If video games were reality, I'm sure we'd all be mass murderers with the amount of digital people we've "killed" over the years.

In all your time as a gamer, what is the most heinous act you have committed in a game?

Oh that's easy. Nukes were fun to use in the original Civilization. Standard attack, nuke a city a couple times until all units are dead and walk in to claim it. Then cause global warming from the pollution overflowing the coastal areas and making more deserts. I probably committed plenty genocide as well, the game labeled the natives as barbarians to be wiped out. The original dehumanization game!

I beated The Witch's House.

Hard to say.

But one memory I had in Skyrim was trying to kill the children because they annoyed me. They were invincible though. I think it would have been cool if you could but then the game soft locks you into a world where your character is a child murderer and is hunted down at every opportunity.

I feel like it has to be my Dark Urge run in BG3. If you embrace the urge things get very fucked up so it was perfect for a 2nd evil playthrough.

You can wall them in in a little room with straw and fireworks and see what happens in The Sims, I heard from a friend 😇

The Sims 2 did the worst thing to us. My wife and I were playing the game, made our characters to our image to see what our kids would look like according to the game. Our first born got electrocuted changing a light bulb. Then our first born haunted the house, classy Maxis.

Whatever atrocities we as gamers can commit dwarfs in the evil game developers can dream up...

I second SvennoJ! The atrocities, genocides, and war crimes I have committed in Civilization for something as petty as a rival Civ not wanting to give me 10 gold lol

The grin on my face seeing that mushroom cloud should be enough to put me in jail! MicroProse/Firaxis had no business making that mechanic so satisfying lol

In games where you can take decisions like Telltale stuff, I always try to be the "good guy".

Sometimes I just can't put myself into acting harsh towards other characters.

Sacrificing the kids in Bioshock 2

Any number of executions in Manhunt

Accidentally triggered a mass attack against me by an entire settlement/city in Starfield and wiped everyone out like Roland did in Tull.

I reunited a baby penguin with his mother for a reward. Then when she gave the reward, I yeeted the baby penguin off a cliff and then took the reward anyway. Then, just to rub it in, I challenged the mama penguin to a race and beat her. She became so depressed that the next time I saw her she had gained about 500 lbs.