Beholder
Snoop through an apartment building for the regime, then decide which neighbors deserve to be reported and which secrets stay buried.
91% of 23,401 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 76$1.39
Games like Bystander
Chasing that dark and mysterious feeling you got from Bystander? These games line up well for what comes next.
Beholder
You are the State's landlord in a totalitarian country. Bug apartments, sneak into tenants' rooms while they're out, and report anyone who might plot against the regime. Or don't: you have a family to keep alive, and every choice costs something. A bleak, darkly funny story with several endings.
Dark, Mysterious, Tense
91% of 23,401 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 76$1.39Orwell: Keeping an Eye On You
Big Brother has arrived, and it is you. A terror attack hits Bonton and you become the first human researcher for Orwell, a surveillance system with access to citizens' chats, emails, medical files and PCs. What you pass on to security shapes the investigation, and the lives of the people you spy on.
Dark, Mysterious, Tense
90% of 8,978 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 16$9.99Papers, 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.
Dark, Mysterious, Tense
97% of 73,804 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 343$9.99Need 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.
Dark, Mysterious, Tense
74% of 175 Steam reviews are positive$14.99Monitor State
You are an operator in a dystopia world, watch and punish citizens. Experience a deep narrative with moral dilemmas. Obey, resist or find another path.
Dark, Mysterious, Tense
75% of 12 Steam reviews are positive$4.99Do Not Feed the Monkeys
A voyeur simulator with a wicked sense of humor. You join a shadowy club, watch strangers through surveillance feeds and piece together their lives from fragments. The rule: never interfere. The temptation: you always will. Juggle rent, sleep and curiosity in a dystopia that watches back.
Dark, Mysterious, Tense
93% of 10,504 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 47$15.99Replica
A stranger's phone lands in your hands, and a government agent on the line wants evidence of terrorism. Snoop through messages, photos and social media to find it. A short, sharp interactive novel about surveillance, guilt and twelve very different ways out.
Dark, Mysterious, Tense
85% of 2,977 Steam reviews are positive$2.99Ministry of Truth: False Memory
Ministry of Truth: False Memory is a story-driven simulator in a totalitarian society. Become an official, manipulate facts, rewrite history, and provide the ‘truth’ to the public. Choose: obey or fight against the regime. The Great Father is watching you!
Dark, Mysterious, Tense
85% of 84 Steam reviews are positive$4.89Contraband Police
It is 1981 and you run a border post in the mountains of Karikatka, checking papers, hunting smuggled goods with a UV flashlight and occasionally shooting your way through gang raids. A tense, grimly funny mix of inspection sim, detective work and shootouts, with choices that decide the fate of Acaristan.
Dark, Mysterious, Tense
95% of 25,196 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 366$29.99Mainlining
After MI7 has been hacked, your primary goal is to bring a cyber-criminal network to justice. Played entirely from your computer's desktop, Mainlining is a thrilling point and click hacking adventure that features a gripping narrative which will have you hooked from the very first case.
Dark, Mysterious, Tense
77% of 286 Steam reviews are positive$12.99The Red Stare
Become a secret agent in the 1950s and observe your neighbours to find the communist spy!
Mysterious, Tense, Atmospheric
87% of 477 Steam reviews are positiveFreeAlone in the crowd
Settled on a dystopian future, Alone in the Crowd is a humorous puzzle simulation investigative thriller, where you use a weird variety of gadgets to satisfy this mysterious, self proclaimed friendly AI character.
Dark, Mysterious, Atmospheric
89% of 37 Steam reviews are positive$6.99
Cheaper than Bystander
Super-Patriota Simulator
Attention! In 72 hours something very important will happen, stay in the streets, do your part and wait for the armed forces!
99% of 139 Steam reviews are positive$1.99
Summon
A first-person comedy about a streamer, a mysterious knocking and every excuse in the world not to open the door.
92% of 3,010 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 2$0.49
My Friend Stalin
For the first time on steam. The greatest dictator of all time is now dancing on your desktop!
90% of 452 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 2$0.99
Носковраздор
«Носковраздор» — сатирический симулятор интернет-цензуры. Изучайте сайты, ищите нарушения закона и решайте, какие ресурсы должны исчезнуть из…
52% of 139 Steam reviews are positive$0.49
Black Border 2
Black Border 2 is an intense border patrol simulator where you inspect documents and use special tools to detect forgeries and stop smugglers.
63% of 19 Steam reviews are positive$1.99
Escape from Grustovia
The long-awaited draft notice has arrived, and besides the window, you have only one way out - to RUN.
84% of 362 Steam reviews are positive$0.99
Repair this!
