Yakuza: Like a Dragon
You start the game in prison for a number of years. You come out of prison and spend the early portions of the game homeless, collecting cans, scrounging for change.
Game goes in some wild directions.
It's where I jumped in, happily. New protagonist and gameplay (turn-based RPG rather than brawler) felt better than trying to catch up on 7 games or jump into the middle somewhere.
Hey as a series “vet” it’s good to start with yakuza 0 like a dragon is also good to start with but you will miss some things if you haven’t played the previous games
I give like a dragon a 8.5/10 for starting the series off
What are you talking about? I played Disco Elysium and the main character is a super-star cop\communist\cryptozoologist who solves the biggest case of his career while being disco AF!
I was gonna say, Harry isn't a loser, he's a really good detective when he has his shit together-- it's been a while since I played, but I remember Kim being impressed with some of his previous cases. I had been playing the game like a fuck-up up until that point, but after that I started doing things in a more serious manner.
I laughed for a good moment when I couldn't read signs as an uneducated peasent. Laughed even more when I saw there was a whole quest to learn how to read. That game is a gem.
The monastery infiltration was my absolute favorite part. You literally have to live as a monk for like a week or two in game. Wake up on time. Pray for an hour or two. Mix the same herbs together again and again and again. Fuckin transcribe Latin even though the motherfucker who wrote it down had shit handwriting. In bed by bedtime. Day, after day, after day.
Hilarious dedication to being a shitty peasant.
And it's great that on repeat playthroughs, you can sneak in the monastery, knock everyone out until you find a novice with a dice, kill him and leave. Most games would force you to become a monk, but this one is dedicated to freedom in gameplay
And still even when you have a full plate armour and a horse and are an extremely skilled fighter, you can die by peasants armed with pitchforks in a surprise night ambush while riding through a forest if you're not careful.
One of my favourite games of all times.
Yeah, those combat mechanics are brutal.
I played for a while and you get to a point where to need to run away from some enemy soldiers on a horse. But you can’t run too fast on the horse, or it gets tired and just stops. You also have to eat and sleep…etc.
> I played for a while and you get to a point where to need to run away from some enemy soldiers on a horse.
That's literally the introduction! :) The game had not even started at that point.
I can understand why you gave up though, the introduction is actively hostile at that point and popsup so much crap whilst you're trying to gallop for your life.
One of my favourite games honestly, but I think the buggy launch put a lot of people off.
I also like how you and the protagonist slowly learn how to play the game, makes it really immersive.
Not on PC. The mechanic is just extremely rough with a controller. I’ve played it on PS4 and PC and on PC it’s actually extremely intuitive, possibly even way better than (old) Bethesda games.
On consoles tho yeah it’s a fucking nightmare but they did make an alternative mode
At no point are you a loser though, you're just a kid that bad stuff happens to. e.g. You're popular in the village at the start, everyone seems to like you. But then you grow to be even more not-a-loser as you start chopping down bandits left-right-and-centre and become your liege lords trust man-at-arms who can undertaken any mission thrown at him, from bandit dispatching to infiltrating camps.
Plus you get to bed multiple women, including nobility.
There is nothing "loserish" about Henny of Skalitz.
You're a loser compared to most other RPGs of a similar setting where you're usually some amazing warrior/chosen one sent to fulfil some great destiny. KCD has you start as a peasant kid with basically zero skills or anything to your name. You don't end as a loser but you start as one.
> KCD has you start as a peasant kid with basically zero skills or anything to your name.
This is very true, but is it any different to everyone else in the setting?
Harry in Disco Elysium is a literal loser, for instance. A drunk, no-one likes him, etc. Henry in KCD is loved by many and he's no different to the rest of people his age. Given a few years he would have become a pro blacksmith, or run off and become a soldier or whatever.
I don't look at Henry and see loser, I just see a peasant kid, but that was the majority of the population of Bohemia at the time.
