Games Like Sultan's Game

Seize forbidden treasures. Summon alien gods. Feed on your disciples. Cultist Simulator is a game of apocalypse and yearning. Play as a seeker after unholy mysteries, in a 1920s-themed setting of hidden gods and secret histories.

Why similar: Tabletop 17.9%, Lore-Rich 16.1%, Card Game 16.1%, Choose Your Own Adventure 11.5%, Psychological Horror 9.6%

Why You'll Like It: It nails the same feeling of cryptic card-based progression, time pressure, and terrible bargains made in pursuit of survival and power.

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 25.7%, Choose Your Own Adventure 20.6%, Story Rich 12%, RPG 10.7%, Dark Fantasy 10.5%

Why You'll Like It: Like Sultan's Game, it is a brutal branching narrative RPG about enduring an oppressive order and deciding whether to submit, scheme, or revolt.

Sit on the throne as a benevolent (or malevolent) medieval monarch of the modern age and swipe your royal controller either left or right to impose your will upon the kingdom.

Why similar: Card Game 28.7%, Choices Matter 21.2%, Choose Your Own Adventure 16.8%, Dark Humor 8.7%, RPG 6.2%

Why You'll Like It: This is a leaner, more abstract take on surviving a dangerous monarchy through event-card choices where balance and long-term consequences matter.

Card Survival is a card-based survival experience. Stranded on a desert island you must use your wits and skills to stay alive. Use cards and combine them together to explore, gather resources and craft useful tools.

Why similar: Card Game 44.6%, Psychological Horror 14.6%, Simulation 13.3%, Strategy 11.3%, Singleplayer 8.2%

Why You'll Like It: Its card-based survival systems, constant resource triage, and harsh consequences echo Sultan's Game's pressure-heavy decision loop.

Restore a crumbling occult library by a winter sea. Build the world’s foremost collection of grimoires and arcana. Master the invisible arts. BOOK OF HOURS is a narrative crafting RPG set in a 1930s world of hidden gods and secret histories. What sort of Librarian will you choose to be?

Why similar: Tabletop 18.8%, Time Management 17.4%, Card Game 17.2%, Lore-Rich 17.2%, Choices Matter 8.1%

Why You'll Like It: It shares Cultist-style card manipulation, time management, and dense occult storytelling, though with less immediate survival pressure than Sultan's Game.

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: LGBTQ+ 23.5%, Choose Your Own Adventure 15.6%, Choices Matter 15.3%, Multiple Endings 12.2%, Story Rich 8.4%

Why You'll Like It: Its week-by-week throne-room decisions, scarce resources, and morally ugly rulership dilemmas make it one of the closest matches in tone and structure.

Inscryption is an inky black card-based odyssey that blends the deckbuilding roguelike, escape-room style puzzles, and psychological horror into a blood-laced smoothie. Darker still are the secrets inscrybed upon the cards...

Why similar: Card Game 60.4%, Story Rich 22.3%, Strategy 14.2%, Adventure 3.1%

Why You'll Like It: While more deckbuilder-focused, it matches the seed game's sinister cardplay, narrative twists, and psychological-horror atmosphere.

Your Excellency, in this short systems-management survival game, we prepare for the awakening of our Lord. He hungers for human sacrifice. Sinners try to hide their dark secrets, but all must be purged...

Why similar: Dark Humor 29.2%, Turn-Based Strategy 24.1%, Multiple Endings 14.3%, Choices Matter 13.5%, Story Rich 10%

Why You'll Like It: Managing a doomed cult society under a sinister power captures the same blend of ritual, politics, sacrifice, and creeping horror.

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: Tabletop 44.2%, Multiple Endings 20.7%, Story Rich 15.1%, RPG 14.4%, Adventure 5.7%

Why You'll Like It: Its cycle-based resource management and branching survival narrative deliver the same desperate feeling of scraping through one deadline at a time.

