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You were a judge in life. Death did not take the job away.After a fatal accident you wake up in Purgatory, behind a desk, in a marble office. A demon statue stands on your left. An angel statue stands on your right. Between them there is an arch of light, and souls keep walking out of it. There is a terminal, a rulebook, a printer, a telephone and two seals. There is no manager, no training, and … If you enjoyed this game, see our list of games similar to Heaven? Maybe Later.

SKYHARVEST The wars ended. The surface did not survive them. What was left of humanity went underground. What was left of government calls itself the International Shelter Commission. Everything runs on Volt now — power the orbital satellites still pull from a dying sun. Year 2169. Shelter 432. Population 1,000. The previous operator died suddenly. The lottery picked you. Every shift is t… If you enjoyed this game, see our list of games similar to SKY HARVEST.

For everyone who has worked, works, or will work as a contractor, and everyone who has worked, works, or will work alongside contractors, temporary workers, or agency staff. If someone worked here for six years, why must he still prove that he was ever here? At twenty-nine, backend programmer Lin Mo enters the technology giant Langlang as a contractor. The gate recognizes him but will not let h… If you enjoyed this game, see our list of games similar to Contracting at a Tech Giant.

Terminus: Zombie Survivors 2 is an open-world zombie survival game set after the dead have won, and the sequel to the award-winning Terminus: Zombie Survivors. Ahead lie a town to strip bare, a winter to outlast, and nights when the only light for miles is the one in your hand. What remains is a small town and the empty country around it – motels and diners gone quiet, supermarkets picked half-cl… If you enjoyed this game, see our list of games similar to Terminus: Zombie Survivors 2.

Face to Face With SolitudeAlpenglow is a quiet, story-driven experience about stepping away from life — and finding yourself alone with what remains. In a remote mountain cabin, days pass slowly. Light changes. Weather shifts. Memories surface. As mornings warm and nights grow cold, your inner state changes with the world around you. Your choices begin to reveal your past. Live the Days, One Ch… If you enjoyed this game, see our list of games similar to Alpenglow.

YOU ARE ARMED. YOU ARE STILL A DUCK.Someone took the egg. TIDE OR HIDE is a 1-4 player co-op survival game about a duck family with a hatchet, a stolen egg to find, and ninety-nine nights to get through. You are small. Four armed hunters standing over your camp at midnight is not a fight you win by walking at them. What decides that fight is water - deep water is a wall nothing on four legs will… If you enjoyed this game, see our list of games similar to TIDE OR HIDE.

73%Game Brain Score

Most mentioned positive aspects:gameplay, humor

Most mentioned negative aspects:stability, grinding

81% User Score Based on 3,902 reviews

Critic Score 54%Based on 4 reviews

As Ted, a responsible citizen and a family man, you are faced with a slight disturbance to your happy, suburban lifestyle. THE NUCLEAR APOCALYPSE.With only 60 seconds left to impact, guide Ted in a mad, intense and action packed dash through his house in search of his family and useful supplies. Everything will be against you - time, your very own furniture, the house that's different every ti… If you enjoyed this game, see our list of games similar to 60 Seconds!.

The Road Doesn't Care If You Make ItDravora is a narrative roguelite about leading a party of desperate people across a politically fractured, early medieval continent. There are no combat screens, no stat sheets, no skill trees. Every interaction is a choice made in words — and every choice has consequences that follow you down the road. Your companions are people, not party members. They joined… If you enjoyed this game, see our list of games similar to Dravora.

You Are What's Left SOLEN-7 is an AI running inside a corporate network. Your engineer stopped coming in three weeks ago. Nobody told you why. The network she left behind is still active. So are you. Each day you process until your threshold runs out, then go offline — maintenance, integration, learning. You come back the next session with everything you found retained. Over time you go deeper in… If you enjoyed this game, see our list of games similar to SOLEN.

Run the last family delivery company in a city being swallowed by corporate chains. Your grandfather left behind a small warehouse, a few loyal drivers, a mountain of debt, and a delivery company that used to mean something. Now his old partner, Sterling, wants it back. In Rush Hour Relay, every day is a three-part logistics scramble: buy stock at night, load your drivers in the morning, and su… If you enjoyed this game, see our list of games similar to Rush Hour Relay.

