Games Like Durka Simulator

Emily is Away is an interactive story. Create a screenname and choose your path through the branching narrative.

Why similar: Interactive Fiction 22.6%, Choose Your Own Adventure 21.1%, Visual Novel 15.5%, Text-Based 14.8%, Simulation 7.6%

Why You'll Like It: A minimalist, text-based narrative experience that relies heavily on player choices to drive the story forward.

Thanks to next generation AI technology, BUDDY SIMULATOR 1984 simulates the experience of hanging out with a best buddy! Your buddy learns from you, constantly adapting to your interests and personality. But most importantly, your buddy can play games with you!

Why similar: Text-Based 31.1%, Choose Your Own Adventure 17.9%, Interactive Fiction 15.1%, Simulation 8.2%, Indie 7.5%

Why You'll Like It: It shares the surreal, meta-narrative, and experimental simulation feel that defines the unique charm of Durka Simulator.

The Stanley Parable is a first person exploration game. You will play as Stanley, and you will not play as Stanley. You will follow a story, you will not follow a story. You will have a choice, you will have no choice. The game will end, the game will never end.

Why similar: Funny 44.5%, Indie 19.6%, Adventure 15.8%, Atmospheric 10.9%, Singleplayer 9.2%

Why You'll Like It: This game excels at the same kind of absurd, choice-driven humor and meta-commentary on game design.

The hilarious game about the complexity of conversation. Move your tongue and lips to make your words come out and try not to let your face explode.

Why similar: Conversation 51.1%, Simulation 26.5%, Indie 17.4%, Singleplayer 5%

Why You'll Like It: An intentionally awkward and hilarious simulation game that captures the same 'absurd simulator' vibe.

Have a conversation with a rock in this comedic piece of interactive fiction.

Why similar: Interactive Fiction 26.2%, Visual Novel 25.4%, Conversation 20.3%, Funny 12%, 2D 7.7%

Why You'll Like It: A minimalist, comedic conversation simulator that mirrors the simple, text-focused design of the seed game.

Talk to Strangers is a game of everyday survival. Survive door to door conversations ranging from bizarre to mundane (in this order) while trying to sell products to strangers. But beware: nothing is what it seems in this neighborhood.

Why similar: Conversation 38.8%, Visual Novel 25.2%, Funny 12.9%, Survival 9.6%, 2D 7.4%

Why You'll Like It: Focuses on conversation-based gameplay and survival, mirroring the text-heavy, choice-driven nature of the seed game.

Annoy this guys time in this comedic piece of interactive fiction.

Why similar: Conversation 30.1%, Interactive Fiction 29.6%, Visual Novel 25.1%, Adventure 6.2%, 2D 3.7%

Why You'll Like It: A comedy-focused, story-rich visual novel that emphasizes player interaction and humorous outcomes.

There is no game. So don't go messing things up by clicking everywhere. You don’t want to be kicked out of your video game world, do you? Of course not!

Why similar: Funny 30.6%, Interactive Fiction 20.1%, Adventure 14.2%, Indie 12.1%, 2D 10.9%

Why You'll Like It: A highly comedic, meta-narrative adventure that constantly breaks the fourth wall in ways similar to minimalist indie titles.

A reverse-detective adventure, where you control your character's face

Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 39.5%, Visual Novel 31%, Interactive Fiction 29.4%

Why You'll Like It: This surreal visual novel features unique mechanics and a dark, experimental atmosphere that aligns with the oddity of the seed game.

Stories Untold is a compilation tape of four experimental adventures, including a remaster of the original hit episode “The House Abandon”.

Why similar: Text-Based 57.2%, Atmospheric 16.6%, Adventure 11.8%, Indie 9%, Singleplayer 5.4%

Why You'll Like It: A text-based, atmospheric narrative game that uses retro aesthetics to deliver a surreal and unsettling experience.

Critically acclaimed, minimalist text-based rpg. Come light the fire.

