
A game as beautiful and unpredictable as life. Navigate what fate throws at you and explore what a life well lived can mean in this minimalist roguelite role playing life simulation. Life is wild and then you die – a thousand times over.
60+ similar titles based on shared tags and player behavior. Themes include Simulation, Life Sim, Singleplayer, Choices Matter.

A game as beautiful and unpredictable as life. Navigate what fate throws at you and explore what a life well lived can mean in this minimalist roguelite role playing life simulation. Life is wild and then you die – a thousand times over.

My Child Lebensborn Remastered
My Child Lebensborn is a story-driven nurture game based on real events. Play as the adoptive parent of Karin or Klaus, and experience the struggles they go through alongside them. Balance your time and resources wisely, while helping your child cope with the effects of hatred.

Plodding Recovery
"Why did it come to this?" That's what the protagonist asks, his body and mind worn to the breaking point. From there begins a journey of rediscovering the self he had long neglected. A small action at a time, he plods forward — slowly, haltingly — toward recovery.
My Child Lebensborn is a story-driven nurture game based on real events. Play as the adoptive parent of Karin or Klaus, and experience the struggles they go through alongside them. Balance your time and resources wisely, while helping your child cope with the effects of hatred.
Why similar: Life Sim 33.6%, Emotional 21.2%, Choices Matter 13%, Immersive Sim 12.2%, Simulation 10.6%
"Why did it come to this?" That's what the protagonist asks, his body and mind worn to the breaking point. From there begins a journey of rediscovering the self he had long neglected. A small action at a time, he plods forward — slowly, haltingly — toward recovery.
Why similar: Life Sim 31.9%, Choices Matter 14.7%, Choose Your Own Adventure 13.7%, Philosophical 11.9%, Psychological 10.6%
Live the metal dream. Rise from bedroom musician to stadium legend in this deep career simulation. Write songs, record albums, recruit bandmates, and compete against real licensed bands and procedurally generated rivals. Your metal empire starts now. FORGE YOUR LEGACY
Why similar: Life Sim 29.4%, Choose Your Own Adventure 15.8%, RPG 15%, Immersive Sim 12.3%, Simulation 12.1%
The first step that you never knew you needed to take to get to wherever you're wanting to go...
Why similar: Emotional 16.7%, Life Sim 14.5%, Choices Matter 14.1%, Philosophical 13.8%, Choose Your Own Adventure 13.5%
Parent Ted, your own childhood. On this journey, you will have the chance to discover your inner child and better understand the trauma and emotions of your childhood.
Why similar: Life Sim 26%, Choose Your Own Adventure 14.1%, Emotional 13.5%, Philosophical 11.7%, Text-Based 11.6%
You've been given the chance to go to the country's most prestigious academy. Your future couldn't have looked brighter! But you'll soon find out nothing is ever as it seems...
Why similar: Life Sim 24.4%, Choose Your Own Adventure 21%, Immersive Sim 14.8%, Choices Matter 10.8%, RPG 10.7%
A medieval text quest in the "Choose Your Own Adventure" genre, where each choice could be your last. Create your story with more than 2,000 events, 200 of which will prove fatal. In a world where death plays against you, can you outsmart it and write your own story?
Why similar: Life Sim 31.9%, Choose Your Own Adventure 17.3%, Choices Matter 16.6%, Text-Based 11.6%, RPG 8.8%
This is the story of your life. Experience the entire journey from toddler to adulthood. Go to schools, learn new things, meet new friends, and have wild adventures! Every choice you make will influence your future career, and decide who your romantic partner will be. Who will you become?
Why similar: Life Sim 29.3%, Emotional 18.7%, Choices Matter 15.5%, Choose Your Own Adventure 12%, Story Rich 8.4%
Deep in Enemy Territory is a Rogue-Like with simulation features that takes place in the Vietnam war. Get ready to struggle for survival in the dense jungles of Vietnam!
Why similar: Roguelite 16.1%, Choose Your Own Adventure 14.5%, Philosophical 11.7%, Text-Based 11.7%, Immersive Sim 11.6%
"Chinese Newcomer" blends deck-building with career simulation. Players choose one of three cards to collect, manage stamina. Use "Legacy Points" to grant Five-Elements talents to descendants, rectifying past regrets. Make choices along paths and embarking on a multi-generational journey.
