- #1 Headliner: NoviNews
97% matchVery Positive89% of 807 reviews2018
Dev: Unbound Creations
Windows · Mac
Median: 2.2 hrsMean: 3.9 hrs≥1hr: 74%
Award-winning adventure where you control the news and its impact on society, your friends and career. Different choices lead to unique combinations of endings. Share your story with the community, and see what the players before you did.
Why similar: Political Sim 25.8% ★, Political 22.2% ★, Politics 16.9% ★, Dystopian 9%, Choices Matter 8%
- #2 Beholder 2
96% matchVery Positive87% of 7,978 reviews2018
Dev: Alawar Stargaze (Warm Lamp Games)Pub: Alawar
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 4.8 hrsMean: 19.5 hrs≥1hr: 88%
You are an intern at the central ministry of a totalitarian state with your whole career ahead of you. Work your way up the ladder by scheming against employees, spying on your boss, and completing paperwork. Or do you turn against the state and expose corruption. The choice is still yours to make!
Why similar: Political Sim 21.8% ★, Political 19.6% ★, Politics 13.4% ★, Dystopian 13.4%, Choices Matter 9%
- #3 Not For Broadcast
96% matchVery Positive94% of 12,442 reviews2022
Dev: NotGamesPub: tinyBuild
Windows
Median: 3.2 hrsMean: 6.3 hrs≥1hr: 81%
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: Political Sim 25.5% ★, Political 24% ★, Dystopian 15.6%, Choices Matter 11%, Multiple Endings 9.1%
- #4 Beholder
95% matchVery Positive92% of 30,475 reviews2016
Dev: Alawar Stargaze (Warm Lamp Games)Pub: Alawar
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 4.3 hrsMean: 13.6 hrs≥1hr: 82%
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 Sim 26.2% ★, Political 22% ★, Dystopian 15.5%, Choices Matter 10.5%, Multiple Endings 8.2%
- #5 Replica
94% matchVery Positive86% of 3,516 reviews2016
Dev: Somi
Windows · Mac
Median: 2.8 hrsMean: 35.6 hrs≥1hr: 88%
Replica is an interactive novel game played through a cellphone and social media. The insane experience of peeping into someone's private life through a cellphone will transform you into the state's greatest patriot.
Why similar: Political 30.2% ★, Dystopian 27.2%, Indie 10.5%, Choices Matter 7.4%, Adventure 7.1%
- #6 Death and Taxes
92% matchVery Positive86% of 8,276 reviews2020
Dev: Placeholder Gameworks
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 2.9 hrsMean: 4.5 hrs≥1hr: 82%
In this 2D, short narrative-based game, you assume the role of the Grim Reaper... on an office job. Your job is to decide which people are going to live or die. The consequences of your choices are yours to bear, while the mystery of your incarnation awaits revelation!
Why similar: Choices Matter 29.5%, Multiple Endings 22.9%, Story Rich 11.1%, Adventure 7.4%, Simulation 7.3%
- #7 1979 Revolution: Black Friday
93% matchMostly Positive77% of 1,086 reviews2016
Dev: iNK Stories
Windows · Mac
Median: 3.3 hrsMean: 4.9 hrs≥1hr: 88%
1979 Revolution: Black Friday is a choice driven, narrative game that brings players into the brooding world of a nation on the verge of collapse. Play as Reza, an aspiring photojournalist, and make life and death decisions as you survive the gritty streets of Iran in the late 1970’s.
Why similar: Political 47.2% ★, Choices Matter 20.1%, Multiple Endings 9.7%, Adventure 7.5%, Indie 7.1%
- #8 Postmortem: One Must Die (Extended Cut)
94% matchMostly Negative40% of 187 reviews2013
Dev: Unbound Creations
Windows
Median: 12 minMean: 2.7 hrs≥1hr: 20%
Narrative-adventure playing an Agent of Death who must take ONE life that could change the fate of a conflict-torn Nation
Why similar: Political 26% ★, Politics 16.7% ★, Adventure 11.9%, Choices Matter 11.7%, Indie 9.9%
- #9 Beholder: Conductor
89% matchVery Positive91% of 4,427 reviews2025
Dev: Alawar
Windows · Mac
Median: 3.6 hrsMean: 4.6 hrs≥1hr: 87%
A Beholder series spin-off. Become a conductor of the Determination Bringer train: monitor passengers, report incidents, and carry out important Ministry assignments — whose level of secrecy depends only on your loyalty. And remember: mission success is very important to you!