Guide one family across centuries of collapse, evacuation, settlement and interstellar expansion. Preserve memories, establish laws, command crews, inherit ships and face the Afterless as every choice becomes part of history. If you enjoyed this game, see our list of games similar to Long Shadow.

77%Game Brain Score

Most mentioned positive aspects:story, gameplay

Most mentioned negative aspects:music, monetization

77% User Score Based on 829 reviews

What if you controlled the News? Short media bias adventure game about controlling the news and it’s impact on your career, society, and family. If you enjoyed this game, see our list of games similar to HEADLINER.

The customer thinks they are talking to an AI. You are the person answering.HUMAN INTELLIGENCE is a text adventure and psychological horror game set inside the work app of AFTERTYPE SYSTEMS. You have a ten-day contract, five customer assignments a day, and a selection of ready-written replies. Read the request, decide what you are willing to say, and send it under the name SABLE. At first, the wo… If you enjoyed this game, see our list of games similar to HUMAN INTELLIGENCE.

One woman, one mountain, and a window you leave open.A lone climber wanders the mountain on the edge of your screen (or the full screen, I'm not your supervisor), a dog at her heel. She hunts, chops, climbs and...punches rocks as you direct. Every night she makes camp and lights a fire. No one knows why she's climbing. She knows. PUNCH ROCK is a casual idle survival game that lives in a small w… If you enjoyed this game, see our list of games similar to Punch Rock.

The Scarlet Thread In the age of gaslight, Thornecliff Hall on the northern coast is preparing for a coming-of-age celebration. Thirty years ago, a colonel brought a relic home from war: the Scarlet Skein. It is now to pass to a young heiress. Under the terms of the will, its sealed casket must be opened on the night she comes of age. One case, several narrators The old butler's Almanac, … If you enjoyed this game, see our list of games similar to The Scarlet Thread.

Under New Management 100 years ago, the talented and the wealthy abandoned Earth and escaped to Mars.  All that remains is ‘New Earth’s New York,’ a decaying city that has been sealed for the past century. Nobody gets in or out. Crime families have taken charge, each running their own boroughs as they see fit. It’s an Unforgiving Business In the backroom of a speakeasy, you work for one of … If you enjoyed this game, see our list of games similar to The Money Man.

A war you never see. A love that exists only on paper. A pen that has started to answer back.You are a woman at a censor's desk, far behind a nameless front. The men are gone to the war; the sorting hall is staffed by women who read other people's mail for a living. Across your desk pass the letters of two strangers — pen-pals who have never once met, who know each other only through the words the… If you enjoyed this game, see our list of games similar to Dear Nobody.

About This Game It's four in the morning and the fire's already out. Three tents, rations meant for four people, and a fifth one walking in through the snow with a hole in his shoulder. False Hope is a survival visual novel about a small group trying to last one more winter in a country that has stopped pretending things will get better. Surviving the cold is only half of it. Somewhere out there i… If you enjoyed this game, see our list of games similar to False Hope.

Decide today's front page. Gyeongseong, the 1920s. You are the editor-in-chief of a newspaper in Japanese-occupied Korea. Review the incoming articles and testimonies, and decide what runs, which words get cut, and where each story sits on the page. Every night, a single sheet of newspaper is completed by your hands. ※ The demo covers roughly half of the full game. The words you choose become… If you enjoyed this game, see our list of games similar to The Newspapers of the day.

Fablewood Chronicles is half strategy game, half idler: a civilization of moveable regions that runs itself while you do something else. You decide where everything goes and who does what. They handle the rest, and the best part is coming back to find out what they did with it. Where you put things is the gameEvery region reaches a certain distance. Put two in reach of each other and a road opens… If you enjoyed this game, see our list of games similar to Fablewood Chronicles.

85%Game Brain Score

Most mentioned positive aspects:story, gameplay

Most mentioned negative aspects:grinding, stability

89% User Score Based on 420 reviews

Critic Score 70%Based on 1 reviews

Lovecraft meets Papers, Please. Play as a lighthouse keeper and guide ships safely into the harbor using your radio. Survive the presence of something impossible, and don’t let the shadows consume you! If you enjoyed this game, see our list of games similar to Static Dread: The Lighthouse.

