Diabolical v1.1.17

Choice of Games LLC

Contains ads • In-app purchases

About this app

Developer Description

Rule the world as a criminal mastermind, once you've practiced your evil laugh.

Start practicing your evil laugh! As the world's greatest criminal mastermind, choose a lair, hire a minion, and steal the world's largest ball of aluminum foil! (Or, destroy the world. FINE.)

"Diabolical" is a 130,000-word interactive novel by Nick Aires, where your choices control the story. It's entirely text-based--without graphics or sound effects--and fueled by the vast, unstoppable power of your imagination.

Famous, feared, or filthy rich—why not all three? You've got the money and the motives to build an evil empire worthy of the most ruthless villain the world has ever seen. Crush the good guys and terrorize the populace! Stamp a big red "FAIL" on your enemies' foreheads! Plunder your way to world domination – or sit back and pet your kitty while your henchmen do it for you.

Will you be a high-tech daredevil, a ruthless military soldier, or an apparition terrifying to behold? What calling card will you leave at the scene of your crimes? Whatever your choices, the results will be diabolical.

• Play a villainous story of scheming, grandstanding, and laughing evilly.
• Interview and hire the best possible (or best available) minion.
• Decide when to use trickery, when to use force, and when to hide behind henchmen.
• Choose the ultimate, guaranteed-to-be-infamous nickname.
• Play as male or female, with straight, gay, and bisexual romance options.
• Destroy the world!

What's New

You can now choose a font in the Settings menu. Switch to Helvetica for crisp sans-serif text, or try the OpenDyslexic font, designed against some common symptoms of dyslexia. If you enjoy "Diabolical", please leave us a written review. It really helps!

In-app purchases

$4.99 per item

Version Information

Version: 1.1.17
Downloads: 50K+
Updated on: Jan 5, 2026
Released: Nov 5, 2015
Requires: Android 5.0

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Diabolical users say on Google Play

★★★★★

A Google user

I love this! I love the sarcastic tone, the news anchors, all the characters and options. I love that you can be whatever kind of villain you want, you can even be a good guy. There are so many different choices and directions and interactions. Also thanks for not making the final battle skill related options confusing. This was so good! I'm gonna go play it again.

★★★★

Mutilated

Love the game, it was great. However I wish I could've interact with the characters a bit more, because I found myself drawn to them alot. Disappointing, oh. And the ending was great, it really builds up to a sequel! Well, atleast the ending I got does. Perhaps you could work on a sequel... I would totally play it! If you were to do that, then please try to add more content, even if it costs more money to buy the novel. And I highly recommend Diabolical!

★★★

A Google user

The story is entertaining enough as it is. But your decisions matter fairly little. Most decisions have no direct impact on the story beyond altering a Stat or two. The outcomes are mostly predetermined. There's also a great number of poorly written/planned passages. "The Countess threw HIS knives..." for instance. Or how She's dead on my victory but yet she never died during the story, the hero's director did. I'd say buy this for a quick and interesting read. Second pass didn't change. Try MetaHuman.

★★

Dat Gor

I payed a small amount for this, 3.99, but I'm not really sure I think it's worth it. At the start I was expecting to be a dramatic and really good game about you being the villain, fighting the hero and the villains above you, but it made me, the villain, look like the stereotypical child's villain.The first chapter I was robbing a place and then confronted a large scale villain, then what? You go back to the past and then to the future then a vacation? What?! It becomes to stale to quick to me

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Jamus Maynard

Honestly not the best, not for 3.99$! It felt like too much reading, not enough choices and honestly it seems to make villainy satire in this style. Honestly feel ripped off as I wasn't able to use any money I got, plus wasn't able to even customize or design my character. For 3.99$ you get cartoony choices, text based story that when you make a decision, it happens no matter what. It felt incomplete and severely lacking any real plot. You make millions but never get to spend it.Not even once!