Why similar: Political Sim 36.9% ★, Political 19.1% ★, Dystopian 12.4%, Choices Matter 8.4%, Multiple Endings 6.5%
- #10 Song of Farca
91% matchMostly Positive79% of 1,607 reviews2021
Dev: Wooden MonkeysPub: Alawar
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 3.5 hrsMean: 6.7 hrs≥1hr: 93%
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: Political 21.8% ★, Dystopian 21%, Choices Matter 15.8%, Multiple Endings 10.4%, Story Rich 5.9%
- #11 The Westport Independent
91% matchMostly Positive76% of 334 reviews2016
Dev: Double Zero One Zero
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 1.0 hrsMean: 9.6 hrs≥1hr: 49%
The Westport Independent is a censorship simulator taking place in a post-war country, governed by the recently elected Loyalist Party. As the editor of one of the last independent newspapers in the country, your job is to remove and edit the content of your paper, affecting the people’s opinion of both the rebels and the Loyalist...
Why similar: Political 36% ★, Dystopian 28.9%, Indie 13.5%, Choices Matter 12.1%, Simulation 9.5%
- #12 For the People
90% matchMostly Positive73% of 798 reviews2020
Dev: Brezg StudioPub: 101XP
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 2.3 hrsMean: 3.9 hrs≥1hr: 70%
For the People is a mix of a political management sim and a visual novel, putting players in the shoes of an idealistic young state official tasked with shaping the future of a communist factory town. Will the party provide for the people, or are the people just cogs in its machine?..
Why similar: Political Sim 30.6% ★, Political 26% ★, Dystopian 12.5%, Choices Matter 10.1%, Multiple Endings 8.7%
- #13 Organs Please
89% matchVery Positive84% of 324 reviews2023
Dev: TECHHOMEPub: HeroCraft PC
Windows
Median: 3.2 hrsMean: 4.2 hrs≥1hr: 82%
A dark and satirical management sim, where you take control of a recycling factory with a twist: it recycles humans. Your job is to decide who gets to escape our dying planet in a cozy spaceship and who sacrifices their blood, sweat and tears for humanity. Literally.
Why similar: Political Sim 23.4% ★, Political 19.2% ★, Politics 14.8% ★, Dystopian 12.9%, Multiple Endings 8.9%
- #14 Suzerain
88% matchVery Positive93% of 11,339 reviews2020
Dev: Torpor Games
Windows · Mac
Median: 5.5 hrsMean: 18.3 hrs≥1hr: 73%
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 Sim 27.6% ★, Political 25.1% ★, Politics 19.5% ★, Choices Matter 9.9%, Multiple Endings 8.7%
- #15 Not For Broadcast: Prologue
87% matchVery Positive93% of 769 reviews2019
Dev: NotGamesPub: tinyBuild
Windows
Median: 24 minMean: 5.3 hrs≥1hr: 15%
Take control of the National Nightly News, as a radical government comes to power. In this immersive, high-pressure, propaganda sim, you control what the people see and determine what’s Not For Broadcast.
Why similar: Political 28.3% ★, Political Sim 28.1% ★, Politics 22.8% ★, Choices Matter 10.5%, Story Rich 3.9%
- #16 Not Tonight 2
86% matchMostly Positive79% of 462 reviews2022
Dev: PanicBarnPub: No More Robots
Windows
Median: 2.5 hrsMean: 5.7 hrs≥1hr: 65%
Immigration Enforcement Case #112: You are under arrest. Unless your friends can cross a broken America, retrieve your identifying documents and stay out of trouble... this is the end of the American dream for you.
