
Manage your dopamine, earn money, build decks, and navigate life's challenges in this psychological life-simulation roguelike. Every choice shapes your story as you struggle to survive your own mind. A solo-developed project crafted over two years.
60+ similar titles based on shared tags and player behavior. Themes include Psychological, Choose Your Own Adventure, 2D, Story Rich.

Manage your dopamine, earn money, build decks, and navigate life's challenges in this psychological life-simulation roguelike. Every choice shapes your story as you struggle to survive your own mind. A solo-developed project crafted over two years.

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A pixel-art life simulation about studying, surviving, and chasing your dreams as an international student in Tokyo. Every day, every choice, shapes your future.

Let's Go Out
Chosen isolation has kept you inside for far too long. Now, explore an interactive home, examine objects to uncover past memories, and confront surreal nightmares within. Every choice branches the narrative toward multiple endings. Can you step outside?
A pixel-art life simulation about studying, surviving, and chasing your dreams as an international student in Tokyo. Every day, every choice, shapes your future.
Why similar: Time Management 23.1%, Life Sim 21.8%, Choose Your Own Adventure 18%, Roguelike 14.4%, Roguelite 11.5%
Chosen isolation has kept you inside for far too long. Now, explore an interactive home, examine objects to uncover past memories, and confront surreal nightmares within. Every choice branches the narrative toward multiple endings. Can you step outside?
Why similar: Life Sim 23.7%, Psychological 18.1%, Surreal 14.3%, Choose Your Own Adventure 12.3%, Psychological Horror 12%
CHANGE is an award nominated homeless survival experience set in a randomly created city with rogue-like elements. Explore, survive, earn perks, find items & kindness to develop your character & escape to a new life. Over 7 years of development & over 200 updates so far!
Why similar: Life Sim 19%, Time Management 18%, Roguelike 13.2%, Choose Your Own Adventure 12.8%, Procedural Generation 10.1%
Can you heal a mind while racing against time? Psychologist Life is a strategic simulation game where you experience the life of a psychologist. Carefully plan your appointments, use your knowledge to treat patients, and prove your time management skills.
Why similar: Psychological 32.4%, Life Sim 28.7%, Drama 15.9%, Time Management 9.9%, Story Rich 9.6%
A 2D pixel-art psychological horror game set aboard a doomed flight trapped in a relentless time loop. Nothing carries over between deaths except what you learn. Intervene in passengers' fates, uncover the plane's hidden mysteries, and find a way to prevent the crash.
Why similar: Time Management 23.1%, Choose Your Own Adventure 17.1%, Multiple Endings 17.1%, Psychological Horror 14.8%, Surreal 13.2%
You ended the world. She, the one who holds every card, gave you an endless summer as your reward. Now your only way out is through sugar, jellyfish, sunlight, and blood — into the deepest reaches of her mind, or be dissolved along the way. Choose your path in this psycho-thriller visual novel.
Why similar: Psychological 32.5%, Surreal 18.4%, Multiple Endings 15.9%, Psychological Horror 13.8%, Story Rich 10.8%
A roguelike, incremental business-sim where you cultivate a family environment, make BIG profit and sacrifice the lives of your employees to the devil. Welcome to the world of business.
Why similar: Life Sim 23.4%, Psychological 22.3%, Roguelike 19.2%, Time Management 18.4%, Choose Your Own Adventure 7%
Cozy life-sim in a horror time-loop. Plates of food. Plates of tomatoes. Plates of pain. Plates of angels. Plates of her legs...
Why similar: Psychological 25.4%, Surreal 16.4%, Life Sim 14.5%, Time Management 12.6%, Psychological Horror 12.1%
Every choice comes with loss. This is no power fantasy, but a ten-year reckoning with ambition, class, pride, and reality. Plan each week, face relentless comparison and locked paths, and find out what remains when you finally stop trying to become someone else.
Why similar: Life Sim 30.4%, Psychological 28.8%, Time Management 17.8%, Choose Your Own Adventure 11.6%, Story Rich 10.5%
An old fashioned RPG Horror Game. Venture into the mansion, investigate the truth behind the fire. The deeper you delve into the mistery, the more choices you will have when everything will unravel.
Why similar: Psychological 25.8%, Psychological Horror 17.2%, Multiple Endings 16.9%, Drama 13.6%, Story Rich 11.7%
A quiet apartment. A friendly neighbour. A normal life. You've been in this apartment for a while now. You know the layout. The sounds. The routine. So do we. A psychological horror about control.
