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 23.8%, Isometric 20.3%, Choices Matter 17%, RPG 16.2%, Story Rich 13.7%

Why You'll Like It: Its exceptionally text-rich, philosophical RPG storytelling and identity-driven protagonist make it one of Disco Elysium’s clearest spiritual predecessors.

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 27%, RPG 26.6%, Point & Click 20.1%, Atmospheric 11.2%, Exploration 8.1%

Why You'll Like It: It replaces Disco Elysium’s city streets with a decaying space station but retains dice-driven choices, intimate character writing, and political survival.

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 19.5%, Noir 12.7%, CRPG 11.9%, Choices Matter 11.7%, Isometric 11.5%

Why You'll Like It: A dialogue-focused isometric detective RPG where gathering evidence and choosing interpretations matters more than 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 21%, Choices Matter 15.1%, Story Rich 11.9%, CRPG 11.4%, RPG 9.4%

Why You'll Like It: A surreal, oppressive investigation RPG about navigating a dying town, making impossible compromises, and inhabiting a deeply troubled protagonist.

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 20.6%, Isometric 18.3%, Choices Matter 13.8%, RPG 11.8%, Story Rich 10.5%

Why You'll Like It: This Victorian supernatural RPG uses tarot-based skill checks, internal character traits, and dialogue-heavy investigation in a format strongly reminiscent of Disco Elysium.

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 16.1%, Isometric 15%, Choices Matter 11.2%, RPG 9.5%

Why You'll Like It: This isometric historical RPG blends investigation, psychological flaws, supernatural companions, and morally complicated conversations.

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 36.3%, Story Rich 21.8%, Choices Matter 17.1%, Point & Click 12.7%, Exploration 6.2%

Why You'll Like It: Its meticulous historical writing, social tensions, branching accusations, and murder investigation reward careful reading and role-playing.

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

Why similar: RPG 21%, CRPG 19.9%, Isometric 18.1%, Choices Matter 18%, Story Rich 12.2%

Why You'll Like It: A reactive isometric CRPG centered on ideology, factional allegiances, and the uncomfortable consequences of serving an authoritarian regime.

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 30.8%, Story Rich 20%, Point & Click 19.4%, Surreal 14.9%, Atmospheric 9.8%

Why You'll Like It: Its Southern Gothic science-fiction mystery delivers richly observed places, strange politics, damaged people, and wonderfully literary writing.

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 29.5%, Story Rich 25.3%, Great Soundtrack 12.4%, Point & Click 11.7%, Atmospheric 8.5%

Why You'll Like It: This short cyberpunk adventure focuses on manipulating conversations, questioning ethics, and navigating a cynical world through player-led choices.

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%, CRPG 19.8%, Story Rich 12.9%, Choices Matter 11.3%

Why You'll Like It: A philosophical, dialogue-first CRPG built around identity, memory, strange worlds, and choices with significant narrative consequences.

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 41.2%, Story Rich 20.7%, RPG 19.2%, Visual Novel 10.4%, Atmospheric 4.1%

Why You'll Like It: This choice-heavy life RPG tracks personality, class, relationships, and convictions across an unforgiving society built around consequential decisions.

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: Choices Matter 24.3%, Story Rich 17.4%, RPG 16.4%, Visual Novel 15.9%, Point & Click 15.9%

Why You'll Like It: It offers Disco Elysium-like political complexity and moral compromise through a densely written presidency simulation where every conversation can reshape a country.

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 31.9%, Choices Matter 17.5%, Story Rich 17.1%, Detective 11.7%, Visual Novel 6.9%

Why You'll Like It: A text-forward fantasy RPG where careful observation, character background, and hard choices define your journey through a hostile frontier.

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 27.3%, Story Rich 19%, RPG 16.5%, Great Soundtrack 9%, Atmospheric 7.5%

Why You'll Like It: This compact mystery RPG rewards deductive curiosity, repeated conversations, and creative solutions to a morally loaded ancient conspiracy.

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 23.5%, CRPG 20.4%, Isometric 18.8%, Choices Matter 10.8%, Story Rich 10.2%

Why You'll Like It: A richly written isometric CRPG with ideological factions, dense lore, and substantial freedom in how you resolve quests.

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 22.1%, CRPG 21.7%, RPG 21%, Story Rich 15.5%, Character Customization 9.4%

Why You'll Like It: While far more combat-focused, it offers exceptional character role-playing, reactive dialogue, and a huge range of consequential decisions.

Lost at sea 1803 ~ The good ship Obra Dinn.

Why similar: Detective 58.8%, Story Rich 15.9%, Atmospheric 7.4%, Great Soundtrack 6.6%, Noir 6.1%

Why You'll Like It: A masterful deduction game in which meticulous observation and logical reconstruction replace conventional combat or quest markers.

