Games Like CHANGE: A Homeless Survival Experience

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 31.9%, Survival 11.4%, Open World 10.9%, Character Customization 8.5%, Choices Matter 8.2%

Why You'll Like It: A highly detailed life-simulation that mirrors the struggle of surviving in a modern city with limited resources.

Hobo: Tough Life is an urban survival role-playing game where you play as a homeless person. Play alone or team up in online co-op. Explore the streets of Praslav, scavenge for food and supplies, beg, steal, and do whatever else it takes to survive the forthcoming winter.

Why similar: Open World 28.2%, Survival 24.8%, Dialogue Heavy 20.5%, RPG 14.8%, Story Rich 11.7%

Why You'll Like It: An open-world survival game that directly tackles the challenges of homelessness through scavenging, crafting, and social interaction.

NEO Scavenger is a game where you must survive in the wasteland long enough to figure out who you are. Each turn, you must decide where to go, how to scavenge for supplies, and how to deal with anything and anyone you encounter.

Why similar: Survival 26.2%, Roguelike 23.6%, Procedural Generation 20.2%, RPG 12.3%, Open World 10.5%

Why You'll Like It: A hardcore turn-based survival game with deep roguelite mechanics that emphasizes scavenging and environmental hazards.

A money-focused life simulator. Create characters with allergies and addictions. Manage their lives through financial booms and busts. Advance their careers, start a small business, invest in real estate and stocks - or roleplay a penniless hobo.

Why similar: Time Management 26.5%, Life Sim 23.3%, Character Customization 13.6%, Management 10.6%, Choices Matter 9.1%

Why You'll Like It: A complex economic simulation that captures the stress of managing time, money, and personal well-being in a realistic urban environment.

Home Behind 2 is a Roguelike RPG which set in Scaria, a country engulfed in a ten-year civil war. Lead a patchwork group of revolutionary fighters into the depths of the government's territory as you struggle to overthrow a brutal authoritarian regime!

Why similar: Roguelike 17.7%, Roguelite 17.4%, Dialogue Heavy 13.2%, Character Customization 12.4%, Survival 10.3%

Why You'll Like It: A challenging roguelite RPG that focuses on survival, resource management, and team building in a hostile, war-torn setting.

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: Survival 42.7%, Choices Matter 19.2%, Management 15.9%, Strategy 13.6%, Story Rich 8.5%

Why You'll Like It: The definitive gritty survival game that forces players to make impossible moral choices while managing the needs of civilians in a war-torn city.

Roleplaying in the ruins of interplanetary capitalism. Live the life of an escaped worker, washed-up on a lawless station at the edge of an interstellar society. Inspired by the flexibility and freedom of TTRPGs, explore the station, choose your friends, escape your past and change your future.

Why similar: Dialogue Heavy 38.5%, Multiple Endings 25.4%, RPG 19.3%, Story Rich 16.8%

Why You'll Like It: A narrative-driven RPG that uses dice-based mechanics to simulate the precarious life of a fugitive trying to survive in a decaying space station.

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: Life Sim 63.8%, RPG 16.8%, Multiple Endings 9.5%, Story Rich 5.5%, 2D 4.4%

Why You'll Like It: A dystopian simulation game that explores the life of a gig worker struggling to survive in an alternate-history Britain.

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 31%, Choose Your Own Adventure 29.4%, RPG 13.9%, Story Rich 12.8%, Management 6.2%

Why You'll Like It: A narrative-heavy RPG where every choice significantly impacts your character's life path and ultimate survival.

Out There is an award-winning space exploration game blending roguelike, resource management and interactive fiction.

Why similar: Roguelike 18.8%, Choose Your Own Adventure 18.5%, Roguelite 17.1%, Procedural Generation 14.9%, Survival 10.3%

Why You'll Like It: A space-based roguelite that focuses heavily on resource management and the constant threat of death in an unforgiving environment.

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: Multiple Endings 44%, Story Rich 21.2%, Strategy 14%, 2D 11.1%, Choices Matter 9.8%

Why You'll Like It: A tense, dystopian job simulation that forces players to balance personal survival and family needs against moral dilemmas.

This is the story of your life. Experience the entire journey from toddler to adulthood. Go to schools, learn new things, meet new friends, and have wild adventures! Every choice you make will influence your future career, and decide who your romantic partner will be. Who will you become?

