Games Like Disco Elysium - The Final Cut

Uncover secrets of past lives in this story-rich, tactical roleplaying game set in Sigil, a dark fantasy city at the heart of the Dungeons & Dragons multiverse. Explore the planes, survive combat alongside a party of bizarre companions, and solve puzzles unlike any ever seen in the genre.

Why similar: CRPG 23.3%, Isometric 20.5%, Choices Matter 17.4%, RPG 16%, Story Rich 13.6%

Why You'll Like It: Disco Elysium owes a huge debt to this wordy, philosophical CRPG, which similarly emphasizes identity, dialogue, strange companions, and role-playing through conversation rather than action.

A Victorian steampunk RPG with tarot cards instead of dice. Investigate the disappearance of society’s most vulnerable to uncover a mysterious cult. Play as three characters, each with their own skills and motivations. Customize your characters with narrative choices to unlock new tarot cards.

Why similar: CRPG 20.4%, Isometric 18.4%, Choices Matter 14.1%, RPG 11.6%, Story Rich 10.4%

Why You'll Like It: This Victorian isometric RPG is one of the closest Disco-like games on Steam, centering skill-based dialogue, investigations, internal voices, and messy character roleplay over combat.

Pathologic 2 is a groundbreaking open-world horror RPG. Resist the plague. Make medicine. Heal people. Perform an autopsy. Trade to get what you need. Fight and kill if necessary. Survive. Struggle with an outbreak in a secluded rural town that is rapidly turning into hell.

Why similar: Detective 20.9%, Choices Matter 15.3%, Story Rich 11.7%, CRPG 11.3%, RPG 9.3%

Why You'll Like It: Its oppressive atmosphere, literary writing, social decay, and constant moral compromise make it a powerful match for Disco Elysium’s bleak, thoughtful mood.

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: Detective 19.3%, Noir 12.7%, Choices Matter 12%, CRPG 11.8%, Isometric 11.5%

Why You'll Like It: This is another detective RPG built around dialogue, deductions, moral decisions, and shaping your investigator through your choices instead of combat prowess.

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: Story Rich 33.5%, RPG 33.3%, Atmospheric 14.1%, Exploration 10.2%, Adventure 4.8%

Why You'll Like It: It captures Disco’s blend of intimate writing, stat-driven choices, ideological undercurrents, and deeply human roleplay in a decaying, vividly realized setting.

Step into a living illustrated world in a time when Europe is at a crossroads of great religious and political change. Walk in the footsteps of Andreas Maler, a master artist who finds himself in the middle of murders, scandals, and intrigue in the Bavarian Alps.

Why similar: Detective 36.4%, Story Rich 21.3%, Choices Matter 17.1%, Point & Click 12.7%, Exploration 6.4%

Why You'll Like It: Like Disco Elysium, it is a text-rich investigation game where your background, social choices, and interpretation of people matter as much as solving the mystery itself.

The Thaumaturge is a character-driven RPG with a rich story, morally ambiguous choices, and turn-based combat. In a city on the brink of change, use your mystical powers to read emotions, uncover motives, and command folklore-inspired demons — while resisting the temptation of your own pride.

Why similar: Detective 19.3%, CRPG 16%, Isometric 15.1%, Choices Matter 11.3%, RPG 9.3%

Why You'll Like It: Its isometric investigation, heavy dialogue, political setting, and psychologically driven character work make it feel adjacent to Disco even with more traditional RPG structure.

Experience a story-driven RPG where your choices mean all the difference in the world.

Why similar: RPG 21.3%, CRPG 19.8%, Choices Matter 18.7%, Isometric 18.6%, Story Rich 12.3%

Why You'll Like It: Few RPGs match Disco’s interest in ideology and consequence as well as this one, where your words, loyalties, and judgments shape both character and world.

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: Noir 31%, Story Rich 19.7%, Point & Click 19.4%, Surreal 15%, Atmospheric 10%

Why You'll Like It: This Southern Gothic sci-fi adventure delivers dense writing, surreal worldbuilding, political subtext, and a haunting investigative tone that Disco fans often love.

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: RPG 32.2%, Choices Matter 18%, Story Rich 17.1%, Detective 12.3%, Visual Novel 7.1%

Why You'll Like It: Though presented more simply, it nails Disco’s appeal of role-playing through conversation, observation, reputation, and difficult choices in a richly written world.

