60+ similar titles based on shared tags and player behavior. Themes include Choices Matter, Multiple Endings, Political Sim, Interactive Fiction.
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.
Headliner: NoviNews
Award-winning adventure where you control the news and its impact on society, your friends and career. Different choices lead to unique combinations of endings. Share your story with the community, and see what the players before you did.
MASK IT
MASK IT is a black-comedy adventure about manufacturing outrage by "editing" the news. As a fresh news editor, your job is to give dull everyday news a little "touch-up" and turn it into a viral sensation no one can look away from!
Award-winning adventure where you control the news and its impact on society, your friends and career. Different choices lead to unique combinations of endings. Share your story with the community, and see what the players before you did.
Why similar: Political Sim 35% ★, Interactive Fiction 11.2%, Dialogue Heavy 10%, Choices Matter 8.1%, Visual Novel 7.8%
MASK IT is a black-comedy adventure about manufacturing outrage by "editing" the news. As a fresh news editor, your job is to give dull everyday news a little "touch-up" and turn it into a viral sensation no one can look away from!
Why similar: Political Sim 37.2% ★, Interactive Fiction 13.4%, Visual Novel 8.6%, Text-Based 7.8%, Point & Click 7.5%
Chronicles of Humanity is an expanding anthology of historical visual novels. Enter different eras, weigh conflicting testimony under political and personal pressure, and shape who is protected, what is recorded, and how each life is remembered. Complete stories are released as separate DLC.
Why similar: Historical 19.4%, Dialogue Heavy 11.9%, Interactive Fiction 10.9%, Visual Novel 10.7%, Choices Matter 10.6%
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 25.4% ★, Historical 10.3%, Interactive Fiction 9.1%, Dialogue Heavy 9%, Text-Based 8.8%
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 42.2% ★, Investigation 9.6%, Choices Matter 7.3%, Management 6.3%, Multiple Endings 5.8%
As a judge of the Revolutionary Tribunal, preside over complicated cases of ordinary citizens, dangerous criminals, and enemies of the revolution in revolutionary Paris. Make judgments, plot political intrigue, and try to not lose your own head!
Why similar: Political Sim 29.8% ★, Historical 15.7%, Investigation 11.6%, Choices Matter 8.5%, Point & Click 6%
A Pentiment-like set in 19th-century Malaysia, featuring pirates, East Indiamen, headhunters, a locked-room murder mystery, a blade of meteoric ore, a tarot deck, a mountain of light, and a tiger. It’s time to put your thinking cap on; as for those voices in your head – probably best to ignore them.
Why similar: Historical 17.6%, Investigation 14.3%, Dialogue Heavy 13.1%, Interactive Fiction 10.1%, Text-Based 9%
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 38.8% ★, Choices Matter 12.4%, Multiple Endings 9.8%, Interactive Fiction 5.7%, Investigation 5.2%
Follow the new worker of the disinformation agency day by day. Decide how to oppose news and people through the use of fake scandals and redirections. Ensure a win for your employers - or find some conscience after all.
Why similar: Political Sim 38.1% ★, Visual Novel 11.1%, Management 10.7%, Choices Matter 10.2%, Text-Based 7.7%
Launch your own newspaper and manipulate a funny animal world! Direct reporters, investigate leads, blow up stories for impact and throw in ads for profit. How far will you go to keep your paper in print, and yourself out of trouble?
Why similar: Political Sim 29.2% ★, Interactive Fiction 9.6%, Text-Based 8.6%, Management 7.4%, Choices Matter 7%
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 42.8% ★, Interactive Fiction 12.6%, Visual Novel 9.8%, Choices Matter 7.8%, Multiple Endings 6.9%
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 43.2% ★, Interactive Fiction 13%, Text-Based 10.6%, Choices Matter 7.5%, Strategy 7.2%
Become Maximus Valerius and inherit a decaying Ludus in ancient Pompeii. Train gladiators, survive political intrigue and forge your legacy in this cinematic historical strategy drama.
Why similar: Political Sim 25.5% ★, Historical 15.7%, Interactive Fiction 11.8%, Choices Matter 9.3%, Dialogue Heavy 8.3%
Everything is getting unaffordably expensive. Groceries. Bills. How long is this even sustainable? Enter the world of the protagonist, and find out if you have what it takes to turn your life around. A point-and-click, choice-driven adventure of modern survival.
