- #1 Citizen Sleeper
97% matchVery Positive92% of 10,281 reviews2022
Dev: Jump Over The AgePub: Fellow Traveller
Windows · Mac
Median: 3.5 hrsMean: 7.3 hrs≥1hr: 84%
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: Dice 20.4% ★, Narrative 11% ★, Cyberpunk 7.9%, Tabletop 7%, Dystopian 6.9%
Why You'll Like It: The direct predecessor that established the unique dice-driven RPG mechanics and heartfelt, dystopian narrative style.
- #2 I Was a Teenage Exocolonist
96% matchOverwhelmingly Positive96% of 4,709 reviews2022
Dev: Northway GamesPub: Finji
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 6.8 hrsMean: 15.6 hrs≥1hr: 91%
Spend your teenage years on an alien planet in this narrative RPG with card-based battles. Explore, grow up, and fall in love. The choices you make and skills you master over ten years will determine the course of your life and the survival of your colony.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 21.1%, Futuristic 17.1%, Sci-fi 16.3%, Multiple Endings 14.6%, RPG 12.3%
Why You'll Like It: A life-sim RPG where every choice and card-based action significantly impacts the narrative and the world's future.
- #3 Minds Beneath Us
96% matchOverwhelmingly Positive96% of 5,908 reviews2024
Dev: BearBoneStudio
Windows
Median: 10.9 hrsMean: 12.7 hrs≥1hr: 83%
MINDS BENEATH US is an emotional sci-fi narrative game. Through the eyes of a humble individual, experience a mad world where humans are exploited as computing devices for AI. Listen to the concerns of those you meet and offer guidance. Together, face challenges and confront an uncertain destiny.
Why similar: Cyberpunk 28.2%, Dystopian 25.6%, Multiple Endings 10.5%, Sci-fi 10.1%, Story Rich 9.4%
Why You'll Like It: A cinematic, choice-heavy cyberpunk narrative that explores themes of identity and humanity in a dystopian future.
- #4 Disco Elysium - The Final Cut
95% matchVery Positive93% of 128,412 reviews2019
Dev: ZA/UM
Windows · Mac
Median: 7.4 hrsMean: 22.7 hrs≥1hr: 85%
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: RPG 37.1%, Story Rich 36.3%, Atmospheric 11.8%, Exploration 8.6%, Adventure 3.3%
Why You'll Like It: The gold standard for narrative-heavy, choice-driven RPGs that utilize internal dialogue and dice-based skill checks.
- #5 Gamedec - Definitive Edition
94% matchMostly Positive80% of 1,711 reviews2021
Dev: Anshar StudiosPub: Anshar Publishing
Windows
Median: 5.3 hrsMean: 6.8 hrs≥1hr: 90%
Gamedec is a single-player cyberpunk isometric RPG. You are a game detective, who solves crimes inside virtual worlds. Use your wits to gather info from your witnesses and suspects, getting to the bottom of deceptive schemes. The game continually adapts to your decisions and never judges.
Why similar: Cyberpunk 33.9%, Text-Based 16.2%, Multiple Endings 12%, Story Rich 11.4%, RPG 10.9%
Why You'll Like It: A cyberpunk investigation RPG that emphasizes player choice and consequence over traditional combat.
- #6 NORCO
94% matchVery Positive92% of 3,163 reviews2022
Dev: Geography of RobotsPub: Raw Fury
Windows · Mac
Median: 3.1 hrsMean: 5.6 hrs≥1hr: 65%
NORCO is a dialogue-focused point & click adventure that immerses the player in the sinking suburbs and industrial swamplands of an increasingly surreal and distorted South Louisiana.
Why similar: Dystopian 61.1%, Story Rich 22%, Atmospheric 12.7%, Adventure 4.2%
Why You'll Like It: An atmospheric, narrative-focused exploration game that captures a similar sense of surreal, dystopian melancholy.
- #7 Roadwarden
92% matchVery Positive94% of 5,066 reviews2022
Dev: Moral Anxiety StudioPub: Assemble Entertainment
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 1.2 hrsMean: 7.4 hrs≥1hr: 54%
Roadwarden is an illustrated text-based RPG that uses isometric pixel art and combines mechanics borrowed from RPGs, Visual Novels, adventure games and interactive fiction.