Why similar: Political 23.2% ★, Political Sim 20.8% ★, Politics 17.6% ★, Dystopian 12.8%, Choices Matter 5.1%
- #17 Need to Know
86% matchMixed67% of 293 reviews2018
Dev: Monomyth Games
Windows · Mac · Linux
Welcome to the Department of Liberty. Ascend the ranks of the NSA-like surveillance agency and decide: will you stand up for privacy, or help create an unstoppable police state? Spy on people’s deepest secrets, pick apart their private lives and decide their fate in this modern surveillance thriller.
Why similar: Political Sim 46.1% ★, Political 27.8% ★, Adventure 7.7%, Indie 7.3%, Simulation 6.3%
- #18 Not For Broadcast VR
85% matchMixed40% of 70 reviews2023
Dev: NotGamesPub: tinyBuild
Windows
Get closer to the truth than ever in the VR edition of Not For Broadcast. Keep the cameras rolling, censor the swears and immerse yourself in the powerful, alluring and occasionally deadly world of broadcast television news.
Why similar: Political 30.1% ★, Dystopian 21.1%, Choices Matter 12.5%, Multiple Endings 10.1%, Political Sim 9.8% ★
- #19 Not Tonight
84% matchVery Positive83% of 2,722 reviews2018
Dev: PanicBarnPub: No More Robots
Windows
Median: 4.5 hrsMean: 6.5 hrs≥1hr: 90%
Person of European Heritage #112: Welcome to Relocation Block B, your new home. Your designated role is 'Bouncer'. Work hard, stay out of trouble, and we might let you stay in the UK.
Why similar: Political 38.9% ★, Politics 21.2% ★, Dystopian 17.7%, Simulation 5.3%, Multiple Endings 4.3%
- #20 Social Credit Simulator
84% matchMostly Positive76% of 96 reviews2022
Dev: Fasu Studio
Windows
In Social Credit Simulator, you make life-altering decisions by assigning social credit scores based on people’s actions and status. Satirizing real-world social rating systems, your choices determine your survival in a dystopian regime.
Why similar: Political Sim 34.6% ★, Political 32.8% ★, Choices Matter 12.8%, Indie 4.3%, Simulation 3.3%
- #21 Orwell: Keeping an Eye On You
83% matchVery Positive90% of 15,430 reviews2016
Dev: Osmotic StudiosPub: Daedalic Entertainment
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 3.2 hrsMean: 8.2 hrs≥1hr: 86%
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: Choices Matter 43.1%, Political Sim 20.4% ★, Simulation 11.3%, Politics 7.1% ★, Dystopian 6.4%
- #22 Papers, Please
82% matchOverwhelmingly Positive97% of 78,992 reviews2013
Dev: Lucas PopePub: 3909
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 4.3 hrsMean: 10.2 hrs≥1hr: 85%
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: Political 46.9% ★, Dystopian 18.9%, Multiple Endings 8.5%, Indie 8.5%, Simulation 4.2%
- #23 Mind Scanners
81% matchMostly Positive76% of 1,308 reviews2021
Dev: The Outer ZonePub: Brave At Night
Windows · Mac
Median: 5.6 hrsMean: 6.6 hrs≥1hr: 86%
Greetings. Your Mind Scanner request has been approved. Your duty is to diagnose and treat the citizens of The Structure. The patient list is long so don't waste your time. We’ll let you see your daughter soon...
Why similar: Political 25.9% ★, Political Sim 24.6% ★, Dystopian 15.2%, Choices Matter 9.7%, Multiple Endings 9.2%
- #24 Orwell: Ignorance is Strength
82% matchMostly Positive76% of 1,869 reviews2018
Dev: Osmotic StudiosPub: Daedalic Entertainment
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 3.5 hrsMean: 5.1 hrs≥1hr: 90%
Step into the shoes of a government official in a top-secret department of the Orwell surveillance program. Given the power to both uncover and fabricate "the truth", how far will you go in the service of your country? Season 2 of Orwell, the award-winning surveillance thriller.
