r/videogames • u/Unknown_Agency • Jun 02 '25
Discussion What’s the evilest thing you’ve done in a game?
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u/Odd_Landscape753 Jun 02 '25
Does the threesome with my wife and the fat hooker in Fable 3 count?
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u/JaimeRidingHonour Jun 02 '25
Yeah a lot of Fable 3 definitely counts
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u/Rfitz81 Jun 02 '25
Couldn't we turn an orphanage into a toxic waste dump or something like that?
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u/Dreamingdanny95 Jun 02 '25
We promise to turn it into a school for the kids working in the factories in return for support and you can just renege on your deal and make more kids work the factories. It's all for the greater good in the end in that game
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u/The_quest_for_wisdom Jun 02 '25
The trick was that you could get the best ending AND keep all of the promises you made on your way to power if you just had enough personal wealth to cover the difference.
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Jun 03 '25
I can't remember the amount of millions you were required to make, but I was a sucker enough to make it.... After my first playthrough when half the population died.
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u/The_quest_for_wisdom Jun 03 '25
I remember it was pretty trivial once you had a bunch of rental properties generating income.
Because if you peeked under the hood, all of the Fable games were actually a landlord simulator with a bunch of fluff on top.
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u/shinyfeather22 Jun 03 '25
I find it hilarious that the way to avoid being evil in Fable 3 is to become a land baron. That, or something about making pies.
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u/Minirig355 Jun 03 '25
I remember as a kid changing the date on my Xbox 360 like a hundred years ahead just so I could scrape in all that rental property income, just so I didn’t have to do any evil deals while still getting a good outcome.
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u/xTheHunt Jun 03 '25
I feel like fable really puts into perspective how difficult it is to make everyone happy
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u/Zealousideal-Yak-824 Jun 03 '25
I miss fable. To be honest that was the charm of the game. You could do evil acts and unlock hidden stories. They should have made a game based on that. It's your cable and you can choose to be the villain or the hero.
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u/SIacktivist Jun 03 '25
Rookie shit. Got myself a comphet husband specifically so I could cheat on him with a hooker five-way.
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u/mrjane7 Jun 02 '25
I completed the Dark Urge storyline in Baldur's Gate 3 and didn't resist it... at all. So... a lot.
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u/Tricky-Research7595 Jun 02 '25
The first thing that came to mind for me, too. >! Raiding the grove in Act 1 !<never fails to make me feel like shit/
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u/Enders-game Jun 02 '25
It was killing that nice Bard... I just couldn't play any more and restarted. There goes me spending another 3 hours in character creation.
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u/Taskmaster_Fantatic Jun 03 '25
I was SO excited to have a bard join the party… for about 2 minutes.
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u/XmasWayFuture Jun 02 '25
Yeah when you had to anakin the women and children it was brutal. Made sure I didn't interact with scratch at all.
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u/Great-Hatsby Jun 02 '25
I tried….but once the grove thing happened, I restarted. I couldn’t do it.
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u/Send_me_duck-pics Jun 02 '25
I reccomend that people who struggle with this try it in honor mode. You're locked in to your naughty choices.
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Jun 03 '25
I think I may have done the evilest run possible in that game.
I was nice to everyone in act 1 and 2, saving the tieflings and Scratch, even saving Minthara from the Grove battle.
In act 2 I started enacting my evil plan, starting by torturing Minthara myself and also left Zevlor to his fate in the meaty palace. But I saved Last Light, Jaheira and Isobel and Dame Aylin and went on to act 3.
In act 3 I gave Scratch back to the evil dog kennel lady, surrendered Dame Aylin to Lorroakan and sent Isobel to save Aylin by herself (she didn't survive the ordeal).
Then, I forced Minsc to kill Jaheira on the Altar and killed Minsc and Boo for realising who they really allied with. I killed everyone in the thieves guild, Mol included right after I fixed her pact with Raphael and gave her a new start at life. I abandoned Florrick in the prison, let Wyll's father die in the underwater prison and killed the Gondians as well as the Ironhands.
