Games Like Death and Taxes

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: Point & Click 28.2%, Multiple Endings 15.5%, Simulation 14.9%, Story Rich 8.8%, Puzzle 7.5%

Why You'll Like It: The definitive bureaucratic simulation where your moral choices directly impact the lives of those you process.

Peace, Death! is an arcade simulator with difficulties. In this game you play as the Reaper working for your boss, Death, and send clients to Heaven, Hell, or Purgatory.

Why similar: Simulation 41.3%, Casual 22.3%, Indie 18.4%, 2D 13.5%, Singleplayer 4.5%

Why You'll Like It: A thematic sibling that puts you in the role of a reaper managing souls in a humorous, fast-paced environment.

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 30.5%, Interactive Fiction 19.7%, Choose Your Own Adventure 19%, Story Rich 13.1%, Simulation 4.5%

Why You'll Like It: A deep narrative experience where every choice you make significantly alters the protagonist's life and the world around them.

You’re a state-installed landlord in a totalitarian country. Place listening devices, steal and sneak into your tenants’ apartments. Use what you uncovered to report anyone capable of plotting against the state. You MUST! But WILL you?

Why similar: Choices Matter 20.4%, Point & Click 18.7%, Multiple Endings 16.1%, Story Rich 11.1%, Simulation 9.3%

Why You'll Like It: Forces you to balance personal survival with the moral weight of spying on and reporting your neighbors.

Narrative-adventure playing an Agent of Death who must take ONE life that could change the fate of a conflict-torn Nation

Why similar: Point & Click 15.8%, Choices Matter 15.6%, Conversation 11.2%, Multiple Endings 10.9%, Interactive Fiction 10.5%

Why You'll Like It: Directly mirrors the core mechanic of deciding who lives and who dies based on your own judgment.

A new political Party has won a landslide in the General Election, and for some reason the editor at the news station you work at has done a runner. Now it’s up to you, the Janitor, to take over the editing booth in this tumultuous time - will you help the government, or stand in their way?

Why similar: Dark Comedy 21.4%, Choices Matter 12%, Choose Your Own Adventure 11.7%, Point & Click 11.6%, Interactive Fiction 11%

Why You'll Like It: Places you in a high-pressure control room where your editorial choices dictate the narrative of a dystopian society.

A digital voyeur simulator where you watch strangers through surveillance cameras. Invade their privacy and witness their most intimate moments, but don’t interact with the subjects – anything could happen if you dare feed the monkeys!

Why similar: Point & Click 23.8%, Choices Matter 18%, Multiple Endings 16.2%, Story Rich 10.7%, Strategy 8.6%

Why You'll Like It: Explores the ethics of surveillance and voyeurism through a point-and-click management interface.

Trolley Problem, Inc. is a darkly comedic narrative game based on real-world philosophical papers, in which you are asked to make a series of impossible choices from two awful answers. Wrestle with your moral compass, decide the fate of millions – and compare your choices with the rest of the world.

Why similar: Choices Matter 51.1%, Simulation 24.9%, Casual 11.2%, Indie 8.1%, Singleplayer 4.7%

Why You'll Like It: A direct exploration of moral philosophy and the difficult decisions inherent in choosing between two bad outcomes.

Strange Horticulture is an occult puzzle game in which you play as the proprietor of a local plant store. Find and identify new plants, pet your cat, speak to a coven, or join a cult. Use your collection of powerful plants to influence the story and unravel Undermere’s dark mysteries.

Why similar: Point & Click 25.7%, Choices Matter 13.2%, Puzzle 12%, Multiple Endings 11.7%, Simulation 11.1%

Why You'll Like It: Offers an atmospheric, occult-themed puzzle experience that feels grounded in a mysterious, dark professional setting.

Greetings. Your Mind Scanner request has been approved. Your duty is to diagnose and treat the citizens of The Structure. The patient list is long so don't waste your time. We’ll let you see your daughter soon...

Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 23.2%, Choices Matter 18.3%, Multiple Endings 17.6%, Story Rich 11.3%, Simulation 10.6%

Why You'll Like It: A dystopian simulation where you must manage the mental health of citizens through bureaucratic and often morally ambiguous procedures.

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: Choices Matter 24.3%, Choose Your Own Adventure 19.4%, Multiple Endings 16.7%, Story Rich 12.3%, Simulation 8.7%

Why You'll Like It: Requires you to manage a kingdom by making difficult choices that affect the lives of your subjects.

