60+ similar titles based on shared tags and player behavior. Themes include Singleplayer, Choices Matter, Story Rich, 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 41.1% ★, Political Sim 24.7% ★, Detective 9%, Interactive Fiction 6.7%, Investigation 4.8%
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 62.8% ★, Investigation 16%, Political Sim 7.2% ★, Choices Matter 6.1%, Simulation 4.3%
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 43.2% ★, Political Sim 28.5% ★, Interactive Fiction 9.2%, Point & Click 5%, Text-Based 3.9%
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 57.9% ★, Detective 12.4%, Investigation 7.8%, Point & Click 7.1%, Choices Matter 5.2%
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 42.6% ★, Investigation 17.5%, Lore-Rich 7.3%, Choices Matter 5.9%, Interactive Fiction 5.7%
Uncover a web of evil as a superspy! Break rules, break hearts–don't break cover.
Why similar: Espionage 69.2% ★, Interactive Fiction 15.2%, Text-Based 5.1%, Choices Matter 3.8%, Casual 2.5%
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 44.9% ★, Political Sim 29.3% ★, Interactive Fiction 10.1%, Conspiracy 4.1% ★, Choices Matter 3.8%
Steal a face. Study a life. Survive the conversation.
Why similar: Espionage 46.2% ★, Detective 14.9%, Investigation 13.7%, Interactive Fiction 10%, Point & Click 5%
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 45.9% ★, Interactive Fiction 12.7%, Detective 10.2%, Investigation 8.6%, Point & Click 8%
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 73.6% ★, Interactive Fiction 15.4%, Text-Based 5.4%, Choices Matter 3.4%, Story Rich 1.4%
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 50.6% ★, Detective 16.5%, Investigation 14.9%, Point & Click 7.3%, Conspiracy 3.6% ★
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 41.7% ★, Detective 18.1%, Interactive Fiction 17%, Investigation 13.6%, Text-Based 5.5%
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 44.3% ★, Investigation 12.6%, Detective 11.6%, Point & Click 10.9%, Simulation 7.9%
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 38.6% ★, Detective 15.2%, Investigation 12.8%, Interactive Fiction 12.1%, Point & Click 7.5%
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 40.7% ★, Investigation 12.9%, Interactive Fiction 11.7%, Point & Click 6.1%, Choices Matter 6%
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 40.9% ★, Detective 19.3%, Investigation 15.2%, Point & Click 7.9%, Choices Matter 6%
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 43.2% ★, Point & Click 11.2%, Detective 10.9%, Time Management 8.5%, Investigation 8.4%
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 49% ★, Detective 14.9%, Investigation 10.1%, Lore-Rich 8.6%, Choices Matter 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 35.1% ★, Detective 18.1%, Investigation 15.7%, Point & Click 9.8%, Choices Matter 6.3%
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 51.1% ★, Interactive Fiction 17.1%, Point & Click 9.5%, Choices Matter 6.3%, Multiple Endings 5.8%
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 32.4% ★, Investigation 18.5%, Interactive Fiction 12.7%, Point & Click 11.4%, 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 37.6% ★, Investigation 13.8%, Interactive Fiction 12.9%, Lore-Rich 9.9%, Text-Based 6.3%
A dystopian management game where you act as an energy dispatcher in a collapsing regime. Allocate power, make tough decisions, and balance stability, government pressure, and citizen survival in a dark retro-futuristic world.
Why similar: Political Sim 51.9% ★, Interactive Fiction 20.8%, Simulation 7.3%, Point & Click 5.6%, Multiple Endings 5.2%
A mystery adventure game where you investigate 3D evidence and uncover the truth behind each case through the clues left behind.
Why similar: Espionage 33.5% ★, Detective 23.7%, Investigation 22.1%, Interactive Fiction 13%, Story Rich 2.9%
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 53.2% ★, Detective 14.3%, Interactive Fiction 11.7%, Choices Matter 5.5%, Text-Based 5.2%
Live as a rookie hacker. Monitor digital lives, uncover secrets, and shape your story.
