Overlord (Video Game) – TV Tropes

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— Gnarl

“Evil always finds a way…”

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Once again, it’s time to put on your (evil-looking and spiky) villain-hat… as might be suggested from the name, Overlord is a series that lets you step into the flower-stomping, minion-kicking, heavily-armored shoes of an Evil Overlord. With such a premise, it can hardly come as a surprise that the games use or subvert half the entries in the Evil Tropes index…

Written by Rhianna Pratchett, daughter of Terry Pratchett.

Due to the series’ playstyle, it’s often seen as a Darker and Edgier Medieval Pikmin, though they don’t clash as much as you would think.

Games in the series include:

Not to be confused with the Japanese Light Novel series of the same name or the similiarly-named 2018 film.

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The entire Overlord series contains examples of:

• Crapsack World: This is the default state of the Overlord’s world. The conceit is that an efficient evil Overlord is likely preferable to well-intentioned (or not so well-intentioned) incompetent rulers. Genuine heroes eventually rise to fight the Overlord and temporarily make it a decent place to live… until they fall to Evil or tyranny in turn, starting the cycle anew.
• Cutting the Knot: In the Mother Goddess Temple, you’re meant wait for the guardian elf ghosts to wander behind these doors attached to special cranks, and then send minions to those cranks to shut the doors, which will only remain shut for as long as you have minions allocated to those cranks… or you could just detour to heaven’s peak to grab the blues, return, and order them to attack the ghosts directly.