# BG3’s Best Evil Playthrough Replacement Is Waiting to Be Rediscovered on Steam

- URL: https://talkfuse.com/story/bg3s-best-evil-playthrough-replacement-is-waiting-to-be-rediscovered-on-steam/
- Published: 2026-09-06T13:00:14+00:00
- Updated: 2026-09-06T13:18:33+00:00
- Original publisher: Polygon
- Original article: https://www.polygon.com/tyranny-crpg-obsidian-baldurs-gate-3-evil-playthrough/
- Topics: Entertainment, Gaming

## Key points

- Polygon recommends Tyranny (2016) for players wanting an unflinching evil playthrough.
- Unlike Baldur's Gate 3, it never nudges players towards mercy.
- Tracks nuanced Favour, Wrath, Loyalty and Fear instead of a morality slider.

## Summary

Polygon highlights Tyranny, Obsidian Entertainment's 2016 dark fantasy CRPG, as a compelling pick for players seeking a genuinely villainous experience after finishing an evil playthrough of Baldur's Gate 3. The article argues that while Baldur's Gate 3 rewards wicked choices with entertaining dialogue, it still nudges players towards mercy and can cut content if they stray too far into villainy; Tyranny, by contrast, offers no moral steering, casting players as an agent of a god-emperor who has already conquered the world.

In Tyranny, players take on the role of a Fatebinder serving the tyrant Kyros, with the freedom to devastate territories, destroy libraries and poison water supplies without in-game warnings or approval systems softening the consequences. Rather than a simple good-evil slider, the game tracks Favour and Wrath from factions and Loyalty and Fear from companions, allowing for complex, sometimes contradictory relationships, and combines real-time-with-pause combat with courtroom-style confrontations shaped by the player's choices.

---
Summarised by TalkFuse (https://talkfuse.com/). Quote the original publisher for the reporting and link this page for the summary and discussion.