60+ similar titles based on shared tags and player behavior. Themes include Simulation, Choices Matter, Singleplayer, Multiple Endings.
The Earth is dead. Take control of the ARC-7 terminal and manage the fate of 5,000 souls. Balance energy and credits, make moral choices, gamble, and survive the Loan Shark. Every keystroke has a price in this 100-day dystopian text-based simulation. Your shift begins now, Operator.
Concrete Coffin
Become the Governor of people trapped in a concrete coffin. Manage resources and citizens, make cold decisions, and try to survive inside the shelter.
Frostline
In a world gripped by the Ice Age, you manage the last telephone station in the city. Listen to incoming visitors and grant or deny communication according to government orders. Your decisions shape the fate of the region. An atmospheric, story-driven communication simulation: Frostline!
Become the Governor of people trapped in a concrete coffin. Manage resources and citizens, make cold decisions, and try to survive inside the shelter.
Why similar: Text-Based 25.2%, Resource Management 23.4%, Simulation 13.1%, Dystopian 10.2%, Post-apocalyptic 7.3%
In a world gripped by the Ice Age, you manage the last telephone station in the city. Listen to incoming visitors and grant or deny communication according to government orders. Your decisions shape the fate of the region. An atmospheric, story-driven communication simulation: Frostline!
Why similar: Dystopian 28.7%, Text-Based 13.5%, Resource Management 12.7%, Post-apocalyptic 11.9%, Choices Matter 11.6%
Become the overseer and shape the fate of those who come knocking at the door. Each decision you make, whether it is to let in a stranger, to use your resources on something, or to risk the safety of the bunker.
Why similar: Dystopian 25.8%, Resource Management 15.2%, Underground 14.7% ★, Choices Matter 12.8%, Post-apocalyptic 12.7%
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: Dystopian 26.9%, Resource Management 18.3%, Choices Matter 11.5%, Multiple Endings 10.4%, Post-apocalyptic 8.9%
Under the Rust is a tactical UI-based bunker simulation. Take control of the C.O.R.E. system, manage life support resources, assign personnel, and survive the post-apocalyptic decay.
Why similar: Colony Sim 20.7%, Text-Based 20.1%, Resource Management 18.9%, Post-apocalyptic 14.9%, Simulation 11.2%
As the head of security, you will decide the fate of those who try to enter the underwater colony. Among the hundreds of arrivals, you may encounter dangerous criminals, spies, and the infected. You will decide who lives here, who is banished, and who is eliminated.
Why similar: Dystopian 24.6%, Resource Management 16.2%, Colony Sim 14.3%, Post-apocalyptic 12.1%, Choices Matter 11%
A typing-driven Lovecraftian colony sim. You wake inside the corpse of a dead god, adrift in space. Carve a roguelike colony from procedurally generated anatomy. Negotiate with rival alien factions, evolve occult mutations, find your ending. The carcass remembers.
Why similar: Text-Based 20.9%, Colony Sim 18.5%, Resource Management 16.8%, Choices Matter 10%, Post-apocalyptic 9.8%
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: Dystopian 30.7%, Resource Management 19.9%, Choices Matter 13.9%, Simulation 12.3%, Multiple Endings 11.8%
Winter 1920. As a village leader during the War of Independence, you must manage resources to survive the frost. At the breaking point, will you be a savior or a tyrant? Every choice writes a story in the snow. In pursuit of the story.
Why similar: Resource Management 21.3%, Colony Sim 18.5%, Text-Based 15.1%, Choices Matter 14.9%, Survival 12.2%
1,000 sleepers, 100 waking hands and 1,500 light years of emptiness. As commander of the Aurora Core you assign your crew, ration oxygen and make decisions no one should survive. Will you bring your colony to Thalassa?
Why similar: Resource Management 37.7%, Text-Based 32.6%, Simulation 15.1%, Survival 12.1%, 2D 1.4%
"Isekai reincarnation? It's all in your hands." Review countless souls at Re:Born Isekai Company and assign them to new worlds. In this text-based inspection sim, a single paperwork flaw or question can birth a legendary hero—or unleash a catastrophic disaster.
Why similar: Text-Based 24.3%, Resource Management 22.7%, Choices Matter 16%, Simulation 13.1%, Multiple Endings 11.9%
In this post-apocalyptic visual novel about a twisted "fairytale" romance in a corrupted world, choose between betrayal and sacrifice. Fully animated with Live 2D-style illustrations.
Why similar: Dystopian 38.6%, Post-apocalyptic 20%, Text-Based 17%, Choices Matter 11.4%, Multiple Endings 10.6%
You are an operator in a dystopia world, watch and punish citizens. Experience a deep narrative with moral dilemmas. Obey, resist or find another path.