Why similar: Political Sim 26.2% ★, Political 21.2% ★, Politics 13.4% ★, Dystopian 12.6%, Choices Matter 9.7%
- #25 Phonopolis
77% matchVery Positive93% of 716 reviews2026
Dev: Amanita Design
Windows · Mac
Median: 2.3 hrsMean: 3.2 hrs≥1hr: 70%
Phonopolis is a story-driven puzzle adventure set in a hand-painted 3D world made of cardboard. Solve a wide variety of playful puzzles and help Felix end the Leader's oppressive influence in a resonant dystopian city inspired by avant-garde art.
Why similar: Political 30.2% ★, Dystopian 25.1%, Politics 19.6% ★, Story Rich 7.4%, Adventure 7.3%
- #26 Justice.exe
81% matchMostly Positive71% of 102 reviews2022
Dev: Late Game ClutchPub: Gameclaw Studio
Windows · Mac
Justice.exe is a dialogue-heavy dystopian legal drama in which you defend sentient AI in court. Discover key story elements in dialogue, build your case by studying arguments, and engage the opposing counsel in wits, charisma and skullduggery. Small choices might alter the fate of your clients.
Why similar: Political 31.8% ★, Dystopian 19.1%, Choices Matter 12.5%, Multiple Endings 10.1%, Story Rich 5.1%
- #27 THE EDITOR
79% matchVery Positive90% of 68 reviews2023
Dev: DECATREE GAMES
Windows
NEWSPAPER EDITING ADVENTURE. "In 1996, a congressman was murdered...The prime suspect is a congressman's aide. As the suspicious article was published the story begins" Play the role of editor-in-chief of a newspaper. You become the editor of a newspaper and write a front-page article every day.
Why similar: Choices Matter 34.6%, Adventure 15.7%, Story Rich 12.3%, Simulation 11.6%, Puzzle 8.8%
- #28 KingSim
80% matchVery Positive85% of 209 reviews2020
Dev: Fuzzy Pixel Game Studio
Windows
Median: 2.2 hrsMean: 4.3 hrs≥1hr: 81%
Become the King in a story-driven 8-bit style game, where choice matters. And try not to die instantly...
Why similar: Political Sim 34.8% ★, Political 25.9% ★, Choices Matter 13.5%, Multiple Endings 12.1%, Story Rich 5.2%
- #29 Beholder 3
79% matchMixed65% of 2,752 reviews2022
Dev: Paintbucket GamesPub: Alawar
Windows
Median: 3.5 hrsMean: 48.0 hrs≥1hr: 89%
When a high-ranking security officer saves you from prison, you end up a pawn in her schemes. Now you must eliminate anyone standing in the way of her secret plans and try to get your life back while working two jobs. No tenant, employee or superior is safe from your spying.
Why similar: Political Sim 32.5% ★, Political 22.4% ★, Dystopian 17.7%, Choices Matter 6.2%, Multiple Endings 6%
- #30 The Red Strings Club
78% matchVery Positive94% of 13,919 reviews2018
Dev: DeconstructeamPub: Devolver Digital
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 3.7 hrsMean: 5.0 hrs≥1hr: 84%
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 33.6%, Dystopian 16.3%, Story Rich 15.6%, Pixel Graphics 10.2%, Indie 8.3%
- #31 Will Die Alone
78% matchMostly Positive76% of 67 reviews2022
Dev: Arianna Ravioli
Windows · Mac
Some memories aren't meant to stay. We are our memories and our experiences. What happens if you delete some of them? If you change your past and, thus, your future?
Why similar: Political 34.2% ★, Dystopian 16%, Multiple Endings 12.7%, Choices Matter 11.9%, Story Rich 5.6%
- #32 子夜之章:历史的终局~MidNights of Desperado~
77% matchVery Positive98% of 305 reviews2021
Dev: 银阼Pub: NPC Entertainment
Windows
Median: 3.0 hrsMean: 4.6 hrs≥1hr: 74%
The protagonist of this lonely life is you. You leave your hometown and come to a strange world. The world is prosperous and cold, strange but real. You may like it or wish you could tear it to pieces. The good news is, you have the choice!
Why similar: Politics 28.4% ★, Dystopian 22.3%, Choices Matter 14.9%, Multiple Endings 12.4%, Story Rich 6.2%
- #33 PRODUCER 2021
76% matchVery Positive100% of 175 reviews2022
Dev: Stuffed Wombat
Windows
a ~2 hour long graphic adventure novella. Tasked with disrupting the end of the world, you explore, investigate and produce your way through a strangely familiar world.