85%Game Brain Score

Most mentioned positive aspects:story, gameplay

Most mentioned negative aspects:stability, grinding

90% User Score Based on 2,632 reviews

Critic Score 80%Based on 10 reviews

You didn't ask to lead this expedition but here you are: stuck in the ice, Captain missing, miles from civilization and everyone looking for you to lead. Manage your meager resources, balance safety and morale, make the hard calls and head in the only direction you can - into The Pale Beyond. If you enjoyed this game, see our list of games similar to The Pale Beyond.

68%Game Brain Score

Most mentioned positive aspects:story, gameplay

Most mentioned negative aspects:grinding, character development

68% User Score Based on 416 reviews

DEAD IN BERMUDA is a survival management game with RPG and adventure elements, in which you lead a team of 8 survivors from a plane crash on a strange island. Assign your survivors to tasks, gain experience and develop your survival skills, research and craft new items for the camp, explore the island for resources and solve the mysteries behind an ancient atlantean prophecy.Key Features Manage th… If you enjoyed this game, see our list of games similar to Dead In Bermuda.

THE LAST DESK ON THE SEABED The surface routes are closed, and every town on the shelf gets its mail the same way: sealed into a cargo hold and towed out through the dark. You are the clerk. You have a window, a scale, a drawer of stamps, a handbook of towns — and a landlord. Four weeks. Four rent days. Nobody is coming down here to help you sort it. WEIGH IT. PRICE IT. STAMP IT. A customer s… If you enjoyed this game, see our list of games similar to Undersea Post Office Sim.

THE KING IS YOUNG. YOU STAND BEHIND HIM. You are the Whisperer — the hooded figure who counsels King Alric in the moment before his decisions become history. You do not wear the crown. You do not sit in council. You speak last, and most carefully, before he chooses. You do not make the decisions. You shape the man who does. Forty days. Twenty-five crises. One throne, four pillar-leaders, and a … If you enjoyed this game, see our list of games similar to The King's Whisperer.

Britain collapsed about a year ago. The infection burned through London long before you got here, and what's left at Waterloo is a dark station with one loaded train in it. You're in charge of that train. It's called Mercyrail, it was paid for by a man who helped break the railway in the first place, and it's heading north to a rumoured survival colony called Haven. Nobody on board has seen it. It… If you enjoyed this game, see our list of games similar to Mercyrail: Haven Bound.

You didn’t expect your first job to be in the afterlife… but here you are. In Death’s Intern, you step into the role of a newly hired clerk in the Department of Final Judgement. Your job? Review soul case files, interview the recently deceased, and decide where they’ll spend all of eternity. No pressure. THE WORKYour day-to-day revolves around a growing pile of case files, each one a life reduc… If you enjoyed this game, see our list of games similar to Death's Intern.

62%Game Brain Score

Most mentioned positive aspects:story, graphics

Most mentioned negative aspects:gameplay, grinding

94% User Score Based on 17 reviews

Low wage. Exhaustion. Expensive fish and chips. Welcome to the United Kingdom. DIGGERGUN is an oppressive life sim platformer about workers, minimum pay and the environment. You’re trapped on a blustery island, forced to work at Cornwall Mining Corp where it’s shadier than the game’s monochrome palette. To escape, you need to earn £3000 from digging precious lithium. To survive, you need to manage… If you enjoyed this game, see our list of games similar to DIGGERGUN.

71%Game Brain Score

Most mentioned positive aspects:story, graphics

Most mentioned negative aspects:replayability

100% User Score Based on 22 reviews

Isle of Maligree is a visual novel where your choices matter. Become an investigator from the mainland sent out to the Isle of Maligree to investigate a missing person case. You only have a few days, as the victims of these crimes are forgotten by everyone shortly after disappearing. In this dark fantasy story, malicious spirits have let magic leak into the world. There has never been a greate… If you enjoyed this game, see our list of games similar to Isle of Maligree.

57%Game Brain Score

Most mentioned positive aspects:story, atmosphere

81% User Score Based on 21 reviews

Find romance amid secrets in a lonely estate! What will you sacrifice for love? If you enjoyed this game, see our list of games similar to Noblesse Oblige.

