Games Like 1979 Revolution: Black Friday

As a judge of the Revolutionary Tribunal, preside over complicated cases of ordinary citizens, dangerous criminals, and enemies of the revolution in revolutionary Paris. Make judgments, plot political intrigue, and try to not lose your own head!

Why similar: Historical 39.2%, Choices Matter 24.2%, Point & Click 11.8%, Story Rich 9.8%, Adventure 8.1%

Why You'll Like It: Like 1979 Revolution, this game places you in a historically charged political hotbed where every judicial ruling and moral choice carries heavy consequences.

Attentat 1942 is a historically-accurate adventure about World War 2. Face moral dilemmas and existential struggles as you uncover the troubled past of your family.

Why similar: Historical 37.7%, Choose Your Own Adventure 20.5%, Multiple Endings 10.9%, Story Rich 10.2%, Point & Click 7.8%

Why You'll Like It: Both games blend historical gravity with investigative narrative, letting players uncover compelling personal stories set against real geopolitical turmoil.

1872, with a steampunk twist. Phileas Fogg has wagered he can circumnavigate the world in just 80 days. Travel by airship, submarine, mechanical camel, steam-train and more. Race other players and a clock that never stops in TIME Magazine's Game of 2014.

Why similar: Choices Matter 25.9%, Choose Your Own Adventure 22.5%, Adventure 11.7%, Story Rich 11.7%, Multiple Endings 10.4%

Why You'll Like It: An exquisite narrative-driven choice adventure where pacing, resource management, and branching dialogue dictate your ultimate fate.

Berlin 1933. “Adolf Hitler is chancellor!” We all know the consequences this message bore. Unspeakable horrors and suffering would sweep across the world. Few would stand and fight the monstrosity that was the German Reich. Will you? Lead an underground resistance group Through the Darkest of Times.

Why similar: Historical 31%, Choices Matter 19.1%, Adventure 12.3%, Indie 9%, Multiple Endings 8.6%

Why You'll Like It: This historical resistance strategy game mirrors the grim atmosphere and high-stakes decision-making of operating under an oppressive regime.

Late Shift is a high stakes FMV crime thriller. Forced into a brutal London heist, your choices matter in this interactive cinematic experience with adaptable storylines that lead to one of seven conclusions. Your decisions are you.

Why similar: Choices Matter 40.1%, Choose Your Own Adventure 27.7%, Multiple Endings 12.6%, Story Rich 8.4%, Adventure 5.3%

Why You'll Like It: Shares the cinematic, high-tension choice-matter structure where splitting-second decisions dramatically alter the trajectory of the story.

Award-winning adventure where you control the news and its impact on society, your friends and career. Different choices lead to unique combinations of endings. Share your story with the community, and see what the players before you did.

Why similar: Choices Matter 32.2%, Point & Click 18.1%, Multiple Endings 17%, Story Rich 13.4%, Adventure 7.7%

Why You'll Like It: Explores the heavy political impact of information and media manipulation, echoing the societal tension found in 1979 Revolution.

Irony Curtain: From Matryoshka with Love is a satirical point and click inspired by the classic adventure games. It smuggles you out of your comfort zone and throws you into the middle of a Cold War spy intrigue - where there’s an even bigger game being played …

Why similar: Political 67.7% ★, Point & Click 11.6%, Adventure 7.8%, Great Soundtrack 4.8%, Indie 4.6%

Why You'll Like It: Shares a thematic fascination with Cold War politics and bureaucratic oppression, albeit through a more satirical lens.

A choices-matter spy thriller told through interactive postcards. Play a secret agent racing across 1930s Switzerland, sending coded reports to your handler. Charm, deceive or strong-arm your way through a Hitchcockian tale where every choice shapes the story.

Why similar: Choices Matter 28.7%, Choose Your Own Adventure 19.4%, Story Rich 13.1%, Multiple Endings 11.1%, Great Soundtrack 10.1%

Why You'll Like It: A narrative thriller driven by choices and espionage, capturing a distinct historical era through a tense interactive fiction format.

