Games Like Way of Defector

In this game, you're playing as game developer and encounter typical problems like eating and sleeping. You need to correctly allocate your time for human needs, hobbies and work, to live another day as indie developer.

Why similar: Simulation 42.8%, Strategy 41%, Indie 16.3%

The player will play as someone trying to make it in the big city. Within 90 days, the game abstracts the difficulties, pressures, and choices in the form of continuous decision making. This decision-making game is based on a combination of talented and professional pathways, there are over dozens of career paths to advance and over 50...

Why similar: Strategy 41.6%, Simulation 40.8%, Indie 17.5%

Your mission: lead a group of civilians out of the war-torn country.

Why similar: Strategy 70.3%, Indie 29.7%

21 Days is a simulation adventure game in which you experience the life of a Syrian refugee. Though you escaped the war in Syria, your family still has a hard journey ahead of them. Over 21 days, you must manage money, time, hunger and mental status. For yourself, and for the hope of saving your family.

Why similar: Simulation 71.5%, Indie 28.5%

Relax, clear your mind and find the way out.

Why similar: Strategy 51.5%, Indie 48.5%

In Home Behind, you take on the role of a refugee cast out from your homeland by a band of rebels. Your home and the peace you enjoyed has been destroyed, and your family has disappeared. Can you survive the struggle, famine, and sickness to make it to the safety of Europe?

Why similar: Strategy 39.5%, Simulation 38.3%, Indie 22.2%

Project Tarvotan allows you to explore the depths of the Milky Way and local universe. Use your wit and resources at hand to plan out your path through each sector. Your demise lurks around every decision. Can you survive long enough and restore balance to the universe?

Why similar: Strategy 53.8%, Simulation 32.4%, Indie 13.9%

Assume control of a Middle Eastern country recovering from a violent revolution. Forge alliances, grow your economy, invade your neighbors, or pacify your population. Rogue State is a geopolitical strategy game that will force you to always stay one step ahead of your rivals to survive.

Why similar: Strategy 42.4%, Simulation 40.6%, Indie 17%

Nobody – The Turnaround is a life simulator set in a parallel world that echoes modern society. Manage your time and resources carefully, strive to find a way through difficult times, and overcome the predicament you find yourself in.

Why similar: Simulation 59.4%, Strategy 40.6%

This is an open world escape Indie Game, you are an escape expert helping clients to escape. Work is not always simple, you may become city wanted, police will block all exit ways, you need to prepare enough food, fuel, energy, tools, etc to survive during these wanted days.

Why similar: Simulation 50.4%, Strategy 25.8%, Indie 23.8%

January 1, 1960. Become Major General Park Chung-hee at a turning point in Korean history. Preserve democracy and rise as the father of a nation—or cling to power and become a dictator. The fate of the Republic of Korea is in your hands.

Why similar: Simulation 42.2%, Strategy 37.8%, Indie 20.1%

Near the border of the iron curtain in the soviet union lies a small village where unrest is brewing and supplies are scarce. You and your family have been sent there to bring order, where you will serve the USSR as a judge. Balance your own moral judgment with the opinions of those watching...

Why similar: Simulation 42.2%, Strategy 40.3%, Indie 17.5%

Homeless Simulator is a homeless person simulator. Homeless persons are those who find themselves living on the streets because of family conflicts, somebody’s fraud, loss of the job or health problems. They are those who need help.

Why similar: Simulation 72.7%, Indie 27.3%

A travel-sim with strategic gameplay and rogue-lite elements. Play as travelers in ancient China. Experience great views on various locations. Write travel literature that long lives in history.

Why similar: Strategy 48.6%, Simulation 42.5%, Indie 8.9%

Experience a game where you live through the cycle of an ant colony. You can dig your own tunnels, organize your colony, customize your army, but you need to survive every wave of attack!

Why similar: Strategy 42.5%, Simulation 40.6%, Indie 16.9%

NEO Scavenger is a game where you must survive in the wasteland long enough to figure out who you are. Each turn, you must decide where to go, how to scavenge for supplies, and how to deal with anything and anyone you encounter.

Why similar: Strategy 65.7%, Indie 34.3%

Usually everyone is unemployed here. But by chance you got a job. You'il work for the state.Everyone in your family is sick or unemployed, only you can help them. You're an immigrant officer.

Why similar: Simulation 75.2%, Indie 14.6%, Strategy 10.2%

The main objective in this game is to find your way out.

