Games Like Decade

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 30.5% ★, Sci-fi 15.2%, Text-Based 13.4%, Interactive Fiction 12.6%, Dystopian 11.6%

Why You'll Like It: This game masterfully combines deep narrative choice with a sci-fi setting where your decisions fundamentally alter the lives of those around you.

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: Philosophical 29.3%, Choices Matter 12.4%, Dystopian 11.2%, Visual Novel 10.8%, Sci-fi 10.8%

Why You'll Like It: A cinematic, choice-driven experience that explores the intersection of technology and human identity in a dystopian future.

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 39.3%, Story Rich 30%, Visual Novel 15.7%, Atmospheric 6.3%, Singleplayer 3.3%

Why You'll Like It: It offers unparalleled philosophical depth and narrative agency, mirroring the complex ideological exploration found in Decade.

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: Philosophical 22.8%, Investigation 15.7%, Text-Based 13.7%, Choices Matter 12.8%, Sci-fi 12.6%

Why You'll Like It: A tight, text-based narrative experience that uses dialogue as its primary mechanic to explore sci-fi themes.

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: Investigation 25.6%, Narrative 25.1% ★, Interactive Fiction 16%, Choices Matter 13.5%, Story Rich 11.9%

Why You'll Like It: Like Decade, this game tasks you with piecing together history and causality through a distinct, stylized lens.

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: Investigation 22%, Choices Matter 19.7%, Sci-fi 14.3%, Story Rich 13.1%, Dystopian 11.7%

Why You'll Like It: Focuses on the weight of conversation and choices, requiring you to navigate complex social and political landscapes.

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: Philosophical 38.3%, Investigation 20.7%, Dystopian 18%, Story Rich 13.5%, Atmospheric 5.1%

Why You'll Like It: This surreal, southern-gothic narrative captures a similar sense of experimental storytelling and atmospheric world-building.

Eternal Threads is a single-player, first-person story-driven puzzle game of time manipulation, choice and consequence.

Why similar: Narrative 29.3% ★, Investigation 18.7%, Choices Matter 16.8%, Interactive Fiction 15.8%, Story Rich 11.6%

Why You'll Like It: Features intricate time-manipulation mechanics that allow you to alter the past and observe the resulting changes in the timeline.

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: Philosophical 37.6%, Investigation 21.9%, Choices Matter 18.3%, Story Rich 12.1%, Atmospheric 3.7%

Why You'll Like It: Centers on a time-loop mechanic where your choices directly influence the rise and fall of a society.

Classic Zork meets Existential Crisis. A modern text adventure that explores themes of control, isolation and mental health while levelling up the genre with beautiful pixel art.

Why similar: Interactive Fiction 23.8%, Psychological 21.7%, Story Rich 17.5%, Text-Based 15.5%, Choices Matter 7.7%

Why You'll Like It: A meta-narrative game that challenges the player's relationship with the medium through psychological and experimental text-based gameplay.

Relive the days of the early internet and dive into this fictional video game era, where the 'Kinmoku Shark’ gaming system and its online social network 'Videoverse' were still popular…

Why similar: Narrative 35.3% ★, Interactive Fiction 16.6%, Visual Novel 15.1%, Choices Matter 13.4%, Story Rich 11.7%

Why You'll Like It: Captures the nostalgic charm of early 2000s internet culture while delivering a poignant, character-driven story.

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: Choices Matter 20.7%, Investigation 19.1%, Text-Based 17%, Visual Novel 16.2%, Story Rich 15.2%

Why You'll Like It: An isometric RPG that emphasizes choice and consequence in a variety of simulated virtual worlds.

Change the minds of evildoers…for good! MINDHACK is a text adventure game where you meet unique evildoers, hack their minds, and rewrite them into happy people!

Why similar: Visual Novel 14.9%, Dystopian 14.6%, Philosophical 13.8%, Sci-fi 13.6%, Psychological 12.2%

Why You'll Like It: A visual novel that uses a unique hacking mechanic to influence the minds of others, fitting the theme of subverting individuals.