Why similar: Adventure 67%, 2D 33%
- #34 One's Own Exile
74% matchVery Positive100% of 448 reviews2025
Dev: Updog Software
Windows
Follow Sybil in her pursuit for survival, having to sacrifice everything - her culture, her identity, her values - to achieve a single objective: escape from a place that is constantly trying to kill her. A short game about persecution and identity.
Why similar: Multiple Endings 21.9%, Dystopian 20.6%, Choices Matter 14.9%, Adventure 10.2%, Dark 9.9%
- #35 Alruna and the Necro-Industrialists
75% matchVery Positive87% of 107 reviews2024
Dev: NeckboltPub: Burning Planet Digital
Windows
Alruna is a compact and high-density Metroidvania, with a focus on sequence-breaking and playing things out of order.
Why similar: Multiple Endings 29.6%, Dystopian 27.8%, Female Protagonist 12.4%, Adventure 8.9%, Pixel Graphics 8.4%
- #36 Political Arena
72% matchMostly Positive77% of 70 reviews2025
Dev: Wayside Press
Windows · Mac
POLITICAL ARENA is a one-of-a-kind strategy/sim sandbox about American politics. Seek fame or infamy in a richly simulated political world, complete with high stakes legislative strategizing, backroom deals and the press. Customize and play as the politician of your dreams (or nightmares).
Why similar: Political 45.4% ★, Political Sim 32% ★, Choices Matter 13%, Simulation 7.3%, 2D 1.4%
- #37 This Is the Police
74% matchVery Positive82% of 11,102 reviews2016
Dev: Weappy StudioPub: THQ Nordic
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 5.5 hrsMean: 12.3 hrs≥1hr: 91%
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: Choices Matter 32.5%, Political 27.5% ★, Story Rich 13.7%, Indie 8%, Adventure 6%
- #38 2064: Read Only Memories
75% matchMostly Positive80% of 1,665 reviews2015
Dev: MidBoss, LLC.Pub: Chorus Worldwide Games
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 3.7 hrsMean: 4.8 hrs≥1hr: 89%
2064: Read Only Memories is a cyberpunk point-and-click adventure set in Neo-San Francisco. Team up with Turing, the world's first sapient machine, to unravel a conspiracy that threatens to shake an entire society
Why similar: Choices Matter 33.1%, Multiple Endings 30%, Story Rich 14%, Adventure 9.5%, 2D 5.6%
- #39 Ministry of Broadcast
73% matchVery Positive82% of 468 reviews2020
Dev: Twin PetesPub: Hitcents
Windows · Mac
Median: 2.2 hrsMean: 5.4 hrs≥1hr: 66%
Ministry of Broadcast is a narrative-driven single player cinematic platformer mixing Orwell’s 1984 with modern reality TV. A country divided by The Wall; to cross it and reach your family, you must compete on - and win - a reality TV show broadcast by the Regime.
Why similar: Political 25.2% ★, Dystopian 20.1%, Adventure 19.8%, Indie 18.7%, Multiple Endings 6.2%
- #40 We. The Revolution
73% matchMostly Positive75% of 2,413 reviews2019
Dev: PolyslashPub: Valkyrie Initiative
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 2.9 hrsMean: 7.4 hrs≥1hr: 79%
As a judge of the Revolutionary Tribunal, preside over complicated cases of ordinary citizens, dangerous criminals, and enemies of the revolution in revolutionary Paris. Make judgments, plot political intrigue, and try to not lose your own head!
Why similar: Political Sim 53.9% ★, Choices Matter 20.5%, Adventure 7.4%, Story Rich 7.3%, Simulation 5.3%
- #41 BAD END THEATER
69% matchOverwhelmingly Positive98% of 9,656 reviews2021
Dev: NomnomNami
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 1.6 hrsMean: 4.0 hrs≥1hr: 71%
select your protagonist and explore a variety of terrible fates!