Why similar: Dystopian 38.3%, Text-Based 16.4%, Choices Matter 15.8%, Multiple Endings 10.2%, Simulation 8.5%
Can you survive a zombie apocalypse? Day Zero is a text-based survival game where choices determine fate and ethical and moral decisions matter. Every choice shapes the story. Are you ready to test your limits in a zombie apocalypse?
Why similar: Dystopian 25.1%, Text-Based 19.7%, Post-apocalyptic 14.3%, Choices Matter 13%, Survival 9.6%
You are in a post-apocalyptic underground vault where every decision carries weight. As you embark on quests and unravel a deep, twisting story, your actions will permanently alter the lives of your fellow inhabitants.
Why similar: Dystopian 33.1%, Underground 21.5% ★, Post-apocalyptic 17.1%, Choices Matter 14.7%, Multiple Endings 9.6%
It's winter, 1980. Szymon, a boy raised in a post-apocalyptic wasteland, finds an abandoned Nazi bunker. Will he find what he’s looking for? Play Paradise Lost and explore an underground world, where Slavic mythology mixes with retrofuturistic technology. Discover the last story on Earth.
Why similar: Underground 32.7% ★, Dystopian 25.1%, Post-apocalyptic 13.3%, Choices Matter 11.2%, Multiple Endings 8.9%
In this turn-based strategy, you will take control of an anti-disinformation department and protect your citizens from terrorist influence. Manage your agents and resources, analyze media, and restore order in different regions of your country.
Why similar: Dystopian 27.3%, Text-Based 20.1%, Resource Management 17%, Choices Matter 12.6%, Multiple Endings 10%
Operate a remote military radar station while struggling to keep your family alive as an escalating invasion pushes your nation to the brink. Track incoming threats and manage scarce resources while balancing the needs of your loved ones. Every sweep matters. Every decision counts.
Why similar: Resource Management 30.4%, Dystopian 27.3%, Choices Matter 17.2%, Simulation 16%, Survival 7.5%
Mining roguelite. The detector pulses. Dig deeper. Find it and it's yours. Fuel is your only limit. 2041 you're a contract driller for STRATUM Corporation. How deep you go, when you return every decision is life or death.
Why similar: Underground 26.5% ★, Dystopian 25.7%, Resource Management 19.2%, Roguelike 8%, Survival 6.8%
Survive! You need resources. Explore and search items to live.
Why similar: Resource Management 22.2%, Post-apocalyptic 17.6%, Text-Based 16.4%, Choices Matter 12.8%, Survival 12.1%
As the pilot of a Void Rig, it's your job to transport dangerous creatures to various research facilities across the system. Use your ship's security cameras, drone, and other systems to solve problems and stay alive as you travel through The Void.
Why similar: Dystopian 37.5%, Resource Management 21.7%, Choices Matter 14.3%, Simulation 13%, Multiple Endings 12.1%
You play as a beetle exploring the underground world, working together with ants. Expand the nest, gather resources, and maintain the nest’s temperature to survive the long winter.
Why similar: Underground 30.6% ★, Resource Management 27.5%, Colony Sim 17.9%, Post-apocalyptic 17.5%, Multiple Endings 5%
A deceptively demanding experience of a humble recycling plant worker. Shred, crush, and sort your way through a menial job while trying to keep track of the ever convoluted company policy. Clock in, recycle, get paid, repeat.
Why similar: Dystopian 36.2%, Resource Management 22.4%, Choices Matter 12.5%, Simulation 12.5%, Multiple Endings 11.5%
Homeseek is a post-apocalyptic survival strategy game set on a resource-strapped Earth at the turn of the next century. In a dried-up wasteland where water has become the new gold, every choice you make becomes life or death.
Why similar: Dystopian 25.7%, Resource Management 18.2%, Colony Sim 15.1%, Post-apocalyptic 12.8%, Choices Matter 10.9%
Your youth,your rules.From heated battles to heart-pounding romance. This is a life simulation game set in a post-apocalyptic wasteland, where young people live their youth while surviving.
Why similar: Colony Sim 23.4%, Simulation 22.3%, Post-apocalyptic 21.9%, Resource Management 18.7%, Survival 10.6%
Doom falls and civilization collapses entirely. The roaming train becomes the last hope of mankind. You will take charge of the vehicle, manage and equip survivors, allocate food and daily tasks, collect resources to resist zombie swarms. The fate of everyone hinges on your decisions.
Why similar: Dystopian 22.3%, Simulation 20.7%, Resource Management 19.4%, Colony Sim 13.7%, Post-apocalyptic 12.5%
Take orders, cook pancakes, and shape a grim wasteland through every choice you make. All while trying not to blow up your nuclear reactor.