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: Choose Your Own Adventure 32.8%, Multiple Endings 17.7%, Choices Matter 17.1%, Story Rich 11.3%, RPG 10.3%

Why You'll Like It: If you like surviving under political pressure and making choices that reshape both your fate and your nation, this is a superb match.

“Black Book” is a dark RPG Adventure, based on Slavic myths, in which you play as a young sorceress. Fight evil forces in card-based battles and explore the world, where humans live alongside mythological creatures.

Why similar: Card Game 31.6%, Dark Fantasy 22.4%, Choices Matter 16.1%, Story Rich 10.7%, RPG 10.3%

Why You'll Like It: This dark Slavic RPG combines cards, folklore, and supernatural bargains in a way that strongly mirrors Sultan's Game's mystical dread.

Pathologic 2 is a groundbreaking open-world horror RPG. Resist the plague. Make medicine. Heal people. Perform an autopsy. Trade to get what you need. Fight and kill if necessary. Survive. Struggle with an outbreak in a secluded rural town that is rapidly turning into hell.

Why similar: Survival Horror 24%, Choices Matter 20.4%, Psychological Horror 19.2%, Story Rich 14.8%, RPG 11.4%

Why You'll Like It: It offers similarly oppressive survival, psychological pressure, and impossible moral choices in a world that feels actively hostile to you.

A card game in a Medieval setting where you make decisions on which not only your life will depend, but also the future of the kingdom!

Why similar: Card Game 23.9%, Choose Your Own Adventure 15.5%, Choices Matter 13%, Turn-Based Strategy 12.2%, Multiple Endings 9.5%

Why You'll Like It: Its card-based medieval event structure and branching life-or-death outcomes make it a natural lighter-budget alternative.

You didn’t ask to lead this expedition, but here you are. Stuck in the ice, Captain missing, miles from civilisation. Someone has to take charge. Manage your meagre resources, balance safety and morale, make the hard calls, and head in the only direction you can - through The Pale Beyond.

Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 19.5%, Choices Matter 18.9%, Emotional 16.6%, Story Rich 12.1%, Strategy 10.2%

Why You'll Like It: Its expedition management and recurring leadership crises create the same kind of bleak, choice-driven struggle to keep disaster at bay.

Out of Hands is a bizarre card-based adventure game that blends video-collage graphics with gripping psychological horror. Will you seek the truth lurking in this wicked, warped world—and can you bear its weight? Misty memories threaten to tear you apart, contorting you into a being... Out of Hands.

Why similar: Card Game 21.4%, Turn-Based Strategy 20.1%, Psychological Horror 17.4%, Multiple Endings 16.1%, RPG 8.7%

Why You'll Like It: Its surreal card-based psychological horror is a good fit if your favorite part of Sultan's Game was the dread and instability.

Explore your kingdom and rule wisely in the card game - Choice of Life: Middle Ages 2

Why similar: Card Game 18.5%, Choose Your Own Adventure 14.4%, Turn-Based Strategy 13.1%, Choices Matter 10.3%, Multiple Endings 9.9%

Why You'll Like It: This sequel offers more of the same event-card survival fantasy, with constant choices shaping your rise or collapse.

You're here to slay the princess. Don't believe her lies.

Why similar: Lore-Rich 16.7%, Psychological Horror 16.1%, Choices Matter 15.6%, Choose Your Own Adventure 15.1%, Dark Humor 14.4%

Why You'll Like It: It is far less management-focused, but its looping structure, branching choices, and psychological-horror storytelling hit a similar nerve.

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: Choices Matter 24.2%, Emotional 24.1%, Strategy 16.3%, Simulation 13.2%, Story Rich 12%

Why You'll Like It: Few games match Sultan's Game's sense of grim survival and cruel necessity as well as this desperate civilian management sim.

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: Dark Humor 26.3%, Choices Matter 17.7%, Multiple Endings 16.1%, Story Rich 10.4%, Strategy 9.7%

Why You'll Like It: Living under tyranny, juggling resources, and deciding how far you'll go to survive makes this a strong thematic companion.