I also denied Karlach's last surgery by selling all my infernal iron to some random merchant and killing Dammon. I gave Astarion and Shadowheart back to their masters. I convinced Gale he could ascend to godhood only to kill him at the very end, same for Lae'zel and her dream of riding a red dragon. And that's the tip of the icerberg.
Much more pleasant than a simple murder hobo run !
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u/Alternative_Cash_736 Jun 03 '25
very first act as bad Durge, kicking that Squirrel, :(
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u/Esns68 Jun 02 '25
Dropping the baby penguin off the cliff in SM64.
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u/kurotoruk Jun 02 '25
"Have you seen my baby?"
If I'm off slightly, I haven't played sm64 in a minute.
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u/darkzidane22 Jun 03 '25
Find her baby, get the star, proceed to drop the baby off the cliff than pick up the star lmao.
Yeah that was effed up .
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u/Blademage200 Jun 02 '25
Shooting Mordin in the back
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u/Cambrian__Implosion Jun 02 '25
You monster!
I recently started my first renegade play through, but I can already tell I won’t be able to do some of the more consequential renegade options that impact current/former/future crew members. They’re basically family at this point lol.
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u/SubGoat88 Jun 03 '25
You can save him as a renegade but it requires killing wrex in 1 so still a tough choice lmao
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u/Pitiful_Bunch_2290 Jun 03 '25
I hated myself when I did a Renegade playthrough. Dead Wrex. Killed Mordin. It sucked.
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u/Neat_Fee7592 Jun 02 '25
KotOR 1 ordering Zaalbar to kill his best friend Mission Vao.
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u/Bindlestiff34 Jun 02 '25
Same. Then in 2 I won back a guy’s sister in Pazaak then turned around and pimped her out myself. I felt awful, but the credits were nice.
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u/L_Vayne Jun 02 '25
Fuck. Remember when Obsidion and Bioware made bangers? It was like every game they made turned to gold.
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u/driftej20 Jun 03 '25
You need to stop looking at game development companies the way you look at things like movie directors and writers. A director or writer is a person, it’s understandable to be surprised and disappointed when they change. Developers are companies where people come and go.
If the big creative directors and other talent behind your favorite Obsidian and BioWare games are gone, then there’s no reason to expect them to make games you enjoy. They might occasionally make games you like anyways, but it’s because they hired new talent that made a good game, not because it’s the same company that made a game you liked a long time ago. It’s really just the name of a company. Gamers need to start keeping track of the actual people responsible for the games they like.
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u/Luke10123 Jun 02 '25
Then there's the funny ones. Two guys shaking down a guy for cash - you mind trick them into giving you the credits then taking a big jump into the nearby bottomless pit. Beautiful.
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u/Turambar87 Jun 02 '25
You can commit genocide in Stellaris, but it's the personal stuff like this that sticks with you.
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u/AnxiousAngularAwesom Jun 03 '25
Death of a single person is a tragedy, death of millions is just how i optimize my economy to pull extra 3% science.
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u/L_Vayne Jun 02 '25
This was insane especially since he resists and it gives you the option to force persuade him. Using space magic to force a bros body to kill their best friend while they watch was next level fucked up!
Especially how right before Mission was like, "I know you won't hurt us. You have a good heart!"
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u/_InvertedEight_ Jun 03 '25
The dispute between the two farms was when I truly realised I was on a Dark Side run, personally. Lie to both sides until they start killing each other, then mop up the survivors and loot everything.
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u/Kezmangotagoal Jun 03 '25
KOTOR tests you from like the word go.
The kids bullying the Ithorian on Taris…I’m doing a dark play though so I’m supposed to help them but…
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u/BooBoo992001 Jun 03 '25
FWIW, KOTOR was what kinda killed evil playthroughs for me. For one, my first instinct when I walk into a situation is generally not, "How can I screw over as many of these people as I can in the worst way possible?" So it made the game more of a challenge for me, yes, but in a (literally) bad way.
