Games Like Citizen Sleeper 2: Starward Vector

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 19.5% ★, Narrative 11.5% ★, Cyberpunk 8.2%, Dystopian 7.1%, Tabletop 7%

Why You'll Like It: As the direct predecessor, it shares the exact dice-driven mechanics, cyberpunk atmosphere, and heartfelt narrative style of the sequel.

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 32.1%, Text-Based 16.9%, Multiple Endings 12.3%, Story Rich 10.8%, RPG 10.2%

Why You'll Like It: A choice-heavy, cyberpunk investigation RPG that focuses on narrative consequences rather than combat.

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 28.8%, Story Rich 28.8%, Point & Click 17.8%, Atmospheric 10.5%, Exploration 7.9%

Why You'll Like It: This is the gold standard for dice-based narrative RPGs, offering unparalleled depth in character development and choice-driven storytelling.

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 21.4%, Futuristic 18.3%, Sci-fi 15.5%, Multiple Endings 15.1%, Story Rich 11.8%

Why You'll Like It: Combines life-sim elements with a branching narrative and deck-building mechanics that feel similar to the dice-based progression of the seed game.

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 45% ★, Interactive Fiction 14.2%, Hand-drawn 13.1%, Story Rich 11.3%, Exploration 6.4%

Why You'll Like It: It mirrors the high-stakes crew management and resource survival mechanics found in the Starward Belt.

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 23.9%, Dystopian 17.3%, Dialogue Heavy 15%, Space 9.7%, Multiple Endings 9.5%

Why You'll Like It: Offers a gritty, tactical, and choice-heavy sci-fi experience that emphasizes the harsh realities of life in space.

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 25.1%, Dystopian 23.3%, Multiple Endings 10.1%, Sci-fi 9%, Story Rich 8.5%

Why You'll Like It: A cinematic, choice-heavy cyberpunk narrative that explores the relationship between humans and technology.

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: Cyberpunk 18.8%, Narrative 17.7% ★, Dialogue Heavy 11.9%, Interactive Fiction 11.4%, Multiple Endings 7.7%

Why You'll Like It: A cyberpunk narrative game that focuses on human connection and survival in a world dominated by automation.

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 46.7%, Point & Click 21.6%, Story Rich 16.5%, Atmospheric 10.9%, Adventure 4.3%

Why You'll Like It: A masterclass in atmospheric, narrative-driven sci-fi that captures the same melancholic, dystopian tone.

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 36.5%, Interactive Fiction 18.6%, RPG 17.4%, Story Rich 9.2%, Multiple Endings 7.7%

Why You'll Like It: A text-based RPG that emphasizes exploration, survival, and managing your limited resources in a hostile environment.

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 22.5%, Dialogue Heavy 15.6%, Dystopian 15.4%, Multiple Endings 9.5%, Futuristic 9%

Why You'll Like It: Focuses on the interrogation and dialogue-heavy aspects of cyberpunk, mirroring the narrative depth of the seed game.

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: Space 21.1%, RPG 21%, Story Rich 20.6%, Exploration 17%, Atmospheric 11%

Why You'll Like It: Features deep exploration and resource management within a unique, atmospheric sci-fi setting.

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 20.7%, Text-Based 14.5%, Dialogue Heavy 14.3%, Interactive Fiction 13.4%, Futuristic 10.4%

Why You'll Like It: A detective-focused sci-fi game where your choices carry significant weight and impact the narrative outcome.

VA-11 HALL-A: Cyberpunk Bartender Action is a booze em' up about waifus, technology, and post-dystopia life.

Why similar: Cyberpunk 37.5%, Dystopian 28.2%, Point & Click 10.8%, Story Rich 10.7%, Sci-fi 10.3%

Why You'll Like It: Focuses on the slice-of-life aspect of cyberpunk, where the narrative is driven by the human stories of the people you meet.

Immerse yourself in an enchanting narrative experience as Fortuna, a fortune-teller Witch condemned to exile on her asteroid home. Craft your own Tarot deck, regain your freedom, and shape the fate of the cosmic Witch society.

Why similar: Narrative 38% ★, Interactive Fiction 36.9%, Story Rich 15.4%, Adventure 5%, Indie 3.1%

Why You'll Like It: A narrative-focused game with unique mechanics and deep, branching choices that impact the world around you.

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 19.8%, Narrative 17.2% ★, Interactive Fiction 11.7%, Dialogue Heavy 11%, Multiple Endings 7.5%

Why You'll Like It: Continues the cyberpunk narrative tradition with a focus on memory-diving and character-driven investigation.

