Ive wanted a game like this for a long time and I think it would be a HUGE money maker and the technology is there right now to make it great.
Have a game, name it something like Killer. Its an open world game where you explore a city and surrounding as a serial killer. You can choose a different type of killer and unlock different skills, for example, you can be a killer who murders his victims using brute force (high strength, dexterity), you can be a killer who lures his victims away to kill them (high charisma) or a mix in between.
Every mission in the city you will get a possible victim matked on your map and then you get to choose how to catch them and murder them. There can be a meter where the more kills you make, the closer the police are to finding you.
For example, after every murder, you have to clean up the crime scene but the game won't tell you if you cleaned everything up. Like, if you have blood stains, you will need to make sure that you bought bleach from the in game shop to clean it up.
There will be a stealth element too, you need to consider if others can hear or see you committ the murder or dispose of the body. As you get more kills, you unlock more abilities, lets say in the beginning mission, you need to get rid of a body but your only option would be to stow it away. After leveling up, you could pick the ability to saw bodies apart and then you only need to get rid of the body parts.
I think this would be a HUGE money maker like the GTA games and I am puzzled no one has made a game like this yet.
Probably because companies would get in hot water for it. Rockstar has Manhunt where you're hunting down killers but news orgs and people still got upset because of how gruesome it was.
Because most of these games would either be homophobic as Dahmer/Gacy or mysogynistic like Ted Bundy.
indeed, OP needs no meds though. those are for curable disease. OP needs ice baths and electroshocks.
Manhunt and GTA
Nobody wants to be a serial killer except a specific type of moronic degen, and it’s a tiny market.
If this describes you, yes you are pathetic and yes the world will be better when you die.
Women want to frick serial killers so I'm sure a game about them would have appeal to them
They’re a different kind of literally degenerate moron. Their DNA wants to suffer and die out.
The only video games that women play are The Sims or Candy Crush. They're not avid consumers of horror games. They're more likely to watch some israeliteTuber play it.
>For example, after every murder, you have to clean up the crime scene
>There will be a stealth element too, you need to consider if others can hear or see you committ the murder or dispose of the body.
Yandere Sim
Wrong. There's a decent amount of women who enjoy Dead by Daylight, a game where you play as and get chased by a serial killer.
At most, the game would just get banned from certain countries.
Dead by daylight I guess?
The whole Friday the 13th saga got made into a game save for the remake skin
yeah DBD out of all online games has plenty of women for some reason
I'm a good non-edgy guy, I play games for fun, and I think that would be fun.
You’re in denial. Probably closeted too.
You're out of touch with reality.
Only a pathetic c**t would think someone's tastes in videogames has any relevance to the quality of their character. You're out of touch.
Most people who play fallout or elder scrolls play as murderhobos, especially normies
Manhunt
Manhunt 2
Hatred
Postal
Postal 2
Christmas Massacre
No idea about Manhunt, but Hatred/Postal are Mass Murderers/Spree Killers. Not the same thing.
Hatred is just le edgy town shooter
Postal can be as violent as you want it to be
Hitman then.
You're not a serial killer in Manhunt, yes you kill people, but all of them are out to kill you, you're only trying to survive. You're a brute and a criminal yourself but you're not the villain at all.
I can imagine the conversations people could have while playing a game like this.
User 1 :"Hey guys, I've been stuck on Mission 3. I've tracked down the girl to her apartment and can get it in there without neighbors seeing me, I'm using a high strength build so I have to break in instead of using charm to get her to let me in. I usually manage to choke her out before she makes any noise but I'm stuck at getting rid of the body. My dismemberment skill is leveled up but I don't know where to get more bleach. I've bought one at the store but can't buy more"
User 2 : "Look around her apartment, you may find more bleach there by the bathtub if you dismember her there".
Doesn't Hitman kind of fulfill this niche, except with a closed world? You have to murder several targets over the course of a campaign, with the exact method of killing being largely up to your discretion within the bounds of the respective level. The newest game ups the ante with Escalation Contracts and story-mission Challenges encouraging creative executions.
