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Did HEADLINER leave you in a story-driven and replayable frame of mind? Start with these games when you are ready.

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. Cut between cameras, censor the swearing, pick the headlines, and decide what a nation gets to see. A darkly funny FMV story with 14 endings, where every choice airs live.
Story-driven, Replayable, Dark
94% of 10,394 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 24$24.99
The Westport Independent
The Westport Independent is a censorship simulator taking place in a post-war country, governed by the recently elected Loyalist Party. As the editor of one of the last independent newspapers in the country, your job is to remove and edit the content of your paper, affecting the people’s opinion of both the rebels and the Loyalist...
Story-driven, Replayable, Dark
76% of 353 Steam reviews are positiveFree
THE EDITOR
NEWSPAPER EDITING ADVENTURE. "In 1996, a congressman was murdered...The prime suspect is a congressman's aide. As the suspicious article was published the story begins" Play the role of editor-in-chief of a newspaper. You become the editor of a newspaper and write a front-page article every day.
Story-driven, Replayable, Dark
88% of 60 Steam reviews are positive$11.99
News Tower
Run a newspaper in 1930s New York: send reporters after scoops, build the floors and machines that turn paper into print, and pick whose truth makes the front page. Every week ends with a Sunday deadline, and every edition is a bet on what the city wants to read.
Replayable, Dark
93% of 4,402 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 181$24.99
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.
Story-driven, Replayable, Dark
91% of 23,384 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 76$13.99
Times and Galaxy
Embark on an interplanetary adventure as the first robo reporter for the Times & Galaxy, the solar system’s most trusted holopaper. You’re just an intern, but if you can get the scoop, write great stories, and impress your colleagues, maybe you'll get to keep your job!
Story-driven, Replayable, Emotional
85% of 71 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 1$19.99
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.
Story-driven, Replayable, Dark
83% of 24 Steam reviews are positive$4.99
子夜之章:历史的终局～MidNights of Desperado～
The protagonist of this lonely life is you. You leave your hometown and come to a strange world. The world is prosperous and cold, strange but real. You may like it or wish you could tear it to pieces. The good news is, you have the choice!
Story-driven, Replayable, Dark
98% of 269 Steam reviews are positive$4.99
Next Patient
As the checkpoint guard in the only safe zone of the dystopian Republic of Valdoria, you decide who survives.
Story-driven, Replayable, Dark
81% of 16 Steam reviews are positive$5.99
Minds Beneath Us
A sci-fi story set in near-future Taipei, where humans sign their brains over as computing power for AI. You wake in a borrowed body, share it with its original owner's subconscious, and talk your way through a society quietly eating its poorest. Choices branch everywhere, hidden clues unlock new dialogue, and the ending you get is the one you earned.
Story-driven, Replayable, Dark
96% of 5,903 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 11$19.99
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.
Story-driven, Replayable, Dark
80% of 1,017 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 44$13.99
Road 96 🛣️
Hitchhike out of Petria, a fictional dictatorship in summer 1996, one ride at a time. Every trip mixes random encounters, small choices and strange people, and no two roads play out the same. A colorful, funny, sometimes tense road trip you can finish in a few evenings and then take again.
Story-driven, Replayable, Dark
91% of 22,418 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 123$4.99

Cheaper than HEADLINER

Trolley Problem, Inc.

You pull levers, weigh lives against lives, and defend every decision to a narrator who thinks you are wrong.

$1.09

Not Tonight 2

Immigration Enforcement Case #112: You are under arrest. Unless your friends can cross a broken America, retrieve your identifying documents and…

$2.99

Not Tonight

Work the doors of a dystopian Britain, checking IDs and guestlists against the clock while your choices decide how far you'll go to stay in the…

$2.99

Replica

You hack a stranger's cellphone under orders, piecing together a life from its messages while deciding how far you'll go.

$2.99

Democratic Socialism Simulator

Pave the road to a post-capitalist society!

$2.99

The HeartBeat

The Heartbeat is a lightweight political simulation game that incorporates rhythmic, text-oriented options.

$0.99

川建国同志想要连任/Comrade Trump's Re-election

You have three days to win the re-election: face the press, tweet for likes and pick which of four endings you earn.

$2.99

Family Man

You owe us money, Joe, and we plan to collect. We don't care where it comes from, but you'd better not skip town on us.

$1.19

The Red Strings Club

Run a clandestine bar, mix drinks that bend emotions, and pull strings to stop a corporation from rewriting how humanity feels.

$2.99

Postmortem: One Must Die (Extended Cut)

Narrative-adventure playing an Agent of Death who must take ONE life that could change the fate of a conflict-torn Nation

$2.99

Flashback

Flashback is a strategy game oriented to your choices. You will play the role of a deliveryman and live in a turbulent city for a month.

$0.99

Norman's Great Illusion

"Norman's Great Illusion" is a 2D pixel art visual novel in which you have to live a year as an engineer at the plant in the face of rising social…

$3.99

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Duskpunk

A gritty dice-driven RPG, in a steampunk city. You escaped the War, but how to survive? Explore the city. Build up your skills. Decide who to trust.

$19.99

Decade

Control history in Decade - a groundbreaking indie adventure. Explore an alternate past. Discover how its ideas develop, distort, and disappear.

$5.99

News Tower

Run a newspaper in 1930s New York: send reporters after scoops, build the floors and machines that turn paper into print, and pick whose truth makes…

$24.99

Lightracer: For Judge

In a dystopian future, as The Judge with immense power, you journey through space to find hope in a divided society.

$7.99

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

Minds Beneath Us

Talk your way through near-future Taipei, sharing a body with its old owner's subconscious while every choice quietly reshapes where the story ends…

$19.99

Title_Pending

Congratulations! You've been hired by an up and coming Game Development Studio to play-test their New Game (which as of now does not have a title).

$9.99

子夜之章:历史的终局～MidNights of Desperado～

The protagonist of this lonely life is you. You leave your hometown and come to a strange world. The world is prosperous and cold, strange but real.

$4.99

We. The Refugees: Ticket to Europe

‘We. The Refugees: Ticket to Europe’ is a socially engaged, text-based RPG about a journalist looking for his big break by uncovering the plights of…

$7.49

Citizen Sleeper

Roll dice, take odd jobs on a lawless station and decide what your future is worth.

$19.99

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.

$24.99

Booth: A Dystopian Adventure

The year is 2036. In this famine-riddled world, food-centric sovereignty has been established.

$9.99

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