- #1 Headliner: NoviNews
97% matchVery Positive89% of 806 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 22.1% ★, Politics 16.8% ★, Dystopian 9%, Choices Matter 8%
- #2 Beholder 2
96% matchVery Positive87% of 7,880 reviews2018
Dev: Alawar Stargaze (Warm Lamp Games)Pub: Alawar
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 4.8 hrsMean: 19.0 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 21.9% ★, Political 19.5% ★, Dystopian 13.4%, Politics 13.3% ★, Choices Matter 9.1%
- #3 Not For Broadcast
96% matchVery Positive94% of 12,340 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 23.9% ★, Dystopian 15.5%, Choices Matter 11%, Multiple Endings 9.2%
- #4 Beholder
95% matchVery Positive92% of 30,197 reviews2016
Dev: Alawar Stargaze (Warm Lamp Games)Pub: Alawar
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 4.2 hrsMean: 13.5 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 26.1% ★, Political 22.1% ★, Dystopian 15.4%, Choices Matter 10.6%, Multiple Endings 8.2%
- #5 Replica
94% matchVery Positive86% of 3,503 reviews2016
Dev: Somi
Windows · Mac
Median: 2.8 hrsMean: 35.1 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%
- #6 1979 Revolution: Black Friday
93% matchMostly Positive77% of 1,085 reviews2016
Dev: iNK Stories
Windows · Mac
Median: 3.3 hrsMean: 5.0 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 20.2%, Multiple Endings 9.7%, Adventure 7.4%, Indie 7.1%
- #7 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% ★, Choices Matter 11.8%, Adventure 11.8%, Indie 10%
- #8 Death and Taxes
91% matchVery Positive86% of 8,138 reviews2020
Dev: Placeholder Gameworks
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 2.9 hrsMean: 4.6 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 29.7%, Multiple Endings 22.9%, Story Rich 11.1%, Adventure 7.4%, Simulation 7.3%
- #9 The Westport Independent
92% matchMostly Positive76% of 330 reviews2016
Dev: Double Zero One Zero
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 1.0 hrsMean: 9.9 hrs≥1hr: 51%
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 35.9% ★, Dystopian 28.9%, Indie 13.6%, Choices Matter 12.2%, Simulation 9.5%
- #10 Orwell: Keeping an Eye On You
91% matchVery Positive90% of 15,333 reviews2016
Dev: Osmotic StudiosPub: Daedalic Entertainment
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 3.2 hrsMean: 8.1 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 53.7%, Political Sim 23.5% ★, Dystopian 6.9%, Political 5.8% ★, Politics 4.9% ★
- #11 Beholder: Conductor
88% matchVery Positive91% of 4,209 reviews2025
Dev: Alawar
Windows · Mac
Median: 3.5 hrsMean: 4.6 hrs≥1hr: 86%
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 12.3%, Choices Matter 8.4%, Multiple Endings 6.5%
- #12 Organs Please
89% matchVery Positive84% of 320 reviews2023
Dev: TECHHOMEPub: HeroCraft PC
Windows
Median: 3.2 hrsMean: 4.3 hrs≥1hr: 81%
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 14.7% ★, Dystopian 12.9%, Multiple Endings 8.9%
- #13 For the People
90% matchMostly Positive74% of 788 reviews2020
Dev: Brezg StudioPub: 101XP
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 2.3 hrsMean: 3.9 hrs≥1hr: 72%
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 25.9% ★, Dystopian 12.4%, Choices Matter 10.2%, Multiple Endings 8.7%
- #14 Suzerain
87% matchVery Positive93% of 11,092 reviews2020
Dev: Torpor Games
Windows · Mac
Median: 5.5 hrsMean: 18.1 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 27.9% ★, Political 25.4% ★, Politics 19.7% ★, Choices Matter 10.1%, Multiple Endings 8.8%
- #15 Orwell: Ignorance is Strength
89% matchMostly Positive76% of 1,845 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 32.3% ★, Political 24% ★, Dystopian 14.4%, Choices Matter 12.4%, Indie 3.7%
- #16 Song of Farca
86% matchMostly Positive80% of 1,559 reviews2021
Dev: Wooden MonkeysPub: Alawar
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 3.5 hrsMean: 6.8 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: Dystopian 26.8%, Choices Matter 20.3%, Multiple Endings 13.4%, Story Rich 7.6%, Female Protagonist 6.2%
- #17 Not For Broadcast: Prologue
86% matchVery Positive93% of 766 reviews2019
Dev: NotGamesPub: tinyBuild
Windows
Median: 24 minMean: 5.4 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 28.2% ★, Political Sim 28.2% ★, Politics 22.7% ★, Choices Matter 10.5%, Story Rich 3.9%
- #18 Social Credit Simulator
84% matchMostly Positive76% of 93 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 12.9%, Indie 4.3%, Simulation 3.3%