Why similar: Text-Based 35.3%, RPG 18.9%, Interactive Fiction 18.7%, Story Rich 10%, Multiple Endings 7.8%
Why You'll Like It: An illustrated text-based RPG that rewards exploration and careful decision-making in a harsh, atmospheric world.
- #8 Neo Cab
93% matchMostly Positive79% of 2,838 reviews2019
Dev: Chance AgencyPub: Fellow Traveller
Windows · Mac
Median: 2.8 hrsMean: 7.3 hrs≥1hr: 66%
A visual novel about emotional survival in an automated world. Play as Lina, the last human cab driver. It’s your first night driving the lonely streets of Los Ojos, and your best friend has just disappeared. Stay on the road. Stay on the search. Stay human.
Why similar: Dialogue Heavy 20%, Cyberpunk 19.3%, Narrative 18.2% ★, Interactive Fiction 10.9%, Multiple Endings 7.3%
Why You'll Like It: A cyberpunk narrative game focused on human interaction and survival in a world dominated by automation.
- #9 Silicon Dreams | cyberpunk interrogation
91% matchVery Positive94% of 255 reviews2021
Dev: James PattonPub: Clockwork Bird
Windows · Mac · Linux
It’s 2065, and you are an interrogator-model android tasked with rooting out deviants among your own kind. You must probe for lies, monitor and exploit emotional spikes, earn the trust of your subjects, and make the final call: release, or destroy?
Why similar: Cyberpunk 25.3%, Dystopian 16.9%, Dialogue Heavy 15.2%, Multiple Endings 9.9%, Futuristic 9%
Why You'll Like It: A dialogue-heavy cyberpunk game that tasks you with navigating complex social dynamics and moral dilemmas.
- #10 The Pale Beyond
91% matchVery Positive89% of 2,210 reviews2023
Dev: Saltstone StudiosPub: Fellow Traveller
Windows · Mac
Median: 2.4 hrsMean: 13.2 hrs≥1hr: 63%
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: Narrative 46.9% ★, Interactive Fiction 13.8%, Hand-drawn 13.3%, Story Rich 11.8%, Exploration 5.7%
Why You'll Like It: A high-stakes survival game that forces you to manage resources and crew morale through difficult, narrative-defining choices.
- #11 VA-11 Hall-A: Cyberpunk Bartender Action
90% matchOverwhelmingly Positive97% of 38,383 reviews2016
Dev: Sukeban GamesPub: Ysbryd Games
Windows · Linux
Median: 5.5 hrsMean: 31.2 hrs≥1hr: 86%
VA-11 HALL-A: Cyberpunk Bartender Action is a booze em' up about waifus, technology, and post-dystopia life.
Why similar: Cyberpunk 42.8%, Dystopian 31.3%, Story Rich 12.1%, Sci-fi 11.7%, Adventure 2.1%
Why You'll Like It: A character-driven narrative experience that excels at building a lived-in, cyberpunk world through dialogue and human connection.
- #12 Colony Ship: A Post-Earth Role Playing Game
89% matchVery Positive88% of 4,048 reviews2023
Dev: Iron Tower Studio
Windows
Median: 6.4 hrsMean: 22.3 hrs≥1hr: 77%
Colony Ship is a turn-based, party-based role-playing game set aboard a generation ship launched to Proxima Centauri. The game features a detailed skill-based character system, multiple ways to handle quests, choices & consequences, and branching dialogue trees.
Why similar: Cyberpunk 24.7%, Dystopian 17.3%, Dialogue Heavy 14.1%, Space 9.3%, RPG 9.3%
Why You'll Like It: A tactical, choice-heavy sci-fi RPG that explores the complex social structures of a generation ship.
- #13 Sunless Skies: Sovereign Edition
89% matchVery Positive84% of 3,454 reviews2019
Dev: Failbetter Games
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 2.5 hrsMean: 17.5 hrs≥1hr: 66%
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: RPG 22.8%, Story Rich 22.3%, Space 21.2%, Exploration 15.6%, Atmospheric 10.3%
Why You'll Like It: An exploration-heavy RPG with rich, atmospheric writing and a focus on managing resources in a hostile environment.
- #14 Griftlands
87% matchVery Positive94% of 14,408 reviews2021
Dev: Klei Entertainment
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 5.4 hrsMean: 14.5 hrs≥1hr: 85%
Griftlands is a deck-building roguelite where you negotiate, fight, steal or otherwise persuade others to get your way. Every decision is important, be it the jobs you take, the friends you make, or the cards you collect.