Why similar: Life Sim 25%, Choose Your Own Adventure 15.9%, Choices Matter 12.2%, Multiple Endings 10%, Management 9.9%

Why You'll Like It: A life-simulation game that focuses on the choices and personal growth of a character from childhood to adulthood.

Urban Tale is a realistic, vibrant and unique RPG that will allow you to fulfil your dreams, and pursue your most wanted goals in life. You start from scratch, having nothing in the city where you can meet a lot of people, that can help you throughout your adventure. Your goal is to succeed in life.

Why similar: Life Sim 29.8%, Choose Your Own Adventure 23.4%, Relaxing 13.9%, Management 13.2%, RPG 12.8%

Why You'll Like It: An indie RPG that allows players to explore a city and build a life through various jobs and social interactions.

Sheltered is a deep and emotional survival management game. You take on the role of protecting four family members who, after a global apocalypse, have found their way to a deserted shelter.

Why similar: Survival 37.7%, Management 21.1%, Strategy 13.9%, Open World 11.1%, RPG 11%

Why You'll Like It: A post-apocalyptic survival management game where you must scavenge for resources and keep your family alive in a bunker.

Hard Times is an extreme urban survival game where you have to put yourself into the shoes of a homeless man, taking on all the challenges that daily survival places in the great metropolis of indifference.

Why similar: Management 34.6%, Survival 32.4%, Strategy 18%, 2D 15%

Why You'll Like It: A 2D simulation game that focuses specifically on the mechanics of surviving on the streets with limited resources.

Tonight you're on a rescue mission, infiltrating a nightclub that was once a coffin factory. Will you succeed? Will you fail? Or will your night take an unexpected detour? Roll the Pizza Dice and find out!

Why similar: Dynamic Narration 21.6% ★, Choose Your Own Adventure 14.5%, Character Customization 11.7%, Roguelite 11.6%, Roguelike 10.9%

Why You'll Like It: A unique, tabletop-inspired roguelite that uses dice rolls to navigate social and survival challenges.

Drug Dealing RPG roguelite strategy crime saga with choose your own adventure elements. The police and the jackboys aren't your biggest enemy... Time is!

Why similar: Crime 19.5%, Life Sim 17.4%, Roguelite 13.2%, Roguelike 11.4%, Management 10.8%

Why You'll Like It: A strategy-RPG that focuses on the high-stakes management of illicit trade in an urban setting.

Kim is a boisterous urchin from 1880s Lahore, his wanderlust will take him all over India. Branching conversations, survival, stealth and combat let you play Kim's coming of age however you choose. The enormous open world of Kipling's India awaits you!

Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 16%, Roguelike 12.4%, Roguelite 11.5%, Procedural Generation 11.1%, Open World 10.5%

Why You'll Like It: An exploration-focused RPG that features open-world survival elements and a strong narrative foundation.

THE LONG DARK is a thoughtful, exploration-survival experience that challenges solo players to think for themselves as they explore an expansive frozen wilderness in the aftermath of a geomagnetic disaster. There are no zombies -- only you, the cold, and all the threats Mother Nature can muster.

Why similar: Survival 51.7%, Open World 43.4%, Strategy 4.9%

Why You'll Like It: A premier survival experience that emphasizes the brutal reality of managing hunger, thirst, and temperature in a desolate wilderness.

Organ Trail is a retro zombie survival game. Travel westward in a station wagon with 4 of your friends, scavenging for supplies and fending off the undead. Members of your party might die of dysentery or you might have to put them down yourself when they get bit.

Why similar: Strategy 33.8%, Survival 25.5%, Roguelike 17.4%, RPG 13.4%, 2D 9.9%

Why You'll Like It: A retro-styled roguelite survival game that forces players to manage limited supplies while traveling across a zombie-infested landscape.

Explore the known and unknown galaxy with a ragtag crew of eclectic new friends in this narrative management space opera. You are a sentient spaceship, an outlawed commodity, and there's an entire galaxy between you and freedom…not to mention your abusive ex on your tail.

Why similar: Time Management 21.2%, Choose Your Own Adventure 18.6%, Character Customization 12.9%, Management 11.5%, Multiple Endings 11.1%

Why You'll Like It: A narrative management game that focuses on resource allocation and character-driven choices while on the run.

