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·
    4 小时前

    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·
    5 小时前

    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·
    17 小时前

    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·
    1 天前

    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

      • Godric@lemmy.world
        2·
        19 小时前

        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
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          18 小时前

          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

  • Azrael@reddthat.com
    11·
    1 天前

    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

  • qaeta@lemmy.caEnglish
    11·
    1 天前

    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.

  • Thrawn@lemmy.dbzer0.com
    10·
    1 天前

    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 in the old expanded universe books you are basically the Empire version of Wedge.

    Edit - It isn’t open world but the limited story does do well at making you feel like you should in the role.

    I’ll add that the game came with a manual that did have the character name and a back story. Short version is your character was an illegal swoop bike racer on a world that had been in a multi generation war. Includes your father dying. The empire stops it by basically making it impossible to for the two world to even be able to send attacks at each other. Then recruits all the youth that would have fought in their own war and just sends them out to different parts of the empires wars.

    Your preexisting flight skills gets you first a mechanic job on a Star Destroyer and then you save a VIP while testing repairs on a TIE Fighter and get pulled in as an actual pilot with a quiet push to get you up the ranks due to your impressive start.