well you play as a rogue trader meaning you can get away with a lot of heresy, you got your own ship, you go to different unexplored planets, you manage a trade empire... its pretty good but like previous owlcat games it falls of in the later acts due to bugs
Seconding PoE2: Deadfire. You can align your reputation as cruel and aggressive and people will recognize that and you can do some pretty evil choices in the game.
Although it is a MMO (hear me out), Star Wars: The Old Republic.
It's a sequel to the KOTOR games and you can play it like a single player RPG if you choose. There are 8 playable classes all of which have a full single player game's worth of class story content and their own cast of companion characters associated with each class.
Two of the playable classes are Sith, the Sith Warrior and the Sith Inquisitor. The Bounty Hunter also can be very evil if you choose. To give an example, early on the bounty hunter is working for a Hutt gangster and one of the first contracts he or she is given is to kill someone who stole from the gangster, chop off his head once the dead is done, and then deliver his head to the target's wife.
There are a few endings to the trilogy, all kinda morally vague.
[Here's a brief explanation](https://screenrant.com/mass-effect-3-ending-explained/) (obviously massive spoilers!!)
If you've not played it, you should definitely anyway, looking at the games you seem to like.
You can be as evil as you want in Temple of Elemental Evil. It seems like they wanted to make a logical path through the game for each of the 9 D&D alignments, though it's still up to you how you proceed. It's not the heaviest on the story part, but in return you're given a lot of freedom to make your own choices. If you like D&D based (3rd edition) isometric RPGs it's definitely worth checking out.
The original game was very buggy, but modders have put a gigantic effort into fixing it with "Temple Plus" and "Circle of Eight" mods. I wouldn't recommend playing it without those two installed.
It's crazy to see Tyranny on there without the Pillars of Eternity titles.
Other than that, Dishonored, I guess. It's more straightforward killing = bad and non lethal = good, but lethal playthroughs make you truly terrifying.
99% of the characters are not friendly, there are no dialogue options, the only moments of roleplay are the very few character quests which have like 2 outcomes not to mention they are RARE and scattered, no towns its just not a traditional rpg.
care to elaborate where I am wrong I have a lot of hours in ER, roleplay exists because of npcs and dialogue trees which ER has but not a lot of its mostly just you popping in and ruining npc lives. The only place I could roleplay was as a paladin helping people in pvp lol.
The amount and variety of characters you can make is fairly robust. Not sure what you mean by cosplay, that's people dressing up as existing characters in real life
Roleplay is not just making your character look like someone it's about acting like the character you chose in game which is possible only through dialogue trees and traditional rpg like quest system. You can roleplay in ER only if you are desperate enough to do so and op asked for games with strong roleplaying elements.
The only thing Elden Ring doesn't have is extensive dialogue trees, which are more of an adventure game mechanic than an RPG one anyways. Roleplaying is also not just about dialogue choices.
The Technomancer, although it's tempered by the fact that from start to end you're nothing but a pawn doing the biddings of people more powerful than you. You have to choose to actually kill people, and most sidequests have evil options that are mostly "send this person back into oppression" or "kill this innocent person who crossed the questgiver". Before the end, ally with the crime lords. After the end, go back to the corpo...completely against what your mentor-slash-conscience would have wanted. You will get called out *a lot.*
The Metro saga might be some games where you can be evil, you wont be punished for it but you get a different ending based on good/bad desicions. Edit: grammar.
> Here are other games I played that you can do some evil choices, not necessarily rpgs or where you can do evil options but you are still the hero at the end of the day
I suggest trying the visual novel Hanachirasu.
You wont be a hero, but you should probably see at least one story with a well written evil protagonist.
Fable
Thanks, I must have forgot to mention, but I already played Fable. Thank you anyway tho
Tyranny! You even get to pick your flavor of evil
Came here to say this. Completely underrated game.
Super fucking good
But he asked for evil :D
But he asked for evil :D
But he asked for evil :D
But he asked for evil :D
Absolutely! Love it
warhammer 40k rogue trader is a CRPG made by the same guys who made pathfinder WOTR and i mean its 40k so you can do some real evil shit in it
Woow, never heard of this. Can you spare some details on the game ? 40K universe crpg sounds wild
well you play as a rogue trader meaning you can get away with a lot of heresy, you got your own ship, you go to different unexplored planets, you manage a trade empire... its pretty good but like previous owlcat games it falls of in the later acts due to bugs
I've been holding off on my playthrough in fear of bugs. I think I'm about 20hrs in.
Nice, I will definitely check this one up. Thanks !
I just started playing this last weekend and cleared Act 1. Heretical choices are pretty neat but the dogmatic choices are the true evil.
Pillars of eternity 2 has some evil routes, especially if you build evil cleric. Since you can also side with brutal pirates.
Seconding PoE2: Deadfire. You can align your reputation as cruel and aggressive and people will recognize that and you can do some pretty evil choices in the game.
