MachiaVillain

MachiaVillain is about building and running a villain’s mansion in Villain City, a community in the hills where ax murderers, mad scientists and tax evaders make their home. You begin with an empty plot full of vermin near a rubbish forest, rather than the haunted house you were promised. With minions and a lot of murders, you can turn it into a deadly trap, lure locals inside and kill them with traps or let your minions feast on them.

Build your mansion

Design rooms for the creatures and schemes you house, from a vampire’s crypt and a mad scientist’s laboratory to a swimming pool for victims and your shark, and a cannibal kitchen. You also craft useful items from ingredients taken from victims and gathered from the environment.

Manage your minions

Choose minions according to their traits and needs, and order them to carry out your evil plans and clean up bloodstains. They have different fighting styles, including long-range attacks, bare-handed combat and fighting with their fangs. Keeping them fed means attracting a variety of victims, from jocks, nerds, potheads and party girls to horror movie celebrities. Bankers are also among the possible targets.

Defend your mansion

Hostile creatures, including Chupacabra, Wendigo and Sasquatch, threaten your place at the top of the food chain. Professional monster hunters may also come to your door armed with stakes, holy water or baseball bats.

Follow the rules

The League of MachiaVillain Villains sets standards for wickedness in the community. Its rules, dictated by Drs Frank and Stein, the Siamese co-chairmen of the Board of Evil, cover how to kill intruders and even which salads count as evil. Your Evil Mastermind Reputation depends on following the conventions of horror movies: kill victims when they are alone, save the virgin for last and never hurt the dog.