12th century, England: In a time of poverty and war, a small town begins the construction of a cathedral to claim wealth and safety for its people. In their struggle to survive, lives and destinies intertwine. Based on Ken Follett's world-bestseller ‘The Pillars of the Earth’.

Why similar: Choices Matter 30%, Point & Click 15.7%, Historical 15.6%, Story Rich 12%, Adventure 9.2%

Why You'll Like It: A deeply immersive story-rich adventure where historical events shape the complex choices and personal struggles of its characters.

Ministry of Broadcast is a narrative-driven single player cinematic platformer mixing Orwell’s 1984 with modern reality TV. A country divided by The Wall; to cross it and reach your family, you must compete on - and win - a reality TV show broadcast by the Regime.

Why similar: Political 49.4% ★, Adventure 20.2%, Indie 13.9%, Great Soundtrack 5.1%, Multiple Endings 4.4%

Why You'll Like It: Presents a grim dystopian setting where media and state control force a desperate protagonist to navigate a brutal political landscape.

11th November 1916, a young photographer leaves Canada to join the western front in Europe. The same day, a German technician is told that his son is missing in action. Both want to preserve their humanity and come back alive to their loved ones.

Why similar: Historical 51.8%, Adventure 19%, Story Rich 14.3%, Great Soundtrack 8.3%, Atmospheric 4.1%

Why You'll Like It: Focuses on the deeply human cost of historical conflict through an emotional narrative and artistic presentation.

Unrest is a role playing adventure game set in a fantasy interpretation of ancient India that adapts to death, failure, and the choices you make. Play as ordinary people in a struggle for safety, freedom, and a chance at peace. Use conversation, manipulation (and rarely, violence) to achieve your goals.

Why similar: Historical 27.3%, Choose Your Own Adventure 21.3%, Choices Matter 17.2%, Point & Click 11.7%, Multiple Endings 9.4%

Why You'll Like It: A branching narrative RPG set in a crumbling society where ordinary people are forced to make desperate survival choices.

Blues and Bullets is a dark and violent crime thriller. Set in an alternative Eliot Ness & Al Capone story, Blues and Bullets blends a stunning script with detective work to deliver an amazing interactive experience.

Why similar: Choices Matter 27%, Choose Your Own Adventure 16.4%, Adventure 12%, Story Rich 11.7%, Great Soundtrack 10.1%

Why You'll Like It: A dark, episodic narrative adventure featuring heavy choices and a gritty atmosphere akin to the seed game's underworld.

Short, thought-provoking adventure where you are a News Editor and decide what stories get published, set in a fictional city where most people are genetically modified. Multiple unique endings let you share your story and see what the Headliner before you did.

Why similar: Choices Matter 37.9%, Multiple Endings 18.6%, Adventure 14.5%, Indie 13.1%, Story Rich 9.9%

Why You'll Like It: A bite-sized political simulator that demonstrates how shaping public perception directly influences societal collapse.

Gods Will Be Watching is a minimalistic “point and click thriller” centered on despair, commitment, and sacrifice as players face intriguing puzzles and tough decisions that will affect their entire crew’s wellbeing.

Why similar: Choices Matter 27.1%, Point & Click 22.5%, Story Rich 15.2%, Adventure 11.4%, Indie 10.7%

Why You'll Like It: A grim psychological challenge centered entirely around grueling moral dilemmas and difficult survival decisions.

The Church in the Darkness is an action/stealth game where you infiltrate a religious cult and the story changes every time you play. It's 1977 and your nephew has moved deep into the South American jungle. Sneak into his commune, find out what's going on, and try to get the best ending you can.

Why similar: Choices Matter 22.4%, Adventure 11.9%, Multiple Endings 11.1%, Action 9.8%, Violent 9%

Why You'll Like It: Explores ideological extremism and high-stakes survival inside a tense, politically charged community.

You’re a state-installed landlord in a totalitarian country. Place listening devices, steal and sneak into your tenants’ apartments. Use what you uncovered to report anyone capable of plotting against the state. You MUST! But WILL you?

