Games like Death and Taxes
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In this 2D, short narrative-based game, you assume the role of the Grim Reaper... on an office job. Your job is to decide which people are going to live or die. The consequences of your choices are yours to bear, while the mystery of your incarnation awaits revelation!
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$39.99New Tales from the Borderlands
Oct 20 · Gearbox Software
Both: Choices Matter · Choose Your Own Adventure · Multiple Endings
Decide the fates of altruistic scientist Anu, her ambitious, "streetwise" brother Octavio, and the fierce, frogurt-slinging Fran. Claw and con your way through five thrilling chapters!
Choices MatterChoose Your Own AdventureQuick-Time EventsMultiple EndingsSingleplayerInteractive FictionActionAction-AdventureGoreCinematic👍 1,736
-90%$1.39Beholder
Nov 9 · Alawar Stargaze (Warm Lamp Games)
Both: Choices Matter · Multiple Endings
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?
Choices MatterDystopian Political SimStrategyAtmosphericSingleplayerDarkStory RichSimulationMultiple Endings👍 23,215
$11.99Erica
May 25 · Flavourworks
Both: Choose Your Own Adventure · Choices Matter · Point & Click
Erica is a live-action, FMV thriller that puts you directly at the heart of the mystery. Your choices, your consequences.
FMVChoose Your Own AdventureInteractive FictionFemale ProtagonistChoices MatterPoint & ClickPuzzleStory RichPsychological HorrorAction-Adventure👍 1,629
$59.99Life is Strange: True Colors
Sep 9 · Deck Nine
Both: Choices Matter · Multiple Endings · Choose Your Own Adventure
Alex Chen hides her 'curse': the psychic power of Empathy, the ability to absorb the emotions of others. When her brother dies in a so-called accident, Alex must embrace her power to find the truth.
Choices MatterStory RichLGBTQ+Female ProtagonistMultiple EndingsChoose Your Own AdventureRomanceEmotionalThird PersonAtmospheric👍 12,365
-50%$8.99Slay the Princess — The Pristine Cut
Oct 23 · Black Tabby Games
Both: Choices Matter · Choose Your Own Adventure · Point & Click
You're here to slay the princess. Don't believe her lies.
Visual NovelChoices MatterPsychological HorrorStory RichHorrorChoose Your Own AdventureRomanceHand-drawnLore-RichPoint & Click👍 31,941
$2.99The Advisor - Episode 1: Royal Pain
May 31 · Randumb Studios
Both: Choose Your Own Adventure · Choices Matter · Multiple Endings
The Advisor Series is a player-driven narrative where your choices & decisions, both in the game, and out of the game, determine how future episodes unfold. Play the role of villain protagonist Magnus the Magician, as he wreaks havoc across the land, one well-placed fireball at a time!
Choose Your Own AdventureRPGChoices MatterVillain ProtagonistVisual NovelMultiple EndingsDark HumorStory RichMysteryInvestigation👍 597
$19.99Suzerain
Dec 4 · Torpor Games
Both: Choose Your Own Adventure · Choices Matter · Multiple Endings
Assume the role of President Anton Rayne and guide the nation of Sordland. Amidst brewing international conflicts, need for reform, deep-seated corruption, and economic recession, you must make the decisions in this political drama. How will you lead?
Visual NovelChoose Your Own AdventurePolitical SimChoices MatterInteractive FictionStory RichText-BasedMultiple EndingsRPGStrategy RPG👍 10,581
$14.99Let Bions Be Bygones
Apr 30 · Bohemian Pulp
Both: Choose Your Own Adventure · Point & Click · Choices Matter
Having lost everything, a retired, hardboiled detective, John Cooper, must take his last case to find a missing upper-class girl among the lowest parts of the dystopian city-planet Terrahive. Choose your unique path in this atmospheric narrative future-noir thriller.
Choose Your Own AdventureInteractive FictionRPGPoint & ClickCyberpunkNoirDetectiveLore-RichChoices MatterMultiple Endings👍 120
$4.99The Testing Chamber
Mar 28 · Randumb Studios
Both: Choices Matter · Multiple Endings · Choose Your Own Adventure
For every action, there is a reaction... For every choice, a result... Dive deep into your subconscious as you wander the halls of The Testing Chamber & join hundreds of thousands of other players in one of the biggest & most successful social experiments ever performed.
