60+ similar titles based on shared tags and player behavior. Themes include Singleplayer, Story Rich, Interactive Fiction, Simulation.
A model denied four thousand people this morning. The law says a human has to explain why. Read the file, work out what the machine saw, write the reason, and decide whether to sign your name to it. Sixty cases before the deadline.
Orwell: Ignorance is Strength
Step into the shoes of a government official in a top-secret department of the Orwell surveillance program. Given the power to both uncover and fabricate "the truth", how far will you go in the service of your country? Season 2 of Orwell, the award-winning surveillance thriller.
Orwell: Keeping an Eye On 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.
Step into the shoes of a government official in a top-secret department of the Orwell surveillance program. Given the power to both uncover and fabricate "the truth", how far will you go in the service of your country? Season 2 of Orwell, the award-winning surveillance thriller.
Why similar: Espionage 40% ★, Political Sim 25% ★, Detective 9.2%, Interactive Fiction 6.9%, Investigation 4.9%
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: Espionage 61.7% ★, Investigation 16.5%, Political Sim 7.4% ★, Choices Matter 6.3%, Simulation 4.3%
Bureau of Hero Affairs is a simulation game about processing paperwork in an obsolete office system and digging up what it buried. As a journalist working undercover inside the Bureau, uncover the truth of a disaster twenty years ago. Follow the regulations, or report the truth.
Why similar: Political Sim 34.6% ★, Investigation 12.9%, Detective 11.8%, Interactive Fiction 11.2%, Point & Click 6.9%
In this AI-powered thriller, your phone is the gateway to a dark past. As a mine chief, you receive messages from a mysterious stranger demanding you put your workers in danger in exchange for uncovering forgotten historical secrets. Who will pay the price for the truth?
Why similar: Espionage 42.1% ★, Political Sim 29% ★, Interactive Fiction 9.5%, Point & Click 5.2%, Text-Based 4%
Read the evidence. Run the forensics. Question suspects in your own words, they lie, crack, or lawyer up. Accuse the wrong person, and Internal Affairs comes after you.
Why similar: Espionage 45.8% ★, Interactive Fiction 12.3%, Detective 11%, Investigation 9.2%, Point & Click 7.9%
Reopen your late father's phone repair shop to survive. But every device holds someone's secrets — and the deeper you dig, the closer you get to the sister who vanished. Repair. Extract. Investigate. The truth has a price, and so does staying clean.
Why similar: Espionage 56.6% ★, Detective 12.8%, Investigation 8%, Point & Click 7.3%, Choices Matter 5.3%
Article 7 is a short political thriller where you play as Arvenia’s Minister of Civil Authority during a national crisis. Review documents, weigh conflicting information, speak with members of the press, and decide whether to grant emergency powers to the Chancellor.
Why similar: Political Sim 49.7% ★, Interactive Fiction 15.7%, Point & Click 9.5%, Text-Based 5.7%, Choices Matter 5.3%
A darkly comic, turn-based roguelike of 1970s London police night duty. Dispatch your few constables, fill your four cells, back gambles over the radio — and keep the streets safe until 06:00. Every shift deals fresh trouble, and every choice follows your career. Just make it through the week.
Why similar: Espionage 42.9% ★, Political Sim 30.5% ★, Interactive Fiction 8.4%, Detective 8.1%, Time Management 7.3%
A prequel set in the SYS.POST-FUTURE universe: a cyberpunk interface simulation where your decisions permanently shape the main game. As a covert operations director, dispatch agents, manage cyber defenses, and write the official canon through community-driven choices.
Why similar: Espionage 41.4% ★, Investigation 17.8%, Lore-Rich 7.4%, Choices Matter 6%, Interactive Fiction 5.9%
NWSP is a narrative choice-driven interactive fiction where you play as a magical being forced to work as a document inspector in a tech city that bans magic. Check papers, make moral choices, and uncover conspiracy while hiding your true nature in this bureaucratic tale of survival and resistance.
Why similar: Espionage 43.8% ★, Political Sim 29.7% ★, Interactive Fiction 10.3%, Conspiracy 4.2% ★, Choices Matter 3.9%
A mysterious hacker has stolen the NSA's cyber arsenal and is threatening to sell it to the highest bidder. You have been pulled from your day job and assigned to hunt the hacker. Triage alerts, search through logs, piece together the clues, and find The Shadow Brokers before they leak everything.