Project Zomboid is the ultimate in zombie survival. Alone or in MP: you loot, build, craft, fight, farm and fish in a struggle to survive. A hardcore RPG skillset, a vast map, massively customisable sandbox and a cute tutorial raccoon await the unwary. So how will you die? All it takes is a bite..

Why similar: Survival 45.4%, Open World 39.8%, RPG 10.8%, 2D 4.1%

Why You'll Like It: A deep, uncompromising survival simulation that requires meticulous planning and resource management to survive for even a few days.

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: Choose Your Own Adventure 21.8%, Choices Matter 15.9%, Multiple Endings 14.4%, Dialogue Heavy 13.3%, Character Customization 13.1%

Why You'll Like It: A narrative-driven life-sim where your choices as a bureaucrat have significant consequences for the world around you.

Live the life of a starving artist in 19th century alternative history. Survive poverty, alchoholism, madness, depression, and 67 different feelings. Paint masterpieces by combining inspirations, sell them for riches (or scraps) and create a painting that will change the world.

Why similar: Life Sim 29%, Roguelike 19.5%, Roguelite 16.8%, RPG 10.5%, Strategy 9.9%

Why You'll Like It: A card-based strategy game that simulates the difficult path of trying to make a living as an artist.

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: Choose Your Own Adventure 27%, Choices Matter 22%, Survival 19.3%, Story Rich 12.5%, Strategy 12.5%

Why You'll Like It: A narrative survival game where you must manage a crew's resources and morale during a desperate expedition.

Survive in a living post-apocalyptic city. Scavenge, craft, and build to stay alive, while earning trust or sparking conflict with the NPCs and factions who shape your fate.

Why similar: Life Sim 33.6%, Choose Your Own Adventure 27.6%, Open World 21.6%, Survival 17.2%

Why You'll Like It: A survival sandbox game that tasks players with navigating a closed-off city environment with limited resources.

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: Survival 40.1%, Strategy 26.5%, Management 18.4%, Choices Matter 15%

Why You'll Like It: A society survival game that forces you to make difficult management decisions to keep a city alive in a frozen wasteland.

An atmospheric management RPG about life on the open road. Pick up hitchhikers, work odd jobs, customize and repair your car, and map your route across the country. Use upgrades, skills and items to overcome challenges. And remember to take it easy. You’re young. You have time.

Why similar: Procedural Generation 22.2%, Multiple Endings 21.5%, RPG 18.9%, Open World 16.9%, Character Customization 13.8%

You are an Administrator serving your probationary period in a medieval town. Make decisions to affect the town's reputation, order, military and supplies. Choose wisely to deal with bandits, famines, cultists and plagues. The most difficult choices will decide the fate of your town!

Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 19.7%, Management 16.6%, Choices Matter 14.1%, Multiple Endings 12.7%, Roguelite 10.9%

Why You'll Like It: A medieval management RPG that forces players to make choices that affect their standing and survival in a community.

In Tiny Life, you control a set of people that live together in a household. You take care of their daily needs, build their skills, forge new relationships... or just mess up their entire life in whatever way you can think of!

Why similar: Life Sim 40%, Character Customization 24.8%, Relaxing 17.3%, Dialogue Heavy 12%, 2D 5.9%

Why You'll Like It: A life-simulation game that allows for detailed character customization and management within a relaxing, sandbox environment.

SAIL THE STARS. BETRAY YOUR QUEEN. MURDER A SUN. Sunless Skies is a Gothic Horror roleplay game with a focus on exploration and exquisite storytelling.

Why similar: Roguelike 25.6%, RPG 19.3%, Survival 17.9%, Story Rich 16.5%, Choices Matter 15.1%

Why You'll Like It: A gothic horror roguelite that emphasizes resource management and survival while exploring a dangerous, atmospheric world.

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: Choose Your Own Adventure 33.9%, Choices Matter 23.9%, Multiple Endings 19.9%, Story Rich 12.6%, Strategy 9.7%

Players must survive in the ruins of the human world and face various survival challenges and dangers. Players need to search for resources in abandoned cities and wilderness, including food, water sources, construction materials, etc., to maintain survival and build safe shelters.

Why similar: Time Management 21.9%, Life Sim 20.8%, Roguelite 13.3%, Multiple Endings 11.8%, Roguelike 9%

Inhabit a deeply-simulated science fantasy world and chisel through layers of thousand-year-old civilizations. Build a character from over a hundred mutations and cybernetics. The award-winning sandbox roguelike & RPG full of robots, deep lore, and sentient plants.

