Games Like Sultan's Game

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 25.8%, Choose Your Own Adventure 20.9%, Story Rich 12.3%, RPG 11%, Dark Fantasy 10.1%

Why You'll Like It: This grim branching life RPG makes social status, family ties, and painful moral choices central to determining your fate.

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 13.6%, Lore-Rich 13%, Choose Your Own Adventure 11.7%, Turn-Based Strategy 11.2%

Why You'll Like It: Its dark fantasy political intrigue and card-based confrontations make it a strong fit for players who enjoy dangerous court maneuvering.

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 26.3%, LGBTQ+ 16.6%, Multiple Endings 15.7%, RPG 14.2%, Story Rich 13.9%

Why You'll Like It: This palace-intrigue RPG revolves around navigating relationships, ambitions, and consequential choices within a hostile imperial hierarchy.

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 31.2%, Multiple Endings 16.7%, Choices Matter 16.1%, Story Rich 10.8%, RPG 9.9%

Why You'll Like It: Its dense political decision-making, competing factions, and constant trade-offs closely capture the pressure of surviving a cruel and unstable court.

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+ 24%, Choose Your Own Adventure 15.6%, Choices Matter 15.2%, Multiple Endings 12.1%, Story Rich 8.5%

Why You'll Like It: You rule through audience-based dilemmas, limited resources, family obligations, and decisions that can save or doom your kingdom.

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%, Card Game 15.9%, Choose Your Own Adventure 11.6%, Psychological Horror 9.7%

Why You'll Like It: It similarly combines opaque card-driven systems, escalating obligations, resource management, and a relentlessly unsettling atmosphere.

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 23.7%, Time Management 20.5%, Choices Matter 18.6%, RPG 10.5%, Simulation 8.2%

Why You'll Like It: This choice-heavy life simulator has you allocate limited time and resources while raising a daughter toward many dramatically different futures.

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%, Multiple Endings 14.4%, Choices Matter 13.5%, Story Rich 10.2%

Why You'll Like It: You manage a sinister cult through recurring ritual decisions, selecting who must be sacrificed to keep a demanding power appeased.

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 28.4%, Choices Matter 21.2%, Choose Your Own Adventure 17%, Dark Humor 8.7%, RPG 6.3%

Why You'll Like It: Its swipe-card decisions distill the balancing act of ruling under constant pressure, where every choice shifts dangerous political forces.

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 17.2%, Lore-Rich 17.1%, Card Game 17%, Choices Matter 8.1%

Why You'll Like It: Its quiet but demanding card-based crafting and study systems reward careful scheduling while uncovering dense occult lore.

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 44.2%, Psychological Horror 14.9%, Simulation 13.1%, Strategy 11.3%, Adventure 8.3%

Why You'll Like It: It shares the seed game's tactile card-based resource systems and persistent pressure to survive through careful planning.

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 19.6%, Choices Matter 18.8%, Emotional 16.7%, Story Rich 12.3%, Strategy 10.1%

Why You'll Like It: Leading an isolated expedition demands rationing resources and making harsh crew decisions when survival and loyalty begin to collapse.

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 20.9%, Multiple Endings 18.7%, RPG 18.5%, Story Rich 17%, Simulation 5.6%

Why You'll Like It: Its prison-survival RPG structure emphasizes daily schedules, scarce resources, relationships, and multiple escape paths shaped by player choices.

Rule the world or die trying!Being a Princess is not an easy job. Being a Queen is even harder. Especially when you're only fourteen years old, and the reason you've inherited the throne is that your royal mother has just met an untimely end.Now power is up for grabs.

Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 19.5%, Simulation 15.6%, Multiple Endings 15.2%, Strategy 13.5%, RPG 12.4%

Why You'll Like It: You train a young monarch while trying to survive assassination plots, court politics, and branching disasters caused by your choices.

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%, Turn-Based Strategy 20%, Psychological Horror 17.6%, Multiple Endings 16.3%, RPG 8.9%

Why You'll Like It: Its surreal card-battling and psychological-horror presentation suit players drawn to Sultan's Game's oppressive, nightmarish tone.

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 24.2%, Choices Matter 20.1%, Psychological Horror 19.1%, Story Rich 14.9%, RPG 11.5%

Why You'll Like It: Its brutal time limits, scarcity, social obligations, and no-win moral choices create the same suffocating sense of desperate survival.

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 17.5%, Multiple Endings 16.2%, Story Rich 10.5%, Strategy 9.6%

Why You'll Like It: As a state landlord forced to spy on neighbors, you make increasingly cruel choices under an authoritarian regime's impossible demands.