Build and manage a medieval graveyard while facing ethical dilemmas and making questionable decisions. Welcome to Graveyard Keeper, the most inaccurate medieval cemetery sim of the year.

Why similar: Simulation 41.7%, Story Rich 20.1%, Adventure 11.4%, Indie 10.5%, 2D 9.3%

Why You'll Like It: Combines dark humor with the management of death, mirroring the cynical professional tone of the seed game.

Assume the role of President Anton Rayne and guide the nation of Sordland. Amidst brewing international conflicts, need for reform, deep-seated corruption, and economic recession, you must make the decisions in this political drama. How will you lead?

Why similar: Narrative 20% ★, Choose Your Own Adventure 18.5%, Point & Click 13.8%, Interactive Fiction 12.9%, Choices Matter 12.4%

Why You'll Like It: A political management game where your choices as a leader carry heavy consequences for the entire nation.

Fight against & romance the one hunting for your soul in A Date with Death, a romance chat simulator where you date(?) the Grim Reaper himself. Create your own character, decorate your apartment, and chat away with the charming yet dangerous Grim Reaper through text and video calls.

Why similar: Character Customization 23.5%, Choices Matter 20.1%, Multiple Endings 18.8%, Choose Your Own Adventure 15.8%, Interactive Fiction 13.2%

Why You'll Like It: A visual novel that explores a personal, intimate relationship with the Grim Reaper.

Short, thought-provoking adventure where you are a News Editor and decide what stories get published, set in a fictional city where most people are genetically modified. Multiple unique endings let you share your story and see what the Headliner before you did.

Why similar: Choices Matter 29.7%, Multiple Endings 22.9%, Story Rich 11.1%, Adventure 7.4%, Simulation 7.3%

Why You'll Like It: Allows you to shape society and public opinion through your professional decisions as a news editor.

Sit on the throne as a benevolent (or malevolent) medieval monarch of the modern age and swipe your royal controller either left or right to impose your will upon the kingdom.

Why similar: Choices Matter 40.8%, Choose Your Own Adventure 25.1%, Simulation 8.4%, Strategy 6.7%, Story Rich 4.2%

Why You'll Like It: Uses a simple, binary choice mechanic to simulate the complex and often fatal consequences of ruling a kingdom.

In Afterparty, you are Milo and Lola, recently deceased best buds who suddenly find themselves staring down an eternity in Hell. But there's a loophole: outdrink Satan and he'll grant you re-entry to Earth.

Why similar: Narrative 22.4% ★, Dark Comedy 17.9%, Point & Click 10.1%, Choose Your Own Adventure 9.5%, Choices Matter 9.3%

Why You'll Like It: A supernatural narrative adventure that explores the comedic and dark side of the afterlife.

A dark and satirical management sim, where you take control of a recycling factory with a twist: it recycles humans. Your job is to decide who gets to escape our dying planet in a cozy spaceship and who sacrifices their blood, sweat and tears for humanity. Literally.

Why similar: Point & Click 20.4%, Multiple Endings 17.5%, Choices Matter 16.9%, Choose Your Own Adventure 10.6%, Story Rich 10%

Why You'll Like It: A dystopian management sim that forces you to make grim decisions about who is worthy of survival.

Seize forbidden treasures. Summon alien gods. Feed on your disciples. Cultist Simulator is a game of apocalypse and yearning. Play as a seeker after unholy mysteries, in a 1920s-themed setting of hidden gods and secret histories.

Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 29.3%, Choices Matter 25.9%, Story Rich 16.4%, Simulation 15.1%, Strategy 13.2%

Why You'll Like It: An atmospheric, card-based management game that explores the dark, occult consequences of your choices.

Coffee Talk is a coffee brewing and heart-to-heart talking simulator about listening to fantasy-inspired modern peoples’ problems, and helping them by serving up a warm drink or two.

Why similar: Conversation 23%, Interactive Fiction 16.9%, Choices Matter 14.7%, Multiple Endings 12.7%, Story Rich 11%

Why You'll Like It: Provides a relaxing, conversation-driven experience that features supernatural characters and meaningful personal choices.

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: Narrative 34.6% ★, Interactive Fiction 16%, Conversation 15%, Multiple Endings 13.4%, Story Rich 10.4%

Why You'll Like It: A narrative-heavy RPG that focuses on the struggle for survival and the weight of choices in a dystopian space station.

A card game in a Medieval setting where you make decisions on which not only your life will depend, but also the future of the kingdom!

