Games Like Orwell's Animal Farm

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 26.4% ★, Choose Your Own Adventure 12%, Text-Based 10.1%, Interactive Fiction 8.3%, Visual Novel 8%

Why You'll Like It: A deep political simulation where you navigate the complex challenges of leading a nation through economic and social turmoil.

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 69.1%, Political 14.7% ★, Interactive Fiction 6.1%, Story Rich 3.7%, Visual Novel 2.5%

Why You'll Like It: An investigative thriller that explores the ethics of surveillance and the power of information in a dystopian society.

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 54.2% ★, Choices Matter 14.3%, Interactive Fiction 10.2%, Story Rich 7.1%, Visual Novel 4.9%

Why You'll Like It: A direct exploration of how media and information can be manipulated to control public perception in a surveillance state.

A narrative-driven hardcore RPG set in a gritty world ruled by real but unrelenting gods. Set out on a challenging lifetime journey, where every choice has a price and entails consequences. Will you become an inquisitor, a judge, or conspire against the old order? Dare to decide!

Why similar: Choices Matter 20.3%, Interactive Fiction 19.6%, Choose Your Own Adventure 18.9%, Text-Based 17%, Visual Novel 11.3%

Why You'll Like It: A narrative-heavy RPG that tracks a lifetime of choices within a rigid, oppressive class-based society.

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 71.5% ★, Point & Click 13.2%, Multiple Endings 6.9%, Story Rich 4%, 2D 1.9%

Why You'll Like It: A seminal dystopian management game that forces you to balance personal survival with the moral weight of enforcing a totalitarian regime's laws.

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 52.8% ★, Choices Matter 12.5%, Point & Click 10.7%, Multiple Endings 9.7%, Story Rich 7.2%

Why You'll Like It: A dark, satirical look at bureaucracy and power where you must climb the ladder of a totalitarian ministry through ruthless decision-making.

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 38.3% ★, Interactive Fiction 12.9%, Conversation 9.7%, Visual Novel 8.6%, Point & Click 8.5%

Why You'll Like It: A political simulation where you control the media's narrative and witness the direct consequences of your reporting on society.

Disco Elysium - The Final Cut is a groundbreaking role playing game. You’re a detective with a unique skill system at your disposal and a whole city to carve your path across. Interrogate unforgettable characters, crack murders or take bribes. Become a hero or an absolute disaster of a human being.

Why similar: Political 44.2% ★, Choices Matter 18.4%, Story Rich 12.8%, Point & Click 12%, Visual Novel 8.9%

Why You'll Like It: A masterclass in political narrative and choice-driven gameplay that forces you to confront your own ideologies in a broken world.

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 53.9% ★, Choose Your Own Adventure 12.6%, Choices Matter 11.8%, Point & Click 6.5%, Multiple Endings 5.8%

Why You'll Like It: A choice-based historical narrative that captures the tension and emotional stakes of the Iranian Revolution.

Berlin 1933. “Adolf Hitler is chancellor!” We all know the consequences this message bore. Unspeakable horrors and suffering would sweep across the world. Few would stand and fight the monstrosity that was the German Reich. Will you? Lead an underground resistance group Through the Darkest of Times.

Why similar: Political 45.8% ★, Emotional 11.8%, Choices Matter 9.4%, Point & Click 7.4%, Multiple Endings 6.8%

Why You'll Like It: A historical strategy game about leading a small resistance group against the Nazi regime, focusing on moral choices and survival.

‘We. The Refugees: Ticket to Europe’ is a socially engaged, text-based RPG about a journalist looking for his big break by uncovering the plights of refugees travelling from Africa to Europe. It is a story inspired by true events.

Why similar: Political 25.8% ★, Text-Based 11.1%, Emotional 9.9%, Interactive Fiction 9.4%, Choose Your Own Adventure 8.9%

Why You'll Like It: An emotional and text-heavy narrative game that explores the complex realities of the refugee crisis through personal storytelling.

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: Text-Based 22.5%, Hand-drawn 21%, Interactive Fiction 18.5%, Conversation 16.3%, Multiple Endings 10.5%

Why You'll Like It: A tabletop-inspired narrative game that explores themes of capitalism, survival, and autonomy in a decaying space station.

Attentat 1942 is a historically-accurate adventure about World War 2. Face moral dilemmas and existential struggles as you uncover the troubled past of your family.

Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 16.3%, Emotional 15%, Narration 12.6%, Drama 11.1%, Interactive Fiction 10.6%

Why You'll Like It: A historically accurate narrative game that uses interactive interviews and documents to explore the impact of WWII on ordinary people.