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: 1990's 46.2%, Psychedelic 18.8%, Interactive Fiction 10.6%, Story Rich 8.8%, Psychological 7.1%

Why You'll Like It: Perfectly captures the 1990s internet aesthetic while providing a surreal, experimental narrative experience.

A Better World Company is hiring! We’re looking for a skilled new recruit to alter the past and reshape the future! Use our Computer to travel back in time, and make game-changing choices to make the world a better place! You decide what to do… as long as you follow our internal policies.

Why similar: Interactive Fiction 23.9%, Text-Based 21.8%, Choices Matter 19.5%, Sci-fi 18.2%, Story Rich 13.2%

Why You'll Like It: Explores time manipulation and alternate history through a narrative-heavy, choice-based format.

Something has been taken. Enter a new Grid and forge alliances via visual novel gameplay, uncovering truths through Identity Disc puzzles. Make critical decisions and plot your own course in a world without a creator.

Why similar: Choices Matter 22.2%, Visual Novel 21.1%, Sci-fi 21.1%, Investigation 13.1%, Story Rich 12%

Why You'll Like It: A visual novel that uses detective mechanics and branching choices to explore a unique, stylized digital world.

This is a story with illustrations. You have to choose your destiny. You are obsessed with the idea of creating an ideal society. One day you come up with a genius idea, and you create a society that could live forever, BUT HOW IS THIS POSSIBLE!!?

Why similar: Philosophical 33%, Psychedelic 18.6%, Text-Based 9.7%, Interactive Fiction 9.2%, Visual Novel 9.2%

Why You'll Like It: A philosophical and atmospheric experience that mirrors the experimental nature of Decade.

The Fermi Paradox is a choice-driven sci-fi narrative strategy game in which your decisions in one corner of the galaxy can upend entire civilizations in another. Guide species through millennia and help them explore the vastness of space, make contact and, perhaps, create harmony.

Why similar: God Game 37.5% ★, Sci-fi 17.8%, Choices Matter 16.1%, Interactive Fiction 15.1%, Story Rich 7.3%

Why You'll Like It: Allows you to act as a cosmic observer guiding the development of civilizations, echoing the 'control history' theme of Decade.

Chapter II of an extremely unusual trans-media franchise with game and short film chapters. Players influence the plot of the chapters and can leave their real-life items in the chapters. Game+Short films+visual novel. Ultra-deep meaning, nostalgic references, vibe mysticism.

Why similar: Philosophical 28.6%, FMV 22.7% ★, 1990's 16.7%, Psychedelic 14.3%, Choices Matter 7.7%

Why You'll Like It: Combines detective elements with a philosophical tone and a nostalgic 1980s setting.

Experience a post-apocalyptic world like never before in The Silent Age, a thrilling point-and-click adventure game. Use time travel to unravel the mystery behind humanity's disappearance and save the world from extinction. Start your journey now!

Why similar: Sci-fi 32.5%, Choices Matter 27.1%, Story Rich 21.5%, Stylized 9.7%, Adventure 5.3%

Why You'll Like It: Features a compelling time-travel mechanic that forces you to navigate the consequences of your actions across two different eras.

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: Dystopian 42.8%, Story Rich 19.6%, Indie 14.7%, Choices Matter 7.8%, Singleplayer 6.7%

Why You'll Like It: A seminal game about the weight of bureaucracy and the moral implications of your choices in a dystopian setting.

Omnimus. Welcome to the future! A visual novel about a daring experiment.

Why similar: Sci-fi 18.8%, Interactive Fiction 18.5%, Visual Novel 17.5%, Choices Matter 15.2%, Story Rich 10.5%

Why You'll Like It: A sci-fi visual novel that leans into interactive fiction to tell a complex, character-focused story.