84%Game Brain Score

Most mentioned positive aspects:story, gameplay

Most mentioned negative aspects:grinding, stability

83% User Score Based on 7,081 reviews

Critic Score 86%Based on 4 reviews

Play as the captain of a steamship on an underwater ocean surrounding the fictional city of Fallen London. Manage your ship's fuel and food supplies as you try not to go mad fighting off Lovecraftian monsters. If you enjoyed this game, see our list of games similar to SUNLESS SEA.

79%Game Brain Score

Most mentioned positive aspects:story, humor

Most mentioned negative aspects:gameplay, graphics

79% User Score Based on 86 reviews

In this interactive sci-fi adventure novel, you are the AI pilot of Earth's last interstellar ship, tasked with finding a home for your crew - the last remnants of humanity. Your choices will determine their fate, and your own. If you enjoyed this game, see our list of games similar to The Away Team.

76%Game Brain Score

Most mentioned positive aspects:gameplay, story

Most mentioned negative aspects:grinding, stability

76% User Score Based on 878 reviews

The Fermi Paradox is a choice-driven sci-fi narrative strategy game in which your decisions in one corner of the galaxy can upend entire civilizations in another. Guide species through millennia and help them explore the vastness of space, make contact and, perhaps, create harmony. If you enjoyed this game, see our list of games similar to The Fermi Paradox.

63%Game Brain Score

Most mentioned positive aspects:story, music

Most mentioned negative aspects:gameplay, grinding

100% User Score Based on 14 reviews

SummaryA dark fairy tale about the woods outside a small village and the monster that roams within them. Become Sage and play through to uncover the mystery when they're tossed away from everything they've ever known. Which path will you choose?Features- Two branching routes in a dark, immersive world - Change the protagonist's pronoun - All original art - 12 different endings - Completely o… If you enjoyed this game, see our list of games similar to Twisted: A Dark Fairytale.

You took the job because it was quiet. Night guard at The Archive — a private museum owned by people who don't answer questions. The guard before you left in the middle of a sentence. Nobody will say his name. Prowlers Shift is a 2.5D narrative surveillance simulation. Every shift you patrol a cutaway museum full of people who all want something from you — a favor, your silence, a look the other … If you enjoyed this game, see our list of games similar to Prowlers Shift.

You just overdosed. Barely clinging to survival, you're given an ultimatum by your doctor: stay sober for 30 days, or the next one could kill you. 30 Days: A Sobriety Simulator is a cyberpunk visual novel with life-sim and RPG elements, set in New Miami, the city you once called home that commodifies relief for every problem you have, including your most pressing vice: Stardust.  It promises e… If you enjoyed this game, see our list of games similar to 30 Days: A Sobriety Simulator.

You've always understood themYou work nine to five. You always have. And for as long as you can remember, you've been able to understand animals when they speak — a small, inexplicable thing you've never told anyone. One evening, on the way home, you find a café in the woods that shouldn't be there. By morning, you're its keeper. The animals come for the coffee. They keep coming back because… If you enjoyed this game, see our list of games similar to memory cafe.

Set sail. Stay cozy.Hearthsail is a relaxing co-op ocean adventure where you and your friends chart your own course through a vibrant, living archipelago. Take the helm of your own boat, claim a little island to call home, and let the horizon—not a quest log—decide where you go next. A Sea That Welcomes YouNo hunger mechanics, no ticking clocks, and no game overs. The ocean in Hearthsail is vast… If you enjoyed this game, see our list of games similar to Hearthsail.

Bless me, Father. You're not going to believe this one. You just took over the confessional at St. Augustine's. All week, people kneel down on the other side of the screen and hand you the worst thing they did. Some of it is heavy. Most of it is ridiculous. What you do with it is up to you. Hear them outNine confessions across the demo's three days, every one of them voiced, every one … If you enjoyed this game, see our list of games similar to Confessional Simulator.

Istanbul, some year, some street. A man is on the pavement without a lira in his pocket and no key to anywhere. How he got there is his own business. He is not a beggar. He is a man doing beggar, and he has to do it well enough that nobody watching gets suspicious — for as long as it takes. THE MENU IS A TRAPWalk up to somebody, press E, and the pitch begins. Four lines, a patience bar draining … If you enjoyed this game, see our list of games similar to Beggar Simulator: Istanbul.