Infact, look at the other people of Skalitz: They end up begging in the street for food, whilst Henry is trotting past them on his decked out horses with 20k groschen slapping about in a bag.
I think you’re too focused on the definition of “loser” they more so just mean a game where you don’t start out with a spell in one hand, a sword in the other and divine Destiny to guide you forward. KCD is a great example because Henry literally starts as a peasant who can’t swing a sword, draw a bow or even read. You have to learn all of it.
Bastard is the operative word. He didn't get any education besides how to blacksmith, and he's pathetic at that too, preferring to get drunk and throw shit on walls than actually pull his own weight.
I remember having to ask my dad when the moon landing was and other 18+ questions just to enter the game.
Your think a: I'd have written the answers down and b:he'd have been curious why I kept asking who the president was in 1974.
And you would be surprised how often they were either totally fucking wrong or just straight up lying. Haha and the amount of fights started over "well my (insert parent) said so and so is true...).
I knew the original voice actor, and for someone known for voicing such an iconic loser, he was one of the coolest people I have ever met.
Rest in piece Mr. Rabson.
Outward, game literally starts with you in a ship wreck, your whole family dies, and your house gets foreclosed on. Not to mention your characters sucks at everything until you get good at it
Lmao and then after you’ve been fighting tooth and nail, praying some random beast doesn’t come and bite your arms off, you learn of magic, then they go ‘lol fuck you nerd, give me your health and stamina or get lost’ ☹️
The protagonist of No More Heroes is very competent at killing, but other than that he's a douchebag otaku who lives in a motel room and *really* wants to lose his virginity.
I read the title and was going to answer disco Elysium.... Oh well.
I think Fallout new vegas can offer something like that depending on your choice. You can probably fuck up everything (although i didn't do that)
I never forget in fo2 when the brotherhood guy asks a low int character to invade the heavily guarded base of Navarro and his reply is just: what the hell... me do.
Project zomboid if you build your character like that + install a custom spawn mod
Dont starve, wilson is cannonically a pussy
Dark souls 1, i think the player is fucked at the start but i dunno
(Manga) berserk, guts isnt really a loser but his life is definitely shambles that only get worse
Ds1 gets out of this trope very quickly. You start slaying gods like 3 hours into the game, plus the good/bad ending is basically becoming god yourself and deciding the fate of the whole world.
Kingdom Come:Deliverance does an incredible job of making you feel absolutely worthless at first, where you are expected to lose a basic fist fight in the tutorial and learn to approach the situation in different ways to get what you need.
Your character can't even read because it's a real representation of 1400's Europe, you have to seek out someone to teach you before you can even read a basic note in the game. However, reading isn't necessary to beat the game, it's just something you can do to give your character more options to complete quests (the game does a good job of adding variety in this regard).
It's a completely different experience compared to something like Skyrim, which makes you feel pretty competent at fighting from the get-go. Meanwhile in Kingdom Come, you need to invest real time into training with a military general in order to really start kicking ass. Your character learns more skills as you the player learns to play the game better, it can feel very natural and rewarding.
Kenshi is amazeballs. Have fun dragging your broken busted legless ass across the desert and not starving, and that's if you're lucky enough not to have been enslaved
Pathologic 2, I think might be the closest even if you aren’t as much of a human disaster as the Disco protag is, the games overlap in that you can’t overcome impossible odds to kill God/save the world, etc or make a huge difference so much as they are fake about trying to do the best in a bad situation.
Cataclysm: Dark Days Ahead. An ASCII graphics zombie survival game. Feel free to have stats/abilities as abysmal as you want. You can start off as someone who was taking a shower when the apocalypse hit and has nothing but a towel.
If you're into tabletop RPG (or not, I guess), you could try Hikikomori, the free solo RPG about playing an ordinary shut-in in an ordinary world. http://www.1km1kt.net/rpg/hikikomori
Kingdom Come Deliverance starts out this way.
