10 Evil Video Games That Let You Be A True Tyrant!
6. Evil Genius
Evil Genius is a brilliantly thematic real-time strategy game that lets you live out your criminal mastermind fantasies from the comfort of your own home.
The game owes a lot to another lair-building entry you'll find later on this list, but the theme is a far more modern take on villainy. This game casts the player as an enigmatic spy-thriller villain just like Blofeld or Goldfinger. Naturally, a villain of this calibre in search of world domination needs one thing: a labyrinthine, extremely well-defended evil lair.
Gameplay in Evil Genius is relatively straightforward. You'll be managing the construction of your own evil lair and filling it with henchmen and traps to defend it. At the same time, you'll be visiting the World Domination map screen to dispatch evil minions into the world in order to do your bidding. These minions could complete tasks like stealing artefacts to adorn and confer boosts on your lair, capturing and interrogating agents from the five different task forces out to put a stop to your evil plan, or they could be carrying out Acts of Infamy. These are special events which will increase your villain's notoriety and help to develop your doomsday device.