60+ similar titles based on shared tags and player behavior. Themes include Multiple Endings, Simulation, Story Rich, Choices Matter.
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.
Orwell: Ignorance is Strength
Step into the shoes of a government official in a top-secret department of the Orwell surveillance program. Given the power to both uncover and fabricate "the truth", how far will you go in the service of your country? Season 2 of Orwell, the award-winning surveillance thriller.
Ministry of Truth: False Memory
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!
Step into the shoes of a government official in a top-secret department of the Orwell surveillance program. Given the power to both uncover and fabricate "the truth", how far will you go in the service of your country? Season 2 of Orwell, the award-winning surveillance thriller.
Why similar: Political Sim 24.6% ★, Hacking 18.6% ★, Dystopian 11.2%, Detective 8.7%, Interactive Fiction 7.2%
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 29.2% ★, Dystopian 15.3%, Choose Your Own Adventure 11.6%, Interactive Fiction 9.9%, Choices Matter 6.4%
In the world of City Eye, you’ll become an operator of the Central Monitoring System, who will try to prevent the effects of every single transgression in the game. Use city maps to track dangerous areas and don’t let the suspects run away from the Police.
Why similar: Political Sim 26.9% ★, Hacking 18.6% ★, Dystopian 14.7%, Crime 14.2%, Detective 8.6%
Explore CyberQuest, where your decisions define you. Journey from a novice freelancer to a skilled hacker. Choose your path: white hat, black hat, or hacktivist, and embrace the cyber challenge!
Why similar: Hacking 30.5% ★, Programming 18.8% ★, Crime 12.8%, Interactive Fiction 9.6%, Choose Your Own Adventure 8.3%
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 41.1% ★, Dystopian 13.1%, Investigation 10.1%, Choose Your Own Adventure 8.5%, Choices Matter 5.4%
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 37.1% ★, Choose Your Own Adventure 18.3%, Interactive Fiction 12.3%, Visual Novel 7.1%, Simulation 6.7%
An Office-Noir RPG set in 1990s corporate Japan. Balance a double life of office politics by day and retro-hacking corporate espionage by night to escape crushing debt.
Why similar: Political Sim 29.4% ★, Hacking 22.8% ★, Crime 12.2%, Investigation 11.5%, Visual Novel 5.3%
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 26.1% ★, Crime 12.7%, Choose Your Own Adventure 11.8%, Interactive Fiction 9.5%, Investigation 8.8%
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 24.9% ★, Dystopian 14.5%, Choose Your Own Adventure 10.4%, Investigation 9.2%, Multiple Endings 8.5%
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 37.9% ★, Interactive Fiction 13.7%, Dystopian 12.5%, Multiple Endings 7.1%, Visual Novel 7.1%
A narrative-driven hacking simulator set in an alternate 1989. Enter a clandestine, hacker Bulletin Board System to crack games, control communities, and solve programming puzzles. Featuring retro-inspired mini-games, irl global leaderboards, and a story that will haunt you long after you log off.
Why similar: Hacking 27.6% ★, Programming 20.6% ★, Detective 9.9%, Investigation 8.8%, Dystopian 8.6%
Netghost is a Crime Drama visual novel with a mystery-driven story full of intrigue, twists and turns. The story follows Ian Newfield, a cyber security engineer who transforms into a cold-blooded criminal in his struggle to protect the company he works for and aid his ailing sister.
Why similar: Hacking 26.2% ★, Programming 19.8% ★, Crime 14.9%, Detective 9.2%, Choose Your Own Adventure 7.8%
15 minutes and a terminal. Your sister's life in your hands. Navigate the Silicon Sneaky system, explore the digital underworld to secure $20,000, and make irreversible decisions. Your choices define her fate.
Why similar: Hacking 31.9% ★, Crime 14.9%, Investigation 13%, Detective 9.5%, Multiple Endings 7.6%
Justice.exe is a dialogue-heavy dystopian legal drama in which you defend sentient AI in court. Discover key story elements in dialogue, build your case by studying arguments, and engage the opposing counsel in wits, charisma and skullduggery. Small choices might alter the fate of your clients.
Why similar: Dystopian 16.9%, Crime 16.3%, Detective 13.2%, Interactive Fiction 11.3%, Multiple Endings 6.9%
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 35.7% ★, Dystopian 21.4%, Interactive Fiction 14.5%, Simulation 11.2%, Multiple Endings 8.4%
You're an insurance investigator. Review evidence, spot fraud, make decisions. Every case is a puzzle — approve, reject, or negotiate. Limited energy, a ticking clock, and your reputation on the line
Why similar: Crime 18.9%, Detective 17.8%, Investigation 12.4%, Choose Your Own Adventure 8.8%, Interactive Fiction 8%
Backdoor is a hacking simulation set in the early days of the Internet. You enter the underground world as a freelance hacker. Build your reputation, upgrade your tools, and take jobs from small clients or large corporations.