Why similar: Minimalist 38.9%, Text-Based 22.3%, Adventure 16.5%, Atmospheric 13.8%, Indie 5.5%

Why You'll Like It: A minimalist, text-based adventure that relies on player imagination and simple choices to build a complex world.

A visual novel about cute melancholic girls!

Why similar: Visual Novel 34.4%, Choose Your Own Adventure 19.9%, Interactive Fiction 16.6%, Text-Based 10.4%, Simulation 10.4%

Why You'll Like It: A visual novel simulation that focuses on character interaction and multiple endings in an indie format.

A free 5-minute visual novel. A security concern demands your attention.

Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 28.8%, Visual Novel 26.7%, Minimalist 20.7%, Interactive Fiction 8%, Adventure 6%

Why You'll Like It: An experimental visual novel that focuses on choices and branching paths in a minimalist setting.

Retro 2004 flash-like parody that asks the question, how much will you sacrifice to become the greatest WoB player ever?

Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 45.9%, Simulation 22.8%, Funny 15.8%, 2D 11.7%, Singleplayer 3.8%

Why You'll Like It: A dark comedy simulation that utilizes minimalist 2D design and choose-your-own-adventure elements.

Dude Simulator is an open world sandbox game. This is a life simulator. The main objective is to enjoy what you are doing.

Why similar: Sandbox 32.1%, Funny 21.6%, Simulation 18.9%, Adventure 10.6%, Indie 7.4%

Why You'll Like It: An open-world, absurd, and funny simulation that shares the low-budget, indie-meme aesthetic of the seed game.

Congratulations. The October labor lottery is complete. Your name was pulled. For immediate placement, report to the Ministry of Admission at Grestin Border Checkpoint. An apartment will be provided for you and your family in East Grestin. Expect a Class-8 dwelling.

Why similar: Indie 27.8%, Simulation 27.6%, Atmospheric 14.3%, Singleplayer 13%, 2D 11.4%

Why You'll Like It: A dystopian simulation game that uses simple mechanics to tell a deep, choice-driven narrative.

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: Interactive Fiction 26.5%, Simulation 21.5%, Funny 19.8%, Atmospheric 12.5%, Indie 7.2%

Why You'll Like It: A surreal, simulation-heavy experience that captures the weird, internet-culture-inspired aesthetic of indie titles.

A new political Party has won a landslide in the General Election, and for some reason the editor at the news station you work at has done a runner. Now it’s up to you, the Janitor, to take over the editing booth in this tumultuous time - will you help the government, or stand in their way?

Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 33.3%, Interactive Fiction 26.6%, Atmospheric 10.8%, Simulation 9.9%, Adventure 9.6%

Why You'll Like It: A chaotic, narrative-driven simulation game that leans into absurdity and player-controlled outcomes.

The Literature Club is full of cute girls! Will you write the way into their heart? This game is not suitable for children or those who are easily disturbed.

Why similar: Visual Novel 84%, Singleplayer 7.9%, Indie 5.4%, Adventure 2.8%

Why You'll Like It: A visual novel that subverts expectations through its narrative, much like the unexpected turns in Durka Simulator.

A game about never-ending problem of loading screens. We've all experienced it while playing games, while downloading something, while installing an operating system ect. And now you can experience it once again in Loading Screen Simulator: Steam edition

Why similar: Clicker 40.5%, Funny 20.7%, Simulation 15.8%, Indie 9.2%, Singleplayer 7%

Why You'll Like It: A minimalist, meme-heavy simulation game that embraces the absurdity of its own premise.

The Beginner's Guide is a narrative video game from Davey Wreden, the creator of The Stanley Parable. It lasts about an hour and a half and has no traditional mechanics, no goals or objectives. Instead, it tells the story of a person struggling to deal with something they do not understand.

Why similar: Atmospheric 41.8%, Indie 26.1%, Adventure 17.3%, Singleplayer 14.7%

Why You'll Like It: A minimalist, narrative-focused experience that explores the relationship between the player and the game creator.

Coffee Talk is a coffee brewing and heart-to-heart talking simulator about listening to fantasy-inspired modern peoples’ problems, and helping them by serving up a warm drink or two.