Run a small repair shop in a hand-drawn city, set your own prices, and let every choice steer where the story goes.
87% of 804 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 12$1.74
Fingered
GUILTY! THEY ARE ALL GUILTY! FINGERED is a "whodunit" hyperrealisic police sim where you must finger the guilty and clean up this darn city using…
74% of 985 Steam reviews are positive$1.87
Simulator RKM
Immerse yourself in the rigors of working at the RKM. Join the ranks of the supervisory staff and experience the responsibility (and absurdity) of…
67% of 12 Steam reviews are positive$0.99
MAN STANDING
The ALFINA GAMERS team together with ALFINA WORLD GAME PUBLISHING are pleased to present a unique game experience.
84% of 328 Steam reviews are positive$0.79
Caught On Camera
Survive 6 hours as a night guard, monitoring for anomalies. Act fast, or risk losing your mind to the unexplained horrors that lurk beyond the…
88% of 67 Steam reviews are positive$1.99
Hidden gems like Bystander
Beholder: Conductor
Work the State's proudest train as its conductor, deciding who to report and who to spare as you climb toward the VIP cars.
91% of 4,843 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 41$13.99
Dead Signal
A night shift on the wrong side of the cameras. Watch 23 hacked feeds, file reports on schedule, and hand-deliver shady packages while hitmen stalk…
89% of 1,018 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 2$12.99
That's not my Neighbor
Decide which neighbors are human and which doppelgangers get turned away, one nervous shift at a time.
88% of 4,731 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 118$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.
91% of 8,715 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 23$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.
70% of 517 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 12$9.99
G.O.P.O.T.A
Wander a post-Soviet courtyard, bother the locals and do the small errands of neighborhood hooliganism.
81% of 1,493 Steam reviews are positive$29.99
Bitardia
In Bitardia you will experience all the rules of the Internet in action, and venture on a journey in the spirit of classic low-budget shooters…
88% of 731 Steam reviews are positive$5.99
Scrutinized
File reports on a quiet town's suspects from home, knowing two murderers are heading straight for your door.
89% of 1,326 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 5$9.99
Contraband Police
Run a 1980s mountain border post where every inspection, search and shootout shapes the fate of Acaristan.
95% of 25,196 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 366$29.99
Not For Broadcast
A new government has won in a landslide, the news editor has run off, and you are the janitor now in charge of the National Nightly News.
94% of 10,399 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 24$24.99
Self-Isolation
This game is a simulation of self-isolation. You need to support your family, not to lose your job and finally not to go crazy.
85% of 418 Steam reviews are positive$4.99
Hypnospace Outlaw
Enforce the law on a fake 90s web full of hackers, adware and oddly heartfelt strangers, one strange page at a time.
96% of 4,902 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 36$19.99
Newest games like Bystander
Library Police Simulator
Books overdue? Find their secrets. Search loan records, emails, social media, and the school itself.
100% of 3 Steam reviews are positiveFree
Monitor State
You are an operator in a dystopia world, watch and punish citizens. Experience a deep narrative with moral dilemmas.
75% of 12 Steam reviews are positive$4.99
Ministry of Truth: False Memory
Ministry of Truth: False Memory is a story-driven simulator in a totalitarian society.
85% of 84 Steam reviews are positive$4.89
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.
70% of 517 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 12$9.99
What Awaits, Aleksey?
A desk investigation game set in a fictional 1970 communist state. Every morning, a new evidence bag arrives.
81% of 64 Steam reviews are positive$15.99
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.
71% of 394 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 4$11.99
Your letter has been rejected.
貴殿を検閲官へと任ずる。 手紙のやり取りに問題がないか確認するように。 問題がある手紙は、決して送り届けてはならない。 我々は貴殿の働きに期待している。 我らがグルツァナに栄光あれ。
95% of 20 Steam reviews are positive$5.99
Beholder: Conductor
Work the State's proudest train as its conductor, deciding who to report and who to spare as you climb toward the VIP cars.
91% of 4,843 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 41$13.99
That's not my Neighbor
Decide which neighbors are human and which doppelgangers get turned away, one nervous shift at a time.
88% of 4,731 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 118$2.99
WANTED?
It's not often that you look closely at the faces of people you pass on the street, is it?
85% of 13 Steam reviews are positive$4.99
The Operator
Search files, calls and photos on a console, guide field agents through their cases, and watch a conspiracy close in on you.
91% of 8,715 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 23$13.99
Anonymous Hacker Simulator
Run real-world style hacking tools from your terminal to unravel a nationwide surveillance conspiracy.
85% of 761 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 17$19.99