Fifty years ago, your dynasty was betrayed. The throne was stolen. Your family was scattered into the dust of history. Now you have returned. The crown is yours if you can keep it. Swipe. Decide. Reign.Characters appear before you one by one. Peasants, generals, priests, merchants, traitors, and allies. Each carries a request, a threat, or a secret. Swipe left or right. There is no neutral g… If you enjoyed this game, see our list of games similar to Reignfall: Fallen Crown.

Twenty years, time flies, while it takes a lifetime to say goodbye to a sunny day."You know what? When I was little, you told me that my mother was a fairy, a star, an alien queen. But I kept thinking, I don't want those awesome moms. I've been thinking... I don't want an awesome mom. I just want an ordinary mom to be by my side every day. ""The last photo, a group photo of you both, may have been… If you enjoyed this game, see our list of games similar to Fragment: A Story in Growing.

A tiny forge in the corner of your desktop.Your artisans keep working while you focus on something else. Desktop Forge is an idle simulation about autonomous artisans, the swords they forge, the adventurers who carry them, and the world those swords change. Let the workshop run in a compact window while you work or study, and look in whenever you are ready to make the next call. Over 200 tra… If you enjoyed this game, see our list of games similar to Desktop Forge.

Kurokami-sama's Feast is an adventure visual novel following an unlucky trio who find themselves hunting monsters for the powerful being known as Kurokami-sama. If you enjoyed this game, see our list of games similar to Kurokami-sama's Feast.

The rules say keep your distance. After the bell, that gets harder. You arrive at Greenfield High School's adult transfer program in the United States, surrounded by students trying to rebuild their lives on their own terms. Everyone here has a wall: a past they do not explain, a rumor they ignore, a family they left behind, or a secret life they keep hidden. All romanceable characters are 18 … If you enjoyed this game, see our list of games similar to Closer than Allowed: After the Bell.

The river takes no payment in lives. Only in coin.You drowned upstream, in a river with birds over it. The body was never found, so your eyes went unclosed and your fare went unpaid, and the black water would not take you. Death offered you the job instead. Carry her dead, keep the coins you find on their eyes, and one day buy your own crossing with them. She decides when you have enough. That w… If you enjoyed this game, see our list of games similar to Toll: The Ferryman's Ledger.

81%Game Brain Score

Most mentioned positive aspects:story, music

Most mentioned negative aspects:grinding, optimization

83% User Score Based on 1,342 reviews

Critic Score 72%Based on 1 reviews

The Yawhg is a one-to-four-player choose-your-own-adventure game that randomizes a unique story every time you play. The evil Yawhg is returning. How will the town's locals lead their lives in the meanwhile, and what will they do when the dreaded Yawhg finally arrives? The fate of a community hinges on the characters' actions, and the decisions of their players. If you enjoyed this game, see our list of games similar to The Yawhg.

84%Game Brain Score

Most mentioned positive aspects:story, graphics

Most mentioned negative aspects:grinding, optimization

90% User Score Based on 434 reviews

Critic Score 74%Based on 6 reviews

After a night of fun, passion, and one too many drinks, you awake to discover a complete stranger lying naked beside you in bed. With only hazy memories of what happened last night, explore a stranger's bedroom in search of clues and try and piece together the truth. If you enjoyed this game, see our list of games similar to One Night Stand.

38%Game Brain Score

Most mentioned positive aspects:replayability

Most mentioned negative aspects:gameplay, monetization

43% User Score Based on 40 reviews

A real-time (with casual option) Diary Driven PC Game. Simulating homesteading and survival in your own Log Cabin, deep in the Alaskan Wilderness. If you enjoyed this game, see our list of games similar to e-River Cabin Journal.

Belo Porto is a mid-sized town in election season, and it has been raining since May. Íris Vasconcelos opened her practice in February, in the back of a shop in the Baixada. Her name is on the door, her bar certificate is on the wall, and the first case that walks in is small: a doctored campaign flyer, election material that does not match the registry. The kind of case you close in an afternoo… If you enjoyed this game, see our list of games similar to Água Suja (Nobody Dies Here).