Games Like Replica

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 37.6%, Hacking 24.4% ★, Dystopian 20.9%, Mystery 5.1%, Story Rich 5.1%

Why You'll Like It: You act as a government investigator monitoring citizens' private data to prevent threats, mirroring the surveillance themes of Replica.

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: Hacking 41.2% ★, Dystopian 25%, Mystery 6.3%, Story Rich 6.2%, Choices Matter 5.2%

Why You'll Like It: This sequel deepens the surveillance gameplay by allowing you to manipulate information to influence public opinion.

An interactive horror experience of exploring a missing woman’s phone.

Why similar: Puzzle 20.9%, Story Rich 15.5%, Mystery 14.8%, Psychological Horror 12.6%, Choices Matter 11.4%

Why You'll Like It: This game uses a realistic phone interface to investigate the disappearance of a woman, blending horror with digital voyeurism.

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: Dystopian 43.9%, Pixel Graphics 19%, Indie 14.2%, Puzzle 10.2%, Story Rich 7.1%

Why You'll Like It: It captures the same oppressive, bureaucratic atmosphere where you must make difficult moral choices to serve a dystopian state.

Hacknet is an immersive, terminal-based hacking simulator for PC. Dive down a rabbit hoIe as you follow the instructions of a recently deceased hacker, whose death may not have been the accident the media reports.

Why similar: Hacking 90.8% ★, Dystopian 4.9%, Story Rich 1.5%, Choices Matter 1%, Indie 0.8%

Why You'll Like It: This terminal-based hacking simulator provides a realistic and intense experience of infiltrating secure systems.

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: Dystopian 60.5%, Story Rich 13.7%, Choices Matter 11.1%, Indie 8.3%, Adventure 4%

Why You'll Like It: You play as a state-installed landlord tasked with spying on tenants, perfectly capturing the theme of state-mandated surveillance.

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: Dystopian 43.5%, Pixel Graphics 20.5%, Story Rich 12.8%, Choices Matter 9.4%, Adventure 6.7%

Why You'll Like It: You act as a voyeur monitoring hidden cameras, forcing you to balance the ethics of observation against the need for information.

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: Dystopian 56%, Story Rich 13.9%, Choices Matter 10.5%, Adventure 10%, Indie 7.6%

Why You'll Like It: You control a television broadcast in a dystopian society, forcing you to choose what the public sees and how they perceive reality.

Pony Island is a suspense puzzle game in disguise. You are in limbo, trapped in a malevolent and malfunctioning arcade machine devised by the devil himself. It is not a game about ponies.

Why similar: Hacking 52.1% ★, Puzzle 14.4%, Pixel Graphics 13.1%, Psychological Horror 7.2%, Indie 6.5%

Why You'll Like It: A meta-narrative game that forces you to hack into a corrupted program to escape a demonic trap.

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: Pixel Graphics 31.2%, Dystopian 19.7%, Story Rich 17.6%, Choices Matter 10.6%, Indie 7.2%

Why You'll Like It: A cyberpunk narrative that explores corporate control and moral choices through unique interactive mechanics.

Cyber Manhunt is a story-oriented puzzle game focusing on big data, hacking, citizen privacy, and social workers. It focuses on social issues such as cyber violence and privacy breaches.

Why similar: Hacking 66.8% ★, Puzzle 14%, Mystery 8.3%, Indie 5.7%, Story Rich 3.7%

Why You'll Like It: This detective simulator requires you to use hacking and social engineering to uncover the truth behind various cases.

After MI7 has been hacked, your primary goal is to bring a cyber-criminal network to justice. Played entirely from your computer's desktop, Mainlining is a thrilling point and click hacking adventure that features a gripping narrative which will have you hooked from the very first case.

Why similar: Hacking 70.4% ★, Puzzle 7.1%, Pixel Graphics 7%, Indie 6.3%, Adventure 4.9%

Why You'll Like It: A hacking game that tasks you with gathering evidence to track down criminals while navigating the legal gray areas of the internet.

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: Hacking 41.8% ★, Dystopian 30.5%, Story Rich 8.3%, Choices Matter 6.1%, Indie 4.4%

Why You'll Like It: You play as a private investigator using hacking tools to solve crimes in a dystopian city.

Award-winning, innovative puzzle-adventure. By communicating through your PC, you must help a kidnapped man escape captivity - in real-time. While you sleep, he is alone. When you return to your PC he has hope. Your encouragement and advice will be the difference between his salvation or despair.

Why similar: Pixel Graphics 21.1%, Puzzle 19.8%, Story Rich 14.4%, Indie 12.7%, Choices Matter 10.8%

Why You'll Like It: The game relies on real-time communication with a character in distress, where your choices directly impact their survival.

