Dan The Man

You play as whoever you want. Dan the Man: Action Platformer is a mobile 2D platformer with beat 'em up elements from Halfbrick Studios (creators of Fruit Ninja and Jetpack Joyride) and animation studio Studio JOHO. It was released on Android in late 2015, and later on iOS. Based on the web series Dan the Man, it can be played without knowing the show—though you'll need to know some context.

Dan faces a choice: join the aggressive ninja or side with the peaceful villagers. Initially, he chooses violence and, along with the ninja and two of their elderly followers, sets out to "overthrow" the king.

While Dan fights, the Advisor is at work behind the scenes—he hires the Dark Master, who tranquilizes the villagers and takes them hostage, including Dan's beloved Josie. The prisoners are forced to flee through a gigantic corridor. Dan defeats three giant robots: one terrorizes the village, one guards the castle, and the third disperses the crowd.
In the sewers, Josie knocks out a careless guard and stops the path, rescuing the captives. Then the old men break through the wall, accidentally killing several people. Dan, emerging from the breach, appears to Josie as a ghost, and she flees in panic.
In the finale, a massive battle occurs at the top of the kingdom: the ninja leader shoots Josie, the Advisor, and the old man, then boards a giant robot to fight Dan. After defeating the robot, the ninja leader presses a button, causing an explosion, and Dan dies.
The game rewinds time to the moment of choice: this time, Dan immediately chooses peace. They are pacifists by nature: at the very beginning, they are the ones who suggest that Dan choose peace over violence. They don't know how to fight, and when faced with dire threats, they simply run or hide—they are unable to defend themselves.
In the first season, they become the royal forces' primary victims: the Advisor manipulates them through propaganda (in Stage 8, the residents hang up posters—essentially royal propaganda), and the Dark Master tranquilizes them with powder and drives them into the sewers to spin a giant treadmill that generates electricity for the kingdom. Tired, they refuse to run.