Games Like 1998: The Toll Keeper Story

My Child Lebensborn is a story-driven nurture game based on real events. Play as the adoptive parent of Karin or Klaus, and experience the struggles they go through alongside them. Balance your time and resources wisely, while helping your child cope with the effects of hatred.

Why similar: Life Sim 42.8%, Immersive Sim 24.1%, Simulation 19.2%, Choices Matter 9.5%, Story Rich 3.6%

Why You'll Like It: Like the seed game, it focuses on the emotional and moral challenges of raising a child in a harsh, unforgiving environment.

In this 2D, short narrative-based game, you assume the role of the Grim Reaper... on an office job. Your job is to decide which people are going to live or die. The consequences of your choices are yours to bear, while the mystery of your incarnation awaits revelation!

Why similar: Point & Click 23.7%, Interactive Fiction 22.6%, Simulation 13.2%, Choices Matter 11.4%, Narrative 7.3% ★

Why You'll Like It: You play as a bureaucrat making life-or-death decisions, mirroring the moral weight and point-and-click nature of the seed game.

A narrative-driven hardcore RPG set in a gritty world ruled by real but unrelenting gods. Set out on a challenging lifetime journey, where every choice has a price and entails consequences. Will you become an inquisitor, a judge, or conspire against the old order? Dare to decide!

Why similar: Interactive Fiction 46.4%, Choices Matter 27.8%, Simulation 9.7%, Atmospheric 6.3%, Story Rich 6.1%

Why You'll Like It: It offers a deep, choice-driven narrative set against the backdrop of a society on the brink of collapse.

Congratulations. The October labor lottery is complete. Your name was pulled. For immediate placement, report to the Ministry of Admission at Grestin Border Checkpoint. An apartment will be provided for you and your family in East Grestin. Expect a Class-8 dwelling.

Why similar: Point & Click 43.3%, Simulation 27.9%, Multiple Endings 9.3%, Atmospheric 7.4%, 2D 5.5%

Why You'll Like It: It is the definitive bureaucratic job simulator where you must make difficult moral choices to support your family while working at a border checkpoint.

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: Point & Click 30.9%, Simulation 18.8%, Choices Matter 17.4%, Atmospheric 12.2%, Multiple Endings 10.5%

Why You'll Like It: This game forces you to balance your professional duties as a state employee with the survival of your family in a dystopian regime.

Person of European Heritage #112: Welcome to Relocation Block B, your new home. Your designated role is 'Bouncer'. Work hard, stay out of trouble, and we might let you stay in the UK.

Why similar: Life Sim 61.9%, Simulation 27.7%, 2D 4.1%, Multiple Endings 3.8%, Story Rich 1.7%

Why You'll Like It: Set in a dystopian version of the UK, this game requires you to work a high-pressure job while navigating political instability and survival.

Closer the Distance is a slice-of-life sim that tells a deeply emotional story about the connections between family and friends in the face of tragedy. Unearth long kept secrets, repair strained relationships, and help your loved ones move on.

Why similar: Life Sim 27.1%, Drama 21.3%, Point & Click 17.5%, Narrative 9% ★, Choices Matter 7.4%

Why You'll Like It: It provides an emotional, story-rich experience that explores the complexities of life and relationships in a small community.

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: Survival 48.8%, Simulation 17.5%, Choices Matter 14.6%, Atmospheric 14.1%, Story Rich 3.4%

Why You'll Like It: It captures the desperate struggle for survival and the moral dilemmas faced by civilians during times of civil unrest.

You didn’t ask to lead this expedition, but here you are. Stuck in the ice, Captain missing, miles from civilisation. Someone has to take charge. Manage your meagre resources, balance safety and morale, make the hard calls, and head in the only direction you can - through The Pale Beyond.

Why similar: Interactive Fiction 22.8%, Survival 17.6%, Simulation 15.9%, Choices Matter 13.5%, Narrative 10.8% ★

Why You'll Like It: This game emphasizes resource management and the heavy burden of leadership choices in a survival-focused narrative.

Cabernet is a 2D narrative RPG set in a 19th century Eastern European inspired world, with a modern twist. Guide Liza, a young vampire in her new unlife among the unsuspecting townsfolk. Will you retain your humanity or descend further into the horror you have become?

Why similar: Interactive Fiction 24.3%, Point & Click 20%, Simulation 14.2%, Choices Matter 12.6%, Stylized 12%

Why You'll Like It: It offers an atmospheric, choice-driven narrative that emphasizes character interaction and moral ambiguity.

