Games Like AfterRoach

You shake a hand, the city burns. In the noir 1920s, every weapon you sell changes the headlines, the war, and your daughter's fate. In this management sim, you manage not just a shop, but your conscience. Who will pay the price?

Why similar: Political Sim 29.9% ★, Shop Keeper 26.2% ★, Dystopian 20.1%, Simulation 9.8%, Multiple Endings 3.9%

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: Political Sim 35.3% ★, Dystopian 25.6%, Simulation 8.5%, Dark Humor 8.3%, Dark 8.2%

The year is 2145. Humanity has forgotten how to eat without Sauce. You serve the Sauce for everything: phones, bricks, and occasionally food. Pick the right blend, keep the flow, and survive the absurdity. A dystopian satire that feels ridiculous… until it doesn't.

Why similar: Shop Keeper 37.3% ★, Dystopian 26.7%, Simulation 14.9%, Dark Humor 9.9%, Stylized 2.6%

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 40% ★, Dystopian 31.1%, Simulation 18%, Multiple Endings 4.8%, Atmospheric 2.4%

When a high-ranking security officer saves you from prison, you end up a pawn in her schemes. Now you must eliminate anyone standing in the way of her secret plans and try to get your life back while working two jobs. No tenant, employee or superior is safe from your spying.

Why similar: Political Sim 38.5% ★, Dystopian 25.6%, Simulation 10%, Dark 7.6%, Dark Humor 7.3%

Plowing is a point and click simulation game, where you have to subdue the whole town in 13 days to establish order. Shoot. Imprison. Pardon. Hear the visitors out. Keep track of time. But most importantly — keep calm…

Why similar: Dystopian 33.4%, Political Sim 27.6% ★, Simulation 13.5%, Dark 7.9%, Pixel Graphics 5.1%

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 49.8% ★, Dystopian 20.7%, Simulation 7.3%, Dark 6%, Pixel Graphics 3.7%

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: Political Sim 41.8% ★, Dystopian 24.9%, Simulation 7%, Multiple Endings 6%, Choices Matter 5.7%

In an authoritarian state obsessed with art, work for the Eye of the Network. Run your restaurant, survive rising inflation, outbid rival factions, and collect the most historical art to place your men in the Inner Party and install your candidate as leader.

Why similar: Political Sim 62.1% ★, Simulation 28.2%, Stylized 7.5%, Resource Management 2.2%

A dark and satirical management sim, where you take control of a recycling factory with a twist: it recycles humans. Your job is to decide who gets to escape our dying planet in a cozy spaceship and who sacrifices their blood, sweat and tears for humanity. Literally.

Why similar: Political Sim 35.7% ★, Dystopian 24.3%, Post-apocalyptic 15.8%, Simulation 7.5%, Multiple Endings 5.1%

Climb the ladder while burning it down. In this satirical management sim, you work for a corporation rolling out ARIA — an AI that's replacing your coworkers. Balance your performance cover against quiet sabotage, organize your resistance, and survive 8 quarters with your soul mostly intact.

Why similar: Political Sim 44.5% ★, Dystopian 22.5%, Dark Humor 10.8%, Simulation 9.4%, Multiple Endings 3.2%

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 58.7% ★, Dystopian 21.7%, Simulation 11.9%, Choices Matter 2%, Atmospheric 1.9%

A digital voyeur simulator where you watch strangers through surveillance cameras. Invade their privacy and witness their most intimate moments, but don’t interact with the subjects – anything could happen if you dare feed the monkeys!

Why similar: Political Sim 37.6% ★, Dystopian 20.6%, Dark Humor 10.4%, Simulation 8.5%, Pixel Graphics 4.8%

You are the guardian of an infant god. Guide Aistalt through the toxic ruins of the internet. Debate with random users, harvest their ideologies, and sculpt her personality matrix. Will you raise a benevolent savior or a tyrant who deletes humanity?

Why similar: Political Sim 40.3% ★, Dystopian 29.4%, Simulation 8.5%, Choices Matter 5.3%, Pixel Graphics 4.4%

You bought your dream home... but it wasn't all you chalked it up to be. As a member of its management committee, rewrite the rules to change the lives of your neighbours and your family for the better in this singleplayer management simulator. Or will you become what you sought to fight against?

Why similar: Political Sim 41% ★, Dystopian 22.8%, Simulation 16.1%, Dark 9.6%, Choices Matter 4.9%

You are an intern at the central ministry of a totalitarian state with your whole career ahead of you. Work your way up the ladder by scheming against employees, spying on your boss, and completing paperwork. Or do you turn against the state and expose corruption. The choice is still yours to make!

