
You shake a hand, the city burns. In the noir 1920s, every weapon you sell changes the headlines, the war, and your daughter's fate. In this management sim, you manage not just a shop, but your conscience. Who will pay the price?
60+ similar titles based on shared tags and player behavior. Themes include Dystopian, Singleplayer, Simulation, Political.

You shake a hand, the city burns. In the noir 1920s, every weapon you sell changes the headlines, the war, and your daughter's fate. In this management sim, you manage not just a shop, but your conscience. Who will pay the price?

Beholder: Conductor
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!

Mayor Quake
You're the new mayor of a dystopian city on the brink of a devastating earthquake. Review building records, make urban transformation decisions, and maintain public support despite political pressure. Manage the economy and make critical choices. Can you prepare your city before disaster strikes?
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 34.6% ★, Political 20.2% ★, Dystopian 12.7%, Investigation 7.1%, Choices Matter 6.4%
You're the new mayor of a dystopian city on the brink of a devastating earthquake. Review building records, make urban transformation decisions, and maintain public support despite political pressure. Manage the economy and make critical choices. Can you prepare your city before disaster strikes?
Why similar: Political Sim 30.3% ★, Political 29.8% ★, Dystopian 11.5%, Simulation 6.7%, Multiple Endings 5.7%
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 28.6% ★, Political Sim 26.5% ★, Dystopian 14.4%, Choices Matter 10.7%, Multiple Endings 9.2%
MINISTRY OF TRUTH: 1984 is a story-driven simulator in a totalitarian society. Become an official, manipulate facts, rewrite history, and provide the ‘truth’ to the public. Choose: obey or fight against the regime. Big Brother is watching you! This game is inspired by George Orwell’s classic novel.
Why similar: Political Sim 26.9% ★, Political 25% ★, Dystopian 16.1%, Choices Matter 8.4%, Multiple Endings 6.4%
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 24.5% ★, Political 22.7% ★, Dystopian 14.8%, Resource Management 8.9%, Multiple Endings 8.5%
Your probation as a health insurance Claims Adjuster begins now. Report to your terminal and inspect medical documents for reasons to deny coverage. Assume patient fraud. Your decisions have consequences: patients come back. Management is watching. A dystopian document thriller.
Why similar: Political 19.9% ★, Dystopian 16.8%, Political Sim 15.5% ★, Psychological 9.4%, Investigation 9.3%
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 24.8% ★, Political Sim 24.5% ★, Dystopian 16.4%, Choices Matter 8.2%, Lore-Rich 7.1%
You have been appointed as an Observer for the 15th District of Chernograd. Inspect apartments, identify violators, record evidence and file reports. But what if order is just a convenient illusion?
Why similar: Political Sim 26.5% ★, Political 25.9% ★, Dystopian 12.6%, Multiple Endings 9.1%, Psychological 8.1%
You’re a state-installed landlord in a totalitarian country. Place listening devices, steal and sneak into your tenants’ apartments. Use what you uncovered to report anyone capable of plotting against the state. You MUST! But WILL you?
Why similar: Political Sim 27.1% ★, Political 25.8% ★, Dystopian 17.5%, Choices Matter 8.8%, Multiple Endings 7.8%
A darkly humorous gun market simulator with RPG elements. Manage your shady arms business, verify or forge gun permits, navigate shifting laws, and make deals with rebels, the government, or even the Devil. Every choice shapes your fate in this chaotic world of war, profit, and deception.
Why similar: Political Sim 27.5% ★, Political 17.4% ★, Dystopian 11.7%, Multiple Endings 8.1%, Resource Management 7.1%
Silencer is a bureaucratic simulation game about censorship and misinformation in journalism and politics. As a low-level news censor employed by the authoritarian government, Ogalia, the player will interpret censorship protocols, read news articles, and decide if an article should be taken down.
Why similar: Political Sim 38.4% ★, Political 33.6% ★, Dystopian 17.4%, Simulation 7.2%, Story Rich 3.4%
100 lives, one justice. Manage 100 citizens in a country falling to shadow forces. Your choices shape a collective timeline across decades. Lead unions, survive assassinations, and leave a legacy of resistance in this text-based political strategy sim. Words are your greatest weapon.
Why similar: Political Sim 30.7% ★, Political 27.8% ★, Dystopian 13.2%, Choices Matter 8.8%, Resource Management 8.7%
You have been assigned as an operator, reading protocols that force you to make decisions using buttons and switches. Every decision shapes your fate — and decides whether you’ve done what was expected of you.
Why similar: Political Sim 33.5% ★, Dystopian 23%, Political 14.5% ★, Simulation 11.4%, Multiple Endings 9.9%
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 30.7% ★, Political 23.9% ★, Dystopian 18.3%, Simulation 6.1%, Multiple Endings 5.2%
Sim Junta – A game of dirty politics! You are the new dictator of Risuena, a small and poor country of the third world. You have just seized power after a bloody coup and your intentions are to stay in power as long as you can, to rip this country off, transfer the money to your secret Swiss bank account and of course, stay alive and...
