Kill The Bad Guy

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Kill The Bad Guy is a Rube Goldberg fantasy dressed up as vigilante justice. You’re not shooting anyone or sneaking through vents in the usual stealth-game sense. Instead you’re staging accidents, rigging a scene so a genuinely bad person walks into a chain of cause and effect that ends with them dead and nobody the wiser. It’s a puzzle game wearing a very dark, very cartoonish coat, and that combination is the whole hook.

How it plays

Each level drops you into a small environment with a target who follows a predictable routine, and your job is to figure out how to turn everyday objects and hazards into a fatal “accident” before he ever suspects anything. That means thinking in terms of timing and physics: what falls, what explodes, what triggers what, and in what order. You’re also working around witnesses. Cameras, bystanders, cops, and any bodyguards nearby all need to be kept in the dark, so part of the puzzle is positioning your trap so it looks unfortunate rather than orchestrated. Levels are built to be replayed too, since there’s a scoring layer and secondary objectives on top of just getting the kill, so figuring out a solution once isn’t necessarily the end of a level if you want to actually master it. There’s also a separate multiplayer mode that flips the format into head-to-head matches with a bunch of people trying to take each other out, which is a pretty different pace from the methodical single-player puzzling.

Who it’s for

This is squarely for people who like environmental puzzles and dark humor in the vein of games where you engineer someone’s downfall rather than confront them directly. If you enjoy trial-and-error tinkering, replaying a small space over and over until the pieces click into place, this scratches that itch well. It’s also a good fit if you want something you can play in short bursts rather than a game demanding a long sitting. It’s not for anyone looking for deep strategy systems, narrative weight, or slick modern production values. The premise is grim by design, so if morbid, cartoonish violence as a puzzle mechanic isn’t your thing, this one isn’t going to win you over no matter how clever the traps are.

Is it worth it?

For what it is, a lighter, puzzle-focused indie title with a built-in replay hook and a bonus multiplayer mode, it’s the kind of game that’s easy to get your money’s worth from if the concept appeals to you at all. It’s not a game you’ll sink dozens of hours into chasing a story or a meta progression system, but a level list with bonus content and score chasing gives it more legs than a single playthrough. It’s also exactly the type of smaller, older indie game that makes the most sense to pick up when it’s discounted rather than at full price, since the appeal is pretty specific and you’ll know within the first few levels whether the puzzle-trap loop is clicking for you.

Quick facts

Genres: Action, Indie, Simulation, Strategy. Developer and Publisher: Exkee. Platform: PC (Steam). Release date: May 28, 2014.