Why similar: Choices Matter 28.6%, Multiple Endings 14.3%, Point & Click 13.1%, Great Soundtrack 12.4%, Story Rich 11%

Why You'll Like It: Places you inside a totalitarian apartment block where state loyalty and human morality constantly clash in a desperate struggle.

Welcome to the Department of Liberty. Ascend the ranks of the NSA-like surveillance agency and decide: will you stand up for privacy, or help create an unstoppable police state? Spy on people’s deepest secrets, pick apart their private lives and decide their fate in this modern surveillance thriller.

Why similar: Political 71.4% ★, Adventure 10.2%, Indie 7.1%, Point & Click 5.9%, Story Rich 5.4%

Why You'll Like It: Puts you in the shoes of a surveillance operative dealing with the moral weight of state secrets and political compliance.

Assume the role of President Anton Rayne and guide the nation of Sordland. Amidst brewing international conflicts, need for reform, deep-seated corruption, and economic recession, you must make the decisions in this political drama. How will you lead?

Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 28.4%, Choices Matter 23.2%, Multiple Endings 13%, Point & Click 12.8%, Story Rich 10%

Why You'll Like It: A political text-based RPG where you lead a nation through a turbulent political transition, making countless high-stakes compromises.

Hitchhike your way to freedom in this crazy procedurally generated road trip. No one's road is the same!

Why similar: Choices Matter 27.9%, Choose Your Own Adventure 19.9%, Multiple Endings 13.2%, Story Rich 11.8%, Adventure 9.2%

Why You'll Like It: A procedural road trip narrative about fleeing an authoritarian country, filled with desperate encounters and political undertones.

You are local mafia kingpin, Jeffrey Koch. Your empire in New Kandinski is in total chaos because an unknown Mastermind has decided to take your place. And they’ve planted a sleeper Mole inside your operation. It’s time to act, but you need to act smart.

Why similar: Choices Matter 26.9%, Great Soundtrack 14.9%, Story Rich 12.5%, Adventure 11.3%, Multiple Endings 7.4%

Why You'll Like It: A narrative-heavy strategy game about managing power and survival in a city on the brink of total lawlessness.

The Westport Independent is a censorship simulator taking place in a post-war country, governed by the recently elected Loyalist Party. As the editor of one of the last independent newspapers in the country, your job is to remove and edit the content of your paper, affecting the people’s opinion of both the rebels and the Loyalist...

Why similar: Political 75.1% ★, Choices Matter 14.2%, Indie 10.7%

Why You'll Like It: A censorship simulator that tests your ethical boundaries as you choose which news stories reach the public during a political crisis.

In This War Of Mine you do not play as an elite soldier, rather a group of civilians trying to survive in a besieged city; struggling with lack of food, medicine and constant danger from snipers and hostile scavengers. The game provides an experience of war seen from an entirely new angle.

Why similar: Choices Matter 51.9%, Story Rich 16.9%, Atmospheric 16.5%, Indie 8.6%, Singleplayer 6.1%

Why You'll Like It: Focuses on the grim survival choices of civilians caught in the crossfire of a brutal urban conflict.

Detroit: Become Human puts the destiny of both mankind and androids in your hands, taking you to a near future where machines have become more intelligent than humans. Every choice you make affects the outcome of the game, with one of the most intricately branching narratives ever created.

Why similar: Choices Matter 45.3%, Multiple Endings 21%, Story Rich 16.8%, Great Soundtrack 5.8%, Adventure 4.2%

Why You'll Like It: A cinematic, choices-matter experience where branching paths determine the fate of characters in a politically volatile society.

Experience a Narrative Adventure where your choices and character growth truly matter. As a member of a 1793 secret society, live a tale of intrigue and manipulation on the hunt for your missing mother.

Why similar: Choices Matter 35.2%, Historical 20.3%, Adventure 11.5%, Story Rich 10.9%, Choose Your Own Adventure 9.1%

Why You'll Like It: An episodic narrative adventure driven by social manipulation, investigation, and high-stakes dialogue choices.

