Games Like Beholder

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 27% ★, Dystopian 20.2%, Choices Matter 9.2%, Multiple Endings 7.2%, Dark 7.1%

Why You'll Like It: It expands Beholder’s oppressive-state setting with a closely related routine of surveillance, reporting, career advancement, and morally costly choices.

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: Choices Matter 39.3%, Political Sim 22.7% ★, Simulation 18.8%, Dystopian 8.7%, Great Soundtrack 2.2%

Why You'll Like It: You directly assemble dossiers from private digital information and decide what evidence to submit to an authoritarian security apparatus.

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 29.2% ★, Dystopian 19.1%, Dark Humor 9%, Point & Click 8%, Dark 6.8%

Why You'll Like It: This sequel returns to apartment surveillance, state directives, tenant secrets, and branching decisions in the same dystopian universe.

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: Dystopian 31.9%, Point & Click 15.9%, Multiple Endings 10%, Great Soundtrack 9.5%, Simulation 8.7%

Why You'll Like It: Its border-inspector gameplay similarly makes you enforce a cruel regime while weighing personal survival against the human cost of each decision.

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 27.8% ★, Dystopian 15%, Dark Humor 12.5%, Point & Click 9.6%, Choices Matter 8.2%

Why You'll Like It: You monitor strangers through surveillance cameras, uncover compromising secrets, and decide whether to exploit, report, or help them.

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: Political Sim 29.9% ★, Dystopian 22.2%, Choices Matter 10.5%, Multiple Endings 9.1%, Point & Click 8.9%

Why You'll Like It: Operating a state-controlled television broadcast captures Beholder’s pressure to manipulate information while navigating dangerous political 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: Political Sim 36.9% ★, Dystopian 21.5%, Choices Matter 11.1%, Point & Click 6%, Simulation 5.6%

Why You'll Like It: This darker Orwell sequel has you manipulate investigations and public narratives for a surveillance state rather than merely uncovering facts.

Greetings. Your Mind Scanner request has been approved. Your duty is to diagnose and treat the citizens of The Structure. The patient list is long so don't waste your time. We’ll let you see your daughter soon...

Why similar: Political Sim 32% ★, Dystopian 24.2%, Choices Matter 10.4%, Multiple Endings 10.2%, Story Rich 5.9%

Why You'll Like It: As a state-employed doctor in a retrofuturist dystopia, you diagnose citizens under rigid quotas and choose whether to obey or resist the system.

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 31.2% ★, Dystopian 20.9%, Point & Click 10.1%, Multiple Endings 10%, Choices Matter 9.5%

Why You'll Like It: Its grim dystopian administration asks you to manage citizens and resources under an inhuman regime while protecting your own family.

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 39.5% ★, Dystopian 16.2%, Choices Matter 7.5%, Point & Click 7%, Multiple Endings 5.9%

Why You'll Like It: This series spin-off retains the franchise’s oppressive political atmosphere and choice-focused role within a state-controlled system.

This Is the Police is a strategy/adventure game set in a city spiraling the drain. Taking the role of gritty Police Chief Jack Boyd, you'll dive into a deep story of crime and intrigue. Will Jack reach his retirement with a nice stack of bills, or will he end up broken ... or worse?

Why similar: Choices Matter 25.2%, Strategy 18.3%, Great Soundtrack 16.8%, Story Rich 15.7%, Simulation 8%

Why You'll Like It: Managing a corrupt police department forces you to allocate staff, handle political pressure, and make ethically ugly calls to survive.

Spy on strangers through security cameras, invade their privacy and discover their secrets in this digital voyeur simulator. Welcome to the future of The Primate Observation Club. Even in 2099 the rule about messing with your unlucky subjects still remains in this sequel: DO NOT feed the monkeys!

Why similar: Dystopian 28.4%, Dark Humor 18.2%, Choices Matter 12.9%, Multiple Endings 11.6%, Strategy 6.6%

Why You'll Like It: It takes the voyeuristic observation-and-interference loop into a futuristic dystopia with more bizarre citizens and consequential meddling.

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: Political Sim 35% ★, Dystopian 17.4%, Choices Matter 9.5%, Point & Click 8.5%, Multiple Endings 8.4%

Why You'll Like It: As a local official under a totalitarian government, you resolve petitions and investigations while balancing citizens’ welfare against party loyalty.

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: Dystopian 44.8%, Simulation 16.6%, Great Soundtrack 15.3%, Multiple Endings 7.7%, Story Rich 4.9%

Why You'll Like It: Its checkpoint-work simulation places you in a hostile authoritarian Britain where paperwork, survival, and political compliance constantly collide.