Why similar: Hand-drawn 21.9%, RPG 21.6%, Story Rich 20.3%, Sci-fi 18.6%, Multiple Endings 17.6%
Why You'll Like It: A unique blend of deckbuilding and RPG elements where narrative choices and social combat are just as important as physical battles.
- #15 2064: Read Only Memories
88% matchMostly Positive79% of 1,673 reviews2015
Dev: MidBoss, LLC.Pub: Chorus Worldwide Games
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 3.7 hrsMean: 4.8 hrs≥1hr: 89%
2064: Read Only Memories is a cyberpunk point-and-click adventure set in Neo-San Francisco. Team up with Turing, the world's first sapient machine, to unravel a conspiracy that threatens to shake an entire society
Why similar: Cyberpunk 24.2%, Dialogue Heavy 23.2%, Interactive Fiction 13.5%, Multiple Endings 8.8%, Sci-fi 8.6%
Why You'll Like It: A classic cyberpunk narrative adventure that excels at world-building and character-driven storytelling.
- #16 Wildermyth
86% matchVery Positive95% of 18,187 reviews2021
Dev: Worldwalker Games LLC
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 6.3 hrsMean: 18.4 hrs≥1hr: 82%
Wildermyth follows heroes over their whole careers, from their pitchfork days to their powerful primes, and on into old age and memory. It’s a party-based procedural storytelling RPG where tactical combat and story decisions will alter your world and reshape your cast of characters.
Why similar: Hand-drawn 37.5%, Story Rich 36.8%, RPG 22.2%, Indie 3.5%
Why You'll Like It: A tabletop-inspired RPG that features procedural storytelling and character growth that feels deeply personal.
- #17 Read Only Memories: NEURODIVER
86% matchMostly Positive72% of 218 reviews2024
Dev: MidBoss, LLC.Pub: Chorus Worldwide Games
Windows · Mac · Linux
Read Only Memories: NEURODIVER is a story-rich adventure and the sequel to 2064: Read Only Memories. Explore the rich world with an intuitive point-and-click interface as you take on the role of a young psychic agent tasked with tracking down a mysterious antagonist hiding in people's memories.
Why similar: Cyberpunk 20.4%, Dialogue Heavy 19.1%, Narrative 17.8% ★, Interactive Fiction 11.2%, Multiple Endings 7.2%
Why You'll Like It: A cyberpunk narrative adventure that continues the focus on character-driven mystery and world-building.
- #18 NeuroNet: Mendax Proxy
85% matchVery Positive82% of 66 reviews2023
Dev: Dream Harvest
Windows
You are Arc, a city management AI. Designed to manage a city-wide AR metaverse known as the NeuroNet. Meet its many users, build relationships and help or hinder their lives while trying to balance the wider needs of the city. Find your humanity in a world losing theirs to technology.
Why similar: Cyberpunk 23.5%, Dialogue Heavy 16.6%, Text-Based 13.8%, Futuristic 12.3%, Interactive Fiction 11.6%
Why You'll Like It: A cyberpunk management game that focuses on the moral weight of your decisions in a sprawling city.
- #19 VED
84% matchMostly Positive79% of 76 reviews2024
Dev: KaraclanPub: Fulqrum Publishing
Windows
VED is a story-driven, hand-drawn RPG with a unique turn-based combat system and roguelite elements. Set in two different worlds, VED tells the story of Cyrus, a young hero who sets out on a quest to become a master of sword and magic, and save everything he knows from destruction.
Why similar: Dice 65.1% ★, Hand-drawn 14.3%, Story Rich 8.8%, RPG 8.8%, Adventure 1.6%
Why You'll Like It: A hand-drawn RPG that incorporates dice-based mechanics and a strong emphasis on narrative choices.
- #20 Pentiment
82% matchOverwhelmingly Positive95% of 9,484 reviews2022
Dev: Obsidian EntertainmentPub: Xbox Game Studios
Windows
Median: 4.9 hrsMean: 10.5 hrs≥1hr: 72%
Step into a living illustrated world in a time when Europe is at a crossroads of great religious and political change. Walk in the footsteps of Andreas Maler, a master artist who finds himself in the middle of murders, scandals, and intrigue in the Bavarian Alps.
