Evil choices in gaming usually give you varying paths for the story. This can mean losing a friend, locking yourself out of recruiting certain characters, or even getting a bad ending that tries to make you regret your life choices. While you generally should stay on the right path to achieve the best possible ending, some choices are just too tempting.
Sometimes it pays well to be evil. Enemies will fear you and even the toughest bosses will fall to their knees after hours of trying to beat them. Other times, the most evil thing you can do is walk away from the needs of the people. These are the ten most satisfying evil choices in gaming.
10 The Megaton Bomb
Drop The Bomb, Get Paid
If you want to be a jerk or just downright evil in Fallout New Vegas, dropping the atomic bomb on Megaton is the way to go. The bomb quest is one of the most iconic and possibly one of the most destructive choices you can make in any Fallout game.
However, dropping the bomb isn’t without a reward. You get a neat number of caps for completing this quest, and it also makes a penthouse available at Tenpenny Towers. It's not a bad trade-off for the lives of dozens of NPC.
9 Killing Sans
Beating The Hardest Boss In Undertale
Killing Sans is proof that you are committed to a genocide run in Undertale. By the time you’ve reached this point, Papyrus is dust, Undyne has melted into oblivion, and Mettaton died in one hit. Sans, on the other hand, doesn’t go down without a fight.
Sans is the hardest boss in Undertale and can kill you in an instant, mocking you differently each time you die. Finally killing him, however, is the most satisfying accomplishment, even if it means standing in the dust of friendly monsters.
8 Killing The Crooked Man
Big Man Bigby
It seems like every choice you make in The Wolf Among Us is heavily criticized by the residents of Fabletown. So, when the time finally comes to dish out justice to the Crooked Man for all his misdeeds, there is obviously a moral dilemma. Some want him to be imprisoned, others want you to kill him.
After a whole story of characters telling you how to enforce the rules of Fabletown, tossing the Crooked Man into the wishing well for all to see is a great but evil way to assert your dominance over the citizens. If they’re going to have a problem with your way of running things, show them who is boss.
7 Becoming Infamous
One Unlikable Villain
Augustine is one of the most despicable villains in gaming history. Her crooked smile and hypocritical views make her a villain you want to put down. After poisoning your Akomish family with stone, killing your brother, and hunting you down simply for being a conduit, revenge is sweet.
If you make all evil choices, you are allowed to encase her in stone and toss her to her death. In the good ending, she is imprisoned, but you don’t get revenge. In the epilogue of evil, it is revealed that you also free all the conduits being held in prison and absorb their powers as well.
6 Killing Barbas
Painful But Pays Well
When a dog dies in any story, it’s usually heartbreaking. A Frost Spider dies? Oh well. A Troll? That’s fine. A dog? Not on our watch. Barbas is a faithful dog that appears suddenly and requests only to return to the side of his owner, Clavicus Vile, a Daedric Prince.
However, once you do, the Prince will ask you to kill Barbas with the Rueful Axe. Doing so lets you keep the axe, which is one of the most unique weapons in the game. So what will it be? Keep the dog or get that sweet new weapon?
5 Befriending And Betraying Allies
Sucking Blood In Vampyr
Vampyr really is the ultimate test of how far you’re willing to go to obtain ultimate power. The whole premise of Vampyr is that you need to kill the townsfolk to become more powerful. However, the most evil mechanic is how you need to betray the NPC.
Each day you can get to know the various NPC. The r you get to the various characters around town, the more power you will gain from using them as food. It may be deliciously evil, but extremely satisfying to feel the power surge through you.
4 Harvesting The Little Sisters
The Quest For More Adam
Welcome to Rapture, the underwater city fueled by science and selfishness. One of the first moral dilemmas in Bioshock is what to do with the Little Sisters once you defeat your first Big Daddy. Saving them will give you rewards in the long run, including a found family.
Harvesting them on the other hand, gives you more and more power. Keep harvesting every Little Sister in the game and not only do you gain ultimate power, but lets you control the city and launch an attack on the surface world. It’s a bad ending that feels good.
3 Becoming Citra’s Lover
Betraying Your Friends
Getting stranded on Rakyat will have you trying to survive the jungles and save your friends who got scattered around the island. When your friends are captured once more and set up as a ritualistic sacrifice, there are two ways this can go down.
Far Cry 3’s bad ending can definitely be described as satisfying. However, you need to betray your friends by killing them. Afterward, Citra will take you as her lover and you will produce an heir. Unfortunately, she kills you right after the ritual, so was it worth it? Sure!
2 Trading War For Paradise
Ignoring The Fight For Freedom
Far Cry games also have one of the most satisfying evil choices for anyone who has ever wondered what would happen if you simply don’t get involved. Far Cry 6 lets you see just how brutal life is for the people of Yaran at the start of the game.
This is supposed to incentivize you to become a hero who fights back against tyranny. However, after seeing so much suffering, you can choose to ignore the needs of Yaran for a nice spot on a Miami Beach and end the game early. Perhaps it’s an evil choice for the many, but it sure is satisfying for you.
1 Terrorizing And Killing Your Enemies
Getting Revenge In Dishonored
Dishonored has some of the most creative ways of taking care of assassination targets. The true ending has you going the extra mile not to kill your enemies, but have them shipped away, imprisoned, or kidnapped by other parties.
Outright killing each target might be the most basic way of taking care of things, but it is infinitely satisfying watching the people who wronged you finally get their due. After all, they were the ones that framed you and kidnapped Emily, so why not use your powers to let rats eat them while they beg for mercy?