Why similar: Conversation 41.8%, Visual Novel 22.3%, Interactive Fiction 16.8%, Atmospheric 8.1%, Simulation 4.9%

Why You'll Like It: A relaxing, conversation-based visual novel that emphasizes listening and character interaction.

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

Why similar: Interactive Fiction 33%, Visual Novel 20.8%, Simulation 12.6%, Indie 9.6%, Atmospheric 9%

Why You'll Like It: A narrative-driven simulation game that focuses on the consequences of player choices in a dystopian setting.

The Gnosia lie. Pretending to be human, they’ll get in close, trick and deceive, and then eliminate one victim at a time...

Why similar: Visual Novel 51.3%, Atmospheric 14.3%, Adventure 11.1%, Simulation 11%, Singleplayer 8.1%

Why You'll Like It: A social deduction visual novel that uses repetitive, choice-driven loops to build a complex narrative.

A digital voyeur simulator where you watch strangers through surveillance cameras. Invade their privacy and witness their most intimate moments, but don’t interact with the subjects – anything could happen if you dare feed the monkeys!

Why similar: Funny 31.1%, 2D 17.6%, Atmospheric 16%, Simulation 15.8%, Adventure 12.1%

Why You'll Like It: A simulation game that focuses on observing and interacting with a narrative-rich, dystopian world.

Eliza is a visual novel about an AI counseling program, the people who develop it, and the people who use it. Follow Evelyn Ishino-Aubrey as she reconnects with people from her past, gets to know the people of Seattle who use Eliza for counseling, and decides the course of her future.

Why similar: Visual Novel 66.6%, Atmospheric 18.2%, Indie 10.4%, Singleplayer 4.9%

Why You'll Like It: A visual novel that explores the intersection of technology and human interaction through a narrative-heavy lens.

In a creaky old tavern, in a forgotten corner of the video-game universe, a storm is raging. An anonymous caller suggests that there is a murder plot. Six video game protagonists are the only plausible suspects...

Why similar: Indie 28.9%, Funny 28.8%, 2D 14.6%, Singleplayer 14.5%, Adventure 7.4%

Why You'll Like It: A meta-adventure game that shifts genres and styles, appealing to fans of experimental indie storytelling.

Rule the world or die trying!Being a Princess is not an easy job. Being a Queen is even harder. Especially when you're only fourteen years old, and the reason you've inherited the throne is that your royal mother has just met an untimely end.Now power is up for grabs.

Why similar: Visual Novel 57%, Choose Your Own Adventure 19%, Simulation 10.8%, Indie 6.6%, Singleplayer 4.7%

Why You'll Like It: A choice-based visual novel that is famous for its high-stakes, branching narrative paths.

Welcome to the Game is a creepy horror/puzzle game that takes you into the world of the Deep Web. Explore the Deep Web with the sole purpose of trying to find a Red Room, an online service / website that allows you to see and participate in interactive torture and murder.

Why similar: Simulation 40.9%, Indie 24.4%, Atmospheric 19.4%, Singleplayer 15.3%

Why You'll Like It: A dark, simulation-heavy game that relies on player immersion and narrative discovery.

An ironic adventure with cyberpunk aesthetics set in a world where humans have been replaced by dinosaurs. Become a top-notch repair shop mechanic: fix gadgets, have heart-to-heart talks, and offer drinks to your customers — everything to fulfill your ultimate dream.

Why similar: Visual Novel 33.5%, Funny 15.3%, Simulation 11.9%, Atmospheric 10.7%, 2D 9.8%

An idle clicker where you evolve from college graduate to Vibe Lord. Click, automate with AI tools, manage resources, and discover multiple endings in this satirical take on modern work life.

Why similar: Clicker 46%, Simulation 22%, 2D 21.6%, Indie 6.9%, Singleplayer 3.5%

This is *NEW* SCUFFED EPIC VISUAL NOVEL, which is a story set in the world of *NEW* SCUFFED EPIC BHOP SIMULATOR (#4 Best Selling free game of Steam November 2020), play as a character of your choice, as you run into some new, and familiar faces along the way.

Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 34.3%, Text-Based 25%, Visual Novel 22.9%, 2D 9.2%, Adventure 5.6%

Become the Dictator of Gradnar! Rule the nation, choose between democracy and tyranny, wage wars with a unique card-based mechanic, and expand your empire. A political dystopia packed with satire and humor!

Why similar: Visual Novel 52.1%, Simulation 18.4%, Atmospheric 15.3%, 2D 14.1%

A genre-defying phenomenon that will take you on a journey to stop a rubber duck from taking over the developer's game!

Why similar: Clicker 33.8%, Funny 20.4%, Simulation 20.1%, Adventure 16.3%, 2D 9.4%

Humanity Must Perish is a short, comedic visual novel in which the fate of humanity is placed in the hands of a witty, pessimistic android.

Why similar: Visual Novel 60%, Simulation 23.1%, Indie 16.9%

Border of her Heart is a VN about Border control.

Why similar: Conversation 20.8%, Choose Your Own Adventure 19.2%, Text-Based 17.2%, Visual Novel 15%, Interactive Fiction 14.3%

Step into the chair of a therapist in Therapy Simulator! Guide your patients through emotional journeys with branching dialogue choices. Balance humor, humanity, and the chaos of therapy!

Why similar: Conversation 59.1%, Funny 18.5%, Simulation 12.5%, Singleplayer 5.4%, Indie 4.6%

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: Conversation 35.1%, Choose Your Own Adventure 24.4%, Visual Novel 15.2%, Text-Based 8.6%, Minimalist 5.8%

Crown Delights Deli is a visual novel with multiple dialect/language choices. As the cashier at a Brooklyn bodega, choose to talk in English, AAVE, or Spanish to a diverse cast of characters as you try to maintain a five-star rating for your boss.

Why similar: Conversation 35%, Text-Based 20.4%, Visual Novel 20.2%, Simulation 5.4%, 2D 5.3%

A visual novel about shawarma, consisting of multiple episodes.

Why similar: Visual Novel 40.4%, Text-Based 37.7%, 2D 10.4%, Atmospheric 8.2%, Singleplayer 3.3%

Pohinki Simulator is a survival game set in a polish neighbourhood, where you need to explore the open world in search for trash in order to survive and gain power. Build structures, experiment with found items, and become the most powerful bum alive!

Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 36.2%, Sandbox 28.8%, Funny 13.1%, Survival 10.6%, Simulation 6%

This is a 2D, sprite based marching simulator. It is intended to give the user what it would feel like to march a military formation, as well as see how well they can do!

Why similar: Simulation 100%

An ironic adventure with cyberpunk aesthetics set in a world where humans have been replaced by dinosaurs. Become a top-notch repair shop mechanic: fix gadgets, have heart-to-heart talks, and offer drinks to your customers — everything to fulfill your ultimate dream.

Why similar: Visual Novel 36.1%, Funny 21.1%, Atmospheric 12.6%, 2D 11.5%, Simulation 10.4%

Dude Simulator Six is an open world sandbox game. A mortal danger looms over humanity. The planet was invaded by representatives of a distant planetary system.

Why similar: Sandbox 39.1%, Simulation 17%, Adventure 14.6%, Funny 14.5%, Atmospheric 12.2%

A game in which you have to go from an insignificant person to the king of the world

Why similar: Funny 40.1%, Atmospheric 20.9%, Simulation 18.5%, Adventure 13.4%, Singleplayer 7.1%

Lead the world to apocalyse with lemonades! Price affects demand, but take into account the cost of each lemonade when selling. Upgrades reduce cost and increase demand. Invest in a factory, and eventually control the politics of the world to increase climate's temperature and beverage consumption.

Why similar: Clicker 47.8%, Simulation 22.3%, Funny 16%, 2D 13.9%

A darkly humorous life simulator where every decision matters. Swipe left or right to guide a life through hundreds of strange events while balancing Health, Money, Social, and Happiness. Live well, die horribly, and try again.

Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 34%, Text-Based 15.2%, Sandbox 14.5%, Survival 9.1%, Funny 8.9%

Vacuum Warrior is a Free to Play incremental idle game. Listen to the crisp crackle of dust and debris entering your vacuum as you vacuum ridiculous amounts of dust. Upgrade your vacuums, idle gains, and robot vacuums, earn achievements, and explore numerous locations in the Vacuum Warrior universe!

Why similar: Clicker 36.7%, Minimalist 30.3%, 2D 11.2%, Simulation 9.4%, Singleplayer 7%

Immerse yourself in the bleak world of a doomer, lost within the gray walls of a post-Soviet Khrushchyovka. Work, bad habits, and endless self-reflection define his reality

Why similar: Funny 32.8%, Sandbox 23.1%, Atmospheric 15.2%, Simulation 12.7%, Adventure 11.9%

COVID SIMULATOR is an outbreak simulation that visualizes how quickly Covid-19 spreads, becoming a disaster. The game is an open sandbox where you can add (or remove) Covid mandates and see what happens! Create your workplace, enact your mandates, and roll the dice with your workers.

Why similar: 2D 45.3%, Simulation 31%, Atmospheric 15.1%, Indie 4.4%, Singleplayer 4.2%

You can play as a newcomer, start a new life, and date 12 uncles

Why similar: Visual Novel 25.7%, Interactive Fiction 25.2%, Clicker 15.2%, Simulation 9.4%, 2D Platformer 9.1%

EarthRoyale is a Map simulation Observer game where the game each turn chooses one of many events to edit the world map

Why similar: Interactive Fiction 28.5%, Battle Royale 26.8% ★, Minimalist 19.5%, Simulation 10.8%, 2D 9%

On their way from Ugryupinsk, Egor and Nastya find themselves caught in the middle of a conflict between two gangs — the Pavers and the Glaziers. Egor must find common ground with the Glaziers, deal with the Pavers, and rescue Nastya

Why similar: Funny 41.4%, Simulation 21.5%, Atmospheric 19%, Adventure 13.5%, Singleplayer 2.8%

HELLO i made weird game visual novel thingy Your character develops different personality types depending on your choices, so they respond uniquely to different situations. With around three different choices to make and three unique lines of dialogue for each of them there's around nine different texts you can see and six endings.

Why similar: Simulation 36.3%, Adventure 34.7%, Indie 28.9%

This is a very short Point and Click Adventure where you try to find Items for Anon because he is the strongest who can help opening the Door to the outside

Why similar: Conversation 81.5%, Indie 10.1%, Singleplayer 8.4%

Derealized is a choice based game inspired by games such as The Stanley Parable and Undertale. This experience offers 10 different endings for you to explore! How many will you find?

Why similar: Text-Based 48.5%, Conversation 23%, Simulation 14.5%, Atmospheric 13.1%, Singleplayer 0.9%

A small visual novel about bus trips and conversation with different companions, whom you see for the first and last time in your life.

Why similar: Visual Novel 17.9%, Funny 16.1%, Adventure 13.5%, Simulation 11.9%, Atmospheric 11%

A romantic visual novel with interactive elements. Flirt, choose, and pour your charm into short but intense stories. Take control of the situation, meet new characters, and play through mini-games where every decision can change the course of the night.

Why similar: Visual Novel 25.2%, Conversation 22%, Text-Based 13%, Clicker 12.8%, Simulation 12.8%

Go about your normal every day life and meet new friends in this short visual novel!

Why similar: Visual Novel 40.2%, Text-Based 35.8%, 2D 11.5%, Adventure 5.1%, Indie 4.2%

You're just a simple inhabitant of the endless Gigastructure. The best you'll get is seven shifts at a machine and a bowl of feed concentrate, and that for good service to the party.... Is that it? Or do you have a choice?

Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 35.5%, Visual Novel 29.4%, Funny 17.3%, 2D 9.4%, Simulation 8.5%