In the world of City Eye, you’ll become an operator of the Central Monitoring System, who will try to prevent the effects of every single transgression in the game. Use city maps to track dangerous areas and don’t let the suspects run away from the Police.

Why similar: Political Sim 41% ★, Dystopian 28.7%, Choices Matter 10.4%, Point & Click 7.7%, Story Rich 4.1%

Why You'll Like It: You operate a city surveillance network, track suspicious residents, and decide how aggressively to serve an increasingly authoritarian administration.

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 Sim 64.9% ★, Simulation 13.3%, Point & Click 8.4%, Story Rich 5.6%, Indie 4.4%

Why You'll Like It: You sift through private messages and social-media data for an intelligence organization, making invasive choices with personal and political repercussions.

Interpret the law as you see fit! Run the sheriff’s department, manage your cops, make tough decisions – and try to keep out of prison yourself – in this story-driven mixture of adventure, strategy, and turn-based tactical combat.

Why similar: Strategy 25.1%, Story Rich 18.7%, Choices Matter 17.9%, Great Soundtrack 15.5%, Atmospheric 6.4%

Why You'll Like It: It builds on the first game’s morally compromised law-enforcement management with more direct tactical and personnel consequences.

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: Great Soundtrack 22.7%, Choices Matter 14.3%, Strategy 11.6%, Simulation 10.5%, Story Rich 8.7%

Why You'll Like It: This paranoid political strategy game revolves around gathering intelligence, manipulating factions, and exposing threats before they overthrow you.

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 38.7% ★, Dystopian 16.4%, Choices Matter 9.8%, Point & Click 9.7%, Multiple Endings 8.4%

Why You'll Like It: Controlling a news outlet in a politically unstable city gives your editorial choices immediate, visible effects on citizens and government power.

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: Great Soundtrack 26%, Choices Matter 19.3%, Dystopian 14.3%, Story Rich 13.1%, Point & Click 11.4%

Why You'll Like It: Its cyberpunk conspiracy story emphasizes invasive technology, corporate control, and dialogue choices that shape how you resist social manipulation.

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: Choices Matter 20.1%, Point & Click 19.1%, Multiple Endings 16.2%, Story Rich 11.3%, Simulation 9.1%

Why You'll Like It: Though supernatural rather than political, its desk-job structure and branching judgments similarly make you decide who suffers under an uncaring system.

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 27.4%, Atmospheric 17.1%, Strategy 16.5%, Simulation 12.6%, Story Rich 11.7%

Why You'll Like It: It shares Beholder’s bleak civilian perspective and painful resource-driven choices, though its focus is surviving war rather than serving the state.

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: Political Sim 43.2% ★, Choices Matter 12.6%, Point & Click 12.2%, Multiple Endings 11.4%, Story Rich 7.2%

Why You'll Like It: It offers dense political role-playing in which compromises, surveillance, repression, and personal loyalties determine the fate of a troubled nation.

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 60.8% ★, Dystopian 20.6%, Strategy 8.9%, Simulation 4.2%, Indie 2.9%

Why You'll Like It: This cynical political simulation centers on keeping an authoritarian government stable through strategy, repression, and faction management.

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: Dystopian 54%, Simulation 21.8%, Choices Matter 15.2%, Indie 8.9%

Why You'll Like It: Running a newspaper under an authoritarian government makes censorship, propaganda, and the safety of your staff central moral dilemmas.

Frostpunk is the first society survival game. As the ruler of the last city on Earth, it is your duty to manage both its citizens and infrastructure. What decisions will you make to ensure your society's survival? What will you do when pushed to breaking point? Who will you become in the process?

Why similar: Strategy 28.3%, Choices Matter 18.7%, Great Soundtrack 18.5%, Dark 12.4%, Simulation 9.9%

Why You'll Like It: Its desperate city management produces similarly severe ethical decisions, asking how much oppression and sacrifice you will impose for survival.

Take over the duties of a border guard inspector in a communist country of the 80's. Smuggling, corruption and forgery are the order of the day here. Be vigilant and earn the respect of your superiors.

Why similar: Multiple Endings 34.9%, Simulation 21.7%, Story Rich 19.2%, Atmospheric 12.6%, Singleplayer 7.2%

Why You'll Like It: Its border-post gameplay puts you in the role of a regime enforcer inspecting civilians, uncovering crimes, and navigating corrupt authority.