Why similar: Choices Matter 24.5%, Choose Your Own Adventure 22.8%, Multiple Endings 15.4%, Strategy 11.8%, Simulation 7.8%

Why You'll Like It: A choose-your-own-adventure style game where simple decisions lead to vastly different life outcomes.

You will play as a Trainee Death, harvesting Souls to pay off your debt. Random choice events offer you various options: Lie in bed and slack off since the debt is endless anyway, Or follow your senior to earn some extra Souls, collecting outfits to switch up your style.

Why similar: Choices Matter 34.4%, Multiple Endings 31%, Simulation 18.3%, Strategy 7.1%, Indie 5.9%

Why You'll Like It: A direct simulation that mimics the experience of working as a reaper in an office environment.

The post-apocalyptic dark comedy is back - remastered and even more radioactive than before! Scavenge supplies, rescue your family, and stay alive in your fallout shelter. Make difficult decisions, hunt mutant roaches... and maybe survive. Or not.

Why similar: Dark Comedy 36%, Choose Your Own Adventure 24.7%, Point & Click 23.6%, Strategy 9.9%, 2D 5.7%

Why You'll Like It: Focuses on high-pressure decision-making and resource management under the threat of impending doom.

Hack into crime scenes, look for evidence, analyze data, interrogate criminals, track suspects and deal with the consequences of your decisions. This is a dark and brutal detective story with a Black Mirror-esque atmosphere of digital dominance and the narrative structure of a US crime procedural.

Why similar: Point & Click 21.6%, Choices Matter 21.6%, Multiple Endings 14.5%, Story Rich 12.9%, Simulation 10.1%

Why You'll Like It: A detective simulation that forces you to navigate complex moral dilemmas in a dystopian future.

It's 1955, and for unknown reasons, doppelgangers are more common than usual. Therefore, the Department of Doppelganger Detection (D.D.D.) has taken action. You are the doorman of an apartment complex, and you must decide whether to let in those who claim to be your neighbors.

Why similar: Point & Click 27.7%, Choices Matter 19.9%, Multiple Endings 14.2%, Simulation 9.3%, Casual 6.2%

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

Why similar: Point & Click 31.8%, Choices Matter 19.2%, Story Rich 15%, Puzzle 7.9%, Strategy 6.5%

Why You'll Like It: A brutal point-and-click game that forces you to make impossible moral sacrifices to survive.

Satirical, short and simple point-and-click "simulation" game about the meaninglessness of life.

Why similar: Narrative 26.7% ★, Point & Click 21%, Choose Your Own Adventure 16.9%, Multiple Endings 15.3%, Simulation 9.1%

Why You'll Like It: A satirical life simulation that focuses on the multiple paths and endings your choices can create.

Greetings Enforcer, and thank you for enlisting in the Hypnospace Patrol Department! As the world falls into its slumber, Hypnospace becomes a bustling global village. These virtual streets aren't going to police themselves!

Why similar: Point & Click 33.2%, Simulation 18.3%, Interactive Fiction 15.6%, Story Rich 10.7%, Puzzle 8.3%

Why You'll Like It: A bureaucratic simulation of a 90s internet moderator that captures the feeling of working a strange, digital office job.

Experience a Narrative Adventure where your choices and character growth truly matter. As a member of a 1793 secret society, live a tale of intrigue and manipulation on the hunt for your missing mother.

Why similar: Choices Matter 37.7%, Story Rich 16.5%, Choose Your Own Adventure 11.8%, Multiple Endings 8.2%, Adventure 7.8%

Why You'll Like It: A narrative adventure that emphasizes social manipulation and the long-term impact of your dialogue choices.

Talk to Strangers is a game of everyday survival. Survive door to door conversations ranging from bizarre to mundane (in this order) while trying to sell products to strangers. But beware: nothing is what it seems in this neighborhood.

Why similar: Dark Comedy 24.5%, Point & Click 16.6%, Conversation 14.9%, Multiple Endings 14.1%, Story Rich 9.6%

Why You'll Like It: A life-sim that emphasizes the social and survival consequences of your interactions with others.

Potion Craft is an alchemist simulator where you physically interact with your tools and ingredients to brew potions. You're in full control of the whole shop: invent new recipes, attract customers and experiment to your heart's content. Just remember: the whole town is counting on you.

Why similar: Point & Click 29%, Choices Matter 25.3%, Simulation 21.2%, 2D 7.5%, Casual 6.6%

You are an intern at the central ministry of a totalitarian state with your whole career ahead of you. Work your way up the ladder by scheming against employees, spying on your boss, and completing paperwork. Or do you turn against the state and expose corruption. The choice is still yours to make!