Torment: Tides of Numenera is the thematic successor to Planescape: Torment, one of the most critically acclaimed role-playing games of all time. Immerse yourself in a single-player, isometric, story-driven RPG set in Monte Cook’s Numenera universe. What does one life matter? Find your answer.

Why similar: RPG 24.4%, Isometric 23.4%, CRPG 19.9%, Story Rich 12.9%, Choices Matter 11.7%

Why You'll Like It: It follows the Planescape-to-Disco lineage with introspective writing, unusual companions, philosophy-heavy choices, and many situations resolved through dialogue and intellect.

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 34.1%, Story Rich 28.5%, Point & Click 13.4%, Atmospheric 10%, Visual Novel 7.2%

Why You'll Like It: It shares Disco’s love of sharp writing, morally charged conversations, and political themes, all wrapped in a stylish, character-focused narrative.

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 41.8%, Story Rich 20.5%, RPG 19%, Visual Novel 9.8%, Atmospheric 4.3%

Why You'll Like It: This choice-driven RPG is excellent if you want Disco’s emphasis on class, politics, personal identity, and painful consequences for every belief you embrace.

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: Political 30% ★, Choices Matter 18.1%, Story Rich 12.6%, RPG 12%, Point & Click 11.8%

Why You'll Like It: If Disco’s political side was the big draw, this is one of the best games on Steam for navigating ideology, compromise, and the personal cost of governance.

Harebrained Schemes' biggest Shadowrun game to date, and the definitive Shadowrun RPG experience available on PC. Now a standalone title with tons of new content & improvements!

Why similar: RPG 30.1%, Isometric 26.1%, CRPG 19.8%, Story Rich 14.7%, Atmospheric 3.5%

Why You'll Like It: Its isometric structure, excellent writing, strong companions, and frequent dialogue-led problem solving make it a great fit for players who liked Disco’s narrative depth.

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: Detective 30.9%, Choices Matter 28.3%, RPG 16.9%, Story Rich 14.1%, Adventure 3.5%

Why You'll Like It: This narrative adventure uses RPG-like skills in conversations and investigations, making social encounters feel strategic in a very Disco-adjacent way.

Paradise Island, a world outside reality. There’s been a murder that only "investigation freak" Lady Love Dies can solve. Gather evidence and interrogate suspects in this open world adventure. You can accuse anyone, but you’ll have to prove your case in trial. It’s up to you to decide who’s guilty.

Why similar: Detective 25.8%, Choices Matter 15.1%, Story Rich 11.2%, Surreal 11%, RPG 10.3%

Why You'll Like It: This is a freer-form detective game full of strange worldbuilding, eccentric suspects, and the thrill of piecing together truth through conversation and exploration.

This Is the Police is a strategy/adventure game set in a city spiraling the drain. Taking the role of gritty Police Chief Jack Boyd, you'll dive into a deep story of crime and intrigue. Will Jack reach his retirement with a nice stack of bills, or will he end up broken ... or worse?

Why similar: Detective 23%, Choices Matter 21.1%, Noir 16.7%, Story Rich 16.1%, Political 11.6% ★

Why You'll Like It: Its blend of crime, corruption, narrative decision-making, and moral erosion makes it a worthwhile recommendation for players drawn to Disco’s dirtier cop drama elements.

BLACKSAD: Under the Skin - A dark corruption scandal in the heart of the New York City's underworld for charismatic detective John Blacksad!

Why similar: Detective 27.3%, Noir 21.3%, Choices Matter 16.3%, Point & Click 11.7%, Story Rich 11.5%

Why You'll Like It: This noir detective adventure offers interrogations, branching decisions, and a strong case-solving focus that aligns well with Disco’s investigative side.

Broken Roads is a story-rich, party-based RPG set in a decaying, post-apocalyptic version of the vast Australian Outback, featuring a genre-redefining morality system. Survive, form bonds, and make tough choices that will shape your dangerous yet mesmerizing 25+ hour journey across the wilds.

Why similar: Isometric 23%, CRPG 22.9%, RPG 15.1%, Choices Matter 14.8%, Story Rich 10.2%

Why You'll Like It: This post-apocalyptic CRPG leans hard into dialogue, moral philosophy, and role-playing your worldview, making it a natural recommendation for Disco fans.

Lost at sea 1803 ~ The good ship Obra Dinn.

Why similar: Detective 62.6%, Story Rich 17.1%, Atmospheric 8.2%, Noir 6.5%, Singleplayer 2.5%

Why You'll Like It: While more puzzle-driven than RPG-like, it is one of the best choices for players who most loved Disco’s detective work and satisfaction of deduction.