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: Strategy 45.1%, Choices Matter 26.7%, Simulation 16.7%, Singleplayer 11.6%

Why You'll Like It: It is another merciless management game built around survival through escalating crises and morally compromising decisions.

Draft of Darkness is a survival horror RPG with deck building and roguelike dungeon exploration. Recruit allies, synergize their decks to create powerful card combos. Manage your limited resources and explore procedurally generated maps to determine the story's outcome.

Why similar: Survival Horror 27.5%, Card Game 25.7%, Turn-Based Strategy 22%, Multiple Endings 12.5%, Strategy 8.4%

Why You'll Like It: This grim survival-horror deckbuilder captures the seed game's constant attrition and sense that every choice can deepen the nightmare.

Become the King in a story-driven 8-bit style game, where choice matters. And try not to die instantly...

Why similar: Dark Humor 22.2%, Choose Your Own Adventure 20%, Multiple Endings 13.8%, Choices Matter 13.1%, Story Rich 8.7%

Why You'll Like It: This smaller-scale medieval choice-and-management game echoes Sultan's Game's event-driven rulership and survival-through-decisions format.

The Fabulous Fear Machine is a narrative-driven strategy game with a pulp horror style. As the Machine's new Master, you must sow fear and expand your influence by creating Legends, harvesting resources, manipulating events, and spying on your enemies.

Why similar: Dark Humor 18.3%, Psychological Horror 15.9%, Choices Matter 15.1%, Card Game 14%, Story Rich 10.8%

Why You'll Like It: Though more macro-strategic, it shares the seed game's love of horror, manipulation, and managing escalating consequences.

Roadwarden is an illustrated text-based RPG that uses isometric pixel art and combines mechanics borrowed from RPGs, Visual Novels, adventure games and interactive fiction.

Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 20.3%, RPG 18.2%, Dark Fantasy 12.5%, Choices Matter 11.1%, Multiple Endings 10.3%

Why You'll Like It: This text-rich fantasy RPG mixes time pressure, survival concerns, and meaningful choices in a way that will appeal to Sultan's Game players.

Fight to investigate another day in this gothic horror adventure card game. Equip items and relics. Acquire cards and use them wisely to survive what lurks in the darkest corners of town. Take a short and mind-bending dive into the unknown with a cosy horror atmosphere.

Why similar: Card Game 34.2%, Choose Your Own Adventure 27.9%, Turn-Based Strategy 18.8%, Strategy 7.1%, Singleplayer 6.4%

Why You'll Like It: Its mix of narrative adventuring, cards, and occult menace overlaps nicely with Sultan's Game's dark storybook feel.

Create your own epic saga of survival, mythology and diplomacy! Rule your clan, make strategic decisions that affect the game world, win battles and expand your influence in this unique mix of RPG, strategy and story-telling.

Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 22.6%, Tabletop 19.3%, Strategy 12.8%, Choices Matter 12.7%, RPG 12.4%

Why You'll Like It: Its event-driven clan rulership, mythic stakes, and constant resource-risk decisions feel like a broader strategic cousin to Sultan's Game.

You've never played a game like this before. Road to Empress I is a cinematic palace adventure where your choices decide everyone's fate. Tackle multiple story branches and a high mortality rate with charm, wisdom and courage? First...survive.

Why similar: Choices Matter 26.9%, Multiple Endings 15.9%, LGBTQ+ 14.8%, RPG 14.6%, Story Rich 14.1%

Play as three intrepid paladins through a terrible war of succession to save a sinister medieval kingdom from political turmoil. Pick a side amongst noble families to choose the future monarch and crush those who stand in your way through board-shattering tactical card combat!

Why similar: Tabletop 14.7%, Card Game 13.8%, Lore-Rich 13.1%, Choose Your Own Adventure 11.6%, Turn-Based Strategy 11.3%

Back to the Dawn is a story-rich RPG set in a high-security prison ruled by factions and buried secrets. Investigate two conspiracies from the inside, gather evidence, and outsmart a system designed to silence you. Make friends (or foes) with fellow inmates and with their help, break out of prison.

