Games Like Career of the President

Simulator of an 80s Japanese stock market businessman. Chill, catch a retro vibe and watch your profits grow in the text-based game STONKS-9800.

Why similar: 1980s 22.5%, Life Sim 18.8%, Economy 11.1%, Old School 9.7%, Time Management 9.1%

Small in scope, detailed, gritty text-based fantasy RPG. Recreates the gameplay of the old gamebooks. Simple battle system and hassle-free inventory management.

Why similar: Interactive Fiction 25%, Old School 20.6%, Choose Your Own Adventure 18.1%, Multiple Endings 13.8%, Text-Based 13.1%

Create persistent AI characters, shape their personalities and relationships, and chat privately on your own device. Three conversation quality levels are included. Add local portrait generation with the optional NVIDIA DLC.

Why similar: Interactive Fiction 26.9%, Life Sim 23.9%, Simulation 17.6%, Choose Your Own Adventure 11.6%, Casual 11%

A medieval text quest in the "Choose Your Own Adventure" genre, where each choice could be your last. Create your story with more than 2,000 events, 200 of which will prove fatal. In a world where death plays against you, can you outsmart it and write your own story?

Why similar: Life Sim 27.4%, Interactive Fiction 20.3%, Choose Your Own Adventure 16.5%, Multiple Endings 12.2%, Text-Based 10.3%

Welcome to IT hell! Survive as GlobalCorp's only sysadmin – for a single day or a whole week. Fight absurd tickets, collect loot and lower your pulse with coffee. Keep the boss radar and your aggro down to still have a job at 16:30 – without throwing your monitor out of the window.

Why similar: Interactive Fiction 24.2%, Life Sim 24%, Simulation 14.7%, Choose Your Own Adventure 11.8%, Text-Based 8%

Detailed, gritty text-based fantasy RPG centered on dungeon crawling with traps, puzzles, fights and loot. Recreates the gameplay of the old gamebooks. Simple battle system and hassle-free inventory management.

Why similar: Interactive Fiction 28.2%, Old School 21.4%, Choose Your Own Adventure 17.9%, Text-Based 11.6%, Minimalist 10.5%

A survival game with a classic style of the graphic adventures of the 80s. Current graphics, updated to the new generations and with a simple way to play. Two game modes. Discover your way and one great game. Procedural game, it is generated as you progress. Every game is different. Survive!

Why similar: Life Sim 21.3%, Interactive Fiction 20.7%, 1980s 18.8%, Time Management 12.8%, Text-Based 9.7%

Build your own pharma empire—on fair play or greed. Face the consequences of every decision in this darkly humorous, satirical sim: set market prices, manage production, boost your brand, make tough choices... and see where they take you.

Why similar: Interactive Fiction 19.8%, Old School 16.5%, Multiple Endings 15.4%, Simulation 14%, 1980s 13.9%

Beat the Machine is a stock trading game, corporation simulator, and job/career simulator.

Why similar: Life Sim 27.9%, Simulation 17.4%, Choose Your Own Adventure 16.2%, Time Management 15.4%, Minimalist 9.3%

Rule your realm, train heroes, and build a legendary kingdom in Daria. Experience strategy, storytelling, and diplomacy in this immersive sim.

Why similar: Interactive Fiction 35.2%, Simulation 17.9%, Text-Based 17.9%, Choose Your Own Adventure 17.4%, Multiple Endings 9.3%

Raise a Zanmi egg at the "Academie des Zœufs". Care for it, choose its activities and training, and build relationships with the other students to shape its growth in this character-raising simulation. What kind of Zanmi will you raise?

Why similar: Life Sim 29.1%, Time Management 15.2%, Multiple Endings 15%, Interactive Fiction 13%, Choose Your Own Adventure 10%

Build a life from childhood to legacy. LIVORA is a choice-driven life simulation where education, work, money, relationships, family, health, time and where you live all connect — and the decisions you make can shape what happens years later.

Why similar: Life Sim 26.5%, Interactive Fiction 22.6%, Multiple Endings 12.9%, Choose Your Own Adventure 12.7%, Text-Based 12.2%

Govern wisely in this narrative choice-based game set in the heart of the Middle Ages. Your choices will have a real impact on your entire adventure, the world and its characters! Skillfully manage your image and your throne to survive and prosper. Or fall.

Why similar: Interactive Fiction 25%, Life Sim 23.2%, Choose Your Own Adventure 16%, Multiple Endings 12.3%, Text-Based 11.3%

Be wary of visitors. Play as a reclusive NEET in this single-player adventure. Your responses to the strange "visitors" at your door will determine your fate. A chilling blend of human horror and the occult awaits within the confines of your apartment.