Roleplaying in the ruins of interplanetary capitalism. Live the life of an escaped worker, washed-up on a lawless station at the edge of an interstellar society. Inspired by the flexibility and freedom of TTRPGs, explore the station, choose your friends, escape your past and change your future.

Why similar: Interactive Fiction 49.4%, Narrative 17.7% ★, Atmospheric 13.2%, Multiple Endings 12.3%, Story Rich 6.3%

Why You'll Like It: This game features atmospheric, narrative-driven survival where every choice impacts your ability to live another day.

In this 3D visual novel, follow failed screenwriter Junon as she attempts to make it through the most pivotal day in her life. Relive the past, alter the present, and embrace the future, or without your help, Junon’s story might end in a wreck.

Why similar: Interactive Fiction 27.5%, Point & Click 24%, Choices Matter 14.8%, Stylized 11.8%, Atmospheric 9.1%

Why You'll Like It: An emotional, story-rich adventure that focuses on navigating past traumas and making pivotal life decisions.

Nobody – The Turnaround is a life simulator set in a parallel world that echoes modern society. Manage your time and resources carefully, strive to find a way through difficult times, and overcome the predicament you find yourself in.

Why similar: Life Sim 49.7%, Simulation 17%, Survival 16.3%, Choices Matter 7.9%, Multiple Endings 4.4%

Why You'll Like It: A realistic life simulation that focuses on the survival and daily struggles of an individual in an unforgiving urban environment.

Cart Life is a story-based life sim starring three street vendors in a small city in the western United States. Guide their new ventures selling newspapers, coffee, and bagels. Set up shop, manage your budget, serve your customers, and try to survive. Make every decision count.

Why similar: Life Sim 23.3%, Point & Click 17.5%, Interactive Fiction 17.1%, Simulation 10.1%, Survival 9.3%

Why You'll Like It: A gritty, realistic life simulation that focuses on the daily struggles of working-class individuals trying to make ends meet.

If you don't sacrifice your neighbors, the world ends. Life Eater is a horror fantasy kidnapping simulator where you must become intimately familiar with your targets' lives one intrusive action at a time... and hope that the dark god you serve is even real.

Why similar: Interactive Fiction 29.2%, 1990's 23.9%, Point & Click 23%, Simulation 13%, Atmospheric 7.6%

Why You'll Like It: This dark simulation game features a 1990s aesthetic and focuses on making difficult, time-sensitive choices.

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: Interactive Fiction 33.9%, Point & Click 27.3%, Choices Matter 12.6%, Narrative 8.7% ★, Multiple Endings 8.6%

Why You'll Like It: You navigate the political instability of a fictional nation, making choices that determine the fate of your country and your family.

Field Hospital is a text-based bureaucratic detective game about hard decisions. Decide who to treat and whom to refuse. Face consequences. Study patients’ info and read their stories. Investigate the tangled case of Dr. Taylor.

Why similar: Life Sim 27.6%, Point & Click 20.3%, Investigation 13.2%, Simulation 9.1%, Choices Matter 8.8%

Why You'll Like It: It combines point-and-click mechanics with the professional moral dilemmas of working in a crisis-stricken environment.

This is a story where you do something more terrifying than entering a haunted house, more dangerous than assaulting an alien horde, and more important than ruling a fantasy kingdom. You, and you alone, must turn your newborn baby into a functional adult. Will you be a tiger mom or a helicopter dad?

Why similar: Simulation 52.4%, Life Sim 21.3%, Interactive Fiction 17%, Choices Matter 6.9%, Indie 2.3%

Why You'll Like It: It directly explores the challenges and choices involved in raising a child through various life stages.

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: Interactive Fiction 39.4%, Point & Click 30.6%, Choices Matter 11.6%, Multiple Endings 7.6%, 2D 7.6%

Why You'll Like It: Set in a city facing political upheaval, this game forces you to make choices that affect the lives of those around you.

Big Brother has arrived - and it’s you. Investigate the lives of citizens to find those responsible for a series of terror attacks. Information from the internet, personal communications and private files are all accessible to you. But, be warned, the information you supply will have consequences.

Why similar: Investigation 43.8%, Simulation 26.4%, Choices Matter 21.3%, Interactive Fiction 3.8%, Point & Click 2.3%

Why You'll Like It: It centers on the moral implications of your professional actions within a surveillance-heavy, dystopian state.

