Video games usually let us step into the role of the hero. Sometimes our heroics result in many henchmen or even innocent bystanders getting killed. But our hearts are thought to be in the right place.The games on this list, however, are all great examples of where you intentionally ruin other people's days. Whether that's playing the blood sucking alien in Carrion or just stealing, breaking and hiding things in Untitled Goose Game it's both intriguing and entertaining to not play by the usual moral rules of the game.Then there are games where you think you are doing things for the right reason but this turns out not to be the case, like Braid or Spec Ops The Line. Or games where the slow drip of doubt builds until you regret your actions, like Shadow of the Colossus.
This list includes 19 games from the last 24 years, with 138 likes. They come from a range of different genres and play-styles and are all good games if you want to ruin someone's day.
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Freddy Spaghetti
Rating: PEGI 3+, ESRB EVERYONE 10+
Release Date: 15/12/2020
Platforms: Nintendo Switch, PlayStation 4 and Xbox One
Genres: Action, Adventure, Platform and Simulation
Developer: @RatalaikaGames
Players: This is a single player game
Freddy Spaghetti is a running and jumping game. But you play a piece of spaghetti rather than a person. The game simulates the pasta’s physics as you use two trigger-buttons and a joystick to steer the main character across a wide variety of levels,...
Hitman
Rating: PEGI 18+, ESRB MATURE 17+
Release Date: 01/01/2000, updated in 2021
Platforms: Mac, Nintendo Switch, PC, PlayStation 4, PlayStation 5, Stadia, Xbox One and Xbox Series X|S
Genres: Action, Adventure, Open World, Puzzle, Shooting and Simulation
Developer: @IOInteractive
Hitman 3 is a stealth game where you take on assassination missions and then figure out how to execute them. The dynamic situations you enter unfold as you play and you can try different approaches.
Red Dead Redemption 2
Release Date: 18/05/2010, updated in 2019
Platforms: PC, PlayStation 3, PlayStation 4, Stadia, Xbox 360 and Xbox One
Genres: Action, Fighting, Open World and Shooting
Developer: @RockstarGames
Players: You can play this with 32 players online
Red Dead Redemption is a series of open world adventures with a wild west theme. The rich world offers many things to do along with a main story line. It's this living breathing world that attracts players, both in its diversity and beauty.
Kingdoms of Amalur: Re-Reckoning
Release Date: 10/02/2012, updated in 2020
Platforms: Nintendo Switch, PC, PlayStation 3, PlayStation 4, Xbox 360 and Xbox One
Genres: Action, Adventure, Fighting, Narrative, Open World, Role-Playing and Simulation
Developer: @ReckoningGame
Kingdoms of Amalur: Re-Reckoning is an adventure where you set out from the vibrant city of Rathir to rescue a world torn apart by a vicious war. Along with its huge scale, the game offers nuanced character development and a political system where you...
Five Nights at Freddy's
Rating: PEGI 12+, ESRB TEEN
Release Date: 23/07/2014, updated in 2019
Platforms: Android, Nintendo Switch, PC, PlayStation 4, PlayStation 5, Xbox One and iOS
Genres: Narrative, Puzzle and Simulation
Developer: @SteelWoolStudio
Five Nights at Freddy's (FNaF) is a series of puzzle horror games. You play the night-guard at Freddy Fazbear's Pizza and have to survive the night while in your office, checking the cameras and closing the doors, or make repairs, all while being hunted...
Sifu
Expected Rating: PEGI 16+, ESRB TEEN
Release Date: Coming soon
Platforms: PC, PlayStation 4 and PlayStation 5
Genres: Fighting, Narrative and Simulation
Developer: @Sloclap
Sifu is a martial arts fighting game with a flowing control system and ageing protagonist. You fight with Kung-Fu combat designed with impact and authenticity in mind.
Mafia Definitive Edition
Release Date: 29/08/2002, updated in 2020
Platforms: Mac, PC, PlayStation 2, PlayStation 3, PlayStation 4, Xbox, Xbox 360 and Xbox One
Genres: Action, Adventure, Fighting, Narrative, Open World, Role-Playing, Shooting and Simulation
Developer: @Hangar13Games
Mafia is a series of action/adventure game about being in the Mafia. You play Tommy Angelo, a poor hard-working cab driver who gets caught up in a fight between two crime families. You explore a large open city taking on criminal activities to rise...
Grand Theft Auto V
Release Date: 01/01/1997, updated in 2019
Platforms: Android, Nintendo DS, PlayStation 2, PlayStation 3, PlayStation 4, PlayStation Portable, Xbox, Xbox 360, Xbox One and iOS
Genres: Action, Adventure, Fighting, Narrative, Open World, Role-Playing and Shooting
Players: You can play this with 30 players online
Grand Theft Auto is a series of action-adventure game where you travel around one large location taking part in different criminal activities: pulling off heists, with lots of shooting and stealing and driving a variety of cars and other vehicles.