Why similar: Indie 100%

In This War Of Mine you do not play as an elite soldier, rather a group of civilians trying to survive in a besieged city; struggling with lack of food, medicine and constant danger from snipers and hostile scavengers. The game provides an experience of war seen from an entirely new angle.

Why similar: Strategy 48.4%, Simulation 39.3%, Indie 12.3%

In an uninhabitable Siberian wilderness, in a wake of October Revolution, a group of passengers survives the mysterious catastrophe of Trans-Siberian railway train. They must endure in a harsh ice-clad climate until rescue arrives. Facing many dangers, their own weaknesses and, their own prejudice.

Why similar: Strategy 51.1%, Simulation 48.9%

"Anomalous Railroad Crossing" is an escape game where you search for strange happenings, set at Japan's most famous railroad crossing. - You suddenly realize that you're standing on a road leading to a railroad crossing with an ocean view. Escape from a world invaded by strange happenings!

Why similar: Simulation 77.3%, Indie 22.7%

This city-building strategy game puts you as the chieftain of a tribe driven away from their homeland. Now you must rebuild and defend your tribe from both the elements and your old enemies.

Why similar: Strategy 43.4%, Simulation 39.3%, Indie 17.3%

Become the overseer and shape the fate of those who come knocking at the door. Each decision you make, whether it is to let in a stranger, to use your resources on something, or to risk the safety of the bunker.

Why similar: Simulation 45.6%, Strategy 33.8%, Indie 20.5%

末日之后，重建工厂。研发科技，加强武装。收集材料，生产发财。

Why similar: Simulation 41.6%, Strategy 41.4%, Indie 17%

The Last Journey is an ultimate post-nuclear exploration game in which you travel the universe to find a new planet suitable for mankind to live on after the Earth was destroyed in a nuclear war.

Why similar: Simulation 69.3%, Indie 30.7%

Are you ready to embark on a journey through deserts and dangers? Will you be able to safely navigate your fellowship through the lands of the Orient and uncover your destiny? Through strategic trading and traveling you will overcome obstacles and adversity.

Why similar: Strategy 46.4%, Simulation 38.3%, Indie 15.3%

The main objective of the game is to survive in the taiga.

Why similar: Simulation 70.7%, Indie 29.3%

Navigate the internet's dark net, searching for pieces of a puzzle that once combined will clear your outstanding debt. Scan strange websites for info, hack into PCs while defending your own, and buy/sell goods & services, all while avoiding threats in this strategic, suspenseful horror game.

Why similar: Simulation 86.5%, Indie 13.5%

Blending strategy, survival, and roguelike elements with RPG style character development, FreeHolder is the story of three escaped slaves in the time of the Roman Republic. Farm, hunt, craft, and cook your way through the years as you live on the edge of the beginning of the Empire.

Why similar: Strategy 45.3%, Simulation 37.2%, Indie 17.5%

It’s a small survival game, in which you will be tested for speed and prudence. Challenge the deadly cold

Why similar: Simulation 71.7%, Indie 28.3%

Now you have a chance to operate your own company....of suicide!

Why similar: Strategy 41.7%, Simulation 41.2%, Indie 17.1%

The Way of the Tray is a waiter simulator with action puzzle elements in a Japanese spirit world setting. Your task is to master the skill of serving dishes and earn the trust of yokai patrons. Will you be able to prove yourself and find your way home?

Why similar: Simulation 71.1%, Strategy 28.9%

The game has two realities, and in order to pass the level, you must move between them. Reality is not identical, objects and their position in different variations of the same room is different. You have to find a way out using these differences.

Why similar: Simulation 64.6%, Indie 35.4%

You didn’t ask to lead this expedition, but here you are. Stuck in the ice, Captain missing, miles from civilisation. Someone has to take charge. Manage your meagre resources, balance safety and morale, make the hard calls, and head in the only direction you can - through The Pale Beyond.

Why similar: Strategy 50%, Simulation 50%

Take the role of Captain in this Space Survival Simulation as you explore a massive star system in search of a new home for humanity. Outfit your ship, hand pick your crew and set off on a journey through an open-world where you must scavenge resources, shelter civilians and outrun a hostile alien force.

Why similar: Simulation 42.7%, Strategy 42.2%, Indie 15%

Take care of a group of travelers on a post-apocalyptic road-trip across the United States in this turn-based survival game.

Why similar: Strategy 87.3%, Indie 12.7%

Agenda is a strategy simulation game in which you control a world-wide independent agency with a set goal of world domination. Try to claim your global influence through the power of your allies and covert operations such as assassinations, bribery or fraud.