Dyscourse is an interactive choice-based narrative adventure game where you journey through a stylized world of choice and consequence. Choose wisely.

Why similar: Simulation 42.4%, Survival 27.6%, Choices Matter 27%, Indie 2.4%, Singleplayer 0.6%

Why You'll Like It: It is a choice-driven survival game where your decisions determine the fate of your group.

Take on night shifts at a remote motel, handle unsettling guests, and navigate eerie events. Experience Emma’s unnerving apartment life, feel the unease of being watched, and question what’s real as the line between reality and nightmare blurs.

Why similar: Life Sim 27.9%, Immersive Sim 20.2%, 1990's 16.5%, Simulation 12.9%, Atmospheric 10.3%

Why You'll Like It: An atmospheric, story-rich job simulation that captures the tension of working in a lonely, high-pressure environment.

The year is 2036. In this famine-riddled world, food-centric sovereignty has been established. Living alone inside a food-inspection booth, you are striving to find truth and peace beyond the borderline.

Why similar: Life Sim 19.3%, Interactive Fiction 17.5%, Point & Click 17.2%, Immersive Sim 13.9%, Choices Matter 9%

Why You'll Like It: It features a dystopian setting where your choices significantly impact the narrative outcome.

You've never played a game like this before. Road to Empress I is a cinematic palace adventure where your choices decide everyone's fate. Tackle multiple story branches and a high mortality rate with charm, wisdom and courage? First...survive.

Why similar: Immersive Sim 29.1%, Interactive Fiction 27.4%, Choices Matter 21.2%, Multiple Endings 8.3%, Simulation 7.9%

You, an ordinary modern person, cross into the Three Kingdoms. There you meet legendary heroes and beauties. Will you retreat with your love, or rise to conquer the land? Every choice rewrites history—or leads to your doom.

Why similar: Interactive Fiction 38.8%, Immersive Sim 31.2%, Choices Matter 14.9%, Multiple Endings 10.6%, Story Rich 4.5%

Rule the world or die trying!Being a Princess is not an easy job. Being a Queen is even harder. Especially when you're only fourteen years old, and the reason you've inherited the throne is that your royal mother has just met an untimely end.Now power is up for grabs.

Why similar: Simulation 54.8%, Choices Matter 16.5%, Multiple Endings 15.8%, 2D 4.5%, Story Rich 4.2%

Why You'll Like It: A political simulation that requires careful decision-making to survive in a high-stakes, volatile environment.

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

Why similar: Point & Click 29.2%, Interactive Fiction 25.6%, Choices Matter 14.8%, Atmospheric 8.2%, Multiple Endings 8%

Why You'll Like It: This game focuses on the moral weight of your decisions and their impact on a society in turmoil.

Windy Meadow – A Roadwarden Tale is an interactive slice-of-life visual novel about choosing your own path. Help three protagonists make the most important choices of their lives. Featuring a multitude of hand-crafted characters and a richly detailed village set in the Roadwarden story world.

Why similar: Interactive Fiction 72.6%, Atmospheric 18.6%, Multiple Endings 4.4%, Story Rich 4.1%, Singleplayer 0.2%

Why You'll Like It: This interactive fiction title focuses on atmospheric storytelling and the impact of your choices on the world.

This game is a simulation of self-isolation. You need to support your family, not to lose your job and finally not to go crazy.

Why similar: Life Sim 36.3%, Simulation 18.2%, Stylized 13.9%, Atmospheric 13.6%, Choices Matter 10.3%

Why You'll Like It: An atmospheric and dark adventure game that explores themes of isolation and survival.

You are a guard whose job is to post bounties. Try your best to deal with various matters and make money to raise your family. But remember, when various factions come to you, you will have to make choices!

Why similar: Life Sim 27.3%, Interactive Fiction 24%, Immersive Sim 16.7%, Simulation 12.4%, Choices Matter 10.6%

Why You'll Like It: It blends simulation mechanics with a choice-heavy narrative in a dark, atmospheric setting.

inKONBINI: One Store. Many Stories is a cozy slice-of-life game about running a small-town convenience store, inspired by early 1990s Japan. Meet regulars, stock shelves, and watch quiet, everyday moments turn into meaningful stories.

Why similar: Life Sim 23.5%, Immersive Sim 18.3%, 1990's 18.2%, Simulation 10.8%, Stylized 10.4%

Be the tax collector of a shady city hall in this narrative-driven resource management game. Talk to debtors, manage a team, make difficult choices, and challenge the city's moral decay. It's their money, but it's your job.