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 23.5%, Choose Your Own Adventure 15.7%, Choices Matter 13%, Turn-Based Strategy 12.2%, Multiple Endings 9.6%

Why You'll Like It: Its card-based medieval life decisions offer a compact version of navigating status, risks, and branching consequences.

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

Why similar: Lore-Rich 16.3%, Psychological Horror 16.2%, Choices Matter 15.5%, Choose Your Own Adventure 15.4%, Dark Humor 14.5%

Why You'll Like It: While less management-focused, its intensely branching psychological horror and irreversible choices make it ideal for players seeking dark narrative consequences.

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%, Choices Matter 26.8%, Simulation 16.6%, Singleplayer 11.6%

Why You'll Like It: It is a punishing resource-management story about governing desperate people and deciding exactly how much humanity to sacrifice for survival.

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

Why similar: Dark Humor 22.1%, Choose Your Own Adventure 20.2%, Multiple Endings 13.9%, Choices Matter 13%, Story Rich 8.8%

Why You'll Like It: This medieval management RPG centers on making rulership decisions, developing a realm, and handling the consequences of political choices.

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 26.9%, Multiple Endings 16.2%, Choices Matter 15.3%, Dark Fantasy 14.9%, RPG 9.1%

Why You'll Like It: Its card-driven simulation framework and multiple-ending decision structure make it a fitting smaller-scale alternative.

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 18.4%, Psychological Horror 16.1%, Choices Matter 15%, Card Game 13.8%, Story Rich 11%

Why You'll Like It: It offers sinister strategic manipulation through event-driven campaigns, asking you to spread fear and control societies from the shadows.

Ash of Gods: Redemption is a turn-based RPG that combines tactical combat, CCG elements, and a constantly evolving story in which no one is safe from death, including the main characters.

Why similar: Dark Fantasy 20.6%, Lore-Rich 16.9%, Multiple Endings 14.5%, Choices Matter 13.6%, Story Rich 10.5%

Why You'll Like It: Its bleak branching narrative, expendable resources, and consequential tactical encounters make every compromise feel costly.

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 20.7%, Card Game 18.6%, Choose Your Own Adventure 12.7%, Dark Fantasy 12%, Simulation 8.6%

Why You'll Like It: This darkly comic management game mixes card-like choices, resource pressures, and the challenge of maintaining power in a fantasy realm.

Live through an epic role-playing Viking saga where your strategic choices directly affect your personal journey. Make allies as you travel with your caravan across this stunning yet harsh landscape. Carefully choose those who will help fight a new threat that jeopardizes an entire civilization.

Why similar: Turn-Based Strategy 36.3%, Choices Matter 15.6%, RPG 15.5%, Strategy 11.6%, Story Rich 10.6%

Why You'll Like It: This somber caravan RPG pairs resource strain and leadership management with weighty decisions that carry across a long campaign.

“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 31.1%, Dark Fantasy 22.5%, Choices Matter 16.1%, Story Rich 10.9%, RPG 10.6%

Why You'll Like It: This dark folklore RPG combines a card-battling structure with morally shaded supernatural stories and occult problem-solving.

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 23.2%, Card Game 21.1%, Psychological Horror 13.9%, Multiple Endings 13.3%, Choices Matter 12%

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 31%, Strategy 24.4%, Simulation 21.3%, Adventure 13.9%, Singleplayer 6%

Why You'll Like It: This harsh survival management RPG asks you to balance hunger, exhaustion, relationships, and difficult narrative choices on a hostile island.

A grim RPG with card-based combat where nothing stays dead. Lead a party of survivors through a world undone by shattered Laws. Restore them and reshape the rules of the game, but be ready to face the consequences.

Why similar: Dark Fantasy 22.7%, Card Game 22%, Lore-Rich 21.6%, Story Rich 11.4%, RPG 11.3%

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 25.1%, Survival Horror 19.1%, Psychological Horror 17%, Multiple Endings 12.2%, Strategy 10.4%

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 59.7%, Story Rich 22.8%, Strategy 14.2%, Adventure 3.3%

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

Why similar: Card Game 18.2%, Choose Your Own Adventure 14.6%, Turn-Based Strategy 13%, Choices Matter 10.2%, Multiple Endings 10%

This Is the Police is a strategy/adventure game set in a city spiraling the drain. Taking the role of gritty Police Chief Jack Boyd, you'll dive into a deep story of crime and intrigue. Will Jack reach his retirement with a nice stack of bills, or will he end up broken ... or worse?

