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Survive the Blackout is a narrative survival game set in a dark post-apocalyptic world. Choose Your Own Adventure gameplay, squad-level management, exploration, scavenging, and difficult moral choices. A modern-day tribute to The Oregon Trail.

Why similar: Survival 14.2%, Choose Your Own Adventure 11.9%, Difficult 9.3%, Choices Matter 8.8%, Point & Click 8.5%

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 21.9%, Point & Click 16.7%, Multiple Endings 13.1%, Choices Matter 9.3%, Pixel Graphics 8.6%

As the new Street Overseer, every decision you make in this dystopian choice game carries weight. Enforce the rules, help the desperate, or exploit the people’s suffering for personal gain. Choose wisely.

Why similar: Multiple Endings 14.7%, Choices Matter 13.6%, Choose Your Own Adventure 12.3%, Interactive Fiction 11.7%, Point & Click 10.6%

The Year is 1665 and the Great Plague has struck London. Guide your family through the darkest period of English history as you flee across the country. Navigate 100s of random events that challenge your ethics and your drive to survive.

Why similar: Life Sim 21.6%, Interactive Fiction 15.3%, Choices Matter 11.7%, Choose Your Own Adventure 10.5%, Resource Management 9.7%

Enjoy working as an Eggnog Inspector for a shady company. Verify the color, art, ingredients for batches of eggnog. Its not glamorous but its an honest living. Who knows what surprises are in store for you...

Why similar: Point & Click 19.5%, Time Management 18.8%, Multiple Endings 13.7%, Choices Matter 11.7%, Pixel Graphics 7.4%

Giona, province of Caspena - the land of adventure and opportunity! Champions of all kinds gather here. Step into this pixel-art heroic fantasy store simulator as the Shopkeeper. Listen to your clients and equip them with the arms that suit them best. Only you can prevent what is yet to come...

Why similar: Point & Click 21.3%, Multiple Endings 13.9%, Simulation 13.2%, Pixel Graphics 10.4%, Choose Your Own Adventure 7.6%

Working 9-5 as a corporate goblin. 💼 Train your stats, make some friends, expose your enemies, and uncover a conspiracy of mythical proportions! One wrong move and you're fired!🔥

Why similar: Life Sim 14.3%, Difficult 14.2%, Multiple Endings 14%, Interactive Fiction 11.1%, Simulation 10.7%

Behind the cheerful "Internet's Darling" persona is a ruthless hacker mastermind! In Project: Idol / Empire, balance a double life: be an adored idol while waging cyberwar for world domination. Defend your streams, plan network takeovers, and build an empire under a mask that fools the whole server!

Why similar: Point & Click 15.1%, Interactive Fiction 14.2%, Time Management 11.5%, Choose Your Own Adventure 11%, Multiple Endings 10.9%

I'm Tom and I just got a job as a bartender. Now I have to wipe down the same sticky counters where I used to leave my own marks. In this dive, even the rats look like they're hungover. Alright, the boozers won't pour their own drinks - time to get back to work.

Why similar: Point & Click 19.7%, Multiple Endings 13.1%, Simulation 13%, Pixel Graphics 10.2%, Choices Matter 9.9%

Become a Fortune Teller in this Narrative Life-sim set in a Neo-futuristic Moon Colony. Read Tarot Cards and influence people, manage your Time and Money, Pay your Bills, and Make Decisions that would change your life and the lives of the people around you.

Why similar: Life Sim 20%, Interactive Fiction 13.8%, Multiple Endings 12.2%, Point & Click 10.4%, Choices Matter 9%

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 24.4%, Time Management 13.9%, Multiple Endings 13.9%, Choices Matter 13%, Interactive Fiction 8.4%

You are the blacksmith of a Viking village. You forge what you're asked, fulfill your orders and pay your debts. Something in this village doesn't add up, and you're part of it without knowing it. Your father has disappeared, debts don't wait, and neither does the fire.

Why similar: Point & Click 17.9%, Crafting 15.2%, Time Management 15.1%, Resource Management 9.8%, Pixel Graphics 8.3%

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: Life Sim 19.9%, Interactive Fiction 16.5%, Choices Matter 13.6%, Choose Your Own Adventure 13.6%, Multiple Endings 11.6%

W!LiB! is an interactive psychological thriller about suicide, based on personal experience. This is a story about a void in the soul, about search and loss of the life purpose in trying to save oneself and others. This is a life that can be lived your own way. For any life is beautiful... isn’t it?