Why similar: Political Sim 49.7% ★, Political 26.9% ★, Dystopian 15.1%, Simulation 4.6%, Indie 3.8%
You just became the editor for a newspaper in a troublesome country. After months of unemployment; you just had to took it. First, you have to make a choice. Will you support the government or will you go against it? Dreams, nightmares, don’t matter anymore; you have a new opportunity in your life.
Why similar: Political 31% ★, Dystopian 15.3%, Political Sim 14.2% ★, Resource Management 8.8%, Multiple Endings 8.8%
All intergalactic travel passes through the orbital relay checkpoint. Verify ID discrepancies, repair vehicle systems and struggle against ethical dilemmas as you negotiate a shifting political landscape. Report for duty, Effective Immediately.
Why similar: Political 32.8% ★, Political Sim 32% ★, Dystopian 12.6%, Choices Matter 7.4%, Multiple Endings 7.4%
A 10-day crisis management simulation. As Eggon’s administrator, you follow absurd orders, manage chaos, and seek truth between news and rumors. Obey commands – or choose humanity? The fate of the Egglets rest in your hands.
Why similar: Political 30.2% ★, Political Sim 22% ★, Dystopian 19.6%, Choices Matter 8%, Multiple Endings 7.5%
Kommissar is a political prosecution simulator in a totalitarian regime. Keep the Independent City-State of Roulettenburg united under the regime iron fist. Watch for your fellow citizens and seize the dissidents for the glory of the fatherland.
Why similar: Political Sim 47.6% ★, Political 19% ★, Dystopian 15.6%, Simulation 7.3%, Choices Matter 4.7%
The Westport Independent is a censorship simulator taking place in a post-war country, governed by the recently elected Loyalist Party. As the editor of one of the last independent newspapers in the country, your job is to remove and edit the content of your paper, affecting the people’s opinion of both the rebels and the Loyalist...
Why similar: Political 36.9% ★, Dystopian 28.7%, Simulation 17.3%, Choices Matter 8.9%, Indie 8.2%
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 47.2% ★, Political 32.1% ★, Simulation 12.9%, Indie 5%, Story Rich 2.7%
You run a newspaper in a nation on the brink of revolution. Twist headlines to suit your agenda, upgrade your printing press, mastermind a distribution strategy to grow your readership and evade being censored—or worse—by the Secret Police. With enough influence you can change the course of history.
Why similar: Political 29.7% ★, Political Sim 24.6% ★, Dystopian 10.8%, Resource Management 9.1%, Multiple Endings 7.3%
Pave the road to a post-capitalist society!
Why similar: Political 42.4% ★, Political Sim 37.2% ★, Simulation 13.6%, Indie 6.8%
NEWS CENSOR: edit headlines, replace words, and approve only the “safe” stories. But remember: one wrong word can end your career.
Why similar: Political 32.8% ★, Political Sim 24.7% ★, Psychological 11.9%, Dystopian 11.5%, Resource Management 5.2%
Run a district in a 12-million Latin American megacity in a political strategy about power, compromise, and dirty deals. 100+ starting combos, 75 population groups, and no decision without consequences. Can you do better than those you love to hate?
Why similar: Political Sim 42.7% ★, Political 26.4% ★, Resource Management 12.2%, Choices Matter 10.7%, Simulation 8%
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 31.8% ★, Political 30.8% ★, Dystopian 12.1%, Choices Matter 7.9%, Multiple Endings 7.5%
Climb the ladder while burning it down. In this satirical management sim, you work for a corporation rolling out ARIA — an AI that's replacing your coworkers. Balance your performance cover against quiet sabotage, organize your resistance, and survive 8 quarters with your soul mostly intact.
Why similar: Political Sim 37.2% ★, Dystopian 16.7%, Political 11.3% ★, Management 7.1%, Choices Matter 6.8%
Reveal the true value of the items coming into the shop. Each item has their own history. Dig deep to see what is behind them and become an expert appraiser. Begin a tug of war with customers. With their own expectations and knowledge, they never give up on money.
Why similar: Dystopian 18.3%, Shop Keeper 15.8% ★, Trading 15.5%, Choices Matter 12.7%, Simulation 12.2%
Run your very own gem shop in a magical world where there is no rush, only relaxation ✨ Gather raw stones from lovely biomes and give them some love in your warm workshop. Between meeting quirky magical friends and completing your museum, make this little sanctuary your own 💎
Why similar: Shop Keeper 43.3% ★, Trading 24.1%, Crafting 12.6%, Management 7.9%, Simulation 7.3%
Screen travelers in a post-war world where lies are common. Check documents, spot inconsistencies, and decide who passes. Take bribes or stay honest—your choices shape the outcome. No action, just tension, tough calls, and hidden truths.