Why similar: Espionage 69.8% ★, Investigation 15%, Point & Click 6.1%, Choices Matter 3.6%, Multiple Endings 3.3%
Uncover a web of evil as a superspy! Break rules, break hearts–don't break cover.
Why similar: Espionage 68.1% ★, Interactive Fiction 15.8%, Text-Based 5.3%, Choices Matter 3.9%, Casual 2.5%
Steal a face. Study a life. Survive the conversation.
Why similar: Espionage 45% ★, Detective 15.3%, Investigation 14%, Interactive Fiction 10.2%, Point & Click 5.2%
Conduct a high-stakes espionage operation at the height of the Cold War. Intercept and decipher classified intelligence to uncover a hidden threat. Break codes, cover your tracks, and escape before it’s too late.
Why similar: Espionage 49.3% ★, Detective 16.9%, Investigation 15.2%, Point & Click 7.6%, Conspiracy 3.7% ★
MASK IT is a black-comedy adventure about manufacturing outrage by "editing" the news. As a fresh news editor, your job is to give dull everyday news a little "touch-up" and turn it into a viral sensation no one can look away from!
Why similar: Political Sim 48.8% ★, Interactive Fiction 18.6%, Point & Click 9.9%, Text-Based 5.8%, Multiple Endings 4.3%
Olivia Harrow was found dead in her Harborview Tower apartment. The police ruled it an accident. A slip, a fall, a tragic head injury. Case closed. But not everyone is convinced... You've been hired as a private investigator to find out the truth. Can you crack the case?
Why similar: Espionage 40.5% ★, Detective 18.5%, Interactive Fiction 17.4%, Investigation 13.8%, Text-Based 5.6%
Run a newspaper under censorship. Report, choose your articles, strike out words, lay out the page. Sharp reporting draws the censors; a compliant paper loses its readers. 1920s Gyeongseong — a newspaper management simulation adventure where you complete a single page, every single day.
Why similar: Political Sim 40.5% ★, Investigation 13%, Interactive Fiction 11.8%, Point & Click 6.1%, Choices Matter 6%
Think fast and lie faster! When you go undercover to retrieve a deadly new bio-weapon, can you pull off the mission and escape with your life?
Why similar: Espionage 72.6% ★, Interactive Fiction 16%, Text-Based 5.6%, Choices Matter 3.5%, Story Rich 1.4%
"The Listener is a first-person investigation game. Play as a Yugoslav radio amateur at the height of the Cold War. Use your equipment to pick up mysterious transmissions, analyze cryptic messages, and gather hidden clues to uncover a sinister conspiracy"
Why similar: Political Sim 39.9% ★, Interactive Fiction 16.2%, Detective 11.2%, Investigation 9%, Simulation 6.9%
Settled on a dystopian future, Alone in the Crowd is a humorous puzzle simulation investigative thriller, where you use a weird variety of gadgets to satisfy this mysterious, self proclaimed friendly AI character.
Why similar: Espionage 37.4% ★, Detective 15.5%, Investigation 13%, Interactive Fiction 12.4%, Point & Click 7.7%
BOUND is a psychological thriller where you search through private conversations, hidden files, and recordings on devices that aren't your own. Manipulate others, uncover dark secrets, and shape the outcome through the choices you make.
Why similar: Espionage 39.8% ★, Detective 19.7%, Investigation 15.5%, Point & Click 8.2%, Choices Matter 6%
Choose your civilization, build your kingdom, develop your cities, manage resources, and command your armies. Use diplomacy, warfare, and strategic decisions to defeat your rivals and fight for world domination.
Why similar: Espionage 57.3% ★, Political Sim 28.9% ★, Time Management 6.2%, Investigation 5.9%, Simulation 1.7%
Mistport sets you as a booth inspector, in a gloomy Victorian city. Inspect documents for ships that pull into the misty harbor, identify suspicious individuals, and uncover mysteries that will shape the city’s fate. Stay loyal to your post or venture into the mists of insanity. The choice is yours.