- #19 Need to Know
85% 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 46.2% ★, Political 27.8% ★, Adventure 7.6%, Indie 7.3%, Simulation 6.3%
- #20 Papers, Please
83% matchOverwhelmingly Positive97% of 78,508 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%
- #21 Not For Broadcast VR
84% matchMostly Negative40% of 68 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 20.9%, Choices Matter 12.6%, Multiple Endings 10.2%, Political Sim 9.8% ★
- #22 Not Tonight
82% matchVery Positive83% of 2,674 reviews2018
Dev: PanicBarnPub: No More Robots
Windows
Median: 4.5 hrsMean: 6.5 hrs≥1hr: 91%
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 38.7% ★, Politics 21.3% ★, Dystopian 17.8%, Simulation 5.3%, Multiple Endings 4.4%
- #23 Justice.exe
82% 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 31.7% ★, Dystopian 19.1%, Choices Matter 12.5%, Multiple Endings 10.1%, Story Rich 5.1%
- #24 Mind Scanners
81% matchMostly Positive76% of 1,287 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 25.8% ★, Political Sim 24.6% ★, Dystopian 15.2%, Choices Matter 9.8%, Multiple Endings 9.2%
- #25 The Red Strings Club
81% matchVery Positive94% of 13,842 reviews2018
Dev: DeconstructeamPub: Devolver Digital
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 3.7 hrsMean: 5.0 hrs≥1hr: 85%
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 33.9%, Dystopian 16.1%, Story Rich 15.6%, Pixel Graphics 10.2%, Indie 8.4%
- #26 THE EDITOR
80% matchVery Positive90% of 67 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 34.8%, Adventure 15.5%, Story Rich 12.3%, Simulation 11.6%, Puzzle 8.7%
- #27 Will Die Alone
79% 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 12%, Story Rich 5.6%
- #28 One's Own Exile
75% matchVery Positive100% of 394 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 21.8%, Dystopian 20.8%, Choices Matter 14.9%, Adventure 10.1%, Dark 9.9%
- #29 Not Tonight 2
78% matchMostly Positive80% of 447 reviews2022
Dev: PanicBarnPub: No More Robots
Windows
Median: 2.2 hrsMean: 5.5 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 24.2% ★, Political Sim 21.6% ★, Politics 18.3% ★, Dystopian 13.3%, Choices Matter 5.3%
- #30 KingSim
79% 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 25.8% ★, Choices Matter 13.6%, Multiple Endings 12.1%, Story Rich 5.2%
- #31 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 28.3% ★, Dystopian 22.3%, Choices Matter 15%, Multiple Endings 12.5%, Story Rich 6.2%
- #32 Beholder 3
78% matchMixed65% of 2,714 reviews2022
Dev: Paintbucket GamesPub: Alawar
Windows
Median: 3.5 hrsMean: 46.1 hrs≥1hr: 88%
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%
- #33 PRODUCER 2021
76% matchVery Positive100% of 173 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 66.7%, 2D 33.3%
- #34 Alruna and the Necro-Industrialists
76% matchVery Positive89% of 96 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 29.8%, Dystopian 27.9%, Female Protagonist 12.4%, Adventure 8.9%, Pixel Graphics 8.4%
- #35 Political Arena
73% matchMostly Positive76% of 68 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 13.1%, Simulation 7.2%, 2D 1.4%
- #36 Ministry of Broadcast
75% matchVery Positive82% of 466 reviews2020
Dev: Twin PetesPub: Hitcents
Windows · Mac
Median: 2.1 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 19.6%, Indie 18.8%, Multiple Endings 6.2%
- #37 BAD END THEATER
71% matchOverwhelmingly Positive98% of 9,533 reviews2021
Dev: NomnomNami
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 1.6 hrsMean: 3.5 hrs≥1hr: 71%
select your protagonist and explore a variety of terrible fates!
Why similar: Multiple Endings 33.2%, Choices Matter 32.7%, Story Rich 13.2%, Pixel Graphics 7%, Simulation 4.4%
- #38 We. The Revolution
74% matchMostly Positive75% of 2,370 reviews2019
Dev: PolyslashPub: Valkyrie Initiative
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 2.9 hrsMean: 7.5 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 54% ★, Choices Matter 20.6%, Story Rich 7.3%, Adventure 7.3%, Simulation 5.3%
- #39 The Political Process
71% matchOverwhelmingly Positive96% of 2,101 reviews2019
Dev: Verlumino Studios LLC
Windows
Median: 4.5 hrsMean: 15.6 hrs≥1hr: 85%
Explore a dynamic world of politics in this turn-based, political simulator. Create a character, run for political office, write legislation, balance budgets, and more as you move up the political hierarchy.