In an AI-powered age where original authors have become largely redundant, play as a dejected writer on the brink of losing their creative drive forever.

Why similar: Text-Based 15.4%, Psychedelic 14.8%, Visual Novel 14.5%, Psychological 13.9%, Interactive Fiction 12%

Why You'll Like It: A psychological, text-based experience that explores themes of identity and memory.

Teach the gods to create a better universe - or mess it all up in Mythic Ocean, a narrative exploration game where your choices shape the fate of the cosmos.

Why similar: Choices Matter 35.3%, Visual Novel 28.9%, Indie 14.9%, Adventure 13.3%, Atmospheric 7.7%

Why You'll Like It: Focuses on the impact of your choices on the development of a world and its inhabitants.

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: Sci-fi 49.8%, Dystopian 30.6%, Atmospheric 11.1%, Singleplayer 4.6%, Adventure 3.9%

Why You'll Like It: Utilizes a 90s-inspired sci-fi aesthetic to deliver a deeply psychological and atmospheric narrative experience.

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 33.1% ★, Sci-fi 15.9%, Investigation 13%, Dystopian 10.6%, Story Rich 9.3%

Why You'll Like It: A narrative-driven sci-fi mystery that emphasizes story-rich exploration and point-and-click mechanics.

Observation is a sci-fi thriller uncovering what happened to Dr. Emma Fisher, and the crew of her mission, through the lens of the station’s artificial intelligence S.A.M.

Why similar: Sci-fi 43.5%, Indie 16.8%, Story Rich 16%, Adventure 15%, Atmospheric 6.1%

Why You'll Like It: A sci-fi thriller that puts you in the role of an AI, offering a unique perspective on narrative-driven mystery.

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 34.8%, Interactive Fiction 19.2%, Choices Matter 13.1%, Story Rich 12.1%, Visual Novel 9.6%

Why You'll Like It: An illustrated text-based RPG that relies on your choices to shape the world and the fate of its inhabitants.

A surreal, narrative adventure game where you shapeshift during conversations to uncover how God went missing.

Why similar: 1990's 25%, Psychedelic 20.5%, Choices Matter 10.9%, Interactive Fiction 10.6%, Investigation 10.4%

A story-based exploration game about the very far future. With the help of two Artificial Intelligences, explore a universe conquered by humanity, uncover your purpose in it, and try to stop it from falling apart.

Why similar: Philosophical 48.3%, Sci-fi 21.5%, Interactive Fiction 13.8%, Stylized 5.2%, Story Rich 3.5%

A mad and romantic ADV. Unravel a strange world of science and philosophy with a mecha girl, zombie girl, or beastfolk. Some paths may disturb you... or thrill you.

Why similar: Philosophical 31.7%, Psychedelic 20.7%, Visual Novel 15.8%, Sci-fi 15.6%, Choices Matter 5.9%

a ~2 hour long graphic adventure novella. Tasked with disrupting the end of the world, you explore, investigate and produce your way through a strangely familiar world.

Why similar: Psychedelic 37.2%, Interactive Fiction 23.9%, Visual Novel 20.3%, Stylized 9.4%, Atmospheric 5%

Mini Mini Golf Golf is an indie storytelling experience that goes beyond the lanes of the here and now into distant memories of a future planetary collapse. Destabilize the present and plunge into a neon psychohistory of a bizarre entity in distress. This is not a game about minigolf.

Why similar: Narrative 24.6% ★, Sci-fi 12.7%, Interactive Fiction 11.6%, Investigation 10%, Dystopian 9.6%

A psychological interactive novel about a floppy disk with a mysterious program. Help Elliot cope with his mental issues and uncover the secret of the floppy disk.

Why similar: Philosophical 25.8%, Psychedelic 17.1%, Text-Based 10.3%, Psychological 9.9%, Choices Matter 9%

Go from Prehistoric age to the future in this text-based adventure.

