The Villain Protagonist Zone
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Latest Standouts
Recent releases that landed well, newest first, filtered to games with enough reviews to trust the score.
Excidio The Kaiju Simulator - Bring the cities of the world to their knees as a giant Kaiju. Featuring a fully destructible physics-based sandbox for you to lay waste!
Feb 21, 2026
Relooted - Reclaim real African artifacts from Western museums in this Africanfuturist heist game. Recruit crew members, plan escape routes, acquire the precious cargo, and bounce out of the joint as fast as you can.
Feb 10, 2026
Few Nights More - Few Nights More is a roguelike turn-based RPG based in a world where Vampire Lords seek to conquer lost territories and their place in the world. Design and defend your stronghold, slay your enemies with traps, fulfill your Lord’s true potential, slowly conquering what is rightfully yours.
Jan 22, 2025
None Shall Intrude - Venture into None Shall Intrude, a roguelite deck-builder with tile-based combat where you become a powerful Raid Boss. Epic battles, intricate strategies, and the ever-present threat of heroic challengers seeking to vanquish your reign. Will you conquer all or fall to valiant heroes?
Jan 21, 2025
Castle Doombad Classic - BE THE VILLAIN and slay any hero who dares enter your dark domain! Deck out your castle with traps and minions as the ultimate diabolical dungeon keeper in this strategy / TD puzzler. Includes the original Castle Doombad game, rebuilt and remastered, plus brand new content.
Dec 12, 2024
ION Shift - ION Shift delivers fast, high-stakes gameplay with precision controls and a unique sandbox-style approach to combat arenas. The campaign progressively challenges the player through evolving level design, tight mechanics, and a focus on player-driven mastery.
Dec 5, 2024
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Discounted 25% or more right now, limited to well-reviewed games, steepest cuts first.
Aliens vs. Predator™ - Survive, hunt and prey in the deadly jungles and swamps in distinctly new and thrilling first person gameplay.
Feb 16, 2010
Pumpkin Jack - Pumpkin Jack is a Spooky Scary 3D platformer in which you embody Jack, the Mythical Pumpkin Lord! Dive into an Epic Adventure through otherworldly landscapes and help the Evil annihilate the Good!
Oct 23, 2020
The Dweller - The Dweller is a puzzle game where you play as the MONSTER! It's time to get rid of all those pesky archaeologists snooping around in your lair. SCARE them, CRUSH them, DEVOUR them! ELIMINATE THE INTRUDERS!
May 19, 2016
CARRION - CARRION is a reverse horror game in which you assume the role of an amorphous creature of unknown origins, stalking and consuming those that imprisoned you.
Jul 23, 2020
Darkestville Castle - Darkestville Castle — a darkly comedic point-and-click adventure where you play as a sarcastic demon. Solve clever puzzles, manipulate idiots, and bring chaos back to Darkestville, because being evil is just more fun.
Sep 21, 2017
War for the Overworld - War for the Overworld is an unholy union of Dungeon Management and Strategy that rewards all those villainous thoughts you’ve been having. Craft your own perilous dungeon and defend it against pesky heroes who keep exploring it and taking your stuff.
Apr 2, 2015
Dungeon Warfare - Dungeon Warfare is a challenging tower defense strategy game where you become a dungeon lord to defend your dungeons with deadliest of traps and insidious contraptions against greedy adventurers and wanna-be heroes.
Nov 4, 2015
Mr. Sun's Hatbox - Mr Sun’s Hatbox is a slapstick, roguelite platformer about getting the job done at all costs. Upgrade your HQ, your team, and your tools so you can take on increasingly dangerous (and ridiculous) missions, wearing hats with amazing (or questionable) potential.
Apr 20, 2023
Go Home Dinosaurs! - Todd Rex wants steak. Todd Rex wants YOUR steak. Are you gonna let him take it? No way! Go Home, Dinosaurs!Prevent hordes of marauding Dinos from crashing your party in the world’s premier BBQ defense simulator! Unlock powerful towers that act like little weaponized puzzle pieces.
Mar 14, 2013
Lucius Demake - Lucius game has been demade, and is now ready for mayhem. Enjoy all the gore now in fewer pixels and fewer colors. The original game has been fully demade to achieve the atmosphere of an 80's style gory adventure. Lucius is now killing all the pixels and there isn't a damn thing anyone can do about it.
Aug 8, 2016
Demonheart - Discover the secrets of the witches and demons in this dark fantasy romance game, featuring a female protagonist whose personality is completely up to the player thanks to extensive dialog choices.
Mar 24, 2017
Dungeon Warfare 3 - Forge invincible defenses with lethal traps and devious machines, and crush relentless waves of adventurers in the ultimate tower defense showdown!
Aug 29, 2025
Top Rated
Defining examples of the genre, all rated 85%+ across 1,000+ reviews.
Untitled Goose Game - It's a lovely morning in the village and you are a horrible goose.
Sep 23, 2020
Evil Nun: The Broken Mask - Enter Evil Nun's nightmare. Trapped in a cursed school, escape from Sister Madeline. She's cunning, searching every corner, luring and talking to you depending on your actions. Solve puzzles, craft items, and uncover the mystery in this horror game with different escape routes.
Dec 7, 2023
Dungeons 3 - At last, the Dungeon Lord has successfully united the forces of evil and established his dark empire. Time for the next step in his most diabolical quest: expansion!
Oct 13, 2017
Overlord™ - Prepare to be tempted, mesmerized and thrilled, become the Overlord, how corrupt you become depends on how you handle any given situation. Your actions impact the game world. With incredible power at your disposal and a team of evil minded minions to do your evil bidding, how will you resist the temptation to be incredibly despotic?
Oct 26, 2007
Ravenous Devils - A horror cooking simulator where the secret ingredient is crime. Improve your shops, buy new tools, expand your menu, and above all, make your customers happy.
Apr 29, 2022
Zombie Night Terror - Prepare yourself for the most thrilling night of your life! Something strange has happened and people everywhere are turning into blood thirsty walking corpses. But guess who’s the brains behind this hungry undead army? YOU! So spread this pandemic and wipe humanity off the planet.
Jul 20, 2016
Overlord™: Raising Hell - How evil can you get? Discover how corruptible you are in Overlord, the twisted fantasy action adventure where you can be evil (or really evil). In the game's seriously warped fantasy world, players will become the Overlord and get first-hand experience of how absolute power corrupts absolutely.
Feb 28, 2008
Destroy All Humans! - The cult-classic returns! Terrorize the people of 1950's Earth in the role of the evil alien Crypto-137. Harvest their DNA and bring down the US government in the faithful remake of the legendary alien invasion action adventure. Annihilate puny humans using an assortment of alien weaponry and psychic abilities.
Jul 28, 2020
Grimm - The true meaning of the word fear... Once upon a time, fairy tales were valuable cautionary yarns filled with dire warnings and sage advice. However, over time, the stories have become so watered down with cute woodland creatures and happy endings that they have lost their true meaning and purpose. No more!
Jan 6, 2014