Why similar: Political Sim 31% ★, Interactive Fiction 12.3%, Dialogue Heavy 8.7%, Point & Click 8.3%, Hand-drawn 7.9%
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: Political Sim 30.3% ★, Interactive Fiction 9.6%, Visual Novel 9.6%, Text-Based 9.4%, Choices Matter 8.1%
You are the ruler of a democratic independent state of Belarus. Unfortunately, you receive troubled news. An act of aggression is planned against your country. You need to do everything in your power to stop it.
Why similar: Political Sim 34.4% ★, Historical 12.1%, Interactive Fiction 10.7%, Management 10.5%, Text-Based 9%
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 35.3% ★, Choices Matter 10.6%, Interactive Fiction 9.4%, Visual Novel 8%, Dialogue Heavy 7.9%
You are the Social Democratic Party of Germany in 1928. Can you stop the Nazis from taking power?
Why similar: Political Sim 38.1% ★, Interactive Fiction 14.3%, Historical 12.1%, Text-Based 8.4%, Simulation 7.5%
Experience the triumphs and tribulations of two Caribbean immigrants in post-war Britain, in the world’s first Windrush video game, from the creators of the BAFTA nominated Before I Forget. How will you shape your story in this branching narrative interactive photo album?
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 19.8%, Historical 13.8%, Hand-drawn 13.5%, Choices Matter 11.8%, Multiple Endings 9.2%
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 26.8% ★, Investigation 16.5%, Interactive Fiction 10.1%, Choices Matter 9.8%, Point & Click 9.5%
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 36.5% ★, Interactive Fiction 11.1%, Choices Matter 10.7%, Multiple Endings 7.4%, Point & Click 7.1%
Inspect the parents’ medical record and match the newborn who can only be theirs — that is the day’s work in this 1920s dystopian puzzle. A fire burned the birth records, and the Ministry put you in charge of giving the children back. Your choice goes into the report.
Why similar: Political Sim 28.4% ★, Multiple Endings 10.4%, Point & Click 9.8%, Investigation 9.6%, Choices Matter 9.5%
Lead your nation through political decisions, balance happiness, economy, military, technology, and environment, compete against rival states, and respond to global events in this turn-based political strategy simulation where every choice shapes your country's future.
Why similar: Political Sim 53.4% ★, Management 14.9%, Text-Based 8.5%, Strategy 7.6%, Simulation 6.6%
Path to Power is a political turn-based strategy game with visual novel elements. Choose your candidate, implement reforms, strike deals, manage resources, contain protests, and pave your way to the pinnacle of power in 1992 Kazakhstan.
Why similar: Political Sim 42% ★, Historical 12.8%, Visual Novel 9.6%, Text-Based 9.3%, Strategy 8.2%
Paris, 1888. In this detective visual novel inspired by Ace Attorney and Golden Idol, play as a matchmaker-detective striving to keep her marriage agency open. Meet colourful characters, uncover their secrets, and spread love throughout the city!
Why similar: Dialogue Heavy 15.7%, Historical 13%, Investigation 12.2%, Interactive Fiction 11.5%, Choices Matter 9.2%
When The President fails to win the 2025 Nobel Peace Prize, he vows to get it next year — by ending every world conflict himself. A darkly funny political strategy inspired by This Is the Police.
Why similar: Political Sim 39.7% ★, Management 14.7%, Strategy 10.5%, Choices Matter 10.5%, Story Rich 7.9%
The star magician of Morgan’s Traveling Circus is missing, but the show must go on! In this non-linear detective visual novel, unravel the mystery from two different perspectives as you learn the varying stories of an entire circus of performers, each with their own lives... and their own secrets.
Why similar: Historical 15.5%, Dialogue Heavy 11.9%, Investigation 11.4%, Interactive Fiction 11.3%, Choices Matter 8.6%
A digital voyeur simulator where you watch strangers through surveillance cameras. Invade their privacy and witness their most intimate moments, but don’t interact with the subjects – anything could happen if you dare feed the monkeys!
Why similar: Political Sim 36% ★, Management 11.4%, Choices Matter 9.7%, Point & Click 9.2%, Multiple Endings 8.9%
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 40.5% ★, Interactive Fiction 14.6%, Simulation 10.6%, Multiple Endings 10.2%, Point & Click 7.5%
Play as the White Rabbit in a schedule-based visual novel game set in the world of Alice in Wonderland.
Why similar: Political Sim 32.2% ★, Interactive Fiction 11%, Management 8.5%, Visual Novel 8.3%, Hand-drawn 8.1%
You play as pharaoh Horem during the 18th dynasty of Egypt. You have to balance your work and home life as the living embodiment of a god, how hard could it be? What is right and wrong? Can there be an allowance for a lapse in judgment? Can you forge a path to getting to sleep peacefully each night?
