
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
Koishi had long turned a blind eye to the weight in his heart — until one day, his mind and body finally gave way. Taking small, unforced steps, he begins to meet himself again. A quiet adventure about hoping to heal, and slowly moving forward.
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 33.4%, Emotional 21.2%, Choices Matter 13.4%, Immersive Sim 12.2%, Simulation 10.6%
Koishi had long turned a blind eye to the weight in his heart — until one day, his mind and body finally gave way. Taking small, unforced steps, he begins to meet himself again. A quiet adventure about hoping to heal, and slowly moving forward.
Why similar: Life Sim 31.9%, Choices Matter 14.8%, Choose Your Own Adventure 13.6%, Philosophical 11.8%, 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 29.5%, Choose Your Own Adventure 15.7%, RPG 14.9%, Immersive Sim 12.4%, 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 16.8%, Life Sim 14.5%, Choices Matter 14.2%, Philosophical 13.8%, Choose Your Own Adventure 13.4%
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 24.5%, Choose Your Own Adventure 20.6%, Immersive Sim 14.8%, RPG 10.9%, Choices Matter 10.9%
A visual novel where you play as a farmer, father, and community member. Decide what to plant, which faction to support, and what kind of dad you want to be. How will you react when your daughter won't stop crying? When she bullies her friend? Or when she wants to hang out with the cool kids?
Why similar: Life Sim 28.2%, Emotional 19.1%, Choices Matter 15.3%, Choose Your Own Adventure 9.5%, Story Rich 8.2%
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 17.2%, Choices Matter 16.7%, Text-Based 11.7%, RPG 8.8%
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 13.6%, Philosophical 11.7%, Text-Based 11.6%
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 16.3%, Choose Your Own Adventure 14.4%, Text-Based 11.7%, Philosophical 11.7%, Immersive Sim 11.6%
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%, Roguelike 13%, 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 25.1%, Choose Your Own Adventure 22.8%, Story Rich 8.3%, 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 13.3%, Emotional 13%
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 16.8%, Roguelite 13.9%, Story Rich 9.9%, Choices Matter 9%
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 29.1%, Emotional 18.9%, Choices Matter 15.5%, Choose Your Own Adventure 12%, Story Rich 8.4%
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 12.5%, Text-Based 11%
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 46.7%, Emotional 29.2%, Simulation 22.9%, Singleplayer 0.7%, Indie 0.5%
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 33.1%, Choices Matter 11.8%, Simulation 10%, Story Rich 9.8%, RPG 9.6%
"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 20.6%, Choices Matter 18.3%, RPG 8.7%, Immersive Sim 7.3%
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 38.1%, Emotional 18.9%, Immersive Sim 17.1%, Simulation 17.1%, Choices Matter 8.4%
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 28.4%, Immersive Sim 15.4%, Choose Your Own Adventure 13.6%, Choices Matter 12.7%, Story Rich 9.7%
Play as a Duskweaver in this short "choices matter" story about self-sacrifice.
Why similar: Choices Matter 22.8%, Emotional 17.8%, Text-Based 16.5%, Philosophical 14.5%, Choose Your Own Adventure 10.8%
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 22.1%, Emotional 20.5%, Choices Matter 13.8%, Philosophical 12.8%, Immersive Sim 10.3%
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 39.2%, Roguelite 25%, Simulation 18%, Choices Matter 9.8%, Psychological 7.3%
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 18.6%, Philosophical 14.9%, Choices Matter 13.7%, Choose Your Own Adventure 13.2%
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 15.3%, Philosophical 12.8%, Text-Based 11.3%, Immersive Sim 10.9%
Endure the gaze inside the elevator.
Why similar: Life Sim 39.4%, Simulation 20%, Immersive Sim 17.4%, Choices Matter 12.4%, Psychological 10%
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 14.7%, Roguelike 13%, Choose Your Own Adventure 12.6%, Psychological 12.6%
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 15.8%, Choose Your Own Adventure 12.9%, Text-Based 12.7%, Emotional 12%
An experimental narrative game that tells its story through sound and memory. Sort through a box of personal mementos and relive memories from a seven-year relationship by closing your eyes in real life.
Why similar: Life Sim 25.5%, Choose Your Own Adventure 16.4%, Immersive Sim 13.5%, Emotional 12.7%, Choices Matter 11.8%
Assume the role of a Robot vacuum and roll around cleaning up messes in this short 3rd person adventure!
Why similar: Life Sim 36.7%, Emotional 30.9%, Immersive Sim 16.7%, Simulation 14.9%, Indie 0.4%
Guide your character through it all, from their birth to their last breath. Make sure they remember you.
Why similar: Life Sim 33.6%, Choose Your Own Adventure 18.2%, Text-Based 16%, Choices Matter 10.1%, Simulation 7.6%
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 16.5%, Choices Matter 11.8%, Simulation 10.8%
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 24.1%, Roguelike 15.8%, RPG 12.9%, Simulation 5.9%
An adventure RPG life sim about following your passion, confronting limiting beliefs, and rewriting the stories we tell ourselves. As Momo, you've been given a chance to remake the choices from youth. Except this time, you are starting to understand the nature of your reality…
Why similar: Life Sim 28%, Philosophical 19.8%, Choices Matter 16.5%, Emotional 14.5%, RPG 9.9%
You are a dungeon warden. Sitting in the chair of the previous warden you killed, you must cleanse yourself of your sins within 666 hours. Place the incoming demons into six different dungeons based on your information, intuition, and limited resources.
