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by Unbound Creations
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.
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$19.99Minds Beneath Us
Jul 31 · BearBoneStudio
Both: Choices Matter · Dystopian
MINDS BENEATH US is an emotional sci-fi narrative game. Through the eyes of a humble individual, experience a mad world where humans are exploited as computing devices for AI. Listen to the concerns of those you meet and offer guidance. Together, face challenges and confront an uncertain destiny.
CinematicAtmosphericStory RichCyberpunkChoices MatterVisual NovelChoose Your Own AdventureDystopian RPG2D👍 5,754
-20%$7.99Lightracer: For Judge
Jan 7 · Smartmelon Games
Both: Political Sim · Choices Matter · Multiple Endings
In a dystopian future, as The Judge with immense power, you journey through space to find hope in a divided society. This sci-fi adventure explores hope amidst adversity.
SimulationRPGExplorationVisual NovelAdventurePolitical SimSpaceChoices MatterMultiple EndingsSci-fi👍 462
$12.99CorpoNation: The Sorting Process
Feb 22 · Canteen
Both: Dystopian · Political Sim
Greetings, valued employee. You have been tasked with sorting the Ringo CorpoNation's genetic samples. With the credits that you earn, you can shop, game and pay your bills on time. Rogue workers may try to entice you into betraying your beloved employer, but we know you'll give 110%.
AdventureDystopian SimulationJob SimulatorPoint & ClickStory RichPolitical SimCapitalismMysteryRetro👍 118
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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
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3 days ago · Cipi Games
Both: Choices Matter · Short · Multiple Endings
A young man disappeared in a Slavic village. You show up with three companions and a few days to find out what really happened, before the water decides to answer for itself. Based on Adam Wołoszczuk's award-winning scenario "A kto dziewczyna?", with 11 different ways it can end.
Choose Your Own AdventureVisual NovelStory RichChoices MatterShortMultiple EndingsMysteryInvestigationAdventureInteractive Fiction
$29.99The Invincible
Nov 6 · Starward Industries
Both: Choices Matter · Multiple Endings
Rethink human’s dominion in The Invincible: a story-driven adventure set in a hard sci-fi world by Stanisław Lem. Discover planet Regis III as scientist Yasna, use atompunk tools looking for a missing crew and face unforeseen threats. Make choices in a philosophical story that’s driven by science.
Dialogue HeavyAdventureRobotsWalking SimulatorFuturisticSci-fiChoices MatterFemale ProtagonistSpaceMultiple Endings👍 10,083
$13.99Homicipher
Nov 1 · 八名木Games
Both: Multiple Endings · Choices Matter
Homicipher is a language deciphering and exploration ADV based on the concept of "romance with horror men." The protagonist, who has wandered into another world, interacts with non-human beings to decipher their language while striving to escape.
OtomeHorrorVisual NovelFemale ProtagonistAtmosphericMultiple EndingsText-BasedChoices MatterChoose Your Own AdventureWord Game👍 7,822
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Sep 30 · Future Cat LLC
Both: Choices Matter · Multiple Endings
A completely self-contained portable version of one of the highest user-rated games. Built on an entirely new engine with new UI, support for Steam Deck, & more. Features world-bending puzzles, intriguing denizens, surreal environments, and a captivating story about the truth of the game's reality.
PuzzleStory RichIndiePixel GraphicsChoices MatterMultiple EndingsCuteExploration2DAdventure👍 5,353
-15%$7.64Political Life
4 days ago · Terminalabs
Both: Political Sim · Choices Matter · Multiple Endings
A political life simulation: enter in middle age, assemble bills, run elections, take the money, bury the trail. There is no win condition — only how you are remembered when you die.
Political SimLife SimChoices MatterText-BasedStory RichMultiple EndingsSimulationStrategy2DPixel Graphics
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Feb 1 · 想象颗粒
Both: 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
$14.99Let Bions Be Bygones
Apr 30 · Bohemian Pulp
Both: Choices Matter · Multiple Endings
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
$11.99VLADiK BRUTAL
Aug 9 · BRUTAL SOFTWARE
Both: Dystopian
Fight under the onslaught of mutated monsters, obsessed soldiers and even darker bosses. Just try to survive and find out what to do next in this life, simultaneously tearing your enemies to pieces.
FPSShooterFirst-PersonActionDystopian AdventureRealisticCasualPuzzleAction-Adventure👍 9,549
$2.99Aliya: Timelink
Apr 25 · TDGame Studio
Both: Multiple Endings
The player connects to a girl in distress in space thousands of years later? How will they resolve the crisis and discover the truth? Through the mechanism of real-time synchronization, the game breaks through the dimensional wall and creates an immersive dialogue across time and space.
