Serial Killer Roguelike

[Pater Alf]

A roguelike game in which you can play a serial killer (I'm sure you wouldn't have guessed that).

Not everybody might like the theme of this game, but the video looks very promising:



And when I read some of the developer's posts in the roguetemple forum, I can't wait to try this game out. Here are some of his ideas for the game:

"The eventual goal is to create a large city with a day and night cycle, populated by NPC's who adhere to schedules. The NPC's will be clustered into factions (civilian, police, criminals, so on), so you can, if you wish, play like Dexter and find criminals to kill rather than civilians. I also plan to add day jobs that you can use to make money, as well as real estate to buy.
The police will eventually be overhauled, and they will investigate evidence you leave behind and try to establish a profile. The heat you receive will drastically increase if you kill people openly or fail to dispose of bodies before they are found. More heat will mean more police officers on the street, faster arrival time for police traveling to crime scenes and so on, which should provide a considerable degree of challenge."

"Thanks, though you shouldn't be put off by the premise. The gameplay will be as disturbing as you want it to be. You don't HAVE to go around slicing NPC's up for illogical reasons, but the option is there if you want to experiment with the different interactions.
In its release state, you will be able to play the game any way you want. You could join an organized crime faction and take on randomly generated contracts as a hitman, join the police force and take to using excessive force against criminals or simply burglarize homes and shops and sell the items at pawn shops. The end goal is to have an open world crime simulator with gory combat mechanics." (both quotes are taken from this thread)

[Chroelle]

Sounds amazingly disturbing and intrigueng at the same time. Sadly the video was deleted, so I can't see the gameplay, but I think I would play this based on the description alone.
Sounds like Rogue GTA or something.

[Pater Alf]

It seems the whole thing was nothing but a fake...

http://www.roguetemple.com/2010/08/29/t ... like-hoax/

If you are still interested in the video (which was probably made using Flash), you can find it here:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kruvK_7CIS0

[Chroelle]

Well we have to agree that it is kind of sad that this did not turn out to be a real game. Be it disturbing or interesting, then there is no doubt it would have had an impact on the freeware gaming world. I am sad to hear it was a hoax as well, but glad that we found out so fast, so I didn't build up my hopes too high, as I did on other games now cancelled...