Games for introvert people

Games for introvert people

The moral dilemmas in video games are an inexhaustible topic for research. We already managed to find out how, with their help, we teach humanism, and also discussed the most monstrous choicesthat can be done in them. This time it is time to recall the titles, free from the shackles of morality – those in which not only it is possible, but also necessary to be a villain. However, these games can also be forgiven, because if you succumb to the dark side, then it is better in the virtual world.

Zombie night terror

Zombies … how much in this word has merged for the gamer’s heart, how much has responded in it! Literally a lot. If you can’t immediately name at least a dozen titles with the walking dead, then you obviously have not very long playing experience. Another thing is to remember those where you were allowed to speak on the side of the dead.

Zombie Night Terror is just one of those rare games where we are required not to destroy hordes of zombies, but to control them. The goal is simple – to bite and infect everyone at the level. But to do this is not as easy as it seems. The survivors are not eager to cooperate and are struggling in every way, but this is not so bad. The zombies themselves – according to the tradition of the genre – do not differ in intelligence and quick wit, and without the help of a player they can only go forward – at least under bullets, at least in a cliff. Therefore, to arrange a full apocalypse in Zombie Night Terror is not so easy. But in the process, you can bring out new types of the walking dead!


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Destroy All Humans!

From the classics of horror, we smoothly move on to the classics of science fiction and recall all the cliches about aliens. They must certainly fly on something resembling a saucer. There is no place for originality in their complexion – the body is necessarily puny, and the head is disproportionately large. You can only play with skin color – according to the canon, it varies from gray-blue to gray-green. The main goal of the aliens is to destroy all people!

Forget Shepard and quit XCOM, now you are Crypto 137 – a formidable warrior from outer space who has arrived on Earth to collect the DNA of representatives of primitive civilization and prepare the bridgehead for a full-scale invasion. In your arsenal is a wide range of high-tech weapons, a combat flying saucer and mental abilities. And at your service is an open world full of potential victims and skillfully making fun of the mid-20th century cliche.


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Evil genius

Green men and zombies are, of course, great, but sometimes you want to have fun in the upper class. And what could be more elite than the closed club of bond villains? Secret base, grandiose plans, aquarium with a shark and an army of top-notch villains under personal command – this is real life! Dramatically swivel chair and white cat are not included.

In Evil Genius, the user takes on the role of one of the evil geniuses and, under his guise, tries to achieve world domination by committing a variety of atrocities. And that would be an easy task if it weren’t for these sneaky kids … in the sense of super spies. Government organizations around the world regularly send agent agents to the island to interfere with his plans. To counter them, you need to hire minions and equip the base with deadly traps.


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Overlord

If you like the concept of Evil Genius, but instead of the spy thriller you would like to participate in a fantasy adventure, then you should pay attention to Dungeon Keeper. However, in terms of atrocities in magical worlds, you can turn in other directions.

According to the plot of the game, Overlord – the main character (or rather, the main villain) – was awakened by henchmen, after seven heroes defeated the previous evil lord. The player will have to deal with halflings, elves, gnomes, people and a mysterious wizard in order to regain the power of dark forces over the world.

In this action, where we control a sauron-like bruiser and command minion units, everything would be fine if it weren’t for one nuance. In opposing heroes, stigmas are also in the cannon – and not only stigmas, if you look objectively. So, in fact, we even provide everyone a service, getting rid of them. In addition, we can do good deeds – this is due to the parody nature of the game, because of which the archetypal light and darkness changed places. However, unlike most other RPGs, here we play as a villain capable of doing well, and not as a hero who sometimes does something bad.


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Tyranny

As soon as it came to fantasy, it is impossible not to mention Tyranny. Unlike all the previous games on the list, filing atrocities with a fair amount of irony, this will only amuse the owners of a very specific sense of humor. Of course, like any RPG, Tyranny provides several options for passing, and therefore formally you can try to avoid the lowest of atrocities. But even with this type of passing a universal hero, you are unlikely to become.

In most games of this genre, we act out the role of a hero, not always ideal in terms of morality, but nevertheless striving to save the world from a terrible evil. Here we are the confidant of this very evil and carry his word with a whip and … a larger whip. Do not wait for simple forks with highlighted “good” and “bad” options: you often have to choose between hypocritically terrible, pragmatically terrible and sadistically terrible.


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After Tyranny, with her mass executions and murders of babies, everything else will not seem so impressive to you. But a few more games can still be remembered.

  • AT Party hard we need to covertly interrupt the participants of a noisy party, which prevents the poor psychopath from sleeping.
  • Protagonist Hatred he just hates everyone and kills indiscriminately – it is only a pity that the provocative idea has not received competent development.
  • The main character Manhunt He was sentenced to death and since then clearly does not hesitate to use particularly inventive methods of murder. It is good that only “colleagues in the shop” become its victims.
  • Plots Grand Theft Auto and Mafia invariably built around professional criminals. Robberies, blackmail, murders are their bread, but the characters themselves are so romanticized that players often cannot see the villains in them.
  • AT Death coming the player has to kill completely innocent people almost on an industrial scale. On the other hand, he simply does his job – the work of Death, and it can be neither good nor evil.
  • AT Dead by daylight and Friday the 13th You can play for a real maniac and become the hero of a classic slasher. With the same success, by the way, you can resist it, which describes almost all multiplayer games.
  • Pandemic simulator Plague Inc. allows you to create a disease to destroy humanity.
  • Formally protagonist Prototype attributed to anti-heroes, but after analyzing his story, some players considered him to be one of the main villains. However, in the sequel, this character became such officially.
  • In the prologue Assassin’s Creed III we are given to play for the Templar, and Rogue and it is entirely devoted to a member of this order. The only problem is that over time the borders between the two secret communities have become so blurred that now you don’t understand who is right, who is to blame.
  • Some aspects Shadow of the colossus still not fully disclosed, and it is impossible to say for sure that the main character was a villain, but I really want to.

And what games can you add to this list? Where was the most fun to do indecency? What virtual atrocities have had the greatest effect on you? Write in the comments.

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