Law vs Good

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Plays with ideas of law, lawfulness, and following the rules being opposed to what is good. Especially if those laws themselves are impartial or even seemingly good themselves.

26
games
19
platforms
The versus bit of the tag title does not need to be taken literally. It could be simply recurring choice for the player, or recurring dilemma in the plot, where player or some central characters must choose between what law demands and what is actually good.

This theme can expand to loyalty vs good as well, where a soldier, knight, or such is following their ruler's commands which when they were given seem to be for the good, encounters a dilemma where actually not going through with those orders would do good.

This can easily backfire when the good option actually brings problems which the laws were there to prevent.

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Games by year

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The first Law vs Good video game was released in 1987.

Namco Bandai Games, Origin and Electronic Arts published most of these games.

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Platforms

X360 3
Windows 3
PS3 3
MS-DOS 2
Atari ST 1
FM Towns 1
Nintendo DS 1
C128 1
Win3.1 1
TI Calculators 1
NEC PC9801 1
NEC PC8801 1
X68000 1
Switch 1
C64 1
PS4 1
Apple II E 1
Xbox One 1
Amiga 1

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