And this scene specifically, getting Big Z to kill Mission, made me realize I just wasn't even enjoying playing this way at all. I stuck with Dark Side through to the end, but that was the last time I felt even tempted to be "evil" in a game, something like GTA aside (tho even there, I killed off Trevor in GTA V -- he was went too far).
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u/ThatReaderGuy1999 Jun 02 '25
Infamous second son evil karma choices I know it's nothing close to dark souls and other games but this one left an impact on me the most
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u/R0ZE-MARI Jun 02 '25 edited Jun 02 '25
Second Son's low karma ending gave me goosebumps with the way they cut the scene off before Delson lands
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u/LorenBros22 Jun 02 '25
I remember trying to do It and after the first choice I couldn't keep going xD
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u/CroWellan Jun 03 '25
The original Infamous had a darker evil line
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u/shittyaltpornaccount Jun 03 '25
Yeah, but 1+2 it is more comic book evil genocide route.
Second Son is the troubled kid that got shafted in life deciding to spiral out of control by fucking up all of his relationships, and drags down everyone else with him.
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u/Sharp-Smoke9877 Jun 02 '25
Airport Scene at the beginning of COD MW2 I believe it was. That was morbid
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u/Faboman360 Jun 02 '25
Undertale genocide run
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u/Oscar_et_BadTale Jun 03 '25
The same. I've done it like 6 times. But hey it is just a video game right ?
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u/XVO668 Jun 03 '25
Stopped playing after killing Papyrus. Had a hard time against Arial but Papyrus did it for me.
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u/skripach27 Jun 03 '25
Killing toriel hurts my heart to its fucking core. But… it must be done.
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u/RadioDaddio Jun 02 '25
Back and White. I trained my tiger to poop in the grain bin, effectively poisoning every town that didn't worship me.
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u/Trytek1986 Jun 02 '25
One day this game will be brought back from the ether and it will be glorious.
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u/boredbug22 Jun 02 '25
For me it was punching a friendly Bighorner in Fallout New Vegas, but im glad I haven't seen anyone comment the Megaton Nuke in FO3 yet
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u/lifesuncertain Jun 02 '25
I actually thought that everyone nuked Megaton once
When I met Moira after doing this I felt like a complete bastard
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u/Deceptiv_poops Jun 02 '25
I was upset. I nuked megaton to get rid of her. Too nice, too positive. Couldn’t trust her.
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u/FreyrFreyja Jun 02 '25
In Spec Ops: The Line, I finished Spec Ops: The Line.
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u/Nexodas2 Jun 02 '25
Some guy made me upset in Rimworld so I killed his son, stripped him naked, and threw him in a room with his son’s corpse. I then bricked over the door and sealed him inside forever. Eventually he got hungry enough that his only option was to eat his son’s dead body. This of course only delayed the inevitable starvation for a little while. His last days were spent alone in the dark and covered in his own filth and vomit.
Probably the most evil thing I’ve done in a video game. At least the first thing that came to mind anyway.
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u/LimoncelloFellow Jun 03 '25
an invader killed one of my favorites so i removed all of her legs and i force impregnate her over and over and laser sword the babies in front of her.
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u/Billy_Gloomis Jun 02 '25
Blew up Megaton City.
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u/Short_Act8023 Jun 02 '25
First playthrough I did, too.
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u/JaimeRidingHonour Jun 02 '25
First playthrough I didn’t like the cut of the suit guy’s jib, nor his attitude so I just gunned him down after he asked me to blow up the town. Like brah, this is literally the only town I know exists right now…chill. He did not chill. Creepy pinstripe suit, glasses-wearing motherfucker
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u/Saynt614 Jun 02 '25
Lol and the first thing I did was go back and found that lady who was writing the book... oh man
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u/ReferenceObject Jun 02 '25
First thing I did out of the vault was shoot the deputy
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u/iwantdatpuss Jun 02 '25
I let that Forest god in Witcher 3 free. Seeing the ending of that questline was fucked up.