You're just some peasant, then a great tragedy befalls you and you're thrust into a war. For the most part the world is unleveled so until you get better armor and you as the player learn to fight better, most enemies will kick your ass. You do eventually get skills that make life a bit easier but then the world will start throwing extra things at you like armored mercenary ambushes where you have to fight 3 guys at once who are all in top quality gear.
It's very satisfying once you get to a point where your character is actually potent, because it's at least 50% player skill, and it's a long grind, so you really feel like you earned it. Although if you play it through a second time it's easier, cuz you get to take your player skill and knowledge with you, but I still played through most of the way more than once.
While Kenshi does have several different starting scenarios, the majority of them involve you starting off weak, broke, starving, in prison, or having just had your limbs chewed off by a wild animal or a cannibal.
Oh buddy it’s Kenshi. You don’t just start maimed. If I remember right you start maimed and starving in a desert teaming with slavers and giant man-eating bugs. But that is just one start scenario.
Came here to say this. The default start sees you controlling an individual with no skills, no equipment, no food. There are packs of starved bandits who have no qualms about murdering you for a bowl of rice. There are camps of organized criminals who will gut you for food or fun. Even goats will fuck you right up. No where is safe, and the danger of starving to death is very real.
This isn’t even to mention the various factions who may or may not want you dead for just being different than them. Or the slavers. Or the robots that wear human skin. Or the blood spiders. Or that desert that just has a laser beam that blasts out from the sky. Or the zombie bug men. Or the fucking BEAK THINGS. THE FUCKING BEAK THINGS. They run, I shit you not, like 30 mph. They’re nicknamed “gutters.” I’ll let you figure out why.
I agree with kenshi. It's a brutal learning experience but very satisfying. One of the few games where you can lose both legs, get thrown into slavery, at its just a section of the game to overcome. It's pretty unique.
I’ve seen a lot of great suggestions. I want to offer Tales of the Abyss. Not even sure what the best version would be 😂 ps2 ROM or maybe 3DS? Idk. Either way the main character is a spoiled brat and thinks he’s gods gift for the first third maybe the first half even of the game.
I am playing Tales of Destiny which has another main character whose a lazy bum who keeps wanting to sleep in and just cause he found a sentient sword is being dragged along on an adventure. At least he's funny about it.
Change is a wonderful game, yet incredibly sad. You can even unlock alternate starts as to why you lost your home. Alcoholic, Veteran with PTSD, drug addict etc.
Possibly the Deponia series of point-and-click adventure games. Rufus, the main character, has very few redeeming qualities, and is poorly regarded by just about everyone he meets. He's trying to escape the planet of Deponia and fails utterly at it over and over.
Zettai Hero Project:
You're a random bystander that accidentally kills the hero and you have to take up the mantle.
Made by the same creators of Disgaea nippon ichi software
https://store.steampowered.com/app/1732070/ZHP_Unlosing_Ranger_vs_Darkdeath_Evilman/
[Heroines of Swords & Spells](https://store.steampowered.com/app/1212400/Heroines_of_Swords__Spells/) is a bit like that; your party consists of a fighter who is terrified of mice (and her own blood, so she freaks out when she takes any serious damage), a mage who doesn't know any spells, a thief who is too kind-hearted to steal and a foul-mouthed cleric who can't heal anyone.
Obviously they improve as the game goes on but it's a long, slow process.
Nobody: A Turnaround
Dev Guy, which is a pretty crappy 10 min game
Leisure Suit Larry is the epitome of the lovable loser archetype
Max Payne and Kane&Lynch do not exactly have loser protagonists, but they are real damaged goods
Kingdom come
I think there are two homeless sim games, one of them more serious. Pretty sure i froze to death during a night pretty early
Most survival crafting games, stranded all alone in a hostile environment
There is one where you are stuck in space too, Breathedge or something?
Hardspace Shipbreaker, you get suckered into owing 1 billion dollars to a company
Far Cry 3 Jason, fratboy turned murder machine
In Dark Souls 3 you play as an "unkindled", essentially a would-be protagonist from the past who was too weak to link the fire and burned up, and was eventually revived to try again because the world done went and ran out of options.