Why similar: Detective 25.2%, Interactive Fiction 22.3%, Investigation 12.2%, Point & Click 10.9%, Text-Based 8.4%
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 72.7% ★, Detective 8.8%, Interactive Fiction 5.9%, Story Rich 4.4%, Choices Matter 3.5%
A lost mercenary navigates a dangerous monster girl village, where every choice, lie, and word could mean survival—or exposure.
Why similar: Espionage 61.7% ★, Interactive Fiction 13.7%, Lore-Rich 10.3%, Choices Matter 5%, Multiple Endings 5%
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 52.1% ★, Interactive Fiction 17.4%, Lore-Rich 10.3%, Text-Based 6.9%, Choices Matter 4.5%
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 19.3%, Investigation 16.3%, Interactive Fiction 16%, Time Management 10.4%, Lore-Rich 10%
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 66.5% ★, Interactive Fiction 17.8%, Simulation 8.4%, Text-Based 6.8%, Indie 0.6%
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 59.9% ★, Investigation 12.7%, Point & Click 7.9%, Choices Matter 5.5%, Multiple Endings 4.7%
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 38.5% ★, Point & Click 10.1%, Interactive Fiction 8.3%, Conspiracy 7.2% ★, Choices Matter 7.2%
Noir gamebook. 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. Originally written in Brazilian Portuguese.
Why similar: Detective 20.2%, Espionage 18.4% ★, Interactive Fiction 16.8%, Investigation 12.7%, Lore-Rich 10.7%
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 54.7% ★, Interactive Fiction 15.2%, Point & Click 9.3%, Simulation 7.5%, Time Management 6.4%
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 26.9%, Investigation 19.9%, Interactive Fiction 15.7%, Lore-Rich 8.8%, Time Management 8.7%
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 54.4% ★, Detective 19.1%, Investigation 8.4%, Multiple Endings 6%, Choices Matter 5.6%
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 80.6% ★, Simulation 10.8%, Choices Matter 4.8%, 2D 3.2%, Indie 0.7%
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 59.4% ★, Interactive Fiction 9.5%, Conspiracy 8.6% ★, Lore-Rich 7.3%, Point & Click 6.1%
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 50.6% ★, Interactive Fiction 19.1%, Point & Click 9.3%, Simulation 9.2%, Multiple Endings 7.2%
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 48.5% ★, Detective 19.4%, Interactive Fiction 15.3%, Multiple Endings 5.3%, Simulation 3.5%
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 43% ★, Political Sim 29.6% ★, Interactive Fiction 9.8%, Conspiracy 6.5% ★, Text-Based 5.2%
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 57.5% ★, Interactive Fiction 18.1%, Text-Based 8%, Simulation 5.5%, Choices Matter 5.3%
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 38% ★, Interactive Fiction 18.3%, Point & Click 11.2%, Simulation 7.8%, Conspiracy 5.5% ★
Kommissar is a political prosecution simulator in a totalitarian regime. Keep the Independent City-State of Roulettenburg united under the regime iron fist. Watch for your fellow citizens and seize the dissidents for the glory of the fatherland.
Why similar: Political Sim 71.1% ★, Interactive Fiction 8.1%, Simulation 5.8%, Point & Click 5.4%, Choices Matter 3.5%
You are the head of an experimental anti-crime task force in the city of Osteria. Use search history, recent emails, and criminal backgrounds to determine whether an individual is likely to commit a crime. The choices you make will have a significant impact on the entire city’s future.
Why similar: Political Sim 44.9% ★, Interactive Fiction 18.2%, Point & Click 11.7%, Investigation 9%, Simulation 6.2%
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 69.2% ★, Point & Click 14.2%, Choices Matter 7.6%, Story Rich 4.9%, Simulation 2.8%
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 48.6% ★, Interactive Fiction 15.4%, Point & Click 9.3%, Choices Matter 7.5%, Multiple Endings 5.6%
Your name is Gary Patterson. After waking up in a strange facility with your work partner Victor Adams, you must make a choice: Play along with Victor's plans? Or go it alone and make an escape? Only YOU can decide.
