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 21.4% ★, Narrative 11.2% ★, Cyberpunk 7.8%, Tabletop 7.2%, Dystopian 6.9%

Why You'll Like It: The direct predecessor that established the core dice-driven RPG mechanics and heartfelt, character-focused 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 20.9%, Futuristic 17.1%, Sci-fi 16.3%, Multiple Endings 14.9%, Story Rich 12.3%

Why You'll Like It: A life-sim RPG that masterfully balances narrative choices with deckbuilding mechanics to shape the protagonist's future.

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 35.7%, RPG 18.7%, Interactive Fiction 18.6%, Story Rich 9.8%, Multiple Endings 7.8%

Why You'll Like It: A text-based, choice-heavy RPG that captures the feeling of exploring a dangerous, atmospheric world through limited resources and careful decision-making.

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 28.1%, Dystopian 25.7%, Multiple Endings 10.6%, Sci-fi 10.1%, Story Rich 9.4%

Why You'll Like It: A cinematic, choice-driven cyberpunk narrative that explores the intersection of humanity and advanced technology.

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 36.9%, Story Rich 36.3%, Atmospheric 11.8%, Exploration 8.8%, Adventure 3.3%

Why You'll Like It: The gold standard for narrative-heavy, choice-driven RPGs that prioritize internal monologue and character growth over traditional combat.

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 22.6%, Story Rich 22.2%, Space 21%, Exploration 16%, Atmospheric 10.4%

Why You'll Like It: An exploration-heavy sci-fi RPG that emphasizes narrative discovery and the management of a ship and its crew.

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 61.4%, Story Rich 21.8%, Atmospheric 12.6%, Adventure 4.2%

Why You'll Like It: A surreal, deeply atmospheric narrative game that explores themes of decay and identity in a dystopian, near-future setting.

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 45.5%, Space 32%, RPG 22.6%

Why You'll Like It: Offers deep ship management and crew-based RPG mechanics within a vast, dynamic sci-fi universe.

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 47.3% ★, Interactive Fiction 13.7%, Hand-drawn 13.3%, Story Rich 11.6%, Exploration 5.7%

Why You'll Like It: Focuses on the high-stakes management of a crew and survival decisions in a harsh, unforgiving environment.

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

Why similar: Cyberpunk 42.7%, Dystopian 31.4%, Story Rich 12%, Sci-fi 11.7%, Adventure 2.1%

Why You'll Like It: A character-driven narrative game that uses a unique job-based mechanic to explore the lives of citizens in a cyberpunk metropolis.

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 25.1%, Dystopian 17.7%, Conversation 12.8%, Multiple Endings 9.5%, Space 9.4%

Why You'll Like It: A tactical, choice-heavy sci-fi RPG that forces players to navigate complex social and political dynamics on a generation ship.

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 25.4%, Dystopian 17.1%, Conversation 14.5%, Multiple Endings 10.1%, Story Rich 9%

Why You'll Like It: A unique cyberpunk narrative game that focuses on interrogation and the moral weight of uncovering secrets.

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 33.5%, Text-Based 16.9%, Multiple Endings 12.5%, Story Rich 11.2%, RPG 10.6%

Why You'll Like It: A cyberpunk investigation RPG that relies entirely on player choices and deduction rather than 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 27.5%, Interactive Fiction 15.3%, Conversation 12.9%, Multiple Endings 10.1%, Sci-fi 9.7%

Why You'll Like It: A classic cyberpunk narrative adventure that explores the relationship between humans and AI through a compelling mystery.

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 21.4%, Narrative 20.5% ★, Interactive Fiction 12%, Conversation 11.1%, Multiple Endings 8.2%

Why You'll Like It: A narrative-focused game about human connection and emotional labor in a world increasingly dominated by automation.

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 41.8%, Futuristic 14.4%, Sci-fi 13.7%, Story Rich 9%, RPG 6.7%

Why You'll Like It: An exploration-focused cyberpunk game that captures the atmosphere of a sprawling city through the eyes of a delivery driver.

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 28.5% ★, Interactive Fiction 18.8%, Hand-drawn 18.3%, Multiple Endings 12.8%, Story Rich 12.3%

Why You'll Like It: A narrative-heavy, choice-driven game that features a unique art style and focuses on the long-term consequences of player decisions.