State of Mind is a futuristic thriller game delving into transhumanism. The game explores themes of separation, disjuncture and reunification, in a world that is torn between a dystopian material reality and a utopian virtual future.

Why similar: Story Rich 34.3%, Adventure 26%, Indie 12.4%, Action 7.9%, Singleplayer 7.3%

Why You'll Like It: A cyberpunk thriller deeply concerned with political conspiracy, journalism, and transhumanist themes.

Tacoma is a sci-fi narrative adventure from the creators of Gone Home. Set aboard a high-tech space station in the year 2088, explore every detail of how the station’s crew lived and worked, finding the clues that add up to a gripping story of trust, fear, and resolve in the face of disaster.

Why similar: Story Rich 30.1%, Adventure 23%, Exploration 13.5%, Indie 13.4%, Atmospheric 10.6%

Why You'll Like It: A narrative exploration game centered around uncovering the human stories behind a corporate and political crisis in space.

Set around 1929, this interactive visual novel lets you relive the early Red Army's epic journey from a first-person perspective. Experience immersive historical narratives and make pivotal branching choices. Beware: wrong decisions will end your game!

Why similar: Historical 74.5%, Choices Matter 15.2%, Adventure 10.3%

Ministry of Truth: False Memory is a story-driven simulator in a totalitarian society. Become an official, manipulate facts, rewrite history, and provide the ‘truth’ to the public. Choose: obey or fight against the regime. The Great Father is watching you!

Why similar: Choices Matter 25.6%, Choose Your Own Adventure 20.9%, Point & Click 11.7%, Multiple Endings 10.8%, Story Rich 10.7%

From multi-award winning Revolution comes ‘Beyond a Steel Sky’, a groundbreaking 3D adventure thriller, set in an AI-driven future. Subvert the world, hack the systems and solve dark conspiracies to uncover the devastating truth.

Why similar: Choices Matter 30%, Point & Click 21.6%, Adventure 14.5%, Story Rich 13.6%, Action 8.9%

When I Was Young is a stylish and challenging 2D action game set during the Vietnam War. Fight your way through the brutal firefights enjoying a unique combat system and a story-driven campaign. Immerse yourself in the fascinating entourage of the 1960s!

Why similar: Historical 27%, Adventure 20.9%, Action 18.1%, Indie 13.3%, Great Soundtrack 8.4%

BF:RI is a military tactical shooter and a work of historical fiction set in war-torn Burkina Faso. You are a CIA SAC Tier 1 operator, assigned to Operation Sahel Dominion, a covert manhunt targeting the Leader of the Sahel Caliphate responsible for an act of terrorism on American soil.

Why similar: Political 74.1% ★, Action 13.1%, Violent 6.8%, Indie 5.1%, Singleplayer 1%

Paris, 1894. Class differences and pervasive racism finally lead to a tragedy. A year later you find yourself on trial, accused of a brutal murder. How far will you go to exonerate yourself? Will you lie? Manipulate the evidence? Frame others? Act insane? Confess? Your imagination is the limit.

Why similar: Historical 24.8%, Choices Matter 24.6%, Adventure 13.8%, Indie 9.6%, Great Soundtrack 8.6%

Insects Awaken is a puzzle visual novel set in the 1940s. It follows the story of Chen Shan, a young man entangled in espionage while defending his family and homeland. He embarks on a journey between the isolated cities of Chongqing and Shanghai, braving the chaos of war with his passion and youth.

Why similar: Historical 25.3%, Choices Matter 22%, Choose Your Own Adventure 12.2%, Multiple Endings 10.7%, Story Rich 9.6%

Help a woman named Hope escape in a thrilling and topical stealth-action game that explores the perils of government surveillance in the Internet Age.

