
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?
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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?

Beholder
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?

HEADLINER
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.
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 22.9% ★, Political 20.4% ★, Dystopian 18.1%, Choices Matter 8.7%, Point & Click 7.8%
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 24.3% ★, Political Sim 24% ★, Dystopian 16%, Choices Matter 11.3%, Multiple Endings 6.8%
All intergalactic travel passes through the orbital relay checkpoint. Verify ID discrepancies, repair vehicle systems and struggle against ethical dilemmas as you negotiate a shifting political landscape. Report for duty, Effective Immediately.
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Ministry of Truth: 1964 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!
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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!
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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.
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100 lives, one justice. Manage 100 citizens in a country falling to shadow forces. Your choices shape a collective timeline across decades. Lead unions, survive assassinations, and leave a legacy of resistance in this text-based political strategy sim. Words are your greatest weapon.
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You're the new mayor of a dystopian city on the brink of a devastating earthquake. Review building records, make urban transformation decisions, and maintain public support despite political pressure. Manage the economy and make critical choices. Can you prepare your city before disaster strikes?
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Screen travelers in a post-war world where lies are common. Check documents, spot inconsistencies, and decide who passes. Take bribes or stay honest—your choices shape the outcome. No action, just tension, tough calls, and hidden truths.
Why similar: Political 36.7% ★, Dystopian 18.5%, Point & Click 12.8%, Simulation 9%, Multiple Endings 6%
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.
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Immortality is not a blessing, it is a burden. As Milton Clarke, you work at the 47/B Mandatory Sleep Hospital, review documents, surf the internet, and decide who will no longer exist. You don’t kill anyone. You only “put them to sleep.” The rules are clear. Every decision has consequences.
Why similar: Political 32.1% ★, Dystopian 22.1%, Point & Click 12.3%, Choices Matter 8.9%, Simulation 6.8%
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?
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Clock in at the Dark Magic Federation. As a ritual clerk, you must verify public requests, consult the manual, and process the paperwork for a world of petty hexes. Stamp requests, catch counterfeits, and avoid costly compliance fines. The quota is rising. Work starts now.
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A dark and satirical management sim, where you take control of a recycling factory with a twist: it recycles humans. Your job is to decide who gets to escape our dying planet in a cozy spaceship and who sacrifices their blood, sweat and tears for humanity. Literally.
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Why similar: Political Sim 42.7% ★, Political 27.2% ★, Simulation 11%, Point & Click 7.1%, Indie 4.5%
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 43.1% ★, Dystopian 17.3%, Political 16.1% ★, Simulation 6.2%, Point & Click 5.7%
For the People is a mix of a political management sim and a visual novel, putting players in the shoes of an idealistic young state official tasked with shaping the future of a communist factory town. Will the party provide for the people, or are the people just cogs in its machine?..
Why similar: Political Sim 25% ★, Political 22.3% ★, Dystopian 13.6%, Time Management 9.9%, Point & Click 7.8%
Cruel 2037. Starvation. Repression. Fear. You decide who gets a ration and who remains starving. Survival is almost impossible.
Why similar: Political 28.2% ★, Dystopian 21%, Point & Click 10.7%, Time Management 7.6%, Multiple Endings 6.6%
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Why similar: Political 25.4% ★, Dystopian 21.5%, Political Sim 19.8% ★, Choices Matter 8.4%, Dark 7.4%
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 28.2% ★, Political 25.6% ★, Dystopian 13.1%, Point & Click 9.1%, Choices Matter 8.2%
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Why similar: Political 35.6% ★, Political Sim 17% ★, Point & Click 13.6%, Choices Matter 11.4%, Simulation 6.4%
As the checkpoint guard in the only safe zone of the dystopian Republic of Valdoria, you decide who survives.
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Plowing is a point and click simulation game, where you have to subdue the whole town in 13 days to establish order. Shoot. Imprison. Pardon. Hear the visitors out. Keep track of time. But most importantly — keep calm…
Why similar: Dystopian 28.1%, Political Sim 21.4% ★, Point & Click 16.2%, Story Rich 7.8%, Simulation 7.5%
Run a newsroom under censorship. Investigate events, choose stories, redact words, and arrange the front page in a story-driven newspaper politics simulation adventure set in 1920s colonial Korea.
Why similar: Political Sim 27% ★, Political 22.6% ★, Choices Matter 9.4%, Point & Click 7%, Text-Based 6.8%
Step into the desk of a state Propagandist! Design posters, shape public opinion, and censor any media that challenges the state. Enlighten the people, serve your glorious country, and uphold the vision of the Mother. Every poster you create can shift the fate of the nation.
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Congratulations. The October labor lottery is complete. Your name was pulled. For immediate placement, report to the Ministry of Admission at Grestin Border Checkpoint. An apartment will be provided for you and your family in East Grestin. Expect a Class-8 dwelling.
Why similar: Political 42.9% ★, Dystopian 21.9%, Point & Click 12.8%, Simulation 6.9%, Multiple Endings 5.5%
NEWS CENSOR: edit headlines, replace words, and approve only the “safe” stories. But remember: one wrong word can end your career.
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Sim Junta – A game of dirty politics! You are the new dictator of Risuena, a small and poor country of the third world. You have just seized power after a bloody coup and your intentions are to stay in power as long as you can, to rip this country off, transfer the money to your secret Swiss bank account and of course, stay alive and...
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Get closer to the truth than ever in the VR edition of Not For Broadcast. Keep the cameras rolling, censor the swears and immerse yourself in the powerful, alluring and occasionally deadly world of broadcast television news.
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A deceptively demanding experience of a humble recycling plant worker. Shred, crush, and sort your way through a menial job while trying to keep track of the ever convoluted company policy. Clock in, recycle, get paid, repeat.
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You will operate as an agent in enemy territory. Your cover: repairing items. While working, gather intelligence and relay it to us. Every action and decision will shape your fate. The question is… will you make the right ones?
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Immigration Enforcement Case #112: You are under arrest. Unless your friends can cross a broken America, retrieve your identifying documents and stay out of trouble... this is the end of the American dream for you.
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Our algorithm has chosen you for inclusion in the DECRYPTO project. Your job is simple: we send encrypted texts, you decipher them. Loyalty and diligence will be rewarded with upgrades and customization options for your system. Disobedience and sabotage will be punished.
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Greetings. Your Mind Scanner request has been approved. Your duty is to diagnose and treat the citizens of The Structure. The patient list is long so don't waste your time. We’ll let you see your daughter soon...
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Why similar: Political 30.2% ★, Dystopian 23%, Point & Click 11.8%, Choices Matter 10.6%, Multiple Endings 6.8%
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You are at the nexus of the events of 2020; you will hire agents, run political ads, research topics, use hacking, and more in this turn-based political strategy game. In Electioneering, your goal is to ensure your candidate becomes the next President of the United States.
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