Having lost everything, a retired, hardboiled detective, John Cooper, must take his last case to find a missing upper-class girl among the lowest parts of the dystopian city-planet Terrahive. Choose your unique path in this atmospheric narrative future-noir thriller.

Why similar: Cyberpunk 25.8%, Interactive Fiction 16.6%, Dystopian 16%, Point & Click 11%, Multiple Endings 10.3%

Why You'll Like It: A cyberpunk detective RPG that prioritizes narrative and world-building over traditional combat.

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 23.3%, Interactive Fiction 14%, Dialogue Heavy 13.4%, Futuristic 9.2%, Multiple Endings 9.2%

Why You'll Like It: A cyberpunk visual novel that explores themes of identity and technology through deep dialogue and branching paths.

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 28%, Dystopian 22.7%, Point & Click 12.6%, Sci-fi 11.6%, Futuristic 10.9%

Why You'll Like It: A classic cyberpunk adventure that excels in world-building and narrative-driven puzzle solving.

Discover a world where life is cheap, identities are bought & sold, & a quest for redemption can change the fate of a whole galaxy.

Why similar: Cyberpunk 32.1%, Point & Click 20%, Dystopian 16.3%, Sci-fi 15.3%, Story Rich 6.3%

Why You'll Like It: A noir-inspired cyberpunk adventure with a strong focus on narrative and character-driven storytelling.

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 21.8%, Dialogue Heavy 17.6%, Text-Based 14.1%, Futuristic 12.9%, Interactive Fiction 11.5%

Why You'll Like It: A dialogue-heavy management game that places you in a position of power within a dystopian city.

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 23.3%, Text-Based 15.7%, Dystopian 14.9%, Interactive Fiction 13.5%, Hand-drawn 8.2%

Why You'll Like It: A text-based RPG that captures the gritty, survivalist nature of living in a dystopian cyberpunk city.

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 37.9% ★, Dialogue Heavy 16.8%, Space 9.7%, Sci-fi 8.2%, Multiple Endings 7.3%

Why You'll Like It: An atmospheric narrative exploration game that captures the isolation of space travel.

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 33.5%, Cyberpunk 31.9%, Sci-fi 21.7%, Atmospheric 10%, Adventure 2.9%

Why You'll Like It: While more survival-horror, it shares the haunting android-centric themes and dystopian sci-fi aesthetic.

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 26.3%, Space 22%, Interactive Fiction 18.4%, Sci-fi 14.1%, RPG 13.6%

Why You'll Like It: A text-based sci-fi adventure that offers a variety of choices and RPG elements in a space-faring setting.

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 24.7% ★, Interactive Fiction 18.1%, Hand-drawn 16.1%, Multiple Endings 11.5%, Story Rich 11.1%

Why You'll Like It: A narrative-driven RPG that excels in choice and consequence, proving that deep storytelling can thrive without traditional combat.

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 40.1%, Futuristic 15.7%, Sci-fi 13.1%, Story Rich 8.7%, Atmospheric 6.5%

Why You'll Like It: An atmospheric delivery game that allows you to explore a sprawling cyberpunk city and engage with its inhabitants.

Loot, bribe, gamble, survive. The dice will be your savior or your downfall in this story-driven RPG. Every roll matters when trying to uncover cosmic horrors and outwit megacorps. Pray your next roll won’t be your last.

Why similar: Dice 27.6% ★, Narrative 16.3% ★, Cyberpunk 11.4%, Tabletop 7.8%, Dialogue Heavy 7.7%

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 26.4% ★, Tabletop 13.8%, Interactive Fiction 13.7%, Hand-drawn 11%, Story Rich 9.6%

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: Dialogue Heavy 19.3%, Interactive Fiction 15.6%, Text-Based 14.3%, Space 10.2%, Sci-fi 10.2%

Why You'll Like It: A choose-your-own-adventure style game that focuses on the management and survival of a space crew.

Justice.exe is a dialogue-heavy dystopian legal drama in which you defend sentient AI in court. Discover key story elements in dialogue, build your case by studying arguments, and engage the opposing counsel in wits, charisma and skullduggery. Small choices might alter the fate of your clients.

Why similar: Dystopian 24.7%, Cyberpunk 22%, Interactive Fiction 14.8%, Point & Click 10.2%, Multiple Endings 9.7%

Why You'll Like It: A dystopian simulation game with a strong narrative focus on morality and choice.

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 34.3%, Dystopian 25.2%, Sci-fi 24.9%, Futuristic 15.6%

Why You'll Like It: Captures the blue-collar, survivalist sci-fi theme of working for a corporation in a dangerous space environment.

