60+ similar titles based on shared tags and player behavior. Themes include Interactive Fiction, Simulation, Political Sim, Choices Matter.
"The Listener is a first-person investigation game. Play as a Yugoslav radio amateur at the height of the Cold War. Use your equipment to pick up mysterious transmissions, analyze cryptic messages, and gather hidden clues to uncover a sinister conspiracy"
FAFO Executive Order Simulator
F around and find out! A ruthless no F's given dark comedy where you play the president of the United States of America, abuse executive power, crank up the FAFO meter, deal with robot overlords, alien invasions, drain swamps, flip off allies, crush protests, and destroy all that oppose you!
Successor To Your Throne
In this short character-focused narrative experience you are a monarch of a small medieval kingdom and must name your successor before it is too late
F around and find out! A ruthless no F's given dark comedy where you play the president of the United States of America, abuse executive power, crank up the FAFO meter, deal with robot overlords, alien invasions, drain swamps, flip off allies, crush protests, and destroy all that oppose you!
Why similar: Political Sim 28.5% ★, Interactive Fiction 18.5%, Simulation 14.7%, Choose Your Own Adventure 13.7%, Conspiracy 9.6% ★
In this short character-focused narrative experience you are a monarch of a small medieval kingdom and must name your successor before it is too late
Why similar: Political Sim 43.5% ★, Choose Your Own Adventure 22.4%, Interactive Fiction 18.1%, Simulation 11.3%, Choices Matter 2.5%
Hermit Computer is a horror-puzzle game set in 2001. Deep within the Hermit Kingdom, you play as an outsider tasked with extracting critical intelligence using a secretive state-controlled computer operating system.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 16.1%, Cold War 14.8% ★, Conspiracy 14.1% ★, 1980s 11.8%, Simulation 9.9%
Inspect evidence, expose contradictions, and sign binding orders in a dystopian political thriller. Your laws return through the people who exploit them as thirty connected files decide District 089's fate.
Why similar: Political Sim 35.1% ★, Choose Your Own Adventure 16.6%, Interactive Fiction 16.4%, Investigation 10.2%, Conspiracy 8.4% ★
The king holds the power — but the words are yours. Advise a young ruler through intrigue, war, and betrayal in a turn-based court drama, where the right counsel shapes a realm and the wrong one ends you.
Why similar: Political Sim 47.5% ★, Conspiracy 15% ★, Interactive Fiction 14.2%, Simulation 7%, Historical 5.1%
VERUM: a thought-provoking game exploring ethical issues surrounding tech corporations and personal data usage. Embark on a journey through multiple side stories, gain diverse perspectives, and unlock multiple endings to uncover the full story. Simple yet immersive gameplay with captivating graphics
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 26.9%, Conspiracy 25% ★, Choose Your Own Adventure 23.8%, Casual 10.3%, Text-Based 6.2%
Step into the shoes of J. Edgar Hoover and combat the Mafia, Communists, the Ku Klux Klan, the Black Panthers, the Weather Underground, and more as you shape history with your every move. Download now and become the ultimate mastermind in this thrilling management RPG!
Why similar: Political Sim 34.8% ★, Choose Your Own Adventure 16.7%, Cold War 16.5% ★, Interactive Fiction 14.2%, Historical 6.7%
Article 7 is a short political thriller where you play as Arvenia’s Minister of Civil Authority during a national crisis. Review documents, weigh conflicting information, speak with members of the press, and decide whether to grant emergency powers to the Chancellor.
Why similar: Political Sim 52.7% ★, Interactive Fiction 22.2%, Simulation 12%, Text-Based 5.4%, Choices Matter 3.3%
Play as a relaxed Woke DEI hire in USAID’s Approvals Department, an outlandish ASMR and LOFI style US Government sim: review request, Approve or Deny, then File It before vacationing on a gifted yacht ride. Process absurd funding requests, dodge DOGE investigators, and avoid getting “Epsteined"
Why similar: Political Sim 33.6% ★, Interactive Fiction 18%, Choose Your Own Adventure 16.4%, Simulation 10.6%, Casual 6.5%
A model denied four thousand people this morning. The law says a human has to explain why. Read the file, work out what the machine saw, write the reason, and decide whether to sign your name to it. Sixty cases before the deadline.