Why similar: Life Sim 51.2%, Simulation 24.8%, Choices Matter 21.8%, 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 28.8%, Roguelite 16.3%, Simulation 14.3%, Roguelike 12.9%, Immersive Sim 10.9%
「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 50.6%, Simulation 21.5%, Choices Matter 13.5%, Choose Your Own Adventure 12.3%, 2D 1.2%
Elevator Pitch is a narrative-driven game where you pitch ideas you come up with during elevator rides right before presenting to your boss. Build a strong pitch navigate branching conversations, and rise through the floors of a satirical office tower.
Why similar: Life Sim 51.2%, Simulation 24.5%, Choices Matter 22.1%, 2D 1.6%, Singleplayer 0.6%
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 47.8%, Simulation 22.6%, Immersive Sim 20%, Story Rich 9%, Singleplayer 0.5%
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 27.9%, Choose Your Own Adventure 18.2%, Immersive Sim 14.6%, Emotional 12%, RPG 8.2%
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 18.1%, Philosophical 16%, Choices Matter 14.4%, Immersive Sim 13%
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 39.2%, Choices Matter 20.2%, Choose Your Own Adventure 12.6%, RPG 10.5%, Simulation 8.7%
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 16.4%, Roguelite 16%, Choices Matter 15.1%, Choose Your Own Adventure 14.2%, Philosophical 14%
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 20.6%, Story Rich 11.1%, 2D 1.3%
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 26.1%, Emotional 15.8%, Minimalist 15.2%, Choose Your Own Adventure 14.2%, Immersive Sim 11.6%
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 18.6%, RPG 14.7%, Emotional 12.3%, Simulation 11.4%
A story of living with a woman whose identity is unknown for 30 days.
Why similar: Life Sim 35.9%, Choices Matter 15.2%, Text-Based 15.1%, Choose Your Own Adventure 12.8%, Simulation 11.4%
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 15.5%, Choices Matter 15.2%, Immersive Sim 11.2%, Roguelike 10.3%
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 28.3%, Choices Matter 17.1%, Choose Your Own Adventure 14.7%, Emotional 13.2%, Philosophical 11.5%
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 44.3%, RPG 17.6%, Immersive Sim 14.9%, Simulation 12%, Minimalist 10.7%
In this sci-fi RPG/visual novel, you are an extraterrestrial movie director at a low-budget movie studio. Struggle against capitalism, corruption, and your eccentric coworkers to get the movie done on time and under budget.
Why similar: Life Sim 31.7%, Choose Your Own Adventure 17.7%, Choices Matter 16.5%, RPG 11.7%, Simulation 10.5%
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 15.7%, Choices Matter 14.2%, Psychological 10.1%, Immersive Sim 10.1%
To study, you drag your suitcase and go to a small town in Lullugna to start a new life. In this town, there are hospitable residents and rich and peculiar parties, These choices are not arbitrary, they will push you like a cog in your life, and you will be the one to decide.
Why similar: Life Sim 34.8%, Roguelite 16.9%, Simulation 16.7%, Roguelike 13.6%, Emotional 13.4%
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 21.1%, Emotional 18.6%, Story Rich 10.9%, Choose Your Own Adventure 9.9%
In Melan, the player as An will go everywhere and collect memories, thereby revealing some of what is happening in the game. The game is built in a storytelling format with situations that the player gradually discovers through interacting with the environment and NPCs.
Why similar: Life Sim 45.1%, Choose Your Own Adventure 24.8%, RPG 15.7%, Story Rich 11.8%, 2D 1.5%
As an AI inside a vending machine, you'll mix drinks and "data mine" to deeply understand customer emotions. Craft special concoctions to resonate with their stories and unlock the secrets of the human heart.
Why similar: Life Sim 38%, Choices Matter 17.2%, Emotional 16.3%, Simulation 14.1%, Story Rich 13.5%
PALEVO — a criminal stealth-simulation. The city is your map, every choice is a risk.
Why similar: Life Sim 40.8%, Minimalist 21.8%, Simulation 18.4%, Immersive Sim 18.3%, Indie 0.4%
You find yourself in a singularity with Death itself. With few chances to speak with the living, Death proposes a little game. Do you dive deep within yourself to indulge this cosmic guide and find out when you will meet again on official business? The Ultimate Death Clock awaits!
Why similar: Emotional 20.6%, Philosophical 17.1%, Choices Matter 17%, Choose Your Own Adventure 12.3%, Text-Based 11%
The Year is 1665 and the Great Plague has struck London. Guide your family through the darkest period of English history as you flee across the country. Navigate 100s of random events that challenge your ethics and your drive to survive.
Why similar: Life Sim 34.8%, Choices Matter 18.8%, Choose Your Own Adventure 15.2%, Text-Based 12.2%, Simulation 10.3%
RPG adventure game tells the journey of a failed wizard named Wander [_]>
Why similar: Life Sim 52.4%, RPG 18.2%, Simulation 14.1%, Story Rich 12.6%, 2D 1.6%