Why similar: Political 47.1% ★, Dystopian 18.2%, Simulation 11.4%, Multiple Endings 8.9%, Indie 4.3%
A dystopian management game where you act as an energy dispatcher in a collapsing regime. Allocate power, make tough decisions, and balance stability, government pressure, and citizen survival in a dark retro-futuristic world.
Why similar: Political Sim 35.9% ★, Political 30.4% ★, Simulation 9.5%, Multiple Endings 7.4%, Emotional 6.5%
As the checkpoint guard in the only safe zone of the dystopian Republic of Valdoria, you decide who survives.
Why similar: Political 49.4% ★, Dystopian 17.9%, Simulation 12.4%, Multiple Endings 8.7%, Indie 6.3%
The internet is dying. You're a verification operator. Filter out AI impostors from humanity's last clean network. Interrogate live LLM agents that think, lie, and bribe in real-time. Use investigation tools to detect deception. Every verdict shapes the internet.
Why similar: Political 28.6% ★, Dystopian 18.7%, Investigation 12.6%, Multiple Endings 9.4%, Psychological 7.1%
You work in Human Resources. In this sci-fi puzzle thriller, use your terminal to scrutinize records and expose human-like AI. Spot contradictions to detect the crafty impostors. Efficiency is mandatory. Failure is termination.
Why similar: Political 36.9% ★, Dystopian 19.3%, Investigation 10.9%, Multiple Endings 9.6%, Simulation 7.7%
Peek into Southeast Asian politics through a lens darkly. Check ownership for authenticity, listen to stories, decide who should give up their land in the name of PROGRESS!
Why similar: Political 44.8% ★, Political Sim 20% ★, Choices Matter 11.5%, Simulation 8%, Multiple Endings 7.6%
Become a shopkeeper in the first geek store in a snowy 2000s town: sell CDs, snacks, and fan merch, influence your customers' lives, get involved in shady business, and grow your small store.
Why similar: Shop Keeper 29.3% ★, Trading 22.5%, Resource Management 9.5%, Choices Matter 8.5%, Multiple Endings 8.5%
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 29.1% ★, Political 27.9% ★, Dystopian 13%, Choices Matter 7.8%, Multiple Endings 7.6%
Match babies to their parents by solving genetics puzzles. Get paid for being right, fined for mistakes. Each choice in branching dialogues has different consequences. Immerse yourself in the atmosphere of the gloomy 1920s totalitarian state.
Why similar: Political 31.1% ★, Dystopian 18.3%, Multiple Endings 11.9%, Choices Matter 9.6%, Simulation 8.5%
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 25.6% ★, Political Sim 24.1% ★, Dystopian 16.1%, Choices Matter 8.4%, Multiple Endings 8%
Assume the presidency of Velistra, a nation teetering on collapse. Every choice reshapes destiny amid ruthless factions, moral dilemmas, and global pressures. A careful balance must be struck in both economics and politics. How will you lead?
Why similar: Political 35.5% ★, Political Sim 14.6% ★, Choices Matter 14.5%, Multiple Endings 12.1%, Story Rich 5.2%
Nearly one half of Syria’s 23 million people have been displaced in its civil war and no group has been as severely affected as children. Children make up more than half of the three million refugees living in camps some news reports indicate that children are actually being specifically targeted in the violence.
Why similar: Political Sim 48.5% ★, Political 37.7% ★, Simulation 10.5%, Indie 3.3%
A political-economic shop survival game. In a world nearing its end, the national and global agenda in crisis-stricken Jasskia shifts every day. In the middle of it all, build your business, meet people, witness unsettling truths, find ways to make money, and prepare for the coming end.
Why similar: Political 38.4% ★, Shop Keeper 35.6% ★, Resource Management 9.2%, Simulation 6.5%, Management 6.1%
Welcome to the heart of a 1980s bureaucracy. Review applicant files, cross-check records, and make heavy moral decisions. Amidst strange rumors of an unidentified illness, will you uncover the dark truth or become an accomplice to the system?
Why similar: Political Sim 24.1% ★, Dystopian 21.6%, Political 19.2% ★, Choices Matter 11.9%, Simulation 8.9%
Interrogate, investigate, and judge in an authoritarian regime. In Civil Purgatory, real-time AI-generated role-playing dialogue adds depth and dynamism to this narrative simulation full of moral dilemmas, where you decide who walks free… and who doesn’t.
Why similar: Political 50.4% ★, Dystopian 12.6%, Choices Matter 7.9%, Simulation 7.8%, Multiple Endings 7.6%
A medieval court simulation where every verdict matters. Hear cases, uncover lies, and balance the King, the People, and the Church as your reputation shapes the fate of the kingdom.
