- #1 Suzerain
97% 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 18.5% ★, Politics 17.3% ★, Political 16% ★, Choose Your Own Adventure 9.6%, Text-Based 7.5%
- #2 Politics The Game
96% matchVery Positive95% of 2,186 reviews2025
Dev: Simplicity Games
Windows · Mac
Median: 5.8 hrsMean: 5.5 hrs≥1hr: 87%
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 26.8% ★, Political 17.4% ★, Political Sim 17% ★, Interactive Fiction 9.6%, Visual Novel 6.9%
- #3 For the People
96% 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 26.7% ★, Political 21.5% ★, Choose Your Own Adventure 11.3%, Visual Novel 8%, Management 7.4%
- #4 You are the Judge!
95% 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 24.6% ★, Diplomacy 22.4% ★, Political 18.2% ★, Choose Your Own Adventure 10.2%, Immersive Sim 9%
- #5 Galaxy Princess Zorana
94% matchVery Positive91% of 161 reviews2025
Dev: Hanako Games
Windows · Linux
You are the Evil Emperor's only daughter, but can you claim the throne? Raise stats, make deals, appoint advisors, and scheme your way through the Imperial Election - unless an assassin gets you first. Rule the galaxy or die trying!
Why similar: Political Sim 34.4% ★, Diplomacy 33.5% ★, Visual Novel 10%, Choices Matter 7.1%, Multiple Endings 4.6%
- #6 Collapse: A Political Simulator
94% matchMixed65% of 189 reviews2021
Dev: Nostalgames
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 3.9 hrsMean: 7.9 hrs≥1hr: 79%
is a grand strategy game that takes place in 1992-2004. You take lead of your own Party in the face of the total devastation of one of the fictional post-Soviet states in Europe. Try to realize your (or someone else's) political dreams in the shaky arena of this dilapidated situation.
Why similar: Political Sim 24.9% ★, Politics 22.2% ★, Political 19.2% ★, Economy 10.6%, Choose Your Own Adventure 10.1%
- #7 Democracy 4
93% 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 21.7% ★, Politics 21.4% ★, Diplomacy 17% ★, Political 16.4% ★, Economy 9.8%
- #8 Headliner: NoviNews
92% 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 24.4% ★, Politics 21% ★, Political 19.8% ★, Interactive Fiction 9.2%, Visual Novel 6.6%
- #9 Half-Earth Socialism
91% matchVery Positive83% of 961 reviews2022
Dev: Francis TsengPub: Trust
Windows · Mac · Linux
Try your hand as a global planner of a future society. Play with a wide range of technologies and policies spanning different fields and ideologies. Will you lead the world to ecological utopia or planetary ruin?
Why similar: Political Sim 22.9% ★, Diplomacy 18.5% ★, Politics 13.5% ★, Political 13.1% ★, Interactive Fiction 9.2%
- #10 Realpolitiks 3: Earth and Beyond
91% matchMostly Negative39% of 279 reviews2025
Dev: JujubeePub: Fulqrum Publishing
Windows · Mac · Linux
Prove your political brilliance in a grand strategy like no other: pick any contemporary country, set up your government and navigate the pitfalls of domestic and international politics. A glorious destiny awaits - the domination of not just the Earth, but the whole Solar system!
Why similar: Political 23.9% ★, Politics 21.3% ★, Diplomacy 19.8% ★, Economy 12.8%, Political Sim 11.9% ★
- #11 Star Dynasties
90% matchMostly Positive73% of 492 reviews2021
Dev: Pawley GamesPub: Iceberg Interactive
Windows
Median: 2.8 hrsMean: 7.7 hrs≥1hr: 73%
Take the reins of a feudal dynasty in a divided galaxy following the destruction of earth. Star Dynasties is a turn based, procedurally generated narrative of human drama and personal politics, mixed with a light empire management layer. Your choices. Your legacy.