It feels like the only thing 'I want a serial killer game' people aren't getting from Hitman or Manhunt or even Hatred is some grotesque ritualistic dismemberment they get to partake in or raping a woman to death gameplay. And good fricking luck with either of those.
Somebody like Agent 47 isn't ever going to kidnap and rapemurder an assassination target in his mobile rapemobile, followed by sneaking back to leave her dismembered breasts and nothing else hanging from a church door as the legendary tittyknocker killer.
You just lack imagination. Setting aside the moral issues, gameplay of picking targets based on your character’s preferences, stalking them and planning your kill, maybe building a kill dungeon and kidnapping your marks, taking trophies, dealing with insanity progression, and like half the game can be avoiding/fighting the police or even playing as the police. If it’s ok for movies to portray it I really don’t see the problem with video games doing it.
Is little boy rape included perhaps, mister degen?
you could say day by deadlight is about serial killers
There's something about that kind of killer that instills more disgust in me than fear
Like attracts like, and in case OP is clutching his pearls, there’s no dignity a serial killer has over a pedo rapist. I hope you all die alone and painfully, but at least I can rest assured you’ll die.
>bringing up boys out of nowhere
Please have a sit.
>posted a literal gay clown murder-rapist who's fricked and killed young teenage boys
>uhhh why are you bringing up gay boy sex?????
is she ok?
she got eated
i think it's an interesting idea, but video games are lacking in titles that feature serial killers as antagonist as well. the only thing that comes to mind is condemned, which is an all time classic imo
And when the first subhuman reject gets his validation from the game and goes on a spree, you and your company would be neck-deep in a world of shit.
I'm pretty sure this would have been way too edgy even for the early vidya age of the 90's-2000's where shit was very edgy. It's definitely too edgy now. The only way this would fly is if you make it as corny and over the top as possible.
Like for example with a strength build you can bust through walls and then you fight your target like it's Devil May Cry, where you have to juggle them in mid air with combos because if they land they'll start to scream and attract attention. If you fail the cops show up and you have to dodge their shots with bullet time or parry them and get away. Charisma builds could have weird Warioware style minigames to see if you convince the victims to follow you home, etc.
>The only way this would fly is if you make it as corny and over the top as possible.
Destroy All Humans series are kinda like that. You can mind control people, probe their ass, and smack them around. Nothing too edgy tho.
You play a serial/spree killer in every game but Tetris.
It won't work because it will eventually evolve into a one man army simulator, killing the stealth aspect vibe
I've seen it done as a game jam game.
Isn't there that game about being a serial killer after your neighbour plays music too loud, plays like a top down 2D stealth game, can't remember the name
Found it, Party Hard. There you go OP.
I remember hearing about that game but somehow conflated in my mind with Hotline Miami.
Not the same since actual killers have a compulsive need to keep records/trophies leading to their undoing. A serial killer would probably keep a collection of decapitated nipples in the freezer because they want to keep records of their wrongs, that would be bad for a gamer because that's the first place the cops would look.
I love this idea and honestly I'd pay for a game like this. frick everyone judging you OP I hope in the near future something like this exists lol.
feed me billy
This one gets the idea good but the implementation is mid.
GlowBlack person thread. You're not going to catch me posting my dark fantasies fedboy
>Why has no one made a serial killer game yet
Puppet Combo has a few I think. It's much more of a niche than I think you realize. Most people want to catch serial killers or make a horror game surviving one, edge lords who want to *be* the serial killer are very few
I just make up my own storyline and do it in GTA V.
Sometimes I target black people, sometimes women, sometimes both
I remember doing this type of autism on games like that or even call of duty lol
this is just hitman with extra steps. Everything interesting about the idea you explained (having to kill a target in a unique way without being caught in the process or when leaving the crime scene) is already part of the hitman game loop series while also bypassing all the creepy serial killer wanking stuff you mentioned that only you and a few white girls would be into.
>this is just thief with extra steps. Everything interesting about the idea you explained (having to steal a target in a unique way without being caught in the process or when leaving the crime scene) is already part of the thief game loop series while also bypassing all the creepy killer wanking stuff you mentioned that only you and a few white girls would be into.
I'd want police investigations too where you needed to provide alibis. It should be like reverse Phoenix wright where you have to keep debunking their evidence to cover your tracks. Game should take place over the course of multiple days and not just a single location like hitman.