Why similar: Point & Click 21.2%, Multiple Endings 14.5%, Retro 10.1%, Pixel Graphics 10.1%, Difficult 9.9%

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 25.2%, Choose Your Own Adventure 15.2%, Interactive Fiction 14.4%, Choices Matter 13.2%, Multiple Endings 12.4%

You've been hired as a chief editor to make this newspaper grow, but your writers are awful. Correct their drafts, set the tone of the news to fit your audience, make readership grow; and form a relationship with the shady politicians that will push you to give them good press in an electoral year

Why similar: Multiple Endings 14.6%, Choose Your Own Adventure 12.8%, Point & Click 11.3%, Choices Matter 9.3%, Retro 9.1%

What if you happened to be in a control room of a nuclear reactor and something went wrong? Save the Reactor gives you the opportunity to fully experience these emotions! This simulator is great for those who like to challenge themselves and aren't afraid of difficulties!

Why similar: Point & Click 16.4%, Difficult 15.8%, Time Management 14.1%, Multiple Endings 12.3%, Life Sim 10.3%

《我16岁辍学做游戏！》是一款双结局的游戏开发模拟游戏。讲述一位16岁学生在辍学游戏开发和正常上学导致的不同结局。 制作目的是为了给对独立游戏行业一无所知的人指引一条正确的道路。

Why similar: Life Sim 19.5%, Point & Click 14.1%, Resource Management 10.6%, Time Management 8.8%, Multiple Endings 8.2%

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 26.4%, Interactive Fiction 14.2%, Resource Management 14.1%, Time Management 11.5%, Choose Your Own Adventure 9.9%

Survival Project: Island is a long-term island survival game. Explore over a dozen unique locations, gather, fish, hunt, craft, farm, and build. Manage weather, thirst, injuries, and supplies, build relationships, and use Traits and experience to make every new beginning stronger.

Why similar: Life Sim 30.6%, Survival 26.3%, Crafting 23.3%, Simulation 12.6%, 2D 5%

👑 Become the KING 👑Save the kingdom, make decisions, expand your legacy!

Why similar: Life Sim 17%, Choose Your Own Adventure 12.3%, Time Management 12.1%, Choices Matter 11.8%, Resource Management 11.3%

Happiness, success, fortune, fame, drama, scandals, and downfall. In Celebrity Life you'll experience them all. Take a journey through an immersive reflection of the peoples' lives we follow & talk about. The Celebrities! Now at last you can become one. Don't dream your life, live your dream.

Why similar: Life Sim 16.9%, Crafting 15.2%, Survival 14.1%, Resource Management 10.9%, Choices Matter 10.4%

Can you survive below the invisible "Kill Line"? In this narrative survival sim, play as Sam, a veteran scavenging on the streets of Los Angeles. This isn't just survival—it's a final resistance against being erased by the system.

Why similar: Survival 19.4%, Life Sim 15%, Simulation 10.3%, Crafting 10.2%, Strategy 10.1%

"Survival Time" is a survival strategy game where you build shelters. You must plan your time, make tough choices, and work with your companions to survive in harsh environments.

Why similar: Survival 20.3%, Crafting 20.3%, Life Sim 15.2%, Time Management 14.6%, Strategy 8%

Gods Will Be Watching is a minimalistic “point and click thriller” centered on despair, commitment, and sacrifice as players face intriguing puzzles and tough decisions that will affect their entire crew’s wellbeing.

Why similar: Point & Click 22%, Difficult 17.2%, Pixel Graphics 13.6%, Choices Matter 10.8%, Survival 9.1%

W!LiB! Prologue allows you to try and live one day of Will's life in trying to save people on the legendary Suicide Bridge. Would you be able to find the right words? How many souls could you save in one day? And how would you feel if you're not good enough?..

Why similar: Point & Click 18.6%, Difficult 14.5%, Survival 12.5%, Choices Matter 11.3%, Resource Management 11%

You are an innkeeper, on a journey to transform a run-down inn into a bustling social space. Craft items, food, and beer to please your customers and improve your reputation as the best tavern in the entire country.

Why similar: Life Sim 24.6%, Crafting 17.3%, Choose Your Own Adventure 16.6%, Time Management 11.5%, Resource Management 10.2%

Survive 30 unforgiving days on the streets before a deadly blizzard hits. Hustle for change, dumpster dive, or risk it all by picking pockets and dodging cops. Balance your hunger, hygiene, and morale. The city doesn't care if you live or die, prove it wrong.