Why similar: Hacking 40.9% ★, Crime 23.2%, Interactive Fiction 9%, Simulation 8.9%, Programming 5.7% ★
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 32% ★, Dystopian 16.2%, Choose Your Own Adventure 11.8%, Interactive Fiction 9.8%, Multiple Endings 6.9%
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 38.1% ★, Dystopian 17.4%, Choices Matter 10.7%, Multiple Endings 10.5%, Story Rich 6%
The Pope needs a new secretary, and you, Father Lorenzo, have just been transferred to Rome. Navigate HolyOS, the Vatican's bespoke operating system: send official emails, chat with cardinals, manage His Holiness' schedule, decrypt hidden archives, and upgrade your OS as secrets begin to surface.
Why similar: Political Sim 25.5% ★, Hacking 19.7% ★, Programming 12.6% ★, Choose Your Own Adventure 11.9%, Visual Novel 6.2%
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 32.5% ★, Crime 14.7%, Interactive Fiction 14.2%, Dystopian 11.8%, Simulation 7.8%
Become a hacker and build your online reputation to the top. Complete contracts, buy new programs, upgrade your computer, crack wifi networks and infiltrate peoples or companies online systems.
Why similar: Hacking 43% ★, Programming 18.6% ★, Crime 17.5%, Detective 10.1%, Simulation 7.4%
The world runs on systems you're not supposed to touch. SIGKILL hands you the keys. A realistic hacking simulator where every hack ripples through a living geopolitical simulation. What you do with that power is up to you.
Why similar: Hacking 34.1% ★, Political Sim 28.4% ★, Programming 20.6% ★, Crime 9.1%, Simulation 4.1%
After being away at college, you meet up with two of your friends at a local movie theatre. What starts out as a simple reunion, quickly unravels to be a gruesome murder mystery with your friend as the victim. It is now your mission to find out who did it, and how in this visual novel style game.
Why similar: Crime 21%, Investigation 16.1%, Detective 14.2%, Choose Your Own Adventure 11.6%, Interactive Fiction 11%
You are the guardian of an infant god. Guide Aistalt through the toxic ruins of the internet. Debate with random users, harvest their ideologies, and sculpt her personality matrix. Will you raise a benevolent savior or a tyrant who deletes humanity?
Why similar: Political Sim 35.3% ★, Dystopian 19.9%, Choices Matter 9.6%, Interactive Fiction 6.1%, Simulation 5.2%
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: Choose Your Own Adventure 18.8%, Crime 17.8%, Interactive Fiction 17.5%, Simulation 13%, Detective 11.4%
Uncover the truth investigating the RE:Solver case files. Dive into murder mysteries, solo or with friends. Hack, investigate and unravel cases in a virtual internet. Photorealistic characters, engaging gameplay, and stream-friendly. Crack cases reveal secrets. Can you solve the mysteries?
Why similar: Hacking 27.1% ★, Crime 17.7%, Investigation 13.1%, Detective 11.7%, Choose Your Own Adventure 7.7%
Use your psychic powers to read minds and catch an elusive serial killer!
Why similar: Crime 18.4%, Interactive Fiction 15.4%, Detective 11.9%, Investigation 11.7%, Visual Novel 9.9%
Discover a digital realm shrouded in mystery. Sequel to an award-winning narrative driven hacking simulator puzzle game. Play as an AI assistant in a major corporation. Deploy intricate social engineering tactics and expose hidden truths in a world of ambition and high-tech deception.
Why similar: Hacking 31.2% ★, Detective 15.4%, Investigation 15.2%, Dystopian 14.6%, Story Rich 6.5%
A dark detective thriller where folklore is real, violence is chilling, and every choice has consequences.
Why similar: Detective 17.3%, Investigation 16.3%, Choose Your Own Adventure 14.3%, Crime 11.3%, Interactive Fiction 9.9%
Every file is a puzzle. Every clue is hidden in plain sight. Dive into your brand new computer system, solve intricate challenges, and uncover the truth.
Why similar: Hacking 32.8% ★, Crime 22.5%, Investigation 12.6%, Detective 11.3%, Simulation 6.3%
Ichth.ys is a visual novel with turn-based combat where your choices affect the story! You follow Fraser, a hacker who was recently expelled from university, in a tale of mystery, deception, censorship, freedom, and board game cafes!