Because you get ill after a while. There is this new thing called the executioner or something, the torturer? You feel awful and ill looking at the youtube gameplay. It's a 'fun' idea on paper but playing it it's bad taste.
Then take a break moron
There was this video of a roguelike serial killer game on YouTube ~12 years ago, I'll see if I can find it.
It was a fake student project.
so first of all a major studio publishing a serial killer sim has never been a viable thing. manhunt 1 and 2 weren't serial killer games, the first one was a gladitorial version of a snuff film and the second was just a standard conspiracy thriller plot with extreme violence. puppet combo and probably a few other that I don't recall have made serial killer games but they're cheesy psx trash, so low fi they wouldn't tip anyone's radar.
I think you could probably fenagle it if there was some concession, it being over the top 80s slasher cheese, the killings being assassinations instead of murders, powerful targets and driven by son of sam delusions instead of a real world ideology. the game you're talking about, realistic true crime ted bundy simulator, that's not going to fly unless again it's extremely lo-fi psx trash.
Dexter: The Videogame would be neat but I don't know how you'd handle the "looking normal" part
you can make an 80s serial killer game but you can't make a 70s serial killer game.
Naughty Bear
Holy shit OP are you literally me?
I must've played over 400 hours in RDR2 alone trying to fulfill this fantasy. The only problem I got there is that the law enforcement is too tight, leaving you no time to properly stealth kill someone in a big city like Saint Denis. There's also not much houses you can break into, so the idea of waiting until nightfall could never be put to execution. But the rest is all there. You can kidnap and torture, there's lines that you can say for roleplaying purposes, there's weapons and plenty of gore. The only thing missing is the social aspect. If a game with all that could be made, I'd play it daily.
just because the idea makes you hard doesn’t mean it’s going to make money.
Also why is cleaning the crime scene such a big part of your idea when almost all serial killers just leave the scene with minimal cover work? Do you have any idea how much blood a person has and how long it would take to clean that up?
You’re not describing playing as a serial killer, you’re describing playing as a hitman. Everything you said is what hitmen do, so honestly just play Hitman
Me on the left
Pic real and Yandere Simulator exist.
party hard was pretty decent
also the happyhills homicide
Did I hallucinate the manhunt games? These do exist right?
because if even gays on Ganker are calling you sick in the head, imagine the rest of the internet.
you can make one but it would have to be framed as an over the top 80s slasher, gritty 70s voir definitely would not fly.
I remember there was a huge controversy because of the gta v mission where you torture some guy, cant imagine the shitstorm that would ensue if someone made a fully fledged serial killer game with stonce cold assassinations and actual torture
Most serial killers do it for sexual reasons so I don't know how you would implement that without pissing people off.
>piss people off
>get all the attention
>everybody hate buys your game
Whats the problem? Game should also make the AGP build the most efficient for more lulz
I'd main the Buffalo Bob archetype
Uh oh, are we looking at the borth of a new yandev?
MANHUNT.
yea I've wanted a game like this too but it would have to be an indie game. No one would fund this. Would be cool to see if it has good systems for hiding your tracks and avoiding police investigations.
Why are so many women attracted to serial killers anyways? Is it concious or what?
Something dark triad personality something Jung something astrology
Make it political, so morons buy it
If you simply have the targets say "arrh me hate trannies" and you're a troony serious killer, they'll love it
>discord minigame to lure victims into a safe spot
ive never wanted to play as a serial killer
most people dont
its like a very very small percentage of weird (MEN) that would even fantasize about this or want to emulate this while bored instead of doing literally anything else
like that other person said tbhonest i think anyone in this thread agreeing with OP should die and the world would be a demonstrably better place without you all even though i do feel bad because it likely wasnt entirely your fault that you ended up as monsters
What's what GTA should've been.
I’m suprised no one mentioned Lucius
See
A City would be too logistically hard to design around, a small town that was created 1:1 from google maps could be much more doable.
Maybe you could also pose the crime scene to make the cops think it was a bunch of Odinists
Try selling that to a publisher.
It's called Hitman.
You just described the Hitman series