The Parenting Simulator
This is a story where you do something more terrifying than entering a haunted house, more dangerous than assaulting an alien horde, and more…
88% of 67 Steam reviews are positive$5.99
Games like Alter Ego
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Growing Up
Grow up in 1990s America, from first steps to high school graduation. Pick what you learn, who you befriend and who you fall for, then watch every choice steer your career and your child's life. A hand-drawn, heartfelt life sim with 42 careers and multiple endings.
Story-driven, Replayable, Emotional
87% of 3,494 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 38$14.99The Way of Life: DEFINITIVE EDITION
Experience a swirling of emotions in this touching adventure through the lives of three characters of different ages. 10 Experiences, 30 Levels and more than 70 choices. Can you face yourself?
Story-driven, Replayable, Emotional
66% of 100 Steam reviews are positive$14.99The Parenting Simulator
This is a story where you do something more terrifying than entering a haunted house, more dangerous than assaulting an alien horde, and more important than ruling a fantasy kingdom. You, and you alone, must turn your newborn baby into a functional adult. Will you be a tiger mom or a helicopter dad?
Story-driven, Replayable, Emotional
88% of 67 Steam reviews are positive$5.99OurLife
OurLife is a text-forward life simulator game filled with immersive, choice-driven systems that impact more than just the character you're playing. Live any life, make any choice: OurLife.
Story-driven, Replayable, Emotional
81% of 52 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 4$4.99Life of a Wizard
Write an archmage's autobiography in this 80-year 130,000-word interactive fiction! Play good or evil, man or woman, as you bring peace to the kingdom or take over the world with your sorcery. Brew potions, raise the dead, summon mythical beasts, control men's minds, and blast away your enemies.
Story-driven, Replayable, Emotional
79% of 63 Steam reviews are positive$4.99Imagine Lifetimes
Satirical, short and simple point-and-click "simulation" game about the meaninglessness of life.
Story-driven, Replayable, Dark
64% of 126 Steam reviews are positive$5.99The Life and Suffering of Sir Brante — Chapter 1&2
A text-based dark fantasy RPG played out in a journal, where a boy's whole life is shaped by your choices. Every decision costs something, every trait you build changes who he becomes, and death is only a chance to try again.
Story-driven, Replayable, Emotional
96% of 2,044 Steam reviews are positiveFreeI Was a Teenage Exocolonist
Spend ten years growing up on an alien planet in a story-rich RPG where your memories become cards and your choices shape your friends, your colony and your own ending. Fall in love, make mistakes, die, and live it all again with everything you remember.
Story-driven, Replayable, Emotional
96% of 4,516 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 129$24.99Choice of Robots
A 300,000-word interactive sci-fi novel about thirty years spent building robots. Design your first machine in grad school, then decide whether it learns love, obedience or conquest. Every choice shapes the story, and no two lives play out the same.
Story-driven, Replayable, Emotional
96% of 1,891 Steam reviews are positive$6.99Text Your Life
Who did you kiss that night? Text Your Life is a mobile phone chat simulator that lets you put yourself in the shoes of our protagonist, a female university student with a group of eccentric friends and a love life that has suddenly turned somewhat... complicated.
Story-driven, Replayable, Emotional
92% of 65 Steam reviews are positiveFreeHeroes Rise: The Prodigy
Do you have what it takes to become a legendary Powered hero? "Heroes Rise" is an epic interactive novel where your choices control the story. The game is entirely text-based--without graphics or sound effects--and fueled by the vast, unstoppable power of your imagination. How high will you rise?
Story-driven, Replayable, Emotional
79% of 381 Steam reviews are positive$4.99Choice of Life: Samosbor
You're just a simple inhabitant of the endless Gigastructure. The best you'll get is seven shifts at a machine and a bowl of feed concentrate, and that for good service to the party.... Is that it? Or do you have a choice?
Story-driven, Replayable, Dark
87% of 242 Steam reviews are positive$4.99
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OurLife
OurLife is a text-forward life simulator game filled with immersive, choice-driven systems that impact more than just the character you're playing.
81% of 52 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 4$4.99
Life of a Wizard
Write an archmage's autobiography in this 80-year 130,000-word interactive fiction!
79% of 63 Steam reviews are positive$4.99
Imagine Lifetimes
Satirical, short and simple point-and-click "simulation" game about the meaninglessness of life.
64% of 126 Steam reviews are positive$5.99
Choice of Robots
You spend thirty years as a robot maker, and every choice decides how the future turns out.
96% of 1,891 Steam reviews are positive$6.99
Heroes Rise: The Prodigy
Do you have what it takes to become a legendary Powered hero? "Heroes Rise" is an epic interactive novel where your choices control the story.
79% of 381 Steam reviews are positive$4.99
Emily is Away Too
Message Emily and Evelyn through a 2006 instant messenger and steer your senior year toward one of several endings.
93% of 5,363 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 9$0.99
Choice of Life: Samosbor
You're just a simple inhabitant of the endless Gigastructure.