Why similar: Historical 23.8%, Investigation 18.9%, Visual Novel 13.1%, Hand-drawn 10.1%, Choices Matter 8.7%
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 35.8% ★, Management 10.7%, Choices Matter 10%, Interactive Fiction 9.8%, Multiple Endings 8.3%
Your motel is busy for the first time in years. Antsy city-folk and dispossessed teens flood your rooms, and you can barely keep up. Now, after a week of all-nighters spent managing reservations, room service requests, and Yup! reviews, you begin to wonder… could you even fall asleep if you tried?
Why similar: Dialogue Heavy 14.6%, Multiple Endings 11.3%, Choices Matter 11.1%, Hand-drawn 10.9%, Interactive Fiction 9.9%
You’re a state-installed landlord in a totalitarian country. Place listening devices, steal and sneak into your tenants’ apartments. Use what you uncovered to report anyone capable of plotting against the state. You MUST! But WILL you?
Why similar: Political Sim 37.8% ★, Choices Matter 11.5%, Multiple Endings 9.3%, Dark 8.4%, Point & Click 7.6%
Smuggle banned books to save the Nation! Make tough choices, manage resources, and decipher secret messages in this narrative adventure based on true events. Help preserve a forbidden language - one dangerous mission at a time.
Why similar: Historical 18.6%, Investigation 14.6%, Choices Matter 13.4%, Visual Novel 9.9%, Point & Click 8.9%
Berlin 1933. “Adolf Hitler is chancellor!” We all know the consequences this message bore. Unspeakable horrors and suffering would sweep across the world. Few would stand and fight the monstrosity that was the German Reich. Will you? Lead an underground resistance group Through the Darkest of Times.
Why similar: Historical 17.4%, Strategy 10.5%, Simulation 10.3%, Management 9.5%, Choices Matter 9.4%
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 32% ★, Choices Matter 11.2%, Point & Click 8.5%, Text-Based 8.1%, Multiple Endings 7.1%
Between 1930 and 1933, Lieutenant Chen, an ambitious Asian officer, travels to a remote mine in the mountains of French Indochina to investigate a decrease in mineral production. Various forces become entangled in the power play, revealing the truth amid diplomatic mediation and supernatural events.
Why similar: Political Sim 36.9% ★, Historical 11.3%, Visual Novel 10.3%, Hand-drawn 10.3%, Story Rich 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 45.1% ★, Interactive Fiction 8.9%, Choices Matter 8.5%, Multiple Endings 7.6%, Text-Based 7.5%
Short, thought-provoking adventure where you are a News Editor and decide what stories get published, set in a fictional city where most people are genetically modified. Multiple unique endings let you share your story and see what the Headliner before you did.
Why similar: Political Sim 43.1% ★, Choices Matter 16%, Multiple Endings 12.8%, Story Rich 6.1%, Dark 5.5%
Shamrock Creations is proud to present Watashi Suzume. A story that explores the far reaching impacts that love, friendship, and understanding have on not only our own lives, but how we view life itself. All wrapped up in a supernatural murder mystery narrative that we think everyone will enjoy.
Why similar: Investigation 15.5%, Text-Based 14.2%, Interactive Fiction 13.7%, Visual Novel 11.2%, Dialogue Heavy 10%
Orwell’s Animal Farm is a text-based choice-driven narrative game where all animals are equal, but some animals are more equal than others. Immerse yourself in George Orwell's story of absolute power and corruption and follow the ups and downs of Animalism.
Why similar: Political Sim 20.1% ★, Hand-drawn 9.9%, Text-Based 9.9%, Interactive Fiction 9.7%, Dialogue Heavy 8.8%
When a high-ranking security officer saves you from prison, you end up a pawn in her schemes. Now you must eliminate anyone standing in the way of her secret plans and try to get your life back while working two jobs. No tenant, employee or superior is safe from your spying.
Why similar: Political Sim 39.6% ★, Management 9.1%, Point & Click 8.2%, Dark 7.4%, Simulation 6%
A story-rich coming-of-age experience told through a 2004 desktop, where friendships, music, and late-night conversations shape who you become. Explore chats, drama, mini-games, and the early internet in a branching story about growing up, making mistakes, and finding your place.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 17%, Dialogue Heavy 16.5%, Visual Novel 13.7%, Choices Matter 12.7%, Text-Based 12.1%
Simple visual novel in which you play as a young upperclass woman preparing for her debut before the Queen and her royal relatives. All of your decisions lead to one of four very different endings. Who will you become? The jewel of the season or the outcast, never again mentioned by your family?