Why similar: Life Sim 21.5%, Psychological 17.1%, Surreal 15%, Psychological Horror 13.2%, Choose Your Own Adventure 12.3%
Take on the role of a daytime security guard in a cursed apartment complex. Monitor residents, greet guests, and handle strange incidents—just make sure to follow the rules.
Why similar: Psychological 38.4%, Drama 21.2%, Multiple Endings 15%, Psychological Horror 13.8%, Choose Your Own Adventure 9.2%
No Place in the City is an urban life simulation game where you start with almost nothing. Find work, earn a living, rent a place to stay, take care of yourself, and slowly find your footing in an unfamiliar city.
Why similar: Life Sim 30.6%, Psychological 29.3%, Time Management 21.2%, Choose Your Own Adventure 12.7%, Story Rich 6.3%
这是一款关于写真偶像的养成游戏,女孩Nira大学毕业后独自在城市里生活,日子过得比较拮据。一次意外让她成为了时尚杂志封面女郎,她准备借此机会成为网红。接下来的时间她要努力展现自己,增加自己的粉丝得到收入,最终成为知名偶像。但她也有可能放弃,还有各种诱惑和挑战等待着她。
Why similar: Life Sim 24.3%, Psychological 23%, Multiple Endings 14.3%, Psychological Horror 12.2%, Choose Your Own Adventure 11.9%
A dark life-simulation where stress, money and time work against you. Trade coins, survive daily life and fight rising panic — every decision matters.
Why similar: Life Sim 34.5%, Time Management 27.5%, Psychological 20.3%, Roguelite 15.9%, Indie 1.4%
S4bl3 is a grueling, psychological roguelike that explores PTSD and trauma through a wanderer's descent into purgatory. Quell hellish horrors as you cut your way through increasingly murderous dark entities.
Why similar: Psychological 28.4%, Roguelike 15.9%, Surreal 15.3%, Roguelite 12%, Psychological Horror 11.4%
Step into Greyholt as Ava, a would-be adventurer taking a chance to register with her father's guild. Will this bring the independence she craves, or something more dangerous? A psychological, choice-driven visual novel where every decision shapes the road ahead and the journey beneath her own skin.
Why similar: Psychological 32%, Multiple Endings 14%, Psychological Horror 13.3%, Choose Your Own Adventure 11.9%, Story Rich 11.1%
You've seized the university! Every floor is full of obstacles. Each hostage is valuable, dangerous, or a waste of time. Kill, search, or interrogate: everything costs time, and panic raises the price. Reach the roof before time runs out.
Why similar: Psychological 22.9%, Time Management 15.2%, Roguelike 14.3%, Surreal 13%, Psychological Horror 12.6%
A game as beautiful and unpredictable as life. Navigate what fate throws at you and explore what a life well lived can mean in this minimalist roguelite role playing life simulation. Life is wild and then you die – a thousand times over.
Why similar: Life Sim 29.9%, Roguelite 14.3%, Choose Your Own Adventure 13%, Roguelike 12.8%, Psychological 12.6%
Rat Smasher is a first person psychological game with multiplayer and single player aspects where you must survive a rat infested basement long enough to escape.
Why similar: Psychological 39.4%, Surreal 30.9%, Time Management 27.5%, Indie 1.3%, Singleplayer 0.9%
A pixel-art roguelite strategy game and middle-aged man suffering simulator. In most games, higher levels make you stronger. Here, higher age makes life more dangerous. Survive after 40 through debt, illness, family bills, work pressure, temptation, and attitude-based battles.
Why similar: Life Sim 29%, Roguelike 19.2%, Roguelite 15.3%, Surreal 12.7%, Psychological Horror 8.4%
Mirror Drama is a story-focused RPG where everyday conversations become turn-based battles. Follow Shunta as he navigates his daily life, friendships, and the mysterious reflection that haunts his past.
Why similar: Time Management 25.8%, Life Sim 24.6%, Choose Your Own Adventure 19.9%, Surreal 12.4%, Multiple Endings 8.6%
Waiting for Heaven is a psychological first-person-horror experience about waiting at a lonely bus stop between life and death. Every decision counts. Your actions, patience, and behavior determine whether the final bus takes you to Heaven, Hell, or somewhere far worse.
