropists have to get their fun any way they can within the rules of course.

… Anyway, I don’t play online anymore unless it’s Star Citizen (I'm a sociopathic pirate yeah)
https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=3011436195

[GeoG85]

Originally posted by Enelith:

Dungeon Keeper,
Dungeons,
Tropico,
etc.

War for the Overworld is a Modern Day Dungeon Keeper Remake, with the original voice actor to boot.

Evil Genius 1 and 2 are quite similar to it.

Abandonware dot com has the Original Black and White playable with an unoffical patch for Windows 10+.

Abandonware means, there were thousands of video games in the recent years. Some got abandoned completely with no support whatsoever anymore. And the fans took it upon themselves to support the game themself.