Shadow Of The Colossus
Release Date: 18/10/2005
Platforms: PlayStation 2, PlayStation 3 and PlayStation 4
Genres: Action, Adventure, Fighting, Narrative, Open World and Simulation
Developer: @SonyJapanStudio
You play a young man who enters a forbidden land to defeat sixteen massive beings to restore the life of a girl he cares about. It sounds like any other video game, although in fact, Shadow of the Colossus stands apart in many ways.
Donut County
Rating: PEGI 3+, ESRB EVERYONE
Release Date: 15/08/2018, updated in 2018
Platforms: Mac, Nintendo Switch, PC, PlayStation 4 and Xbox One
Genres: Puzzle and Simulation
Developer: @Torahhorse
Donut County offers a similarly simple style of play. You drag a hole around the screen; the more things you can make fall in, the bigger the hole gets. You start with bricks, road cones and bushes, but eventually you’re swallowing whole houses.
God of War
Release Date: 20/04/2018
Platforms: PlayStation 4
Genres: Action, Adventure, Fighting, Narrative, Role-Playing and Shooting
Developer: @SonySantaMonica
You play super-strong Norse fantasy hero Kratos as he takes his son Atreus on a brutal quest in the wake of his mother’s death. The exploration, puzzle solving, climbing and fighting gameplay intertwines with a mythological family drama played out in...
Untitled Goose Game
Release Date: 03/10/2019
Genres: Action and Puzzle
Developer: @House_house_
Players: You can play with 2 players in the same room
This is another silly and funny game but with a dastardly vibe. You play a mean goose who is intent on ruining the day of the inhabitants of a sleeping English village. By stealing items, squawking and otherwise making a nuisance of yourself you slowly...
Headliner: NoviNews
Release Date: 05/10/2019
Genres: Adventure, Narrative and Simulation
Developer: @UnboundCreation
Headliner: NoviNews is a narrative-driven simulation game where you play as the person in charge of the headlines and stories that are released to the public. Each article you approve from your office has a direct impact of the world outside. Which news...
Project Winter
Expected Rating: PEGI 12+, ESRB TEEN
Release Date: 23/05/2019
Platforms: Nintendo Switch, PC, PlayStation 4 and Xbox One
Genres: Adventure and Strategy
Developer: @ProjWinter
Players: You can play this with 8 players online
Project Winter is a multiplayer survival game. Up to 8 people work to survive the winter by gathering resources, repairing structures, and braving the wilderness dangers together. However, up to two people are traitors within the group and try to dash...
Destroy All Humans!
Rating: PEGI 16+, ESRB TEEN
Release Date: 24/06/2005, updated in 2020
Platforms: Nintendo Wii, PC, PlayStation 2, PlayStation 3, PlayStation 4, Xbox, Xbox 360 and Xbox One
Genres: Action, Adventure, Open World and Shooting
Developer: @BlackForestTeam
Destroy All Humans! is an adventure game series that parodies Cold War-era alien invasion films. With open-world like a bit like Grand Theft Auto, you play the alien Crypto, tasked to gather DNA from humans and explore the open-world levels to do this....
Pumpkin Jack
Release Date: 23/10/2020
Genres: Action, Adventure and Platform
Developer: @Nicospkr
Pumpkin Jack is an adventure game where you run, jump and explore a kingdom, fighting enemies and solving puzzles. Pumpkin Jack is a Halloween themed character, and the world and other characters underline this.
Elite Dangerous
Rating: PEGI 7+, ESRB EVERYONE 10+
Release Date: 15/12/2015, updated in 2016
Platforms: PC, PlayStation 4 and Xbox One
Genres: Action, Adventure, Open World, Shooting and Simulation
Developer: @Frontierdev
Players: This is a single player game. You can play with up to 32 players online
This is a new version of the classic 1980s space game Elite. Like the original it’s a space exploration, trading and combat game that provides a huge and rich universe rather than a specific story. You can trade goods, become a bounty hunter, fight...
Beholder
Rating: PEGI 16+, ESRB MATURE 17+
Release Date: 09/11/2016
Genres: Narrative, Puzzle, Role-Playing and Strategy
Developer: @Beholder_Game
Beholder is a detective game where you spy on tenants in a building, discover their secrets and report violations of laws to the authorities. As the game unfolds and you see more of the controlling totalitarian state, an uneasy tension develops between...
Tom Clancy's Rainbow Six Seige
Release Date: 01/12/2015
Platforms: PC, PlayStation 4, PlayStation 5, Stadia, Xbox One and Xbox Series X|S
Genres: Action and Shooting
Developer: @Rainbow6Game
Players: You can play this with 10 players online
Rainbow Six Siege is a 5-v-5 multiplayer tactical shooting game where you either play a terrorist or a counter-terrorist. Your job is either to defend an objective such as a bomb site, biohazard container, or hostages or to stop the terrorist by...
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