Why similar: Narrative 28.4% ★, Interactive Fiction 19.3%, Hand-drawn 18.2%, Story Rich 12.6%, Multiple Endings 12.5%
Why You'll Like It: A narrative-heavy RPG where your choices have long-term consequences that ripple through the lives of the characters you meet.
- #21 cyberpunkdreams
83% matchMostly Positive79% of 1,283 reviews2021
Dev: Late Night Games
Windows · Linux
Median: 3.7 hrsMean: 160.7 hrs≥1hr: 65%
2090s America, torn apart by war and corporate greed. A lone traveller stands outside the gates of Cincinnati, greatest of the border cities. How far will you go to make it to the top? How far will you go to fulfil your mission?
Why similar: Cyberpunk 24.2%, Dystopian 15%, Text-Based 14.7%, Interactive Fiction 13%, Hand-drawn 8.2%
Why You'll Like It: A text-based cyberpunk RPG that offers deep narrative freedom and extensive world-building.
- #22 The Away Team: Lost Exodus
84% matchMostly Positive73% of 100 reviews2016
Dev: Underflow Studios
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 3.6 hrsMean: 5.3 hrs≥1hr: 94%
In this interactive sci-fi adventure novel, you are the AI pilot of Earth's last interstellar ship, tasked with finding a home for your crew—the last remnants of humanity. Your choices will determine their fate, and your own.
Why similar: Artificial Intelligence 19.8%, Dialogue Heavy 14.6%, Interactive Fiction 12.8%, Text-Based 11.5%, Sci-fi 9%
Why You'll Like It: A narrative-heavy sci-fi adventure that centers on survival and the consequences of your leadership decisions.
- #23 Hardspace: Shipbreaker
81% matchVery Positive89% of 22,140 reviews2022
Dev: Blackbird Interactive
Windows
Median: 4.7 hrsMean: 24.0 hrs≥1hr: 86%
Equipped with cutting-edge salvaging tech, carve & slice spaceships to recover valuable materials. Upgrade your gear to take on more lucrative contracts and pay your billion credits debt to LYNX Corp!
Why similar: Space 33.4%, Sci-fi 26.2%, Dystopian 25.9%, Futuristic 14.5%
Why You'll Like It: Captures the blue-collar, dystopian sci-fi aesthetic while focusing on the methodical, resource-driven work of a space-faring laborer.
- #24 A Long Journey to an Uncertain End
82% matchMostly Positive75% of 57 reviews2023
Dev: Crispy Creative
Windows
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: Interactive Fiction 20.8%, Space 18.1%, Sci-fi 16.2%, Multiple Endings 14.7%, RPG 12.9%
Why You'll Like It: A narrative-driven space adventure that emphasizes resource management and crew relationships.
- #25 Aether & Iron
78% matchVery Positive84% of 502 reviews2026
Dev: Seismic Squirrel
Windows · Mac
Immerse yourself in this Decopunk Narrative RPG set in an alternate 1930s where anti-gravitational technology has taken cars, roads, and even New York City into the sky. Muster a crew, master tactical turn-based combat, and unravel the dark secrets lurking beneath the floating metropolis.
Why similar: Dice 47.1% ★, Hand-drawn 11.9%, Dialogue Heavy 11.1%, RPG 10.2%, Story Rich 9.5%
Why You'll Like It: A tactical RPG that combines deep narrative choices with an alternate-history sci-fi setting.
- #26 In Other Waters
81% matchVery Positive87% of 2,532 reviews2020
Dev: Jump Over The AgePub: Fellow Traveller
Windows · Mac
Median: 48 minMean: 4.5 hrs≥1hr: 44%
Play as an Artificial Intelligence guiding a stranded xenobiologist through a beautiful and mysterious alien ocean. A non-violent sci-fi story, enter a world of wonder, fear and vulnerability, unraveling the history and ecology of an impossible planet. What will you discover together?
Why similar: Artificial Intelligence 26.8%, Story Rich 14.2%, Sci-fi 10.3%, Exploration 10%, Futuristic 9.9%
Why You'll Like It: A sci-fi narrative game that uses a unique, minimalist interface to immerse you in a mysterious and alien world.
- #27 SIGNALIS
78% matchOverwhelmingly Positive97% of 33,267 reviews2022
Dev: rose-enginePub: Balor Games
Windows
Median: 5.5 hrsMean: 9.1 hrs≥1hr: 80%
A classic survival horror experience set in a dystopian future where humanity has uncovered a dark secret. Unravel a cosmic mystery, escape terrifying creatures, and scavenge an off-world government facility as Elster, a technician Replika searching for her lost dreams.