Why similar: Procedural Generation 23.1%, Open World 17.9%, Roguelike 14.1%, Character Customization 14.1%, Choices Matter 9.3%

A life simulator that leans heavily into the personal finance aspect. Pay taxes, take out mortgages, trade stocks, buy real estate, start businesses, or grind your way to victory as an employee.

Why similar: Time Management 25.3%, Life Sim 18.5%, Character Customization 11.9%, Management 11.5%, Survival 8.4%

From seed to a great tree! Survive the seasons, face crisis and mutate yourself into a tree able to achieve your final form! Grow flowers, mutate, adapt and evolve and finally bear fruits!

Why similar: Time Management 27.6%, Management 13.2%, Roguelike 12.8%, Procedural Generation 10.6%, Survival 9.3%

New Day is an upcoming life simulation game where almost anything can happen! Create your own islanders, design their apartments, and get involved with their day-to-day life as they divulge into unexpected friendships, problems, and more!

Why similar: Life Sim 28.9%, Choose Your Own Adventure 24.1%, Character Customization 19.6%, Management 13.3%, Dialogue Heavy 7.3%

Curious Expedition 2 is a turn-based narrative roguelike set in a reimagined version of the late 19th century that uses procedural gameplay and story elements to create completely unique and epic adventures every time you play.

Why similar: Dynamic Narration 36.3% ★, Roguelite 12.9%, Procedural Generation 12.6%, Roguelike 12.2%, Survival 8.1%

Out There: Oceans of Time is a space exploration game that puts you at the helm of an interstellar mission of discovery spanning a vast and vibrant cosmos.

Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 17.4%, Roguelite 14.9%, Roguelike 13.8%, Open World 12.6%, Choices Matter 10.6%

Rock Star Life Simulator is an extensive fame simulation game. Start this adventure by playing the guitar on the street, form your own band. Protect the fame, money, and charisma you earned with the right decisions and become a world star!

Why similar: Life Sim 23.1%, Character Customization 16.6%, Choose Your Own Adventure 14.8%, Management 14.1%, Open World 12.6%

Play on randomly generated worlds with a party of characters just the way you like it. You will not be bounded by classes or scripted story, only by your creativity. Make your own journey. Tell your own history.

Why similar: RPG 18.2%, Choose Your Own Adventure 17.5%, Procedural Generation 17%, Strategy 14.8%, Open World 14.5%

The Long Journey Home combines an open world full of galaxies, planets and anomalies with quests and mechanics of a rogue-like RPG. One destination. Endless adventures. Where will this journey take you?

Why similar: RPG 22.6%, Roguelike 22.5%, Strategy 21.4%, Procedural Generation 16.1%, Survival 11.1%

Terminus: Zombie Survivors is a 2D turn-based survival roguelike set during a zombie apocalypse. Each journey is unique, and every decision can mean the difference between life and death. Can you brave hunger, cold, and the undead in order to reach the Terminus and find salvation?

Why similar: Roguelike 30.2%, Survival 22.9%, Open World 22.4%, RPG 13.3%, Strategy 11.2%

Homeless Simulator is a homeless person simulator. Homeless persons are those who find themselves living on the streets because of family conflicts, somebody’s fraud, loss of the job or health problems. They are those who need help.

Why similar: Open World 51.9%, Survival 48.1%

As a judge of the Kobardde court, solve complex cases inspired by actual events. Your decisions will directly affect people's (and perhaps yours) lives. You may have to make difficult decisions for your family, country, and life. What kind of judge will you be?

Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 33.5%, Character Customization 17.7%, RPG 10.8%, Choices Matter 10.5%, Multiple Endings 8.9%

Lead The Rebellion, build your army, and shape the world with your choices. A story-heavy adventure game with multiple endings, romance options, and non-linear storytelling. A vast fantasy world waiting to be explored. Inspired by Dragon Age, and Mass Effect. Fully voice acted by a stellar cast!

Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 37.2%, Choices Matter 28.5%, Story Rich 18.8%, RPG 10.6%, 2D 4.9%

Diablo The Abyss is a strategic RPG full of random and roguelike elements. Within this randomized world, you can freely make strageties at your own pace and conquer formidable challenges, while shaping your unique adventure journey.

