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…
89% of 292 Steam reviews are positive$11.99
Games like Malkia
If the emotional and hand-drawn rhythm of Malkia stuck with you, this helps. Give these games a try when the craving hits.
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.
Emotional, Hand-drawn, Story-driven
89% of 292 Steam reviews are positive$11.99ArmaCulture
ArmaCulture is an indie factory-builder RPG set in the midst of a bitter, industrialized war between two nations in a fictional world similar to our own. The game combines illustrated character art with stylized pixel art to create a unique and dark historic atmosphere.
Emotional, Story-driven, Dark
89% of 213 Steam reviews are positiveFreeThis War of Mine
You are not the soldier. You are the civilians hiding from him, in a shelled apartment with no food and snipers outside. It is bleak, tense and hard to put down.
Emotional, Hand-drawn, Story-driven
92% of 89,576 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 1,213$1.99Martial Law
Poland, December 1981. Martial law is on, the shelves are bare, and Christmas Eve is tomorrow. You play a father hunting for a ration card so his daughter gets her tangerines, making choices that carry real weight across many endings. Short, pixel-lit and quietly affecting.
Emotional, Story-driven, Dark
92% of 3,861 Steam reviews are positiveFreeHELP: THE GAME
HELP: The Game is a project which brings together the top developers, studios and gaming industry superstars - all to raise money for children in war.
Emotional, Story-driven
100% of 8 Steam reviews are positive21 Days
21 Days is a simulation adventure game in which you experience the life of a Syrian refugee. Though you escaped the war in Syria, your family still has a hard journey ahead of them. Over 21 days, you must manage money, time, hunger and mental status. For yourself, and for the hope of saving your family.
Emotional, Story-driven, Dark
79% of 52 Steam reviews are positive$1.99My Child Lebensborn Remastered
Norway, 1945. The war is over, but not for Karin or Klaus, the Lebensborn child you adopt. Manage scarce time and money, cook, mend, work, and above all answer the questions a bullied seven-year-old asks about a past they never chose. A short, hand-drawn story based on true events, and it will stay with you.
Emotional, Hand-drawn, Story-driven
96% of 1,348 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 18$3.99Rebel Inc: Escalation
The war is over, which means the hard part starts now. Stabilise a war-torn region by balancing schools and hospitals against soldiers and checkpoints, while an insurgency works to take it all back. A tense political and military strategy game from the creator of Plague Inc., with co-op, versus play and runs that never quite go the same way twice.
Replayable
82% of 7,011 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 77$14.99SAELIG
SAELIG is a medieval life sim in Dark Ages Wessex, where you build a family's fortune from almost nothing. Trade, work, own businesses, run for office or turn to crime, in a living town where every neighbour has their own life. When your character dies, an heir takes over.
Replayable
86% of 1,148 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 22$14.99Home Behind
A refugee walks 1500 kilometers through a country torn apart by civil war, searching for a lost daughter. Home Behind is a side-scrolling survival game about hunger, thirst, weather and hard choices, where every run plays out differently and every decision costs something.
Emotional, Hand-drawn, Dark
83% of 5,041 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 13$5.99Rogue State
Assume control of a Middle Eastern country recovering from a violent revolution. Forge alliances, grow your economy, invade your neighbors, or pacify your population. Rogue State is a geopolitical strategy game that will force you to always stay one step ahead of your rivals to survive.
Replayable
75% of 198 Steam reviews are positive$4.99Displaced
Your mission: lead a group of civilians out of the war-torn country.
Emotional, Story-driven, Dark
49% of 99 Steam reviews are positive$5.99
Hidden gems like Malkia
My Child Lebensborn Remastered
Adopt a war child in postwar Norway, manage each scarce day and answer the hard questions a bullied kid asks about a past they never chose.
96% of 1,348 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 18$3.99
Martial Law
Poland, December 1981. Martial law is on, the shelves are bare, and Christmas Eve is tomorrow.
92% of 3,861 Steam reviews are positiveFree
Norland
Lead a noble family in a medieval colony sim where the drama writes itself.
81% of 9,083 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 216$29.99
ArmaCulture
ArmaCulture is an indie factory-builder RPG set in the midst of a bitter, industrialized war between two nations in a fictional world similar to our…
89% of 213 Steam reviews are positiveFree
One Military Camp
Turn a shabby base and a squad of hopeless recruits into an army of elite specialists, one budget and one bad joke at a time.
75% of 696 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 33$24.99
Kainga: Seeds of Civilization
Welcome to the mystical world of Kainga, an unusual roguelite village-builder!
74% of 645 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 5$19.99
Siege Survival: Gloria Victis
Keep a handful of civilians alive and working as the siege tightens, crafting supplies by day and sneaking through occupied streets by night.
80% of 1,380 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 10$24.99
Home Behind 2
Lead a band of rebels through a war-torn country, where every turn-based fight and hard choice shapes a different uprising.
86% of 6,604 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 108$19.99
Rebel Inc: Escalation
Stabilise a broken region where every school you build and soldier you post shapes the fight back.
82% of 7,011 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 77$14.99
Milord
Milord is a Kingdom Management RPG with city-building mechanics. Immerse yourself in a world where your decisions shape your fiefdom's destiny.
64% of 104 Steam reviews are positive$9.99
Alek - The Lost Kingdom
Play a hero who founds villages, runs their economy and decides the fate of a broken world.
76% of 394 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 11$19.99
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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…
89% of 292 Steam reviews are positive$11.99
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You and your daughter are in a conflict zone and running low on food, you must travel to the border and try to enter the neighboring country.
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Norland
Lead a noble family in a medieval colony sim where the drama writes itself.
81% of 9,083 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 216$29.99
One Military Camp
Turn a shabby base and a squad of hopeless recruits into an army of elite specialists, one budget and one bad joke at a time.
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