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Recommendations on games in which you don't play as the "good guy".
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Dungeon Keeper.
Destroy all humans.
Spec ops the line.
Braid.
Manhunt.
Dungeon Keeper 2 was just great.
Oh, Spec Ops was great. I totally thought it was going to be a COD-like game all pew pew go America let's shoot up a burger king and teabag the enemy, but holy shit.
It's one of those things where I want to forget everything so I can experience it again.
Same, I think that's why it never was big, everyone just saw it as another 3rd person COD shooter. I played the game like 5 years after it was released and was totally blown away by the story. It's mediocre gameplay but the story is so damn good.
Destroy all humans is so good, and they did a great job on the remaster!
The first 2 you are absolutely unequivocally the bad guy, those were going to be my suggestions. I think the second 2 it's a little spoilery to tell people you're the bad guy
I don't think Spec ops is spoilers to reveal you're a bad guy, not in 2026: you play the US, in the Gulf. You play the US doing US imperialism, it doesn't hide that from you. It's just later in the game it confronts you with what that really means.
Braid absolutely, but it's 17yo at this point, any reasonable spoiler policy* has worn off. Meets the criteria, gets you all empathetic for the little shit, Tim, then makes you question it all. I think a first play through is impactful even knowing he's a villain... It's not that he's a villain that is cool, it's how you find out he's a villain.
*Except for Outer Wilds the spoiler policy on that is eternal.