Why similar: Political Sim 37.5% ★, Dystopian 28.4%, Simulation 9.9%, Dark 8.3%, Multiple Endings 4.4%

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 55.2% ★, Dystopian 14.9%, Simulation 12.5%, Choices Matter 4.1%, Multiple Endings 3.9%

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 38.9% ★, Dystopian 25.6%, Simulation 9.1%, Dark 6.1%, Resource Management 4.8%

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: Political Sim 31.2% ★, Dystopian 28.5%, Post-apocalyptic 16.4%, Simulation 5.7%, Pixel Graphics 4.9%

A narrative-heavy, comic-infused survival visual novel & puzzle game where you are a licensed body collector navigating a dystopian world of moral dilemmas and resource management; where belief, rebellion, or control will prevail through your choices.

Why similar: Political Sim 30.7% ★, Post-apocalyptic 21%, Dystopian 20.4%, Simulation 8.3%, Dark 7.5%

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 59.7% ★, Dystopian 22.3%, Simulation 6%, Pixel Graphics 5.4%, Choices Matter 4.6%

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 48% ★, Dystopian 20.6%, Dialogue Heavy 8.8%, Simulation 8.4%, Multiple Endings 4.6%

Silencer is a bureaucratic simulation game about censorship and misinformation in journalism and politics. As a low-level news censor employed by the authoritarian government, Ogalia, the player will interpret censorship protocols, read news articles, and decide if an article should be taken down.

Why similar: Political Sim 52% ★, Dystopian 26.6%, Simulation 12.8%, Dark Humor 8.3%, Singleplayer 0.3%

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: Political Sim 43% ★, Dystopian 29.3%, Simulation 9.9%, Choices Matter 4.6%, Multiple Endings 4.2%

All intergalactic travel passes through the orbital relay checkpoint. Verify ID discrepancies, repair vehicle systems and struggle against ethical dilemmas as you negotiate a shifting political landscape. Report for duty, Effective Immediately.

Why similar: Political Sim 46.8% ★, Dystopian 20.9%, Simulation 8.7%, Pixel Graphics 4.5%, Multiple Endings 4.4%

Immigration Enforcement Case #112: You are under arrest. Unless your friends can cross a broken America, retrieve your identifying documents and stay out of trouble... this is the end of the American dream for you.

Why similar: Political Sim 35.7% ★, Dystopian 27.2%, Simulation 12%, Dark 8.2%, Pixel Graphics 5.9%

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 36.4% ★, Dystopian 30%, Simulation 11.2%, Dark 7.8%, Choices Matter 4.7%

As the head of security, you will decide the fate of those who try to enter the underwater colony. Among the hundreds of arrivals, you may encounter dangerous criminals, spies, and the infected. You will decide who lives here, who is banished, and who is eliminated.

Why similar: Political Sim 26.4% ★, Dystopian 23.7%, Post-apocalyptic 22.9%, Simulation 9.9%, Resource Management 3.9%

In a world gripped by the Ice Age, you manage the last telephone station in the city. Listen to incoming visitors and grant or deny communication according to government orders. Your decisions shape the fate of the region. An atmospheric, story-driven communication simulation: Frostline!

Why similar: Dystopian 34.6%, Post-apocalyptic 28.1%, Simulation 14.7%, Multiple Endings 6.3%, Choices Matter 4.9%

Sim Junta – A game of dirty politics! You are the new dictator of Risuena, a small and poor country of the third world. You have just seized power after a bloody coup and your intentions are to stay in power as long as you can, to rip this country off, transfer the money to your secret Swiss bank account and of course, stay alive and...

Why similar: Political Sim 65.2% ★, Dystopian 22.4%, Simulation 7.9%, 2D 2.2%, Indie 1.8%

A Pro-Donald Trump presidential simulation. Make America Rich Again through trade. Make America Safe again by Defeating ISIS. Make America Great Again!

Why similar: Post-apocalyptic 40.3%, Political Sim 36.2% ★, Dystopian 16.1%, Simulation 6.2%, Casual 0.8%

In a postwar world where even memories can be used as collateral, you become the owner of a small pawnshop. Speak with customers, judge the value of their memories and belongings, and over 30 days of running the shop, uncover forgotten truths and the story of the protagonist.