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

Why similar: Story Rich 27.8%, RPG 20.3%, Exploration 14%, Atmospheric 11%, Great Soundtrack 9.4%

Why You'll Like It: Its bleak, eccentric world is full of literary prose, dark humor, political factions, and personal stories shaped by risk and consequence.

From the makers of the 2012 Game of the Year: The Walking Dead, comes a thriller based on the award-winning Fables comic books. As Bigby Wolf you will discover that a brutal, bloody murder is just a taste of things to come in a game series where your every decision can have enormous consequences.

Why similar: Detective 29.4%, Choices Matter 16%, Noir 16%, Story Rich 12.7%, Point & Click 9.8%

Why You'll Like It: A grim noir detective story with interrogation, investigation, and difficult social choices, set among fairy-tale figures hiding in modern New York.

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 48.3%, Noir 24.1%, Story Rich 11.2%, Open World 8.3%, Atmospheric 3.2%

Why You'll Like It: Its period noir mood, criminal cases, interrogations, and evidence-based detective work make it a natural thematic companion.

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 20.9%, Isometric 19.1%, Choices Matter 15.9%, Story Rich 11.5%, RPG 11.2%

Why You'll Like It: A massive reactive CRPG with layered character builds, ideological paths, and decisions that dramatically affect its world and companions.

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: Detective 42.4%, Choices Matter 15.7%, Story Rich 14.5%, Point & Click 14.2%, Atmospheric 6.1%

Why You'll Like It: It captures the pleasure of reconstructing truth from scattered clues, asking players to actively infer people, motives, and events.

Vampire®: The Masquerade-Bloodlines™ delivers a new type of RPG experience-one that blends all the core elements of a traditional RPG with the graphical richness, immediacy and brutal combat of a first-person action game. The game plunges players into the dark and gritty vampire underworld of modern-day L.A. as a creature of the night.

Why similar: RPG 54.1%, Story Rich 20.3%, Atmospheric 10.2%, Great Soundtrack 9.7%, Singleplayer 4.1%

Why You'll Like It: Its noir urban setting, expressive role-playing, faction politics, and memorable dialogue make it an excellent alternative for character-driven investigation.

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 27.4%, Noir 21.3%, Choices Matter 16%, Point & Click 11.7%, Story Rich 11.7%

Why You'll Like It: A stylish noir murder mystery centered on questioning suspects, examining scenes, and navigating corruption in a hard-boiled world.

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: CRPG 18.5%, Isometric 15.5%, Choices Matter 14.2%, Story Rich 10.6%, RPG 10.4%

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 30.2%, Story Rich 19.2%, Point & Click 16.5%, Great Soundtrack 11.7%, Atmospheric 9.6%

Why You'll Like It: Its oppressive political setting forces painful ethical choices as you spy on neighbors and decide whom to protect, exploit, or betray.

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: CRPG 18.5%, Isometric 16.9%, Choices Matter 16.2%, Story Rich 12.1%, RPG 11.1%

You are Geralt of Rivia, mercenary monster slayer. Before you stands a war-torn, monster-infested continent you can explore at will. Your current contract? Tracking down Ciri — the Child of Prophecy, a living weapon that can alter the shape of the world.

Why similar: RPG 22.9%, Story Rich 22.1%, Choices Matter 17.5%, Open World 16.6%, Atmospheric 7.4%

Why You'll Like It: Its open-world structure differs greatly, but its morally tangled quests, cynical fantasy politics, and detective-like contract investigations strongly align with Disco Elysium’s tone.

Your aunt’s dead, your cousin hates you, and you’re stuck in the dead-end town of Scarlet Hollow. Choose your path through a branching narrative so dense that you'll see less than 1/5 of the game on a single playthrough. You won't be able to save everyone. Good luck, and welcome home.

Why similar: Choices Matter 34%, Story Rich 22.3%, Visual Novel 16.3%, RPG 13.2%, Point & Click 12.1%

Why You'll Like It: This branching supernatural visual novel excels at sharply written characters, difficult choices, and traits that meaningfully alter what you can discover.

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 27.8%, RPG 17.1%, Story Rich 14.3%, Adventure 3.6%

Why You'll Like It: Its episodic mystery uses social skills, traits, and conversational resource management to make dialogue feel like a tactical investigation.

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: CRPG 23.1%, Isometric 22.8%, RPG 15.2%, Choices Matter 14.6%, Story Rich 10.4%

Why You'll Like It: This Australian post-apocalyptic isometric RPG emphasizes philosophical alignment, conversation, exploration, and moral ambiguity over action.

