Games like Monitor State

Looking for that same dark and story-driven spark as Monitor State? You will find a few strong contenders among these games.

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, Story-driven, Atmospheric
91% of 23,384 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 76$1.39
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 necessary to keep the population in line
Dark, Story-driven, Atmospheric
88% of 26 Steam reviews are positive$19.99
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, Story-driven, Atmospheric
74% of 175 Steam reviews are positive$14.99
Next Patient
As the checkpoint guard in the only safe zone of the dystopian Republic of Valdoria, you decide who survives.
Dark, Story-driven, Atmospheric
81% of 16 Steam reviews are positive$5.99
Orwell: 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.
Also in Detective · Dark, Story-driven, Atmospheric
90% of 8,975 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 16$9.99
Booth: A Dystopian Adventure
The year is 2036. In this famine-riddled world, food-centric sovereignty has been established. Living alone inside a food-inspection booth, you are striving to find truth and peace beyond the borderline.
Dark, Story-driven, Atmospheric
88% of 356 Steam reviews are positive$5.49
Lightracer: 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.
Also in Detective · Dark, Story-driven, Atmospheric
91% of 466 Steam reviews are positive$7.99
Silicon Dreams | cyberpunk interrogation
It’s 2065, and you are an interrogator-model android tasked with rooting out deviants among your own kind. You must probe for lies, monitor and exploit emotional spikes, earn the trust of your subjects, and make the final call: release, or destroy?
Also in Detective · Dark, Story-driven, Atmospheric
94% of 222 Steam reviews are positive$14.99
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, Story-driven, Atmospheric
82% of 38 Steam reviews are positive$4.99
Ministry of Truth: False Memory
Ministry of Truth: False Memory is a story-driven simulator in a totalitarian society. Become an official, manipulate facts, rewrite history, and provide the ‘truth’ to the public. Choose: obey or fight against the regime. The Great Father is watching you!
Dark, Story-driven, Atmospheric
85% of 84 Steam reviews are positive$4.89
Civil Purgatory
Interrogate, investigate, and judge in an authoritarian regime. In Civil Purgatory, real-time AI-generated role-playing dialogue adds depth and dynamism to this narrative simulation full of moral dilemmas, where you decide who walks free… and who doesn’t.
Dark, Story-driven, Atmospheric
55% of 20 Steam reviews are positive$3.99
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, Story-driven, Atmospheric
97% of 73,769 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 343$9.99

Cheaper than Monitor State

Beholder

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

$1.39

Ministry of Truth: False Memory

Ministry of Truth: False Memory is a story-driven simulator in a totalitarian society.

$4.89

Civil Purgatory

Interrogate, investigate, and judge in an authoritarian regime.

$3.99

Agent Dunoz

In a dystopian world ruled by megacorporation's, you're a mercenary with a $15,000 debt.

$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

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

Chakana

Bound to a brutal loop of murders, you are forced to clean up every crime scene and wipe the evidence.

$2.99

That's not my Neighbor

Decide which neighbors are human and which doppelgangers get turned away, one nervous shift at a time.

$2.99

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

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

Stamped : Visa Officer

Work as a visa officer, inspect documents, and decide who gets visa.

$0.99

Lacuna – A Sci-Fi Noir Adventure

You play CDI agent Neil Conrad, working a murder case whose outcome depends on the evidence you gather and the reports you file.

$1.59

Hidden gems like Monitor State

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

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

Beholder: Conductor

Work the State's proudest train as its conductor, deciding who to report and who to spare as you climb toward the VIP cars.

$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

JudgeSim

Read the files, weigh the evidence and hand down verdicts in a corrupt republic where every choice shapes your ending.

$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.

$13.99

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

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

Silicon Dreams | cyberpunk interrogation

It’s 2065, and you are an interrogator-model android tasked with rooting out deviants among your own kind.

$14.99

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

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