Why similar: Political Sim 50.2% ★, Detective 15.2%, Investigation 12.3%, Choices Matter 7.2%, Multiple Endings 7%
Read the question. Read the electorate. Choose your answer before time runs out. VoxPrinceps is a political narrative-decision game where every debate can swing state support and your opponent gets a chance to swing it back.
Why similar: Political Sim 57.9% ★, Interactive Fiction 14.5%, Choices Matter 7.8%, Time Management 7.1%, Text-Based 6.5%
Black Border 2 is an intense border patrol simulator where you inspect documents and use special tools to detect forgeries and stop smugglers.
Why similar: Political Sim 43% ★, Point & Click 11.4%, Detective 11%, Time Management 8.5%, Investigation 8.4%
Inspect evidence, expose contradictions, and sign binding orders in a dystopian political thriller. Your laws return through the people who exploit them as thirty connected files decide District 089's fate.
Why similar: Political Sim 40.5% ★, Investigation 15.6%, Interactive Fiction 14.3%, Point & Click 8.7%, Multiple Endings 5%
You're a security officer deep within Area 51. Scan the staff, verify clearances, and decide who can enter the elevator and who absolutely mustn't leave. The deeper you go, the less certain you are that anyone standing before you is still human.
Why similar: Political Sim 34.9% ★, Detective 18.2%, Investigation 15.7%, Point & Click 9.9%, Choices Matter 6.3%
Serve as a border officer in a medieval kingdom on the brink of war. Inspect documents, interrogate suspicious travelers, and decide who may enter. Will you obey the Crown or follow your conscience?
Why similar: Political Sim 32.2% ★, Investigation 18.6%, Interactive Fiction 12.8%, Point & Click 11.5%, Time Management 7.7%
You have found the job you were looking for. Your only concern is your quota. or else? Protein was always the problem. The HFU solved it. Keep your head down, Do your job, you are here for a reason. Exitus is a terminal-style decision game. Pull up each case, then decide their fate.
Why similar: Political Sim 37.4% ★, Investigation 13.8%, Interactive Fiction 13%, Lore-Rich 9.9%, Text-Based 6.4%
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: Political Sim 50.8% ★, Interactive Fiction 17.3%, Point & Click 9.6%, Choices Matter 6.3%, Multiple Endings 5.8%
Kat Domino is an agent of SHELL, the organization ruling the world. A routine mission will lead her where she doesn't belong, uncover things she was never meant to see, and unravel a conspiracy that could change everything she thought she knew. With a little luck, her trainee agent will survive.
Why similar: Espionage 39.8% ★, Detective 14.1%, Interactive Fiction 12.6%, Investigation 9.7%, Point & Click 8.7%
Gamedec is a single-player cyberpunk isometric RPG. You are a game detective, who solves crimes inside virtual worlds. Use your wits to gather info from your witnesses and suspects, getting to the bottom of deceptive schemes. The game continually adapts to your decisions and never judges.
Why similar: Espionage 47.8% ★, Detective 15.3%, Investigation 10.2%, Lore-Rich 8.7%, Choices Matter 5.2%
Suspect Express is a first-person multiplayer game for 2 to 4 players. Play as an Inspector tasked with identifying the Troublemakers hidden among the passengers, or become a Troublemaker and wreak havoc aboard the train without getting caught before reaching your destination.
Why similar: Espionage 70% ★, Detective 18.1%, Investigation 11.6%, Indie 0.4%
Live as a rookie hacker. Monitor digital lives, uncover secrets, and shape your story.
Why similar: Detective 25.3%, Interactive Fiction 22.4%, Investigation 12.2%, Point & Click 11%, Text-Based 8.4%
A mystery adventure game where you investigate 3D evidence and uncover the truth behind each case through the clues left behind.
Why similar: Espionage 32.4% ★, Detective 24.1%, Investigation 22.4%, Interactive Fiction 13.2%, Story Rich 3%
You are a double agent between a break-off religious sect and an inquisition within a holy city. Gather intelligence from both sides, solve their puzzles, navigate between dark-truths, and collect insights to write reports that give you the power to shape an inevitable conflict to come...
