10 Video Games With Little Hope For Humanity

And yet, even if the concept of Mutually Assured Destruction holds firm, what's to stop some crazy, gun-totting a**hole killing a ton of people totally out of nowhere?

Hatred, to be clear, is not a good game - it's an ugly, mean-spirited isometric shooter in which players take control of a misanthropic mass murderer whose singular goal is to kill as many innocent human beings as possible.

Hatred is framed as a riposte to political correctness and games-as-art, produced to express no wider artistic intent while wearing its edgy nihilism on its sleeve.

And yet, it's hard not to play Hatred without thinking of all the mass shootings which occur on a devastatingly frequent basis in the U.S., and consider that Hatred is, perhaps unintentionally, tapping into something real.

Obviously the violence in the game is massively exaggerated and played for crass entertainment purposes, but its people-hating protagonist doesn't exactly feel a million miles away from real-life mass shooters - that is to say, typically angry white men.

As much as you might wonder why a game like Hatred really needs to exist at all, it manages to bottle the repulsive, impotent rage felt by a certain quarter of society, which without any warning can explode into violence inflicted upon innocent people just going about their day.

The fact that Hatred quickly became a best-seller really says it all.