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 27.4%, RPG 15.8%, Story Rich 15.6%, Isometric 12.6%, Choices Matter 10.9%

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 25.3%, Choices Matter 22.2%, Noir 18%, Story Rich 17.5%, Great Soundtrack 4.6%

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%, Isometric 22.9%, CRPG 21.5%, Story Rich 13.2%, Character Customization 3.2%

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 23.6%, Story Rich 23%, Open World 17.7%, Atmospheric 9.1%, Great Soundtrack 8.3%

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 30.5%, Story Rich 18.7%, Open World 18.1%, Choices Matter 16.7%, Atmospheric 4.9%

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 23.9%, RPG 17.2%, Open World 16.5%, Atmospheric 13.5%, Exploration 7.9%

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 26.5%, Detective 23.3%, Choices Matter 20%, Noir 9.3%, Atmospheric 8.4%

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

Why similar: Choices Matter 52.6%, Story Rich 32.2%, Great Soundtrack 6%, Atmospheric 4.6%, Singleplayer 2.6%

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 29%, Choices Matter 16.5%, Atmospheric 14.7%, RPG 14.7%, Great Soundtrack 9.8%

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 37.4%, CRPG 19.2%, Isometric 12.5%, Story Rich 11.2%, Open World 5.7%

The miserable journey of a broken man...

Why similar: Choices Matter 25.1%, RPG 19.2%, Story Rich 18.7%, Great Soundtrack 11.5%, Funny 8.7%

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 25.6%, Choices Matter 14.7%, Story Rich 11.3%, Surreal 10.9%, RPG 10.3%

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 35.6%, Choices Matter 22.5%, Story Rich 19.5%, Great Soundtrack 5.8%, Open World 5.7%

UNDERTALE! The RPG game where you don't have to destroy anyone.

Why similar: Choices Matter 28.6%, Story Rich 22.7%, Great Soundtrack 17.4%, RPG 17.3%, Funny 9.2%

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 34.9%, Choices Matter 19.2%, Point & Click 11.7%, Story Rich 10.4%, Adventure 6%

Lead the members of Expedition 33 on their quest to destroy the Paintress so that she can never paint death again. Explore a world of wonders inspired by Belle Époque France and battle unique enemies in this turn-based RPG with real-time mechanics.

Why similar: Story Rich 36.2%, RPG 23.7%, Great Soundtrack 18.3%, Exploration 7.1%, Character Customization 6.9%

From legendary game creator Hideo Kojima comes a genre-defying experience, now expanded in this definitive DIRECTOR’S CUT. As Sam Bridges, your mission is to deliver hope to humanity by connecting the last survivors of a decimated America. Can you reunite the shattered world, one step at a time?

Why similar: Story Rich 35.1%, Open World 19.1%, Great Soundtrack 17%, Atmospheric 13.6%, Exploration 7.9%

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 30%, Choices Matter 22.7%, Detective 16.1%, Noir 9.4%, Great Soundtrack 6.1%

Discover the world of Transistor, a sci-fi-themed action RPG from the creators of Bastion.

Why similar: Great Soundtrack 24.9%, Isometric 24.8%, Story Rich 20.7%, RPG 15.4%, Atmospheric 6.9%

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 30.2%, Isometric 25.8%, CRPG 19.9%, Story Rich 14.9%, Atmospheric 3.4%

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: Detective 29.6%, Surreal 17.9%, Point & Click 17.5%, Story Rich 11.2%, Great Soundtrack 8.9%

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

Why similar: RPG 38%, Surreal 36.6%, Great Soundtrack 14.1%, Story Rich 3.9%, Adventure 3.9%

You play Adam Jensen, an ex-SWAT specialist who's been handpicked to oversee the defensive needs of one of America's most experimental biotechnology firms. When a black ops team breaks in and kills the very scientists you were hired to protect, everything you thought you knew about your job changes.

Why similar: RPG 42.9%, Story Rich 29%, Great Soundtrack 15.6%, Atmospheric 6.1%, Singleplayer 4.4%

You play as Adam Jensen, an experienced covert operative operating in a world that despises his kind: augmented humans. Choose from an arsenal of state-of-the-art weapons and augmentations to build your playstyle, and decide who you'll trust, to unravel a vast worldwide conspiracy.

Why similar: Story Rich 29.4%, RPG 29.3%, Great Soundtrack 12.7%, Atmospheric 12.5%, Open World 10.4%

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 20.2%, Isometric 16.3%, Noir 16.3%, Story Rich 9.4%, Surreal 9.2%

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 34.1%, Isometric 27%, CRPG 17.1%, Open World 10.8%, Atmospheric 4.8%