Why similar: Interactive Fiction 30.8%, Text-Based 29.5%, Visual Novel 26%, Dystopian 5.7%, Adventure 3.6%

Your Future Self is a 1-2 hour long story-driven experimental text adventure with unique conversational mechanics, time loop based gameplay, and an emotionally gripping time travel mystery set against the backdrop of a darkly realistic vision of our world ravaged by climate change.

Why similar: Text-Based 19.3%, Sci-fi 15.5%, Interactive Fiction 14%, Dystopian 11.8%, Visual Novel 11.1%

VirtuaVerse is a challenging old school cyberpunk point & click adventure set in a future not so far away narrating tales of technomancers, AVR graffiti writers, hacker groups, tribes of cryptoshamans, digital archeology, epic cyberwars and virtual reality debauchery.

Why similar: 1990's 36.1%, Dystopian 21.7%, Sci-fi 17.8%, Story Rich 12.3%, Atmospheric 4.6%

A psychological surveillance adventure. Observe 16 real-time CCTV feeds as TOBOR, a spy unit uncovering secrets in a dystopian bunker. Monitor suspects, collect evidence, and choose who survives. Multiple endings.

Why similar: Psychedelic 15.4%, Investigation 11.4%, Text-Based 11.2%, Interactive Fiction 10.4%, Choices Matter 10.1%

Love is deception, germinated in desperation. Fill the role of one of the nation's top researchers. You will have 10 days to study the rapidly spreading and mysterious new species to decide: friend or foe? The coming Telluricene rests in your hands.

Why similar: Visual Novel 23.9%, Dystopian 23.6%, Text-Based 21.9%, Story Rich 12.6%, Stylized 10%

From the creators of Road 96 comes a groundbreaking solo narrative adventure where other players’ choices matter. Follow in your friends’ footsteps, face the consequences of their actions, and decide the fate of a plasticpunk world.

Why similar: Choices Matter 37.8%, Story Rich 26%, Stylized 15.5%, Atmospheric 9.5%, Adventure 6.1%

This is a plot exploration game set in the 1990s. In the game, you will go back to the age of 15, make up for those regrets and mistakes, rewrite our story and destiny, and explore different life and destination!

Why similar: 1990's 28.2%, Interactive Fiction 23.5%, Story Rich 23.3%, Visual Novel 17.8%, Singleplayer 4.4%

'Chasing Light' is the story of the seven days of exploring the physical properties of a game and uncovering an inner world of human beings and society. Have a weird trip!

Why similar: Indie 36.6%, Adventure 33.2%, Story Rich 22.4%, Atmospheric 7.7%

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 30.3%, Interactive Fiction 19.4%, Text-Based 14.8%, Story Rich 14.6%, Visual Novel 14.1%

TEMPUS is a puzzle adventure game with time travel. Each time you advance, you will see the island where you live change over thousands of years. You can only travel forward so it is a one way trip, how far will you go?

Why similar: Investigation 33.8%, Sci-fi 32.4%, Story Rich 21.3%, Adventure 4.5%, Stylized 3.4%

EXPERIENCE this Story-Driven Alternate Reality Game (ARG) that blends Your Real Life with Science Fiction as it explores the Dark Limits of Conspiracy, Alternate History, The Supernatural and Fringe Science.

Why similar: Sci-fi 41.4%, Story Rich 23.4%, Indie 17.7%, Adventure 17.5%

Transported back a century by fate, you find yourself in a legendary tale of vengeance. Amidst powerful enemies in a tumultuous era, your mission is to assist those around you. Experience this immersive epic from a first-person perspective—authentic, weighty, yet brimming with hope.

Why similar: FMV 69.3% ★, Interactive Fiction 17%, Story Rich 11.6%, Adventure 1.4%, Singleplayer 0.7%

Set around 1929, this interactive visual novel lets you relive the early Red Army's epic journey from a first-person perspective. Experience immersive historical narratives and make pivotal branching choices. Beware: wrong decisions will end your game!