Why similar: Life Sim 26.2%, Roguelite 14.6%, Choices Matter 14.4%, Text-Based 10.1%, Roguelike 7.3%
This is a life sim board game where the board represents one year of your life. Through luck and strategy you must avoid landing on negative squares and strategize on how to optimize your four core life parameters - health, social life, career and wealth.
Why similar: Life Sim 34.1%, Choices Matter 16.8%, Choose Your Own Adventure 13.1%, Roguelike 12.9%, Simulation 10.2%
Nello in Antwerp is a free-to-play experience set in the world of A Dog of Flanders (in development). You will play as a young boy in 19th century Belgium, penniless but with an artistic dream of painting. You will use pencil and brush to record the landscape you see.
Why similar: Life Sim 43.3%, Emotional 24.9%, Choose Your Own Adventure 22.9%, Story Rich 8.4%, Singleplayer 0.5%
Four little letters that can turn your whole day upside down – ADHD. Think it’s nothing? That everyone has it? Then watering a few plants, walking the dog, or writing one simple email shouldn’t be a problem... right?
Why similar: Life Sim 32.3%, Simulation 15.2%, Immersive Sim 14.5%, Choose Your Own Adventure 13.4%, Emotional 12.9%
"Have a Good Night" is a word adventure game where you guide Ye through her insomnia. Make choices to calm her restless thoughts and shape her path to peaceful sleep. Will tonight be the night she finally rests?
Why similar: Life Sim 29.8%, Emotional 20.5%, Choices Matter 18.3%, RPG 8.8%, Immersive Sim 7.3%
Be My Guest is a 2D role-playing game that blends the social simulation system with rogue-lite deck-building elements. Players will experience the mixed gameplay of daily life and combat adventure.
Why similar: Life Sim 33.9%, RPG 17%, Roguelite 13.8%, Story Rich 10%, Choices Matter 9%
You are trapped in a labyrinth of identical rooms that repeat endlessly. The goal is to find the right door and move forward before anxiety consumes you. Every decision matters... the labyrinth doesn't forgive mistakes.
Why similar: Life Sim 46.8%, Emotional 29%, Simulation 23%, Singleplayer 0.7%, Indie 0.5%
What would you do if you could restart life? Live from birth to old age in a life-sim visual novel with branching careers, romance routes, random fate events, and 30 endings.
Why similar: Life Sim 32.5%, Choices Matter 19.7%, Emotional 13.8%, Story Rich 11.6%, Text-Based 8.3%
Marchen fantasy raising simulation 『Lullaby Days』 is a game where the goal is to grow a duckling girl into a hero. Your duckling girl will grow through education, part-time work, exploration, and more. Create 70 endings in the Kingdom of Oberebach with around 90 sub-characters.
Why similar: Life Sim 33%, Choices Matter 11.8%, Simulation 10%, Story Rich 9.9%, RPG 9.7%
A card-based life simulation where every choice is a card. Build your deck, shape your destiny, and explore multiple paths with 21 skills and 22 careers. Marry, stay single, get rich, or start over—every run tells a new life story.
Why similar: Life Sim 36.6%, Roguelite 22.9%, Simulation 18.6%, Choices Matter 13.8%, Story Rich 7%
Can you heal a mind while racing against time? Psychologist Life is a strategic simulation game where you experience the life of a psychologist. Carefully plan your appointments, use your knowledge to treat patients, and prove your time management skills.
Why similar: Life Sim 35%, Choices Matter 16%, Simulation 15.4%, Psychological 12.4%, Text-Based 11%
An experimental narrative game that tells its story through sound and memory. Sort through a box of personal mementos and relive memories from a relationship by closing your eyes in real life.
Why similar: Life Sim 25.5%, Choose Your Own Adventure 16.4%, Immersive Sim 13.4%, Emotional 12.6%, Choices Matter 11.8%
FUTURE:ONE is a living desktop companion who shares your screen — reacting, idling, and expressing herself while you work, game, or wander the web.
