Editor's Hell
You just became the editor for a newspaper in a troublesome country. After months of unemployment; you just had to took it.
83% of 24 Steam reviews are positive$4.99
Games like Directive 220
If Directive 220 scratched a dark and replayable itch for you, keep reading. Start with these games when you are ready.
Editor's Hell
You just became the editor for a newspaper in a troublesome country. After months of unemployment; you just had to took it. First, you have to make a choice. Will you support the government or will you go against it? Dreams, nightmares, don’t matter anymore; you have a new opportunity in your life.
Dark, Replayable, Story-driven
83% of 24 Steam reviews are positive$4.99Power to the People
Build and maintain a power grid for a constantly growing population, while fighting off all kinds of disasters in this thrilling resource management experience. It's time for you to give "Power to the People"! Do you have what it takes to keep the lights on?
Replayable
79% of 475 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 3$14.99For the People
For the People is a mix of a political management sim and a visual novel, putting players in the shoes of an idealistic young state official tasked with shaping the future of a communist factory town. Will the party provide for the people, or are the people just cogs in its machine?..
Dark, Replayable, Story-driven
73% of 732 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 1$16.99MEGACITY
Run a post-collapse megacity where every decree has a cost. Balance industry, survival, politics, war, ecology, and human lives in idle-strategy simulation. Play in real time or one turn at a time. Idle/strategy/sandbox/dystopian/city builder.
Dark, Replayable
88% of 16 Steam reviews are positive$9.99Dystopicon
An uncomfortable dystopian time-management game where your job is watching TV to earn money and buy services to survive after robots replace humans at work. Choose to be a good citizen or a rebel. But beware! Curiosity has a price in this dystopian life simulator.
Dark, Replayable, Story-driven
88% of 24 Steam reviews are positive$7.99Organs Please
A dark and satirical management sim, where you take control of a recycling factory with a twist: it recycles humans. Your job is to decide who gets to escape our dying planet in a cozy spaceship and who sacrifices their blood, sweat and tears for humanity. Literally.
Dark, Replayable, Story-driven
82% of 202 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 3$6.99The State of Nowhere
Assigned to station 65, your role as employee 100411 will be to serve and sell products to the people, exercising the controls the state deems necessary to keep the population in line
Dark, Replayable, Story-driven
88% of 26 Steam reviews are positive$19.99Quarantineer
For the glory of Motherland, the truth shall never be revealed. None of us expected this, Yet history is repeating itself.
Dark, Replayable, Story-driven
80% of 307 Steam reviews are positive$9.99Frostpunk 2
Thirty years after the blizzard, you are the Steward of a hungry, freezing metropolis. You lay down whole districts, feed coal and oil into the generator, and argue laws through a Council Hall full of factions that want your job. Cold outside, colder inside.
Dark, Replayable, Story-driven
74% of 21,198 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 1,362$20.24Democratic Socialism Simulator
Pave the road to a post-capitalist society!
Replayable
90% of 210 Steam reviews are positive$2.99Beholder
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, Replayable, Story-driven
91% of 23,401 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 76$1.39Crisis Cabinet
Lead a nation through elections, unrest, war, scandals and economic collapse in this turn-based political strategy simulation. Spend political capital, manage budgets, survive crises and decide how far you’ll go to stay in power.
Dark, Replayable, Tense
75% of 4 Steam reviews are positive$13.99
Cheaper than Directive 220
Democratic Socialism Simulator
Pave the road to a post-capitalist society!
90% of 210 Steam reviews are positive$2.99
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
Frostpunk
Frostpunk is a society survival game about keeping the last city on Earth alive in an endless freeze.
92% of 115,380 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 2,526$2.99
Provisional Authority: An AI Governance Simulation
Balance growth, stability, and public trust while an AI observes your every move.
0% of 1 Steam reviews are positive$5.99
Bad Government
Manage your resources and navigate the shifting sentiment of the population in this decision-based resource management game.
56% of 9 Steam reviews are positive$0.99
Dictator Simulator: Gradnar
Become the Dictator of Gradnar! Rule the nation, choose between democracy and tyranny, wage wars with a unique card-based mechanic, and expand your…
97% of 89 Steam reviews are positive$4.99
Neo-Exodus: Last Bastion
Neo-Exodus: Last Bastion is a narrative strategy game where your people's fate hinges on binary decisions.