Why similar: Time Management 23.5%, Life Sim 18.8%, Surreal 16.8%, Psychological Horror 14%, Choose Your Own Adventure 12.6%
忘れられたモノが流れ着く異界の温泉宿を舞台にした温泉ホラーシミュレーション。昼はケガレを抱えた付喪神たちをもてなし、夜は宿に溢れたケガレが引き起こす怪奇から生き延びる。あなたの選択が、客の癒しと宿の運命を変えていく。
Why similar: Psychological 35.1%, Time Management 17.7%, Choose Your Own Adventure 15.6%, Multiple Endings 15.1%, Psychological Horror 14.4%
A claustrophobic click-based survival game where every spin, card, and choice could be your last. Earn oxygen by gambling your fate through charms, curses, and rising debt before the air runs out.
Why similar: Psychological 26.5%, Roguelike 17%, Surreal 16.8%, Multiple Endings 14.2%, Psychological Horror 12.2%
This is a game that seamlessly transitions between 2D card-based gameplay and immersive 3D environments ,"It" made everything disappear, yet the rain that night never ceased. And so, I embarked on a journey to find the answers. Why did I become myself?
Why similar: Psychological 31.3%, Surreal 22.4%, Multiple Endings 14.6%, Drama 11.9%, Story Rich 10.8%
《修仙实操手册》是一款拥有丰富剧情的都市修真题材养成游戏。身患绝症的主人公尝试修炼一本叫"修仙实操手册"的养生功法,于是一个生活在现代都市的大好青年开始了每日打坐、炼丹、算命、看风水...的“神仙”生活。
Why similar: Life Sim 31.3%, Time Management 25.1%, Drama 21.2%, Multiple Endings 12.7%, Story Rich 5.1%
You will answer a series of questions that will reveal your potential fate. These questions may make you uncomfortable, but with great knowledge comes great sacrifice. Can you make it all the way through The Horrorscope, and if you do, are you sure you want the answers you seek?
Why similar: Psychological 30.1%, Life Sim 17.6%, Psychological Horror 14.2%, Choose Your Own Adventure 14.2%, Multiple Endings 13.7%
Roll the dice… or cities die. Learn lethal rules, twist outcomes, accept the cost. One bad throw calls the bombs. Win to delay death. Lose to become a murderer. Every choice reshapes your ending. Fate is loaded. Your turn is encoded?
Why similar: Psychological 29%, Multiple Endings 17.5%, Surreal 16.6%, Roguelike 16.1%, Roguelite 12.5%
The Pinball Roguelike! PINBOMB traps you in a room with a pinball machine hungry for higher and higher scores. Buy new parts to upgrade it, build wild synergies to feed the machine, and send your score through the roof. Oh, and there's a bomb strapped to it, so score big or go boom!
Why similar: Psychological 26.7%, Roguelike 20.8%, Surreal 19.2%, Roguelite 14.1%, Psychological Horror 10.1%
Welded inside a rusty, devastated truck, you travel through the apocalypse—accompanied by a monster that wants you dead. The monster provides Matter; Matter provides fuel and supplies. You need each other to survive. Feed it, avoid being killed, survive the end of the world—or die trying.
Why similar: Psychological 33.8%, Roguelike 24.5%, Surreal 20.4%, Psychological Horror 8.8%, Multiple Endings 7.3%
Free Agency is the life simulation where the agents gradually become self-aware and try to find meaning in their lives. Meanwhile, you have to keep them too busy to think about it.
Why similar: Life Sim 45.5%, Psychological 29%, Time Management 24.4%, RPG 0.6%, Indie 0.5%
"Homeless: Survival" — a gritty survival sim where you play as a drifter clawing your way up from the streets. Take odd jobs, learn skills, scavenge rare items, and risk it all—even in the supernatural—to earn your citizenship and start over. Every choice writes your story of redemption.
Why similar: Time Management 35.5%, Life Sim 21.7%, Choose Your Own Adventure 21.7%, Roguelite 14.3%, Pixel Graphics 5.2%
申户市高二学生兼小乐队主唱的少女时雨,在放学回家的路上摸摸野猫,打工的时候专心致志的摸鱼,合练之余去W记整点薯条,还有和大家一起为开Live而努力! 只是,这样的生活随着某人的离开而戛然而止—— 那么,下一步要做什么呢? 是就这样回归日复一日的平常生活,还是……试着从零开始复辟乐队呢?
Why similar: Time Management 32.9%, Life Sim 21.2%, Multiple Endings 12.4%, Drama 11.5%, Story Rich 9.4%
Do not forget. It remembers more than it should. What begins as a simple task slowly unravels into something deeply unsettling. Explore the mall's deepest secrets, uncover fragments of forgotten stories, and question reality itself.