Why similar: Political Sim 51.9% ★, Interactive Fiction 17.6%, Lore-Rich 10.3%, Text-Based 6.9%, Choices Matter 4.5%
A Beholder series spin-off. Become a conductor of the Determination Bringer train: monitor passengers, report incidents, and carry out important Ministry assignments — whose level of secrecy depends only on your loyalty. And remember: mission success is very important to you!
Why similar: Political Sim 59.7% ★, Investigation 12.7%, Point & Click 8%, Choices Matter 5.5%, Multiple Endings 4.7%
Transmission in Progress is a detective game located in a sound powered world, playing in the shoes of Inres, a forensic detective falsely accused of murder. You must tap into several different audio channels to determine the real suspect of the crimes you were falsely accused of.
Why similar: Detective 19.4%, Investigation 16.3%, Interactive Fiction 16.1%, Time Management 10.3%, Lore-Rich 9.9%
Break into fictional networks with real-feeling shell commands. Scan hosts, crack credentials, trace logs, steal evidence, and survive the fallout in a CRT-noir thriller where Signal Ghost's local AI characters remember what you do - and what you say.
Why similar: Espionage 52% ★, Detective 14.8%, Interactive Fiction 12%, Choices Matter 5.6%, Text-Based 5.3%
The king holds the power — but the words are yours. Advise a young ruler through intrigue, war, and betrayal in a turn-based court drama, where the right counsel shapes a realm and the wrong one ends you.
Why similar: Political Sim 57% ★, Interactive Fiction 12.8%, Conspiracy 7.8% ★, Choices Matter 7.3%, Multiple Endings 6.9%
Welcome to the heart of a 1980s bureaucracy. Review applicant files, cross-check records, and make heavy moral decisions. Amidst strange rumors of an unidentified illness, will you uncover the dark truth or become an accomplice to the system?
Why similar: Political Sim 38.2% ★, Point & Click 10.3%, Interactive Fiction 8.4%, Conspiracy 7.3% ★, Choices Matter 7.2%
Six witnesses, six suspects, and thousands of discoverable lines of dialog. You're the fantasy detective on the case of a stolen magical artifact, and in order to determine the truth you'll have to cross examine, interrogate, and reference all your resources to catch the thief before time runs out.
Why similar: Detective 27%, Investigation 19.9%, Interactive Fiction 15.8%, Lore-Rich 8.8%, Time Management 8.6%
In 1939, just before graduating from a German military academy, your true infiltration begins. You are Britain's hidden asset codenamed DEEP. Spying, deciphering, and moving through the shadows, you navigate rival factions, where every choice shapes your fate, your homeland, and peace.
Why similar: Espionage 71.6% ★, Detective 9.1%, Interactive Fiction 6.2%, Story Rich 4.5%, Choices Matter 3.6%
A lost mercenary navigates a dangerous monster girl village, where every choice, lie, and word could mean survival—or exposure.
Why similar: Espionage 60.5% ★, Interactive Fiction 14.2%, Lore-Rich 10.5%, Multiple Endings 5.1%, Choices Matter 5.1%
Noir gamebook, now fully in English. A magnate vanishes from an office locked from the inside: 4 trails, 780 choices, 11 endings, and no luck to save you. 85% of runs end in death or arrest. You die; the case goes on — the dossier doesn't forget.
Why similar: Detective 20.4%, Espionage 17.7% ★, Interactive Fiction 17%, Investigation 12.8%, Lore-Rich 10.8%
quietd is a no-input game you simply watch. A terminal hacks on its own across all 50 stages while you idle by. No commands, no clicks, no win, no score, no game over. Just chill, ambient cyberpunk: silent monospace text drifting in a corner of your desktop. Glance over and let it run.
Why similar: Espionage 65.4% ★, Interactive Fiction 18.5%, Simulation 8.6%, Text-Based 7%, Indie 0.6%
You have been assigned as an operator, reading protocols that force you to make decisions using buttons and switches. Every decision shapes your fate — and decides whether you’ve done what was expected of you.
Why similar: Political Sim 50.3% ★, Interactive Fiction 19.3%, Point & Click 9.3%, Simulation 9.1%, Multiple Endings 7.3%
A 2.5D surveillance sim in a private museum. Work the night shift: listen at doors, observe the people around you, take on their jobs, and decide moment to moment who to trust and who to expose. Your employer tells you what to ignore. Something is being moved that was never meant to be seen.
