Assassin's Creed Odyssey is the most recent entry into the long-running and popular video game franchise. Set in Ancient Greece, this game lets you choose which character you want to play at the beginning, a first for the franchise. It also lets you choose what kind of person you want to be.
Will you reunite your family or will you kill them all and emerge the lone wolf of the pack? Will you be a heartless mercenary or try and help people when you can? There are a lot of difficult choices to make throughout the game and therefore a lot of terrible things you can do depending on what path you take.
10 Kill animals, especially the legendary ones
Compared to the many other things you can do in this game, being able to hunt down animals isn't that big of a deal. However, if you're someone who is opposed to that, it might be more difficult for you to do, even in a video game setting.
That said, it still seems kind of twisted that the game has several legendary animals and your goal is to kill them rather than capture them. Why would you want to murder something that is one-of-a-kind?
9 Split up a relationship
There are a lot of romantic options in the game and the best part is, it doesn't matter if you choose the female or male character, you can still romance any of the love interest options. There is one side quest where you can romance a couple.
There are several possible endings depending on if you choose to romance Kyra, Thaletas, or both. But certain paths will lead to their relationship ending, potentially in bloodshed.
8 Potentially murder a legendary hero
During the "Fields of Elysium" DLC, you will be tasked with murdering King Leonidas by Persephone. If that name sounds familiar to you, it's because Leonidas is an iconic figure in Ancient Greece.
He's a legend and notable for appearing in many different pieces of media. Gerard Butler played a version of him in the movie 300. It feels almost offensive to be given the chance to brutally murder him inside of a game knowing his legacy as part of history in real life.
7 Kill a man after sleeping with his girlfriend
Perhaps it's not the worst thing you can do in the game in the grand scheme of things, but if you decide to sleep with Kyra and get on Thaletas' bad side then you will eventually have to murder him. Even worse, the two of you will come to blows at a victory party.
No one wants a celebration to be ruined by a bloody battle but that's what will happen. To rub salt in the wound of sleeping with his former girlfriend, you'll have to kill him in the middle of a party. It's not exactly the mark of a hero.
6 Kill random civilians trying to protect themselves
Given the high stakes of the game and some of the other things on this list, this entry doesn't seem that bad but when you think about from a real-world perspective, it gets quite dark. Depending on what's going on in the game and where you're located, you will occasionally be confronted by hostile civilians.
If they see you fighting with guards, sometimes they will get their own weapons and try to attack you. Sure, that is a good reason to fight them off to defend yourself, but these are normal people with no military training just trying to protect themselves, their home, and their families. It seems cruel you have to murder them instead of just knocking them out or something non-lethal.
5 Drive a woman to suicide
Again, we return to the Kyra and Thaletas side quests. If you choose to romance Thaletas and give it your all with him, there is a possibility that you will see Kyra on the brink of suicide. That will depend on how you handle the Podarkes storyline enmeshed in their story.
Where it gets even darker is that you have the choice of whether or not to push Kyra over the edge. If you do, you can even lie to Thaletas about it and claim that Kyra is happy and moving on. It's pretty twisted if you really stop and think about it all.
4 Kill your sibling
One of the main storylines in the game revolves around your goal as the Eagle-Bearer to reunite your family. Depending on if you play as Alexios or Kassandra, the character you don't choose becomes known as Deimos, leader of the Cult of Kosmos. You have to be very careful about the choices you make.
If you make the wrong one, Deimos will murder your mother and force you to confront them in a fight to the death. You can choose that route if you want to be "evil" but if you're trying to reunite your family and keep everyone alive, you'll have to be cautious.
3 Kill your father
Nikolaos, or The Wolf of Sparta, is your character's father. Your primary goal will be to find him and then decide if you want to murder or spare him. The idea of killing Nikolaos out of revenge for what he did to his own children when they were young is very tempting.
However, if you do commit patricide, it will dramatically alter your questline later on in the story. That said, killing your dad is a pretty terrible thing you're allowed to do in this game, even if you can argue that it's warranted.
2 Cause a massive plague
During one of the early side quests in the game, you're given a very difficult choice to either kill an entire village that has been affected by a blood plague or to let them live and allow the plague to spread and kill many more.
It's one of the most challenging and morally compromising quests in the entire game. You are forced to play God and decide between letting these poor people and their children live, or allow the plague to fester and spread across several other villages, claiming the lives of even more.
1 Refuse to save a baby from a burning building
Perhaps one of the worst and darkest things that you can do in the game is to allow a baby to die in a fire. During the "Ashes to Ashes" quest, you will be given a choice to save a baby inside a burning temple or let the baby die so you can go after Chrysis.
The fact is, there is no reason to let the baby die. Even if Chrysis escapes, you will have another opportunity to kill them. Whereas the baby will just die. It's a pretty sad moment but you truly shouldn't let the child die unless you really want to play an evil character.