Why similar: Political Sim 39.9% ★, Interactive Fiction 16.2%, Detective 11.2%, Investigation 9%, Simulation 6.9%
Bureau of Hero Affairs is a simulation game about processing paperwork in an obsolete office system and digging up what it buried. As a journalist working undercover inside the Bureau, uncover the truth of a disaster twenty years ago. Follow the regulations, or report the truth.
Why similar: Political Sim 38.3% ★, Interactive Fiction 16.5%, Conspiracy 10.9% ★, Investigation 10.7%, Detective 9.9%
An administrative office in a fantasy world. Review documents from humans, elves, orcs, and beastfolk to uphold the republic's order. Follow the rules, or overlook suspicious files for personal gain? Every choice is yours. Heroines await after work. Your decisions shape the republic's future.
Why similar: Political Sim 29.6% ★, Interactive Fiction 22.6%, Choose Your Own Adventure 15.7%, Simulation 14.4%, Casual 13.6%
Run a newspaper under censorship. Report, choose your articles, strike out words, lay out the page. Sharp reporting draws the censors; a compliant paper loses its readers. 1920s Gyeongseong — a newspaper management simulation adventure where you complete a single page, every single day.
Why similar: Political Sim 39.1% ★, Interactive Fiction 15.1%, Simulation 9.7%, Investigation 9.4%, Historical 8.6%
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 43.2% ★, Interactive Fiction 22%, Simulation 19.6%, First-Person 3.8%, 3D 3.6%
NEWS CENSOR: edit headlines, replace words, and approve only the “safe” stories. But remember: one wrong word can end your career.
Why similar: Political Sim 34.8% ★, Conspiracy 18.9% ★, Choose Your Own Adventure 16.6%, Interactive Fiction 14.5%, Simulation 7.1%
Serve as a border officer in a medieval kingdom on the brink of war. Inspect documents, interrogate suspicious travelers, and decide who may enter. Will you obey the Crown or follow your conscience?
Why similar: Political Sim 30% ★, Simulation 17.8%, Interactive Fiction 15.9%, Investigation 13%, Casual 6.9%
Explore non-linear paths and evade lurking monsters as you uncover the mysteries of this eerie maze. Beware of the sinister entities that inhabit the shadows, ready to drag you deeper into the unknown.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 23.9%, Choose Your Own Adventure 21.6%, Simulation 15.6%, 1980s 15%, Realistic 9.6%
Play as a feline judge in an anthro animal society. Navigate dictatorship, democracy, anarchy. Court rulings spark rebellions, shift power, ignite revolutions. Every choice reshapes the world.
Why similar: Political Sim 40.2% ★, Interactive Fiction 19.7%, Cold War 16% ★, Simulation 12.4%, Conspiracy 10.7% ★
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 39.2% ★, Interactive Fiction 15.1%, Choose Your Own Adventure 15.1%, Simulation 9.2%, 1980s 8.8%
You are the Whisperer, hooded advisor to King Alric the Uncertain. Forty days. Twenty-five court crises. Four pillar-leaders pulling the realm in four directions. The King hears you last before every decision. Twenty-one endings. No correct path.
Why similar: Political Sim 40.6% ★, Choose Your Own Adventure 20.8%, Interactive Fiction 15.2%, Conspiracy 8.4% ★, Text-Based 4.5%
Ministry of Truth: False Memory 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. The Great Father is watching you!
Why similar: Political Sim 41.6% ★, Interactive Fiction 17.7%, Choose Your Own Adventure 17.3%, Simulation 9.6%, Atmospheric 3.9%
Trapped in an underground bunker with your finger on the button, interpret intelligence signals, question unreliable AI advisors, and decide whether to escalate, stand down, or unleash doomsday.