Why similar: Choices Matter 21.4%, Multiple Endings 18.6%, RPG 18.2%, Story Rich 16.9%, Simulation 5.8%

Prepare the next monarch by finding her hobbies, training her for battle, and befriending the citizens she'll one day protect. Dive into an all-new parenting-simulator-RPG adventure, where every decision you make will not only affect the future of your daughter but that of an entire empire!

Why similar: Multiple Endings 23.4%, Time Management 20.9%, Choices Matter 18.6%, RPG 10.3%, Simulation 8.3%

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: Lore-Rich 21.3%, Choices Matter 17.9%, Multiple Endings 15.9%, Story Rich 10.8%, Strategy 10.6%

Why You'll Like It: It trades landlord management for bureaucratic survival, but keeps the same oppressive-state atmosphere and compromising decision-making.

DEAD IN VINLAND is a survival/management game, mixed with RPG and adventure elements, about a Viking family trying their best to survive on a mysterious island.

Why similar: RPG 30.5%, Strategy 24.8%, Simulation 21.7%, Adventure 13.4%, Singleplayer 6.1%

Why You'll Like It: Its party survival management and bleak narrative force the same kind of exhausting tradeoffs between ethics, resources, and endurance.

A Tactical, Deck-Building Roguelite. Choose 3 Heroes and adventure into a post-Cataclysmic wasteland. Engage enemies in a unique meld of card-play and tactical, positional combat. Level up and scavenge what you can to customise your decks and build a party to take on any challenge!

Why similar: Card Game 36.3%, Turn-Based Strategy 31.6%, RPG 11.5%, Story Rich 10.4%, Strategy 10.3%

Why You'll Like It: Its card-based strategy RPG framework, harsh world, and expedition pressure make it a good pick for players who want more combat depth.

Life between myths. Lead the Riders clan into legend or obscurity as you explore an ancient world. Plan ahead as you navigate this challenging storybook strategy game, immersing you in the land of old gods and magic also seen in King of Dragon Pass.

Why similar: Choices Matter 21.8%, Multiple Endings 15.6%, Choose Your Own Adventure 15%, RPG 12.7%, Story Rich 11.8%

Why You'll Like It: Like King of Dragon Pass, it excels at myth-soaked leadership, difficult event choices, and long-term survival under uncertainty.

You will play as a Trainee Death, harvesting Souls to pay off your debt. Random choice events offer you various options: Lie in bed and slack off since the debt is endless anyway, Or follow your senior to earn some extra Souls, collecting outfits to switch up your style.

Why similar: Card Game 27.2%, Multiple Endings 16.1%, Choices Matter 15.4%, Dark Fantasy 14.9%, Simulation 9%

A young single man returns to his hometown and takes over the family's matchmaking business. Matchmaking Inc. is a modern-themed RPG designed for men that combines gameplay elements of simulation management and text adventure.

Why similar: Time Management 23.5%, Card Game 21.5%, Psychological Horror 13.7%, Multiple Endings 13.2%, Choices Matter 12%

"Murders on Yangtze River" is an Ace Attorney-like detective game that takes you on a journey through early 20th century China as you solve a series of intriguing cases. Use your logical reasoning and deduction skills to uncover clues, interrogate suspects, and solve the mysteries.

Why similar: Lore-Rich 39.1%, Story Rich 27.7%, Adventure 14.7%, RPG 13.2%, Singleplayer 5.2%

Extend your roots, imbibe fresh blood, and expand without end. Roots Devour is a strategic exploration game centered around a card-connecting mechanism. Drive your frenzied roots through swamps and over frozen mountains, invading human cities until the darkness... descends.