Why similar: Espionage 53.5% ★, Interactive Fiction 15.7%, Point & Click 9.6%, Simulation 7.7%, Time Management 6.5%
A game to show how really a fight between a Hacker and a IT worker works and how hackers operate. Old MS-DOS game.
Why similar: Espionage 53.2% ★, Detective 19.6%, Investigation 8.6%, Multiple Endings 6.2%, Choices Matter 5.8%
F around and find out! A ruthless no F's given dark comedy where you play the president of the United States of America, abuse executive power, crank up the FAFO meter, deal with robot overlords, alien invasions, drain swamps, flip off allies, crush protests, and destroy all that oppose you!
Why similar: Political Sim 37.6% ★, Interactive Fiction 18.3%, Point & Click 11.3%, Simulation 7.7%, Conspiracy 5.5% ★
成为动物城的新晋大法官，在庭审过程中收集证物，记录证言，翻阅新闻，判断原告被告的诉求是否合理，引导案件走向真相并最终做出合理判决和量刑，一同守护动物城司法正义！
Why similar: Political Sim 48.2% ★, Detective 19.5%, Interactive Fiction 15.4%, Multiple Endings 5.4%, Simulation 3.5%
1963. A classified experiment. A grieving mother with unnatural powers. Step into a first-person psychological horror told through the static of a Cold War-era monitor peering into the astral realm and beyond. Find out what happened to you and uncover the conspiracy they tried to bury.
Why similar: Espionage 58.1% ★, Interactive Fiction 9.8%, Conspiracy 8.9% ★, Lore-Rich 7.5%, Point & Click 6.4%
Trapped in an underground bunker with your finger on the button, interpret intelligence signals, question unreliable AI advisors, and decide whether to escalate, stand down, or unleash doomsday.
Why similar: Political Sim 57.3% ★, Interactive Fiction 18.3%, Text-Based 8%, Simulation 5.5%, Choices Matter 5.3%
You are a passport control officer at a busy international airport. Inspect documents, catch wanted criminals, and choose whether to resist or accept bribery. Every stamp shapes your rank and your fate.
Why similar: Espionage 79.9% ★, Simulation 11.1%, Choices Matter 4.9%, 2D 3.3%, Indie 0.8%
Prove your worth to Big Boss and rule the assigned country from the shadows. Manipulate politics, the media, and the streets to funnel all national resources into the hands of The Company. Swipe decision cards, stay undercover, and hold onto power.
Why similar: Espionage 41.8% ★, Political Sim 30.1% ★, Interactive Fiction 10.1%, Conspiracy 6.7% ★, Text-Based 5.4%
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: Political Sim 48.3% ★, Interactive Fiction 15.5%, Point & Click 9.4%, Choices Matter 7.5%, Multiple Endings 5.6%
You're the kingdom's Medium. Summon old cosmic gods, beings that don't lie, but don't speak plainly. Ask. Interpret their visions. Every answer brings you closer to the truth. Every vision drags you one step closer to madness.
Why similar: Detective 29.4%, Political Sim 25.5% ★, Investigation 22.7%, Conspiracy 11.2% ★, Choices Matter 5.3%
Step into the desk of a state Propagandist! Design posters, shape public opinion, and censor any media that challenges the state. Enlighten the people, serve your glorious country, and uphold the vision of the Mother. Every poster you create can shift the fate of the nation.
Why similar: Political Sim 69% ★, Point & Click 14.4%, Choices Matter 7.6%, Story Rich 4.9%, Simulation 2.8%
Lead a republic through 48 months. Examine documents, manage your cabinet, pass laws, survive crises, and answer for the consequences of every political compromise.
Why similar: Political Sim 53.5% ★, Choices Matter 9.1%, Interactive Fiction 8.3%, Multiple Endings 7.8%, Investigation 6.7%
Inspect travel passes and question the strangers who reach your mountain gate after dark. In this yokai inspection game, compare every face, paper, and answer, then let them pass, turn them away, or draw your sword. Your family and the village bear the cost.
Why similar: Detective 24.2%, Investigation 19.6%, Time Management 14.1%, Lore-Rich 11.3%, Point & Click 10.7%