Why similar: Post-apocalyptic 23.2%, Dystopian 21.6%, Choices Matter 19.2%, Simulation 15.8%, Multiple Endings 14.1%
Spy on strangers through security cameras, invade their privacy and discover their secrets in this digital voyeur simulator. Welcome to the future of The Primate Observation Club. Even in 2099 the rule about messing with your unlucky subjects still remains in this sequel: DO NOT feed the monkeys!
Why similar: Dystopian 36.4%, Resource Management 22.6%, Choices Matter 15.6%, Multiple Endings 12%, Simulation 9.9%
Neo Citizen - Prologue - A management and strategic game in which you will have to manage your resources to the best of your ability. Make connections with the inhabitants, improve the infrastructure and defend yourself from the dangers of a hostile and corrupt world.
Why similar: Dystopian 26.4%, Underground 25.1% ★, Colony Sim 14.3%, Post-apocalyptic 13.5%, Simulation 8.2%
As you are having a rest in your humble abode you have the urge that something is present, something dangerous. Now you trust the urge and decide it's time to leave. You've been pushing your luck for too long down here. As you walk to exit this place you once called home, your urge becomes a reality.
Why similar: Simulation 30.8%, Dystopian 21.3%, Underground 19.4% ★, Choices Matter 10.2%, Multiple Endings 7.4%
Run a rural Soviet shop during shortages and decide who gets food. Your children are dying, and the nearest hospital is far beyond Herota.
Why similar: Dystopian 23.6%, Choices Matter 16.4%, Resource Management 14.3%, Multiple Endings 12.1%, Survival 11.2%
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: Dystopian 33.3%, Resource Management 25.3%, Choices Matter 14.7%, Multiple Endings 10.4%, Simulation 9.7%
Your job is your life. Work for Glaucon Inc. processing debtors and making as much money as you can, while you slowly recall your past, and the truth.
Why similar: Dystopian 49%, Text-Based 38.4%, Multiple Endings 11.6%, Indie 1%
Descend into a living, ever-changing mine in this action roguelike! Gather crystals to extract their magical essence, manage resources, upgrade your abilities, and fight back against the encroaching darkness to uncover its source—before it consumes you.
Why similar: Underground 34.8% ★, Resource Management 24.7%, Choices Matter 12.6%, Simulation 11.7%, Quick-Time Events 10.5% ★
Become an underpaid, overworked middle-manager for the callous mine boss Glorgo. Amass a hoard of wealth, navigate the vast eerie alien mines, and encounter voracious plastic beasts in a colorful, Y2K-themed dystopia filled with mayhem, microplastics, and monsters.
Why similar: Underground 29.4% ★, Resource Management 27.5%, Colony Sim 21.6%, Dystopian 11.3%, Post-apocalyptic 5.1%
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: Text-Based 29%, Dystopian 28.6%, Choices Matter 13.6%, Multiple Endings 12.7%, Simulation 12.7%
Work as a visa officer, inspect documents, and decide who gets visa. Balance your job, your family, and your morality as every decision shapes lives including your own.
Why similar: Dystopian 36.4%, Simulation 27.1%, Choices Matter 19%, Multiple Endings 16.4%, Indie 1.1%
It's 2007. You moderate a dying internet forum. Ban trolls, enforce contradictory rules, and try not to lose your mind.
Why similar: Dystopian 34.9%, Resource Management 14.8%, Text-Based 13.3%, Choices Matter 13%, Simulation 11.3%
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: Dystopian 51.9%, Simulation 29.9%, Choices Matter 13.8%, Indie 4.5%
An Urban Survival RPG! Crafting, Exploring and Defending in a desolate metropolis haunted by the mysterious dreamers. Lead a team of 4 survivors through this urban desert of skyscrapers and high-rises, where the streets are crowded with the mutated victims of a strange disease.
Why similar: Resource Management 26.4%, Dystopian 26%, Post-apocalyptic 14.7%, Survival 12%, Old School 10.2%
A dark fantasy card-based survival game. Explore the cursed land, gather resources, craft tools, manage hunger and thirst, and survive through difficult choices. Every decision—from who to help to who to kill—shapes your journey.
Why similar: Text-Based 29.9%, Resource Management 25.3%, Choices Matter 20.6%, Survival 10.6%, Simulation 10.4%
Our algorithm has chosen you for inclusion in the DECRYPTO project. Your job is simple: we send encrypted texts, you decipher them. Loyalty and diligence will be rewarded with upgrades and customization options for your system. Disobedience and sabotage will be punished.
Why similar: Dystopian 35.7%, Simulation 18.2%, Text-Based 16%, Choices Matter 14.5%, Multiple Endings 9.3%
Fighting that's a cross between Smash Bros and Dragon Ball Z!
Why similar: Dystopian 96.4%, Retro 1.6%, Arcade 0.8%, Indie 0.6%, 2D 0.5%
Build an army, raid rival corporations, and defend your base while it keeps running without you. Research upgrades, arm your Titan, and dig into a moon that isn't as abandoned as it looks. Something was here first. Find out why it's gone.