SimulationChoices MatterMultiple EndingsVisual NovelRPGHorrorChoose Your Own AdventurePsychological HorrorInvestigationMystery👍 697
$13.99Headliner: NoviNews
Oct 23 · Unbound Creations
Both: Choices Matter · Point & Click · Multiple Endings
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.
Political SimInteractive FictionVisual NovelChoices MatterPoint & ClickStory Rich2DMultiple EndingsDialogue HeavySimulation👍 767
-67%$9.89The Casting of Frank Stone™
Sep 3 · Supermassive Games
Both: Choices Matter · Multiple Endings · Choose Your Own Adventure
The shadow of Frank Stone looms over Cedar Hills, a town forever altered by his violent past. As a group of young friends are about to discover, Stone’s blood-soaked legacy cuts deep, leaving scars across families, generations, and the very fabric of reality itself.
Choices MatterMultiple EndingsHorrorSingleplayerStory RichAdventureAtmosphericPsychological HorrorChoose Your Own AdventureCinematic👍 5,581
$19.99The Life and Suffering of Sir Brante
Mar 4 · Sever, Schisma Games
Both: Choices Matter · Choose Your Own Adventure
A narrative-driven hardcore RPG set in a gritty world ruled by real but unrelenting gods. Set out on a challenging lifetime journey, where every choice has a price and entails consequences. Will you become an inquisitor, a judge, or conspire against the old order? Dare to decide!
Choices MatterStory RichRPGInteractive FictionChoose Your Own AdventureVisual NovelText-BasedMedievalIndieSingleplayer👍 8,153
$29.99As Dusk Falls
Jul 19 · INTERIOR/NIGHT
Both: Choices Matter · Choose Your Own Adventure · Multiple Endings
Explore the entangled lives of two families across thirty years in an original interactive drama from INTERIOR/NIGHT. Starting in 1998 with a robbery-gone-wrong, the character's lives depend on the choices you make.
Choices MatterStory RichCinematicChoose Your Own AdventureCo-opAdventureMultiple EndingsMultiplayerCrimeMystery👍 3,707
$4.99Clean Slate
Aug 13 · Mariano Jar
Both: Multiple Endings · Choices Matter · Puzzle
A suspense visual novel replete with life-or-death situations, puzzles and six different endings. Make your own decisions, solve riddles and reach the truth about the disappearance of the world's leading geneticist - and your best friend.
Multiple EndingsChoices MatterSimulationSci-fiPuzzleVisual NovelDetectiveInvestigationChoose Your Own Adventure2D
$2.99Kill Yourself
Mar 30 · Gugames
Both: Puzzle · Point & Click · Multiple Endings
Enough with games where death is a nuisance that must be avoided at all costs: in Kill Yourself, death is your goal! But beware, it won't be easy: you'll need to work hard to find all the different ways to end the guy's miserable life.
PuzzlePoint & ClickDark HumorMultiple EndingsNonlinearPixel GraphicsAdventureRetroSingleplayerGore👍 110
$8.997Days Origins
May 2 · Buff Studio
Both: Point & Click · Choices Matter · Choose Your Own Adventure
7Days Origins is a single-player story game where the storyline changes based on the player's choices. For 7 days, you will meet various characters in the world of the dead. You may become allies and embark on adventures together or become enemies and fight.
Story RichHorrorVisual NovelPoint & ClickChoices MatterChoose Your Own AdventureInteractive FictionPsychologicalPsychological HorrorDark Comedy👍 313
$9.99Breakout 13
Jan 8 · ALT Lab
Both: Choose Your Own Adventure · Choices Matter · Puzzle
Breakout 13 is a thrilling narrative game with interactive cinematic experience. Based on true stories. Embark on a revealing journey as you attempt to break free from a negligent correctional institute and carve out your own path to justice. Each decision you make shapes the story.
FMVInteractive FictionChoose Your Own AdventureExplorationImmersive SimChoices MatterLore-RichStory RichPuzzleMultiple Endings👍 6,900
-75%$1.99A guard walks into a tavern
Nov 30 · SuQing
Both: Choices Matter · Multiple Endings
You are a guard whose job is to post bounties. Try your best to deal with various matters and make money to raise your family. But remember, when various factions come to you, you will have to make choices!
