Games like Lines We Draw

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Papers, 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, Atmospheric, Tense
97% of 73,804 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 343$9.99
Contraband 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, Atmospheric, Tense
95% of 25,204 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 366$29.99
Next Patient
As the checkpoint guard in the only safe zone of the dystopian Republic of Valdoria, you decide who survives.
Dark, Atmospheric, Tense
81% of 16 Steam reviews are positive$5.99
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.
Dark, Atmospheric, Tense
91% of 23,406 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 76$1.39
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. The young socialist state proudly raises its flags, its eyes fixed on a distant, bright future.
Dark, Replayable, Story-driven
95% of 243 Steam reviews are positive$3.99
1998: The Toll Keeper Story
A narrative simulation game where you play as a mother-to-be working as a toll keeper in the fictional country of Janapa, a nation on the brink of chaos. Navigate daily challenges and make difficult moral choices to survive—all for the sake of your unborn child.
Dark, Atmospheric, Tense
89% of 292 Steam reviews are positive$11.99
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. Check documents, approve or deny entry, build relationships, and face nonlinear stories.
Dark, Atmospheric, Tense
81% of 37 Steam reviews are positive$4.99
Gerda: A Flame in Winter
You have five days to save your husband, who has just been arrested by the Gestapo. Investigate, explore and form allegiances in this story-rich RPG-lite. Who will you trust?
Dark, Atmospheric, Tense
94% of 505 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 1$19.99
Seal & Sentence
Serve as a border officer in a medieval kingdom on the brink of war. Inspect documents, interrogate suspicious travelers, and decide who may enter. Will you obey the Crown or follow your conscience?
Dark, Atmospheric, Tense
$8.99
Not Tonight
Britain has gone dark: anyone of European heritage gets a number and a relocation block. You get a door. Take bouncer jobs through the BouncR app, check IDs and guestlists under time pressure, and decide how far you'll go to stay in the country. A pixel-art dystopia with a great soundtrack, a story that reacts to your choices and several endings.
Dark, Atmospheric, Tense
84% of 2,240 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 36$2.99
Death and Taxes
You are the Grim Reaper, on an office job. Each day, paperwork decides who lives and who dies, and the world shifts with every signature. A short, darkly funny story with watercolour art, voiced characters and several endings, plus a cat that may or may not want petting.
Dark, Atmospheric, Replayable
86% of 7,928 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 14$12.99
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.
Dark, Atmospheric, Tense
74% of 175 Steam reviews are positive$14.99

Cheaper than Lines We Draw

Next Patient

As the checkpoint guard in the only safe zone of the dystopian Republic of Valdoria, you decide who survives.

$5.99

Beholder

Snoop through an apartment building for the regime, then decide which neighbors deserve to be reported and which secrets stay buried.

$1.39

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.

$4.99

Seal & Sentence

Serve as a border officer in a medieval kingdom on the brink of war. Inspect documents, interrogate suspicious travelers, and decide who may enter.

$8.99

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.

$3.99

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

Monitor State

You are an operator in a dystopia world, watch and punish citizens. Experience a deep narrative with moral dilemmas.

$4.99

Booth: A Dystopian Adventure

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

$5.49

Precipice

A game of diplomacy and war in the atomic age. Safeguard your closest allies and change unfavorable regimes without giving away your long-term…

$7.99

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.

$1.99

This War of Mine

Keep a small group of ordinary people alive in a war-torn city, scavenging by night and holding on by day.

$1.99

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…

$4.99

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Maestro's Cold War 2

Addictive yet chill. An immersive Cold War sandbox. Revive the Cold War in this classic strategy game—easy to pick up, yet challenging and deep…

$12.99

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

1998: The Toll Keeper Story

A narrative simulation game where you play as a mother-to-be working as a toll keeper in the fictional country of Janapa, a nation on the brink of…

$11.99

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

THRESHOLD

Keep a lonely mountain border post running by blowing the whistle on schedule, while the thin air drains you and something strange takes hold.

$9.99

Gerda: A Flame in Winter

You have five days to save your husband, who has just been arrested by the Gestapo.

$19.99

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.

$3.99

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.

$11.99

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.

$9.99

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

Martial Law

Poland, December 1981. Martial law is on, the shelves are bare, and Christmas Eve is tomorrow.

Free

Contraband Police

Run a 1980s mountain border post where every inspection, search and shootout shapes the fate of Acaristan.

$29.99

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