Diabolical

As much as I love "choose your own adventure" games, I wouldn't recommend this one. Why? Because while you'd think your choices would matter like in other similar games, they really don't. Most choices you face lead to the same exact results and I don't mean it as in the long run. Let's say you have the choice between killing or not killing someone. First run through you'll go with one choice and next one pick the opposite choices figuring the story would be entirely different but no. If you choose to spare the person the game will let you but most of the time when you choose to kill the person, you'll either fail or be interrupted, effectively making the game painfully linear. You can't choose your own adventure, it's already been chosen for you.

X-Men, Avengers, Batman and Co. suck, right? You were always rooting for the bad guys? Then here´s your chance to show them how it´s done right! Diabolical has it all, you build your own evil mastermind career, hire your henchmen, duel with do gooders as well as rival supercriminals. You can decide to be a secretly kind hearted warmonger, going by your own moral standards or become the bloodiest menace to humanity. This all written in a very cheek-in-tongue humor style. There are enough different story and character development options for at least three playthroughs, which should be enough, even though it is not necesseraliy the longest CYoA game here. Conclusio: Not only for the demented haters of mankind, Diabolical offers a fun diversion from the normal hero type of games. Rating: 8/10

This story doesn't take itself seriously and, if you want to enjoy it, you shouldn't either. You're in for a cartoony romp with a straightforward plot and lots and lots of deus ex machina if you play this game. I didn't enjoy as much as I thought I might but that was likely because I went in with the wrong attitude but I'm certain many people would find its silly and irreverent tone to be quite entertaining as long as they were aware of it before getting in too deep.

i payed a superhero not to fight me and used children to rob a federal gold reserve. 10/10

It's not as long as other Choice of Games or has as deep a meaning but highly enjoyable letting you play a super villain getting to go with every villain cliche from millitary leader sparing no one to a more trickstery character who causes non lethal chaos. It's short, entertaining and who doesn't want the largest ball of aluminum foil?

Its a text based game for $4.50 (i'm in canada so the price may be skewed for my american friends). If you don't like reading then buy something like Evil Genius, and if you do, get a book so you don't need to be at your computer, when there is something much more enticing such as Team Fortress 2 (or Evil Genius). If you like where you are that bad guy you have Payday, Evil Genius, and even flash games. Speaking of flash games this feels like a flash game in fact this is something DOS box I see no point in buying a $4.50 game when $4.50 can buy you much more than this "game"

Do I like Diabolical? Yes, absolutely, but it's not a game that I could ever recommend. The writing is good, entertaining, and occasionally funny, but all too often the game railroads you into different choices. You'll be given a list of options, but the response will almost always be "He isn't really listening" or "You thought I was serious?" What feel like major decisions are quickly made irrelevant by randomly changing circumstances, and you never get the chance to truly direct your villain. The character decides their own overarching goal or plan, and you pick the specifics, which seems to me to be the opposite of what one would want from a game like this. Diabolical can be fun, but it doesn't offer nearly as much choice as you would want from a text-based game.

Wasnt good as I expected. There werent much options to choose. All ended up in the same way. I am dissapointed. Good luck to you in your next game.

As the interactive books genre goes, the game is one of the best of its kind to be currently found on Steam. Allows you to be a villain - you know, to kill hamsters, terrorize breadmakers, exterminate ancient lemur nation and generally have a good time... well, perhaps not the hamsters thing =)

If you know the other Choice games, well, you won't be surprised. This one is a lot more lighthearted than some of the other ones I played, even if you go relatively evil and kill a lot. There are some surprising twists, but the whole game has a little bit too much "deus ex machinas" for my taste. But anyway, if you want to be the villain in a cartoony way, this is definitely your game. Not regretted it.