Games Like Death and Taxes

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 41.4%, Casual 22.4%, Indie 18.2%, 2D 13.6%, Singleplayer 4.4%

Why You'll Like It: Sharing the same premise of working for the Grim Reaper, this game captures the dark humor and sorting mechanics of your seed game.

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 27.7%, Multiple Endings 14.8%, Simulation 14%, Story Rich 8.6%, Puzzle 7.3%

Why You'll Like It: This is the definitive bureaucratic simulation where you must weigh moral dilemmas against strict job requirements to determine the fate of others.

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 30.2%, Interactive Fiction 20.2%, Choose Your Own Adventure 19.1%, Story Rich 13.3%, Simulation 4.3%

Why You'll Like It: This narrative-heavy RPG forces you to make difficult life-altering choices that shape your character's destiny in a harsh, unforgiving world.

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 20.1%, Point & Click 19.1%, Multiple Endings 16.2%, Story Rich 11.3%, Simulation 9.1%

Why You'll Like It: You act as a state-installed landlord who must decide which tenants to report or protect, mirroring the moral weight of your office job.

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 18.2% ★, Choose Your Own Adventure 17.4%, Point & Click 13%, Interactive Fiction 12%, Choices Matter 11.4%

Why You'll Like It: As a president, you must navigate complex political landscapes and make high-stakes decisions that impact the entire nation.

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

Why similar: Dark Comedy 14.5%, Point & Click 13.6%, Choices Matter 12.9%, Dialogue Heavy 10%, Multiple Endings 9.2%

Why You'll Like It: You play as an agent of Death tasked with choosing who must die to maintain the balance of the world, directly echoing the core premise of your seed game.

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 50.8%, Simulation 24.9%, Casual 11.5%, Indie 8.1%, Singleplayer 4.8%

Why You'll Like It: This game presents you with impossible moral dilemmas that challenge your ethics and force you to justify your choices.

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 23.9%, Choices Matter 17.4%, Multiple Endings 15.9%, Story Rich 10.7%, Strategy 8.2%

Why You'll Like It: You are tasked with observing people through hidden cameras, forcing you to choose between your curiosity and the privacy of others.

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 40.3%, Choose Your Own Adventure 25.3%, Simulation 8.4%, Strategy 6.6%, Story Rich 4.3%

Why You'll Like It: This game distills complex life-and-death decisions into a simple swipe-based interface, capturing the essence of choosing who lives and who dies.

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 21.3%, Choices Matter 11.8%, Point & Click 11.7%, Choose Your Own Adventure 11.7%, Interactive Fiction 11%

Why You'll Like It: This game puts you in the control room of a national news station, where your editing choices drastically alter the public perception of events.

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 23.4%, Choices Matter 18%, Multiple Endings 17.7%, Story Rich 11.4%, Simulation 10.5%

Why You'll Like It: This dystopian simulation tasks you with diagnosing and treating citizens, forcing you to balance your professional duties with your personal morality.

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 21.8%, Choices Matter 15.8%, Multiple Endings 15.1%, Story Rich 11.2%, Puzzle 10.2%

Why You'll Like It: This atmospheric puzzle game requires you to identify plants and make choices about who to help, all while uncovering a dark, occult mystery.

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 30.9%, Story Rich 23.2%, Point & Click 21.4%, Atmospheric 9.8%, Adventure 4.2%

Why You'll Like It: A cyberpunk narrative experience that explores the ethics of human emotion and control through dialogue and moral decision-making.

Big Brother has arrived - and it’s you. Investigate the lives of citizens to find those responsible for a series of terror attacks. Information from the internet, personal communications and private files are all accessible to you. But, be warned, the information you supply will have consequences.

Why similar: Choices Matter 55.3%, Simulation 28.7%, Interactive Fiction 4%, Story Rich 3.4%, Point & Click 3.2%

Why You'll Like It: As a government investigator, you must sift through personal data to decide who is a threat, mirroring the investigative nature of your office work.

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 24.1%, Choose Your Own Adventure 19.5%, Multiple Endings 16.8%, Story Rich 12.6%, Simulation 8.5%

Why You'll Like It: You must manage your kingdom's resources and make difficult decisions about which petitioners to help, often with dire consequences.

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 17.6%, Point & Click 16.6%, Dialogue Heavy 14.9%, Choices Matter 14.2%, Multiple Endings 12.1%

Why You'll Like It: As an editor-in-chief, you control the flow of information and witness how your choices shape the societal landscape of your country.