Why similar: Psychological 37.7%, Multiple Endings 19.8%, Psychological Horror 16.7%, Surreal 11.5%, Story Rich 11.2%
A young woman named Minh Thu, desperate to escape her suffocating life, breaks down in the middle of nowhere and accepts shelter in a remote house. As the night wears on, unsettling events reveal that something in the dark is terribly wrong.
Why similar: Psychological 39%, Drama 24.6%, Psychological Horror 16.6%, Story Rich 10.6%, Choose Your Own Adventure 7.4%
A time-management psychological horror set in a fogbound railway crossing. What seems like a simple 1-month job as a gatekeeper operating a crossing turns into an exploration of occult grounds, meeting unsettling folk, and trying to fix your own life.
Why similar: Life Sim 23.1%, Time Management 22.5%, Psychological 21.8%, Surreal 12.3%, Multiple Endings 10.4%
Trapped in a cursed office overnight, you must uncover a hidden password before morning... while reality distorts, blood seeps through the walls, and something watches you. Explore branching paths, face strange encounters, and survive this psychological horror visual novel.
Why similar: Psychological 35%, Psychological Horror 15.1%, Choose Your Own Adventure 14.6%, Story Rich 13.8%, Pixel Graphics 11.4%
The protagonist, who has taken a job as a special cleaner, goes to his first cleaning site with his seniors. Witnessing the scene of a gruesome death, he begins to feel something that he has never felt before. He begins to feel the presence of something he has never felt before.
Why similar: Psychological 36.5%, Surreal 25.3%, Psychological Horror 19%, Multiple Endings 17.1%, Indie 1.4%
Princess Parent is a love letter to classic life simulation games. Enjoy a new parenting simulation where you schedule her time and make her choices until she's 18. Will she become a housewife or a dragon princess?
Why similar: Life Sim 30.6%, Time Management 19.4%, Multiple Endings 18.2%, Choose Your Own Adventure 14.3%, Story Rich 11%
This is a short visual novel that immerses the player in the inner world of the main character, who suffers from social anxiety and is afraid even of a simple phone call. Experience with her the anxiety, procrastination, and constant struggle with herself.
Why similar: Psychological 38.1%, Drama 24.1%, Multiple Endings 10.7%, Psychological Horror 9.7%, Life Sim 8.5%
Raise a Zanmi egg at the "Academie des Zœufs". Care for it, choose its activities and training, and build relationships with the other students to shape its growth in this character-raising simulation. What kind of Zanmi will you raise?
Why similar: Life Sim 33.6%, Time Management 25.6%, Multiple Endings 17.4%, Choose Your Own Adventure 11.8%, Story Rich 11.6%
SKY THE SCRAPER is an action-packed adventure about Sky, a young man who pursues his uncertain dreams while working as a building window cleaner. Through exciting wire action and daily life management, endure two months of hard living and pave the way for Sky's future.
Why similar: Life Sim 30.2%, Procedural Generation 19.6%, Multiple Endings 17.9%, Choose Your Own Adventure 10%, Story Rich 10%
Explore the town of Porthaven and brew your way out of crippling debt. Build up your brewery from a run-down store front into a bustling large scale operation.
Why similar: Time Management 37.4%, Life Sim 35.2%, Story Rich 10.7%, Pixel Graphics 7.1%, Female Protagonist 6.3%
A short psychological VHS horror about routine tape digitizing, where reality starts to feel more and more strange with each new recording.
Why similar: Psychological 29.3%, Time Management 18.9%, Roguelike 16.7%, Psychological Horror 15.1%, Multiple Endings 13.4%
What to do when your days are not going well? What to do when you need to wake up and manage a troubled life, in which you need to work, eat well and still have time for yourself? Isolated Room is about that, and maybe a little more.
Why similar: Life Sim 34%, Multiple Endings 18.5%, Time Management 18%, Choose Your Own Adventure 12.9%, Pixel Graphics 10.3%
Jamie's Dream is a short, emotional, experimental, psychological horror narrative experience. Walk through nightmares, facing fears and memories as they are revealed going deeper and deeper into the abyss of Jamie's mind.
Why similar: Psychological 32%, Surreal 19.1%, Drama 18.9%, Psychological Horror 14.4%, Story Rich 10.9%
Play Russian Roulette: you have 10 seconds to memorize where the bullets are in the cylinder. Keep track of the shots, disrupt your opponents’ plans with cards, and try not to forget where the next bullet is.