Pathologic Classic HD is the Definitive Edition of the original Cult Classic Psychological First-Person Survival game. In this unforgettable experience, players control one of three unique characters as they try to save a mysterious town from a deadly plague that cannot be stopped.

Why similar: Story Rich 31.7%, Choices Matter 18.6%, Atmospheric 16.8%, RPG 16.4%, Open World 6.5%

Why You'll Like It: It is rougher and more punishing than Disco, but its literary writing, unsettling atmosphere, and fascination with social collapse make it a compelling cousin.

A murder. A hack. A bombing. All it takes to plunge the solar system into war – unless you do something about it. Help CDI agent Neil Conrad make a string of increasingly difficult decisions in this modern dialog-driven adventure set in a gorgeous 2D sci-fi noir universe.

Why similar: Detective 36.7%, Noir 27.4%, Choices Matter 20.7%, Story Rich 12.4%, Adventure 2.6%

Why You'll Like It: Its noir detective framing, dialogue choices, and emphasis on gathering information and making judgment calls echo Disco’s investigative strengths.

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: Choices Matter 30.4%, Story Rich 20.5%, RPG 18%, Atmospheric 8.4%, Exploration 8.2%

Why You'll Like It: It scratches the same itch for interrogation, deduction, philosophy, and branching outcomes, even if it approaches them from a more exploratory mystery format.

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: Political 32% ★, Choices Matter 23.5%, Story Rich 14.5%, Point & Click 12.6%, Atmospheric 7.4%

Why You'll Like It: This is a good fit if you especially liked Disco’s themes of ideology, compromise, and living under a broken political system.

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: CRPG 28.4%, Isometric 23.2%, Choices Matter 22.4%, RPG 14.6%, Story Rich 11.4%

Why You'll Like It: Its reactive writing, social checks, faction maneuvering, and consequential decision-making should appeal to players who want more dialogue-heavy role-playing.

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: Political 15.5% ★, CRPG 15%, Isometric 14.5%, Choices Matter 13.7%, Story Rich 9.9%

A tactical sci-fi RPG set in an alternative 1970's, where an enormous and inexplicable artifact –the Dome– is discovered in a remote desert. Fight enemies, explore the anomalous wasteland, level up your character, join one of the forces in the ruined world.

Why similar: CRPG 30.1%, Isometric 19.8%, RPG 15.6%, Choices Matter 10.8%, Story Rich 8.1%

Why You'll Like It: It combines isometric CRPG exploration with plenty of dialogue, faction politics, and role-playing choices in a strange, oppressive setting.

From the creators of Disco Elysium comes ZERO PARADES – an espionage RPG. You're a brilliant but tormented operant on one final desperate assignment. Gather your broken network, untangle a web of lies, and prove yourself on the world stage - or blow it all up again.

Why similar: Political 16.7% ★, CRPG 15.2%, Isometric 13%, Choices Matter 11.8%, RPG 8.6%

Baldur’s Gate 3 is a story-rich, party-based RPG set in the universe of Dungeons & Dragons, where your choices shape a tale of fellowship and betrayal, survival and sacrifice, and the lure of absolute power.

Why similar: Choices Matter 22.6%, CRPG 21.7%, RPG 20.6%, Story Rich 15.4%, Character Customization 9.7%

You have five days to save your husband, who has just been arrested by the Gestapo. Investigate, explore and form allegiances in this story-rich RPG-lite. Who will you trust?

Why similar: RPG 42.8%, Story Rich 39.8%, Adventure 10.1%, Singleplayer 5.9%, Indie 1.4%

Why You'll Like It: It trades RPG systems for grounded narrative choice, but its focus on politics, survival, and the moral ambiguity of ordinary people feels very Disco-adjacent.

The Age of Decadence is a turn-based, hardcore role-playing game set in a low magic fantasy world. The game features a detailed skill-based character system, multiple skill-based ways to handle quests, choices & consequences, and extensive dialogue trees.

Why similar: CRPG 25.1%, Isometric 21.9%, Choices Matter 19.2%, Story Rich 13.6%, RPG 10.9%

Why You'll Like It: This RPG is excellent for players who want Disco-style commitment to choice, consequence, and talking your way through a harsh world shaped by politics and decay.

Your old life is dead and buried. You have no afterlife to look forward to, and your vampiric unlife is about to fall apart unless you solve an unsolvable crime. Welcome to New York City... and welcome to the Lasombra clan, where failure is not an option.

