Trying to do the right thing sometimes comes at a cost. Why wouldn’t you want the game to get harder for you since it’s about doing something the “right” way? It just adds to the realism behind it all. Every action has a reaction, and your conduct or intentions don’t change the circumstances or interactions that are inevitable.
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Some games remind you of how you’re not some infallible god, just a mere mortal who should be fine with being morally gray rather than a flawless angel or a disturbed individual. Other games just like to mess with you for fun.
10The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt
The Witcher 3is one long and fairly detailed game, chock-full of quests andall sorts of RPG tropesone grows to feel accustomed to at this point playing triple-A video games. With that out of the way, you wouldn’t expect the game to throw curveballs at you out of nowhere.
Especially ones that involve either chucking a baby into a furnace or having your friend die on you just because you were a bit too protective of them and their safety. Being a good guy just isn’t an option sometimes.
9Star Wars: Knights Of The Old Republic 2
The timeless struggle between the Jedi and the Sith is mostly defined by the emotions both sides choose to embody to their extremes. As common as it is to assume the Jedi care about life and preserving it, that’s not entirely true.
As the Jedi historian Kriea put it in her own cryptic way, the Force and wielders of it aren’t supposed to meddle in things all willy-nilly and help out people with gifts they didn’t deserve. Altruism may be the name of the game but so is being smart about your generosity.
8The Outer Worlds - Can You Perhaps Spare A Cup Of Energy?
Let’s stop pretending you have a choice anymore.The Outer Worldsis a game that will exhaust you with the constant moral dilemmas that come with choosing one thing over the other. You have no option but to sacrifice.
Enjoy the beauty of what the future of capitalism has to offer you, while you look for ways to survive. The resource war you’re plunged into while playing this game will make you question just who you are and what kind of people you align yourself with.
7Spec Ops: The Line
Imagine defending a war-torn post-apocalyptic Dubai with all your might only to find out there are people like you who are targeting civilians and want them to suffer. Now you get the option to burn them down to kingdom come with one of the worst inventions mankind’s ever conceived, would you end up being okay with it?
In this game, once you go through with your decision you find nothing but sorrow in your wake. Your decision to indulge in a necessary evil has consequences. Lugo was right all along.
6Pathologic 2
Traveling around like a nomad whilst everyone demands your help might be a terrifying prospect for someone trying to be ethical in a situation where they’re all getting infected by a plague, and you’re one of the few doctors around.
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What happens if you decide to expend all of your research and valued time on saving an ostracized few instead of helping out an entire town? Play through the campaign and find that one out for yourself.
5Tyranny
For a game with a name like Tyranny, if you expect to get rewarded for being good and making the right ethical decision, you’re in for a rude awakening. Get used to being nerfed for the rest of the game.
Not only that, but being nice is a great way to burn down some of the bridges you’ve worked so hard to build with the powerful NPCs and factions in-game. Good luck repairing those relationships.
4Vampire: The Masquerade Bloodlines
Agame about vampiresand you expect to play it safe? You’re seriously considering not slaughtering a single innocent for your blood cravings? Well, your fate is sealed then, you might struggle to do practically anything in this game.
Get ready for nerfed progression, lackluster power output, and pissed-off NPCs for no good reason. This game really likes dishing out some rapid punishment for not doing exactly what vampires do. It’s funny how overdoing it can end up having you lose your sanity to bouts of blood thirst.
3The Banner Saga
Try thinking up a scenario where you need to choose between believing in someone else or letting them know you’re just another deplorable person who won’t trust them with responsibility. You’re probably going to want to give off a good impression right? Wrong.
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That’s where you messed up, without thinking straight, you’re going to regret ever making such a foolish decision.The Banner Sagadoesn’t hesitate to remind you just how badly a stupid decision made on a whim could come back to haunt you.
2The Stanley Parable
What would you do if you had control over an office bum whose only job was pressing one key on his keyboard all day? Wouldn’t you prefer ticking off the cheeky narrator and getting Stanley out of the office?
Unfortunately, in your haste to do the right thing, you’re probably going to end up getting Stanley stuck in a loop of pain and suffering whether you want to or not. This game’s all about making the right decisions, even if they seem unethical or illogical.
1Fable 3
Nothing hits you harder than doing everything to alleviate the suffering of your people, only for the shitshow to settle down and explode in your face a mere months later. Especially when you realize you’re the next big boogeyman who ruined their lives.
Imagine deposing a tyrannical family member who taxed people to death, only to find out you have to do the same or else risk the death of your entire kingdom. The cherry on top is how much you’re hated by the same people you tried to help.