Why similar: Interactive Fiction 27.3%, Life Sim 26.8%, Time Management 15.9%, Choose Your Own Adventure 13.5%, Casual 9.6%

Hello guys, Eny Project Studio presents our first PC game. 30 Days in red army is a simple text RPG with pixelated graphic and randomized events and results. Game was created to reflect our attitude against war activities by you know who and his incompetent army.

Why similar: Interactive Fiction 25.8%, Life Sim 24.9%, Simulation 17%, Choose Your Own Adventure 12.3%, Casual 11.1%

Every choice comes with loss. This is no power fantasy, but a ten-year reckoning with ambition, class, pride, and reality. Plan each week, face relentless comparison and locked paths, and find out what remains when you finally stop trying to become someone else.

Why similar: Life Sim 30.8%, Interactive Fiction 21.4%, Time Management 12.3%, Choose Your Own Adventure 11.5%, Simulation 9.7%

A retro football management sim. Take a Fourth Division club through thirty seasons of English football, 1959 to 1989, by the real rules of each season. Sign, sell, drill and talk your way up, while your board, your pub and your town remember every result, every signing and every excuse.

Why similar: Interactive Fiction 22.9%, Life Sim 22.6%, 1980s 18.1%, Choose Your Own Adventure 13.5%, Time Management 10.9%

Be kind, rewind… and fall in love. Summer ’86 in a small U.S. town: save a cozy VHS shop from a corporate chain, choose your girl, and help a secret dropout shoot his first film. Six heroines, 14 endings, one last take.

Why similar: 1980s 35.3%, Old School 16.1%, Choose Your Own Adventure 11.9%, Interactive Fiction 11.1%, Multiple Endings 10.6%

A story of living with a woman whose identity is unknown for 30 days.

Why similar: Life Sim 29.5%, Old School 29.4%, Simulation 13.1%, Text-Based 12.5%, Choose Your Own Adventure 11.7%

Detailed, gritty text-based fantasy RPG centered on gladiatorial combat. Recreates the gameplay of the old gamebooks. Features hassle-free inventory management and a battle system that combines dice rolls with meaningful decisions and preparation.

Why similar: Interactive Fiction 29.2%, Old School 20%, Choose Your Own Adventure 18%, Text-Based 11.5%, Minimalist 10.9%

Remake of the classic Air Traffic Control simulation game Kennedy Approach.

Why similar: Old School 42%, 1980s 21.8%, Simulation 20.3%, Casual 13.4%, Indie 1.4%

Survive a haunted library's overnight shift by balancing authentic librarian duties with stealth as a relentless supernatural entity hunts you. Uncover hidden secrets, survive until morning, and discover what waits between the shelves.

Why similar: Interactive Fiction 22.2%, Life Sim 21.9%, 1980s 17.8%, Simulation 15.2%, Time Management 11.5%

A science-fantasy retro-flavoured textual adventure running in your terminal

Why similar: Old School 28.5%, 1980s 27.3%, Interactive Fiction 24.2%, Text-Based 13.3%, Minimalist 6.5%

Take charge of your own retail outlet. Stack shelves with products, hire staff, set prices, appease the customers, manage suppliers, expand your space. Grow from a little store into a massive supermarket.

Why similar: Life Sim 33.3%, Simulation 20.7%, Old School 20.1%, Time Management 18.3%, Economy 7.1%

You wake up in a gym bathroom stall with no memory. Suddenly you start receiving orders for gym supplements. It's time to start the hustle. This game will take you on a journey from potty jockey to the ultimate Heisen-Bro Hustler. A lighthearted tongue-in-cheek, self deprecating play on gym culture

Why similar: Old School 33.9%, 1980s 21.7%, Simulation 17.9%, Casual 10.7%, Time Management 8.2%

Step into the mystical and perilous world of Mount And Sword, a single-player survival adventure that immerses you in an expansive and visually stunning open world. In this game, you'll embark on a journey through diverse landscapes, from dense forests to ancient ruins and dark caverns.

Why similar: 1980s 26.7%, Interactive Fiction 24%, Old School 20.8%, Choose Your Own Adventure 15%, Multiple Endings 7.2%

Follow the journey of a young boy living in seclusion, whose life takes a dramatic turn after a fierce storm uncovers a peculiar mirror. What begins as a simple curiosity transforms into a heartfelt connection as the boy discovers the mirror's magical properties.

Why similar: Life Sim 31.5%, Interactive Fiction 30.8%, Choose Your Own Adventure 18.6%, Casual 8.4%, Multiple Endings 7.1%

Fenestra awakens inside your PC knowing only her name. Work, study, and create with her in this Princess Maker-inspired raising-sim adventure with focus tools. Your focus time fuels her growth; the stats you raise and words you choose shape her personality, appearance, your bond, and her future.