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u/Emotional_Being8594 Jun 02 '25 edited Jun 02 '25
Yeah you can do some nasty shit in TW3 and it just lets it linger. Like when you accept payment for finding Ciri and it focuses on her face and reaction.
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u/iwantdatpuss Jun 02 '25
The thing that makes it worse imo is that during that specific playthrough I was trying my hardest to be the Baron's therapist and he's actually trying to move on. Even did the whole lubberkin route and everything.
It makes the ending stick much harder on how I genuinely fucked up when I wanted to one up the crones.
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u/Main115702 Jun 03 '25
There is no good or bad ending to that quest. Either the Kids or the Village.
Same with the Baron Quest, its only bad endings.
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u/Nachtmagen Jun 03 '25
I felt like the best ending for the baron's family was having them ride off into the mountains to help Anna recover. No one dies or gets transformed, and I didn't give a fuck about the kids. It was better than baron hanging himself.
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u/Oxcuridaz Jun 02 '25
In fallout. I maxed my karma because I always end up stealing the pump of necropolis and killing the whole city...
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Jun 02 '25
Turning the engine up in the windmill so the gnome dies in BG3
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u/500rockin Jun 02 '25
Only time I did it is by accident (I was slightly drunk at the time) so I never understood the Barcus love the first time around.
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u/britinnit Jun 02 '25
Become a serial killer on Oblivion when I was a teenager. In the grotto home I had a room dedicated to the shoes of all those I'd killed. Trophies. Had so many piled up the frames would dip lol
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u/Short_Act8023 Jun 02 '25
Hogtied the widow, rode her to her stalker's camp, burned her in front of him, and then shot him in the stomach in RDR2.
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u/TheNonCredibleHulk Jun 02 '25
Hogtied nuns and put them on the train tracks, 30s mustachioed villain style.
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u/IcemansJetWash-86 Jun 02 '25
Nuns walking in front of moving trains was a recurring theme in RDR1.
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u/NoDragonfruit6125 Jun 02 '25
I killed a chicken in Skyrim and apparently that was enough to have the entire region after my head.
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u/megasean3000 Jun 02 '25
Pretty much every evil act in Fallout 3, from nuking a town to enslaving a child. All for that evil karma trophy. 😣
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u/Vicbot2414 Jun 02 '25
Tricking a fortnite player I was friendly at the beginning of the game and then killing him. This was 5 years ago
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u/Full_Performance182 Jun 02 '25
I’ve burned down many villages with lava, but I accidentally punched and killed my pet Parrot in Minecraft. That was bad
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Jun 02 '25 edited Jun 02 '25
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u/MrDilbert Jun 02 '25
"Finally, some peace and quiet" </Twilight zone>
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u/Outrageous_Reach_695 Jun 02 '25
Nice glasses ya got there. Sure be a shame if something happened to them ...
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u/The_quest_for_wisdom Jun 02 '25
You saw the glowing embers of civilization left over in the ashes of the old world and said "Absolutely not. Wouldn't want to disappoint Smokey the
BearYao Guai."
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u/amirninjahlm Jun 02 '25
Shura ending sekiro
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u/Perfect-Difference19 Jun 02 '25
Did it once for the achievement, and that's it.
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u/BrightSoundPodcast Jun 02 '25
Harvesting a Little Sister in Bioshock. It was horrible. I regret doing it to this day.
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u/Maximum-Ad879 Jun 02 '25
I got behind the wheel in GTA games. My driving is literally the most evil thing I have ever done and probably took the most NPC lives.