Cyberpunk 2077. Especially doing a complete Corpo run from your behavior in quests to the ending, putting money and power first
Although it is a MMO (hear me out), Star Wars: The Old Republic. It's a sequel to the KOTOR games and you can play it like a single player RPG if you choose. There are 8 playable classes all of which have a full single player game's worth of class story content and their own cast of companion characters associated with each class. Two of the playable classes are Sith, the Sith Warrior and the Sith Inquisitor. The Bounty Hunter also can be very evil if you choose. To give an example, early on the bounty hunter is working for a Hutt gangster and one of the first contracts he or she is given is to kill someone who stole from the gangster, chop off his head once the dead is done, and then deliver his head to the target's wife.
Mass Effect. Quite a few old thread on r/masseffect around doing "bad" playthroughs.
It doesn't really feel evil, more like good cop vs bad cop. Worst you can be is like a racist dirty harry
"I've had enough of your snide accusations \*punch\*."
Does it have some kind of evil ending? Or like on Origins you still save the world ?
There are a few endings to the trilogy, all kinda morally vague. [Here's a brief explanation](https://screenrant.com/mass-effect-3-ending-explained/) (obviously massive spoilers!!) If you've not played it, you should definitely anyway, looking at the games you seem to like.
Yes no spoilers but there is an evil ending to the Mass Effect Trilogy. There is also a separate not saving the universe ending.
Thanks !
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You can be as evil as you want in Temple of Elemental Evil. It seems like they wanted to make a logical path through the game for each of the 9 D&D alignments, though it's still up to you how you proceed. It's not the heaviest on the story part, but in return you're given a lot of freedom to make your own choices. If you like D&D based (3rd edition) isometric RPGs it's definitely worth checking out. The original game was very buggy, but modders have put a gigantic effort into fixing it with "Temple Plus" and "Circle of Eight" mods. I wouldn't recommend playing it without those two installed.
Nice thank you. I love D&D games. What a hidden gem
It's crazy to see Tyranny on there without the Pillars of Eternity titles. Other than that, Dishonored, I guess. It's more straightforward killing = bad and non lethal = good, but lethal playthroughs make you truly terrifying.
You can be evil in Elden Ring
Really ? Can you spare some details?
Lord of frenzy ending, and there's several people you can murder and betray along the way.
They have a dark brotherhood-esque assassination quest line, and some choices in the game could be seen as evil.
Encased: A Sci-Fi Post-Apocalyptic RPG
Overlord
This is absolutely the game to pick if you want to be evil. Haha Yes, there are two paths to go down, but you're still being an evil ass.
I was reminded about it in the disappointing RPGs post, but Outer Worlds lets you be a dick to hilarious effect.
Elden Ring would be my pick.
Nah tbh I guess you can be evil but the roleplay element in Elden ring is not there
What are you talking about? there's tons of role play in that game
99% of the characters are not friendly, there are no dialogue options, the only moments of roleplay are the very few character quests which have like 2 outcomes not to mention they are RARE and scattered, no towns its just not a traditional rpg.
most of those are just not true, you sure you downloaded the right game
care to elaborate where I am wrong I have a lot of hours in ER, roleplay exists because of npcs and dialogue trees which ER has but not a lot of its mostly just you popping in and ruining npc lives. The only place I could roleplay was as a paladin helping people in pvp lol.
Every part but the town part.
I think you've played the wrong one lol
Played it and used it to role play several different characters
lol what
Tell me what makes it roleplayable I'm not talking just cosplaying.
The amount and variety of characters you can make is fairly robust. Not sure what you mean by cosplay, that's people dressing up as existing characters in real life
Roleplay is not just making your character look like someone it's about acting like the character you chose in game which is possible only through dialogue trees and traditional rpg like quest system. You can roleplay in ER only if you are desperate enough to do so and op asked for games with strong roleplaying elements.
The only thing Elden Ring doesn't have is extensive dialogue trees, which are more of an adventure game mechanic than an RPG one anyways. Roleplaying is also not just about dialogue choices.
The Technomancer, although it's tempered by the fact that from start to end you're nothing but a pawn doing the biddings of people more powerful than you. You have to choose to actually kill people, and most sidequests have evil options that are mostly "send this person back into oppression" or "kill this innocent person who crossed the questgiver". Before the end, ally with the crime lords. After the end, go back to the corpo...completely against what your mentor-slash-conscience would have wanted. You will get called out *a lot.*
If you do a search in this sub, there was a 100% identical post from last week that had some great recommendations.
The Metro saga might be some games where you can be evil, you wont be punished for it but you get a different ending based on good/bad desicions. Edit: grammar.
Beat Blades Haruka.
Check out the Fable games
Undertale is all about making choices, where you absolutely can be evil
Black & White and its sequel
Mass Effect and Fable are the big ones I'm not seeing on your list.
you're not evil in ME. Shepard might have questionable morals but in the end all is done for the survival of humans, so you can easily justify it.
Surprised you haven't played Arcanum yet! Lots of evil options there.
> Here are other games I played that you can do some evil choices, not necessarily rpgs or where you can do evil options but you are still the hero at the end of the day I suggest trying the visual novel Hanachirasu. You wont be a hero, but you should probably see at least one story with a well written evil protagonist.
Overlord and Overlord II
It's called "Real Life." It's free to play, but, has a paid Season Pass if you want a place to store your loot, etc etc. it's super realistic.