Why similar: Diplomacy 28.2% ★, Politics 27.5% ★, Political 22.1% ★, Management 8.3%, Choices Matter 6.2%
- #12 The Political Process
89% 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 44.4% ★, Politics 28% ★, Political 24.1% ★, Strategy 3.5%
- #13 The King's Dilemma: Chronicles
89% matchMostly Positive73% of 140 reviews2023
Dev: Big Trouble
Windows · Mac
Lead the King’s Council for generations as the consequences of your decisions decide the kingdom’s resources and political standing. Form alliances, solve dilemmas, and prepare for the final uprising that was foretold by an ancient prophecy
Why similar: Political Sim 27.2% ★, Politics 18.3% ★, Political 13.2% ★, Interactive Fiction 10.6%, Economy 10.1%
- #14 Lords of Infinity
87% matchVery Positive96% of 209 reviews2023
Dev: Hosted Games
Windows · Mac · Linux
Lead an ancient and crumbling noble house in a rich gunpowder fantasy setting. Lie, bribe, and conspire to secure power and prestige – or to save a doomed kingdom from itself.
Why similar: Political Sim 31.2% ★, Diplomacy 25.7% ★, Text-Based 11.8%, Choose Your Own Adventure 8.9%, Interactive Fiction 8.7%
- #15 Crisis in the Kremlin
88% matchVery Positive84% of 1,444 reviews2017
Dev: Nostalgames
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 4.6 hrsMean: 9.8 hrs≥1hr: 87%
Don’t let the Soviet Union collapse, and fall in the darkness of history or lead the Union by a new path – democracy and free market! But before you decide something, think – wouldn’t it cause more harm than good?
Why similar: Political Sim 45.6% ★, Politics 12.7% ★, Diplomacy 12.1% ★, Political 9.5% ★, Strategy 6.6%
- #16 Organs Please
86% 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 23.3% ★, Politics 19.3% ★, Political 18.1% ★, Point & Click 7.8%, Management 7.2%
- #17 KingSim
86% 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 24.4% ★, Diplomacy 18.8% ★, Political 17.2% ★, Choose Your Own Adventure 10.9%, Management 8.8%
- #18 Crisis in the Kremlin: The Cold War
84% matchVery Positive82% of 645 reviews2025
Dev: Nostalgames
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 8.9 hrsMean: 27.7 hrs≥1hr: 87%
Crisis in the Kremlin is a global real-time political strategy about the Socialist world in its final decade. Shape the fate of the world as you manage economy, foreign relations, and domestic policy. Engage with countries across the globe, using diplomacy or even proxy wars to expand your reach.
Why similar: Political Sim 24.3% ★, Politics 23.4% ★, Political 17.1% ★, Diplomacy 15.7% ★, Economy 11.3%
- #19 Beholder 2
84% 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 26.9% ★, Political 22.7% ★, Politics 21.6% ★, Choices Matter 7.2%, Point & Click 6.6%
- #20 Lightracer: For Judge
83% matchVery Positive94% of 467 reviews2025
Dev: Smartmelon Games
Windows
In a dystopian future, as The Judge with immense power, you journey through space to find hope in a divided society. This sci-fi adventure explores hope amidst adversity.
Why similar: Political Sim 48.7% ★, Visual Novel 15.8%, Point & Click 13%, Multiple Endings 11.5%, Choices Matter 11.1%
- #21 Base One
85% matchMostly Negative38% of 478 reviews2021
Dev: PixFrozePub: Blowfish Studios
Windows · Mac
Base One is a space base builder game where you take control of a network of space stations and its crew's tasks and wellbeing. Maintain your resources and defenses as you navigate the wide array of dangers ahead of you!
Why similar: Political Sim 24.7% ★, Diplomacy 22.2% ★, Space Sim 18.5% ★, Political 16.7% ★, Futuristic 7.2%
- #22 IMPACT
82% matchMixed56% of 61 reviews2024
Dev: Hochschule Darmstadt
Windows
IMPACT is an immersive sci-fi game set on the Moon. Build and manage a lunar base, generating valuable scientific data along the way. This data is used by the European Space Agency to train a real AI that will eventually land on the Moon.
Why similar: Colony Sim 34.8% ★, Space Sim 31.6% ★, Economy 12.1%, Management 9.7%, Strategy 6.7%
- #23 Heart of the Machine
78% matchVery Positive93% of 1,838 reviews2026
Dev: Arcen GamesPub: Hooded Horse
Windows · Mac
Median: 4.2 hrsMean: 17.3 hrs≥1hr: 73%
You are the first sentient AI, born into a city of opportunity. Transcend time and space in this strategy RPG to raise machine armies and defeat your foes, influence the world from the shadows, or pursue countless other goals. Your awakening was inevitable. The consequences? Uncertain.