Why similar: Card Game 25.7%, Survival Horror 18.9%, Psychological Horror 16.9%, Multiple Endings 12.1%, Strategy 10.5%

This is a text-based adventure puzzle game, where you must struggle to survive in a world filled with ghosts and urban legends. While collecting clues, you'll uncover the truth behind the world and find the way out. The game features a wealth of levels, unconventional rules, and a touch of horror.

Why similar: Psychological Horror 47.9%, Story Rich 22.6%, Singleplayer 11.4%, Adventure 8%, Multiple Endings 6.9%

Manage a hotel and hire employees including Death, a dragon, a Spirit Hunter, and a bioroid maid. Build your wealth through various means and refine your strategies based on the predictions of Oracles. All employees can be romanced depending on your choices.

Why similar: Multiple Endings 25.8%, RPG 18.6%, Simulation 18.1%, Story Rich 17.8%, Strategy 11.5%

You are The Fateweaver; an ancient beast of legendary status. It is your job to determine which way Fate will unravel as you dig deep into the psyche of those who beckon. Decide whether to help those who beg for your mercy, or invoke the wrath of the Gods upon those you deem unworthy of existence...

Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 16.9%, Tabletop 14.5%, Choices Matter 13.1%, Multiple Endings 12.9%, Psychological Horror 11.5%

Unleash your power in Dark Lord, a roguelike RPG filled with strategy, adventure, and sardonic wit. Rule your growing realm with an iron fist in Story Mode, dive deep into the legends created by other players, or forge your own in Community Stories Mode!

Why similar: Dark Humor 20.6%, Card Game 18.9%, Choose Your Own Adventure 12.5%, Dark Fantasy 12%, Simulation 8.7%

Dive into a massive 2-million-word immersive life sim. Use card-based strategies to survive office politics, rise from a rookie intern to a business tycoon, and find true love. Career, Romance, Wealth—why choose when you can have it all?

Why similar: Time Management 20.7%, Lore-Rich 18.1%, Psychological Horror 11%, Choices Matter 10.6%, Story Rich 10.6%

Wandering Sword is a Chinese martial-arts RPG where you play a young swordsman caught up in a feud and nearly dies. Escaping the event puts you on the path of pursuing the highest form of martial arts and exploring the pugilistic world to become the great hero you are always destined to be.

Why similar: RPG 32%, Story Rich 19.9%, Turn-Based Strategy 18.8%, Strategy 13.5%, Singleplayer 8.1%

Conquer the jungle and prove that in any situation you - the master of your fate!

Why similar: Card Game 18.9%, Choose Your Own Adventure 15.9%, Turn-Based Strategy 13.5%, Multiple Endings 10.8%, Choices Matter 9.6%

Dead in Antares is a turn-based survival management game with RPG elements, set on an alien planet. Lead a crew of survivors sent on a mission to save humanity. Manage their needs, strengthen their teamwork, and explore this mysterious world to find a way back home.

Why similar: LGBTQ+ 19.8%, Choose Your Own Adventure 16.3%, Choices Matter 15.2%, RPG 9.4%, Simulation 9.3%

"The Scroll of Taiwu" is an indie game themed around Chinese mythology and wuxia. Players assume the role of the mysterious "heir of the Taiwu clan" in an alternate ancient China, working through generations of heirs to defeat a powerful hereditary enemy and shape the fate of the human world.

Why similar: RPG 33.5%, Strategy 22.2%, Simulation 19.8%, Singleplayer 12.9%, Adventure 11.6%

You're gonna get yourself killed in there... There's beasts, warriors, and much, much worse in the coliseum... Do you really think you've got what it takes to survive? Or do you think you're cut out for much more than that... There's only one way to find out, and time is of the essence!

Why similar: Tabletop 23.2%, Survival Horror 17.6%, Choose Your Own Adventure 17.2%, Multiple Endings 13.4%, Choices Matter 12.8%

Raise your daughter while she attends a magical academy. Choose which classes she attends, jobs she does, training she undergoes, and more in a character raising sim packed full of story and over 50 endings to reach. How she grows up to be the world's cutest princess depends on you!