Why similar: Life Sim 31.9%, Time Management 18.9%, Choose Your Own Adventure 15.8%, Simulation 14.4%, Casual 9.2%

A mature visual novel exploring the relationships between elderly English women and young Gambian men, blending humor and drama while examining desire and humanity.

Why similar: 1980s 29.9%, Life Sim 27.1%, Old School 18%, Simulation 11.5%, Casual 6.7%

Nostalgia Farm is a relaxing farming simulation game featuring a hand-drawn retro pixel art style. Grow crops, raise livestock, fish, and explore at your own pace as you build your farm and rediscover the warmth of a simple, peaceful country life.

Why similar: 1980s 43.1%, Simulation 21.6%, Life Sim 21.2%, Casual 13.5%, Singleplayer 0.6%

Princess Maker: Children of Revelation is a raising simulation game that returns after nearly 18 years as part of the Princess Maker package series, where you raise a young girl into adulthood. Become a parent in the game and help fulfill your daughter's dreams!

Why similar: Life Sim 44.5%, Simulation 26.5%, Multiple Endings 15.8%, Choose Your Own Adventure 11.8%, Singleplayer 1.5%

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 31.8%, Multiple Endings 17.2%, Choose Your Own Adventure 11.9%, Time Management 11.5%, Old School 10.8%

Relive the golden age of video stores in Rewind Me Please, a cozy narrative about life’s cycles and the changes we can’t outrun. Experience the rise and fall of video technologies while navigating your own story and the lives of the people around you.

Why similar: 1980s 32.4%, Life Sim 31.7%, Simulation 12.9%, Old School 12.9%, Casual 7.9%

A darkly funny financial life sim. Start with $17 and chase $1,000,000 cash while surviving jobs, debt, taxes, relationships, bad decisions, and life itself.

Why similar: Interactive Fiction 26.6%, Life Sim 26.2%, Simulation 17.4%, Text-Based 10.8%, Minimalist 8.8%

Are YOU ready to plunge into your serene childhood with a full head?

Why similar: Life Sim 38.8%, Old School 35.7%, Simulation 14.9%, Casual 7.8%, Indie 2.1%

集回合、养成、随机事件、Galgame、藏品、人生模拟、危机系统等玩法的一款2D视觉恋爱小说游戏。内含78个剧情事件、70个模拟玩法事件结局、24个藏品、3个IF线结局。

Why similar: Interactive Fiction 26.4%, Life Sim 20.9%, Simulation 17.1%, Time Management 11.8%, Casual 10.6%

a freeform conversation experience where you debate the nature of reality with your AI-powered best friend around a campfire in the woods.

Why similar: Interactive Fiction 21.8%, Life Sim 20.8%, Choose Your Own Adventure 14.4%, Multiple Endings 13.5%, Text-Based 11.7%

A Game Boy styled fishing horror adventure

Why similar: Interactive Fiction 31.4%, Life Sim 30.4%, Multiple Endings 12.7%, Casual 12%, Simulation 10.5%

Manage chaos, people, and impossible expectations in a satirical corporate world. Turn stress into progress, survive absurd workflows, and keep your sanity intact. How much can you handle before everything falls apart?

Why similar: Old School 23.1%, Life Sim 20.9%, 1980s 20.1%, Time Management 12.2%, Simulation 9%

Parent Ted, your own childhood. On this journey, you will have the chance to discover your inner child and better understand the trauma and emotions of your childhood.

Why similar: Life Sim 26.7%, Interactive Fiction 26.1%, Choose Your Own Adventure 16.2%, Simulation 12.4%, Text-Based 12.1%

Play a series of retro games and learn about what's really going on in your bedroom.

Why similar: Interactive Fiction 37%, 1980s 25.7%, Old School 19.2%, Simulation 16.3%, Indie 1.4%

Operator, you have been appointed to the position of labor resource allocator. The System observes and analyzes every decision you make. Compliance with instructions is recommended. Begin work.

Why similar: Interactive Fiction 25.6%, Life Sim 25.1%, Simulation 17.8%, Time Management 12.3%, Text-Based 7.9%

Help Katsune find the Love's Heart while meeting countless girls at our lesbian university!

Why similar: Interactive Fiction 19.1%, Life Sim 17.8%, Choose Your Own Adventure 16.2%, Multiple Endings 16.1%, Time Management 15.3%

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 39.3%, Life Sim 34.3%, Simulation 15.6%, Minimalist 8.8%, Indie 1.3%

Turn a small courier shop into a massive transport company. Hire new employees and purchase new vehicles. Negotiate different product licenses and build the most profitable system based on your strategy.