Dull Grey is an award-winning visual novel about growing up. Experience an emotional story of a mother and son in a dystopian world, make simple but meaningful choices and discover multiple endings. Will you see your story unfold in full colour?

Why similar: Text-Based 14.4%, Choose Your Own Adventure 13.1%, Visual Novel 11.8%, Narration 11.7%, Drama 10.4%

Why You'll Like It: A minimalist visual novel that uses a unique branching path system to explore the crushing weight of a dystopian bureaucracy.

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 40.5% ★, Choose Your Own Adventure 16%, Visual Novel 10.2%, Point & Click 8.8%, Choices Matter 8.1%

Why You'll Like It: A political simulation that puts you in the shoes of a mayor tasked with managing a city's resources while navigating corrupt party politics.

Frostpunk is the first society survival game. As the ruler of the last city on Earth, it is your duty to manage both its citizens and infrastructure. What decisions will you make to ensure your society's survival? What will you do when pushed to breaking point? Who will you become in the process?

Why similar: Choices Matter 84.6%, Singleplayer 15.4%

Why You'll Like It: A brutal survival management game that forces you to make impossible moral choices to keep your society from collapsing.

Experience the Myth of Frankenstein through the innocent eyes of his creature. Make decisions and change people's view that you will meet on your way. Now, the myth is in your hands, so how are you going to end it?

Why similar: Text-Based 13.2%, Hand-drawn 11.6%, Choose Your Own Adventure 11.2%, Narration 10.3%, Interactive Fiction 9.7%

Why You'll Like It: A beautiful, hand-drawn narrative game that explores the emotional journey of a creature seeking its place in a hostile world.

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 60.5% ★, Adventure 18.4%, Multiple Endings 7.9%, Story Rich 5.9%, 2D 5.4%

Why You'll Like It: A 2D cinematic platformer that uses a dystopian television show as a backdrop for a story about freedom and oppression.

There are things that often fail on nothing but themselves. Is there even a way out? Playing Kafka is a narrative adventure full of impenetrable schemes, insidious plot twists and conversations that slip out of hand. Based on Kafka’s life and his work, developed with Kafka experts.

Why similar: Interactive Fiction 21.1%, Choose Your Own Adventure 19.1%, Point & Click 17.6%, Emotional 13.3%, Story Rich 9%

Why You'll Like It: An atmospheric narrative game that adapts the surreal and bureaucratic themes of Franz Kafka's literature into interactive puzzles.

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 85.8% ★, Multiple Endings 5.1%, Story Rich 3.7%, 2D 2.5%, Adventure 1.8%

Why You'll Like It: A dystopian management game set in a post-Brexit UK where you work as a bouncer, navigating strict political and social regulations.

These are troubling times, Your Grace. The petitioners’ petty matters exceed our limited resources, to say nothing of the war. A careful balance must be struck. Your throne awaits.

Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 33.8%, Choices Matter 28.4%, Multiple Endings 19.7%, Story Rich 14.9%, Singleplayer 3.2%

Why You'll Like It: A kingdom management game where you must balance the needs of your people against the political demands of your allies.

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 43.6% ★, Point & Click 13.1%, Multiple Endings 10.7%, Choices Matter 10.2%, Choose Your Own Adventure 9.5%

Why You'll Like It: A dark management game that forces you to make ethical decisions about who is worthy of survival in a dying world.

In This War Of Mine you do not play as an elite soldier, rather a group of civilians trying to survive in a besieged city; struggling with lack of food, medicine and constant danger from snipers and hostile scavengers. The game provides an experience of war seen from an entirely new angle.

Why similar: Emotional 33.3%, Choices Matter 27.1%, Drama 21.9%, Story Rich 12.9%, Singleplayer 4.8%

Why You'll Like It: A somber survival game that focuses on the civilian experience during wartime, emphasizing moral dilemmas over combat.

Field Hospital is a text-based bureaucratic detective game about hard decisions. Decide who to treat and whom to refuse. Face consequences. Study patients’ info and read their stories. Investigate the tangled case of Dr. Taylor.

Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 21.3%, Narration 17%, Text-Based 15.7%, Point & Click 13.5%, Choices Matter 10.8%

Why You'll Like It: A narrative-driven management game where you must make life-or-death triage decisions under the pressure of war.

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 36.8% ★, Point & Click 9.2%, Conversation 8.6%, Interactive Fiction 8.6%, Choices Matter 8.6%

Why You'll Like It: A choice-heavy narrative game where you must decide who lives and who dies, directly impacting the political future of a city.