RPGInteractive FictionVisual NovelWord GameMultiple EndingsSpaceSci-fiText-BasedPerma Death2D👍 8,594
FreeA Date with Death
Dec 7 · Two and a Half Studios
Both: Multiple Endings · Choices Matter
Fight against & romance the one hunting for your soul in A Date with Death, a romance chat simulator where you date(?) the Grim Reaper himself. Create your own character, decorate your apartment, and chat away with the charming yet dangerous Grim Reaper through text and video calls.
Dating SimVisual NovelLGBTQ+RomanceOtomeFree to PlayCharacter CustomizationMultiple EndingsChoices MatterAnime👍 447
$4.99Time Space Rebuild
May 19 · INNOVATION DREAM
Both: Choices Matter · Multiple Endings
In "Time Rebuild", human civilization stands on the brink of destruction. You will become a time-traveling hero, embarking on a journey to save the world while encountering and bonding with women of vastly different appearances and personalities.
Dating SimFMVInteractive FictionRPGSingleplayerChoices MatterFemale ProtagonistSimulationMultiple EndingsChoose Your Own Adventure👍 377
$5.99Love Chase
May 20 · Topgame
Both: Multiple Endings · Choices Matter
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Sexual ContentDating SimFMVStory RichMultiple EndingsSingleplayerMysteryRomanceFemale ProtagonistChoices Matter👍 371
$10.99Game of Fate: Chasing Through Time
Oct 30 · KARMAGAME HK LIMITED
Both: Multiple Endings
Immerse yourself in the first-person perspective, cross time and space, solve bizarre cases, save innocent victims, and catch a mysterious killer! You will solve murders, uphold justice, and also gain love. Are you ready? Play the "Game of Fate" that crosses time and space, life and death!
FMVDating SimImmersive SimMysteryCinematicMultiple EndingsLore-RichChoose Your Own AdventureStory RichInteractive Fiction👍 987
$19.99Little Goody Two Shoes
Nov 7 · AstralShift
Both: Choices Matter · Multiple Endings
Venture into the woods as you play Little Goody Two Shoes, a phantasmagorical horror narrative adventure where all your decisions matter!
AdventureHorrorRPGLGBTQ+Dating Sim2DExplorationChoices MatterFemale ProtagonistMultiple Endings👍 2,215
$1.99When It Falls
Dec 10 · Team Stargazer
Both: Choices Matter · Multiple Endings
An apocalyptic Ice Age approaches the automatic doors of your convenience store. Scrape together what you need to survive through bartering or outright scamming in this short narrative game. In the end, only you can judge yourself.
SimulationTradingChoices MatterMultiple EndingsStory RichDialogue HeavyVisual NovelAtmosphericFunnyLogic
$9.99Milord
Apr 14 · iBright Games
Both: Choices Matter · Replay Value
Milord is a Kingdom Management RPG with city-building mechanics. Immerse yourself in a world where your decisions shape your fiefdom's destiny. Rule wisely as you construct, strategize, and navigate the challenges of leadership. Will you rise to glory or crumble under the weight of your choices?
Early AccessMedievalChoices MatterRPGSimulationStrategy RPGReplay ValueChoose Your Own AdventureResource ManagementSingleplayer👍 104
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Both: Multiple Endings · Choices Matter · Dystopian
"201 - The Bad Number" is an interactive science fiction game-book set on a post-apocalyptic Mars. In a world where only 200 people remain, each new inhabitant may hasten civilization's end. Players make choices that impact the fate of humanity and the colony in a unique dystopian setting.
Interactive FictionText-BasedSci-fiAdventureMultiple EndingsChoose Your Own AdventureChoices MatterVisual NovelDystopian Futuristic
$19.99Until Then
Jun 25 · Polychroma Games
A fateful meeting sets off a chain reaction, upending Mark's life. People disappear and memories prove unreliable. Uncover a hidden truth with Mark and his friends in this narrative adventure and race to unravel the mystery before it's too late.
Visual NovelEmotionalPixel GraphicsStory RichInteractive FictionPsychological2DRomanceMysteryAdventure👍 15,742
$4.99THE DEEPWATCH
Jan 6 · LLC Elpy Games
Both: Choices Matter · Dystopian
As the head of security, you will decide the fate of those who try to enter the underwater colony. Among the hundreds of arrivals, you may encounter dangerous criminals, spies, and the infected. You will decide who lives here, who is banished, and who is eliminated.