Why similar: Time Management 26.5%, Roguelike 17.6%, Roguelite 15%, Procedural Generation 13.1%, Open World 9.9%

Extra Coin is a story-rich life sim set between the real world and a virtual utopia: explore the city, do activities, and face your opponents. Would you rather respect the Loop or break it to find your lost parents?

Why similar: Management 27%, Multiple Endings 22.7%, Choices Matter 20.8%, Story Rich 18.9%, RPG 10.5%

Become the King in a story-driven 8-bit style game, where choice matters. And try not to die instantly...

Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 25.8%, Management 16.3%, Multiple Endings 14.8%, Choices Matter 14.1%, RPG 8.7%

Take control of a 21-year-old woman, design her how you like, then drop her into the heart of a metropolis known as The City! Decide who she talks to, where she works, how she behaves — and watch a dynamic world react to your every choice. The control is all in your hands!

Why similar: Life Sim 20.3%, Character Customization 19.5%, Choose Your Own Adventure 15.9%, Open World 14.4%, Choices Matter 10.8%

An innovative Roguelike / 4X Strategy game where every turn is one year of your life. Explore, find a mate, and raise a child before you die to build a great legacy. ReGen is an amazing complete remake, redesigned, re-imagined, and packed with 100s of new features.

Why similar: Roguelike 21.1%, Roguelite 19.2%, Open World 16.3%, Management 11.8%, Survival 10.9%

A surreal dice-based RPG in a cursed city of gut-wrenching suffering. Here, your choices shape your skills and your appearance. Survive the city's hellish trials, meet tortured characters, and develop your own unique identity. Every choice matters as your actions will literally shape you.

Why similar: RPG 30.9%, Multiple Endings 29.6%, Choices Matter 20.8%, Story Rich 18.7%

Epic Manager is a unique crossover between Sports Management and classic JRPGs. Experience an addictive “one more turn” mix of tycoon strategy, roguelike elements, roster management, combat and character progression, all rooted in an epic yet light-hearted fantasy setting. Rated ‘E’ for EPIC!

Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 20.7%, Roguelite 15.7%, Management 12.6%, Roguelike 12%, Procedural Generation 10.8%

Manage a game studio from the dawn of the gaming industry in 1976. Your journey starts with small indie titles and grows into a gaming empire. Develop, design, and conquer the industry. From humble beginnings to gaming legend, it’s your story, your studio, your legacy!

Why similar: Life Sim 32.7%, Management 27.5%, Procedural Generation 19%, Strategy 13.3%, 2D 7.5%

How long could you survive in a parallel universe where the Mist dictates its rules? Would you be able to find the way to your homeworld, or will you adapt to live under the Mist domain? Fight for resources, get together with other survivors and discover the secrets of this world.

Why similar: Life Sim 21.8%, Choose Your Own Adventure 19.2%, Character Customization 14%, Open World 13.5%, Survival 12.8%

Obenseuer is an urban survival RPG game, where you become a property manager of a rundown unfinished tenement building, in an isolated quarantine district of Obenseuer. Maintain and upgrade your tenement for rent, uncover the secrets of this infamous district and grow your wealth with your craft.

Why similar: Life Sim 37.1%, Management 19.4%, Survival 17.1%, RPG 13.3%, Open World 13.2%

These are troubling times, Your Grace. The petitioners’ petty matters exceed our limited resources, to say nothing of the war. A careful balance must be struck. Your throne awaits.

Why similar: Life Sim 21.2%, Choose Your Own Adventure 17.8%, Choices Matter 14.7%, Management 12.6%, Multiple Endings 11.5%

In an uninhabitable Siberian wilderness, in a wake of October Revolution, a group of passengers survives the mysterious catastrophe of Trans-Siberian railway train. They must endure in a harsh ice-clad climate until rescue arrives. Facing many dangers, their own weaknesses and, their own prejudice.

Why similar: Time Management 19.1%, Roguelike 13.8%, Roguelite 13.1%, Management 11.9%, Choices Matter 11.5%

You are a protest organiser, coordinating the crowd outside your window. When the police move in on your position you have to decide whether to tell the protestors to hold the line or pull back.

Why similar: Dynamic Narration 37.2% ★, Choose Your Own Adventure 18.3%, Choices Matter 14.1%, Multiple Endings 12.2%, Character Customization 11.2%