87% of 242 Steam reviews are positive$4.99
Choice of Life: Wild Islands
Conquer the jungle and prove that in any situation you - the master of your fate!
92% of 345 Steam reviews are positive$6.99
Diabolical
As a criminal mastermind, choose a lair, rob a bank, hire a minion, and steal the world's largest ball of aluminum foil! Or, destroy the world. FINE.
75% of 118 Steam reviews are positive$4.99
Choice of Life: Middle Ages
Live from peasant to nobleman one choice at a time, and see how many different lives you can squeeze out of a single kingdom.
89% of 1,755 Steam reviews are positive$4.99
Community College Hero: Trial by Fire
Outwit your professors at superpower school! Ace your exams, date classmates, and bring down the nation’s most wanted villains to earn your degree.
84% of 245 Steam reviews are positive$4.99
Hidden gems like Alter Ego
Choice of Life: Samosbor
You're just a simple inhabitant of the endless Gigastructure.
87% of 242 Steam reviews are positive$4.99
Choice of Life: Wild Islands
Conquer the jungle and prove that in any situation you - the master of your fate!
92% of 345 Steam reviews are positive$6.99
Sacred Fire: A Role Playing Game
A text-based RPG full of choice and action. Fight for survival in the midst of the Roman invasion of ancient Caledonia.
94% of 475 Steam reviews are positive$18.99
I Was a Teenage Exocolonist
A decade of choices, friendships and first love on a strange planet, lived again and again with every memory intact.
96% of 4,516 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 129$24.99
The Life and Suffering of Sir Brante — Chapter 1&2
Guide Sir Brante from birth through his early years in a ruthless empire where fate is written, unless you rewrite it.
96% of 2,044 Steam reviews are positiveFree
//TODO: today
A visual novel about figuring out life with the help of an AI.
92% of 427 Steam reviews are positiveFree
Who Needs a Hero?
You answer yes or no, roll the dice, and let your karma decide whether the Kingdom gets a hero or a headache.
91% of 1,388 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 3$19.99
Choice of Life: Middle Ages
Live from peasant to nobleman one choice at a time, and see how many different lives you can squeeze out of a single kingdom.
89% of 1,755 Steam reviews are positive$4.99
7Days Origins
7Days Origins is a single-player story game where the storyline changes based on the player's choices.
86% of 316 Steam reviews are positive$8.99
Growing Up
Guide a kid through 1990s America, choosing friends, crushes and studies that shape a whole life.
87% of 3,494 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 38$14.99
Emily is Away <3
Type every message yourself and steer a teenage romance toward one of its many endings, in a short, funny and quietly painful story.
91% of 6,079 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 13$0.99
Across the Grooves
Your choices affect the destiny of Alice, drastically changing her reality and allowing her to explore alternative destinies by modifying her past.
91% of 109 Steam reviews are positive$4.19
Newest games like Alter Ego
OurLife
OurLife is a text-forward life simulator game filled with immersive, choice-driven systems that impact more than just the character you're playing.
81% of 52 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 4$4.99
LifeSimOS
A story-rich coming-of-age experience told through a 2004 desktop, where friendships, music, and late-night conversations shape who you become.
100% of 2 Steam reviews are positive$9.99
Choice of Life: Samosbor
You're just a simple inhabitant of the endless Gigastructure.
87% of 242 Steam reviews are positive$4.99
The Alters
Run a mobile base across a deadly planet and staff it with alternate versions of you, each with their own past and opinions of you.
90% of 15,765 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 408$15.74
Choice of Life: Wild Islands
Conquer the jungle and prove that in any situation you - the master of your fate!
92% of 345 Steam reviews are positive$6.99
Text Your Life
Who did you kiss that night? Text Your Life is a mobile phone chat simulator that lets you put yourself in the shoes of our protagonist, a female…
92% of 65 Steam reviews are positiveFree
DREAMIO: AI-Powered Adventures
DREAMIO is a 'choose-your-own-adventure' game where stories and visuals are dynamically created through the power of generative AI in response to…
86% of 178 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 3$9.99
Don't Wake Me Up
You’re trapped in a malfunctioning virtual reality with no memories—except of every video game you’ve ever played.
75% of 24 Steam reviews are positive$7.99
ALTER EGO
ALTER EGO is a 2D point-and-click narrative-based adventure game featuring psychological elements.
92% of 209 Steam reviews are positiveFree
I Was a Teenage Exocolonist
A decade of choices, friendships and first love on a strange planet, lived again and again with every memory intact.
96% of 4,516 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 129$24.99
Life of a Space Force Captain
Live a full life in the future as a human, an alien, or even a robot as you rise through the ranks to become captain of your very own starship.
85% of 61 Steam reviews are positive$6.99
Sacred Fire: A Role Playing Game
A text-based RPG full of choice and action. Fight for survival in the midst of the Roman invasion of ancient Caledonia.
94% of 475 Steam reviews are positive$18.99