Why similar: Choices Matter 29.5%, Strategy 24%, Story Rich 21.9%, Simulation 11%, Singleplayer 8.5%

Why You'll Like It: Managing a police department through escalating crises, limited personnel, and ethically ugly choices evokes the strain of serving a dangerous regime.

Play as the Sovereign of a magical tower in this story-rich, Round Table management RPG. Recruit eccentric Knights, assign quests and balance egos whilst carving out your kingdom's destiny. If destiny doesn’t go your way, keep turning back time, uncover secrets and rewrite fate again and again.

Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 34.4%, Choices Matter 25.8%, Story Rich 12.9%, RPG 12.1%, Simulation 8.6%

"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 38.3%, Story Rich 27.9%, Adventure 15.1%, RPG 13.4%, Singleplayer 5.3%

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 22.7%, Tabletop 19.1%, Strategy 12.7%, RPG 12.6%, Choices Matter 12.5%

Why You'll Like It: You guide a clan through recurring events, political disputes, religious demands, and resource problems with no universally safe answer.

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 14.4%, Choices Matter 12.9%, Multiple Endings 12.9%, Psychological Horror 11.5%

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 47.8%, Story Rich 22.7%, Singleplayer 11.3%, Adventure 8.2%, Multiple Endings 6.9%

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 20.4%, Lore-Rich 17.9%, Psychological Horror 11.1%, Story Rich 10.8%, Choices Matter 10.6%

A surreal dice-based RPG in a cursed city of gut-wrenching suffering. Here, your choices shape your skills and your appearance. Survive the city's hellish trials, meet tortured characters, and develop your own unique identity. Every choice matters as your actions will literally shape you.

Why similar: Tabletop 31.8%, Multiple Endings 15.8%, RPG 15.4%, Story Rich 11.3%, Choices Matter 10.8%

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 32.4%, Story Rich 20.2%, Turn-Based Strategy 18.5%, Strategy 13%, Singleplayer 8%

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: Dark Fantasy 17.7%, Choices Matter 17.3%, Choose Your Own Adventure 15.8%, Multiple Endings 14.4%, Psychological Horror 13.2%

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 21.9%, Choices Matter 15.9%, Simulation 15.6%, Multiple Endings 13.4%, Strategy 10.7%

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 30.3%, Story Rich 22.4%, RPG 19.6%, Simulation 17%, Singleplayer 10.7%

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 28%, Card Game 25.2%, Turn-Based Strategy 21.9%, Multiple Endings 12.6%, Strategy 8.3%

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: Multiple Endings 19.1%, Time Management 18.6%, Choices Matter 16.8%, Choose Your Own Adventure 11.1%, RPG 10.7%

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 25.9%, RPG 18.9%, Story Rich 17.9%, Simulation 17.7%, Strategy 11.4%

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+ 20.4%, Choose Your Own Adventure 16.2%, Choices Matter 15.1%, RPG 9.5%, Simulation 9.1%

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

Why similar: Card Game 18.6%, Choose Your Own Adventure 16.1%, Turn-Based Strategy 13.4%, Multiple Endings 10.9%, Choices Matter 9.6%

"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 34.2%, Strategy 21.7%, Simulation 19.4%, Singleplayer 12.8%, Adventure 11.9%

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 38.1%, Simulation 16.8%, Dark Humor 12.5%, RPG 12.3%, Survival Horror 10.5%

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%, Survival Horror 17.8%, Choose Your Own Adventure 17.3%, Multiple Endings 13.4%, Choices Matter 12.7%

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 31.1%, Story Rich 10.8%, Strategy 10.3%, RPG 10.2%

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 37.1%, RPG 34.9%, Story Rich 13.3%, Singleplayer 8.3%, Psychological Horror 6.4%

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 13.9%, Strategy 13.3%, Choices Matter 13.3%, RPG 10%

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 40.9%, Strategy 15.2%, Singleplayer 2.2%

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 24.1%, Choices Matter 22.9%, Multiple Endings 21.1%, Simulation 9.9%, Story Rich 9.7%

An accidental fire at a funeral forces the police to re-investigate a closed case of massacre. Lin Lixun participates the re-investigation by chances. As the investigation goes deeper, the past of the victims gradually emerges. However, the case becomes more bewildering.

Why similar: Psychological Horror 61.5%, Singleplayer 18.2%, RPG 16.9%, Story Rich 3.4%

《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 41.4%, Strategy 19.6%, Story Rich 16.9%, Simulation 13.4%, Singleplayer 8.7%