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 Sim 17.9% ★, Choose Your Own Adventure 14.5%, Text-Based 12%, Interactive Fiction 10%, Visual Novel 9.7%

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 54.5%, Political Sim 26% ★, Interactive Fiction 5.8%, Story Rich 3.4%, Point & Click 3.3%

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 Sim 34.9% ★, Interactive Fiction 15.9%, Choices Matter 12.8%, Visual Novel 8.9%, Point & Click 8.5%

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 19.2%, Interactive Fiction 19.1%, Choose Your Own Adventure 18.3%, Text-Based 16.4%, 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: Point & Click 44.1%, Multiple Endings 22.5%, Story Rich 13.4%, 2D 6%, Choices Matter 5.6%

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 Sim 38.8% ★, Choices Matter 16%, Point & Click 14.1%, Multiple Endings 12.6%, Story Rich 9.4%

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 Sim 26.7% ★, Interactive Fiction 15.1%, Dialogue Heavy 12.1%, Visual Novel 10.3%, Point & Click 10.1%

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: Choices Matter 32.1%, Story Rich 23.2%, Point & Click 21.7%, Visual Novel 16.1%, Adventure 3.8%

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.

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: Emotional 17.8%, Choices Matter 14.1%, Management 11.8%, Point & Click 11.4%, Multiple Endings 10.3%

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.

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 18.7%, Dialogue Heavy 18.5%, Hand-drawn 17.5%, Interactive Fiction 15.5%, Point & Click 11%

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

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: Choose Your Own Adventure 27.4%, Choices Matter 25.2%, Point & Click 14.2%, Multiple Endings 12.6%, Story Rich 11%

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

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 26.5% ★, Choose Your Own Adventure 17.6%, Visual Novel 11.2%, Point & Click 9.6%, Choices Matter 8.7%

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.

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 21%, Emotional 18.9%, Interactive Fiction 13.4%, Visual Novel 12.9%, Multiple Endings 9.7%

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.

‘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: Text-Based 16%, Emotional 14.4%, Interactive Fiction 13.8%, Choose Your Own Adventure 13.1%, Hand-drawn 12.2%

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

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: Management 46.5%, Choices Matter 45.2%, Singleplayer 8.3%

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 14.3%, Hand-drawn 12.9%, Choose Your Own Adventure 12.5%, Interactive Fiction 10.6%, Point & Click 9.1%

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.

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 20.9%, Choose Your Own Adventure 19.4%, Visual Novel 17.6%, Multiple Endings 13.9%, Emotional 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.

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: Adventure 47.6%, Multiple Endings 19.6%, Story Rich 14.9%, 2D 13.2%, Singleplayer 4.7%

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.

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 28.4%, Choices Matter 23.4%, Management 16.8%, Multiple Endings 16.4%, Story Rich 12.5%

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.

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 22.5%, Choose Your Own Adventure 20.6%, Point & Click 19%, Emotional 14%, Story Rich 9.6%

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: Multiple Endings 35.6%, Story Rich 25.8%, 2D 17.4%, Adventure 13.1%, Singleplayer 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.

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 29.4% ★, Point & Click 14.3%, Multiple Endings 11.5%, Choices Matter 10.8%, Choose Your Own Adventure 10.4%

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 34.3%, Choices Matter 27.9%, Management 19.3%, Story Rich 13.6%, Singleplayer 4.9%

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 26%, Text-Based 18.7%, Point & Click 16.5%, Choices Matter 12.8%, Multiple Endings 12.1%

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

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: Dialogue Heavy 33.4%, Interactive Fiction 14.9%, Emotional 14%, Visual Novel 13.3%, Choices Matter 8.5%

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.

A choices-matter spy thriller told through interactive postcards. Play a secret agent racing across 1930s Switzerland, sending coded reports to your handler. Charm, deceive or strong-arm your way through a Hitchcockian tale where every choice shapes the story.

Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 18.4%, Text-Based 16.7%, Interactive Fiction 15.2%, Choices Matter 14.6%, Story Rich 9.9%

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

Comic Kingdom is a text-based adventure game primarily featuring a black-and-white comic style. It tells the story of a group of young manga artists who are trapped in a suburban farm.

Why similar: Interactive Fiction 14.6%, Text-Based 14.2%, Choose Your Own Adventure 13.4%, Comic Book 13%, Dialogue Heavy 11.1%

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.

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 22.5%, Hand-drawn 20.7%, Visual Novel 14.4%, Choices Matter 12%, Multiple Endings 11.3%

Cart Life was a retail simulation for Windows(tm).

Why similar: Interactive Fiction 19.5%, Point & Click 18.9%, Choose Your Own Adventure 18.1%, Multiple Endings 13.9%, Choices Matter 13.6%

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.

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: Text-Based 47.6%, Visual Novel 44.5%, 2D 5.9%, Singleplayer 2%

Set around 1929, this interactive visual novel lets you relive the early Red Army's epic journey from a first-person perspective. Experience immersive historical narratives and make pivotal branching choices. Beware: wrong decisions will end your game!

Why similar: Political Sim 31.2% ★, Visual Novel 16.3%, Interactive Fiction 14.6%, Text-Based 11.9%, Dialogue Heavy 9.3%

Narrative-adventure playing an Agent of Death who must take ONE life that could change the fate of a conflict-torn Nation

Why similar: Point & Click 14.6%, Dialogue Heavy 14.2%, Interactive Fiction 13.5%, Choices Matter 13.2%, Adventure 10.6%

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.