Why similar: Psychological 31.4%, Surreal 17.9%, Roguelike 17.7%, Roguelite 11.8%, Psychological Horror 10.8%
Are you tired of standing there and harvesting monsters waiting in line to die in boredom? Are you tired of the monotony of skill combinations? In the demon spirit, you can completely free yourself from these boredom
Why similar: Roguelike 25.6%, Multiple Endings 19.3%, Roguelite 19%, Drama 15.5%, Story Rich 13%
Use "game" as a medium to showcase the world of "you/girl". Explore the truth of "you/girl/world" through the form of a "visual novel".
Why similar: Psychological 28.5%, Multiple Endings 19.4%, Psychological Horror 17%, Surreal 13.5%, Story Rich 11.2%
How many times have you wished you could forget and simply sleep? Desouled forces you to look at what we avoid seeing: stories that are raw, cruel, at times inhuman. But real. In a relentless fight, dodging is your only defense. You can't win, only survive.
Why similar: Psychological 23.8%, Surreal 22.6%, Psychological Horror 19.6%, Story Rich 13.1%, Multiple Endings 11.1%
A redux version of a 2014 Ludum Dare RPG Maker Horror Game. A poor little marshmallow escapes death row into an underground subway system, where they're asked questions by a mysterious game show host. Updated in 2025 with new content.
Why similar: Psychological 23.7%, Surreal 18%, Choose Your Own Adventure 17.6%, Multiple Endings 13.6%, Psychological Horror 11.3%
Your child joined the school concert band. Somehow, you ended up its director. Scold the ones who skip rehearsal and the band gets better. That evening, your child doesn't say much. Three years. Nine endings.
Why similar: Life Sim 35.5%, Roguelike 27%, Multiple Endings 14.1%, Choose Your Own Adventure 12.7%, Pixel Graphics 10%
A mysterious creature has torn your home from reality. Explore the City of Stolen Worlds, uncover the secrets of its inhabitants, and try to find your way back. Or perhaps you want to become the new Master?
Why similar: Psychological 23.2%, Surreal 20.4%, Drama 17.4%, Multiple Endings 15.4%, Psychological Horror 12.9%
Outside the door is a mystic visual novel set within one office. You are about to figure out the stories of a few visitors without having a single memory of yourself.
Why similar: Psychological 37.2%, Surreal 17.3%, Psychological Horror 16.1%, Multiple Endings 12.9%, Pixel Graphics 11.2%
Horror Roguelike characterized by an experimental artstyle and storytelling, strategic gameplay and deep mysteries
Why similar: Surreal 18.2%, Roguelike 16.1%, Procedural Generation 14.5%, Multiple Endings 12.9%, Roguelite 12.4%
You return to your hometown after a decade of escapism, and no one from your past recognizes you. But that doesn’t matter, because you're not here for them. You are here for her. Midgårdsormen, singer and artist, pervert and goddess. She will help you reach true divinity. You refuse to remain human.
Why similar: Psychological 31.9%, Surreal 18.5%, Choose Your Own Adventure 18.3%, Multiple Endings 16.5%, Story Rich 9%
《高三最后300天》是一款以2020年代中国普通公立高中为背景的横屏互动叙事生活模拟游戏。从距高考300天开始,选择主角的性别、选科方向与住校或走读身份,安排每周计划,在早读、晚自习、考试、宿舍和回家路上作出决定。你的选择会改变六科学习状态、精力与压力,也会影响承诺能否兑现、同学之间如何相处,以及某段关系最终停在友情还是继续靠近。故事将经过月考、换座、寒假、百日誓师、一模、二模、毕业照和三天高考,直到查分、填报志愿与收到录取结果。高分不是唯一答案;通关后重新开始,你还能带着有限的记忆,试着改变那些真正放不下的遗憾。
Why similar: Time Management 31.8%, Life Sim 20.3%, Choose Your Own Adventure 19.8%, Psychological 19.5%, Psychological Horror 4.6%
Slumberer’s Universe is a psychological horror JRPG about a grieving middle-schooler trapped in a fading world, having to confront buried memories, the parts of himself he's tried to escape, and the question of whether life is still worth living.
Why similar: Psychological 25.5%, Drama 20.3%, Surreal 19.6%, Psychological Horror 14.6%, Story Rich 11.4%
A branching-path narrative horror RPG set in Vienna, Austria. Guide the Unnamed through the worst night of their life: Harass your neighbours. Debate with birds. Smoke to survive.
Why similar: Psychological 21.8%, Choose Your Own Adventure 16.2%, Multiple Endings 16.1%, Psychological Horror 13.5%, Story Rich 11.3%