Why similar: Point & Click 32%, Simulation 19.8%, Choices Matter 15.7%, Narrative 15% ★, Multiple Endings 10.7%

Why You'll Like It: It combines resource management with a life-simulation focus on overcoming financial hardship.

As a judge of the Kobardde court, solve complex cases inspired by actual events. Your decisions will directly affect people's (and perhaps yours) lives. You may have to make difficult decisions for your family, country, and life. What kind of judge will you be?

Why similar: Immersive Sim 36.5%, Investigation 26.6%, Simulation 13.1%, Choices Matter 8.9%, 2D 6.4%

Social welfare survival horror based on real events. Endure emotional pain and societal pressure. Stay entertained. Survive the routine and become the hero of your studio apartment—battle inner demons, hide skeletons in the closet, and most importantly… keep the bathroom clean.

Why similar: Life Sim 37.2%, Immersive Sim 28.3%, Simulation 16.6%, Atmospheric 6.6%, Multiple Endings 5.7%

You have five days to save your husband, who has just been arrested by the Gestapo. Investigate, explore and form allegiances in this story-rich RPG-lite. Who will you trust?

Why similar: Interactive Fiction 45.7%, Stylized 24.3%, Multiple Endings 13.4%, 2D 10.1%, Story Rich 5.3%

A chronic illness simulator. You think you have a chronic illness, but you don't know what. All you know is you are always in some state of pain. You've been to too many doctors to count... but you still have to live your life.

Why similar: Interactive Fiction 38.7%, Life Sim 36.2%, Simulation 16.8%, Atmospheric 4.7%, Story Rich 2.9%

Wickeina 'Wicke' Gestalt lives in a haunted house. Trying to balance the stresses of life with the horrors of her home, play through a point-and-click psychological horror and multiple scenarios, where success and failure both progress the narrative of her story.

Why similar: Immersive Sim 32.6%, Point & Click 30.6%, Stylized 11.6%, Choices Matter 11.5%, Multiple Endings 8.6%

Famine and war have ravaged the land, leaving it in ruins. Step into the shoes of three legendary physicians—Hua Tuo, Zhang Zhongjing, and Dong Feng—and harness surgery, potions, and divine powers to restore order, end the chaos, and uncover the conspiracy behind the epidemic.

Why similar: Interactive Fiction 59.9%, Simulation 19.4%, 2D 10.9%, Story Rich 7.7%, Singleplayer 1.2%

Depression The Game is an interactive game simulating major depression. You are joining a young man on one of his really bad days trying to handle his thoughts and survive that day... Will he?

Why similar: Life Sim 28.4%, Interactive Fiction 24.1%, Immersive Sim 15.6%, Simulation 10%, Choices Matter 7.5%

A first-person interactive story inspired by real-world anxieties, The Assembly is a long-form game designed for VR. Explore a morally ambiguous organization as two individuals and face tough decisions from contrasting perspectives, that culminate in one of multiple thrilling conclusions.

Why similar: Interactive Fiction 37.4%, Drama 33.2%, Atmospheric 12.2%, Multiple Endings 9.8%, Story Rich 5.1%

Will Ekaterina be able to safely complete her coming-of-age ceremony and emerge as the rightful successor to the House?

Why similar: Simulation 35.9%, Choices Matter 24.9%, 2D 17.6%, Multiple Endings 14.6%, Story Rich 6.1%

We will step into the shoes of a young druid who will be called upon by her tribe to undertake an important mission. After some events in her village, she will have to leave behind the safety of the forest and venture into a world full of dangers. The fate of the grove will be in her hands.

Why similar: Point & Click 41.3%, 1990's 29%, Investigation 18.5%, 2D 6.7%, Story Rich 2.6%

Welcome to the FDI. As our newest Operator, your role is to use your detective skills to assist our field agents and investigate mysterious crimes. Use cutting-edge FDI software to dig for clues, solve puzzles, and uncover the truth.

Why similar: Investigation 22.4%, Immersive Sim 22.1%, Point & Click 16.4%, Interactive Fiction 12.4%, Simulation 10.9%

"My Life with You" is a STORY DRIVEN experience that follows the journey of a young SINGLE MOM who must BALANCE life's challenges while raising her child. An emotional journey focused on the BOND BETWEEN MOTHER AND CHILD, marked by obstacles, growth, and love.