Why similar: Multiple Endings 33.2%, Choices Matter 32.5%, Story Rich 13.3%, Pixel Graphics 7.1%, Simulation 4.4%
- #42 Do Not Feed the Monkeys
71% matchVery Positive94% of 12,357 reviews2018
Dev: Fictiorama StudiosPub: Alawar
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 3.7 hrsMean: 6.8 hrs≥1hr: 87%
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: Political Sim 37% ★, Dystopian 16.4%, Choices Matter 13.2%, Multiple Endings 11.8%, Story Rich 5%
- #43 halfmoon
67% matchVery Positive92% of 62 reviews2026
Dev: lvl374
Windows
halfmoon is a short adventure game set in an information center for the dead before they move on.
Why similar: Story Rich 26.9%, Adventure 19.1%, Indie 16.8%, 2D 16.7%, Pixel Graphics 15.4%
- #44 NeuroNet: Mendax Proxy
70% matchVery Positive82% of 66 reviews2023
Dev: Dream Harvest
Windows
You are Arc, a city management AI. Designed to manage a city-wide AR metaverse known as the NeuroNet. Meet its many users, build relationships and help or hinder their lives while trying to balance the wider needs of the city. Find your humanity in a world losing theirs to technology.
Why similar: Choices Matter 43.3%, Story Rich 18.7%, Adventure 18%, 2D 10.1%, Casual 6.9%
- #45 Dyscourse
72% matchMostly Positive77% of 444 reviews2015
Dev: Owlchemy Labs
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 3.6 hrsMean: 3.9 hrs≥1hr: 92%
Dyscourse is an interactive choice-based narrative adventure game where you journey through a stylized world of choice and consequence. Choose wisely.
Why similar: Choices Matter 33.8%, Adventure 21.5%, Indie 19.1%, Simulation 11.2%, Female Protagonist 6.7%
- #46 TOBOR
68% matchVery Positive94% of 88 reviews2023
Dev: Cogoo
Windows · Mac
A psychological surveillance adventure. Observe 16 real-time CCTV feeds as TOBOR, a spy unit uncovering secrets in a dystopian bunker. Monitor suspects, collect evidence, and choose who survives. Multiple endings.
Why similar: Political 34.9% ★, Dystopian 21.8%, Choices Matter 15.4%, Multiple Endings 13.8%, Story Rich 5.9%
- #47 Cloudpunk
69% matchVery Positive88% of 15,203 reviews2020
Dev: ION LANDS
Windows
Median: 2.6 hrsMean: 8.2 hrs≥1hr: 69%
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 25.3%, Female Protagonist 22.8%, Adventure 18.9%, Indie 15.8%, Choices Matter 11.2%
- #48 Beat Cop
70% matchVery Positive82% of 6,094 reviews2017
Dev: Pixel CrowPub: 11 bit studios
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 3.3 hrsMean: 5.3 hrs≥1hr: 85%
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: Indie 18%, Choices Matter 17.8%, Pixel Graphics 16%, Adventure 15.1%, Simulation 10%
- #49 PEPPERED: an existential platformer
66% matchOverwhelmingly Positive96% of 660 reviews2025
Dev: Mostly Games
Windows · Mac
Median: 3.9 hrsMean: 4.6 hrs≥1hr: 82%
An existential platformer where Doomsday is just around the corner. Save the world or become an eternal corporate slave for the God of Death. Choices matter. Or do they? Goof around and find out.
Why similar: Dystopian 34.3%, Choices Matter 25.1%, Multiple Endings 21.7%, Story Rich 10.3%, Pixel Graphics 6.1%
- #50 Save Koch
71% matchMixed63% of 155 reviews2019
Dev: Wooden Monkeys
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 3.6 hrsMean: 5.6 hrs≥1hr: 88%
You are local mafia kingpin, Jeffrey Koch. Your empire in New Kandinski is in total chaos because an unknown Mastermind has decided to take your place. And they’ve planted a sleeper Mole inside your operation. It’s time to act, but you need to act smart.
Why similar: Political 32.7% ★, Choices Matter 18.3%, Adventure 8.3%, Multiple Endings 7.8%, Story Rich 7.5%
- #51 You are the Judge!