Why similar: Choices Matter 32.9%, Visual Novel 31.1%, Story Rich 30.1%, Indie 4.3%, Singleplayer 1.6%

Why You'll Like It: Its noir tone, introspective writing, and emphasis on navigating conversations and identity make it a strong pick for Disco’s moodier fans.

The critically acclaimed RPG that raised the bar, from the creators of Baldur's Gate 3. Gather your party. Master deep, tactical combat. Venture as a party of up to four - but know that only one of you will have the chance to become a God.

Why similar: CRPG 27.2%, RPG 15.6%, Story Rich 15.4%, Isometric 12.8%, Choices Matter 11.1%

Patch 5.0 - Turn-based mode and The Ultimate challenge out now! Pursue a rogue god over land and sea in the sequel to the multi-award-winning RPG Pillars of Eternity. Captain your ship on a dangerous voyage of discovery across the vast unexplored archipelago region of the Deadfire.

Why similar: RPG 23.7%, CRPG 20.5%, Isometric 19.3%, Choices Matter 11.3%, Story Rich 10.3%

Story-driven open-world RPG that immerses you in an epic adventure in the Holy Roman Empire. Avenge your parents' death as you battle invading forces, go on game-changing quests, and make influential choices. Explore castles, forests, villages and other realistic settings in medieval Bohemia!

Why similar: RPG 31.5%, Story Rich 19.1%, Open World 18.8%, Choices Matter 17.8%, Atmospheric 5.2%

Embark on a journey to a realm overrun by demons in a new epic RPG from the creators of the critically acclaimed Pathfinder: Kingmaker. Explore the nature of good and evil, learn the true cost of power, and rise as a Mythic Hero capable of deeds beyond mortal expectations.

Why similar: CRPG 20.7%, Isometric 19.2%, Choices Matter 16.2%, Story Rich 11.4%, RPG 11%

Back to the Dawn is a story-rich RPG set in a high-security prison ruled by factions and buried secrets. Investigate two conspiracies from the inside, gather evidence, and outsmart a system designed to silence you. Make friends (or foes) with fellow inmates and with their help, break out of prison.

Why similar: Detective 30.8%, Choices Matter 18.8%, RPG 17.5%, Story Rich 15.6%, CRPG 11.2%

Cyberpunk 2077 is an open-world, action-adventure RPG set in the dark future of Night City — a dangerous megalopolis obsessed with power, glamor, and ceaseless body modification.

Why similar: RPG 25.6%, Story Rich 24.7%, Open World 19.3%, Atmospheric 10.2%, Exploration 7.1%

Prepare to be enchanted by a world where the choices you make and the paths you choose shape your destiny. Obsidian Entertainment, the developer of Fallout: New Vegas™ and South Park: The Stick of Truth™, together with Paradox Interactive is proud to present Pillars of Eternity.

Why similar: RPG 26.4%, Isometric 23.8%, CRPG 21.6%, Story Rich 13.3%, Character Customization 3.3%

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: Story Rich 25.2%, RPG 18.5%, Open World 17.6%, Atmospheric 14.5%, Exploration 8.5%

Fahrenheit (known as Indigo Prophecy in North America) was a breakthrough in interactive narrative. This newly remastered edition features updated textures in HD, expanded controller support, and is based on the uncut and uncensored international version of the game.

Why similar: Story Rich 27.1%, Detective 24.2%, Choices Matter 21%, Noir 9.9%, Atmospheric 9.1%

Gather your party and get ready for the kick-ass new version of GameSpot's PC Game of the Year 2014. With hours of new content, new game modes, full voiceovers, split-screen multiplayer, and thousands of improvements, there's never been a better time to explore the epic world of Rivellon!

Why similar: RPG 38.8%, CRPG 19.8%, Isometric 13.1%, Story Rich 11.6%, Character Customization 6%

The miserable journey of a broken man...

Why similar: Choices Matter 28.9%, RPG 21.5%, Story Rich 20.8%, Funny 9.8%, Atmospheric 9.7%

Become The Witcher, Geralt of Rivia, a legendary monster slayer caught in a web of intrigue woven by forces vying for control of the world. Make difficult decisions and live with the consequences in a game that will immerse you in an extraordinary tale like no other.