Why similar: Dystopian 33.6%, Cyberpunk 33%, Sci-fi 22.3%, Atmospheric 8.9%, Adventure 2.2%
Why You'll Like It: A sci-fi survival game that explores themes of android identity and dystopian dread through a haunting, atmospheric lens.
- #28 Esoteric Ebb
76% matchOverwhelmingly Positive95% of 8,118 reviews2026
Dev: Christoffer BodegårdPub: Raw Fury
Windows
Median: 4.7 hrsMean: 10.6 hrs≥1hr: 79%
Esoteric Ebb is a single-player CRPG inspired by the freedom of tabletop adventures. Unravel a political conspiracy with your goblin sidekick. Roll dice in tense encounters. Become a cleric of legends or completely ruin the campaign.
Why similar: Narrative 29% ★, Tabletop 15.2%, Interactive Fiction 14.2%, Hand-drawn 12%, Story Rich 10.6%
- #29 Paradise Killer
79% matchVery Positive93% of 4,463 reviews2020
Dev: Kaizen Game WorksPub: Fellow Traveller
Windows
Median: 5.0 hrsMean: 7.3 hrs≥1hr: 86%
Paradise Island, a world outside reality. There’s been a murder that only "investigation freak" Lady Love Dies can solve. Gather evidence and interrogate suspects in this open world adventure. You can accuse anyone, but you’ll have to prove your case in trial. It’s up to you to decide who’s guilty.
Why similar: Multiple Endings 27.4%, Story Rich 23.4%, RPG 21.8%, Exploration 14.2%, Atmospheric 12.5%
Why You'll Like It: An open-world investigation game with a distinct aesthetic and a deep, branching narrative.
- #30 Life of a Space Force Captain
79% matchVery Positive85% of 62 reviews2022
Dev: Hosted Games
Windows · Mac · Linux
Live a full life in the future as a human, an alien, or even a robot as you rise through the ranks to become captain of your very own starship.
Why similar: Text-Based 25.6%, Space 21.8%, Interactive Fiction 18.4%, Sci-fi 15.2%, RPG 14.7%
Why You'll Like It: A text-based sci-fi RPG that allows for significant narrative branching based on your character's choices.
- #31 Duskpunk
77% matchVery Positive91% of 174 reviews2025
Dev: Clockwork Bird
Windows · Mac · Linux
A gritty dice-driven RPG, in a steampunk city. You escaped the War, but how to survive? Explore the city. Build up your skills. Decide who to trust. Choose carefully: you might just spark a revolution!
Why similar: Dialogue Heavy 18.8%, Tabletop 18.8%, Text-Based 12.5%, Dystopian 11.8%, Hand-drawn 7.9%
- #32 Star Nomad 2
80% matchMostly Positive72% of 158 reviews2015
Dev: Huy Phan
Windows · Mac
A space trader & combat sim meets squad-RPG, large scale conquest, choice driven gameplay with fluid & punchy tactical real-time combat set in a dynamic open-world sandbox.
Why similar: Space 29.3%, Cyberpunk 21.8%, RPG 20.8%, Sci-fi 15.8%, Futuristic 9.3%
Why You'll Like It: A space RPG that blends exploration and resource management with a focus on player agency.
- #33 Friendsim 2
76% matchVery Positive89% of 104 reviews2022
Dev: Studio June
Windows · Mac
In this episodic visual novel, follow the adventures of MSPA Reader as they return to Alternia once more to save their friends... and realize that nothing is as it seems.
Why similar: Dystopian 17.3%, Cyberpunk 14.5%, Hand-drawn 14%, Dialogue Heavy 12.7%, Sci-fi 11.8%
- #34 Neoproxima
75% matchVery Positive97% of 71 reviews2024
Dev: Lonestone Studio
Windows
Investigating a time-loop during the Cold War, light years away from Earth. Neoproxima is a text-based adventure game that combines exploration and simple RPG and survival mechanics. Plan your next loop carefully, and go as far as possible before time catches up with you.
Why similar: Narrative 34.5% ★, Dystopian 17.4%, Sci-fi 10.7%, Space 7.9%, Story Rich 7.3%
- #35 Sentience: The Android's Tale
77% matchVery Positive83% of 387 reviews2017
Dev: Pilgrim AdventuresPub: GrabTheGames
Windows · Mac
Median: 4.5 hrsMean: 7.3 hrs≥1hr: 92%
You can remember nothing before this moment. Your existence begins with a keystroke followed by the flick of a switch. Electrical power streams into your neural network, and you are alive.