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: Tabletop 19.9%, Text-Based 14.3%, Dystopian 12.6%, Dialogue Heavy 11.5%, Hand-drawn 8.5%

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 23.1%, Text-Based 13.4%, Interactive Fiction 10.7%, Point & Click 10.5%, Sci-fi 9.6%

Immerse yourself in this Decopunk Narrative RPG set in an alternate 1930s floating New York City. Play as smuggler Gia Randazzo, and gather a crew to take on the city’s Barons. Explore the world, Master Tactical Turn-Based Vehicular Combat, and Roll the Dice to influence those around you.

Why similar: Dice 39.7% ★, Dialogue Heavy 11.8%, Hand-drawn 11.2%, Point & Click 9.3%, RPG 9.3%

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 19.7%, Cyberpunk 17.5%, Space 13.5%, Sci-fi 9.6%, Multiple Endings 9.4%

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: Dice 31.1% ★, Tabletop 18.4%, RPG 10%, Interactive Fiction 9.2%, Multiple Endings 8.4%

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 30.4% ★, Dystopian 15.7%, Sci-fi 9.4%, Point & Click 8.6%, Space 7.5%

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 18%, Futuristic 14.5%, Sci-fi 12.4%, Space 11.6%, Multiple Endings 11.2%

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 16.8%, Dialogue Heavy 14.1%, Hand-drawn 13.7%, Cyberpunk 13.7%, Multiple Endings 11.9%

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 40.8%, Point & Click 21.7%, Story Rich 16.2%, Atmospheric 10.7%, RPG 10.7%

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 40.4%, Point & Click 16.5%, Multiple Endings 15.6%, Story Rich 13.2%, Atmospheric 7.5%

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 17.2%, Dialogue Heavy 14.4%, Futuristic 13.3%, RPG 10.2%, Story Rich 9.3%

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 21.1%, Space 18.5%, Sci-fi 15.4%, Multiple Endings 15%, RPG 12.1%

Continue Joey and Xefros’s adventure through the dark and dangerous planet Alternia. Meet dozens of unique and memorable characters, some more helpful than others, as you navigate this volatile alien culture. Hurry up! There’s a train to catch.

Why similar: Narrative 32.1% ★, Hand-drawn 14.4%, Point & Click 13.2%, Story Rich 9.5%, RPG 9.3%

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 24.6%, Text-Based 20.4%, RPG 14.1%, Point & Click 9.8%, Sci-fi 9.3%

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 26.8%, Sci-fi 20.8%, RPG 20.6%, Exploration 18.4%, Atmospheric 8.9%

In this retro-inspired adventure game you will have to race back home across the galaxy. Collect new friends on your journey. Make new enemies. You won't be able to save everyone. Who will you leave behind? Which civilizations will you save - or destroy - along the way?

Why similar: Space 18%, Multiple Endings 15.7%, Sci-fi 15.6%, Point & Click 15.3%, RPG 11.7%

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 42.7%, Space 22.8%, Sci-fi 16.3%, Story Rich 9.4%, Indie 3.4%

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 31.4%, Story Rich 26.2%, Adventure 13.9%, Exploration 13%, Multiple Endings 11.9%

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: Space 31.8%, Cyberpunk 30.5%, Sci-fi 14%, Exploration 13.3%, RPG 10.5%

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 30.3%, Cyberpunk 20.9%, RPG 19.9%, Sci-fi 15.2%, Futuristic 10.1%

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 19.2%, Space 18.4%, Interactive Fiction 17.4%, Multiple Endings 14.6%, Sci-fi 14.3%

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 22.1%, RPG 21.1%, Story Rich 20%, Multiple Endings 18.5%, Sci-fi 18.2%

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 24.3%, Cyberpunk 17.4%, Dystopian 14.9%, Futuristic 14.2%, Story Rich 11.9%

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 25.4%, Multiple Endings 25%, Atmospheric 19.2%, Exploration 16.4%, Adventure 8.3%

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 25.4%, Sci-fi 20.1%, RPG 19.6%, Adventure 10.3%, Story Rich 9.2%

When the truth is buried, go underground. Step into this new take on text-based adventure from the award-winning team behind Thomas Was Alone and Volume. A short story that hands you the fate of the world above, as a detective looking for answers on the Subsurface Circular.

Why similar: Text-Based 20.6%, Dialogue Heavy 18.7%, Cyberpunk 18.5%, Sci-fi 11.5%, Futuristic 10.5%

It begins with a kidnapped captain and a stolen ship. Where it leads next? That’s up to you… In this story-driven adventure game you will explore strange and wonderful communities, uncover a deep conspiracy, and chart a journey through twists and turns, difficulties and delights.

Why similar: Interactive Fiction 31.9%, Hand-drawn 26.3%, Point & Click 19.5%, Story Rich 16.3%, Adventure 6%