Why similar: Life Sim 38.2%, Emotional 18.8%, Immersive Sim 17.2%, Simulation 17.1%, Choices Matter 8.4%
A dark life-simulation where stress, money and time work against you. Trade coins, survive daily life and fight rising panic — every decision matters.
Why similar: Life Sim 39.3%, Roguelite 24.8%, Simulation 18.1%, Choices Matter 9.8%, Psychological 7.3%
Play as a Duskweaver in this short "choices matter" story about self-sacrifice.
Why similar: Choices Matter 22.8%, Emotional 17.7%, Text-Based 16.4%, Philosophical 14.6%, Choose Your Own Adventure 10.8%
Linda & Joan is a narrative game about a British family. You play as Russell, Linda, and Joan — son, mother, and grandmother — switching between them to help the family cope with a series of traumatic events. Based on a true story. “Four Months Earlier” is part one of the Linda & Joan story.
Why similar: Life Sim 20.5%, Emotional 18.5%, Philosophical 15%, Choices Matter 13.6%, Choose Your Own Adventure 13.3%
On December 22, 2999 AD, the Dutaf man—who had paid a fortune to purchase ownership of Earth from humanity—are about to fully take over the blue planet and begin reverting it to a primordial state.
Why similar: Life Sim 22.2%, Emotional 20.4%, Choices Matter 13.7%, Philosophical 12.9%, Immersive Sim 10.4%
Endure the gaze inside the elevator.
Why similar: Life Sim 39.4%, Simulation 20.1%, Immersive Sim 17.4%, Choices Matter 12.4%, Psychological 10%
Enter to the characters mind and make decisions. The game is played like interactive movie/adventure game with morality choices which influence the outcome which can be: a manipulative, balanced or violent. The game is based on psychology/philosophy and teaches about thoughts and their consequences.
Why similar: Life Sim 27.1%, Choices Matter 16.3%, Choose Your Own Adventure 14.1%, Emotional 12.6%, Philosophical 11%
Guide your character through it all, from their birth to their last breath. Make sure they remember you.
Why similar: Life Sim 33.5%, Choose Your Own Adventure 18.3%, Text-Based 15.9%, Choices Matter 10.1%, Simulation 7.6%
Dopamine Rogue is a psychological life-simulation roguelike about surviving your own mind. Confront inner demons, struggle through mental obstacles, and fight to accomplish both basic and extraordinary moments of life. A solo-developed project crafted over two years.
Why similar: Life Sim 30%, Roguelite 14.6%, Roguelike 13%, Choose Your Own Adventure 12.7%, Psychological 12.5%
This is a simulation game that emphasizes the long-term impact of choices. Players take on the role of a Chinese woman born in the 2000s who has experienced trauma from her family of origin and must raise her newborn child until adulthood, ensuring the child's mental and physical well-being.
Why similar: Life Sim 25.2%, Roguelite 15.2%, Philosophical 12.9%, Text-Based 11.3%, Immersive Sim 10.9%
Assume the role of a Robot vacuum and roll around cleaning up messes in this short 3rd person adventure!
Why similar: Life Sim 36.8%, Emotional 30.8%, Immersive Sim 16.7%, Simulation 14.9%, Indie 0.4%
你正值青春,风华正茂。殿试及第,皇帝夸你,同僚敬你,你以为从此可以施展抱负、光耀门楣。然后一夕之间,风云突变……《青云录:官海浮沉》是一款古风官场模拟养成类轻度Roguelike游戏,在这里,你可以参与科举,多地赴任,逐步晋升,结识红颜知己,体验仕途人生。
Why similar: Story Rich 17.1%, RPG 16.8%, Roguelite 16.7%, Choices Matter 14.8%, Simulation 14%
Shape Your Life, Shape Their Stories!Life Choices is a fun and thought-provoking social simulation game where every decision you make shapes the fate of the characters. Every choice creates a story – your story!
Why similar: Life Sim 29.6%, Choices Matter 15.7%, Choose Your Own Adventure 13%, Text-Based 12.6%, Emotional 11.9%
Board the Trans-Siberian railroad and travel 9,289 km from Moscow to Vladivostok. Clash with a vibrant culture as you meet people as strange to you as you are to them. Journey into a standalone Wanderlust adventure from the makers of The Witcher.