Why similar: Historical 17.1%, Interactive Fiction 13.4%, Choices Matter 12.2%, Hand-drawn 11%, Visual Novel 11%
You are an intern at the central ministry of a totalitarian state with your whole career ahead of you. Work your way up the ladder by scheming against employees, spying on your boss, and completing paperwork. Or do you turn against the state and expose corruption. The choice is still yours to make!
Why similar: Political Sim 36.9% ★, Choices Matter 11.5%, Multiple Endings 9.1%, Dark 7.8%, Point & Click 6.7%
When a sudden election rocks the country, whose side are you on? In Civic Story, you'll encounter colorful characters & situations that show how the upcoming election affects you, your colleagues, and the nation in this comedic 8-chapter Visual Novel parody that helps you understand our world today.
Why similar: Political Sim 35% ★, Interactive Fiction 11.4%, Visual Novel 9%, Dialogue Heavy 8%, Multiple Endings 8%
Help the eccentric inventor navigate the intrigue of the emerging electrical industry! Can you outsmart Thomas Edison and electrify the world?
Why similar: Historical 20.6%, Interactive Fiction 18.4%, Text-Based 15.6%, Choices Matter 10.9%, Investigation 9.2%
It is a strategy/adventure game set in a small, quiet town. Survive as an ordinary salaryman under a ruthless Mexican cartel by laundering money, making tough decisions, acquiring businesses, and finding trustworthy allies. But in this cutthroat world, will you be able to keep to your humanity?
Why similar: Political Sim 31.7% ★, Interactive Fiction 10.2%, Investigation 9.8%, Management 8.3%, Choices Matter 8.2%
"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 13.4%, Investigation 12.5%, Choices Matter 11.9%, Management 11.1%, Multiple Endings 10.4%
Sunset Magna Carta (formerly Fertility, Crime, and Economy) is a political simulation game. As a cabinet minister of the United Realm, you will implement policies, handle social crises, and try to sustain order and national prosperity. Be careful: consequences may defy your intentions.
Why similar: Political Sim 38.4% ★, Text-Based 12.3%, Point & Click 8.3%, Multiple Endings 7.6%, Choices Matter 7.6%
Become mayor of a small Greek town and govern for 17 years. Citizens write you letters for years, the opposition never sleeps, and every promise is remembered. A satirical political city sim where the town never forgets.
Why similar: Political Sim 50.8% ★, Management 13.5%, Choices Matter 11.2%, Simulation 8.5%, Multiple Endings 5.2%
A visual novel about an environmental disaster. Coordinate volunteers, make difficult decisions, and try to survive as you try to save a coastal town dying from an oil spill.
Why similar: Visual Novel 15.8%, Multiple Endings 13.1%, Choices Matter 12.7%, Text-Based 12.4%, Story Rich 10.4%
The town is half empty, but the town hall still opens at nine. You are the clerk. Whatever your stamp approves becomes true — permits, licenses, names, deaths. Everyone who reaches your desk brings a reason, and most bring money. In the basement, a file explains why the town emptied.
Why similar: Political Sim 32.7% ★, Choices Matter 20%, Simulation 13.9%, Management 11.5%, Story Rich 10.4%
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 63.8% ★, Strategy 9.1%, Historical 8.7%, Management 4.8%, Choices Matter 4.7%
Can you beat inflation without crashing the economy? Run the Federal Reserve through real crises, political pressure, AI bubbles, and market panic. Set rates, deploy QE, manage expectations, and engineer the perfect soft landing. Featured on Marketplace with Kai Ryssdal.
Why similar: Political Sim 44.1% ★, Historical 20.2%, Management 11.8%, Choices Matter 8.3%, Simulation 5.1%
Set in a student-run academy, Shirou Asami of the newspaper club infiltrates the student council election. Gather information, conduct interviews, and publish articles to influence the outcome. A stylish school politics adventure in beautiful pixel art.
Why similar: Political Sim 40.5% ★, Visual Novel 11.5%, Text-Based 10.6%, Investigation 9.9%, Dialogue Heavy 6.8%
In this story-rich interstellar political drama, ascend as humanity's next leader. Rebuild a broken empire in a war-torn galaxy through might, diplomacy, or espionage. Every choice has a consequence. What will you choose, Your Eminence?
Why similar: Political Sim 46.3% ★, Choices Matter 11.7%, Multiple Endings 9.2%, Management 9.1%, Visual Novel 9%
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: Political Sim 34.3% ★, Choices Matter 13%, Interactive Fiction 10.4%, Multiple Endings 9.5%, Visual Novel 9.4%