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 41.6%, Story Rich 20%, Adventure 11.8%, Indie 10.2%, 2D 9.2%

Why You'll Like It: This management sim features dark humor and the grim task of managing a medieval cemetery, focusing on the business of death.

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 29.7% ★, Point & Click 13.5%, Interactive Fiction 13.5%, Dialogue Heavy 13.5%, Multiple Endings 11.4%

Why You'll Like It: This narrative-driven RPG focuses on survival and the weight of your choices while living on the fringes of a corporate-controlled space station.

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 29.7%, Choices Matter 25.5%, Story Rich 16.8%, Simulation 14.9%, Strategy 13.1%

Why You'll Like It: This dark, card-based narrative game forces you to manage resources and make dangerous choices to uncover forbidden knowledge.

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: Dialogue Heavy 24.4%, Interactive Fiction 16.6%, Choices Matter 14.2%, Multiple Endings 12.6%, Story Rich 11.1%

Why You'll Like It: While more relaxing, this game focuses on listening to the stories of others and providing the right drink to influence their lives and choices.

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%, Point & Click 16.8%, Multiple Endings 15.6%, Story Rich 11.5%, Strategy 9.5%

Why You'll Like It: This sequel moves the action to a government ministry, focusing on the bureaucratic ladder and the moral cost of climbing it.

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 35.6%, Choose Your Own Adventure 24.9%, Point & Click 24.1%, Strategy 9.8%, 2D 5.6%

Why You'll Like It: You must make split-second decisions about who to save and what supplies to take, capturing the tension of life-or-death resource management.

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 29.7%, Choices Matter 24.5%, Simulation 21.6%, 2D 7.3%, Casual 6.6%

Why You'll Like It: This simulation game focuses on the methodical process of crafting goods for customers, mirroring the routine-based gameplay of your office job.

A new kind of detective game that allows you to think and investigate freely. Discover clues surrounding 12 strange and gruesome deaths and build your own theory. Pick your suspect, deduce the motive, unmask the awful truth.

Why similar: Narrative 21.7% ★, Point & Click 19.2%, Interactive Fiction 15.1%, Choices Matter 12.1%, Story Rich 9.9%

Why You'll Like It: This detective game features a dark, macabre art style and requires careful observation to solve complex, multi-layered mysteries.

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 22.1% ★, Dark Comedy 17.9%, Point & Click 10.3%, Choose Your Own Adventure 9.6%, Choices Matter 9.2%

Why You'll Like It: This supernatural narrative game features witty dialogue and choices that determine your fate in the afterlife.

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: Interactive Fiction 22.9%, Choose Your Own Adventure 21.8%, Choices Matter 14.9%, Story Rich 12.9%, Multiple Endings 11.7%

Why You'll Like It: An illustrated text-based RPG where your choices define your character and significantly impact the lives of the people you encounter.

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 20.8%, Multiple Endings 17.5%, Choices Matter 16.5%, Choose Your Own Adventure 10.6%, Story Rich 10.1%

Why You'll Like It: A dystopian management sim where you must decide who is worthy of survival based on their utility, echoing the grim selection process of your seed game.

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 24.2%, Point & Click 16.8%, Dialogue Heavy 15.6%, Multiple Endings 13.9%, Story Rich 9.7%

Why You'll Like It: This life-sim focuses on the tension of navigating social interactions and making choices that ensure your survival in a hostile world.

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 27.2%, Choices Matter 21.4%, Multiple Endings 14.4%, Simulation 9%, Casual 5.8%

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: Choices Matter 32.7%, Story Rich 23%, Point & Click 21%, Character Customization 8.1%, Atmospheric 7.9%

Why You'll Like It: This deep narrative RPG explores the existential weight of your choices and the internal struggle of a flawed protagonist.

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 23.4%, Choices Matter 19.8%, Multiple Endings 18.9%, Choose Your Own Adventure 15.5%, Interactive Fiction 13.5%

Dive into the world of divination with the Cartomancy Anthology, a collection of introspective and compact digital experiences presented together in a virtual tarot deck.

Why similar: Interactive Fiction 29%, Choose Your Own Adventure 28.9%, Simulation 26.1%, Story Rich 7.8%, 2D 4.4%

Why You'll Like It: This narrative-driven card game explores themes of destiny and choice through a series of interconnected, dark stories.

In this narrative-based simulation game, you play as the Son of God. Your mission: Decide, bless or condemn city residents. Uncover the person's story through their items and secrets before making decisions. Your choices alter the city's destiny, and impact your revelation on Judgment Day.