Why similar: RPG 37.5%, Choices Matter 24.4%, Story Rich 20.4%, Open World 6%, Atmospheric 5.9%

Take on the role of a private investigator in this immersive detective simulator. Solve murders and other crimes in a procedurally generated and persistent city where every NPC lives and breathes their own independent lives. Find the killer quickly… or they will kill again!

Why similar: Detective 46.3%, Noir 27.9%, RPG 9.6%, Open World 7.7%, Atmospheric 3.7%

The Outer Worlds is an award-winning single-player RPG from Obsidian Entertainment and Private Division. As you explore a space colony, the character you decide to become will determine how this player-driven story unfolds. In the colony's corporate equation, you are the unplanned variable.

Why similar: Choices Matter 23.9%, RPG 20.9%, Story Rich 16.9%, Open World 13.9%, Character Customization 7.6%

In this psychological horror game, you are a doctor with only 12 days to save a town from a mysterious plague. Make ruthless decisions and diagnose with precision. Shape the town's future and rewrite the past. Hold yourself together while it all falls apart.

Why similar: Detective 27%, Choices Matter 18.3%, Story Rich 15.1%, Surreal 12.6%, RPG 12.4%

Following the critically acclaimed 2014 Game of the Year winner Wasteland 2, the RPG series that pioneered the post-apocalyptic genre in video games returns with Wasteland 3.

Why similar: CRPG 23%, Isometric 17.5%, Choices Matter 17.3%, Story Rich 11.9%, RPG 11.2%

You've just unearthed the classic post-apocalyptic role-playing game that revitalized the entire CRPG genre. The Fallout® SPECIAL system allows drastically different types of characters, meaningful decisions and development that puts you in complete control. Explore the devastated ruins of a golden age civilization.

Why similar: RPG 33.9%, Isometric 27.3%, CRPG 16.9%, Open World 10.7%, Atmospheric 4.9%

Interpret the law as you see fit! Run the sheriff’s department, manage your cops, make tough decisions – and try to keep out of prison yourself – in this story-driven mixture of adventure, strategy, and turn-based tactical combat.

Why similar: Story Rich 32.1%, Choices Matter 25.1%, Detective 15.5%, Noir 10.3%, Atmospheric 6.2%

Dispatch is a superhero workplace comedy where choices matter. Manage a dysfunctional team of misfit heroes and strategize who to send to emergencies around the city, all while balancing office politics, personal relationships, and your own quest to become a hero. All episodes out now!

Why similar: Choices Matter 41.4%, Story Rich 24.1%, Sexual Content 11.3%, Point & Click 7.3%, Funny 4.8%

A retro, pixel art style adventure in New York, inspired by ’80s cop shows. You are Jack Kelly and you’ve been framed for murder. Now as a regular beat cop you have to find out, who did that. Expect thick crime story, a lot of black humour and all the other things you can find on the streets of Brooklyn.

Why similar: Detective 37%, Choices Matter 20.8%, Point & Click 12.4%, Story Rich 10.6%, Adventure 6.2%

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: Detective 26.9%, Choices Matter 17.8%, Political 16% ★, Story Rich 12.1%, Point & Click 10.4%

In his fight to climb the ranks and do what's right, LAPD detective Cole Phelps must unravel the truth behind a string of arson attacks, conspiracies, and brutal murders, battling the L.A. underworld and even members of his own department.

Why similar: Detective 48.8%, Noir 24.3%, Story Rich 11.1%, Open World 8.3%, Atmospheric 3.3%

ATOM RPG: Trudograd is a turn-based post-apocalyptic roleplaying game, which continues the story of ATOM RPG as a stand-alone sequel/expansion, and follows the traditions set by classic cRPGs such as the early Fallout and Wasteland titles.

Why similar: CRPG 26.3%, Isometric 18.8%, RPG 13.3%, Choices Matter 11.3%, Story Rich 11.2%

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

Why similar: Choices Matter 28.4%, Story Rich 24.2%, Point & Click 18.4%, Visual Novel 17.3%, Funny 8.6%

A surreal RPG with a unique graphical style and droll scenario.

Why similar: RPG 44.2%, Surreal 43.3%, Adventure 4.5%, Story Rich 3.9%, Singleplayer 2.3%

The Bookwalker is a narrative adventure in which you play as Etienne Quist, a writer-turned-thief with the ability to dive into books. Use your powers to journey between reality and book worlds, and steal legendary items like Thor's Hammer and Excalibur to restore your ability to write.

Why similar: Detective 20.1%, Isometric 16.5%, Noir 16.3%, Story Rich 9.3%, Surreal 9.2%