Why similar: Political Sim 50.5% ★, Interactive Fiction 21.4%, Simulation 12.1%, Text-Based 6.4%, Choices Matter 2.8%
You are the head of an experimental anti-crime task force in the city of Osteria. Use search history, recent emails, and criminal backgrounds to determine whether an individual is likely to commit a crime. The choices you make will have a significant impact on the entire city’s future.
Why similar: Political Sim 39.8% ★, Interactive Fiction 21.7%, Simulation 13.8%, Casual 8.6%, Realistic 8.4%
Remote listening station. 1984. You're the operator decoding an impossible signal using oscilloscopes, tape machines, and analog equipment. Align satellites. Analyze waveforms. Make choices that determine humanity's response. Multiple endings. DISCOVER THE TRUTH!
Why similar: Conspiracy 20.3% ★, Interactive Fiction 19.6%, 1980s 16%, Simulation 12.4%, Choose Your Own Adventure 9.2%
LOOP 13 is a psychological horror game where you work as a quality control clerk in a dystopian biotech company, inspecting anomalous products and making moral decisions. Every choice changes both your job — and your body.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 23.3%, Simulation 20.2%, Choose Your Own Adventure 19.8%, 1980s 13.1%, Conspiracy 9.7% ★
You are the Social Democratic Party of Germany in 1928. Can you stop the Nazis from taking power?
Why similar: Political Sim 43.8% ★, Interactive Fiction 23.1%, Simulation 14.9%, Historical 6.7%, Text-Based 5%
Federal Cadet is a single-player police simulation and investigation game. Start as a cadet in Pinewood, patrol the town, question witnesses and suspects, analyze evidence, and rise through the department ranks.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 26.5%, Choose Your Own Adventure 23.8%, Simulation 22.7%, Detective 11%, Investigation 8.7%
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 35.2% ★, Conspiracy 15.5% ★, 1980s 13.6%, Simulation 10.9%, Interactive Fiction 10.2%
Germany, 1956. The war is over, but justice is not served. Former Nazis walk free, while their victims lie in unmarked graves. As a prosecutor, you'll unearth long-buried evidence, confront witnesses and hunt down perpetrators. Will you have the courage to bring these "ordinary men" to court?
Why similar: Political Sim 36.2% ★, Detective 16.7%, Historical 11.3%, Simulation 11.3%, Investigation 9.2%
Lead a republic through 48 months. Examine documents, manage your cabinet, pass laws, survive crises, and answer for the consequences of every political compromise.
Why similar: Political Sim 46.6% ★, Choose Your Own Adventure 17.5%, Simulation 10.6%, Interactive Fiction 9.6%, Choices Matter 4.7%
Echoes of Chang'an is a Tang-dynasty mystery visual novel from NSTUDIO. You play the adopted son of general Duan Xiushi (fictional), pulled off a simple errand into a death trap that decides an empire's fate. Observe, reason, choose — break the plot, get out alive, earn your own ending.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 30.3%, Choose Your Own Adventure 22%, Detective 15.6%, Historical 12.6%, Casual 7.9%
A darkly comic, turn-based roguelike of 1970s London police night duty. Dispatch your few constables, fill your four cells, back gambles over the radio — and keep the streets safe until 06:00. Every shift deals fresh trouble, and every choice follows your career. Just make it through the week.
Why similar: Political Sim 34.7% ★, Choose Your Own Adventure 18.6%, Interactive Fiction 12.7%, Cold War 12.4% ★, 1980s 7.5%
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 39.8% ★, Simulation 11.1%, Detective 10.6%, 1980s 10.4%, Realistic 6.7%
"Norman's Great Illusion" is a 2D pixel art visual novel in which you have to live a year as an engineer at the plant in the face of rising social tensions. Make difficult decisions, but keep in mind: you will have to pay for each choice
Why similar: Political Sim 50.4% ★, Interactive Fiction 13.9%, Simulation 12.9%, Choose Your Own Adventure 8.4%, Atmospheric 4.5%
A retro football management sim. Take a Fourth Division club through thirty seasons of English football, 1959 to 1989, by the real rules of each season. Sign, sell, drill and talk your way up, while your board, your pub and your town remember every result, every signing and every excuse.