0% of 1 Steam reviews are positive$2.99
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
Energy Island Corp.
Build and manage an electric grid ! At the start of the day, build new infrastructure and plan your day.
89% of 35 Steam reviews are positive$5.99
Mandat
Interactive political fiction strategy game: govern a country in crisis through Yes or No choices; developed largely with AI assistance.
100% of 1 Steam reviews are positive$4.99
Socialism Simulator
The civil war is over. To the rapturous cheers of the crowd, you and four of your companions take control of the country.
95% of 243 Steam reviews are positive$3.99
Hidden gems like Directive 220
A War of a Madman's Making
You are subordinate to the deranged dictator and must plan his doomed invasion in this text-based RPG / Visual Novel.
97% of 123 Steam reviews are positiveFree
Geoplanetical
A geopolitical simulation that starts on January 1, 2026, with the world exactly as it stood that day.
79% of 536 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 474$24.99
Socialism Simulator
The civil war is over. To the rapturous cheers of the crowd, you and four of your companions take control of the country.
95% of 243 Steam reviews are positive$3.99
Underchoice
Become the overseer and shape the fate of those who come knocking at the door.
71% of 119 Steam reviews are positive$7.99
Organs Please
A dark and satirical management sim, where you take control of a recycling factory with a twist: it recycles humans.
82% of 202 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 3$6.99
Half-Earth Socialism
Plan the future of Earth, one policy card at a time, and find out whether your world ends in utopia or ruin.
81% of 1,032 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 3Free
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
Power to the People
Build and maintain a power grid for a constantly growing population, while fighting off all kinds of disasters in this thrilling resource management…
79% of 475 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 3$14.99
Quarantineer
For the glory of Motherland, the truth shall never be revealed. None of us expected this, Yet history is repeating itself.
80% of 307 Steam reviews are positive$9.99
Democratic Socialism Simulator
Pave the road to a post-capitalist society!
90% of 210 Steam reviews are positive$2.99
Democracy 4
Navigate the challenges of modern governance while balancing public opinion and economic health.
81% of 5,928 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 73$29.99
Frostpunk 2
Grow a snowbound metropolis while factions in your own Council fight over who should lead it.
74% of 21,198 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 1,362$20.24
Newest games like Directive 220
Geoplanetical
A geopolitical simulation that starts on January 1, 2026, with the world exactly as it stood that day.
79% of 536 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 474$24.99
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
EQUILIBRIUM
Govern by typing: cut taxes, nationalize energy, declare a state of emergency. Every order becomes real economic and political consequences.
73% of 11 Steam reviews are positive$19.99
Doctrine: C.U.L.T.
Build your own religion from the ground up. Forge dogma. Recruit followers. Expand your influence.
69% of 13 Steam reviews are positive$4.99
Dystopicon
An uncomfortable dystopian time-management game where your job is watching TV to earn money and buy services to survive after robots replace humans…
88% of 24 Steam reviews are positive$7.99
MEGACITY
Run a post-collapse megacity where every decree has a cost. Balance industry, survival, politics, war, ecology, and human lives in idle-strategy…
88% of 16 Steam reviews are positive$9.99
Underchoice
Become the overseer and shape the fate of those who come knocking at the door.
71% of 119 Steam reviews are positive$7.99
Statecraft: Corrupted Democracy
Democracy is dirty; get your hands filthy. Manipulate the masses like a flock of sheep, bribe the parliament, and sabotage your rivals.
88% of 34 Steam reviews are positive$9.99
Mr. President We Have A Situation!
Mr. President We Have a Situation! is a desktop overlay game that is always on screen. It is intended to be played alongside work or study sessions.
100% of 2 Steam reviews are positive$1.99
Next Patient
As the checkpoint guard in the only safe zone of the dystopian Republic of Valdoria, you decide who survives.
81% of 16 Steam reviews are positive$5.99
The State of Nowhere
Assigned to station 65, your role as employee 100411 will be to serve and sell products to the people, exercising the controls the state deems…
88% of 26 Steam reviews are positive$19.99
Dictator Simulator: Gradnar
Become the Dictator of Gradnar! Rule the nation, choose between democracy and tyranny, wage wars with a unique card-based mechanic, and expand your…
97% of 89 Steam reviews are positive$4.99