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%, Sci-fi 16.2%, Multiple Endings 14.9%, RPG 12.8%

Why You'll Like It: A narrative-heavy space adventure that emphasizes managing a crew and ship while fleeing from a past life.

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 23.8%, Conversation 15.6%, Text-Based 14.1%, Futuristic 12.3%, Interactive Fiction 11.7%

Why You'll Like It: A conversation-based game that challenges players to manage a city's AI while balancing the needs of its citizens.

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: Sci-fi 38.9%, Story Rich 24%, RPG 23.6%, Atmospheric 13.5%

Why You'll Like It: A deeply complex sci-fi RPG that offers unparalleled freedom and emergent storytelling through its transhumanist themes.

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 22.5%, Narrative 20.1% ★, Interactive Fiction 12.4%, Conversation 10.2%, Multiple Endings 8.1%

Why You'll Like It: A cyberpunk narrative adventure that focuses on memory-diving and the complexities of identity.

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 37.9%, Story Rich 36.7%, RPG 21.8%, Indie 3.6%

Why You'll Like It: A tabletop-inspired RPG that excels at procedural storytelling and character-driven growth over a lifetime.

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 66.2% ★, Hand-drawn 14%, Story Rich 8.5%, RPG 8.4%, Adventure 1.5%

Why You'll Like It: A narrative-driven RPG that incorporates dice-based combat mechanics within a hand-drawn, stylized world.

Event[0] is a sci-fi narrative exploration game where you build a relationship with a lonely spaceship computer to get home to Earth.

Why similar: Artificial Intelligence 23.9%, Space 17.2%, Sci-fi 16%, Multiple Endings 11%, Story Rich 8%

Why You'll Like It: A sci-fi narrative game that centers on the unique mechanic of communicating with a lonely AI to survive.

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 16.3%, Multiple Endings 15.2%, Story Rich 11.3%

Why You'll Like It: A retro-styled sci-fi narrative game that emphasizes character interaction and multiple branching paths.

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 33.5%, Story Rich 28.4%, Multiple Endings 12.2%, Exploration 11.9%, Adventure 10.8%

Why You'll Like It: A life-sim and exploration game that captures the quiet, day-to-day survival of life in space.

The Forgotten City is a narrative-driven time loop adventure in ancient Rome. Discover the ruins of an ancient underground city, travel 2000 years into the past, and unravel the mystery of who destroyed it by cleverly exploiting the power to wind back time. The fate of the city is in your hands.

Why similar: Multiple Endings 23.7%, Story Rich 21.5%, RPG 19%, Exploration 14.8%, Atmospheric 10.1%

Why You'll Like It: A narrative-driven mystery that uses time-loop mechanics to explore moral dilemmas and societal consequences.

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 33.2%, Sci-fi 26.3%, Dystopian 26.1%, Futuristic 14.4%

Why You'll Like It: Captures the blue-collar, corporate-dystopian feel of working in space through tactile, rewarding gameplay.

Detroit: Become Human puts the destiny of both mankind and androids in your hands, taking you to a near future where machines have become more intelligent than humans. Every choice you make affects the outcome of the game, with one of the most intricately branching narratives ever created.

Why similar: Multiple Endings 28.9%, Story Rich 24%, Cyberpunk 14.8%, Futuristic 13.9%, Sci-fi 12.3%

Why You'll Like It: A cinematic experience that directly explores the struggle for android consciousness and societal acceptance.

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 33.7%, Cyberpunk 32.9%, Sci-fi 22.2%, Atmospheric 8.9%, Adventure 2.2%

Why You'll Like It: An atmospheric sci-fi game that uses surrealism and memory to explore the identity of an android protagonist.

