Mass Effect 5: A Criminal Thesis

The closest I ever gotten in with "criminal" games was Saints Row: The Third and Saints Row IV. In the third one you do play as a crook but it's so bat-shit crazy and downright bonkers and the villains are just more evil crooks, in part 4 it starts out with Jane Austin narrating asking the question were they just they just violent soicpaths or puckish rouges living a life of whimsy and ends with the Saints "decided more fun and less mercy killing." Yes there is a running joke of the Boss getting upset being called a sociopath instead of a puckish rouge, but that game and the Third aren't trying for a dark super serious crime drama it's a parody of games like GTA and part 4 is a wicked satire of open world action RPGs like Skyrim and the Mass Effect Trilogy along with the Call of Duty and the Metal Gear Solid series, and to paraphrase one of my favorite critics on Saints Row IV said: "It's a satire of the entire 7th generation of games about how they their heads up their own asses. Wanting to show the world that video games were grown up and should taken seriously as an art form without actually having to grow up."