Choices MatterMedievalSimulationDark HumorStory RichFantasyInteractive FictionLife SimMultiple EndingsAdventure👍 415
$14.99Growing Up
Oct 13 · Vile Monarch
Both: Choices Matter · Multiple Endings · Choose Your Own Adventure
This is the story of your life. Experience the entire journey from toddler to adulthood. Go to schools, learn new things, meet new friends, and have wild adventures! Every choice you make will influence your future career, and decide who your romantic partner will be. Who will you become?
Life SimChoices MatterStory RichSimulationEmotionalRPGAdventureMultiple EndingsSingleplayerChoose Your Own Adventure👍 3,468
$1.99Zombie Apocalypse Survival Simulator
Oct 17 · Randumb Studios
Both: Choices Matter · Multiple Endings · Choose Your Own Adventure
From the creators that brought you The Test Trilogy & many other experiences, comes Zombie Apocalypse Survival Simulator. Will you survive in the new world? Or will you become just another victim to looters, bandits, or worst of all... The Voracious Dead. There's only one way to find out...
SimulationChoices MatterMultiple EndingsVisual NovelRPGHorrorPost-apocalypticChoose Your Own AdventureSurvival HorrorZombies👍 120
$1.99The Test
Feb 24 · Randumb Studios
Both: Choose Your Own Adventure · Multiple Endings · Choices Matter
You will answer a series of questions that will reveal truths from deep within. These questions may make you uncomfortable, but with great knowledge comes great sacrifice. Can you make it all the way through The Test, and if you do, are you sure you want the answers you seek?
Choose Your Own AdventureSimulationMultiple EndingsStory RichPixel GraphicsPsychological HorrorPsychologicalSingleplayerChoices MatterVisual Novel👍 19,596
$9.99Kyle is Famous: Complete Edition
Nov 18 · John Szymanski
Both: Choose Your Own Adventure · Multiple Endings · Replay Value
Kyle tries to prepare for his most important interview yet. Choose his path through over 100 endings and accept the consequences in this comedic adventure.
AdventureChoose Your Own AdventureInteractive FictionFunnyMultiple EndingsText-BasedReplay ValuePoint & ClickComedyDynamic Narration👍 198
$9.99BAD END THEATER
Oct 26 · NomnomNami
Both: Multiple Endings · Choices Matter · Choose Your Own Adventure
select your protagonist and explore a variety of terrible fates!
Multiple EndingsVisual NovelLGBTQ+Story RichChoices MatterPixel GraphicsChoose Your Own AdventureCuteRomanceSimulation👍 8,878
$8.99反转21克
Feb 1 · 想象颗粒
Both: Choose Your Own Adventure · Choices Matter · Multiple Endings
In 2055, "You", the retired soldier king, was assassinated by a comrade who once fought side by side. His peaceful life was suddenly broken. In order to find the truth, he was involved in a series of bizarre murders.
FMVRPGImmersive SimChoose Your Own AdventureVisual NovelFuturisticChoices MatterStory RichMultiple EndingsSingleplayer👍 1,020
$2.99Postmortem: One Must Die (Extended Cut)
Dec 3 · Unbound Creations
Both: Choices Matter · Point & Click · Multiple Endings
Narrative-adventure playing an Agent of Death who must take ONE life that could change the fate of a conflict-torn Nation
AdventureRPGIndieSingleplayerShortChoices MatterIsometricStory RichPoint & ClickMultiple Endings
$9.991979 Revolution: Black Friday
Apr 4 · iNK Stories, N-Fusion Interactive
Both: Choices Matter · Choose Your Own Adventure · Multiple Endings
1979 Revolution: Black Friday is a choice driven, narrative game that brings players into the brooding world of a nation on the verge of collapse. Play as Reza, an aspiring photojournalist, and make life and death decisions as you survive the gritty streets of Iran in the late 1970’s.
AdventureIndieChoices MatterActionHistoricalStory RichChoose Your Own AdventureSingleplayerMultiple EndingsAtmospheric👍 1,021
-85%$2.69Beholder 2
Dec 4 · Alawar Stargaze (Warm Lamp Games)
Both: Choices Matter · Multiple Endings
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!
