Beholder
Snoop through an apartment building for the regime, then decide which neighbors deserve to be reported and which secrets stay buried.
91% of 23,411 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 191$1.39
Games like DOSSIER 089
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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, Dark
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.
Mysterious, Story-driven, Dark
75% of 12 Steam reviews are positive$4.99Beholder
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.
Mysterious, Story-driven, Dark
91% of 23,411 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 191$1.39VEDETTE
You are the head of an experimental anti-crime task force in the city of Osteria. Use search history, recent emails, and criminal backgrounds to determine whether an individual is likely to commit a crime. The choices you make will have a significant impact on the entire city’s future.
Mysterious, Story-driven, Dark
100% of 1 Steam reviews are positive$4.99Orwell: 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.
Mysterious, Story-driven, Dark
90% of 8,979 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 13$9.99JudgeSim
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, Dark
84% of 1,411 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 12$6.99Political Life
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.
Story-driven, Dark, Replayable
50% of 4 Steam reviews are positive$6.29Floor 13: Deep State
Floor 13: Deep State is a dynamically generated dystopian thriller, inspired by the 90’s classic Floor 13 and created by its original team. In a free society, citizens make their own decisions, can challenge authority, and are able to speak their truth. Your job is to put a stop to that.
Mysterious, Story-driven, Dark
32% of 28 Steam reviews are positive$19.99Suzerain
You are President Anton Rayne, and Sordland is yours to steer: a recession, corruption, border tensions and a cabinet full of agendas. A million-word political drama where every decision ripples, from the economy to your own family. Nine major endings wait. How will you lead?
Mysterious, Story-driven, Dark
92% of 10,718 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 194$19.99Case Files: Internal Affairs
The 3rd installment in the Case Files series. An FMV murder mystery, police interrogation, detective experience.
Mysterious, Story-driven, Dark
90% of 10 Steam reviews are positive$10.99Lightracer: For Judge
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.
Mysterious, Story-driven, Dark
91% of 468 Steam reviews are positive$9.99ARCHIVE NINE: Release the Files
Manipulate the secrets of a shadowy government archive. Every file you release or destroy shapes public view of the government. But beware, evil deeds will haunt you.
Mysterious, Story-driven, Dark
100% of 1 Steam reviews are positive$3.99
Cheaper than DOSSIER 089
The Determinator
A narrative desk simulation about bureaucracy and the people behind it. Ten days. Dozens of cases.
100% of 1 Steam reviews are positive$1.99
Chakana
Bound to a brutal loop of murders, you are forced to clean up every crime scene and wipe the evidence.
90% of 49 Steam reviews are positive$2.99
Interrogation Simulator
Inspired by JCS videos and similar Interrogation analysis. Match evidence with statements. Play good cop/bad cop. Make choices.
95% of 61 Steam reviews are positive$1.99
100 for Justice
A text-driven political roguelite and life-management sim about building resistance across up to 100 lives.
25% of 4 Steam reviews are positive$1.70
Replica
You hack a stranger's cellphone under orders, piecing together a life from its messages while deciding how far you'll go.
85% of 2,977 Steam reviews are positive$2.99
EVIDENCE
EVIDENCE is an atmospheric neo-noir detective thriller. Investigate murders, narcotics trafficking, underground casinos, disappearances, arson…
0% of 2 Steam reviews are positive$2.99
Case Files: The Death of Paulette Williams
A short, choose your own adventure detective experience, where your choices matter.
62% of 29 Steam reviews are positive$2.99
Stamped : Visa Officer
Work as a visa officer, inspect documents, and decide who gets visa.
100% of 2 Steam reviews are positive$0.99
Democratic Socialism Simulator
Pave the road to a post-capitalist society!
90% of 210 Steam reviews are positive$2.99
Please close the doors
"Please close the doors" is a quest with elements of the detective and thriller in which the player should find out who of seven people, which got…
71% of 41 Steam reviews are positive$0.99
That's not my Neighbor
Decide which neighbors are human and which doppelgangers get turned away, one nervous shift at a time.
88% of 4,735 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 118$2.99
Hidden gems like DOSSIER 089
The Darkest Files
Germany, 1956. You play Esther Katz, a young prosecutor hunting Nazi-era criminals who now live as respected citizens.
96% of 700 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 7$19.99
Lightracer: For Judge
In a dystopian future, as The Judge with immense power, you journey through space to find hope in a divided society.
91% of 468 Steam reviews are positive$9.99
JudgeSim
Read the files, weigh the evidence and hand down verdicts in a corrupt republic where every choice shapes your ending.
84% of 1,411 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 12$6.99
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 8,716 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 9$13.99
As Dusk Falls
Steer a hostage situation and its long aftermath through split-second choices, alone or with friends voting on every decision.
90% of 3,755 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 18$29.99
Shadows of Doubt
A private eye in a simulated, procedurally generated 1980s cyberpunk city.
82% of 14,771 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 183$24.99
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 10,400 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 17$24.99
Booth: A Dystopian Adventure
The year is 2036. In this famine-riddled world, food-centric sovereignty has been established.
88% of 356 Steam reviews are positive$5.49
Song of Farca
Play a housebound detective who solves crimes with drones, darknet searches and sharp questions.
78% of 1,407 Steam reviews are positive$19.99
Not Tonight 2
Immigration Enforcement Case #112: You are under arrest. Unless your friends can cross a broken America, retrieve your identifying documents and…
76% of 471 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 3$19.99
Let Bions Be Bygones
Having lost everything, a retired, hardboiled detective, John Cooper, must take his last case to find a missing upper-class girl among the lowest…
69% of 124 Steam reviews are positive$14.99
You are the Judge!
As a judge of the Kobardde court, solve complex cases inspired by actual events.
69% of 252 Steam reviews are positive$12.99
Newest games like DOSSIER 089
Evidence Vault
Run the night shift in a neglected police evidence archive, sorting years of unfiled cases at your own pace.
79% of 24 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 155
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
Homicide Desk
Read the evidence. Run the forensics. Question suspects in your own words, they lie, crack, or lawyer up.
66% of 95 Steam reviews are positive$5.99
Blood Without a Name
A voice-acted dark fantasy political life sim. Shape Darian from childhood into rule, forge relationships and skills, uncover buried history, govern…
100% of 3 Steam reviews are positive$14.99
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
Case Files: Internal Affairs
The 3rd installment in the Case Files series. An FMV murder mystery, police interrogation, detective experience.
90% of 10 Steam reviews are positive$10.99
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
Get In Get Out
Guard the quarantine gate of District Eight. Question survivors, check for signs of infection, and decide who gets in, who gets out, and who might…
100% of 14 Steam reviews are positive$3.99
Chakana
Bound to a brutal loop of murders, you are forced to clean up every crime scene and wipe the evidence.
90% of 49 Steam reviews are positive$2.99
CyberControl: Another Life
An interactive cyberpunk drama where you live the life of a border officer in a brutal future ruled by tyranny, manipulation, and survival.
81% of 37 Steam reviews are positive$4.99