The Dark Queen of Mortholme. You play as the boss, repeatedly killing the hero who comes back stronger and more skilled.
Black and White
I wish there was a reliable way to play this on modern systems. It'd be great to play on the Steam Deck.
I've just started The Necromancer's Tale, which lets you explore a minor noble's fall from grace into (I think) lichdom. Just came out last summer. The art style is what you might expect from a small, ambitious studio; the writing so far is rather good.
Entropy Zero 2. It's a mod of Half-Life 2 where you play as a combine soldier and it's actually very well made for a mod.
If you're open to Pokemon romhacks, there's a good one where you play through the Kanto region from the perspective of a Team Rocket grunt. https://rocket-edition.com/
Carrion
It's a modern 2D pixel art reverse horror game, it's real fun.
Mouthwashing.
You could do a durge run in Baldur's Gate 3. Maybe also Hitman, but I think that's more anti-hero.
Dark Souls 3. NO ONE can convince me you're the good guy in that situation. It's a shit world that ISN'T worth saving and the people who all realize this are the only ones that can save it and refuse to. so your job is to force them to save it.
All you have to do is read the lore on Yhorm and then tell me you're the good guy.
The endings confirm the Lords were completely right to abandon their duties.
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If you take their souls and Link the Fire (as was done in every previous cycle), the First Flame sputters and barely reacts, completely spent after countless eons prolonging Gwyn's false Age of Fire.
The (IMO) best ending has you reveal the truth of the world to your Firekeeper, who then helps you end the Flame and usher in a new Age.
The secret ending where you take the First Flame into yourself and reunite it with the Dark Soul (presumably ascending to godhood while simultaneously returning the Flame to balance) is a close second, but it's doubtful anyone other than you gets the benefits.
Destroy all Humans, Call of Duty, Bioshock
Civilization. Choose Ghandi. You're welcome.
minecraft
you show up in a mostly peaceful world and just start destroying it, enslaving villagers and treating peaceful mobs inhumanely to farm them so you can go kill more mobs that were leaving you alone
The Knights of the Old Republic SW games. You can join the dark side.
Stray. You're a cat. Cats are evil.
Kinda surprised nobody has mentioned Metal Gear Solid V and Peace Walker.
The Tropico series of city builders, you are the dictator of an island.
Tyranny
Dune 2. You can play as the Harkonnen
Slay the Spire (1): Downfall.
It’s a free mod that transforms some bosses and normal mobs into playable characters.
It’s very good, could absolutely have been the second Slay the Spire
Darkest dungeon - though you need to make it to the ending to find out why you're evil.
Sounds like Sultan's Game would fit the bill, just be warned that it can get into some really heavy stuff.
Overlord
Came back to say Fable and Fable II are peak evil path RPGs.
Life and Suffering of Sir Brante (and the upcoming sequel, of Prince Jerian) sees you play a character who is generally morally neutral - you choose your own path and can absolutely "evil max" and it has benefits sometimes.
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