Best Games Where You Can Have No Regard For Human Life

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Some video games let players complete the game without killing anyone. A great example is *Metal Gear Solid 5: The Phantom Pain*, where you can knock out enemies using tranquilizer darts instead of killing them. You can even recruit these subdued enemies, send them to your base, and use them to help you build equipment.

Astro Bot is a great game where you rescue robots on each level. While these rescue games are fun, not everyone enjoys being a hero. Some players prefer to create mayhem and don’t worry about the wellbeing of others – even the non-player characters just wandering around. Those moments of unpredictable chaos are often the most memorable parts of the game.

Grand Theft Auto 5

I’m Driving Here!

The *Grand Theft Auto* series, including *Grand Theft Auto 5*, lets players control characters with no moral compass. Players are free to interact with the game world however they choose, even if it means causing chaos for innocent bystanders. While there are consequences for actions like hitting pedestrians – the police will intervene – players can either evade or confront them. This freedom, even with penalties, is a core part of what made *Grand Theft Auto 3* so groundbreaking on the PlayStation 2 and helped establish the open-world sandbox genre, building a dedicated fanbase ever since.

Prototype

Eat Humans, Be Humans

Prototype is a wildly chaotic superhero game. You play as Alex Mercer, who’s infected with a virus that gives him incredible shape-shifting powers – he can grow wings, scale buildings, and even turn his arms into weapons. The military tries to capture him, but he fights back. To survive and stay hidden, Mercer can absorb the DNA of people he consumes, allowing him to disguise himself – even as soldiers to infiltrate military bases. It’s a unique and somewhat disturbing mechanic, but it’s also really cool.

Destroy All Humans!

Invade The Planet

In *Destroy All Humans!*, you play as Crypto, an alien whose mission is to take over Earth in the 1950s. You’ll enslave humans using a variety of methods, like abducting them with your spaceship or controlling their minds with psychic powers.

Just like the protagonist in *Prototype*, players in *Destroy All Humans!* can disguise themselves to move around undetected. The game lets you do some pretty disturbing things, like absorbing the brains of non-player characters, and even unleash chaos from above using Crypto’s spaceship to wipe out entire cities. Fortunately, the newly remastered version makes it easier than ever to experience all the mayhem.

God Of War

All Bow Before Kratos

The original *God of War* featured Kratos, a furious and vengeful protagonist. He relentlessly fought and killed gods, monsters, and anyone else who stood in his way. One particularly disturbing moment required players to sacrifice a soldier by burning him alive just to progress, making Kratos a difficult character to root for. However, the 2018 reboot of the series offered a new take, making Kratos a more sympathetic and redeemable figure.

Palworld

Gotta Catch All The Humans

Some people dislike the *Pokémon* games because they feel it’s wrong to capture and battle adorable creatures. They’ll likely have an even stronger reaction to *Palworld*, a similar game where you can catch monsters and then make them do difficult jobs.

The game takes things a step further by letting players capture and enslave actual humans – not robots, mythical creatures, or anything else. It’s a disturbing element, regardless of how you feel about the core idea of catching creatures.

Katamari Damacy

They See Me Rollin’

Katamari Damacy looks adorable, but it has a surprisingly strange premise that becomes unsettling the more you play. You play as a prince from space, tasked with rolling up everything on Earth – from small objects like thumbtacks and pencils to animals and even people – and launching it into the cosmos to create new stars. While it’s odd to roll up living things, the Prince and his eccentric father, the King of the Cosmos, don’t seem to have any objections.

Vampyr

Curate Your Diet

I’m really intrigued by *Vampyr*! It’s set in the early 1900s and you play as a doctor named Jonathan who *becomes* a vampire. The cool thing is, he still wants to practice medicine, but he’s dealing with this new, dark side. You can try to be a ‘good’ vampire and resist feeding, but that’ll make you weaker. Or, you can embrace your vampirism and… well, basically treat people as a food source while still pretending to be their doctor. The more you feed, the stronger you get, which definitely creates a tough moral dilemma – do you save lives or save yourself?

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2025-09-28 13:36