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 32.6% ★, Dystopian 21.9%, Choices Matter 10.4%, Point & Click 8.4%, Multiple Endings 7.1%

Legal Dungeon is a game about organizing Police Investigation Documents. The player must review and provide an Investigation Verdict on reports ranging from petty theft to murder, in eight different criminal cases. Weigh the value of people’s lives to unlock all the collectables.

Why similar: Simulation 61.6%, Indie 22.5%, Adventure 15.9%

Why You'll Like It: You process cases as a low-level official in a rigid justice system, where institutional rules and human empathy are frequently incompatible.

Your Excellency, in this short systems-management survival game, we prepare for the awakening of our Lord. He hungers for human sacrifice. Sinners try to hide their dark secrets, but all must be purged...

Why similar: Political Sim 47% ★, Dark Humor 17.9%, Choices Matter 10.6%, Multiple Endings 9.9%, Story Rich 6.7%

Why You'll Like It: As a cult administrator, you investigate and sacrifice villagers to satisfy an oppressive hierarchy, with suspicion and social control at the core.

It's 3:00 a.m. Your neighbours are having a loud party. Stop them. Party Hard is tinyBuild's award-winning stealth strategy game about ruining parties by any means.

Why similar: Great Soundtrack 31.9%, Dark Humor 22%, Strategy 14.6%, Stealth 9.8%, Violent 8.7%

Humanity is enslaved by an AI… which is awesome, because we’re on the right side of the conflict. Exploit puny humans to extract power and build your own empire!

Why similar: Dark Humor 42.8%, Strategy 17.2%, Simulation 12.7%, Great Soundtrack 10.1%, Indie 5.6%

Sit on the throne as a benevolent (or malevolent) medieval monarch of the modern age and swipe your royal controller either left or right to impose your will upon the kingdom.

Why similar: Choices Matter 43.3%, Dark Humor 13.8%, Simulation 8.3%, Strategy 7.9%, Great Soundtrack 6.8%

A desk investigation game set in a fictional 1970 communist state. Every morning, a new evidence bag arrives. Intercepted letters, coded messages, wiretap recordings. Somewhere in that paper trail is a network of names. Cross-reference. Decipher. Identify. Then decide what to do with what you know.

Why similar: Political Sim 27.6% ★, Dystopian 22.9%, Point & Click 10.5%, Multiple Endings 9.8%, Choices Matter 8.6%

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 28.3%, Political Sim 23.4% ★, Point & Click 16%, Choices Matter 11%, Multiple Endings 10.2%

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 39.8% ★, Point & Click 15.1%, Choices Matter 14.7%, Multiple Endings 12.8%, Simulation 7.2%

A retro, pixel art style adventure in New York, inspired by ’80s cop shows. You are Jack Kelly and you’ve been framed for murder. Now as a regular beat cop you have to find out, who did that. Expect thick crime story, a lot of black humour and all the other things you can find on the streets of Brooklyn.

Why similar: Simulation 17%, Choices Matter 16.5%, Great Soundtrack 15.1%, Point & Click 15%, Indie 8.7%

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: Dystopian 60.5%, Story Rich 13.8%, Choices Matter 11%, Indie 8.2%, Adventure 4.1%

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 33.5% ★, Dystopian 19.6%, Choices Matter 13.6%, Multiple Endings 10.7%, Dark 5.3%

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: Political Sim 46.9% ★, Choices Matter 14.6%, Point & Click 12.5%, Story Rich 7.7%, Strategy 7.1%

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 33.5%, Choices Matter 17.7%, Multiple Endings 13.1%, Story Rich 9.1%, Simulation 7.8%

In 1980, you land a teller job at Kertasia Bank thanks to your distant uncle. But the bank follows bizarre rules set by a foolish government. Face strict policies, tough customers, and moral choices while saving for your mom’s medical bills. Your fate is in your hands.

Why similar: Dystopian 26.8%, Dark Humor 17.1%, Choices Matter 13.2%, Point & Click 11%, Multiple Endings 8.9%

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: Choices Matter 46.3%, Story Rich 18.5%, Atmospheric 6.7%, Strategy 6.1%, Simulation 6%

Hack into crime scenes, look for evidence, analyze data, interrogate criminals, track suspects and deal with the consequences of your decisions. This is a dark and brutal detective story with a Black Mirror-esque atmosphere of digital dominance and the narrative structure of a US crime procedural.