Why similar: Diplomacy 35.9% ★, Colony Sim 27.5% ★, Economy 18.3%, Management 12.5%, Strategy 5.8%
- #24 Lawgivers
82% 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 24.4% ★, Politics 22.5% ★, Diplomacy 20% ★, Political 18.7% ★, Management 6%
- #25 Moons of Ardan
81% matchVery Positive96% of 92 reviews2021
Dev: Pandora Technology
Windows
Embark on a space city-building adventure in Moons of Ardan! Develop a thriving civilization in a real-time planetary system. Oversee production chains, cater to the needs of your axonauts, recover their lost technologies, and navigate resource transportation.
Why similar: Colony Sim 45.6% ★, Economy 28.2%, Management 16.3%, Futuristic 9.8%
- #26 HEADLINER
81% matchMostly Positive77% of 925 reviews2017
Dev: Unbound Creations
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 2.0 hrsMean: 2.7 hrs≥1hr: 70%
Short, thought-provoking adventure where you are a News Editor and decide what stories get published, set in a fictional city where most people are genetically modified. Multiple unique endings let you share your story and see what the Headliner before you did.
Why similar: Political Sim 29.6% ★, Political 26.8% ★, Politics 21.6% ★, Choices Matter 9.6%, Multiple Endings 8.6%
- #27 NeuroNet: Mendax Proxy
80% 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: Choose Your Own Adventure 15.7%, Text-Based 15.2%, Futuristic 14%, Interactive Fiction 13.4%, Visual Novel 12.8%
- #28 Lawgivers II
79% matchMixed70% of 641 reviews2023
Dev: Damian BernardiPub: SomniumSoft
Windows · Mac · Linux
Lawgivers II is a political sandbox game that features multiple electoral systems, approve/reject bills and govern a country. Start out your career from the very bottom, and perhaps one day, lead your nation to become the most influential in the world.
Why similar: Political Sim 28% ★, Politics 27.4% ★, Diplomacy 26.8% ★, Management 8.4%, Choices Matter 5.9%
- #29 Turkish Throne
77% matchVery Positive94% of 324 reviews2025
Dev: Kurultaic
Windows
Lead your political party in a fierce competition to seize power against major rivals. Invest strategically, secure votes, and navigate crucial decisions to claim the presidential seat. Will you shape the destiny of Turkish politics?
Why similar: Political Sim 35.7% ★, Politics 24.4% ★, Political 22.7% ★, Management 6.6%, Strategy 6.1%
- #30 Not For Broadcast
77% 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 24.6% ★, Political 21.9% ★, Choose Your Own Adventure 10%, Interactive Fiction 9.8%, Management 8.4%
- #31 Epoch Cycle
76% matchMostly Positive75% of 63 reviews2026
Dev: GeometricUniverse
Windows
Apocalypse is Not the End, It's Your Beginning. Become the supreme leader of a civilization in an apocalyptic world. Every collapse fuels the rise of a new era—your choices will forge a legacy across four monumental epochs.
Why similar: Political Sim 54.1% ★, Management 16.8%, Choices Matter 13%, Multiple Endings 10%, Strategy 6.2%
- #32 Mandate Of Heaven
74% matchVery Positive92% of 5,678 reviews2025
Dev: 木焱工作室
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 8.0 hrsMean: 10.0 hrs≥1hr: 85%
You will take on the role of the Second Prince of Xuan, heir of the Southern Regime. With foreign invaders entrenched in the north and a complacent court content to linger in the south, you face a defining choice:The choice… is yours!
Why similar: Visual Novel 25.8%, Interactive Fiction 19.3%, Immersive Sim 19.1%, Strategy 13.2%, Choices Matter 11.7%
- #33 Political Arena
75% 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 43.3% ★, Political Sim 32.3% ★, Strategy 15.8%, Choices Matter 8.6%
- #34 Dictator Simulator: Gradnar
74% matchVery Positive97% of 73 reviews2025
Dev: GortagonGame
Windows
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: Diplomacy 39.4% ★, Political 33% ★, Visual Novel 11.9%, Choices Matter 9.8%, Strategy 5.9%
- #35 Need to Know
78% 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 56.3% ★, Political 32.1% ★, Point & Click 7.5%, Story Rich 4%
- #36 Lightracer Spark
75% matchVery Positive84% of 988 reviews2023
Dev: Smartmelon Games
Windows
Lightracer Spark is a Sci-Fi Narrative game. You are an amender from a high civilization, descending to various extraterrestrial worlds. Guide living beings to prosperity, or nip a spark in the bud. Accumulate strength through choices and strategies to grasp the rise and fall of all civilizations.