Why similar: Minimalist 16.9%, Emotional 16%, Choices Matter 14.3%, Philosophical 13.5%, Choose Your Own Adventure 12.7%
If you don't work, you will eat dirt! To pay off your loans, you will take on various jobs. Make pancakes, perform archery, and operate a space drone! Enjoy a changeable work experience in your busy life!
Why similar: Life Sim 39.3%, Roguelite 24%, Roguelike 15.8%, RPG 13.1%, Simulation 5.9%
Welcome to the fascinating world of S.E.X. Retreat: WellCum In!, a visual novel for adults! 🌟💋Immerse yourself in a captivating story where the main character, tired of failures and searching, decides to start a new chapter in a different spa.
Why similar: Life Sim 25.3%, Emotional 15.9%, Choose Your Own Adventure 14.3%, Choices Matter 14.2%, Immersive Sim 11.7%
Just Another Life is a narrative-driven "life simulation" visual novel mixed with adventure game puzzle elements. Play as John Doe, just another life in the little town of Hope. Help John learn the stories of the various characters of Hope, and help him overcome the hurdles to his own happiness.
Why similar: Life Sim 19.8%, Emotional 18%, Philosophical 16.1%, Choices Matter 14.3%, Immersive Sim 13.1%
Welcome to the thrilling world of Hot Office: Sex Story🔞 – an adult visual novel where every decision and choice impacts the development of a captivating storyline. Step into the shadowy realm of financial intrigues and risky investigations!
Why similar: Life Sim 26.6%, Emotional 19.1%, Choices Matter 14.8%, Immersive Sim 10.4%, Story Rich 7.9%
A corporate parody JRPG. Battle coworkers, bosses, and the entire board of directors as you fight your way to the top of a satirical office tower. Build your team, master turn-based combat, and survive the most hostile workplace in gaming.
Why similar: Life Sim 51.2%, Simulation 24.6%, Choices Matter 22%, 2D 1.6%, Singleplayer 0.6%
Within industrial silence, every machine holds a secret. Maintain the order... or break the loop.
Why similar: Life Sim 28.9%, Roguelite 16.3%, Simulation 14.3%, Roguelike 12.9%, Immersive Sim 10.9%
Do you miss life pre covid? The fantastic yet boring 9-5 of our existence? Then this is NOT the game for you. This boring game involves you clicking your way through the day during quarantine as you go by living life with covid in this endless experience.
Why similar: Life Sim 47.7%, Simulation 22.7%, Immersive Sim 20%, Story Rich 9.1%, Singleplayer 0.5%
「Princess Maker: Children of Revelation」is a raising simulation game that returns after 18 years as part of the "Princess Maker" package series, where you raise a young girl into adulthood. Become a parent in the game and help fulfill your daughter's dreams!
Why similar: Life Sim 50.8%, Simulation 21.8%, Choices Matter 13.2%, Choose Your Own Adventure 12.1%, 2D 1.3%
Kudos is a turn-based game that puts you in control of a single character and manages their life from age 20 to 30. You get to pick their friends, their job, and how they spend their free time, but there is a catch! You can only choose to do one thing each day, or two at the weekends.
Why similar: Life Sim 39.1%, Choices Matter 20.1%, Choose Your Own Adventure 12.7%, RPG 10.6%, Simulation 8.8%
Welcome to Awkward Valley! Plan your day, tackle strange activities, and unlock bizarre new options as you go. Gym? Therapy? Vending machine snacks? It’s up to you! Featuring Awkward Yeti’s weird and wonderful characters in a totally normal town.
Why similar: Life Sim 34.2%, Immersive Sim 16.7%, Emotional 16.4%, Choices Matter 11.7%, Simulation 10.9%
This is a simple love story set in a modern city, featuring me and three girls. The story takes place in the company where I work as a supervisor. Together with the three women, The game follows a linear narrative, with hundreds of video clips providing branching choices for the players.
Why similar: Life Sim 27.8%, Choose Your Own Adventure 18.3%, Immersive Sim 14.6%, Emotional 11.9%, RPG 8.3%
My Child New Beginnings is a parenting simulator where you go through everyday life of growth. After a series of traumatic events that you and your child went through, you now get to rebuild life together in a new region of Norway.