Why similar: Dystopian 28.1%, Choices Matter 14.2%, Point & Click 12.5%, Multiple Endings 9.7%, Dark 8.4%

Don’t let the Soviet Union collapse, and fall in the darkness of history or lead the Union by a new path – democracy and free market! But before you decide something, think – wouldn’t it cause more harm than good?

Why similar: Political Sim 70.7% ★, Strategy 11.5%, Choices Matter 5.7%, Multiple Endings 3.4%, Story Rich 3.1%

Disco Elysium - The Final Cut is a groundbreaking role playing game. You’re a detective with a unique skill system at your disposal and a whole city to carve your path across. Interrogate unforgettable characters, crack murders or take bribes. Become a hero or an absolute disaster of a human being.

Why similar: Choices Matter 30.2%, Story Rich 19.2%, Point & Click 16.5%, Great Soundtrack 11.7%, Atmospheric 9.6%

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: Strategy 15.7%, Choices Matter 13.6%, Simulation 13.3%, Multiple Endings 9.9%, Dark 9.6%

It's 1955, and for unknown reasons, doppelgangers are more common than usual. Therefore, the Department of Doppelganger Detection (D.D.D.) has taken action. You are the doorman of an apartment complex, and you must decide whether to let in those who claim to be your neighbors.

Why similar: Point & Click 29.6%, Choices Matter 27.4%, Multiple Endings 18.4%, Simulation 10.6%, Adventure 4.4%

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 28% ★, Dystopian 25.3%, Choices Matter 10.8%, Multiple Endings 9.8%, Point & Click 9.3%

This Is the President is a political thriller. You are the newly elected leader with a shady background. It is up to you to abuse the position of the most powerful man in the world to escape justice for past crimes – even if that pitches the country into utter chaos.

Why similar: Political Sim 45.9% ★, Dystopian 23.4%, Dark Humor 18.6%, Strategy 8.2%, Adventure 2.2%

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: Dystopian 32%, Dark Humor 16.1%, Great Soundtrack 14.1%, Indie 10.5%, Adventure 8.1%

Game about the difficult work of people that manage emergency lines and services. Answer incoming calls and react properly - give first aid instructions, advise, dispatch correct number of firemen / police / ambulances, or sometimes - just ignore the call. Play on ANY CITY in the world!

Why similar: Simulation 29.5%, Strategy 29.3%, Choices Matter 21.2%, Atmospheric 6.6%, Singleplayer 5.8%

Become the Dictator of Gradnar! Rule the nation, choose between democracy and tyranny, wage wars with a unique card-based mechanic, and expand your empire. A political dystopia packed with satire and humor!

Why similar: Dystopian 45.6%, Choices Matter 21.2%, Strategy 11.5%, Simulation 11.2%, Atmospheric 8.1%

Pathologic 2 is a groundbreaking open-world horror RPG. Resist the plague. Make medicine. Heal people. Perform an autopsy. Trade to get what you need. Fight and kill if necessary. Survive. Struggle with an outbreak in a secluded rural town that is rapidly turning into hell.

Why similar: Dystopian 30.7%, Choices Matter 21%, Dark 13.3%, Story Rich 13.1%, Atmospheric 11.3%

A psychological surveillance adventure. Observe 16 real-time CCTV feeds as TOBOR, a spy unit uncovering secrets in a dystopian bunker. Monitor suspects, collect evidence, and choose who survives. Multiple endings.

Why similar: Dystopian 30.5%, Dark Humor 19.5%, Choices Matter 14.5%, Multiple Endings 13.5%, Story Rich 8.3%

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 35.9% ★, Dystopian 27%, Dark 9.8%, Choices Matter 7.2%, Simulation 6.8%

DISTRUST is an isometric survival adventure with procedural generation on an Arctic research station lost in the endless dark of a polar night. A story-rich fiction with multiple endings that suits both singleplayer fans and co-op enthusiasts.

Why similar: Point & Click 42.5%, Atmospheric 22.2%, Strategy 21.8%, Singleplayer 7.1%, Adventure 6.4%

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: Political Sim 42.7% ★, Choices Matter 17.7%, Multiple Endings 12.8%, Point & Click 8.1%, Story Rich 7%

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 68.2% ★, Strategy 14.2%, Simulation 12.8%, Indie 4.8%

Do you want to be a upright official or corrupt officials？Choose your choice,Reaching the pinnacle of power.

Why similar: Political Sim 36.9% ★, Dark Humor 26.3%, Choices Matter 18.2%, Simulation 6.7%, Story Rich 2.9%