Dystopian Choices MatterStrategySimulationPolitical SimStory RichSingleplayerAtmosphericMultiple EndingsDark👍 6,865
$19.99Sovereign Tower
Aug 6 · WILD WITS GAMES
Both: Choices Matter · Choose Your Own Adventure
Play as the Sovereign of a magical tower in this story-rich, Round Table management RPG. Recruit eccentric Knights, assign quests and balance egos whilst carving out your kingdom's destiny. If destiny doesn’t go your way, keep turning back time, uncover secrets and rewrite fate again and again.
Choices MatterMedievalChoose Your Own AdventureVisual NovelIndieManagementDialogue HeavyHand-drawnRPGStory Rich👍 3,150
$16.99Your Turn To Die -Death Game By Majority-
Feb 20 · Nankidai
Both: Multiple Endings · Point & Click · Choose Your Own Adventure
Your Turn To Die -Death Game By Majority- is a multi-ending horror adventure game. Sara Chidouin returns home from school late one night to discover that something's gone terribly wrong. When she comes to, she finds herself, her friend Joe, and 9 other people trapped in a mysterious place.
Early AccessMultiple EndingsFemale ProtagonistDarkSingleplayerPoint & ClickChoose Your Own AdventureMysteryInteractive FictionPsychological👍 4,123
$39.99Disco Elysium - The Final Cut
Oct 15 · ZA/UM
Both: Choices Matter · Point & Click
Disco Elysium - The Final Cut is a groundbreaking role playing game. You’re a detective with a unique skill system at your disposal and a whole city to carve your path across. Interrogate unforgettable characters, crack murders or take bribes. Become a hero or an absolute disaster of a human being.
RPGStory RichChoices MatterDetectiveIsometricAtmosphericSingleplayerPoint & ClickCRPGNoir👍 118,190
$4.99HEADLINER
Oct 3 · Unbound Creations
Both: Choices Matter · Multiple Endings · Replay Value
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.
IndieAdventureChoices MatterMultiple EndingsPolitical SimDystopian ShortStory Rich2DReplay Value👍 890
$7.99She Sees Red - Interactive Movie
Jul 11 · Rhinotales
Both: Choices Matter · Multiple Endings
She Sees Red is a mature, hard-boiled interactive thriller. When someone is killed inside a nightclub, an experienced detective vows to put the murderer behind bars. Make choices that affect the narrative and experience several different endings in this blood-red interactive movie.
Choices MatterFMVAdventureMultiple EndingsIndieCinematicViolentStory RichFemale ProtagonistDetective👍 2,738
$14.99Silicon Dreams | cyberpunk interrogation
Apr 20 · James Patton, Clockwork Bird
Both: Choices Matter · Multiple Endings
It’s 2065, and you are an interrogator-model android tasked with rooting out deviants among your own kind. You must probe for lies, monitor and exploit emotional spikes, earn the trust of your subjects, and make the final call: release, or destroy?
Choices MatterStory RichInvestigationCyberpunkDialogue HeavyMultiple EndingsAdventureEmotionalDetectiveAtmospheric👍 218
$9.99Monster Loves You!
Mar 18 · Radial Games Corp, Dejobaan Games, LLC
Both: Multiple Endings · Choose Your Own Adventure · Choices Matter
Live the life of a Monster, from birth to elderhood and beyond, making decisions that affect the world of Monsters and Humans. Solve problems. Meet animals and interesting people. Get to know them. Eat them. Make your own story!
CasualIndieMultiple EndingsSimulationChoose Your Own AdventureRPGAdventureSingleplayerChoices MatterCute👍 808
$4.99While We Wait Here
Oct 23 · Bad Vices Games
Both: Choose Your Own Adventure · Multiple Endings · Choices Matter
Share thoughts and hot food with your last ever clients, as you wait for the world to end.
Choose Your Own AdventureHorrorMultiple EndingsPsychological HorrorWalking SimulatorChoices MatterStory RichFunnyControllerCasual👍 2,347
$19.99Heavy Rain
Jun 18 · Quantic Dream
Both: Choices Matter · Multiple Endings
Experience a gripping psychological thriller filled with innumerable twists and turns. The hunt is on for a murderer known only as the Origami Killer. Four characters, each following their own leads, must take part in a desperate attempt to prevent the killer from claiming a new victim.
Choices MatterStory RichMultiple EndingsCinematicDetectiveAdventureThrillerQuick-Time EventsEmotionalInvestigation👍 26,537