Games like Adverse Action

Want something that feels mysterious and story-driven the way Adverse Action does? These games line up well for what comes next.

The Determinator
A narrative desk simulation about bureaucracy and the people behind it. Ten days. Dozens of cases. Claimants file for benefits, you read the file, check the manual, and stamp the folder. Approve. Deny. Request more information. Your record will reflect your decisions
Mysterious, Story-driven, Replayable
100% of 1 Steam reviews are positive$1.99
Need to Know
Welcome to the Department of Liberty. Ascend the ranks of the NSA-like surveillance agency and decide: will you stand up for privacy, or help create an unstoppable police state? Spy on people’s deepest secrets, pick apart their private lives and decide their fate in this modern surveillance thriller.
Mysterious, Story-driven, Replayable
74% of 175 Steam reviews are positive$14.99
JudgeSim
JudgeSim puts you on the bench in the Banana Republic, a struggling island where anarchists fill the streets and corruption runs deep. Read case files, weigh evidence, question the accused and hand down your verdict. Stay honest, take the bribes, or juggle both, and see which ending your choices earn you.
Mysterious, Story-driven, Replayable
84% of 1,411 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 12$6.99
Civil Purgatory
Interrogate, investigate, and judge in an authoritarian regime. In Civil Purgatory, real-time AI-generated role-playing dialogue adds depth and dynamism to this narrative simulation full of moral dilemmas, where you decide who walks free… and who doesn’t.
Mysterious, Story-driven, Replayable
55% of 20 Steam reviews are positive$3.99
Thank You For Your Application
A dystopian job interview sim set in Aeropolis, 2066. Screen resumes against rules that change daily, decide who eats this month, then go home to pay your own rent and keep your sanity. Dark humor, pixel art and multiple endings: your tiny desk, other people's lives.
Mysterious, Story-driven, Replayable
80% of 1,024 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 44$13.99
Rules for Thee
You're dead, understaffed, and temporarily in charge of the Kingdom's admissions desk. Read lives, question souls, follow an incomplete rulebook, and stamp ASCEND, HOLD, DESCEND, or REFER—then live with the Kingdom your paperwork creates.
Mysterious, Story-driven, Replayable
$4.99
Papers, Please
The October labor lottery picked your name. Now you stamp passports at the Arstotzkan border, deciding who enters and who waits in the cold. Every approved visa pays for your family's heat and food, every mistake costs you. A grim, gripping puzzle about paperwork, power and the people behind the documents.
Mysterious, Story-driven, Replayable
97% of 73,804 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 343$9.99
The Operator
You are the new Operator at the FDI, and the field agents call you when a case needs cracking. Dig through photos, databases and call transcripts on your console, feed agents what they need, and follow a conspiracy that starts pulling you in. A short, sharp detective story told entirely through a desktop.
Mysterious, Story-driven, Dark
91% of 8,716 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 23$13.99
DOSSIER 089
Inspect evidence, expose contradictions, and sign binding orders in a dystopian political thriller. Your laws return through the people who exploit them as thirty connected files decide District 089's fate.
Mysterious, Story-driven, Replayable
100% of 1 Steam reviews are positive$3.89
Agents! Please?
The AI writes all the code. Confidently. Wrong. You are the last human reviewer. Interrogate the swarm, run the code, catch the lie. Fix it, or ship it anyway. Next comes a problem, a recall, a funeral, or the end of the world. Plays fully on a controller, and the code is real when you want it.
Mysterious, Story-driven, Replayable
100% of 11 Steam reviews are positive$4.04
Regret To Inform
A game about finding reasons to say "no." Review resumes, detect inconsistencies, and deliver rejection letters.
Mysterious, Story-driven, Replayable
100% of 8 Steam reviews are positive$2.99
You are the Judge!
As a judge of the Kobardde court, solve complex cases inspired by actual events. Your decisions will directly affect people's (and perhaps yours) lives. You may have to make difficult decisions for your family, country, and life. What kind of judge will you be?
Mysterious, Story-driven, Replayable
69% of 252 Steam reviews are positive$12.99

Cheaper than Adverse Action

The Determinator

A narrative desk simulation about bureaucracy and the people behind it. Ten days. Dozens of cases.

$1.99

JudgeSim

Read the files, weigh the evidence and hand down verdicts in a corrupt republic where every choice shapes your ending.

$6.99

Civil Purgatory

Interrogate, investigate, and judge in an authoritarian regime.

$3.99

Rules for Thee

You're dead, understaffed, and temporarily in charge of the Kingdom's admissions desk.

$4.99

Papers, Please

Inspect passports at a grim border checkpoint, where each approval earns your family's keep and each mistake comes at a cost.

$9.99

Agents! Please?

The AI writes all the code. Confidently. Wrong. You are the last human reviewer. Interrogate the swarm, run the code, catch the lie.

$4.04

DOSSIER 089

Inspect evidence, expose contradictions, and sign binding orders in a dystopian political thriller.

$3.89

Regret To Inform

A game about finding reasons to say "no." Review resumes, detect inconsistencies, and deliver rejection letters.

$2.99

Security 51

Work the checkpoint at the bottom of the shaft: check papers, scan blood, X-ray ribs, and judge who is still human enough to go down.

$9.99

Bad Credit? No Problem!

It's your first job at a small title-loan shop. Survive probation and build a career: do the paperwork, keep up as new rules pile on, play some…

$7.99

Beholder

Snoop through an apartment building for the regime, then decide which neighbors deserve to be reported and which secrets stay buried.

$1.39

Teller's Duty

1980, Kertasia Bank: you count cash, check papers, and try to keep your job while saving for your mom's medical bills.

$11.99

Hidden gems like Adverse Action

TR-49

Search a secret WWII archive, connect the clues and deduce your way to a stolen book before it rewrites reality.

$6.99

The Darkest Files

Germany, 1956. You play Esther Katz, a young prosecutor hunting Nazi-era criminals who now live as respected citizens.

$19.99

of the Devil

A cyberpunk courtroom mystery where you investigate 3D crime scenes and stake your deductions against a prosecutor's case.

Free

Dupery: A Game of Solo Deduction

A solo deduction roguelite with over 175 roles, set in a noir city run by a criminal syndicate.

$14.99

Expelled!

A School Prefect has been pushed out of a window, and everyone's blaming YOU.

$14.99

Thank You For Your Application

A dystopian job interview sim set in Aeropolis, 2066. Screen resumes against rules that change daily, decide who eats this month, then go home to…

$13.99

JudgeSim

Read the files, weigh the evidence and hand down verdicts in a corrupt republic where every choice shapes your ending.

$6.99

That's not my Neighbor

Decide which neighbors are human and which doppelgangers get turned away, one nervous shift at a time.

$2.99

The Operator

Search files, calls and photos on a console, guide field agents through their cases, and watch a conspiracy close in on you.

$13.99

Security 51

Work the checkpoint at the bottom of the shaft: check papers, scan blood, X-ray ribs, and judge who is still human enough to go down.

$9.99

Silicon Dreams | cyberpunk interrogation

It’s 2065, and you are an interrogator-model android tasked with rooting out deviants among your own kind.

$14.99

Scrutinized

File reports on a quiet town's suspects from home, knowing two murderers are heading straight for your door.

$9.99

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