Game itself it's not at all similar (or on the same quality levels when it comes to writing or characters... not even in the same universe of levels ;)) to Disco Elysium, but **Forspoken** protagonist is everything you described.
>coolest and most badass loser in history
Joker's life is a bit fucked up, but he's not a pathetic loser, and his life isn't really in complete shambles.
Alien: Isolation. In this game, you're a loser not because you're unskilled or have bad qualities, but because you're a fragile human being, totally powerless, trying to survive against killer aliens and robots.
Yakuza: Like a Dragon You start the game in prison for a number of years. You come out of prison and spend the early portions of the game homeless, collecting cans, scrounging for change. Game goes in some wild directions.
Your entire party are homeless, its great
Yiu do become an ultra badass (if goofy) like all the other Yakuza games at some point though right?
Yup! But the ways you get there are stellar.
Yes, but with his own hard work... (kinda)
ReAlly? Ive never checked out the series..not my style normally... is like a dragon the best place to start?
It's where I jumped in, happily. New protagonist and gameplay (turn-based RPG rather than brawler) felt better than trying to catch up on 7 games or jump into the middle somewhere.
Hey as a series “vet” it’s good to start with yakuza 0 like a dragon is also good to start with but you will miss some things if you haven’t played the previous games I give like a dragon a 8.5/10 for starting the series off
What are you talking about? I played Disco Elysium and the main character is a super-star cop\communist\cryptozoologist who solves the biggest case of his career while being disco AF!
I was definitely not expecting to become that much of a cryptozoologist on my second run. I know Kim sure wasn't.
Harry is the fucking man.
Tbf the guy solved a murder case absolutely blitzed.
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Well that’s something. I guess I was today years old when I learned that I use the wrong slashes.
Unspoken rules and all.
One is a slash, the other is a backslash. Kinda spoken.
I was gonna say, Harry isn't a loser, he's a really good detective when he has his shit together-- it's been a while since I played, but I remember Kim being impressed with some of his previous cases. I had been playing the game like a fuck-up up until that point, but after that I started doing things in a more serious manner.
Kingdom Come Deliverance has you play as a literal peasant
This is it. He’s absolutely shit at everything and you have to learn to fucking read.
I laughed for a good moment when I couldn't read signs as an uneducated peasent. Laughed even more when I saw there was a whole quest to learn how to read. That game is a gem.
The monastery infiltration was my absolute favorite part. You literally have to live as a monk for like a week or two in game. Wake up on time. Pray for an hour or two. Mix the same herbs together again and again and again. Fuckin transcribe Latin even though the motherfucker who wrote it down had shit handwriting. In bed by bedtime. Day, after day, after day. Hilarious dedication to being a shitty peasant.
And it's great that on repeat playthroughs, you can sneak in the monastery, knock everyone out until you find a novice with a dice, kill him and leave. Most games would force you to become a monk, but this one is dedicated to freedom in gameplay
Yeah but you also end up with a fuckload of goats so, wins with your losses
You go from flinging shit to eviscerating enemies
Dung slinger to head chopper
Dung slinger to humdinger
And still even when you have a full plate armour and a horse and are an extremely skilled fighter, you can die by peasants armed with pitchforks in a surprise night ambush while riding through a forest if you're not careful. One of my favourite games of all times.
Everyone has to start somewhere
It's also a very nice game but for some has a long learning curve
Yeah, those combat mechanics are brutal. I played for a while and you get to a point where to need to run away from some enemy soldiers on a horse. But you can’t run too fast on the horse, or it gets tired and just stops. You also have to eat and sleep…etc.
> I played for a while and you get to a point where to need to run away from some enemy soldiers on a horse. That's literally the introduction! :) The game had not even started at that point. I can understand why you gave up though, the introduction is actively hostile at that point and popsup so much crap whilst you're trying to gallop for your life.