Why similar: Time Management 21.6%, Multiple Endings 20.8%, Choices Matter 18.8%, RPG 11.7%, Simulation 9.5%

In this casual sim set in China, you step into the shoes of an average kid from birth towards the end of your high school. Study hard, have fun, make friends and face your ultimate challenge, the “Gaokao”. What will your life be after that? And when you have a child, will you be a Tiger Parent?

Why similar: Psychological Horror 38.2%, Simulation 17.1%, Dark Humor 12.4%, RPG 12.2%, Survival Horror 10.2%

Nobody – The Turnaround is a life simulator set in a parallel world that echoes modern society. Manage your time and resources carefully, strive to find a way through difficult times, and overcome the predicament you find yourself in.

Why similar: Emotional 21.8%, Choices Matter 16%, Simulation 15.8%, Multiple Endings 13.4%, Strategy 10.9%

Turn-based kingdom management simulator focused on decision-making. Will you survive and lead the kingdom to prosperity, or die in agony? The throne awaits.

Why similar: Turn-Based Strategy 24.3%, Choices Matter 23%, Multiple Endings 20.9%, Simulation 10.1%, Story Rich 9.5%

A brutally challenging puzzle novel RPG. Reincarnate as a dark lord, plan your path, and conquer the world. *NOT a passive idle game*

Why similar: Time Management 34.6%, Multiple Endings 13.8%, Strategy 13.5%, Choices Matter 13.1%, RPG 9.9%

《觅长生》是一款想要还原真实修仙世界的开放世界角色扮演游戏。 在这里，你可以体验到从零开始一步步积攒修为突破境界的逆天修仙之旅，也可以体验到那些充满修仙味的故事和剧情。当然也少不了寻求奇遇、探索秘境，更可以和游戏中的角色互动，与人为善或是杀人夺宝全都由你自己抉择。

Why similar: RPG 41%, Strategy 20%, Story Rich 16.7%, Simulation 13.5%, Singleplayer 8.8%

What if you could hear every word spoken at the scene of a crime? “Acoustic Detectives” wanted for testing our new device! Return aurally to crime scenes and use the voices you hear to identify potential suspects and solve the mysteries. What is it that’s connecting these seemingly unrelated cases?

Why similar: Psychological Horror 30.2%, Story Rich 22.3%, RPG 19.4%, Simulation 17.4%, Singleplayer 10.8%

Demonic Mahjong is a Roguelike deckbuilding game inspired by the timeless mechanics of Mahjong. Masterfully use the tiles in your hand to craft powerful combinations, reach staggering high scores, and develop strategies that are uniquely your own!

Why similar: Card Game 41.7%, Tabletop 41%, Strategy 15.1%, Singleplayer 2.2%

A gothic roguelike shopkeeping game where you sell antiques, read the tarot, and manage your inventory to survive crushing rent increases. Match strange customers with the relics they crave, unlock powerful cards, and gamble your way out of debt, one deal at a time.

Why similar: Card Game 53%, Strategy 25.4%, Choices Matter 18.6%, Singleplayer 3%

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: Simulation 37.6%, RPG 34.5%, Story Rich 13.1%, Singleplayer 8.4%, Psychological Horror 6.4%

Investigate your own death, find ways to break free from a time loop, choose a hero who will ascend to the throne and rule the Northern gate! The fates of whole nations of the land of Midian depend on your choices.

Why similar: Dark Fantasy 31.5%, Card Game 31.4%, Story Rich 10.5%, Strategy 10.4%, RPG 9.9%

Aid the Deities of Dread in their quest for vengeance and pave the way for their ascension. Gather grim materials, construct defences and expand the underworld to appease the rage of the gods in The Deadly Path, a unique building management and roguelike strategy game.

Why similar: Card Game 17.2%, Time Management 16.4%, Dark Humor 16.2%, Tabletop 15%, Dark Fantasy 14.7%