
So farewell hope, and with hope farewell fear,
Farewell remorse: all good to me is lost;
Evil, be thou my good.
-- Lucifer, in John Milton's Paradise Lost. Bk. IV. L. 108.
There are no shortage of games whose villains are demons from Hell, and no shortage of games whose protagonists are monsters or demons of some sort. There's an entire sub-genre of games (mostly Japanese) in which heroic half-human characters struggle to overcome their inhuman heritage even as they use their demonic powers to be heroes. There are also a few games, usually tempered with comedy, where the player takes the part of the "forces of darkness." Cryptic Comet's sophomore release, the turn-based strategy play-by-email game Solium Infernum, is nothing like any of the aforementioned games.