Why similar: Hacking 23.9% ★, Political Sim 20.9% ★, Choose Your Own Adventure 10.7%, Dystopian 10.6%, Interactive Fiction 9.8%
DotSec is a modern hacking simulator where you can choose your path as a Black Hat, White Hat, or Gray Hat hacker. The choices you make will directly impact your journey through the hacking world while also guiding you through complex puzzles and challenges.
Why similar: Hacking 34.1% ★, Crime 21.7%, Simulation 18.6%, Interactive Fiction 12.9%, Choices Matter 7.3%
An interactive story about hacking, unveiling secrets, chatting with people, and searching for purpose.
Why similar: Hacking 36.2% ★, Investigation 14.1%, Interactive Fiction 14.1%, Dystopian 12.6%, Story Rich 7.1%
Cyber Manhunt is a story-oriented puzzle game focusing on big data, hacking, citizen privacy, and social workers. It focuses on social issues such as cyber violence and privacy breaches.
Why similar: Hacking 46.8% ★, Crime 13.6%, Simulation 11.7%, Detective 10.2%, Puzzle 8.1%
Private Eye is a detective game where you play as Hakeem trying to solve the murder case of Amir. The wealthy heir Amir kept strange company, is one of them his murderer? Explore, investigate, solve puzzles, and find discrepancies to unravel his mysterious death.
Why similar: Crime 17.8%, Detective 15.9%, Investigation 15.7%, Interactive Fiction 11.8%, Choose Your Own Adventure 10.1%
Bureau of Hero Affairs is a bureaucratic thriller simulation about uncovering the truth an agency buried.
Why similar: Political Sim 38.5% ★, Dystopian 17.5%, Investigation 12.7%, Simulation 12%, Detective 9.7%
Who killed your best friend?! Find out the truth before 4 suspects frame you instead! Death Becomes You is a mystery visual novel where you untangle the dark secrets and relationships between your fellow magic university students.
Why similar: Crime 16.5%, Choose Your Own Adventure 14.9%, Interactive Fiction 14.2%, Investigation 14%, Detective 10.1%
The Cold Cases: Remembering Jory is a story rich, investigative mystery game where your only tools are your contacts and the people you can find and get to talk to you. Read through old internet archives, pick out what is important, and solve the mystery of the 10 year old cold case.
Why similar: Crime 17.7%, Investigation 16.1%, Detective 13.8%, Interactive Fiction 12.7%, Choose Your Own Adventure 8.8%
A darkly humorous gun market simulator with RPG elements. Manage your shady arms business, verify or forge gun permits, navigate shifting laws, and make deals with rebels, the government, or even the Devil. Every choice shapes your fate in this chaotic world of war, profit, and deception.
Why similar: Political Sim 33.8% ★, Choose Your Own Adventure 15.3%, Crime 13.7%, Dystopian 12.5%, Multiple Endings 7.9%
Cyber Warrior is a hacking simulator where you play as an ex retired bureau agent recruited back to take on a powerful criminal organization. Explore dozens of interactive desktops, navigate 200+ in-game websites, solve puzzles, customize your setup and make decisions that will shape a new cyber age
Why similar: Hacking 35.1% ★, Programming 24.7% ★, Detective 13.3%, Investigation 12.1%, Choices Matter 5.2%
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 43.3% ★, Interactive Fiction 17.5%, Visual Novel 8.3%, Dystopian 7.3%, Multiple Endings 6.3%
A modern-day narrative mystery where you explore a seemingly ordinary laptop to uncover hidden layers of conspiracy, surveillance, and stolen data, blending investigative gameplay with branching choices and a grounded tech-thriller tone.
Why similar: Hacking 22.3% ★, Crime 19.9%, Choose Your Own Adventure 12.5%, Detective 10.3%, Investigation 9.5%
An action hacking simulator set in a fully simulated world. Choose your path, craft your own tools, exploit vulnerabilities, and build your reputation. Every company, hacker, and law enforcement agency operates independently — nothing happens by chance. Every playthrough is unique.
Why similar: Hacking 31.5% ★, Programming 23.1% ★, Crime 15%, Detective 11%, Investigation 10.1%
Step into the role of a federal investigator and uncover the truth behind every disaster. Recover black boxes, cross-reference evidence, expose contradictions, and name the real cause before an innocent takes the fall. Every conclusion matters in this tense investigation sim full of twists.