Why similar: Shop Keeper 57.8% ★, Simulation 23.3%, Pixel Graphics 8.5%, Choices Matter 5.4%, Atmospheric 3.5%

Build a political party in a fictional country and play for one thing: win power and keep it. Recruit politicians, conquer regions, win elections. There are clean paths and dirty games. Everyone has a price. What's yours?

Why similar: Political Sim 50.8% ★, Dystopian 18.3%, Simulation 15.9%, Dark Humor 8.2%, Multiple Endings 2.1%

Contract killing is just another public service. As a regulator, it's your job to review the documents, listen to the client, and decide the fate of every target, then hope you made the right call.

Why similar: Political Sim 40.7% ★, Dystopian 34.8%, Simulation 7.9%, Dialogue Heavy 4.7%, Choices Matter 4%

Thank You for Your Application is a story-driven interview simulation game. After 15 rounds of interviews, you are reassigned as a junior interviewer, tasked with screening candidates’ resumes according to company requirements and issuing the appropriate thank letters.

Why similar: Dystopian 36.7%, Political Sim 29.9% ★, Pixel Graphics 7.5%, Multiple Endings 5.8%, Simulation 4.9%

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 53.6% ★, Dystopian 15.7%, Simulation 12.8%, Dark 4.2%, Multiple Endings 4%

Take orders, cook pancakes, and shape a grim wasteland through every choice you make. All while trying not to blow up your nuclear reactor.

Why similar: Post-apocalyptic 38.1%, Dystopian 18%, Simulation 16.1%, Multiple Endings 6.4%, Choices Matter 5.7%

You run the last store in a ruined world. Clean and restore your shop, get the generator running, restock the shelves, and open your doors to the survivors who still come knocking. A survival and shopkeeping sim where every customer arrives with a story of their own.

Why similar: Shop Keeper 42.6% ★, Post-apocalyptic 32.1%, Simulation 11.8%, Dark 11.4%, Resource Management 1.4%

There is no money left, and no supplier to order from. Survivors bring what they have to your counter and tell you what they need. Trade goods for goods, tear the junk down for parts at the bench, and stake scavengers with gear off your own shelves to bring back what you cannot make.

Why similar: Shop Keeper 38.1% ★, Post-apocalyptic 27.3%, Simulation 18.1%, Dystopian 10.5%, Resource Management 3.3%

Become the overseer and shape the fate of those who come knocking at the door. Each decision you make, whether it is to let in a stranger, to use your resources on something, or to risk the safety of the bunker.

Why similar: Dystopian 30.2%, Post-apocalyptic 29.2%, Simulation 12.2%, Pixel Graphics 6.7%, Choices Matter 5.3%

Welcome to UMAN - Become a cog in the machine - Work, sleep and don't ask questions - Collect your trash, hit your quota, consume, upgrade and meet your coworkers. But whatever you do... don't look into the eyes.

Why similar: Dystopian 31%, Post-apocalyptic 28.4%, Simulation 17.3%, Dark 11.6%, Atmospheric 4.9%

A 10-day crisis management simulation. As Eggon’s administrator, you follow absurd orders, manage chaos, and seek truth between news and rumors. Obey commands – or choose humanity? The fate of the Egglets rest in your hands.

Why similar: Dystopian 29.7%, Political Sim 29.6% ★, Simulation 13%, Dark 10.3%, Sci-fi 5.8%

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 79.2% ★, Simulation 18.3%, Indie 2.4%

A political life simulation: enter in middle age, assemble bills, run elections, take the money, bury the trail. There is no win condition — only how you are remembered when you die.

Why similar: Political Sim 55.5% ★, Simulation 10.7%, Dark 8.3%, Multiple Endings 5.5%, Choices Matter 5.2%

"Liberty has rotted; only a New Order can save Americe." you are the President. To end chaos, you follow the "advanced experience" from the peninsula. Reorganize the USA into the Democratic People's Republic of Americe (DPRA). Achieve the true MAGA!

Why similar: Political Sim 45.5% ★, Dystopian 35%, Dark Humor 11.4%, Simulation 4.9%, 2D 2.4%

Inspect the parents’ medical record and match the newborn who can only be theirs — that is the day’s work in this 1920s dystopian puzzle. A fire burned the birth records, and the Ministry put you in charge of giving the children back. Your choice goes into the report.