Why similar: Text-Based 36.2%, Colony Sim 23.3%, Simulation 23%, Resource Management 14.8%, 2D 1.6%
Clock in at the Dark Magic Federation. As a ritual clerk, you must verify public requests, consult the manual, and process the paperwork for a world of petty hexes. Stamp requests, catch counterfeits, and avoid costly compliance fines. The quota is rising. Work starts now.
Why similar: Simulation 26.3%, Dystopian 25.6%, Choices Matter 21.2%, Multiple Endings 18.2%, Retro 4.8%
Build, trade, and survive in a living ecosystem where every choice shapes the colony and every faction remembers. Deep systems connect production, management, and survival in a world that never stops reacting.
Why similar: Dystopian 35.6%, Colony Sim 23.3%, Resource Management 21.4%, Simulation 11.8%, Survival 7.8%
Papers, Please in an SCP-inspired setting. You're an agent of a secret anomaly control bureau. Examine dangerous artifacts, conduct experiments and decide their fate. Keep the world from descending into chaos.
Why similar: Resource Management 29.9%, Dystopian 21.5%, Choices Matter 21.1%, Simulation 18.6%, Immersive Sim 4.4%
A brutal survival management simulator set in a post-apocalyptic wasteland. Keep your faction of survivors alive, maintain your shelter and scavenge the ravaged world for resources. Befriend and trade with the factions you meet or conquer them by force.
Why similar: Resource Management 32.6%, Colony Sim 23.7%, Post-apocalyptic 22.2%, Survival 14.2%, Simulation 6.7%
A Hand-Drawn Visual Novel Essay Game
Why similar: Dystopian 44.7%, Text-Based 18%, Post-apocalyptic 11.1%, Simulation 10.1%, Choices Matter 7.7%
As the new Street Overseer, every decision you make in this dystopian choice game carries weight. Enforce the rules, help the desperate, or exploit the people’s suffering for personal gain. Choose wisely.
Why similar: Dystopian 45.5%, Choices Matter 22.5%, Multiple Endings 16.4%, Simulation 11%, 2D 2.4%
Manage an underground witch’s shop in a world where magic is outlawed. Sell forbidden potions, survive government inspections, root out informants, and follow the fates of your customers. Every visitor could become a loyal regular... or the reason for your arrest.
Why similar: Dystopian 34.3%, Resource Management 24.4%, Choices Matter 15.4%, Simulation 11.4%, Multiple Endings 10.4%
Survive the wasteland in this turn-based post-apocalyptic RPG. Battle mutants, scavenge resources, and upgrade your arsenal as you journey to the mysterious Radio Tower. Strategic combat, weapon progression, and deadly choices await.
Why similar: Text-Based 31.6%, Dystopian 31.2%, Post-apocalyptic 20.9%, Survival 12.3%, Roguelike 4.1%
A romance simulation set in your final semester before graduation. Build a special relationship with your professor through grades, assignments, exams, and dialogue. Your choices shape the story and lead to multiple endings.
Why similar: Text-Based 36%, Simulation 20.6%, Choices Matter 20.5%, Multiple Endings 13.2%, Old School 9.6%
In a collapsing world, safety is a memory. Guide a small group of survivors through the daily struggle of a bleak reality. Manage your shelter, craft essentials, and make soul-crushing choices. In Never Secure, winning isn't the goal—lasting one more day is.
Why similar: Resource Management 29.3%, Colony Sim 25.4%, Simulation 17.9%, Survival 15.1%, Post-apocalyptic 10.8%
A text-driven political roguelite and life-management sim about building resistance across up to 100 lives. Choose a profession, survive monthly pressure, carry permanent legacies forward, oppose oppressive laws, organize aid, and return a fictional country to its people.
Why similar: Dystopian 29.2%, Resource Management 25.7%, Text-Based 20.8%, Choices Matter 14.4%, Simulation 7.6%
I'm Tom and I just got a job as a bartender. Now I have to wipe down the same sticky counters where I used to leave my own marks. In this dive, even the rats look like they're hungover. Alright, the boozers won't pour their own drinks - time to get back to work.
Why similar: Dystopian 27.8%, Simulation 25.5%, Choices Matter 15.8%, Multiple Endings 14.1%, Retro 6.2%
Pathogen is a real-time strategy game, where you take control of a plague that is causing a pandemic. Your goal is to defeat humanity by improving your abilities and earning points from infections.
Why similar: Dystopian 35.2%, Resource Management 25.9%, Text-Based 19.8%, Simulation 11.2%, Post-apocalyptic 6.3%
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: Text-Based 29%, Dystopian 28%, Simulation 14.8%, Choices Matter 9.2%, Multiple Endings 8.9%