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 29.7% ★, Tabletop 16.1%, Interactive Fiction 14.1%, Hand-drawn 12%, Story Rich 9.7%

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 21%, Text-Based 14%, Dystopian 13.1%, Conversation 9.9%, Hand-drawn 8.8%

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 27.6%, Multiple Endings 26.5%, Atmospheric 18.1%, Exploration 16%, Adventure 6.6%

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 18.6%, Cyberpunk 15.5%, Hand-drawn 15.2%, Conversation 13%, Sci-fi 12.7%

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 20.7%, Futuristic 14.5%, Sci-fi 14.1%, Multiple Endings 12.3%, Space 12.1%

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 15.1%, Text-Based 14.9%, Interactive Fiction 12.9%, Hand-drawn 8.3%

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 35% ★, Dystopian 17.3%, Sci-fi 10.5%, Space 7.8%, Text-Based 7.2%

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%, Space 21.6%, Interactive Fiction 18.3%, Sci-fi 15.1%, RPG 14.5%

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 20.5%, Conversation 13.9%, Interactive Fiction 12.8%, Text-Based 11.6%, Sci-fi 8.9%

LOSE YOUR MIND. EAT YOUR CREW. DIE. Take the helm of your steamship and set sail for the unknown! Sunless Sea is a game of discovery, loneliness and frequent death, set in the award-winning Victorian Gothic universe of Fallen London.

Why similar: Story Rich 29.2%, Exploration 25.8%, RPG 21.6%, Atmospheric 13.6%, Adventure 6%

Suddenly thrown into an unknown galaxy, you must explore, fight or befriend aliens and transform your ship from a small survey vessel into a powerful battlecruiser to unravel the mystery of the forces that brought you here and find your way home.

Why similar: Space 39.1%, Sci-fi 22.8%, RPG 15.4%, Exploration 9.8%, Story Rich 6.6%

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 14.6%, Interactive Fiction 11.7%, Sci-fi 11.3%, Story Rich 9.3%

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 61.1%, Story Rich 22.7%, RPG 15.6%, Indie 0.6%

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 25.7%, Sci-fi 22.6%, RPG 22.3%, Exploration 17.1%, Atmospheric 8.6%

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 41.3% ★, Conversation 14.6%, Space 9.5%, Sci-fi 8.8%, Multiple Endings 7.3%

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 23.7%, Cyberpunk 18.5%, Dystopian 15.4%, Futuristic 13.2%, Story Rich 12.5%

Pilot drones into derelict spaceships to find the means to survive and piece together how the universe became a giant graveyard.

Why similar: Space 45.3%, Sci-fi 26.1%, Exploration 18.6%, Atmospheric 9.9%

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 22.1%, Cyberpunk 20.1%, Space 14.1%, Sci-fi 11%, Multiple Endings 10.1%

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 36.2%, Space 21.3%, Sci-fi 16.5%, Exploration 13.8%, RPG 12.2%

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 29.1%, Cyberpunk 21.9%, RPG 20.7%, Sci-fi 15.9%, Futuristic 9.3%

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 22.6%, Cyberpunk 22%, Conversation 18.1%, Sci-fi 13.7%, Futuristic 10.9%

Cyberpunk mercenaries RPG! Turn-based squad tactics with unique heist-planning strategy. Build your crew wisely; their stories will become interwoven with your own. Pull off heists with powerful cyberware, faction connections, multiclassing, weapon modding, stealth, hacking, and more!

Why similar: Cyberpunk 59.1%, Sci-fi 22.7%, RPG 18.2%

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 24.5%, Sci-fi 19.1%, Story Rich 10.9%, RPG 3.6%

Live with the ever-present burden of being trapped in a time loop only you can know about in this turn-based RPG. Create a better future for you and your friends. Find hope where there is none left. Pray to the stars and free yourself from time.

Why similar: Story Rich 32.3%, RPG 29.8%, Hand-drawn 26.4%, Atmospheric 8.9%, Indie 2.6%

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 27.2%, Text-Based 22.3%, RPG 16.7%, Sci-fi 11.1%, Story Rich 9.4%

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 20.1%, Conversation 13.7%, Futuristic 13.6%, RPG 11.8%, Story Rich 10.7%

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 19.3%, Sci-fi 13.9%, RPG 12%, Futuristic 9.4%

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 20.7%, Sci-fi 19.5%, Multiple Endings 18.5%, RPG 14.6%, Story Rich 14.3%

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%, Atmospheric 17.2%

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 21.2%, Futuristic 11.8%, Sci-fi 10.9%, RPG 8.9%