Why similar: Life Sim 34.2%, Simulation 23.6%, Time Management 18.4%, Casual 12.2%, Economy 9.8%

Four little letters that can turn your whole day upside down – ADHD. Think it’s nothing? That everyone has it? Then watering a few plants, walking the dog, or writing one simple email shouldn’t be a problem... right?

Why similar: Interactive Fiction 32.4%, Life Sim 31.8%, Simulation 20.9%, Choose Your Own Adventure 14.6%, Singleplayer 0.3%

《高三最后300天》是一款以2020年代中国普通公立高中为背景的横屏互动叙事生活模拟游戏。从距高考300天开始，选择主角的性别、选科方向与住校或走读身份，安排每周计划，在早读、晚自习、考试、宿舍和回家路上作出决定。你的选择会改变六科学习状态、精力与压力，也会影响承诺能否兑现、同学之间如何相处，以及某段关系最终停在友情还是继续靠近。故事将经过月考、换座、寒假、百日誓师、一模、二模、毕业照和三天高考，直到查分、填报志愿与收到录取结果。高分不是唯一答案；通关后重新开始，你还能带着有限的记忆，试着改变那些真正放不下的遗憾。

Why similar: Interactive Fiction 24.3%, Time Management 20.6%, Life Sim 19.3%, Choose Your Own Adventure 18.4%, Simulation 9.8%

You've been given the chance to go to the country's most prestigious academy. Your future couldn't have looked brighter! But you'll soon find out nothing is ever as it seems...

Why similar: Interactive Fiction 29.2%, Life Sim 25.1%, Choose Your Own Adventure 24%, Multiple Endings 11%, Simulation 5.7%

Ball Python Breeding Sim.

Why similar: Life Sim 49.8%, Simulation 21.6%, Time Management 17.3%, Casual 10.5%, Singleplayer 0.8%

A co-op, text- and audio-driven collection of stories. Lead expeditions into uncharted cold waters, hiding a presence older than the Earth. Coordinate via proximity voice chat. More stories come after the release.

Why similar: Interactive Fiction 27.5%, Text-Based 18.4%, Choose Your Own Adventure 17.4%, Old School 17%, Multiple Endings 12.9%

Step into the inspection booth in Black Border 3, a thrilling dystopian border simulation game. Review complex documents, interrogate suspicious travelers, and uncover clever smuggling plots.

Why similar: Life Sim 33.5%, 1980s 26%, Simulation 21.8%, Time Management 18.1%, Singleplayer 0.6%

"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: Interactive Fiction 26.5%, 1980s 23%, Choose Your Own Adventure 16.7%, Simulation 15.7%, Casual 9.6%

A cozy reseller sim set behind the iron curtain: comb the flea markets, haggle stubborn sellers down, and flip your finds through a little shop of your own. One catch: profiteering is a capital offense here, so every ruble of profit goes toward escaping the country - before they come for you.

Why similar: 1980s 30.3%, Simulation 24.5%, Time Management 22.6%, Casual 10.7%, Economy 9.8%

Work as a visa officer, inspect documents, and decide who gets visa. Balance your job, your family, and your morality as every decision shapes lives including your own.

Why similar: Simulation 23%, Multiple Endings 19.6%, Interactive Fiction 17.3%, Life Sim 16.5%, Economy 11.4%

Economic strategy about managing your own brewery and pubs. Brew and sell beer. Ruin your competitors. Become a monopolist in the beer market of the city!

Why similar: Interactive Fiction 22.7%, Old School 21.8%, Time Management 15.8%, Economy 14.2%, Simulation 13%

When Caron visits his uncle during his winter vacation, he meets three interesting girls with tragic pasts and a hidden connection to him.

Why similar: Life Sim 28.9%, Interactive Fiction 28.7%, Choose Your Own Adventure 16.2%, Simulation 14.2%, Casual 8.3%

Become a mailroom operator at Hotel Hermes and navigate an ancient mail system to deliver parcels on time. Learn about the hotel's guests and staff in this puzzle role-playing game, where your actions can alter the world. Hopefully for the best!

Why similar: Interactive Fiction 34.8%, Choose Your Own Adventure 18.4%, Time Management 15.2%, Text-Based 11.1%, Multiple Endings 8.3%

Mirror Drama is a story-focused RPG where everyday conversations become turn-based battles. Follow Shunta as he navigates his daily life, friendships, and the mysterious reflection that haunts his past.

Why similar: Life Sim 26.2%, Choose Your Own Adventure 20.8%, Time Management 18.8%, Text-Based 10.5%, Multiple Endings 9.1%

Your job is to make humanity happy. Observe the people living in your assigned district and make the best choices to ensure everyone's happiness.

Why similar: Interactive Fiction 32.9%, Choose Your Own Adventure 25.1%, Multiple Endings 16.6%, Text-Based 16.2%, Casual 7.5%