About This Game Start practicing your evil laugh! As the world's greatest criminal mastermind, choose a lair, hire a minion, and steal the world's largest ball of aluminum foil! (Or, destroy the world. FINE.)"Diabolical" is a 130,000-word interactive novel by Nick Aires, where your choices control the story. It's entirely text-based--without graphics or sound effects--and fueled by the vast, unstoppable power of your imagination.Famous, feared, or filthy rich—why not all three? You've got the money and the motives to build an evil empire worthy of the most ruthless villain the world has ever seen. Crush the good guys and terrorize the populace! Stamp a big red "FAIL" on your enemies' foreheads! Plunder your way to world domination – or sit back and pet your kitty while your henchmen do it for you.Will you be a high-tech daredevil, a ruthless military soldier, or an apparition terrifying to behold? What calling card will you leave at the scene of your crimes? Whatever your choices, the results will be diabolical. Play a villainous story of scheming, grandstanding, and laughing evilly. Interview and hire the best possible (or best available) minion. Decide when to use trickery, when to use force, and when to hide behind henchmen. Choose the ultimate, guaranteed-to-be-infamous nickname. Play as male or female, with straight, gay, and bisexual romance options. Destroy the world! 7aa9394dea Title: DiabolicalGenre: Indie, RPGDeveloper:Choice of GamesPublisher:Choice of GamesRelease Date: 6 Nov, 2015 Diabolical Download With Utorrent X-Men, Avengers, Batman and Co. suck, right? You were always rooting for the bad guys? Then here\u00b4s your chance to show them how it\u00b4s 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. I can't recommend this game, because of the lack of player agency especially in action scenes. Outside of action scenes the players choices have only superficial effects in the story. The player can choose what their villian looks like, what their villain drives and choose from three interchangable sidekicks, but any time a meaningful selection of choices is presented they end up like this:Choice A: The writers preferred choiceChoice B: Different way of going about the same thing as Choice A.Choice C: A legitimatly different option from Choice A that will autofail if chosen.But far far worse than this is the action scenes. Every action scene is the same sequence of choices:Sequence 1Choice A: ActionChoice B: different actionChoice C: JokeNo matter what choice you chose in Sequence 1 the game says "Psych you were hit\/fell down\/etc. while trying to decide".No matter what you choose in sequence 2 you will partially succeed, leading to sequence 3 where no matter what you choose you will succeed.I can't reccomend a game where even the choices in action scenes do not matter.. 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.. While I've enjoyed other stories from Choice of Games, Diabolical is rather weak in comparison. The setting and characters are rather shallow when compared to something like the Heroes Rise Trillogy. Much of your choices ultimately don't matter as they lead to the same conclusion almost entirely regardless of any percieved differences. Its a real shame since there was a lot of potential for a Choose your Own Adventure having you be a supervillain rather than a superhero. Sadly, this game fails to take advantage of that and ultimately we're left with an uninspired story. Spend your money on a different "Choice" 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 =). First and foremost, to enjoy this game, you have to like reading. A LOT. In my opinion it's so well-written it makes up for all the walls of text! The characters are unique, interesting, you can choose to be a completely bloodthirsty psychopath, a kind-spirited villain or a shameless flirt, or even more, tbh. \u2665\u2665\u2665\u2665ing love it!. A very enjoyable and witty short story that made me chuckle everytime I was given the opportunity to either be a traditional super evil villian or to\u2665\u2665\u2665\u2665\u2665\u2665around and use a giant deathray lasor only to project a movie onto the moon with it. The author definitely made sure to make you feel like you're really a super villian by adding unexpectedly "evil" lines that will make you laugh, cheesy or not i still loved it.. 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.. Disclaimer: I played this through with steam "offline" on a road trip, so my "time played" appears lower than it is. Frustrating, I thought it would save the achievements at least...Don't get me wrong, I love Choice of Games. But more importantly, I ADORE villainy. Anything where you can be a villain is an automatic buy for me; I am a total sucker for the gimmick. That being said...This game is well-written and quite endearing, and it's certainly very funny. In that sense, I almost feel like it's not taking your character seriously. (That's not necessarily bad, by any means.) The story is short in comparison to many of their other works, and it just doesn't have the same replayability value. Maybe I was pursuing the wrong routes, but I felt like they were all much the same.Disappointing, but at least I got to be a villain. I'm still a sucker for the gimmick.
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