Why similar: Strategy 43%, Simulation 39.3%, Indie 17.7%

The long-awaited draft notice has arrived, and besides the window, you have only one way out - to RUN. The main thing is to get out of the apartment before the draft notice page fully loads.

Why similar: Simulation 80.8%, Indie 19.2%

Find Out - this is an adventure game in which you will have to escape from an unknown location, surrounded by a large maze.

Why similar: Indie 52%, Simulation 48%

You tried to escape prison but got caught. Instead of prison, they gave you a debt. Manage a toll booth on a desert highway. Check passports, take payments, and decide who passes. Grow fruit, mix mocktails, sell drinks, and dodge the cops. The only way to earn freedom is by paying off your debt.

Why similar: Simulation 53.7%, Strategy 46.3%

Take control of a Soviet locomotive and embark on a dangerous journey along the world's longest railway line. Face mafia rivals, bandits, wild animals, constant breakdowns, severe frosts, hunger, and... a hangover. How far will you get before your supplies run out?

Why similar: Simulation 100%

Brazed is a game about escaping the unknown planet.

Why similar: Strategy 60.1%, Indie 39.9%

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: Strategy 41.6%, Simulation 40.5%, Indie 17.9%

Here is the 5-year contract to get your son back. You must become the morse messenger during World War II. Each day comes with new tasks to overcome and challenge your morse coding skill.

Why similar: Simulation 100%

Under guard 24/7 by his enemies, ex-Nisson Motors CEO Loscar Gon tries to escape a country, using various tools. Once a titan of the car industry and a CEO of the cartel of Ruso, Nisson, and Bishibishi corporations Loscar Gon is under a country’s heavy 24/7 monitoring.

Why similar: Indie 100%

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: Strategy 44.5%, Simulation 40.1%, Indie 15.4%

You've been elected as the new Bunker Warden! Now you must take control over a group of fellow bunker residents and try to make them last until the surface becomes habitable.

Why similar: Strategy 46.4%, Simulation 43.4%, Indie 10.2%

This game is a global strategy, which is primarily focused on Ukraine after leaving the Soviet occupation. Here you will be given control of Ukraine with the opportunity to change history and intervene in the events of that time.

Why similar: Strategy 58.1%, Simulation 34.5%, Indie 7.4%

As a moustached soviet nuclear missile operator, you’re the last frontier of your motherland’s defense. Survive a freezing Siberian winter, untangle nasty bear intrigues and adapt to always changing environment in this cold war simulator.

Why similar: Simulation 100%

The Great War is over - the fight continues. Command a legion of soldiers, desperately trying to make their way home amidst the chaos of civil war. Lead them through the unforgiving wilderness onboard an armored train. Manage your crew and resources and try to survive.

Why similar: Strategy 100%

Confront various terrains as a lonely mountaineer and endure the countless dangers of climbing! Many tough decisions await you in a risky environment. Make your way up and down the mountain, overcoming insurmountable heights!

Why similar: Strategy 45.1%, Simulation 36.9%, Indie 18%

This is Hunger Apartment, a place feeding you, warming you, and satisfying all your fantasies.

Why similar: Strategy 49.1%, Simulation 34.9%, Indie 16%

Brave the challenging conditions of Alaskan life in the definitive trucker simulator. Be the master of your own destiny as you take jobs, transport cargo and experience a sense of freedom on foot and in your cab.

Why similar: Simulation 73.5%, Indie 26.5%

Don’t Forget Our Esports Dream is a narrative game about the South Korean esports scene. Play as Bolt, a professional StarCraft: Brood War player at a flashpoint in his career. Play like a pro with guided StarCraft scenes, and see what it takes to live the dream.

Why similar: Simulation 67.4%, Indie 32.6%

You will have to face hundreds of different doors, and decide which one you should go to in order to get to the main secret. You have to open the doors in many locations of this world, each of which is dedicated to its type of doors.

Why similar: Simulation 68.8%, Indie 31.2%

"Escape from GULAG" is the maze game that increases difficulty as you progress through the levels.

Why similar: Strategy 41.2%, Simulation 39.4%, Indie 19.4%

Search, fight, escape, flip your fate! In a Three Kingdoms world split across thirteen provinces, form a pact with the Dragon Maiden and explore war-torn fragments. Loot, battle, manage your gear—each run is a high-stakes gamble where your ending is yours to write.