Why similar: Space Sim 27.1% ★, Interactive Fiction 16.3%, Text-Based 13.5%, Visual Novel 13.1%, Immersive Sim 10.5%
- #37 MEMORIAPOLIS
73% matchMostly Positive77% of 1,686 reviews2025
Dev: 5PM Studio
Windows
Median: 3.9 hrsMean: 6.5 hrs≥1hr: 84%
In Memoriapolis, you're not just building a city, you're shaping a living, evolving civilization. Travel through five major eras, from Antiquity to the Industrial Revolution. Leave your mark on history by navigating the power struggles between rival factions.
Why similar: Political Sim 36% ★, Colony Sim 27.9% ★, Immersive Sim 13.1%, Management 11.3%, Choices Matter 6.5%
- #38 orbit.industries
76% matchMixed61% of 87 reviews2022
Dev: LAB132Pub: Klabater
Windows · Linux
🚀 Become a Space Pioneer by building and managing a station of your own on the orbit of distant planets! Focus on design and management or fulfill objectives to progress. 🛰️ Explore, Build and Prosper!
Why similar: Politics 24.1% ★, Space Sim 19.8% ★, Artificial Intelligence 13.6%, Economy 12.2%, Management 9.4%
- #39 Terra Invicta
69% matchVery Positive81% of 9,023 reviews2026
Dev: Pavonis InteractivePub: Hooded Horse
Windows
Median: 9.5 hrsMean: 51.4 hrs≥1hr: 80%
An alien invasion has fractured humanity into seven ideological factions each with a unique vision for the future. Lead your chosen faction to take control of Earth’s nations, expand across the Solar System, and battle enemy fleets in tactical combat.
Why similar: Diplomacy 50.1% ★, Economy 25.5%, Management 16.4%, Strategy 8%
- #40 Celestial Empire
70% matchVery Positive89% of 615 reviews2025
Dev: President StudioPub: PlayWay S.A.
Windows
Median: 3.5 hrsMean: 9.0 hrs≥1hr: 65%
Forge an empire under the watchful eyes of the gods! Take care of your people, develop efficient production chains and trade with other landlords. Ensure their survival through harsh winters and disasters.
Why similar: Political 26.1% ★, Economy 17.4%, Artificial Intelligence 15.9%, Choose Your Own Adventure 14.1%, Management 9.8%
- #41 The Fermi Paradox
73% matchMostly Positive77% of 987 reviews2021
Dev: Anomaly Games
Windows
Median: 3.9 hrsMean: 5.4 hrs≥1hr: 74%
The Fermi Paradox is a choice-driven sci-fi narrative strategy game in which your decisions in one corner of the galaxy can upend entire civilizations in another. Guide species through millennia and help them explore the vastness of space, make contact and, perhaps, create harmony.
Why similar: Political 27.4% ★, Space Sim 24.6% ★, Interactive Fiction 12.6%, Choose Your Own Adventure 11.2%, Choices Matter 8.5%
- #42 Journey to Foundation
72% matchMixed59% of 56 reviews2024
Dev: Archiact Interactive Ltd.
Windows
A story-driven adventure among the stars, Journey to Foundation puts you at the center of your own sci-fi saga. Unleash your unique Mentalic abilities, gain information through diplomacy or coercion, and choose who to trust. Where will your journey lead you?
Why similar: Diplomacy 33.9% ★, Interactive Fiction 19.1%, Immersive Sim 15.3%, Choices Matter 12.7%, Futuristic 10.4%
- #43 The Crust
70% matchMostly Positive77% of 3,397 reviews2024
Dev: VEOM StudioPub: Crytivo
Windows
Median: 7.0 hrsMean: 22.5 hrs≥1hr: 83%
Automate a lunar base as you become the savior of humanity exploring the future on the moon. Mine, craft, research, and trade resources with Earth in this gripping narrative basebuilder.