Why similar: Life Sim 30.5%, Time Management 19.6%, Simulation 16.9%, Survival 15.9%, Resource Management 11.9%

A narrative simulation game where you play as a mother-to-be working as a toll keeper in the fictional country of Janapa, a nation on the brink of chaos. Navigate daily challenges and make difficult moral choices to survive—all for the sake of your unborn child.

Why similar: Life Sim 23.3%, Point & Click 17.8%, Interactive Fiction 17.4%, Survival 9.5%, Simulation 9.3%

Nobody – The Turnaround is a life simulator set in a parallel world that echoes modern society. Manage your time and resources carefully, strive to find a way through difficult times, and overcome the predicament you find yourself in.

Why similar: Life Sim 32%, Survival 17.5%, Simulation 9.1%, Choices Matter 8.9%, Resource Management 8.6%

Scribe is a scribe simulator in which you can secretly shape the destinies of the inhabitants of the estate: resolve disputes, influence the course of family intrigues, decide who lives and who does not. Choose what to write in letters and whether to change their recipients!

Why similar: Interactive Fiction 16.1%, Difficult 13.8%, Choose Your Own Adventure 13.5%, Point & Click 13.4%, Choices Matter 13.1%

Princess Parent is a love letter to classic life simulation games. Enjoy a new parenting simulation where you schedule her time and make her choices until she's 18. Will she become a housewife or a dragon princess?

Why similar: Life Sim 24.1%, Multiple Endings 15.7%, Choices Matter 13.1%, Time Management 11.4%, Choose Your Own Adventure 11%

《修仙实操手册》是一款拥有丰富剧情的都市修真题材养成游戏。身患绝症的主人公尝试修炼一本叫"修仙实操手册"的养生功法，于是一个生活在现代都市的大好青年开始了每日打坐、炼丹、算命、看风水...的“神仙”生活。

Why similar: Life Sim 25.6%, Survival 18%, Time Management 15.3%, Multiple Endings 11.4%, Choices Matter 10.3%

Brew & Boom is a narrative alchemy simulation with dark humor. Brew risky potions, serve unusual customers, and choose between rival factions—while your battered old cauldron may blow the entire workshop apart at any moment

Why similar: Crafting 16.4%, Resource Management 13.7%, Interactive Fiction 13.1%, Time Management 12.1%, Choices Matter 11.7%

Master of Balance is a workplace survival game. You play as a junior manager who becomes caught up in a bizarre, otherworldly incident. To survive, you must carefully handle both daily life and work responsibilities while uncovering the truth behind what happened.

Why similar: Life Sim 26.7%, Interactive Fiction 20.3%, Multiple Endings 14.1%, Choices Matter 10.6%, Story Rich 8.2%

The Escapists provides players the opportunity of experiencing a light-hearted insight into everyday prison life with the main objective being that of escaping!

Why similar: Crafting 27.2%, Pixel Graphics 18.3%, Difficult 13%, Survival 12.1%, Strategy 11.2%

Experience a sci-fi narrative where you run a gas station on a drifting asteroid in the infinite void. Service increasingly complex alien ships, upgrade and expand your gas station's operations, and shape the fate of the galactic stage through your choices!

Why similar: Multiple Endings 16%, Interactive Fiction 12.5%, Choices Matter 11%, Pixel Graphics 10.8%, Retro 10.8%

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: Point & Click 17.8%, Multiple Endings 13.7%, Choices Matter 13.5%, Interactive Fiction 12.9%, Choose Your Own Adventure 11.9%

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: Life Sim 23.1%, Interactive Fiction 17.9%, Point & Click 17%, Simulation 12%, Choose Your Own Adventure 11.3%

You didn’t ask to lead this expedition, but here you are. Stuck in the ice, Captain missing, miles from civilisation. Someone has to take charge. Manage your meagre resources, balance safety and morale, make the hard calls, and head in the only direction you can - through The Pale Beyond.

Why similar: Survival 14.7%, Resource Management 14.5%, Choices Matter 11.8%, Difficult 11.1%, Interactive Fiction 9.7%

Clock in at the Dark Magic Federation. As a ritual clerk, you must verify public requests, consult the manual, and process the paperwork for a world of petty hexes. Stamp requests, catch counterfeits, and avoid costly compliance fines. The quota is rising. Work starts now.

Why similar: Point & Click 24.7%, Multiple Endings 19%, Simulation 15.1%, Choices Matter 15%, Story Rich 9.1%

Listen to your customers, find out what they really want, and search for the right property to recommend in this real estate simulation and story-driven adventure. Work alongside your boss, Hisui Odate, at a small neighborhood agency and help each customer find a place they can truly call home.