68% matchMixed70% of 258 reviews2023
Dev: Steel Games
Windows
As a judge of the Kobardde court, solve complex cases inspired by actual events. Your decisions will directly affect people's (and perhaps yours) lives. You may have to make difficult decisions for your family, country, and life. What kind of judge will you be?
Why similar: Political Sim 40.5% ★, Political 31.6% ★, Choices Matter 8.3%, Multiple Endings 6%, Indie 5.6%
- #52 Silicon Dreams | cyberpunk interrogation
68% matchVery Positive94% of 255 reviews2021
Dev: James PattonPub: Clockwork Bird
Windows · Mac · Linux
It’s 2065, and you are an interrogator-model android tasked with rooting out deviants among your own kind. You must probe for lies, monitor and exploit emotional spikes, earn the trust of your subjects, and make the final call: release, or destroy?
Why similar: Political 30.4% ★, Choices Matter 19.4%, Dystopian 18%, Multiple Endings 14.9%, Story Rich 7.2%
- #53 Democracy 4
67% matchVery Positive82% of 6,313 reviews2022
Dev: Positech Games
Windows
Median: 3.7 hrsMean: 13.1 hrs≥1hr: 78%
Democracy 4 lets you take the role of President / Prime minister, govern the country (choosing its policies, laws and other actions), and both transform the country as you see fit, while trying to retain enough popularity to get re-elected...
Why similar: Political Sim 33.3% ★, Political 26.3% ★, Politics 24.8% ★, Choices Matter 8.5%, Simulation 3%
- #54 Democracy 3
70% matchMostly Positive74% of 7,255 reviews2013
Dev: Positech Games
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 3.2 hrsMean: 10.8 hrs≥1hr: 84%
Have you ever wanted to be president? or prime-minister? Convinced you could do a better job of running the country? Let's face it, you could hardly do a worse job than our current political leaders.
Why similar: Political Sim 54.3% ★, Politics 25.9% ★, Political 12.6% ★, Simulation 3.8%, Indie 2.3%
- #55 Lunar Ascendant
66% matchMixed49% of 83 reviews2026
Dev: Darts Games
Windows
The political drama set in a future that's too close for comfort. Become the first mayor of ARTEMIS: A Pioneering Lunar City. Navigate the future of lunar colonization, choose between independence and cooperation, shape policies for or against AI influence, and tackle interplanetary conspiracies.
Why similar: Political Sim 29.5% ★, Political 26.8% ★, Politics 21.7% ★, Choices Matter 9.6%, Multiple Endings 8.6%
- #56 Politics The Game
63% matchVery Positive95% of 2,352 reviews2025
Dev: Simplicity Games
Windows · Mac
Median: 5.8 hrsMean: 5.8 hrs≥1hr: 89%
Become a parliamentarian, create a powerful party, and lead it to victory in this humorous adventure game. Manage your popularity and dignity, use unique powers, and navigate a storyline inspired by current events.
Why similar: Politics 32.1% ★, Political 28.9% ★, Political Sim 26.6% ★, Adventure 6.3%, Simulation 4.3%
- #57 Murder
71% matchMixed51% of 423 reviews2015
Dev: Peter MoorheadPub: CDP
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 24 minMean: 4.1 hrs≥1hr: 20%
From the designer and artists behind "Stranded" comes a short story about the intersection of morality and sentience, in a cyberpunk future where both have become commodities.
Why similar: Adventure 37.8%, Indie 37.3%, Female Protagonist 13.9%, Pixel Graphics 11%
- #58 She Sees Red - Interactive Movie
67% matchMostly Positive78% of 3,149 reviews2019
Dev: Rhinotales
Windows · Mac
Median: 1.8 hrsMean: 3.2 hrs≥1hr: 75%
She Sees Red is a mature, hard-boiled interactive thriller. When someone is killed inside a nightclub, an experienced detective vows to put the murderer behind bars. Make choices that affect the narrative and experience several different endings in this blood-red interactive movie.
Why similar: Choices Matter 39.9%, Multiple Endings 19.4%, Adventure 9.3%, Violent 9%, Indie 7.4%