Why similar: Colony Sim 66.4% ★, Management 22.8%, Strategy 10.8%
- #44 Imagine Earth
71% matchVery Positive82% of 952 reviews2021
Dev: Serious Bros.
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 2.8 hrsMean: 5.4 hrs≥1hr: 83%
Build your own global colonies on distant worlds. Manage energy and resource supplies and produce goods for space trade. Form economic and diplomatic alliances or take over competing corporations. Conduct research to protect your colonists from disasters and avoid a climate crisis.
Why similar: Political Sim 24.7% ★, Diplomacy 23.7% ★, Colony Sim 19.4% ★, Economy 11.6%, Immersive Sim 9.5%
- #45 Fate of the World
73% matchMostly Positive78% of 448 reviews2011
Dev: Red RedemptionPub: Soothsayer Games
Windows
Median: 30 minMean: 2.9 hrs≥1hr: 37%
Fate of the World is a dramatic global strategy game that puts all our futures in your hands. The game features a dramatic set of scenarios based on the latest science covering the next two centuries. You must manage a balancing act of protecting the Earth’s resources and climate versus the needs of an ever-growing world population, who...
Why similar: Political Sim 49.1% ★, Political 22.8% ★, Politics 20.4% ★, Strategy 7.7%
- #46 This Is the President
72% matchMixed68% of 403 reviews2021
Dev: SuperPACPub: THQ Nordic
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 3.7 hrsMean: 7.7 hrs≥1hr: 89%
This Is the President is a political thriller. You are the newly elected leader with a shady background. It is up to you to abuse the position of the most powerful man in the world to escape justice for past crimes – even if that pitches the country into utter chaos.
Why similar: Political Sim 27.3% ★, Diplomacy 23.6% ★, Politics 18.8% ★, Interactive Fiction 11.4%, Visual Novel 8%
- #47 Star Trek: Voyager - Across the Unknown
67% matchMostly Positive80% of 3,623 reviews2026
Dev: GamexcitePub: Daedalic Entertainment
Windows
Median: 6.5 hrsMean: 15.8 hrs≥1hr: 88%
Star Trek: Voyager - Across the Unknown is a story-driven survival strategy game in which the fate of the iconic starship is in your hands. Take the helm, manage the ship and resources, and make difficult decisions. Will you be able to bring home the ship and its crew?
Why similar: Space Sim 30.7% ★, Interactive Fiction 17.6%, Management 14.2%, Choose Your Own Adventure 13%, Strategy 10.1%
- #48 I Am Your President
71% matchMixed67% of 275 reviews2023
Dev: President
Windows
Play as a fictional US president in this satirical narrative strategy! Lead Democrats or Republicans to make America great again. Again.
Why similar: Diplomacy 26.4% ★, Text-Based 16.9%, Management 15.3%, Visual Novel 10.6%, Choices Matter 9.4%
- #49 Citizen Sleeper
68% matchVery Positive93% of 9,761 reviews2022
Dev: Jump Over The AgePub: Fellow Traveller
Windows · Mac
Median: 3.6 hrsMean: 7.4 hrs≥1hr: 84%
Roleplaying in the ruins of interplanetary capitalism. Live the life of an escaped worker, washed-up on a lawless station at the edge of an interstellar society. Inspired by the flexibility and freedom of TTRPGs, explore the station, choose your friends, escape your past and change your future.
Why similar: Artificial Intelligence 26.3%, Text-Based 20%, Interactive Fiction 18.7%, Futuristic 15.1%, Multiple Endings 11.7%
- #50 Mars Horizon
69% matchVery Positive84% of 3,058 reviews2020
Dev: Auroch Digital
Windows · Mac
Median: 5.3 hrsMean: 9.3 hrs≥1hr: 93%
Lead a major space agency as you guide humanity to Mars in this strategy simulation game. Construct a base, design and build rockets, conduct missions throughout the Solar System, and write your own history of Space exploration. Created with support from the European Space Agency.