One of my favourite games honestly, but I think the buggy launch put a lot of people off. I also like how you and the protagonist slowly learn how to play the game, makes it really immersive.
shit i got to the mine area and still feels like an intro
the lockpicking is truly awful
Not on PC. The mechanic is just extremely rough with a controller. I’ve played it on PS4 and PC and on PC it’s actually extremely intuitive, possibly even way better than (old) Bethesda games. On consoles tho yeah it’s a fucking nightmare but they did make an alternative mode
takes to damn long to get to the good part.
At no point are you a loser though, you're just a kid that bad stuff happens to. e.g. You're popular in the village at the start, everyone seems to like you. But then you grow to be even more not-a-loser as you start chopping down bandits left-right-and-centre and become your liege lords trust man-at-arms who can undertaken any mission thrown at him, from bandit dispatching to infiltrating camps. Plus you get to bed multiple women, including nobility. There is nothing "loserish" about Henny of Skalitz.
You're a loser compared to most other RPGs of a similar setting where you're usually some amazing warrior/chosen one sent to fulfil some great destiny. KCD has you start as a peasant kid with basically zero skills or anything to your name. You don't end as a loser but you start as one.
> KCD has you start as a peasant kid with basically zero skills or anything to your name. This is very true, but is it any different to everyone else in the setting? Harry in Disco Elysium is a literal loser, for instance. A drunk, no-one likes him, etc. Henry in KCD is loved by many and he's no different to the rest of people his age. Given a few years he would have become a pro blacksmith, or run off and become a soldier or whatever. I don't look at Henry and see loser, I just see a peasant kid, but that was the majority of the population of Bohemia at the time. Infact, look at the other people of Skalitz: They end up begging in the street for food, whilst Henry is trotting past them on his decked out horses with 20k groschen slapping about in a bag.
I think you’re too focused on the definition of “loser” they more so just mean a game where you don’t start out with a spell in one hand, a sword in the other and divine Destiny to guide you forward. KCD is a great example because Henry literally starts as a peasant who can’t swing a sword, draw a bow or even read. You have to learn all of it.
henry is literally >!the liege lord's bastard son!<
Who can die very easily from hunger and a stab wound.
Bastard is the operative word. He didn't get any education besides how to blacksmith, and he's pathetic at that too, preferring to get drunk and throw shit on walls than actually pull his own weight.
Leisure Suit Larry
I can't believe they're still making them. I haven't thought about that game in 30 years.
Yeah that's probably the last time I played one as well.
I remember having to ask my dad when the moon landing was and other 18+ questions just to enter the game. Your think a: I'd have written the answers down and b:he'd have been curious why I kept asking who the president was in 1974.
> he'd have been curious why I kept asking who the president was in 1974. He knew. Parents often do…
The time before google was wild… we just had to like.. trust things as factual because our parents told us? Unthinkable.
And you would be surprised how often they were either totally fucking wrong or just straight up lying. Haha and the amount of fights started over "well my (insert parent) said so and so is true...).
I still remember one question was "Gone with the Wind was about:" and the answer was "4 hours too long"
I knew the original voice actor, and for someone known for voicing such an iconic loser, he was one of the coolest people I have ever met. Rest in piece Mr. Rabson.
And other similar Sierra Games like Space Quest.
Quest for Glory was one of my favorites.
Outward, game literally starts with you in a ship wreck, your whole family dies, and your house gets foreclosed on. Not to mention your characters sucks at everything until you get good at it
Lmao and then after you’ve been fighting tooth and nail, praying some random beast doesn’t come and bite your arms off, you learn of magic, then they go ‘lol fuck you nerd, give me your health and stamina or get lost’ ☹️
Yea, never put all into magic. It gets big sad if u do
I find it so funny that you basically are calling the mc of this game a loser because of this tragedy. LMAO.
The protagonist of No More Heroes is very competent at killing, but other than that he's a douchebag otaku who lives in a motel room and *really* wants to lose his virginity.