Why similar: Political Sim 45.8% ★, Political 26.3% ★, Politics 21.9% ★, Simulation 3%, Indie 3%
- #40 TOBOR
70% matchVery Positive94% of 86 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 34.8% ★, Dystopian 21.8%, Choices Matter 15.5%, Multiple Endings 13.9%, Story Rich 5.9%
- #41 Dyscourse
73% 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 34.2%, Adventure 20.9%, Indie 19.3%, Simulation 11.3%, Female Protagonist 6.7%
- #42 Beat Cop
72% matchVery Positive82% of 6,045 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 18.1%, Choices Matter 17.9%, Pixel Graphics 15.9%, Adventure 15%, Simulation 10%
- #43 Do Not Feed the Monkeys
70% matchVery Positive94% of 12,088 reviews2018
Dev: Fictiorama StudiosPub: Alawar
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 3.7 hrsMean: 6.9 hrs≥1hr: 88%
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 38.1% ★, Dystopian 16.7%, Choices Matter 13.7%, Multiple Endings 12.1%, Story Rich 5.1%
- #44 The Sundew
71% matchVery Positive87% of 98 reviews2021
Dev: 2054
Windows · Linux
You are Anna Isobe, a cyborg cop abandoned by progress and thrust into the midst of a global conspiracy. Experience classic point and click gameplay as you travel across the dark future, and make choices that will seal the fate of the world.
Why similar: Dystopian 25.5%, Choices Matter 20.8%, Multiple Endings 16%, Story Rich 8.2%, Adventure 7.9%
- #45 PEPPERED: an existential platformer
66% matchOverwhelmingly Positive96% of 629 reviews2025
Dev: Mostly Games
Windows · Mac
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 34.2%, Choices Matter 25.2%, Multiple Endings 21.7%, Story Rich 10.3%, Pixel Graphics 6%
- #46 You are the Judge!
70% matchMostly Positive70% of 254 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%
- #47 Save Koch
72% matchMixed64% of 154 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 18.4%, Adventure 8.2%, Multiple Endings 7.8%, Story Rich 7.5%
- #48 Lunar Ascendant
68% matchMixed51% of 74 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 29.6% ★, Political 26.8% ★, Politics 21.6% ★, Choices Matter 9.6%, Multiple Endings 8.6%
- #49 Murder
73% matchMixed51% of 421 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: Indie 37.6%, Adventure 37.5%, Female Protagonist 13.8%, Pixel Graphics 11%
- #50 Silicon Dreams | cyberpunk interrogation
68% matchVery Positive94% of 253 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 30.3% ★, Choices Matter 19.5%, Dystopian 18%, Multiple Endings 14.9%, Story Rich 7.2%
- #51 Neo Cab
69% matchMostly Positive80% of 2,781 reviews2019
Dev: Chance AgencyPub: Fellow Traveller
Windows · Mac
Median: 2.8 hrsMean: 7.4 hrs≥1hr: 66%
A visual novel about emotional survival in an automated world. Play as Lina, the last human cab driver. It’s your first night driving the lonely streets of Los Ojos, and your best friend has just disappeared. Stay on the road. Stay on the search. Stay human.
Why similar: Choices Matter 38.3%, Multiple Endings 33.8%, Story Rich 15%, Adventure 10.2%, Singleplayer 2.7%
- #52 NeuroNet: Mendax Proxy
68% 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 43.5%, Story Rich 18.7%, Adventure 17.8%, 2D 10.1%, Casual 6.9%
- #53 2064: Read Only Memories
69% 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 33.3%, Multiple Endings 30.1%, Story Rich 13.9%, Adventure 9.4%, 2D 5.6%
- #54 Democracy 4
66% matchVery Positive82% of 6,264 reviews2022
Dev: Positech Games
Windows
Median: 3.7 hrsMean: 13.0 hrs≥1hr: 77%
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 33.1% ★, Political 26.4% ★, Politics 24.8% ★, Choices Matter 8.6%, Simulation 3%
- #55 FULFILLMENT
67% matchVery Positive92% of 302 reviews2019
Dev: Unbound Creations
Windows · Linux
Exciting Adventure About the Joys of Working at an Amazin' Fulfillment Center! Short, social commentary game that is 100% free, no micro-transactions.
Why similar: Political 45.8% ★, Indie 18.2%, Adventure 16.5%, Casual 7.1%, Pixel Graphics 5.9%
- #56 Cloudpunk
65% matchVery Positive88% of 15,104 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 28.6%, Female Protagonist 25.6%, Adventure 21.1%, Indie 17.9%, Singleplayer 6.8%
- #57 Lawgivers
67% matchVery Positive82% of 414 reviews2020
Dev: Damian BernardiPub: SomniumSoft
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 2.1 hrsMean: 6.5 hrs≥1hr: 64%
Lawgivers is a turn-based political simulation game. Run for elections with your own party and enter parliament to approve or abolish laws. Appoint the president and decide whether you want a democracy or just a fake one instead.
Why similar: Political Sim 31.2% ★, Political 25.3% ★, Politics 21.9% ★, Choices Matter 11.1%, Indie 3.4%
- #58 Extra Coin
64% matchVery Positive94% of 88 reviews2024
Dev: CINIC Games
Windows
Extra Coin is a story-rich life sim set between the real world and a virtual utopia: explore the city, do activities, and face your opponents. Would you rather respect the Loop or break it to find your lost parents?
Why similar: Choices Matter 23.4%, Multiple Endings 21.7%, Story Rich 13.8%, Adventure 12.4%, Female Protagonist 11.6%