Why similar: Life Sim 44%, Simulation 22.1%, Emotional 20.5%, Story Rich 11.2%, 2D 1.3%
A visual novel where your choices determine the future of your relationship and the success of your colony. Choose how to treat your husband and how to spend your free time in this frontier sci-fi story.
Why similar: Life Sim 26.4%, Emotional 16.3%, Choose Your Own Adventure 15.8%, Choices Matter 15.3%, Text-Based 10.6%
You are a park bench. Watch strangers sit, talk, break down, fall in love, argue, and reveal their secrets in a story-rich narrative simulation where your smallest reactions can change everything.
Why similar: Life Sim 29.9%, Text-Based 15.6%, Choose Your Own Adventure 14.1%, Emotional 11.1%, Immersive Sim 10.6%
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: Emotional 16.3%, Roguelite 15.9%, Choices Matter 15.1%, Choose Your Own Adventure 14.3%, Philosophical 14%
Love shark-themed games? Jump into the water and start hunting! Swim through a school of fish and catch your next meal
Why similar: Life Sim 26%, Emotional 15.6%, Minimalist 15.3%, Choose Your Own Adventure 14.3%, Immersive Sim 11.6%
A female teacher who, because she didn't get to "play" with the principal, ends up masturbating late at night in the principal's office while watching old videos of herself.
Why similar: Life Sim 35%, Emotional 21.9%, Immersive Sim 15.2%, RPG 12.4%, Simulation 10.3%
A story-driven adult visual novel packed with drama, humor, impactful choices—and sex. In RAVE, you step into the shoes of a troublemaker who's finally pushed things too far. Reconnect with old friends, meet new girls, and shape your future through meaningful choices in a heartfelt, branching story.
Why similar: Life Sim 30.5%, Choices Matter 21%, Emotional 18.5%, Story Rich 10.9%, Choose Your Own Adventure 10%
Escape to the charming village of Clementine and breathe new life into your best friend's old, run-down restaurant. With hard work, creativity, and a little help from the locals, you can transform it into a thriving business!
Why similar: Life Sim 44.1%, RPG 17.7%, Immersive Sim 14.9%, Simulation 12%, Minimalist 10.8%
A story of living with a woman whose identity is unknown for 30 days.
Why similar: Life Sim 35.9%, Choices Matter 15.1%, Text-Based 15%, Choose Your Own Adventure 12.9%, Simulation 11.5%
Step into the 1950s with My Hotel. As the new owner of a mysterious hotel, revive its glory through stylish renovations, solve hidden secrets, and master faction intrigues. A captivating blend of history and adventure awaits.
Why similar: Life Sim 25.4%, Choose Your Own Adventure 15.6%, Choices Matter 15.1%, Immersive Sim 11.2%, Roguelike 10.2%
A dating-themed extraction game. Talk to strangers, risk rejection, loot phone numbers — and extract before you pass out. Finish the night… and unlock what comes after.
Why similar: Life Sim 35.2%, Roguelite 18.5%, RPG 14.9%, Emotional 12.2%, Simulation 11.5%
Wander into the carnival of a giant magical dragon lady, where nobody ever leaves unchanged! Answer an extensive list of questions disguised as mini games as you explore the carnival grounds to discover what animal spirit lives inside you.
Why similar: Philosophical 17.1%, Choose Your Own Adventure 15.8%, Choices Matter 14.1%, Immersive Sim 10.1%, Psychological 10%
Live Through Time is an AI-powered historical text adventure. Survive gritty eras from the Colosseum in Ancient Rome to the trenches of Passchendaele during The Great War. Type or dictate your actions to co-author a script-free RPG where the world reacts to your every move.
Why similar: Life Sim 27.3%, RPG 14.5%, Choose Your Own Adventure 12.8%, Simulation 11.8%, Immersive Sim 10.2%
Player's Log: I discovered a rigorous space station builder called Astrobase Command, where crew make narrative decisions using an emotional simulation tied to all aspects of the RPG
Why similar: Life Sim 20.6%, Emotional 17.9%, Choices Matter 13.1%, Philosophical 10.8%, Text-Based 10.1%