Why similar: Detective 24.1%, Interactive Fiction 21.4%, Lore-Rich 13.7%, Investigation 10.7%, Choices Matter 6.4%
Midline ‘85 is an interactive thriller about the tough work of an emergency service operator. Face panic, horror and human cruelty, break rules and observe the consequences. Save Midline — or let the city burn.
Why similar: Political Sim 37.4% ★, Detective 14.3%, Interactive Fiction 12.3%, Investigation 11.2%, Point & Click 7.8%
In this short character-focused narrative experience you are a monarch of a small medieval kingdom and must name your successor before it is too late
Why similar: Political Sim 58.2% ★, Interactive Fiction 18%, Simulation 6%, Choices Matter 5.6%, Multiple Endings 5.3%
VSCS-II is a retro-styled narrative game about privacy and security. Using an upgraded '80s operating system, navigate an underground network to make connections, unearth conspiracies, and ultimately decide the fate of the dark web.
Why similar: Political Sim 39.9% ★, Detective 14.1%, Investigation 13.8%, Interactive Fiction 12.9%, Multiple Endings 4.8%
A surveillance simulator set in a psychological thriller world. You are an unknown observer watching the residents of an apartment building across the street, in the strange city of Z, part of the totalitarian State of Nodia. But who's really watching whom?
Why similar: Political Sim 53.3% ★, Investigation 19.2%, Point & Click 10.2%, Choices Matter 5.1%, Simulation 4.7%
2D action, stealth, and noir comedy. A harmless man accidentally becomes a secret agent. Hide his double life by escaping his wife at night: complete missions, swing with your grappling hook, and use your super weapon: an umbrella that works as a parachute and for combat!
Why similar: Espionage 76.9% ★, Detective 18.5%, Story Rich 2.6%, 2D 1.9%
戏班内扑朔迷离的死亡，步步紧逼的幕后黑手，封闭剧场内的死亡倒计时，案件主角的生命和救赎都取决于你的决断。当第一桩案件尘埃落定，你以为可以回到现实世界时，轮回之路才刚刚开始……
Why similar: Detective 23.1%, Interactive Fiction 19.3%, Investigation 18.5%, Lore-Rich 12.3%, Point & Click 10.5%
Christmas lights, winter snow, and a serial killer on the loose. Follow a gifted detective through a twisted holiday night in this story-driven, interactive horror game. Your choices determine who lives, and who dies. Can you outsmart the killer?
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 23.3%, Detective 20.8%, Investigation 16.2%, Choices Matter 10.7%, Multiple Endings 8.6%
Seaburn is a choice-based political simulator where your choices affect the future of the planet. Play as a policymaker as you sign legislation, respond to events, and compete in high-stakes elections. Earn money, become popular, and save the environment.
Why similar: Political Sim 66.5% ★, Simulation 9.1%, Text-Based 8.7%, Choices Matter 8.1%, Multiple Endings 7.6%
Garisani Detective Agency is a story-driven real-time co-op deduction game for two.In 1990s Korea, play as a brother and his ghost sister, taking cases from the living and the dead. Gather clues from two angles and solve puzzles together.An analog era of pagers and payphones.
Why similar: Espionage 37.4% ★, Detective 27.6%, Investigation 21.4%, Text-Based 8.4%, Story Rich 4.4%
Oleander-X is a stealth action game about classified missions, buried evidence, and a cure that should never have existed. Infiltrate guarded facilities, gather proof, plant explosives, and escape before the truth turns against you.
Why similar: Espionage 89.8% ★, 2D 3.6%, Multiple Endings 2.2%, Choices Matter 2.2%, Story Rich 1.2%
Play as a real-world candidate and completely immerse yourself into the battle of the US presidential election! Travel around the United States, try to woo voters across the country, create your own political agenda, skillfully manage your campaign budget... and perhaps you will be the next White House occupant!
Why similar: Political Sim 89.7% ★, Simulation 8.4%, Indie 1.9%