Why similar: Dark Comedy 15.4%, Narrative 12.8% ★, Point & Click 11.7%, Choices Matter 10.7%, Interactive Fiction 7.8%

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 31.6%, Simulation 19.5%, Puzzle 16.7%, Casual 10.4%, Choices Matter 10%

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 27.4% ★, Point & Click 13.3%, Choices Matter 12.3%, Multiple Endings 11.1%, Story Rich 8.1%

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 24.3%, Choose Your Own Adventure 23%, Multiple Endings 15.6%, Strategy 11.6%, Simulation 7.8%

In 1980, you land a teller job at Kertasia Bank thanks to your distant uncle. But the bank follows bizarre rules set by a foolish government. Face strict policies, tough customers, and moral choices while saving for your mom’s medical bills. Your fate is in your hands.

Why similar: Narrative 28.3% ★, Choices Matter 15.1%, Point & Click 14.9%, Multiple Endings 10.2%, Story Rich 9.7%

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 34.1%, Multiple Endings 31.3%, Simulation 18.3%, Strategy 7.1%, Indie 5.9%

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 20.5%, Choose Your Own Adventure 19%, Simulation 10.1%, Multiple Endings 9.8%, Choices Matter 9.7%

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 73.7%, Simulation 18.2%, Casual 4.6%, Singleplayer 3.4%

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

Why similar: Narrative 26.3% ★, Point & Click 21.4%, Choose Your Own Adventure 17%, Multiple Endings 15.4%, Simulation 9%

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 26.9%, Casual 25%, Dialogue Heavy 19.6%, 2D 17%, Simulation 7%

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 22.1%, Choices Matter 21.3%, Multiple Endings 14.5%, Story Rich 13.1%, Simulation 10%

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 29.4%, Multiple Endings 23.3%, Story Rich 11.1%, Adventure 7.6%, Simulation 7.4%

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

Why similar: Choices Matter 21.1%, Choose Your Own Adventure 18.5%, Multiple Endings 15.4%, Story Rich 13.1%, Simulation 10.3%

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%, Character Customization 21.4%, Story Rich 18.8%, Simulation 16.4%, Casual 7.4%

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 30.9%, Strategy 25.5%, Choices Matter 20.5%, Casual 6.4%, Atmospheric 4.8%

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 22.9%, Interactive Fiction 20.1%, Choices Matter 12.9%, Puzzle 12.4%, Choose Your Own Adventure 11.1%

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 14.9%, Choose Your Own Adventure 13.4%, Multiple Endings 11.7%, Story Rich 8.9%

Identify how every participant in the death game died, and submit your report.

Why similar: Story Rich 28.3%, Puzzle 26.4%, Adventure 11.9%, Casual 11%, Atmospheric 7.7%

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

Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 23.4%, Multiple Endings 18.3%, Choices Matter 18.1%, Interactive Fiction 12.7%, Story Rich 10.9%

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 20.5%, Choices Matter 17.1%, Interactive Fiction 15.5%, Multiple Endings 13.2%, Dialogue Heavy 12.4%

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 29.6% ★, Choices Matter 22.6%, Multiple Endings 20.2%, Story Rich 11.4%, Puzzle 10%

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 23.7%, Point & Click 20.8%, Multiple Endings 17.7%, Story Rich 15.7%, Puzzle 8.9%

Bio Inc.: Redemption is a realistic simulation and strategy game in which you make life or death decisions. Create a deadly illness to infect and torment your victim or play as the head of a medical team and hopefully find a cure to save your human patient. Will you be the plague or preserve humanity?

Why similar: Simulation 33.2%, Strategy 30.3%, Atmospheric 21.4%, Indie 8.5%, Singleplayer 6.5%

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 26.6%, Multiple Endings 23.6%, Point & Click 15.1%, Simulation 11.1%, Story Rich 9.2%

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 21.3%, Choices Matter 16.5%, Multiple Endings 15.5%, Story Rich 11%, Puzzle 9.7%

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 30.6%, Casual 18.1%, 2D 16.9%

a psychological visual novel where you investigate the souls of the dead. spend time with them, analyze their past, file reports to decide their eternal fate.

Why similar: Dark Comedy 23.1%, Choices Matter 20.2%, Multiple Endings 17.8%, Dialogue Heavy 15.2%, Story Rich 9.2%

Read the evidence. Run the forensics. Question suspects in your own words, they lie, crack, or lawyer up. Accuse the wrong person, and Internal Affairs comes after you.

Why similar: Point & Click 22.6%, Choose Your Own Adventure 21.2%, Interactive Fiction 20.7%, Simulation 11.1%, Story Rich 6%