Why similar: Choices Matter 20.3%, Point & Click 16.4%, Multiple Endings 15.6%, Story Rich 11.3%, Strategy 9.7%

Peace, Death! 2 is a midcore turn-based logic game where you send clients to Hell, Heaven, or Purgatory and help members of the Reapers Union as they work towards their great cause!

Why similar: Point & Click 31.1%, Simulation 19.9%, Puzzle 16.2%, Casual 10.4%, Choices Matter 10.2%

Be the tax collector of a shady city hall in this narrative-driven resource management game. Talk to debtors, manage a team, make difficult choices, and challenge the city's moral decay. It's their money, but it's your job.

Why similar: Narrative 27.8% ★, Point & Click 13.1%, Choices Matter 12.5%, Multiple Endings 11.1%, Story Rich 7.9%

When a high-ranking security officer saves you from prison, you end up a pawn in her schemes. Now you must eliminate anyone standing in the way of her secret plans and try to get your life back while working two jobs. No tenant, employee or superior is safe from your spying.

Why similar: Point & Click 20.3%, Choose Your Own Adventure 19.2%, Simulation 10.4%, Choices Matter 10.1%, Multiple Endings 10%

You are a guard whose job is to post bounties. Try your best to deal with various matters and make money to raise your family. But remember, when various factions come to you, you will have to make choices!

Why similar: Dark Comedy 20.7%, Choices Matter 17.6%, Interactive Fiction 15.5%, Multiple Endings 13.2%, Conversation 11.8%

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: Point & Click 16.5%, Choices Matter 15.4%, Choose Your Own Adventure 13.7%, Multiple Endings 12%, Story Rich 9.1%

Want to decide where mortals go when they die? Welcome to hell! With one click, you can decide whether mortals should go to heaven or stay in hell.

Why similar: Simulation 34.4%, Strategy 30.7%, Casual 17.8%, 2D 17%

Awaken the incompetent doctor within you! Diagnose strange patients, examine their absurd symptoms… and prescribe treatments that could change their lives… or cut them short. Your actions will have consequences.

Why similar: Choices Matter 28.1%, Multiple Endings 24.4%, Point & Click 14.9%, Simulation 11.5%, Story Rich 9.3%

Storyteller is an award-winning puzzle game about building stories. Start with a title, settings and characters and create a story that fits the story’s description. Play with stories of love, intrigue, crime, monsters, betrayal, and more!

Why similar: Point & Click 22.5%, Interactive Fiction 20.2%, Choices Matter 13.5%, Puzzle 12.1%, Choose Your Own Adventure 11.1%

Destined to Die is a task managing game about depression, containing over 200+ pieces of physical and digital art. What's the point in life, if all paths lead to death. Choose your actions, and learn how to live. All paths lead to death, but how long can you live?

Why similar: Choices Matter 27.4%, Casual 24.9%, Conversation 18.5%, 2D 17.4%, Simulation 7.1%

Award-winning adventure where you control the news and its impact on society, your friends and career. Different choices lead to unique combinations of endings. Share your story with the community, and see what the players before you did.

Why similar: Interactive Fiction 17.7%, Point & Click 16.4%, Choices Matter 14.6%, Conversation 14.1%, Multiple Endings 12.2%

Lovecraftian Doctor Simulator. Diagnose patients by analyzing unsettling symptoms and treat them using your Book of Medicine. Make moral choices — decide who to save or kill, discover whom to trust, and unlock multiple endings! Can you endure 30 days of perilous decisions?

Why similar: Choices Matter 24.2%, Point & Click 20.4%, Multiple Endings 17.9%, Story Rich 15.5%, Puzzle 8.5%

A fourth-wall-breaking narrative adventure. It’s interview day, and you really need this job—enough to ignore the talking printer, the anomaly corridor, and the ridiculous life-or-death trials your interviewer keeps putting you in. But deep down, you know... something here is very, very wrong.

Why similar: Narrative 30.4% ★, Choices Matter 23%, Multiple Endings 20.2%, Story Rich 11.3%, Puzzle 9.8%

Share thoughts and hot food with your last ever clients, as you wait for the world to end.

Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 23.3%, Choices Matter 18.4%, Multiple Endings 18.3%, Interactive Fiction 12.7%, Story Rich 10.7%

Ready to settle in with a soothing shift behind the counter? Feel the dough, hear the quiet crackle of the oven, and serve warm slices to grateful guests. Good Pizza, Great Pizza is the cozy, asmr-friendly escape you didn’t know you kneaded.

