Don’t you see it that way? tired be a hero all the time? Have you ever looked at Bowser and thought, “man, King Koopa has it all figured out”? Does your philosophy of life lean more towards “good guys finish last”?
So if you crave crime and evil deeds, then here are the best bad guy games to be found on the Nintendo Switch!
(SPOILERS within – beware! The meanest thing you can do to a man is to reveal a plot when he was not expecting it…)
Publisher: Panic / Programmer: House House
Outside of the setting, one of the obvious key attractions of Untitled Goose Game is the fact that you take on a role really boring bird. While the to-do list ensures that you’re bound to create mischief, you can have just as much fun creating your own free-form brand of annoyance. Indeed, when we gave the game to someone who had never heard of it before, we were surprised to find that instead of following objectives, they simply wandered around looking for items they could steal and throw into a nearby lake.
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Publisher: Annapurna Interactive / Programmer: Ben Esposito
Donut District begins with a simple premise following a conversation between Mira, a young girl, and BK, a talking raccoon, as they discuss business life at a local donut shop. During this conversation, the girl complains about the loud neighbor, and not long after, a mysterious hole appears in the ground, taking the loud neighbor and everyone around him.
Moments later, we learn that the hole is controlled via BK’s phone app, and the narrative quickly jumps forward to a near future where the entire town – including Mira and BK – is trapped at the bottom of that omnipresent hole.
And you are a hole. Can a hole be evil? Obviously.
Publisher: 8-4 / Programmer: 8-4
There are three main ways you can play Undertale: a pacifist ride with no kills, a neutral ride with some kills, or a genocidal ride where you kill all, and insight into all the content the game offers requires multiple playthroughs. If you do decide to go the violent route, the combat is handled in a unique and engaging way, though we won’t spoil what happens if you do full genocide… so it’s not called genocide to be cute, is it?
Publisher: Back Digital / Programmer: Phobia Game Studio
We haven’t played many games that made us feel like a monster. AND real predator. Measured and ultimately legal concealment Batman: Arkham the series had its fantastic moments, but nothing that would make us sit and think for a moment what we did. input Carcass.
Taking control of an amorphous eldritch with many tentacles thingyou slide and twist and stalk and charge through a massive industrial plant, find out what happens when vulnerable fleshy humans face off against an entity that is 150% teeth and claws by volume. (Spoiler: It’s not pretty.)
Publisher: THQ Nordic / Programmer: Black Forest Games
In Destroy All Humans, players take on the role of Crypto, a rather badass little alien who sounds suspiciously like Jack Nicholson, as he arrives on Earth to collect Furon DNA and investigate the whereabouts of his predecessor, a clone who disappeared while undertaking the very same mission.
Smashing people to pieces, exploding their skulls and ripping their brains out of their backsides is great fun, and Destroy All Humans completes the B-movie villain vibe.
Publisher: Bethesda Softworks / Programmer: Bethesda Game Studios
Some games force you to be evil (like the ones above). Some give you the ability to do beautiful things, or do horrible things. Isn’t that a greater evil? choose evil?
In Skyrim, as in many Bethesda games, it tries to take you to the dark side throughout the game. Oh, it would be so simple steal from this store. They have tiaras everywhere! Why don’t you kill the merchant, put his body in a barrel and walk out of town like nothing happened? What’s the worst possible scenario – the guards come for you? Well, kill them too.
Gosh, we think we learned some bad lessons from Skyrim.
Publisher: Kalypso Media / Programmer: Limbic Entertainment
Management simulator Tropico 6 offers a more realistic type of bad guys — those who exploit the land and its people for their own gain. Of course, you could play El Presidente who serves the citizens through different periods in the game, but if you consider luck a bad investment of your profits, then you can run a beautiful little dictatorship under an iron fist.
Publisher: Tripwire Interactive / Programmer: The blind side
Sharks aren’t inherently evil — they’re just hungry and don’t care about the difference between tasty fish and tasty human legs, right?
A man-eating shark probably isn’t evil however much he was revenge. Starting with the murder of your mother at the hands of famous shark hunter Scaly Pete (whose hand you bit off in the opening scenes), Maneater wastes no time throwing you into the fins of a newborn baby shark that wants to eat EVERYTHING in sight to evolve into a mega- the Spinning Shark — an ultimate killer with the skills and abilities to face your hooky nemesis and avenge his mom once and for all. chew chew.
Publisher: Koch Media / Programmer: will
Few games ‘have fun’ with as much enthusiasm and self-awareness as Saints Row. While GTA tempering its acerbic tone and devotion to pop culture with a solid set of in-game rules, Volition’s open-world series has always been geared towards the silly and slapstick. Want to throw yourself into oncoming traffic and ragdoll your way to insurance riches? That has you covered. Want to fight off hordes of zombies? Star in your own sci-fi B-movie? Fighting tank battles while freefalling? Check, check and check.
Saints Row’s brand of psychopathy is a lot more wacky and joyous than most, but you can still beat a guy to death with a tentacle bat. And yeah, that’s pretty mean, isn’t it?
Publisher: Warner Bros. Interactive / Programmer: TT games
LEGO DC Super-Villains offers the opportunity to play as a rogues gallery of characters that we have always fought from else foreign, and it makes for an eclectic new list. Clayface can change his form to mimic other powers or impersonate another character to gain access to new areas, the Joker can recruit thugs to perform unique tasks, and the Reverse Flash can tap into the ‘Speed Force’ to create super-builds in spectacular fashion .
Just keep in mind that this is a LEGO game, not an adult-rated Suicide Squad game, so sugar-coated villainy is the order of the day. Being a villain seems almost futile, but you can’t fully indulge your truly evil side. Still, it’s better than boring old Superman.
Publisher: WB games / Programmer: TT games
The Star Wars stuff is all too often about being boring good and good Jedi, which they are should have to be morally dubious — like, have you even SEEN the movies? We’re not saying Anakin was right, but he had a decent point about the Jedi being arrogant, ineffectual traditionalists who are too easy to manipulate – but in the Skywalker Saga, you can also play as a Sith. And they did actually evil. Like, evil child murder. Fun!