Why similar: Adventure 26.7%, Point & Click 24.7%, Action 16.3%, Indie 15.7%, Story Rich 9.4%

«Undying Symphony» tells a story about challenges that Leningrad people faced during the Siege and shows us one of the most tragic episodes of Leningrad history

Why similar: Historical 40.1%, Multiple Endings 13.2%, Story Rich 10.7%, Choices Matter 8.1%, Adventure 6.6%

Shape of America is a story-driven, non-linear, turn-based role-playing game about politics. The story is set the United States in the late 1990s, you are a young man who unwittingly finds himself tied up in all the important economic and political changes of the period.

Why similar: Political 65.8% ★, Choices Matter 13.6%, Adventure 12.3%, Indie 8.3%

The film noir stealth game. Calvino Noir is the exploratory, sneaking adventure through the 1930s European criminal underworld. Architecture meets Noir as you become unwillingly entangled in a revolutionist plot.

Why similar: Adventure 59.7%, Indie 40.3%

INFRA puts you into the boots of a structural analyst on a routine mission. Quickly though, your task turns into a fight for survival, all caused by deep-rooted schemes of the past. Your tools are simple: your camera and the wits to navigate a labyrinth of debris.

Why similar: Story Rich 18.2%, Exploration 17.8%, Adventure 17.3%, Great Soundtrack 17%, Atmospheric 16.1%

"Leviathan: The Last Day of the Decade" is a detective story told by a dweller of a cruel dark fantasy world affected by the pandemic. The world ruled by a five noble-born kins under the suzerainty of the undead Plague King.

Why similar: Choices Matter 21.3%, Point & Click 17.8%, Story Rich 16.9%, Adventure 14.1%, Great Soundtrack 12.7%

A choose your adventure, resource management and decision-making game focused on Portuguese culture.

Why similar: Historical 31.4%, Choose Your Own Adventure 20.7%, Choices Matter 19.1%, Point & Click 9.7%, Adventure 5.9%

Survive through four days at the end of the world in this post-apocalyptic point-and-click thriller where your choices could keep you alive... or not.

Why similar: Choices Matter 26.2%, Point & Click 22.7%, Adventure 13.4%, Story Rich 11.7%, Great Soundtrack 9.8%

Chornobyl Liquidators is not a fantastic tale of exploring the Zone. It's a story about real people facing a real threat — the CNPP disaster. Invisible radiation, KGB, difficult moral choices... Do you have enough courage and strength to take on this challenge?

Why similar: Historical 32.8%, Choices Matter 21%, Multiple Endings 11.8%, Story Rich 8.5%, Adventure 7.4%

Empathy: Path of Whispers is an atmospheric and story-driven adventure game where you explore a seemingly abandoned world through the emotions and memories of the people who once inhabited it, trying to restore the world’s lost balance by journeying through its past.

Why similar: Adventure 27.9%, Great Soundtrack 22.4%, Story Rich 21.3%, Indie 12.5%, Atmospheric 11.5%

A new political Party has won a landslide in the General Election, and for some reason the editor at the news station you work at has done a runner. Now it’s up to you, the Janitor, to take over the editing booth in this tumultuous time - will you help the government, or stand in their way?

Why similar: Choices Matter 24.5%, Choose Your Own Adventure 19.6%, Multiple Endings 13.2%, Point & Click 11.8%, Story Rich 10.1%

Survive the Blackout is a narrative survival game set in a dark post-apocalyptic world. Choose Your Own Adventure gameplay, squad-level management, exploration, scavenging, and difficult moral choices. A modern-day tribute to The Oregon Trail.

Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 26.6%, Choices Matter 23.9%, Adventure 12.6%, Indie 9.9%, Point & Click 9.5%

Last Stop is a single-player third-person adventure set in present day London, where you play as three separate characters whose worlds collide in the midst of a supernatural crisis.

Why similar: Adventure 33.5%, Indie 20.6%, Story Rich 20.1%, Great Soundtrack 9.7%, Exploration 8.6%

Raid On Taihoku is an adventure game with the backdrop of WW2 Taiwan. By controlling the characters pass through different danger and safe zones, you will experience the struggles of human nature and cruelty of war.