Why similar: Cyberpunk 20.6%, Futuristic 14.6%, Sci-fi 14.1%, Space 12.3%, Multiple Endings 11.8%
- #36 Au Revoir
73% matchVery Positive95% of 123 reviews2025
Dev: Invisible StudioPub: Nuntius Games
Windows
Play as Tristan and solve puzzles to recover human consciousnesses in the year 2071. Investigate environments, uncover secrets, and make choices that affect the ending. Explore a neon-noir world with a low poly aesthetic inspired by the 90s.
Why similar: Cyberpunk 27.5%, Text-Based 14.4%, Interactive Fiction 11.8%, Sci-fi 11.3%, Story Rich 9.3%
- #37 Cyber Manhunt 2: New World - The Hacking Simulator
72% matchVery Positive93% of 5,524 reviews2025
Dev: Aluba Van+Pub: Spiral Up Games
Windows · Mac
Median: 10.1 hrsMean: 22.0 hrs≥1hr: 95%
Discover a digital realm shrouded in mystery. Sequel to an award-winning narrative driven hacking simulator puzzle game. Play as an AI assistant in a major corporation. Deploy intricate social engineering tactics and expose hidden truths in a world of ambition and high-tech deception.
Why similar: Dystopian 52.4%, Story Rich 21.2%, RPG 14.1%, Atmospheric 12.2%
- #38 Vessels
75% matchVery Positive95% of 123 reviews2020
Dev: Local Space Survey CorpsPub: Local Space Survey Corps, LLC
Windows · Mac · Linux
Quarantined inside an airlock. No memories. No way out. The remaining crew thinks there’s something wrong with you, but the Voice says it’ll help you escape. Navigate volatile conversations & unravel mysteries in this narrative adventure about trust, self-destruction, & shifting identities.
Why similar: Narrative 40.4% ★, Dialogue Heavy 15.4%, Space 9.6%, Sci-fi 8.8%, Multiple Endings 7.3%
- #39 Stellar Tactics
71% matchMostly Positive78% of 1,706 reviews2026
Dev: Don WilkinsPub: Maverick Games
Windows
Median: 3.0 hrsMean: 14.7 hrs≥1hr: 68%
A Sci-Fi role-playing game featuring turn-based ground combat, space exploration, deep character customization and a massive living universe with thousands of star systems. Equip your ships with the best equipment you can find, gather a powerful crew of mercenaries and set out into the void!
Why similar: Space 26.6%, Sci-fi 22.5%, RPG 22.3%, Exploration 16.7%, Atmospheric 8.4%
- #40 Lacuna – A Sci-Fi Noir Adventure
73% matchVery Positive92% of 2,886 reviews2021
Dev: DigiTales InteractivePub: Assemble Entertainment
Windows
Median: 3.0 hrsMean: 4.9 hrs≥1hr: 76%
A murder. A hack. A bombing. All it takes to plunge the solar system into war – unless you do something about it. Help CDI agent Neil Conrad make a string of increasingly difficult decisions in this modern dialog-driven adventure set in a gorgeous 2D sci-fi noir universe.
Why similar: Cyberpunk 22.2%, Text-Based 14.2%, Interactive Fiction 13.4%, Dialogue Heavy 13.2%, Sci-fi 10%
- #41 Beyond a Steel Sky
73% matchVery Positive88% of 1,631 reviews2020
Dev: Revolution Software Ltd
Windows · Linux
Median: 5.0 hrsMean: 6.3 hrs≥1hr: 90%
From multi-award winning Revolution comes ‘Beyond a Steel Sky’, a groundbreaking 3D adventure thriller, set in an AI-driven future. Subvert the world, hack the systems and solve dark conspiracies to uncover the devastating truth.
Why similar: Cyberpunk 33.4%, Dystopian 26.2%, Sci-fi 13.8%, Futuristic 11.4%, Story Rich 9.6%
- #42 Lightracer: For Judge
70% matchVery Positive93% of 488 reviews2025
Dev: Smartmelon Games
Windows
In a dystopian future, as The Judge with immense power, you journey through space to find hope in a divided society. This sci-fi adventure explores hope amidst adversity.