Emily is Away is an interactive story. Create a screenname and choose your path through the branching narrative.

Why similar: Story Rich 29.1%, Choices Matter 18.8%, Pixel Graphics 18.7%, Indie 16.4%, Visual Novel 7.7%

Why You'll Like It: The entire game takes place within a chat client, focusing on the emotional weight of digital communication and choices.

Greetings Enforcer, and thank you for enlisting in the Hypnospace Patrol Department! As the world falls into its slumber, Hypnospace becomes a bustling global village. These virtual streets aren't going to police themselves!

Why similar: Puzzle 29.1%, Story Rich 22.5%, Mystery 20.1%, Indie 15%, Adventure 9.1%

Why You'll Like It: You act as a moderator for a 90s-style internet, scouring websites for violations and uncovering deep-seated mysteries.

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: Dystopian 37.9%, Indie 14.6%, Choices Matter 10.4%, Adventure 10.2%, Story Rich 8.7%

Why You'll Like It: You control the news cycle in a dystopian society, directly influencing the political climate through your editorial choices.

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 25.9% ★, Dystopian 25.4%, Indie 17.2%, Adventure 15.7%, Pixel Graphics 11.4%

Why You'll Like It: A dystopian platformer that emphasizes the dehumanizing nature of state-controlled media.

In a creaky old tavern, in a forgotten corner of the video-game universe, a storm is raging. An anonymous caller suggests that there is a murder plot. Six video game protagonists are the only plausible suspects...

Why similar: Indie 18.2%, Pixel Graphics 17.7%, Mystery 17.4%, Story Rich 16%, Psychological Horror 11.2%

Why You'll Like It: A meta-mystery game that explores the lives of various video game characters through a unique, genre-bending interface.

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: Dystopian 58.5%, Story Rich 13.4%, Choices Matter 10.6%, Indie 6.6%, Adventure 6%

Why You'll Like It: This sequel shifts the perspective to a government office, focusing on the climb up the ladder of a corrupt, dystopian regime.

Help a woman named Hope escape in a thrilling and topical stealth-action game that explores the perils of government surveillance in the Internet Age.

Why similar: Dystopian 51.1%, Adventure 17.8%, Indie 16.6%, Story Rich 7.9%, Puzzle 5.9%

Why You'll Like It: You guide a protagonist through a surveillance-heavy facility by hacking cameras and electronic devices.

TIS-100 is an open-ended programming game by Zachtronics, the creators of SpaceChem and Infinifactory, in which you rewrite corrupted code segments to repair the TIS-100 and unlock its secrets. It’s the assembly language programming game you never asked for!

Why similar: Hacking 64.4% ★, Puzzle 24.8%, Indie 7.8%, Psychological Horror 1.7%, Singleplayer 1.3%

Why You'll Like It: A challenging puzzle game that requires you to repair corrupted code, appealing to the technical side of hacking.

Event[0] is a sci-fi narrative exploration game where you build a relationship with a lonely spaceship computer to get home to Earth.

Why similar: Mystery 36.5%, Indie 22%, Story Rich 20.9%, Adventure 17%, Singleplayer 3.6%

Why You'll Like It: The primary gameplay involves communicating with an AI via a terminal, creating a unique sense of digital isolation.

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 56.4% ★, Indie 13.3%, Adventure 12%, Puzzle 10.4%, Story Rich 8%

Why You'll Like It: A surveillance-based game where you must decide how to handle sensitive information gathered from the public.

When you have a top-of-the-line hacking deck armed with a 56.6k modem and a staggering 256k RAM, it means just one thing: you answer only to the highest bidder.

Why similar: Hacking 74.7% ★, Puzzle 7.5%, Story Rich 6.3%, Adventure 6.1%, Indie 4%

Why You'll Like It: You use a portable computer to hack into security systems and manipulate the environment to complete heists.

A short psychological horror game, where you attempt to gain root access into an unethical superstructure.

Why similar: Hacking 75% ★, Puzzle 10.8%, Psychological Horror 7.6%, Horror 2.9%, Indie 2.2%

Welcome to the Game II is an atmospheric horror / strategy / puzzle game that takes you into the world of the deep web in search of the shadow web. Play as an investigative reporter trying to solve a case of a mysterious woman broadcasting for help as masked men are on the hunt to kill her.

Why similar: Hacking 74.9% ★, Psychological Horror 7.3%, Horror 5.7%, Indie 5.5%, Puzzle 5.4%

Why You'll Like It: A high-stakes deep web simulator that forces you to navigate dangerous sites while avoiding being hacked yourself.

Observation is a sci-fi thriller uncovering what happened to Dr. Emma Fisher, and the crew of her mission, through the lens of the station’s artificial intelligence S.A.M.