Why similar: Political Sim 40.3% ★, Political 36.3% ★, Simulation 14.5%, Choices Matter 6.9%, Indie 2%
Manage a digital influence agency in this strategy-simulation game about modern-day propaganda and advertising. Manipulate social media and the mainstream news to promote celebrities, market products, and even sway elections. Research, share, leak, and target your way to influence.
Why similar: Political 42% ★, Political Sim 27.3% ★, Choices Matter 11.3%, Simulation 6.5%, Management 4.3%
Step behind the counter in an immersive medieval trading simulation. Buy low, haggle hard, and sell high! Upgrade gear at the blacksmith, infuse your goods with elemental magic, and research new skills to transform your humble stall into the realm's most famous marketplace.
Why similar: Shop Keeper 44.6% ★, Trading 27.3%, Simulation 8%, Choices Matter 7.6%, Management 6.9%
Manage a bank of supernatural artifacts and secret information in a cyberpunk future. Solve mysteries in this new reality, explore the world, navigate the balance between influential corporations that want to rule this new world!
Why similar: Political 33% ★, Dystopian 21.1%, Choices Matter 12.1%, Simulation 11.2%, Management 9%
"Hey, you know what? ——Blood can bring us peace and happiness."
Why similar: Political 37.6% ★, Political Sim 22.4% ★, Dystopian 18.9%, Emotional 7.6%, Simulation 5.6%
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 52.8% ★, Dystopian 20.6%, Simulation 8.4%, Multiple Endings 7.8%, Indie 5.6%
Immortality is not a blessing, it is a burden. As Milton Clarke, you work at the 47/B Mandatory Sleep Hospital, review documents, surf the internet, and decide who will no longer exist. You don’t kill anyone. You only “put them to sleep.” The rules are clear. Every decision has consequences.
Why similar: Political 43.5% ★, Dystopian 22.9%, Choices Matter 9.7%, Simulation 9.2%, Multiple Endings 6.5%
A digital voyeur simulator where you watch strangers through surveillance cameras. Invade their privacy and witness their most intimate moments, but don’t interact with the subjects – anything could happen if you dare feed the monkeys!
Why similar: Political Sim 33.7% ★, Dystopian 16.3%, Multiple Endings 9.9%, Choices Matter 9.7%, Resource Management 9.3%
A disgraced engineer unravels a terrifying deception in a retro-futuristic dystopia spanning the stars, fusing resource management, strategic card duels, and morally complex social dynamics against the clockwork cruelty of an authoritarian state clinging to power.
Why similar: Political 38.2% ★, Dystopian 22.1%, Resource Management 11.3%, Choices Matter 6.8%, Management 6%
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 27.2% ★, Dystopian 16.5%, Psychological 11.3%, Investigation 10.2%, Multiple Endings 8.8%
In a world where electric cars reign supreme, you are now the owner of an old gas station out in the wilderness. Establish trade, develop your business and uncover the secret of this strange place in the compact gas station simulator.
Why similar: Shop Keeper 33.5% ★, Trading 21.4%, Investigation 11.5%, Multiple Endings 8.1%, Mystery 7.7%
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 27% ★, Political 24.7% ★, Dystopian 14.1%, Choices Matter 8%, Simulation 5.5%
IRON NEST is a brutal dieselpunk heavy-artillery game where you dominate the battlefield through a colossal war machine. Take map measurements based on the received coordinates, strain the hydraulics, and gunlay the cannons to unleash devastating blows ⟹ Will you obey High Command, Operator?
Why similar: Political 27.4% ★, Dystopian 20%, Political Sim 17.4% ★, Psychological 12%, Choices Matter 11.5%
A political sim RPG space opera with 4X elements, inspired by Suzerain and Stellaris. Become the first president of a fallen empire, choose any ideology, and expand into the stars. Your decisions shape the nation and the galaxy. Follow any ideology, be the leader you want in Pax Astra!
Why similar: Political 33.4% ★, Political Sim 31.8% ★, Lore-Rich 9.9%, Choices Matter 8.5%, Multiple Endings 8%
Inspired by Papers, Please, False Echo is a narrative cryptography thriller set in the darkest depths of the Atlantic, aboard a secret military submarine. Operate the Obscura machine, decode messages, and decide what gets through in a regime where even the smallest mistake means a huge death toll.
Why similar: Political 34.4% ★, Political Sim 25.8% ★, Dystopian 16.2%, Simulation 7.3%, Investigation 5%
Sobakistan — the land of dogs, is a darkly satirical narrative immersion in a closed-off totalitarian dog state — where any step could send you to prison.
Why similar: Political 37.2% ★, Dystopian 19.9%, Choices Matter 10.4%, Multiple Endings 9.2%, Emotional 8.4%