Why similar: Dystopian 22%, Cyberpunk 20.1%, Space 14.3%, Sci-fi 11%, Multiple Endings 10%
- #43 Space Pilgrim Episode II: Epsilon Indi
74% matchVery Positive82% of 987 reviews2016
Dev: Pilgrim AdventuresPub: GrabTheGames
Windows
Median: 3.3 hrsMean: 5.5 hrs≥1hr: 86%
One year after the events of Episode I, Captain Pilgrim is once again carrying a shipload of passengers between star systems. This time her guests include a mysterious priestess, a wayward youth and a robotics genius.
Why similar: Adventure 36.1%, Space 24.6%, Sci-fi 19.1%, Story Rich 10.9%, RPG 3.6%
- #44 No More Future
71% matchVery Positive99% of 129 reviews2022
Dev: Sedge
Windows
In the last days of their life, a dying person takes one final gamble... No More Future is a linear Sci-Fi Visual Novel, where you explore a futuristic world as an android trying to rebuild their old life. In this strange journey, they'll question the very foundations of their life and their world.
Why similar: Text-Based 23.4%, Cyberpunk 18.6%, Dystopian 15.4%, Futuristic 13.3%, Story Rich 12.6%
- #45 Stories from Sol: The Gun-Dog
69% matchVery Positive91% of 941 reviews2025
Dev: Space Colony StudiosPub: Astrolabe Games
Windows · Linux
Median: 2.9 hrsMean: 4.3 hrs≥1hr: 65%
Survive the mystery that awaits the JFS Gun-Dog in deep space in this retro visual novel / graphic adventure.
Why similar: Sci-fi 19.5%, Interactive Fiction 18.8%, Space 16.4%, Multiple Endings 15%, Story Rich 11.3%
- #46 Saturn
70% matchMostly Positive77% of 1,204 reviews2024
Dev: Ninsar Games
Windows
Saturn is a tactical RPG set on the moons of Saturn and on Earth. The protagonist controls robots on the moons of Saturn and explores an underground city where one can find keys to the secrets of deep space.
Why similar: Cyberpunk 20%, Dialogue Heavy 14.3%, Futuristic 13.6%, RPG 11.9%, Story Rich 10.7%
- #47 Starstruck Vagabond
70% matchVery Positive86% of 565 reviews2024
Dev: Ben 'Yahtzee' Croshaw
Windows
A space captain accidentally freezes themselves for two thousand years, finding themselves in an unfamiliar galaxy. Fortunately, there's always someone who needs cargo delivered.
Why similar: Sci-fi 33.6%, Story Rich 28.5%, Multiple Endings 12.1%, Exploration 11.6%, Adventure 10.8%
- #48 Sky Caravan
71% matchVery Positive98% of 56 reviews2022
Dev: Studio Bravarda
Windows
Welcome to the Skyways, caravaneer. Complete missions, manage your ship’s resources and make tough decisions to keep your crew alive and happy. Or not. Choices have lasting consequences in this Text-Based RPG. You are the captain - and the clouds are waiting!
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 27.3%, Text-Based 22%, RPG 16.8%, Sci-fi 11.1%, Story Rich 9.5%
- #49 Beholder: Conductor
67% matchVery Positive91% of 4,605 reviews2025
Dev: Alawar
Windows · Mac
Median: 3.6 hrsMean: 4.6 hrs≥1hr: 87%
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: Dystopian 51.5%, Multiple Endings 19.1%, Story Rich 17.2%, Atmospheric 8.6%, Indie 3.6%
- #50 Cloudpunk
69% matchVery Positive88% of 15,271 reviews2020
Dev: ION LANDS
Windows
Median: 2.6 hrsMean: 8.2 hrs≥1hr: 69%
A neon-noir story in a rain-drenched cyberpunk metropolis. It’s your first night on the job working for the Cloudpunk delivery service. Two rules: Don’t miss a delivery and don’t ask what’s in the package.
Why similar: Cyberpunk 41.9%, Futuristic 14.5%, Sci-fi 13.7%, Story Rich 9%, RPG 6.7%
- #51 Starship Inspector
72% matchMixed61% of 51 reviews2021
Dev: Vedanta Team
Windows
Starship Inspector is a Space Roguelike in which every choice you make matters. Save a galaxy or rescue your crew member? Serve an evil empire or help an ancient tribe? You'll constantly have to make hard decisions and deal with consequences.