Why similar: Life Sim 21.6%, Point & Click 15.9%, Multiple Endings 11.4%, Choices Matter 10.2%, Story Rich 8.7%

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 37.5%, Simulation 19%, Multiple Endings 14.7%, Choose Your Own Adventure 9.9%, Choices Matter 9.8%

Welcome to Awkward Valley! Plan your day, tackle strange activities, and unlock bizarre new options as you go. Gym? Therapy? Vending machine snacks? It’s up to you! Featuring Awkward Yeti’s weird and wonderful characters in a totally normal town.

Why similar: Life Sim 25%, Point & Click 21.2%, Side Scroller 11.6%, Multiple Endings 10.6%, Simulation 9.4%

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 21.8%, Point & Click 21.6%, Choose Your Own Adventure 15%, Time Management 13.5%, Pixel Graphics 7.8%

Where there is sky and sea, there is a story. Experience the "slow life" of your dreams on a southern island!

Why similar: Life Sim 34%, Simulation 17.9%, Survival 16.9%, Pixel Graphics 13%, Retro 9.9%

A corporate parody JRPG. Battle coworkers, bosses, and the entire board of directors as you fight your way to the top of a satirical office tower. Build your team, master turn-based combat, and survive the most hostile workplace in gaming.

Why similar: Life Sim 38.2%, Simulation 21.7%, Choices Matter 16.4%, Pixel Graphics 13.9%, 2D 7%

Vespa's Test is a short, relaxing personality test based on real psychological research. Answer a multitude of thought-provoking questions, and receive a vision tailored to your answers; what, in life, is holding you back?

Why similar: Choices Matter 18.5%, Multiple Endings 17.8%, Interactive Fiction 15.9%, Choose Your Own Adventure 10.4%, Simulation 9%

A short, chill social clicker where you shape the narrative of the newly formed SARO Federation. Follow Jan Eteri, a prominent lawyer, and see how propaganda changes society's perception.

Why similar: Point & Click 26%, Multiple Endings 18.7%, Resource Management 15.5%, Choices Matter 15.1%, Simulation 7.1%

In this game you have to help the main character to hold on in self-isolation with limited resources. Every day you face a difficult choice: how to eke out your groceries, whose request you should respond to, and who is to be left without a piece of bread.

Why similar: Simulation 13.4%, Point & Click 12.8%, Crafting 12.5%, Strategy 11.8%, Difficult 10.8%

Journey of animals trying to survive a War. An emotional tale where you'll decide the fate of all who embark on this journey.

Why similar: Interactive Fiction 18.5%, Choose Your Own Adventure 16.8%, Side Scroller 16%, Multiple Endings 14.5%, Choices Matter 12.9%

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: Point & Click 19.9%, Multiple Endings 16.2%, Interactive Fiction 14.6%, Choose Your Own Adventure 13.1%, Simulation 11.4%

System Overload is a retro desktop sim game played entirely inside a 90s Task Manager. Juggle CPU, RAM and heat to finish contracts before your PC melts down.

Why similar: Simulation 16.3%, Difficult 12.6%, Time Management 12.1%, Multiple Endings 11.6%, Resource Management 11%

You are the only blacksmith in a dying empire. Listen to your customers, deduce their true intentions, and forge the weapons that will save your city - or arm its destroyers. Master the anvil, balance the factions, and live with the consequences of your craft.

Why similar: Crafting 27.2%, Interactive Fiction 21.3%, Choices Matter 12.3%, Story Rich 10.2%, Simulation 10.1%

Deliver to haunted places, solve paranormal mysteries, and struggle through the daily grind in this horror life sim adventure.

Why similar: Life Sim 21.6%, Point & Click 16.6%, Difficult 13.7%, Survival 11%, Pixel Graphics 9.6%

Thank You For Your Application! is a 'Dystopian Job Market Simulator' that is a satire of online job boards and the post-pandemic job market!

Why similar: Life Sim 24.3%, Point & Click 18.7%, Time Management 14.6%, Choose Your Own Adventure 14.3%, Simulation 9.7%

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 24.8%, Interactive Fiction 16.3%, Multiple Endings 13.3%, Choices Matter 13.2%, Choose Your Own Adventure 11.9%

Game Designer Simulator is a pixel game based on real-life themes, with a non-linear storyline and card battles. Players will take on the role of a newly graduated college student in a fictional city based on Shanghai, experiencing everything from interviews to becoming a novice game Designer.

Why similar: Life Sim 19.4%, Crafting 15.6%, Time Management 11.2%, Resource Management 11%, Multiple Endings 10.6%