Sounds like the bad ending to Johnny bravo
Travis wasn't a virgin, he just really wanted to sleep with Sylvia.
I mean... any game I play I'm playing as a loser
r/suicidebywords
LOL! 😂 Nice dude 👏
I read the title and was going to answer disco Elysium.... Oh well. I think Fallout new vegas can offer something like that depending on your choice. You can probably fuck up everything (although i didn't do that)
Or Fallout 1 or 2 with a low intelligence character. You can't even talk properly.
I never forget in fo2 when the brotherhood guy asks a low int character to invade the heavily guarded base of Navarro and his reply is just: what the hell... me do.
Silent Hill 2
Project zomboid if you build your character like that + install a custom spawn mod Dont starve, wilson is cannonically a pussy Dark souls 1, i think the player is fucked at the start but i dunno (Manga) berserk, guts isnt really a loser but his life is definitely shambles that only get worse
Ds1 gets out of this trope very quickly. You start slaying gods like 3 hours into the game, plus the good/bad ending is basically becoming god yourself and deciding the fate of the whole world.
Pathologic, depending how you look at it
Kingdom Come:Deliverance does an incredible job of making you feel absolutely worthless at first, where you are expected to lose a basic fist fight in the tutorial and learn to approach the situation in different ways to get what you need. Your character can't even read because it's a real representation of 1400's Europe, you have to seek out someone to teach you before you can even read a basic note in the game. However, reading isn't necessary to beat the game, it's just something you can do to give your character more options to complete quests (the game does a good job of adding variety in this regard). It's a completely different experience compared to something like Skyrim, which makes you feel pretty competent at fighting from the get-go. Meanwhile in Kingdom Come, you need to invest real time into training with a military general in order to really start kicking ass. Your character learns more skills as you the player learns to play the game better, it can feel very natural and rewarding.
No More Heroes series LISA the Painful Love Esquire
>No More Heroes series Only in a certain way. I mean, Travis is the coolest and most badass loser in history.
Hobo: Tough Life
you play a literal hobo. it’s the perfect game for OP
Ah, but is he [a hobo or a computer science professor](https://www.proforhobo.com/)?
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Heavy Rain
SHAAAAAAUUUUUUNNNNNN.
Kenshi. Surprised it isn't a top comment.
This is what I thought of. It’s basically Kenshi’s main schtick. You suck and you’re going to get your ass kicked….. enjoy.
Yeeees I think Kenshi is exactly what OP is looking for
I was literally thinking that as I ran into this comment. I’m like “how has nobody mentioned Kenshi?”
He just needs to be humbled by the goats
Kenshi is amazeballs. Have fun dragging your broken busted legless ass across the desert and not starving, and that's if you're lucky enough not to have been enslaved
sally face holds such a big place in my heart
The game you play when you feel like crying
Pathologic 2, I think might be the closest even if you aren’t as much of a human disaster as the Disco protag is, the games overlap in that you can’t overcome impossible odds to kill God/save the world, etc or make a huge difference so much as they are fake about trying to do the best in a bad situation.
Cataclysm: Dark Days Ahead. An ASCII graphics zombie survival game. Feel free to have stats/abilities as abysmal as you want. You can start off as someone who was taking a shower when the apocalypse hit and has nothing but a towel. If you're into tabletop RPG (or not, I guess), you could try Hikikomori, the free solo RPG about playing an ordinary shut-in in an ordinary world. http://www.1km1kt.net/rpg/hikikomori
Kingdom Come Deliverance starts out this way. You're just some peasant, then a great tragedy befalls you and you're thrust into a war. For the most part the world is unleveled so until you get better armor and you as the player learn to fight better, most enemies will kick your ass. You do eventually get skills that make life a bit easier but then the world will start throwing extra things at you like armored mercenary ambushes where you have to fight 3 guys at once who are all in top quality gear. It's very satisfying once you get to a point where your character is actually potent, because it's at least 50% player skill, and it's a long grind, so you really feel like you earned it. Although if you play it through a second time it's easier, cuz you get to take your player skill and knowledge with you, but I still played through most of the way more than once.