Why similar: Political Sim 35.7% ★, Interactive Fiction 20.6%, Choose Your Own Adventure 17.4%, 1980s 11.2%, Simulation 5.9%
Don’t let the Soviet Union collapse, and fall in the darkness of history or lead the Union by a new path – democracy and free market! But before you decide something, think – wouldn’t it cause more harm than good?
Why similar: Political Sim 70% ★, Cold War 12.1% ★, Choose Your Own Adventure 5.4%, Simulation 5.3%, Historical 4.6%
In an authoritarian state obsessed with art, work for the Eye of the Network. Run your restaurant, survive rising inflation, outbid rival factions, and collect the most historical art to place your men in the Inner Party and install your candidate as leader.
Why similar: Political Sim 68.6% ★, Simulation 31.4%
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 Sim 31.7% ★, 1980s 15.6%, Interactive Fiction 15%, Choose Your Own Adventure 14.1%, Simulation 9%
Seaburn is a choice-based political simulator where your choices affect the future of the planet. Play as a policymaker as you sign legislation, respond to events, and compete in high-stakes elections. Earn money, become popular, and save the environment.
Why similar: Political Sim 57.5% ★, Simulation 19.8%, Text-Based 6.9%, First-Person 4.9%, Choices Matter 4.2%
You are a double agent between a break-off religious sect and an inquisition within a holy city. Gather intelligence from both sides, solve their puzzles, navigate between dark-truths, and collect insights to write reports that give you the power to shape an inevitable conflict to come...
Why similar: Political Sim 49.4% ★, Interactive Fiction 22.3%, First-Person 6.5%, Text-Based 5.9%, Simulation 4.8%
Lead an ancient and crumbling noble house in a rich gunpowder fantasy setting. Lie, bribe, and conspire to secure power and prestige – or to save a doomed kingdom from itself.
Why similar: Political Sim 48.8% ★, Interactive Fiction 16.8%, Choose Your Own Adventure 15.3%, Casual 9.6%, Text-Based 7.4%
VSCS-II is a retro-styled narrative game about privacy and security. Using an upgraded '80s operating system, navigate an underground network to make connections, unearth conspiracies, and ultimately decide the fate of the dark web.
Why similar: Political Sim 34.9% ★, Choose Your Own Adventure 16.4%, Interactive Fiction 15.1%, Simulation 10.4%, Detective 9.5%
Lines We Draw is a 3D isometric narrative strategy game set at a tense Cold War border. Inspect documents, interrogate travelers, and manage a shifting checkpoint between rival states. Your stamp decides fates: Will you be a hero of the people, or a tool of the regime?
Why similar: Political Sim 30.4% ★, Cold War 18.9% ★, Choose Your Own Adventure 14.6%, Simulation 10.3%, Realistic 8.6%
Recover a stolen artifact and lose your heart as a secret magical agent! Can you uncover an arcane conspiracy before the clock runs out? An interactive, text-based magical romance novel.
Why similar: Conspiracy 22.5% ★, Interactive Fiction 21.4%, Choose Your Own Adventure 20.1%, Detective 12%, Investigation 8.1%
Your name is Gary Patterson. After waking up in a strange facility with your work partner Victor Adams, you must make a choice: Play along with Victor's plans? Or go it alone and make an escape? Only YOU can decide.
Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 29.2%, Interactive Fiction 25.6%, Detective 16.5%, Conspiracy 8.5% ★, Investigation 7.2%
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 57.4% ★, Choose Your Own Adventure 12.5%, Investigation 9.2%, Simulation 8.4%, Dark 3.5%
Read the question. Read the electorate. Choose your answer before time runs out. VoxPrinceps is a political narrative-decision game where every debate can swing state support and your opponent gets a chance to swing it back.