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 22.3%, Interactive Fiction 17.5%, Emotional 16.6%, Visual Novel 15.1%, Choices Matter 10.2%

Why You'll Like It: A narrative-focused game that uses the setting of a coffee shop to explore social issues and personal stories in a fantasy world.

Over The Alps is a choices-matter narrative adventure game told through interactive postcards, sent from a secret agent to their handler, in 1930s Switzerland.

Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 18.2%, Text-Based 16.9%, Interactive Fiction 15.2%, Choices Matter 14.8%, Story Rich 9.8%

Why You'll Like It: A stylish, choice-driven spy thriller set in the 1930s that emphasizes the consequences of your interactions.

South of the Circle is a deep narrative experience of the emerging relationship between Peter and Clara, Cambridge academics involved in a political conflict. The story focuses on promises made in between career and true love, where our choices burdened by our past seem to be illusory.

Why similar: Cold War 30.5% ★, Interactive Fiction 15.2%, Emotional 11.1%, Drama 11.1%, Visual Novel 9%

Solve 3 increasingly intricate murders by examining the evidence -- find the motive, the means, and the opportunity. Use testimonies of the suspects as evidence by examining every detail for contradictions... and signs of sin. Purify the possessed. Purge the daemons.

Why similar: Point & Click 68.5%, Story Rich 31.5%

Why You'll Like It: A narrative mystery game that requires you to analyze testimonies and uncover the truth behind a series of crimes.

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: Choose Your Own Adventure 17.8%, Interactive Fiction 15.3%, Point & Click 15.1%, Choices Matter 13.3%, Conversation 12.7%

Cart Life is a story-based life sim starring three street vendors in a small city in the western United States. Guide their new ventures selling newspapers, coffee, and bagels. Set up shop, manage your budget, serve your customers, and try to survive. Make every decision count.

Why similar: Interactive Fiction 16.7%, Point & Click 16%, Choose Your Own Adventure 15.3%, Drama 14.4%, Multiple Endings 12%

Why You'll Like It: A poignant, realistic simulation of the struggles of street vendors, focusing on the emotional and economic realities of daily life.

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: Political 44.7% ★, Interactive Fiction 17.8%, Visual Novel 11.9%, Choose Your Own Adventure 11.9%, Drama 4.3%

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 38.7% ★, Choose Your Own Adventure 13.3%, Interactive Fiction 12.5%, Point & Click 9.3%, Choices Matter 9.1%

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 22.4%, Hand-drawn 20.6%, Visual Novel 14.3%, Choices Matter 12.2%, Multiple Endings 11.4%

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: Hand-drawn 26%, Point & Click 19.8%, Choices Matter 19%, Visual Novel 16%, Story Rich 11.2%

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 29.6% ★, Text-Based 13.8%, Choose Your Own Adventure 10.4%, Interactive Fiction 8.2%, Point & Click 7.1%

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 57.2% ★, Choices Matter 15.4%, Multiple Endings 12%, Story Rich 6%, Adventure 4.9%

A short, twisted tale about a smuggler and a late night encounter in the English Channel. Control the camera and make tough choices, will you escape with your life?

Why similar: Political 21% ★, Choose Your Own Adventure 10.8%, Interactive Fiction 9.3%, Text-Based 9.2%, Conversation 8%

The visual novel adaptation of The Communist Manifesto by Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels. Experience the Manifesto in a conversational style for the first time and fully customize your reading.

Why similar: Political 72.8% ★, Text-Based 13.1%, Visual Novel 11.9%, 2D 1.6%, Singleplayer 0.6%

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: Choose Your Own Adventure 21%, Emotional 20.1%, Conversation 18.4%, Visual Novel 10.1%, Multiple Endings 7.7%

Guilt Free is a visual novel crossed with a point and click made to offer perspective on mental health and eating disorders. Navigate a couple's rocky relationship and encounter "flaws" or "quirks" that may actually be symptomatic behaviors.

Why similar: Text-Based 12.2%, Narration 11.9%, Emotional 10.5%, Interactive Fiction 10.4%, Choose Your Own Adventure 9.3%

Things were worse than ever in Banana Republic, a somber island country. While anarchists roamed the streets, corruption was running deeper due to economic crisis and rising crime rates. Bearing these burdens were "judges" who tried to make things right with honesty...

Why similar: Political 42.3% ★, Text-Based 17.3%, Hand-drawn 13.7%, Point & Click 9.1%, Multiple Endings 5.1%

You are subordinate to the deranged dictator and must plan his doomed invasion in this text-based RPG / Visual Novel. Navigate the shark-filled waters of the Great Leader's presidential cabinet, try to save your family, and survive the purges in a world of power-hungry leaders and nuclear warfare.

Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 19.4%, Text-Based 18.9%, Interactive Fiction 18.8%, Visual Novel 12.3%, Choices Matter 9%

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: Political 54.4% ★, Hand-drawn 16.7%, Visual Novel 13.2%, Choices Matter 12.1%, 2D 3.6%

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 59% ★, Text-Based 23%, Choices Matter 11.9%, 2D 4.4%, Singleplayer 1.8%

You decide how a civil war in the country of Izgub is supposed to end. Visual novel with strong themes of war, political violence and moral dilemma.

Why similar: Political 35.2% ★, Hand-drawn 16.5%, Interactive Fiction 15.1%, Visual Novel 10.7%, Emotional 8.3%

Anxiety Puppy is a 2D interactive narrative game that focuses on anxiety. In the game, anxiety is personified as a little puppy. Players will explore its story and try to coexist with it. Go find its traces and give it a hug.

Why similar: Text-Based 20.5%, Emotional 15.9%, Interactive Fiction 15%, Drama 14.7%, Visual Novel 10.9%

MINDS BENEATH US is an emotional sci-fi narrative game. Through the eyes of a humble individual, experience a mad world where humans are exploited as computing devices for AI. Listen to the concerns of those you meet and offer guidance. Together, face challenges and confront an uncertain destiny.

Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 23.6%, Visual Novel 15.5%, Choices Matter 14.6%, Point & Click 14.2%, Multiple Endings 12.2%

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 45.2% ★, Choose Your Own Adventure 18.2%, Point & Click 13.7%, Choices Matter 6.4%, Multiple Endings 6.4%

The day has finally come. The day that will determine on whether or not you'll be accepted as a reporter in hololive. And not just any reporter, but the exclusive reporter for Kureiji Ollie! What goes down on in the life of the zombie idol? Find out what it'll be like to spend Days with Ollie!

Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 23.7%, Text-Based 21.9%, Visual Novel 15.2%, Drama 12.7%, Choices Matter 10.2%

Ishmael is a short multimedia-enhanced hypertext story about perpetual cycles of displacement and violence as seen through the lens of a child. Takes about 15 minutes to read/play through.

Why similar: Political 28.8% ★, Text-Based 14.6%, Choose Your Own Adventure 12.4%, Interactive Fiction 11.6%, Emotional 11.2%

Can a flat world resting on the backs of three demon bears live in peace? Of course not! Immerse yourself in the universe of the dark Slavic legends, explore the characters' stories and make difficult choices that affect the course of events. Bayun the Cat will help you. If you're lucky, that is.

Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 17.6%, Hand-drawn 14%, Drama 13.8%, Choices Matter 13%, Point & Click 12.2%

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 52.3% ★, Choices Matter 12.8%, Point & Click 12.5%, Multiple Endings 10.3%, Story Rich 7.2%

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: Text-Based 31.4%, Choose Your Own Adventure 21.5%, Interactive Fiction 20.5%, Conversation 11.9%, Choices Matter 9%

Survive in Russia is a survival quest in Russia. You will be available a selection of characters. Each of them presents survival mode and story mode. Only on your choice will depend on the life of the character.

Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 24.2%, Drama 14.6%, Visual Novel 14.4%, Choices Matter 13.9%, Multiple Endings 13.5%

A fable from your childhood. Don't you remember it?

Why similar: Text-Based 15.1%, Choose Your Own Adventure 14.9%, Interactive Fiction 13.4%, Conversation 9.9%, Narration 9.4%

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 49.1% ★, Choose Your Own Adventure 20.7%, Text-Based 11.5%, Choices Matter 6.6%, Multiple Endings 5%

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 33.3% ★, Text-Based 14.7%, Interactive Fiction 12%, Choose Your Own Adventure 10.9%, Visual Novel 8%

Be the tax collector of a shady city hall in this narrative-driven resource management game. Talk to debtors, manage a team, make difficult choices, and challenge the city's moral decay. It's their money, but it's your job.

Why similar: Point & Click 27.1%, Choices Matter 24.5%, Multiple Endings 21.9%, Story Rich 16.1%, Adventure 6.7%

The local Adventurer's Guild is hiring!... Not for adventurers, but for guild clerks! You play an important role in handing out quests, gold, and equipment as your actions shape the stories of these animal adventurers for better, or for worse..!

Why similar: Text-Based 20.8%, Interactive Fiction 18.1%, Choose Your Own Adventure 16.3%, Point & Click 13.3%, Choices Matter 12.4%