Why similar: Space 25.3%, Sci-fi 21.6%, RPG 21.2%, Story Rich 9.8%, Adventure 8%
- #52 Dead Reckoning: The Long Drift
67% matchVery Positive81% of 75 reviews2026
Dev: Garan LornPub: Selenodrome
Windows · Linux
A dream among the stars — or a nightmare. 1,000 colonists in the dark between stars. Every pragmatic decision rewrites who they are. Discover what your choices mean for humanity, for better or worse.
Why similar: Text-Based 18.4%, Space 17.9%, Interactive Fiction 17.4%, Sci-fi 15.2%, Multiple Endings 14.6%
- #53 Cogmind
69% matchOverwhelmingly Positive96% of 1,977 reviews2017
Dev: Grid Sage Games
Windows
Median: 3.9 hrsMean: 40.6 hrs≥1hr: 75%
Cogmind is a sci-fi roguelike epic in which you play a robot building yourself from components found or salvaged from other robots. Explore a living, breathing world through turn-based tactical combat, or sneak, hack, and fly your way to victory.
Why similar: Sci-fi 35.8%, Story Rich 26%, RPG 21.1%, Atmospheric 17.1%
- #54 StarCrawlers Chimera
68% matchMostly Positive76% of 63 reviews2024
Dev: Juggernaut Games
Windows
StarCrawlers Chimera is a first-person, turn-based, cyberpunk RPG. Customize your character skills and dive into the Chimera complex to find the elusive Dr. Cerberus. Are you a stealthy cyberninja? A crazed pyromaniac soldier? Mind-bending void psyker? Or... a bit of all of them?
Why similar: Cyberpunk 37%, Dystopian 19.1%, Sci-fi 14%, RPG 12.1%, Futuristic 9.5%
- #55 Ostranauts
68% matchVery Positive81% of 2,676 reviews2020
Dev: Blue Bottle GamesPub: Kitfox Games
Windows
Median: 5.7 hrsMean: 31.3 hrs≥1hr: 73%
Navigate your scrappy ship through the boneyard in search of valuable parts in abandoned vessels. Use salvage to upgrade your ship, or sell it for cash to pay down your mounting debt, or restock fuel, air, or food. Fly and role-play aboard your dream spaceship in this hardcore noir space-sim.
Why similar: Cyberpunk 31.9%, Space 30.8%, Sci-fi 14.6%, Exploration 11.7%, RPG 11%
- #56 Keep Driving
64% matchVery Positive94% of 6,180 reviews2025
Dev: YCJY Games
Windows
Median: 3.7 hrsMean: 7.4 hrs≥1hr: 75%
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: RPG 28.2%, Multiple Endings 26.2%, Atmospheric 18.1%, Exploration 15.6%, Adventure 6.7%
- #57 Sector Unknown
65% matchVery Positive81% of 360 reviews2026
Dev: Creative Storm Entertainment
Windows
Sector Unknown is a solo-developed, isometric sci-fi RPG set in a shadowy expanse of space. Begin on a desolate planet, establish a stronghold, explore space, ally with or dominate local factions, and combat a despotic organization set on ruthlessly exploiting the sector's resources and inhabitants.
Why similar: Dialogue Heavy 39.1%, RPG 18.8%, Multiple Endings 16%, Story Rich 14.1%, Exploration 6.9%
- #58 Star Traders: Frontiers
68% matchVery Positive84% of 3,789 reviews2018
Dev: Trese Brothers
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 3.4 hrsMean: 24.7 hrs≥1hr: 74%
You are the captain of a starship venturing through a massive open universe. Customize your crew and take command at the helm of your very own ship as you explore a galaxy torn apart by internal strife, alien threats, and political intrigue.
Why similar: Sci-fi 45.3%, Space 32.1%, RPG 22.7%
- #59 Chaos Chain
66% matchVery Positive96% of 68 reviews2022
Dev: Corrosive Studios LLC
Windows
A dark cyberpunk RPG in a bleak dystopian future. Become a "freelancer" in the heart of Slade City, a sprawling urban nightmare of grimy asphalt and broken dreams where crime and disorder run rampant. - Stay Alert. Stay Armed. Stay Alive. Don't lose your humanity.
Why similar: Cyberpunk 28.9%, Dystopian 21.1%, Futuristic 11.9%, Sci-fi 10.9%, RPG 9%