Why similar: Choices Matter 28.4%, Character Customization 21.4%, Story Rich 18.4%, Simulation 16.5%, Casual 7.3%

A Mortician's Tale is a short, story-driven game about a mortician tasked with running a funeral home.

Why similar: Point & Click 34.6%, Story Rich 16.5%, Interactive Fiction 15.6%, Casual 12.1%, Atmospheric 9.1%

The Red Strings Club is a cyberpunk narrative experience about fate and happiness featuring the extensive use of pottery, bartending and impersonating people on the phone to take down a corporate conspiracy.

Why similar: Choices Matter 31.4%, Story Rich 23.1%, Point & Click 21.1%, Atmospheric 10%, Adventure 4.1%

As a judge of the Revolutionary Tribunal, preside over complicated cases of ordinary citizens, dangerous criminals, and enemies of the revolution in revolutionary Paris. Make judgments, plot political intrigue, and try to not lose your own head!

Why similar: Choices Matter 23.7%, Point & Click 23.3%, Story Rich 13.5%, Simulation 12.1%, Strategy 10.5%

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: Narrative 19.1% ★, Point & Click 13.9%, Conversation 13.6%, Interactive Fiction 13.5%, Choices Matter 12.7%

Field Hospital is a text-based bureaucratic detective game about hard decisions. Decide who to treat and whom to refuse. Face consequences. Study patients’ info and read their stories. Investigate the tangled case of Dr. Taylor.

Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 19.9%, Point & Click 17.9%, Choices Matter 15%, Multiple Endings 13.9%, Story Rich 10.9%

Become the custodian of a store dealing in occult antiquities. Explore the quaint and gloomy town of Undermere, where strange goings-on and dark mysteries abound. Find and identify arcane artefacts, use your collection to aid the townsfolk with their unusual problems — and remember to pet your cat!

Why similar: Point & Click 20.5%, Choices Matter 17.4%, Multiple Endings 16%, Story Rich 10.8%, Puzzle 9.3%

Part interactive fiction, part Felis domesticus adventure, “Cats and the Other Lives” explores the reunion of a broken family from the perspective of their house cat, Aspen.

Why similar: Narrative 33.5% ★, Interactive Fiction 19.1%, Point & Click 18.9%, Story Rich 11.7%, Atmospheric 7.3%

A horror cooking simulator where the secret ingredient is crime. Improve your shops, buy new tools, expand your menu, and above all, make your customers happy.

Why similar: Dark Comedy 73.6%, Simulation 18.3%, Casual 4.6%, Singleplayer 3.5%

The local Adventurer's Guild is hiring!... Not for adventurers, but for guild clerks! You play an important role in handing out quests, gold, and equipment as your actions shape the stories of these animal adventurers for better, or for worse..!

Why similar: Point & Click 16.5%, Choices Matter 16.3%, Interactive Fiction 16%, Multiple Endings 14.7%, Choose Your Own Adventure 14.3%

Game about the difficult work of people that manage emergency lines and services. Answer incoming calls and react properly - give first aid instructions, advise, dispatch correct number of firemen / police / ambulances, or sometimes - just ignore the call. Play on ANY CITY in the world!

Why similar: Simulation 31.4%, Strategy 25.8%, Choices Matter 19.2%, Casual 6.6%, Indie 5%

Social welfare survival horror based on real events. Endure emotional pain and societal pressure. Stay entertained. Survive the routine and become the hero of your studio apartment—battle inner demons, hide skeletons in the closet, and most importantly… keep the bathroom clean.

Why similar: Dark Comedy 39.6%, Story Rich 13.6%, Multiple Endings 12.1%, Simulation 11.3%, Puzzle 9.2%

Spy on strangers through security cameras, invade their privacy and discover their secrets in this digital voyeur simulator. Welcome to the future of The Primate Observation Club. Even in 2099 the rule about messing with your unlucky subjects still remains in this sequel: DO NOT feed the monkeys!

Why similar: Choices Matter 24.6%, Multiple Endings 21.7%, Story Rich 13.2%, Strategy 11.3%, Simulation 11.2%

A short, twisted tale about a smuggler and a late night encounter in the English Channel. Control the camera and make tough choices, will you escape with your life?

Why similar: Dark Comedy 18.3%, Choose Your Own Adventure 12.9%, Choices Matter 11.8%, Interactive Fiction 11.1%, Point & Click 10.7%