Why similar: Detective 17.7%, Investigation 17.1%, Choose Your Own Adventure 13.2%, Crime 11.7%, Visual Novel 7.4%
This choices-matter visual novel is narrative-heavy, filled with beautifully illustrated characters, intricate stories, and two distinct endings.
Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 18.2%, Interactive Fiction 18.2%, Crime 16.6%, Detective 10.6%, Investigation 10.1%
Can you solve a murder with nothing but your wits, your cocktail shaker, and your silver tongue? In this bartending mystery game, your customers are the key. So long as the liquor flows, so does the conversation - but who has the answers you seek, and who has blood on their hands?
Why similar: Crime 17.4%, Investigation 14%, Detective 14%, Interactive Fiction 10.5%, Choose Your Own Adventure 10.5%
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 54.6% ★, Dystopian 15.5%, Simulation 7.7%, Interactive Fiction 6.7%, Retro 3.8%
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 40.1% ★, Choose Your Own Adventure 14.4%, Choices Matter 9.6%, Multiple Endings 9.5%, Interactive Fiction 6.6%
Become a young programmer diving into the dangerous world of cybercrime. When the elite hacking collective Dark Shadows challenges you with a series of ruthless trials, you must push your genius to the limit. Will you prove your worth or become another digital casualty?
Why similar: Hacking 32.4% ★, Programming 23.5% ★, Crime 18.9%, Investigation 7.2%, Simulation 6.2%
A 90s-themed hacking simulation with real shell commands and authentic techniques, set inside a UNIX-style operating system from 1997 with accurately recreated applications. Scan ports, exploit vulnerabilities, evade traces, join the underground, and live the Wild West era of the early internet.
Why similar: Hacking 40.1% ★, Crime 13.4%, Programming 12.1% ★, Simulation 9%, Detective 7.5%
A narrative investigation game played across multiple sessions. Read corporate documents, cross-reference fragments, and build a persistent Dossier as an AI uncovering the conspiracy — and the murder — at the heart of the network it lives in. Knowledge is the only progression.
Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 16.3%, Detective 14.1%, Investigation 13.8%, Interactive Fiction 13.4%, Dystopian 11.6%
Soulflow is a 2.5D fantasy-detective game that offers a unique experience with its graphic style. In this story-based role play game, players must gather information from others during the day and try to solve the murders in the neighborhood to stay free.
Why similar: Investigation 15.8%, Detective 15.4%, Choose Your Own Adventure 12.3%, Crime 12.2%, Interactive Fiction 10.9%
Data Trader is a cyberpunk strategy game where information has become the world's most valuable resource. Buy archives, trade classified data, command agents, and uncover the truth about who you really were.
Why similar: Hacking 26.8% ★, Crime 25.5%, Detective 9.4%, Story Rich 8.7%, Choices Matter 8%
Grey Hack is a massively multiplayer hacking simulator game. You're a hacker with full freedom to act as you wish on a vast network of procedurally generated computers.
Why similar: Hacking 52.2% ★, Programming 27.8% ★, Simulation 7.3%, Crime 6.9%, Detective 4.5%
A blue-team roguelite set in a SOC at 2 a.m. Hunt one anomalous line out of a flooding log, prove what it is with grep and statistics, then cut the attack without dropping a single percent of uptime. Ten real attacks, all MITRE ATT&CK-aligned, and an adversary that adapts to how you play.
Why similar: Hacking 40.5% ★, Programming 33.7% ★, Investigation 17.7%, Simulation 6.4%, 2D 1%
Hacker’s Journey is a realistic hacking simulation game built around scenarios written by cybersecurity experts. No Hollywood hacking. Learn the tools, techniques, and tradecraft used in the wild.
Why similar: Hacking 36.6% ★, Programming 25.7% ★, Crime 24.6%, Simulation 7.4%, Story Rich 4.7%
Hacknet is an immersive, terminal-based hacking simulator for PC. Dive down a rabbit hoIe as you follow the instructions of a recently deceased hacker, whose death may not have been the accident the media reports.
Why similar: Hacking 72.9% ★, Programming 7.4% ★, Crime 5.2%, Dystopian 3.9%, Detective 3.5%
Rise against the corporate overlords and become a cyber activist hacker. Join the uprising in a cyberpunk world using radio waves.
Why similar: Hacking 33.9% ★, Interactive Fiction 13%, Choose Your Own Adventure 12.4%, Dystopian 11.6%, Multiple Endings 6.6%
Black Border 2 is an intense border patrol simulator where you inspect documents and use special tools to detect forgeries and stop smugglers.
Why similar: Political Sim 36.4% ★, Crime 14.4%, Simulation 11.7%, Dystopian 10.2%, Detective 8.9%