Why similar: Drama 26.1%, Interactive Fiction 24.3%, Point & Click 24.2%, Narrative 12.2% ★, 2D 9.3%

A narrative puzzle game with themes of love, fate and time. Follow the life stories of the two main characters and influence their destinies through interactions and choices. The game combines hand-drawn style and an immersive interactive experience to explore a profound journey of love and choice.

Why similar: Stylized 43.6%, Multiple Endings 20.5%, 2D 18.2%, Story Rich 12.8%, Indie 2.6%

It’s 2065, and you are an interrogator-model android tasked with rooting out deviants among your own kind. You must probe for lies, monitor and exploit emotional spikes, earn the trust of your subjects, and make the final call: release, or destroy?

Why similar: Investigation 34.2%, Point & Click 20.8%, Choices Matter 18.1%, Multiple Endings 10.8%, Atmospheric 9.5%

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: Interactive Fiction 34%, Point & Click 23.8%, Simulation 11%, Choices Matter 10.9%, Multiple Endings 7%

Venba is a short narrative cooking game, where you play as an Indian mom who immigrates to Canada with her family in the 1980s. Cook various dishes and restore lost recipes, hold branching conversations, and explore South Indian food in this story about family, love, and loss.

Why similar: Interactive Fiction 36.4%, Stylized 20.8%, Narrative 15.1% ★, Choices Matter 13.3%, Atmospheric 9.4%

Follow Sybil in her pursuit for survival, having to sacrifice everything - her culture, her identity, her values - to achieve a single objective: escape from a place that is constantly trying to kill her. A short game about persecution and identity.

Why similar: Stylized 22.3%, Interactive Fiction 21.1%, Multiple Endings 16.5%, Choices Matter 14.4%, Atmospheric 14%

This is the story of your life. Experience the entire journey from toddler to adulthood. Go to schools, learn new things, meet new friends, and have wild adventures! Every choice you make will influence your future career, and decide who your romantic partner will be. Who will you become?

Why similar: Life Sim 39.3%, 1990's 19.5%, Simulation 13.8%, Choices Matter 11.9%, Multiple Endings 6.5%

The demon summoned to embark the second apocalypse is only a child, and a woman who has lost it all resolves to save her. A half-hour long narrative game with survival gameplay elements and two endings.

Why similar: Interactive Fiction 61.9%, Stylized 13.7%, Multiple Endings 9%, 2D 8.3%, Story Rich 6.1%

What to do when your days are not going well? What to do when you need to wake up and manage a troubled life, in which you need to work, eat well and still have time for yourself? Isolated Room is about that, and maybe a little more.

Why similar: Life Sim 31.7%, Point & Click 21.8%, Immersive Sim 12.9%, Simulation 10.7%, Choices Matter 7.7%

Bury me, my Love tells the story of Syrian refugee Nour and her husband Majd, as Nour undertakes a perilous journey to safety in Europe.

Why similar: Simulation 50.2%, Interactive Fiction 43%, Story Rich 4.5%, Indie 2.3%

Extra Coin is a story-rich life sim set between the real world and a virtual utopia: explore the city, do activities, and face your opponents. Would you rather respect the Loop or break it to find your lost parents?

Why similar: Stylized 26.8%, Atmospheric 24.5%, Choices Matter 20.8%, Multiple Endings 15.1%, Story Rich 10%

Transported back a century by fate, you find yourself in a legendary tale of vengeance. Amidst powerful enemies in a tumultuous era, your mission is to assist those around you. Experience this immersive epic from a first-person perspective—authentic, weighty, yet brimming with hope.

Why similar: Immersive Sim 37.2%, Interactive Fiction 35.8%, Simulation 12.5%, Multiple Endings 10.1%, Story Rich 4.2%

As the last mother fox on Earth, your cubs need all your care to survive in a merciless world that slowly destroys itself. You have to help them, teach them and save them. And you should never forget that extinction is forever – in the real world and in this 2023 BAFTA award winning experience.

Why similar: Survival 31%, Simulation 25.2%, Atmospheric 20.8%, Choices Matter 15.2%, Story Rich 5.3%

You are an Administrator serving your probationary period in a medieval town. Make decisions to affect the town's reputation, order, military and supplies. Choose wisely to deal with bandits, famines, cultists and plagues. The most difficult choices will decide the fate of your town!

Why similar: Interactive Fiction 38.9%, Simulation 20.8%, Choices Matter 17.6%, Multiple Endings 10.6%, 2D 5.9%