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. :)

  • owsei@programming.dev
    1·
    25 minutes 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

  • mrgoosmoos@lemmy.caEnglish
    1·
    33 minutes ago

    minecraft

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

  • Godric@lemmy.world
    14·
    12 hours 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

      • Godric@lemmy.world
        1·
        2 hours 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
          1·
          56 minutes 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

  • reksas@sopuli.xyz
    3·
    9 hours ago

    shadows of forbidden gods. the story is kind of what you make it, but you are basically the dark lord in world similar to many fantasy novels. It got multiple evil beings too and each has different playstyle.

  • Azrael@reddthat.com
    11·
    13 hours ago

    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

  • Thrawn@lemmy.dbzer0.com
    10·
    13 hours ago

    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.

  • qaeta@lemmy.caEnglish
    11·
    14 hours 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.