Why similar: Visual Novel 37.6%, Interactive Fiction 27.1%, Text-Based 19.6%, Choices Matter 11.9%, Adventure 3.9%

The prequel to Road 96. Play Zoe and Kaito where it all started. Change their destinies!

Why similar: Narrative 19.9% ★, Interactive Fiction 15.2%, Choices Matter 13.5%, Visual Novel 13.1%, Investigation 11.7%

BEAUTIFUL DESOLATION is an isometric, point & click adventure game set in a post-apocalyptic future. Explore an unscene landscape, solve puzzles, meet new friends and make powerful enemies, mediate conflicts and fight for your life as you unravel the secrets of the desolate world around you.

Why similar: FMV 39% ★, Sci-fi 17.2%, Investigation 13.7%, Story Rich 11.9%, Choices Matter 11.2%

Revisit and repeat the final moments of China's turn of the century in this narrative puzzle adventure. Play a 6th-grade student and greet classmates, explore secrets, play mini-4WD, or just wander around town. Make your choices to create a perfect day for everyone!

Why similar: 1990's 23.2%, Investigation 17.9%, Choices Matter 16.2%, Interactive Fiction 14.7%, Story Rich 10.7%

Breakout 13 is a thrilling narrative game with interactive cinematic experience. Based on true stories. Embark on a revealing journey as you attempt to break free from a negligent correctional institute and carve out your own path to justice. Each decision you make shapes the story.

Why similar: FMV 53.3% ★, Interactive Fiction 17.9%, Choices Matter 17%, Story Rich 11.8%

BatteryNote is a multi-ending sci-fi adventure visual novel game. You can recharge three robots with limited lifespans, bringing them back to life. Interact with them through conversations or experiment by applying high voltage. How they spend their final moments is entirely up to you.

Why similar: Philosophical 36.5%, Sci-fi 17.1%, Visual Novel 13.7%, Story Rich 12.4%, Choices Matter 7.5%

Rummage through the abandoned profiles of an old PC to unravel an inherited mystery. What secrets hide in this eerie adventure of cryptic games and outdated software? Who was using this computer? And what happened to them?

Why similar: 1990's 26.8%, Investigation 19.6%, Text-Based 15.8%, Interactive Fiction 14.9%, Visual Novel 11.5%

Become Jules Verne and adventure into the dangers that hide in Hemera, a fantastic parallel world built from his own imagination. Explore, solve puzzles and unlock the most coveted secret of the mighty Atlantis.

Why similar: Narrative 37.8% ★, Interactive Fiction 17.9%, Dystopian 15.9%, Choices Matter 10.8%, Story Rich 9.1%

Causal Loop is a narrative puzzler that blends mind-bending mechanics with a rich sci-fi story about time, consequence, and survival. Solve intricate puzzles by using the signature “echo” mechanic to record, replay, and interact with up to three versions of your past self. Can you break the loop?

Why similar: Philosophical 52.9%, Sci-fi 22.4%, Story Rich 14.1%, Atmospheric 5.1%, Adventure 3.3%

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: Sci-fi 22.2%, Text-Based 18.9%, Interactive Fiction 16.2%, Investigation 15.9%, Story Rich 15.6%

Everything rides on your choices in this new wave interactive movie game. Experience a thrilling science fiction mystery in full-length live-action format—from genius creator of the "Danganronpa" series, Kazutaka Kodaka!

Why similar: FMV 41.4% ★, Psychedelic 16.2%, Visual Novel 11.1%, Choices Matter 10.5%, Interactive Fiction 9.2%

An archaeologist uncovers a lost history in an ancient space Nebula. Award-winning narrative adventure game with hieroglyphic language puzzles, from the creators of 80 DAYS.

Why similar: Narrative 37.7% ★, Sci-fi 17.3%, Choices Matter 14.8%, Interactive Fiction 14.2%, Story Rich 6%