Games like Papers, Please
Looking for games like Papers, Please? Here are top simulation recommendations with a thriller focus, selected from player-similarity data — start with Beholder, Paper Cages or Beholder 2.
1 75%Game Brain Scorestory, gameplaygrinding, stability82% User Score 5,348 reviewsCritic Score 66%12 reviewsA totalitarian State controls every aspect of private and social life. Laws are oppressive. Surveillance is total. Privacy is dead. You are a State-installed manager of an apartment house. The State requires you to spy on your tenants, and report any illegal or subversive activity. However, you can also choose to keep the information to yourself, or use it to blackmail the residents, resulting in …
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87%Game Brain Scorestory, gameplaygrinding, character development87% User Score 3,685 reviewsWake up, get dressed, brush your teeth, eat breakfast, go to work. A true horror story. A game about mental health. Made for Spelkollektivet's 2019 Halloween Game Jam! The main theme was Horror, and the sub-themes were: Archenemy, Profession, Personal. TRIGGER WARNINGS: Mental health, depression, anxiety, self-loathing, dysphoria, eating disorders The theme we chose was: Personal + Archenemy …
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View Game80%Game Brain Scorestory, gameplaygrinding, stability81% User Score 1,218 reviewsCritic Score 77%3 reviewsEvery citizen of our great State dreams of working at the Prime Ministry!You are lucky, intern – your dream has come true! While you are at the bottom of the career ladder, that is more than many of your fellow citizens will ever achieve! Have you already decided what you're going to become? Will you become a diligent and responsible officer decorated by the Wise Leader himself? Or will you become…
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87%Game Brain Scorestory, gameplaygrinding, character development88% User Score 2,855 reviewsCritic Score 80%1 reviewsYou are the Grim Reaper... on an office job.
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83%Game Brain Scorestory, gameplaygrinding, stability88% User Score 2,464 reviewsCritic Score 77%7 reviews"Not Tonight is a post-Brexit management game, fusing a time-pressure RPG with a politically charged story where every decision matters. Will you join the resistance and fight the regime -- or keep your head down and hope that one day this will all be a distant memory?"
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81%Game Brain Scorestory, gameplaygrinding, stability92% User Score 3,769 reviewsCritic Score 75%14 reviewsWatch strangers via hidden cameras. Invade their privacy. But don’t you dare…
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88%Game Brain Scorestory, gameplaystability, grinding93% User Score 44,941 reviewsCritic Score 84%35 reviewsTHE CITY MUST SURVIVE
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90%Game Brain Scorestory, musicgrinding, stability91% User Score 15,234 reviewsCritic Score 79%1 reviewsRoad 96 is a crazy, beautiful road-trip. The discovery of exciting places, and unusual people on your own personal journey to freedom. An ever-evolving story-driven adventure inspired by Tarantino, The Coen Brothers, and Bong Joon-ho. Moments of action, exploration, contemplative melancholy, human encounters and wacky situations. Set against a backdrop of authoritarian rule and oppression. A stunn…
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96%Game Brain Scorestory, gameplaygrinding, stability96% User Score 9,706 reviewsHow much contraband, you think can be smuggled in one truck on a third-world country border? As a contraband police inspector, do Your best to find out!
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79%Game Brain Scorestory, gameplaygrinding, stability86% User Score 5,594 reviewsCritic Score 72%14 reviewsThese are troubling times, Your Grace. The petitioners’ petty matters exceed our limited resources, to say nothing of the war. A careful balance must be struck. Your throne awaits.
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