Fallout: New Vegas
- Platforms: PC, PlayStation, Xbox
- Price: 9.99 Euro
- Release Date: October 22, 2010
The role-playing games in the Fallout series often offer enormous freedoms, and this also applies to the development of your character. It’s especially fun to be diabolically evil in Fallout: New Vegas.
Be a cannibal, betray your companions, and let NPCs become victims of your nasty side at every opportunity. For instance, you can falsely accuse a suspect of murder, steal toys from children, sabotage the launch of a rocket, or turn a solar power plant into a deadly machine of evil.
Here’s one of the trailers for Fallout – New Vegas:
Or you sell a potential companion into slavery to a self-proclaimed Caesar. And of course, you can also generally side with the evil Legion, work with Mr. House, and together terrorize the wasteland. The future offers a lot of potential for people with a morality on the dark side.
Planescape: Torment – Enhanced Edition
- Platforms: PC, macOS, PlayStation, Xbox, Android, iOS, Linux, Nintendo Switch
- Price: 19.50 Euro
- Release Date: April 11, 2017 (Original Release: December 10, 1999)
The isometric RPG from Black Isle Studios (Fallout, Fallout 2) is the oldie in our list and is already nearly 25 years old. Accordingly, the Enhanced Edition from 2017, despite some improvements, is not a visual highlight. And you also have to enjoy reading a lot to have fun with this approximately 50-hour-long role-playing game.
If you engage with it, however, you can expect an unusual but also exceptionally engaging gaming experience in which you, as an immortal Nameless One, can wonderfully be evil. No wonder, after all, your alter ego in a previous life was not just a Saint, politician, and diplomat, but also a liar, a fraudster, and a murderous maniac.
The trailer for the Enhanced Edition of Planescape: Torment:
The moral alignment of your character allows for much freedom, from lawful to good, to neutral, to chaotic and evil. Being truly nasty in Planescape: Torment means lying, manipulating, insulting, intimidating, cheating, stealing, and murdering the innocent.
It is also important that you do not do anyone a favor just like that. Always demand a quid pro quo such as money. All of this puts you in situations that are nastier and more evil than in many other role-playing games, and that cause almost physical pain just to watch. Here being “evil” is really tough.
What other role-playing games can you think of where you can be wonderfully evil? Which of our recommendations do you particularly like? Let us know in the comments! If you’re generally looking for new RPG food, we have a selection of fun gems for you: The 14 best role-playing games on Steam