Why similar: Political Sim 35.7% ★, Dystopian 27%, Simulation 14.4%, Multiple Endings 6.3%, Atmospheric 4.6%

Become the Ocean’s Ultimate Dive Master

Why similar: Shop Keeper 57.9% ★, Simulation 31.5%, Atmospheric 4.4%, Choices Matter 4.1%, Indie 1.2%

Ruling a country is easy; surviving is the hard part. Use your stamp to balance the state's four main powers, manage bizarre crises, and avoid assassinations. Every death is a new beginning. Upgrade your skills, sit back at the desk, and try not to get hit by a rock. Permission to panic: Granted.

Why similar: Political Sim 53.1% ★, Dystopian 14.1%, Dark Humor 9.6%, Simulation 9.2%, Multiple Endings 4.2%

Run your own pub in this atmospheric and story-rich job simulator. Featuring a full brewing pipeline, dynamic NPCs, side quests, bar upgrades and expansions, branching dialogue, a freely explorable city, and a deep narrative set in dystopian Napolis City.

Why similar: Shop Keeper 33.9% ★, Dystopian 26.3%, Dark Humor 10.5%, Simulation 10.3%, Dialogue Heavy 7.1%

A text-driven political roguelite and life-management sim about building resistance across up to 100 lives. Choose a profession, survive monthly pressure, carry permanent legacies forward, oppose oppressive laws, organize aid, and return a fictional country to its people.

Why similar: Political Sim 47.5% ★, Dystopian 25.1%, Simulation 8.7%, Resource Management 5.1%, Choices Matter 4%

An uncomfortable dystopian time-management game where your job is watching TV to earn money and buy services to survive after robots replace humans at work. Choose to be a good citizen or a rebel. But beware! Curiosity has a price in this dystopian life simulator.

Why similar: Political Sim 38.4% ★, Dystopian 27.8%, Dark Humor 10.7%, Simulation 7%, Multiple Endings 4.6%

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 54.3% ★, Simulation 14.9%, Dystopian 10.2%, Multiple Endings 6.4%, Choices Matter 5.4%

Run the last shop of a post-apocalyptic town. Stock shelves by hand, price scarce goods, fill contracts — and haul what you don't sell down to your bunker, because surviving the night is the other half of the job.

Why similar: Shop Keeper 42.6% ★, Post-apocalyptic 30.8%, Simulation 16.3%, Resource Management 4.7%, Stylized 2%

Satirical political strategy: From local party to Orban's palace. Corruption has never been this much fun.

Why similar: Political Sim 55.2% ★, Simulation 29%, Dark Humor 11.4%, 2D 4%, Singleplayer 0.5%

Creatures Like Us is a queer narrative sim about squatting, solidarity and surviving capitalism together. Follow a group of friends as they make homes in abandoned buildings. They forage, fix stuff, hold meetings and figure out how to live alongside each other with care, conflict and humour.

Why similar: Political Sim 46.5% ★, Dystopian 30.3%, Simulation 11.1%, Stylized 4.8%, Choices Matter 4.3%

Your probation as a health insurance Claims Adjuster begins now. Report to your terminal and inspect medical documents for reasons to deny coverage. Assume patient fraud. Your decisions have consequences: patients come back. Management is watching. A dystopian document thriller.

Why similar: Dystopian 31.9%, Political Sim 26% ★, Dark Humor 12.2%, Simulation 10.9%, Multiple Endings 4.8%

People come to the shop on Halsey Row to sell the memories they can't carry and buy the ones they can't live without. Appraise what they bring. Decide what it's worth, and who you'll sell it to. Run an honest shop, or a darker one, and piece together what this street is hiding.

Why similar: Shop Keeper 51.3% ★, Simulation 18.1%, Dark 12.4%, Choices Matter 5.9%, Pixel Graphics 4.8%

Assume control of a Middle Eastern country recovering from a violent revolution. Forge alliances, grow your economy, invade your neighbors, or pacify your population. Rogue State is a geopolitical strategy game that will force you to always stay one step ahead of your rivals to survive.

Why similar: Political Sim 72.9% ★, Simulation 24.1%, Indie 3%

A calm, story-driven simulator where every crafted part matters. Run your tiny workshop, meet other robots, and discover how even the smallest detail can change a life in this forgotten city of machines.

Why similar: Shop Keeper 46.6% ★, Simulation 20.6%, Post-apocalyptic 17.1%, Dialogue Heavy 9.9%, 2D 2.3%

Dystopian, abandoned, industrial space. What you hear: war speeches from Yugoslavia. What you see: TV screens with retro Yugoslavian music videos.

Why similar: Political Sim 46.7% ★, Dystopian 23.1%, Post-apocalyptic 15.1%, Simulation 14.9%, Indie 0.2%