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%, Point & Click 15.2%, Interactive Fiction 15.2%, Dialogue Heavy 13.3%, Choices Matter 12.9%

This is a narrative role-playing game telling the story of a crown prince of the Blessed Arknian Empire. You possess great power, but are also burdened by duty. Can you change the world and stay true to yourself? Every decision comes with a cost.

Why similar: Political Sim 22.2% ★, Interactive Fiction 11.8%, Choose Your Own Adventure 11.8%, Choices Matter 11.1%, Visual Novel 10.4%

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: Political Sim 33.1% ★, Hand-drawn 17.4%, Point & Click 13.2%, Choices Matter 12.5%, Visual Novel 10.8%

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 30% ★, Text-Based 19.1%, Choose Your Own Adventure 13.4%, Interactive Fiction 12.9%, Management 8%

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

Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 17%, Interactive Fiction 15.7%, Text-Based 14.7%, Dialogue Heavy 11.3%, Visual Novel 10.1%

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 19.8%, Dialogue Heavy 19.1%, Visual Novel 10.2%, Multiple Endings 7.6%

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: Dialogue Heavy 16.5%, Text-Based 13.3%, Emotional 11.5%, Interactive Fiction 11.5%, Choose Your Own Adventure 10.4%

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 Sim 32.5% ★, Choose Your Own Adventure 18.5%, Interactive Fiction 17.7%, Management 9.9%, Story Rich 7.1%

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 23.5% ★, Choose Your Own Adventure 14.8%, Interactive Fiction 13.9%, Point & Click 10.4%, Choices Matter 10%

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: Hand-drawn 36.8%, Visual Novel 29.3%, Choices Matter 26%, 2D 7.9%

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 31.7% ★, Interactive Fiction 15.7%, Emotional 13%, Dialogue Heavy 10.2%, Visual Novel 10%

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 19.6%, Interactive Fiction 18.8%, Text-Based 18.6%, Visual Novel 12.4%, Choices Matter 8.9%

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 39.5% ★, Choices Matter 19.4%, Multiple Endings 15.4%, Story Rich 7.5%, Adventure 6.4%

You are an Administrator serving your probationary period in a medieval town. Make decisions to affect the town's reputation, order, military and supplies. Choose wisely to deal with bandits, famines, cultists and plagues. The most difficult choices will decide the fate of your town!

Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 16%, Text-Based 15.6%, Interactive Fiction 14.9%, Choices Matter 11.4%, Management 11.3%

In 1980, you land a teller job at Kertasia Bank thanks to your distant uncle. But the bank follows bizarre rules set by a foolish government. Face strict policies, tough customers, and moral choices while saving for your mom’s medical bills. Your fate is in your hands.

Why similar: Point & Click 27.7%, Choices Matter 26.4%, Multiple Endings 18%, Story Rich 17.4%, 2D 7.3%

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 20.6%, Interactive Fiction 18.2%, Choose Your Own Adventure 16.4%, Point & Click 13.5%, Choices Matter 12.3%

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 22.3%, Choices Matter 19.6%, Management 18.3%, Multiple Endings 17.8%, Story Rich 13.2%

Cycle of Struggle: Ardengrad is a visual novel about politics, love, and the cost of historical choices in an alternate world. You are a student drawn into events that will soon erupt into civil war. Here, ideologies are not just words—they define people’s fates. Every decision leaves a mark.

Why similar: Visual Novel 38.8%, Multiple Endings 23.5%, Story Rich 17.4%, Choices Matter 14.7%, Adventure 3.6%

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 34.3% ★, Choose Your Own Adventure 18.7%, Point & Click 14.1%, Management 8.6%, Multiple Endings 6.5%

“A story about cat girls … with bite.” Nekos have evolved in the shadows of human society. Beautiful. Mysterious. Chaotic. And now, three of them live with you. Will you be able to get past the stigma and grow closer to them? OmOneko is a tale of cat and mouse... and rats.

Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 16.4%, Interactive Fiction 14.7%, Text-Based 12.3%, Comic Book 11.9%, Visual Novel 10.9%

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 38.2% ★, Text-Based 27.3%, Choices Matter 14%, Management 13.2%, 2D 5.2%

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 23.7%, Visual Novel 15.8%, Choices Matter 14.4%, Point & Click 14.1%, Multiple Endings 12.2%

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

Why similar: Text-Based 16.4%, Choose Your Own Adventure 16.3%, Interactive Fiction 14.6%, Dialogue Heavy 11.4%, Visual Novel 10.2%

Play as a fictional US president in this satirical narrative strategy! Lead Democrats or Republicans to make America great again. Again.

Why similar: Text-Based 23.8%, Management 13.3%, Visual Novel 12.6%, Choices Matter 12%, Political Sim 10.9% ★

Trolley Problem, Inc. is a darkly comedic narrative game based on real-world philosophical papers, in which you are asked to make a series of impossible choices from two awful answers. Wrestle with your moral compass, decide the fate of millions – and compare your choices with the rest of the world.

Why similar: Text-Based 60.7%, Choices Matter 34.8%, Singleplayer 4.5%

"Black & White•plot exclusive version" is a dystopian visual novel game: black and white, sensibility and reason, freedom and order: follow your beliefs and join your camp.

Why similar: Visual Novel 40.3%, Dialogue Heavy 27.8%, Adventure 18%, Story Rich 11.6%, Singleplayer 2.3%

Being a bumbling supervillain's henchman is a thankless job. The spandex chafes, there's tons of late nights, and your boss rarely remembers your name. But in this narrative adventure you'll soon discover that - sometimes - even the choices of the lowliest henchman can change everything.

Why similar: Comic Book 14.2%, Interactive Fiction 13.7%, Dialogue Heavy 13.2%, Visual Novel 10.7%, Hand-drawn 10.5%