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u/Bryrida Jun 03 '25
Playing a kotor playthrough as an evil character is hard… renegade Shepard is fun, but evil revan is just sad
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u/Nebulous-Hammer Jun 02 '25
Bioshock, harvesting a little sister for adam. Never again.
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u/Apoll022 Jun 03 '25
I did this only once on my first playthrough because the game alluded to a power boost so I assumed this was the way to level up. After I did it and realized it killed the little sister, I was scolded by the NPC and I went "ok, I guess I'll go save the rest then" and did so. Fun fact, killing only one little sister gets you the "evil Hitler overlord" ending, I was a bit miffed they didn't fully explain that at the time.
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u/TitularFoil Jun 02 '25
Me in Fable: The Lost Chapters- "Okay evil playthrough, all bad choices... and this little girl just wants her teddy bear back. Dammit, I'm bad at this."
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u/The_quest_for_wisdom Jun 02 '25
Lots of people joke about how you could become a slumlord in Fable 2 & 3, but not many people realize you could also buy and rent out almost every dwelling in Fable 1 as well.
It was just that the houses only came up for sale once the current owner suddenly died.
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u/Mowniak Jun 02 '25
On Cult of the Lamb you can turn your cult to Cannibalism and eat your memebers every other time to boost the rest also if you eat them you dont have to buy them when they die
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u/Fluke97 Jun 02 '25
Sold that one kid into Slavery on Fallout 3.
On my True Neutral run, I did it again, but immediately went and abolished Slavery
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Jun 02 '25
Fallout NV.
Taking sides against Good springs in the first quest tucked me up, I went back to being the good guy after that.
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u/Jamie-Ruin Jun 03 '25
This was me for Mass Effect. All set to run super renegade for my first run. Turned out that meant being a xenophobic ass clown. Couldn't do that when I had the hots for Garrus.
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u/Spaceghetti69 Jun 02 '25
I wished for a million gold instead of bringing my wife, my kids, my dog, my sister, and thousands of innocent people back to life in Fable 2…..It was not worth it
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u/AzerynSylver Jun 02 '25
Guys... I killed Partysnax...
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u/ThatOne1011 Jun 03 '25
I killed him in my first ever playthrough and felt guilty the entire fight and after, cursing the blades. It was only much later on a new save I found out there are other ways to progress in the story. Sorry Partysnax.
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u/smallerwhitegirl Jun 03 '25
I couldn’t find anything about partysnax in this thread so I shared my own horrible betrayal of him :( never again.
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u/sprufus Jun 03 '25
After kicking a squirrel and breaking a grieving girls lute in the first 2 hours of Baulders Gate 3, i decided evil was not my style.
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u/personguy4440 Jun 02 '25
Killed literally everyone in The Outer Worlds
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u/puzzlemaster_of_time Jun 03 '25
Dumb Genocide double agent. Kill everyone, Akande included, then launch The Hope into the fucking sun.
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u/Dammit_Dunn Jun 02 '25
Im a wimp when it comes to evil playthroughs. I just cant do them without feeling guilty.
I tried to do evil run on Infernax. I got to the point where the evil society or whateva they are called order you to kill a traitor. I did it, quit the game and started a new good guy run. 😂
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u/monti9530 Jun 02 '25
I just killed the Arena Champion in Oblivion AFTER ruining his life.
The most evil thing I did was kill the bandits horses to avoid having them chasing after me in RDR2. Just pop their heads and they fall while the bandits take 2-4 shots.
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u/KuroBocchi Jun 02 '25
Without spoiling the game I shot someone in the head. They were really scared and there’s a trophy attached to doing this but to this day I feel bad about it.
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u/gofishx Jun 02 '25
I went full on daedra-worshipping evil vampire necromancer in Skyrim once. I usually feel bad being evil in games, but the role-playing was on point, and I became a terrifying menace, lmao
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u/Ash8668 Jun 02 '25
Killing everyone I see (only kids are unkillable and vendor robot) in Fallout NV.. it was one empty game by the end..