Why similar: Indie 29.2%, Adventure 25.4%, Puzzle 14.2%, Story Rich 10.4%, Mystery 7.2%

Why You'll Like It: You play as the station's AI, viewing the world through cameras and sensors to help the lone survivor.

A dead influencer. An obsessed detective. Three suspects. Piece the truth together by going through the victim’s phone messages, videos, and social media in the follow up to the critically acclaimed SIMULACRA.

Why similar: Hacking 64.7% ★, Puzzle 8.7%, Story Rich 7.5%, Psychological Horror 5.9%, Choices Matter 5%

Change the minds of evildoers…for good! MINDHACK is a text adventure game where you meet unique evildoers, hack their minds, and rewrite them into happy people!

Why similar: Hacking 50.8% ★, Dystopian 28.2%, Story Rich 7.4%, Visual Novel 4.4%, Adventure 3.9%

You are wetware, working a mysterious job.

Why similar: Dystopian 36.3%, Puzzle 18.2%, Pixel Graphics 15.9%, Psychological Horror 11.2%, Adventure 6.7%

The Occupation is a fixed-time, investigative thriller set in North West England on Saturday 24th October, 1987.

Why similar: Puzzle 21.9%, Mystery 21.3%, Story Rich 17.1%, Indie 12.8%, Choices Matter 12.5%

Why You'll Like It: A first-person investigative thriller that focuses on uncovering a conspiracy within a strict time limit.

Your Future Self is a 1-2 hour long story-driven experimental text adventure with unique conversational mechanics, time loop based gameplay, and an emotionally gripping time travel mystery set against the backdrop of a darkly realistic vision of our world ravaged by climate change.

Why similar: Dystopian 28.5%, Indie 15%, Adventure 13.6%, Pixel Graphics 11.8%, Mystery 9.4%

Navigate the internet's dark net, searching for pieces of a puzzle that once combined will clear your outstanding debt. Scan strange websites for info, hack into PCs while defending your own, and buy/sell goods & services, all while avoiding threats in this strategic, suspenseful horror game.

Why similar: Hacking 71.4% ★, Puzzle 18%, Indie 5%, Horror 4.5%, Singleplayer 1.2%

Congratulations, you've found Dingir OS — an operating system that lets you glimpse into the darkest corners of the internet. Browse forbidden websites, investigate lethal files, and immerse yourself in the world of digital legends. (We are not responsible for anything that may happen to you.)

Why similar: Puzzle 25%, Pixel Graphics 24.4%, Story Rich 18.4%, Psychological Horror 14.5%, Visual Novel 10.6%

Emily is Away Too is a brand new story featuring new characters and multiple different endings. Message your friends, surf the web and choose your path through this branching narrative.

Why similar: Pixel Graphics 28.8%, Indie 17.7%, Story Rich 17.4%, Choices Matter 15.1%, Visual Novel 7.6%

Use your phone to survive the horrors, capture clues, and solve puzzles in this first-person psychological horror experience. Trapped inside a warped digital nightmare by a mysterious entity, you must navigate a world where technology distorts reality.

Why similar: Puzzle 36.1%, Mystery 29.8%, Psychological Horror 19.5%, Horror 10.2%, Singleplayer 4.4%

This is a deep web exploration simulator. Discover hundreds of websites and files around the Web to get to the Silent House and save your friend. Find out creepy stories from the Web and meet its inhabitants. It's showtime!

Why similar: Hacking 61.6% ★, Puzzle 11.9%, Mystery 7.4%, Story Rich 7.2%, Adventure 4.8%

A first‑person cyberpunk horror detective story set in a decaying, neon‑scarred future. As an Observer who invades minds to hunt for clues, you will sift through corrupted memories to track down a mysterious killer and confront your own dark past.

Why similar: Hacking 59.8% ★, Dystopian 20%, Story Rich 7.5%, Psychological Horror 5.2%, Choices Matter 4.2%

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: Dystopian 44.5%, Puzzle 12.7%, Story Rich 12.1%, Choices Matter 8.5%, Psychological Horror 7.5%

Play as a hacker and take control of an ultra secret company to reveal the darkest secrets. But beware , you seem not to be alone and what you will discover could change the world ...

Why similar: Hacking 75.5% ★, Indie 9.3%, Puzzle 8.1%, Adventure 7%

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: Dystopian 33.9%, Pixel Graphics 20.5%, Story Rich 15.4%, Adventure 10.6%, Visual Novel 7.2%

A psychological interactive novel about a floppy disk with a mysterious program. Help Elliot cope with his mental issues and uncover the secret of the floppy disk.