SimulationChoices MatterColony SimPost-apocalypticDystopian Dark ComedyUnderwaterResource ManagementStrategy2D
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Oct 23 · Yustas
Both: Choices Matter
Welcome to Technotopia, a city-builder card game. Take on the role of an AI designed to build a perfect city. Build districts, meet the needs of diverse communities and maintain the delicate balance between factions vying for control over you!
PuzzleDeckbuildingChoices MatterCasualCity BuilderCard GameStrategyBuildingSingleplayerFuturistic👍 604
$13.99S4U: CITYPUNK 2011 AND LOVE PUNCH
Jan 8 · U0U Games
Both: Multiple Endings · Choices Matter
This is a modern adventure of young adults seeking love and meaning. Return to 2011's Castor Yard, tap on your keyboard, and make those letters dance: Use your online persona to make meaningful decisions for your clients and yourself.
Visual NovelTypingImmersive SimMemesStory RichRetroPixel GraphicsSimulationMultiple EndingsChoices Matter👍 2,324
$15.99Game of Fate 2: A Century's Promise
Jan 14 · KARMAGAME HK LIMITED
Both: Multiple Endings
Transported back a century by fate, you find yourself in a legendary tale of vengeance. Amidst powerful enemies in a tumultuous era, your mission is to assist those around you. Experience this immersive epic from a first-person perspective—authentic, weighty, yet brimming with hope.
FMVDating SimImmersive SimCinematicMysteryHistoricalMultiple EndingsChoose Your Own AdventureLore-RichStory Rich👍 1,055
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Jan 9 · Dimps Corporation
Both: Dystopian
Born into a one-million-year prison sentence, you must survive deadly missions to earn any hope of freedom. Die in prison or live on the battlefield. The choice is yours.
Dystopian Character CustomizationAnimeHuntingPost-apocalypticAction RPGJRPGFuturisticDarkWar👍 1,212
$6.99Vanity Fair: The Pursuit
Feb 19 · 木焱工作室
Both: Choices Matter
Players follow Lu Yuan through important stages of his life and experience his growth trajectory from youth to maturity. It will take you to relive those decisions that you have never tried to make in reality, and feel the different life brought about by each choice.
FMVRPGChoices MatterStory RichCinematicIndieImmersive SimSimulationInteractive FictionVisual Novel👍 4,015
$17.99Tavern Talk - A Cozy Visual Novel
Jun 20 · Gentle Troll Entertainment
Both: Choices Matter · Multiple Endings
A cozy visual novel about running a tavern in a D&D-inspired fantasy! Gather rumors, serve magical drinks, and meet adventurers on a life-changing quest.
SingleplayerLGBTQ+Visual NovelFantasyCozyStory RichInteractive FictionChoices MatterMultiple EndingsChoose Your Own Adventure👍 1,456
$49.99Life is Strange: Double Exposure
Oct 29 · Deck Nine Games
Both: Choices Matter
When Max Caulfield finds her friend Safi dead in the snow, she tears open the way to a parallel timeline. Here, Safi is still alive - and still in danger! With her new power to Shift between two timelines – can Max solve and prevent the same murder?
Choices MatterLGBTQ+Female ProtagonistStory RichChoose Your Own AdventureRomanceThird PersonMysteryEmotionalAction👍 7,844
$10.99规则怪谈:盛崖小区
Oct 23 · ZHUYUAN Co.,Ltd
Both: Choices Matter · Multiple Endings
这是一款怪谈类剧情游戏。在宏大的原创世界观下你需要一步步探索盛崖小区的“全貌”,你能做到仅仅是依靠“规则”在这里觅得一线生机。你可以假装无事发生,安然度日;也可以想尽办法,逃出生天;或许你也可以直面它,成为它的一部分……但无论如何,请你记住,保持理智,遵守规则。
Psychological HorrorFMVRPGThrillerStory RichDating SimImmersive SimChoices MatterCinematicMultiple Endings👍 288
$14.99RUNGORE
May 16 · YOUR_MOM'S_HP, RavenJm
Both: Replay Value
Card game mechanics - check. Real time battles - check. Silly humor - check. If this isn't the game of your dreams i don't know what is (Also we have hidden memes everywhere lol)
Trading Card GameIndieCard GameCard BattlerReal Time TacticsDifficultReplay ValueStrategy RPGRoguelitePixel Graphics👍 993
$5.99Vault
Jan 3 · ItllBeFunTheySaid
Both: Short
Vault is a spooky, atmospheric exploration game. Uncover the story of a mysterious island through the lens of a primitive drone as you search for the artifact concealed within it, and avoid the guardian of the island.
AtmosphericPsychological HorrorIndieTypingRogueliteShortPixel GraphicsOpen WorldMinimalistAdventure


