Getting down with anRPGis one of the best ways to relax after a tough day. But while saving princesses and completing quests is great and all, sometimes, watching the world burn from the comfort of your gaming chair is the most relaxing way to spend an afternoon.
While most games encourage you to play the hero, save the town, or, at the very least, spare the innocent, there’s something undeniably cathartic about a game that lets you go full serial killer and take down everyone in your path.
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Whether you’re purging townsfolk under the cover of night or exploding entire cities just to feel the heat, these RPGs are the perfect choices for anyone looking to let off a little steam the old-fashioned way.
Fish Are Killers, Not Food!
Maneaterlets you live out your inner apex predator dreams by throwing you into what is essentially a Jaws simulator, with you being the shark. The game starts you off as a tiny pup, permanently separated from your mother, who was caught and killed by humans.
Ready for revenge but too tiny to do much about it, you’ll have to settle for chomping on fish and avoiding threats until you get bigger.
It might not seem too exciting at first, but before long, you’ll be tearing through surfers and fishermen left and right, making sure every last human knows to stay far away from your home.
The game leanshardinto its B-movie absurdity, complete with snarky narration and RPG-style upgrades that let you evolve into increasingly ridiculous murder machines. It’s chaotic, it’s gory, and it’s weirdly satisfying in an “eat everything in sight” kind of way.
No Rules, No Gods, No Consequences
Kenshi is a refreshing title in the RPG genre in the sense that it doesn’t make you the Chosen One. You’re not special. You’re just some guy, just like everyone else. But, that’s exactly where it shines the brightest: you can become literallyanythingin this game, including a bloodthirsty killer.
Want to become an unstoppable warlord who razes entire cities to the ground just because you feel like it? Sure. Feel like recruiting your own army and marching them across the map, killing every man in power you come across? Go for it. Want to slowly conquer the world, one dead NPC at a time? Go nuts.
The beautiful thing about Kenshi is the sheer amount of freedom it gives you. Sure, you could waste away in a coal mine or toil away at a farm for the rest of your days, but why help line someone else’s pockets when you can just kill them to line your own, instead?
7The Elder Scrolls III: Morrowind
NPC Bothering You? Just Kill Them
The Elder Scrolls III: Morrowind
Morrowindisthe kind of RPG that doesn’t like to hold your hand; hell, it barely even acknowledges you have one. You can usually expect Bethesda games to be player-oriented murder sprees, but Morrowind just takes NPC slaughtering to the next level.
The graphics may not be the best, but the gameplay is absolutely timeless. Nearly every single NPC in the game is killable, including those tied to main quest lines.
Now, if you happen to kill too many important figures, the game will politely send you a notification letting you know that you’ve doomed the world and all of its inhabitants, but will that stop you? Hell no.
You want to assassinate every noble in Vivec or slaughter entire towns just because they looked at you funny? That’s your call. You can become as chaotic and bloodthirsty as your twisted little heart desires in this game; just don’t be surprised when you realize you’ve permanently locked yourself out of a main quest. Again.
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6Dark Souls III
Kill Everything in Sight
Dark Souls 3
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Believing everything is out to get you is a healthy mindset to have ina Dark Souls game, because honestly, it’s true. Dark Souls III is no exception to this rule, so if you want to survive, you’ll need to slaughter everything in your path before they get the chance.
In Dark Souls 3, you’re already trudging through a dying world filled with miserable husks and waning gods. So it feels less like a genocide and more like an inevitability when the game gives you the option to make thingseven worse.
Pretty much every living thing in Dark Souls 3 can be killed, including merchants, quest-givers, monsters, and even the gods themselves.
But don’t let the NPCs' killability fool you; no one in this world is willing to leave it without a fight, and some battles will feel nearly impossible. The only way to get better at killing is to keep killing, and the game never lets you run out of targets for practice.
5The Outer Worlds
Kill What Needs Killing
The Outer Worlds
Like all games made by Obsidian Entertainment,The Outer Worldsbombards you with choices, from diplomacy to deception or just straight-up murder; there are a few things this game doesn’t let you get away with. In a space-based capitalist dystopia, you can be the ultimate, bloodthirsty unplanned variable.
