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Shares moral choice system with The Executioner.
- $5.99 (Price checked Nov 7)
- 2018
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- Released: 2019
- Developer: Lesser Evil Games
- Price: $9.99checked Nov 7
- Steam Deck: Deck Playable
- 50% of 111 reviews
- Genres: Indie, Adventure, RPG
- Platforms: Windows
Players highlight
- Explores taboo historical roles with psychological depth
- Forces players to live with irreversible consequences
- Torture mechanics drive narrative choices
- Atmospheric
- Bleak
- Dark
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About The Executioner
The closest matches to The Executioner: The Dark Inside Me, Vampyr, Inquisitor, Tokyo Dark, and Stygian: Reign of the Old Ones. Ranked by imho.run from Steam co-play data, shared tags and reviews.
If The Executioner is your kind of game, the closest matches are The Dark Inside Me, Vampyr and Inquisitor — picked from the ranked list below. Reviewers describe it as atmospheric, bleak and dark, and single out its consequence tracking and home upgrades. Each pick is ranked by what players of this game also play, shared genres and tags, and review-mined similarity — not a generic popularity list.
About The Executioner: The Executioner puts you in the shoes of a man who tortures people for a living while trying to retain his own sanity. In this game the monster isn’t lurking behind you. You are the monster, if you choose to become one.
Is The Executioner worth buying?
Players are split
A summary of what players say, not a promise you'll like it. Every signal is listed below.
- 50% of 111 Steam reviews are positive.
- We don't track this game's daily reviews yet, so this is the all-time picture.
- Price: $9.99 (checked Nov 7).
- People who recommend it had played a median of 5 h when they wrote their review.
- Critics had played a median of 3 h before their negative review.
- Steam Deck Playable: works, with some rough edges.
What fans praise · Themes mined from positive reviews
- Explores taboo historical roles with psychological depth
- Forces players to live with irreversible consequences
- Torture mechanics drive narrative choices
- Unique fantasy of being a righteous man in a terrible time
Top critical reviews
The most up-voted negative English reviews in our sample, quoted as written.
“kinda weird game to be honest. even though I chose english it mixes sentences with russian. as a non-russian speaker this fact makes the game pretty hard to play because you dont get all the dialogues (meaning you cant do the right choices…”
“The game has been abandoned by the developer for several years now. Currently it's just a demo with a bunch of bugs. Sorry, but I can't recommend it, the game had a lot of potential, but alas..... _______________ Игра заброшена…”
People who play it also play: The Dark Inside Me, Vampyr, Inquisitor
Frequently asked about The Executioner
Can I run it?
Does The Executioner run on Steam Deck?
The Executioner is rated Playable on Steam Deck — it runs, but expect some manual adjustments (control remapping, text size, or graphics settings) for the best experience.
How much does The Executioner cost?
The Executioner is listed on Steam at 9.99 USD (current store price; Steam sales may reduce this temporarily).
What games are most similar to The Executioner?
Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside The Executioner are The Dark Inside Me, Vampyr, Inquisitor.
Who developed The Executioner?
The Executioner was developed by Lesser Evil Games.