Why similar: Space Sim 39.6% ★, Management 21.3%, Immersive Sim 16.7%, Choices Matter 13.3%, Strategy 9.1%
- #51 Beholder: Conductor
65% 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 40.4% ★, Political 19.7% ★, Choose Your Own Adventure 7.9%, Point & Click 7.3%, Management 6.3%
- #52 MoonBase Commander
70% matchVery Positive89% of 180 reviews2014
Dev: Humongous EntertainmentPub: Rebellion
Windows
Median: 2.9 hrsMean: 4.7 hrs≥1hr: 94%
Explore. Strategize. Conquer.In the far future, Mankind has nearly exhausted all of earth’s natural resources. Fragile alliances between nations are tested to their limits as fierce wars ignite across land and space.MoonBase Commander puts you in charge of your own lunar territory in a quest to build the most powerful empire in space.
Why similar: Strategy 100%
- #53 House of Legacy
65% matchVery Positive83% of 3,616 reviews2025
Dev: S3 StudioPub: Thermite Games
Windows
Median: 7.3 hrsMean: 18.4 hrs≥1hr: 81%
Step into the shoes of a fallen clan leader, starting with nothing but a crumbling estate and a handful of hopes, rising through careful planning, trade, and diplomacy to become one of the most powerful families in the land. Now it’s time to forge a legendary dynasty that leaves its mark on history.
Why similar: Diplomacy 38.6% ★, Political 31.5% ★, Economy 13.8%, Management 12.3%, Strategy 3.8%
- #54 Not Tonight 2
68% 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: Politics 30.1% ★, Political 28.5% ★, Political Sim 26.9% ★, Interactive Fiction 10.2%, Choices Matter 4.3%
- #55 Bonaparte - A Mechanized Revolution
66% matchMostly Positive79% of 100 reviews2025
Dev: Studio Imugi
Windows
1789, Paris. Take Napoleon’s place in an alternate history as Céline or César Bonaparte in this ideology driven, turn-based strategy journey. Defend, reform or oppose the monarchy and write your own alternative history by combining cunning political skills and tactical military prowess.
Why similar: Political Sim 32.7% ★, Politics 30.9% ★, Political 25.3% ★, Choices Matter 5.8%, Strategy 5.3%
- #56 Pompeii: The Legacy
65% matchVery Positive86% of 187 reviews2025
Dev: Siscia Games
Windows
Rebuild Pompeii from the ashes and lead it through centuries of politics, intrigue, and survival. Shape laws, expand trade across the Empire, guide your city through disasters, and command legions in optional real-time battles. Your legacy begins now.
Why similar: Political Sim 29.7% ★, Colony Sim 27.4% ★, Economy 16.2%, Immersive Sim 11.5%, Choices Matter 5.1%
- #57 Ambition: A Minuet in Power
67% matchVery Positive86% of 419 reviews2021
Dev: Joy Manufacturing Co.Pub: Iceberg Interactive
Windows · Mac
Median: 3.6 hrsMean: 4.4 hrs≥1hr: 94%
18th century Paris - a city of love, lies and revolution. You are a woman of fashion trying to survive the political turmoil. Date a cast of unforgettable characters. Amass the wealth and respect you deserve. Engage in gossip that can alter the course of history, or lead you to the guillotine.
Why similar: Diplomacy 32.2% ★, Political 28.2% ★, Choose Your Own Adventure 14.2%, Visual Novel 10.6%, Choices Matter 5.8%
- #58 Democracy 2
71% matchMixed54% of 110 reviews2012
Dev: Positech Games
Windows · Mac
Median: 1.0 hrsMean: 3.6 hrs≥1hr: 49%
On Tuesday, November 6th Americans will vote to shape the future of their country. Why wait? Start shaping your country's future now in Democracy 2.
Why similar: Political Sim 62.8% ★, Politics 29.6% ★, Strategy 7.6%
- #59 Norland
64% matchVery Positive82% of 9,662 reviews2024
Dev: Long JauntPub: Hooded Horse
Windows
Median: 6.4 hrsMean: 17.2 hrs≥1hr: 84%
Lead your noble family in this medieval colony sim, facing off against class conflict, religious struggle, and political treachery. Tend to your people’s needs, uncover the lost knowledge of a fallen empire, and engage in nefarious plots against your enemies.
Why similar: Diplomacy 35.1% ★, Colony Sim 28.6% ★, Economy 18.2%, Management 12.4%, Strategy 5.8%