If you want an RPG that gives you absolute freedom over who you’re able to kill, then The Outer Worlds is an excellent choice. You can shoot pretty much anyone in the face at any time, and the game just kinda lets you. Most NPCs, even quest-critical ones, can be killed on sight, and the game will simply reroute itself around the chaos you’ve caused.
You can go wild and wipe out entire colonies just for the fun of it if you want. Your companions might protest, your reputation might tank, but the bullets will still work, and that’s what matters.
Whether you’re dismantling the system one corpse at a time or just testing how far the game’s flexibility really goes, The Outer Worlds is one of the few RPGs that really lets you run wild with your murderous tendencies.
4Fallout: New Vegas
Fallout: New Vegas
Every Fallout game lets you live a little chaotically, but New Vegas is the title to get if you ever feel like killing everything in sight. In true Vegas fashion, Fallout: New Vegas lets you live as indulgently and shamelessly as you want, especially if you’re a fan of fighting everything that moves.
Fallout: New Vegas isone of those rare RPGsthat truly lets you burn every bridge, kill every contact, and rob every merchant, all while still finishing the story, just with a much higher body count than intended. Whether you decide to side with a faction, betray them, or nuke them into the dirt, the game adapts around your decisions.
You could easily wipe out entire factions for the fun of it, or just decide that everyone sucks equally and go full serial killer to everyone you come across.
It’s a world that reacts to your worst impulses—and sometimes even rewards them. So if you’ve ever wanted to solve political conflicts with a missile launcher, New Vegas is the perfect game to come home to.
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3Grand Theft Auto V
The World is Your Flammable Oyster
Grand Theft Auto 5
There are few games out there where murder is actuallythe goal, but Grand Theft Auto V is one of them. No matter what you’re aiming for in GTA V, whether it be murder, robbery, orheists, the game doesn’t justallowthe chaos; itexpectsit.
Whether you’re hijacking military vehicles, blowing up highways, or starting shootouts with Los Santos’s entire police force, the game is basically just a giant playground forgamers with destructive tendencies. Pedestrians, cops, rival criminals, your fellow protagonists—no one is truly off-limits in this game.
you may derail whole missions by gunning down key characters, or just spend hours mowing down civilians for fun (and five stars, along with the wrath of the LSPD). I mean, come on, the gameliterally rewards youfor being the bad guy; what else were you supposed to do? Bad guy away.
2The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim
Dragonborn < Serial Killer
The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim
For many of us, The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim was our first experience withtrue sandbox experiences, games that truly let you play however you wanted. And although Skyrim may have started you off as the legendary hero fated to save the world, that doesn’t mean that you have to act like it.
Saving the world might make you a hero, but it doesn’t make you a good guy. You can kill pretty much every single NPC you encounter, whether they’re merchants, fellow guild members, or even common thugs out on the streets; killing people and taking everything they’ve got is more than a survival tactic in Skyrim; it’s a way of life.
Sure, guards may come knocking if you kill one too many civilians in broad daylight, but what’s stopping you from killing them too? If you manage to get strong enough, you can take down literally everyone that stands in your way.
Hell, even major questlines can be derailed if you decide diplomacy is for nerds and murder is the better option. If you want true, bloodthirsty freedom in an RPG, then The Elder Scrolls V has your back.
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1Elden Ring
Kill Them Before They Kill You
Elden Ring
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Elden Ring may be infamous for its towering bosses and impossible battles, but let’s not forget the real joy behind all that challenge: killing absolutely everyone in sight, content in the knowledge that they would have killed you first if they had the chance.
Of course, there’s more to the game than just monsters and rotting gods, however. There are plenty of NPCs to find along the way, whether they’re there to help you, fight you, or betray you (I’m looking at you, Gostoc).
Most NPCs in the Lands Between aretechnicallyallies (or at least neutral), but if you swing your weapon at them enough times, they become verynotneutral, very fast.
Whether you’re here to kill every last god still holding onto the last scrap of their immortality, or relatively innocent civilians just trying to live in a ruined land, Elden Ring lets you test the limits of its world by turning it into your very own personal graveyard.
Just don’t be surprised when the corpse of a questline you sabotaged by killing the wrong character 40 hours ago comes back to haunt you.
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