Why similar: Pixel Graphics 32%, Psychological Horror 15.7%, Story Rich 15.1%, Indie 14.4%, Choices Matter 13%

At its heart The Long Reach is an adventure game. Closer inspection also reveals it’s a thrilling horror story, flavoured with sci-fi ideology, psychological context and a skeptical view on the human psyche.

Why similar: Pixel Graphics 41.5%, Indie 19.1%, Adventure 18.6%, Psychological Horror 8.8%, Story Rich 7.2%

Classic Zork meets Existential Crisis. A modern text adventure that explores themes of control, isolation and mental health while levelling up the genre with beautiful pixel art.

Why similar: Pixel Graphics 27.1%, Puzzle 25.2%, Story Rich 23.8%, Adventure 13%, Choices Matter 5.1%

Psychroma is a psychological horror side-scroller set in a haunted cyberpunk house. Collect cards and explore the memories stored on them to piece together your past. But the deeper you go, the more you expose yourself to the brightest heat, the warmest color...

Why similar: Dystopian 39.3%, Pixel Graphics 22.3%, Story Rich 13.3%, Psychological Horror 9.7%, Puzzle 8.3%

Thanks to next generation AI technology, BUDDY SIMULATOR 1984 simulates the experience of hanging out with a best buddy! Your buddy learns from you, constantly adapting to your interests and personality. But most importantly, your buddy can play games with you!

Why similar: Pixel Graphics 29.9%, Story Rich 20.3%, Psychological Horror 17.1%, Indie 14.6%, Adventure 8%

Endacopia is a Point-and-Click Puzzle Adventure that is visually reminiscent of early computer edutainment games... with underlying horrors.

Why similar: Pixel Graphics 30.3%, Puzzle 26.5%, Psychological Horror 14.6%, Adventure 12.3%, Choices Matter 9.3%

Free Will is a 2D psychological puzzle RPG where the puzzles happen outside of the game. Dig deep into the system code to fix the corruption, and uncover information that might be better off hidden.

Why similar: Puzzle 30.8%, Story Rich 20.9%, Indie 14.2%, Pixel Graphics 13.1%, Choices Matter 8.5%

Hack Into God

Why similar: Hacking 68.3% ★, Adventure 10.7%, Story Rich 8.1%, Visual Novel 6.9%, Choices Matter 5%

SELF is a suspenseful Kafkaesque text-based adventure game with simulation and puzzle mechanics. Could you seize the opportunity to find your father and your SELF back in this introspective journey?

Why similar: Indie 26.4%, Adventure 23.9%, Pixel Graphics 15.1%, Mystery 14.4%, Story Rich 10.5%

OneShot is a surreal top down Puzzle/Adventure game with unique gameplay capabilities. You are to guide a child through a mysterious world on a mission to restore its long-dead sun. The world knows you exist.

Why similar: Pixel Graphics 27.8%, Story Rich 20.4%, Puzzle 18.8%, Indie 10.8%, Choices Matter 8.8%

Memories are malleable and changing them will modify the present. Tackle mind-bending puzzles that rely on altering your own recollections to shape the future.

Why similar: Pixel Graphics 54%, Choices Matter 28.1%, Adventure 14.3%, Singleplayer 3.6%

A short medical simulation horror game with multiple endings where the imperfect are made HAPPY. Perform tasks and operations on sedated patients to fix their defects before submitting your files to the Ministry of Happiness & Peace!

Why similar: Hacking 52.2% ★, Dystopian 30.7%, Puzzle 4.7%, Psychological Horror 4.6%, Indie 3.7%

Rummage through the abandoned profiles of an old PC to unravel an inherited mystery. What secrets hide in this eerie adventure of cryptic games and outdated software? Who was using this computer? And what happened to them?

Why similar: Puzzle 25.2%, Pixel Graphics 24.1%, Mystery 18.7%, Psychological Horror 14.2%, Adventure 9.8%

American Arcadia is a cinematic puzzle game that combines a 2.5D platformer and first-person game to tell the tale of a thrilling escape. Experience the extraordinary story of Trevor, an average man escaping from the world's most popular reality tv show.

Why similar: Story Rich 27.7%, Indie 22.2%, Adventure 16.7%, Visual Novel 15.1%, Horror 11.3%

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: Dystopian 49.1%, Mystery 14.6%, Story Rich 13%, Choices Matter 9.3%, Visual Novel 7.1%

A gripping, retro-inspired 2D cinematic puzzle-platformer set in a dystopian future where AI has taken over humanity. A short game in handcrafted pixel art, to experience in a film-like journey. Play as a young teenager, alone in a run-down world, relying only on your hacking skills to survive.

Why similar: Dystopian 45.8%, Pixel Graphics 22.6%, Puzzle 10%, Adventure 7.6%, Indie 7.5%