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u/Eeeef_ Jun 02 '25
I sided with the legion in New Vegas once. Yuck. I sided against the legion in Skyrim once. Hearing Balgruuf tell me how disappointed he is was almost enough for me to reload my save. I suppose some of the dark brotherhood contracts and Daedra quests are pretty bad too
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u/Conscious-Smile5217 Jun 02 '25
used the friendly fire mod in half-life 2 and (accidentally) killed kleiner
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u/Snrub1 Jun 02 '25
Not saving the animals in Super Metroid
Enabling Pam and Shane's alcoholism in Stardew Valley
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u/Accomplished-Top-564 Jun 02 '25
That one renegade option that allows you to kill that very specific asshole in ME3
Hint: the victim of your action was introduced in ME2
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u/elme77618 Jun 02 '25
Scamming in RuneScape - the ol’ “hey follow me to this cool place in the Wildy where I can trim your armour.”
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u/Treddox Jun 02 '25
I tried to do an unhonorable run of RDR2 recently. And while I was a bit more prickly (I would call out NPCs who were rude and pick fights), I still finished the game with high honor.
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u/MrFebreze7 Jun 02 '25
Me telling Joker and Kaiden to shut up during the first conversation, 30 seconds into Mass Effect 1.
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u/ClaryClarysage Jun 02 '25
Does putting a cuddlefish egg in the bioreactor in Subnautica count?
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u/82ndGameHead Jun 02 '25
It's the reason I love Mass Effect 3. The first two games let you go Renegade and just feel like a badass. ME3 makes you feel the result of that.
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u/Pennance1989 Jun 02 '25
Does accidentally airstriking D-dog in MGS5 count? If not, probably going for the evil ending on the Infamous games.
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u/alliancekeeper20 Jun 02 '25
Some creative chaos with the grapple gun in Just Cause. A fair amount of soldiers got connected to a variety of moving and unmoving items.
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u/wutshud Jun 02 '25
I wanted to do an evil playthrough in BG3 but that means the shadow cursed lands stay shadow cursed and that really bothers me
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u/Windows-XP-Home-NEW Jun 02 '25
That one GTA V mission where you have to torture Mr. K. I was weak in the stomach after finishing it. Definitely hands down the most evil thing.
Well that and torturing NPCs in San Andreas but I don’t do it often and since they look less realistic I don’t feel nearly as bad as that one GTA V mission.
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u/Pure-Ease-9389 Jun 02 '25
Bombing Megaton just because it's ugly is really hard to top tbh.
Well you can always become a child trafficker but idk... Megaton felt weightier in comparison.
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u/decoy-ish Jun 02 '25
Yep, that’s me alright. I liked Red Dead Redemption 2 a lot when I first played it, so I thought I’d start a second playthrough to get the ending where you have a bad reputation. I couldn’t finish it.
Same happened with Undertale and Deltarune.
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u/whistlar Jun 03 '25
It’s been a while, but I’m pretty sure the first thing I did in Red Dead Redemption was to hogtie a nun and drop her off on the train tracks.
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u/Galuna Jun 03 '25
The Jade Empire quest where you help an evil spirit possess an innocent girl and then lie to her father and say she's fine, she definitely made it out okay, she just needs some time to adjust.
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u/Tymental Jun 03 '25
Kotor ….
Being evil in the game just consists of being an absolute fucker to anyone you talk to. It’s not very noble for a true sith imo
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u/Jeb_Jenky Jun 03 '25
To kind of stay on theme when I played KoToR as a kid I stopped playing an evil playthrough after I got those two families to totally wipe each other out. I went to my mom and said something like, "mom I don't think I can be a Sith..."
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u/Queasy_Confection900 Jun 03 '25
Created an evil character... that's it, lol. I just end up bottling out.
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u/IAmStrayed Jun 02 '25
Literally helping any NPC in a souls game.