10 Video Games Where You Were The Bad Guy All Along

This pretty much plays like "Bureaucracy: the video game", but… you’d be surprised how engaging it all is. This indie gem took a minimalist visual approach and a simple gameplay loop, and turned it into a hauntingly memorable commentary on humanity at its most desperate - and quite possibly, at its threadbare worst.

Playing as a nameless border inspector in the fictional country of Arstotzka, the gamer is charged with either allowing people in or sending them away. The rules keep changing and becoming more and more convoluted - plus, the inspector has a family relying on his performance-based wages. That makes it all the easier to take a bribe, and/or become the strong-arm of this ruthless homeland and rake in that dough. This is all done through tedious paperwork and processing, but darn if it isn’t intriguing.

It all comes down to player choice, of course, but evolving into a soulless husk is often the easier and more reliable option to “win” the game - hence, it’s the path most often travelled. And while the player may be doing these actions for the right reasons, the point is, they’re their right reasons - not ones that benefit the rest of humanity.