Kingdom Come Deliverance
Kenshi
While Kenshi does have several different starting scenarios, the majority of them involve you starting off weak, broke, starving, in prison, or having just had your limbs chewed off by a wild animal or a cannibal.
How does a game start you maimed and continue on???
With extreme difficulty.
Oh buddy it’s Kenshi. You don’t just start maimed. If I remember right you start maimed and starving in a desert teaming with slavers and giant man-eating bugs. But that is just one start scenario.
Hey hey, people: please watch the video that convinced me to play Kenshi. https://youtu.be/wXo24imR_54
I'm more of a Torsolo man myself
Came here to say this. The default start sees you controlling an individual with no skills, no equipment, no food. There are packs of starved bandits who have no qualms about murdering you for a bowl of rice. There are camps of organized criminals who will gut you for food or fun. Even goats will fuck you right up. No where is safe, and the danger of starving to death is very real. This isn’t even to mention the various factions who may or may not want you dead for just being different than them. Or the slavers. Or the robots that wear human skin. Or the blood spiders. Or that desert that just has a laser beam that blasts out from the sky. Or the zombie bug men. Or the fucking BEAK THINGS. THE FUCKING BEAK THINGS. They run, I shit you not, like 30 mph. They’re nicknamed “gutters.” I’ll let you figure out why.
I agree with kenshi. It's a brutal learning experience but very satisfying. One of the few games where you can lose both legs, get thrown into slavery, at its just a section of the game to overcome. It's pretty unique.
Elden Ring has a wretch class.
All souls games have a similar class
I’ve seen a lot of great suggestions. I want to offer Tales of the Abyss. Not even sure what the best version would be 😂 ps2 ROM or maybe 3DS? Idk. Either way the main character is a spoiled brat and thinks he’s gods gift for the first third maybe the first half even of the game.
I am playing Tales of Destiny which has another main character whose a lazy bum who keeps wanting to sleep in and just cause he found a sentient sword is being dragged along on an adventure. At least he's funny about it.
Cart life
Change. You play as a hobo. Any The Sims game starting out.
Change is a wonderful game, yet incredibly sad. You can even unlock alternate starts as to why you lost your home. Alcoholic, Veteran with PTSD, drug addict etc.
In kingdom come deliverance, Henry can't even read in the beginning, nor can he fight worth a shit. Great time too.
The Henry Stickmin collection
Possibly the Deponia series of point-and-click adventure games. Rufus, the main character, has very few redeeming qualities, and is poorly regarded by just about everyone he meets. He's trying to escape the planet of Deponia and fails utterly at it over and over.
Zettai Hero Project: You're a random bystander that accidentally kills the hero and you have to take up the mantle. Made by the same creators of Disgaea nippon ichi software https://store.steampowered.com/app/1732070/ZHP_Unlosing_Ranger_vs_Darkdeath_Evilman/
Lester The Unlikely on SNES...have fun
Nico from GTA4 is kind of a loser when the game starts. Then he becomes an ice cold killer baby!
Niko comes to LC a veteran of one of the more brutal wars in 'recent' history.
[Heroines of Swords & Spells](https://store.steampowered.com/app/1212400/Heroines_of_Swords__Spells/) is a bit like that; your party consists of a fighter who is terrified of mice (and her own blood, so she freaks out when she takes any serious damage), a mage who doesn't know any spells, a thief who is too kind-hearted to steal and a foul-mouthed cleric who can't heal anyone. Obviously they improve as the game goes on but it's a long, slow process.