Why similar: Political Sim 58.3% ★, Interactive Fiction 19.5%, Simulation 11.7%, Text-Based 5.9%, Choices Matter 4.6%
Joe Biden is back as the one term president hoping to become the two time president. November 2024 is only months away but the world is getting more ridiculing by the day. Choose your decisions wisely and help Mister 46 survive his next 3 weeks in office. You must help Joe Escape From MAGA, again.
Why similar: Political Sim 30.3% ★, Conspiracy 20% ★, Interactive Fiction 15.8%, Choose Your Own Adventure 14.9%, Historical 6.4%
An AI crisis erupts at Northbay University. As a student intern, turn hurried meetings into enforceable policy: draft rules, contain crises, and carry the institutional debt they create. Then watch those temporary decisions become the Northbay Protocol—and shape the next sixty years.
Why similar: Political Sim 45% ★, Simulation 19.8%, Choose Your Own Adventure 18.9%, Detective 8.1%, Historical 6.7%
Lead a waning Empire back to its former glory in this fictional Cold War text-based RPG. As emperor, choose who to trust and who to silence. Adapt to changing times or cling to tradition. Enact reforms to revive the economy, enforce law and order, and reinforce the Empire’s place under the Sun.
Why similar: Political Sim 41% ★, Cold War 19.4% ★, Choose Your Own Adventure 18.2%, Simulation 8%, Text-Based 6.6%
Nobodies: After Death is a puzzling point-and-click adventure in cleaning up dirty work. After your agency takes out a target, you make the evidence disappear without a trace. Find a way to get in, get out, and leave no bodies behind.
Why similar: Conspiracy 17.7% ★, Cold War 16.9% ★, Choose Your Own Adventure 14.6%, Interactive Fiction 14.2%, 1980s 11.5%
Play as an official’s daughter entering the imperial palace as a consort. Build relationships, shape your family’s fate, speak freely with memory-driven AI characters, navigate favor and political intrigue, or overturn the order of the court and pursue an entirely different ending.
Why similar: Political Sim 35.7% ★, Interactive Fiction 18%, Choose Your Own Adventure 14.8%, Simulation 8.9%, Historical 7%
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 48.9% ★, Interactive Fiction 25.3%, Simulation 23.4%, Choices Matter 2.4%
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 67.1% ★, Simulation 13.7%, Interactive Fiction 10.3%, Casual 4.4%, Atmospheric 2.6%
Play as a real-world candidate and completely immerse yourself into the battle of the US presidential election! Travel around the United States, try to woo voters across the country, create your own political agenda, skillfully manage your campaign budget... and perhaps you will be the next White House occupant!
Why similar: Political Sim 81.1% ★, Simulation 18.9%
You're the president now. The files are falling. The public is watching. Shred fast, lie harder, and whatever you do — don’t let the truth slip.
Why similar: Political Sim 42.8% ★, Conspiracy 22.8% ★, Simulation 17.9%, Casual 11.7%, First-Person 4.8%
Dystopian, abandoned, industrial space. What you hear: war speeches from Yugoslavia. What you see: TV screens with retro Yugoslavian music videos.
Why similar: Political Sim 43% ★, 1980s 15.3%, Simulation 13.8%, Realistic 9.4%, First-Person 7.1%
Answer the people in your life, live with what stays in your feed, and turn each edition into tomorrow's front page. Keep the newspaper alive through debt, danger, family pressure, and the consequences you chose.
Why similar: Political Sim 47.8% ★, Choose Your Own Adventure 26.4%, Interactive Fiction 19.6%, Choices Matter 4.6%, Multiple Endings 1.6%
Rule as a hobgoblin warlord in this kingdom management RPG. Balance resources and manage the shifting opinions of commoners, goblinoids, and elites. Face difficult decisions, and choose whether to rule with fairness… or with brutality.
Why similar: Political Sim 42.2% ★, Choose Your Own Adventure 20.6%, Interactive Fiction 19.2%, Simulation 7%, Text-Based 5.8%