Why similar: Historical 52.7%, Story Rich 13.9%, Choices Matter 13.6%, Point & Click 9.5%, Adventure 8.6%

Chernobyl, USSR, 1986. Three nuclear plant workers go on a daring mission to prevent a radioactive fallout that would affect half of Europe. Every moment is permanent, and all is at stake.

Why similar: Historical 39%, Choices Matter 23.2%, Multiple Endings 13.9%, Adventure 8.1%, Atmospheric 6.8%

You are a protest organiser, coordinating the crowd outside your window. When the police move in on your position you have to decide whether to tell the protestors to hold the line or pull back.

Why similar: Choices Matter 28.8%, Choose Your Own Adventure 20%, Multiple Endings 13.7%, Point & Click 12.7%, Story Rich 10.6%

Repella Fella is an interactive, point and click, choose your own adventure. This cinematic tale is set in a post-apocalyptic, futuristic Australia. Alternate between 3 intertwining stories. Replay the game multiple times to attempt different solutions and achieve every possible ending.

Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 23%, Choices Matter 21.9%, Point & Click 14.1%, Multiple Endings 13.4%, Story Rich 8.7%

For the People is a mix of a political management sim and a visual novel, putting players in the shoes of an idealistic young state official tasked with shaping the future of a communist factory town. Will the party provide for the people, or are the people just cogs in its machine?..

Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 26.6%, Choices Matter 24.6%, Multiple Endings 13.6%, Point & Click 12.5%, Story Rich 9.9%

Replica is an interactive novel game played through a cellphone and social media. The insane experience of peeping into someone's private life through a cellphone will transform you into the state's greatest patriot.

Why similar: Political 64.9% ★, Choices Matter 8.9%, Indie 8.5%, Story Rich 8.5%, Adventure 8%

Control history in Decade - a groundbreaking indie adventure. Explore an alternate past. Discover how its ideas develop, distort, and disappear. Seed new movements, destroy others. Subvert the rise and fall of empires, art, ideologies, and individuals in this experimental narrative game.

Why similar: Choices Matter 49.8%, Story Rich 23.2%, Indie 8.8%, Adventure 8.5%, Atmospheric 5.9%

Narrative-adventure playing an Agent of Death who must take ONE life that could change the fate of a conflict-torn Nation

Why similar: Choices Matter 24%, Adventure 22.5%, Indie 13.6%, Point & Click 12.2%, Multiple Endings 10.6%

An archaeologist uncovers a lost history in an ancient space Nebula. Award-winning narrative adventure game with hieroglyphic language puzzles, from the creators of 80 DAYS.

Why similar: Choices Matter 22.8%, Choose Your Own Adventure 15.7%, Historical 13%, Point & Click 12.7%, Adventure 9%

This is a narrative role-playing game telling the story of a crown prince of the Blessed Arknian Empire. You possess great power, but are also burdened by duty. Can you change the world and stay true to yourself? Every decision comes with a cost.

Why similar: Choices Matter 35.4%, Choose Your Own Adventure 20.3%, Multiple Endings 15.9%, Story Rich 10.7%, Point & Click 9.1%

The Red Strings Club is a cyberpunk narrative experience about fate and happiness featuring the extensive use of pottery, bartending and impersonating people on the phone to take down a corporate conspiracy.

Why similar: Choices Matter 33.2%, Story Rich 17.2%, Great Soundtrack 15.6%, Point & Click 11.1%, Atmospheric 7%

Immerse yourself in an emotional and intriguing narrative adventure video game about the awakening of a country.

Why similar: Historical 44.1%, Choices Matter 26.8%, Story Rich 12.1%, Exploration 11.1%, Atmospheric 5.9%

Get closer to the truth than ever in the VR edition of Not For Broadcast. Keep the cameras rolling, censor the swears and immerse yourself in the powerful, alluring and occasionally deadly world of broadcast television news.

Why similar: Choices Matter 33.2%, Multiple Endings 17.3%, Story Rich 14.5%, Adventure 11.7%, Choose Your Own Adventure 10.4%