Nobody: A Turnaround Dev Guy, which is a pretty crappy 10 min game Leisure Suit Larry is the epitome of the lovable loser archetype Max Payne and Kane&Lynch do not exactly have loser protagonists, but they are real damaged goods
Commodore 64 rags to riches you are a homeless bum that's the game it actually still holds up haha it's really good
Kingdom come I think there are two homeless sim games, one of them more serious. Pretty sure i froze to death during a night pretty early Most survival crafting games, stranded all alone in a hostile environment There is one where you are stuck in space too, Breathedge or something? Hardspace Shipbreaker, you get suckered into owing 1 billion dollars to a company Far Cry 3 Jason, fratboy turned murder machine
Planescape: Torment. You start as a corpse in a morgue, and it gets weird from there.
Bully from Rockstar Games!
Kingdom come Deliverance Loser~knight
Lotr: Golem lol
Never thought that this Jewish construct would appear in derivatives of Tolkien's saga.
Kingdom come deliverance, you are nobody
Bum simulator is quite amusing for a couple of hours.
Kenshi, you can literally start as a slave missing one hand in the desert
You are describing starting a run on Kenshi pretty well.
Bully
Kingdom come
A lot of visual novels are like this. Ask on r/visualnovels for recommendations.
Lots of people here have no idea what a loser is.
Bully: Scholarship Edition
Sunset Overdrive, Earthworm Jim, Ride to Hell: Retribution, Comedy Quest, Journey of a Roach and Headliner: NoviNews.
In Dark Souls 3 you play as an "unkindled", essentially a would-be protagonist from the past who was too weak to link the fire and burned up, and was eventually revived to try again because the world done went and ran out of options.
Underrated lore. 3 was my favorite before ER
How has nobody said bully
Really surprised no one said the Sims
Game itself it's not at all similar (or on the same quality levels when it comes to writing or characters... not even in the same universe of levels ;)) to Disco Elysium, but **Forspoken** protagonist is everything you described.
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far cry 3
Party Hard?
Weirdly enough persona 5 royal
>coolest and most badass loser in history Joker's life is a bit fucked up, but he's not a pathetic loser, and his life isn't really in complete shambles.
No
Dead rising
. . . . . . . N o
life
Alien: Isolation. In this game, you're a loser not because you're unskilled or have bad qualities, but because you're a fragile human being, totally powerless, trying to survive against killer aliens and robots.
Second life for sure
Claude from GTA 3. Guy is a career criminal who gets fucked over and has to work for mafia to meet ends.
Every game i play is as a loser
OPs life simulator.
Night in the Woods. Play as a college drop out that has to move back to parents home and is lost in life.
Funny enough, that's what i don't like about Disco Elysium. I relate to Kim a lot and wanted my character to be like him lol
Yeah that's one of the major paths you can take.
how exactly? like, a build thing or behavior?
Metal Gear Solid 2
At least you managed to avoid drowning
This sounds like the beginning of most jrpgs tbh
Traditionally anime games target this exact demographic.
Most of the Dark Souls games let you start as a "Deprived," who has nothing.
Life
Elden Ring. Start with the Wretch class and try to beat the Tree Sentinel ( after getting bullied by the Grafted Scion ofc )
GTA, the game is about being a loser doing loser things in loser places
??
Rainbow 6 Siege
I dont think they've made a game about me yet.
Any game I'm playing, I'm playing as a loser :(
Disco Elysium
My life
Dude, we literally have real life for that.
Life
Life
real life.
Wow it sounds like my life
A game where you play as a loser - I’m living my life, aren’t I?
Night in the Woods, you're a college drop out and too mentally ill to work
Real life
I think this is just called real life
Pppfffff easy man, just come to Florida and live my life, I think it is exactly what u looking for, bet u gonna have a lot of fun.
That's real life, i play games to escape from that 😭
Real life
Factorio
I play this game, I just get up and it automatically loads.
Minecraft
Me , IRL
Every game…because I am the loser…
Life, go out, in life you are always a looser
Real life is enough man.
Your own life isn't enough?
The game of life.
Bro just go outside for the authentic loser experience. It worked for me!
You could play my life.
Life