Orwell: Keeping an Eye On You
Dig through citizens' private lives to hunt a terrorist, and decide which truths security gets to see.
90% of 8,979 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 16$9.99
Games like Need to Know
Looking for that same mysterious and story-driven spark as Need to Know? These games could fill that gap nicely.
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.
Mysterious, Story-driven, Tense
90% of 8,979 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 16$9.99The Operator
You are the new Operator at the FDI, and the field agents call you when a case needs cracking. Dig through photos, databases and call transcripts on your console, feed agents what they need, and follow a conspiracy that starts pulling you in. A short, sharp detective story told entirely through a desktop.
Mysterious, Story-driven, Tense
91% of 8,716 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 23$13.99Beholder
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, Tense
91% of 23,406 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 76$1.39Counter Terrorist Agency
Counter Terrorist Agency lets you fight international terrorism and prevent attacks all over the world. Use modern invigilation techniques, discover connections, interrogate suspects, eliminate threats and dismantle terrorist networks.
Mysterious, Story-driven, Tense
43% of 481 Steam reviews are positive$19.99Interrogation: You will be deceived
As a detective tasked with bringing down a dangerous terrorist group, you fight on two fronts: interrogating suspects & managing your team and its reputation. With time running out, how far will you go to stop these criminals? Manipulation, threats or even torture? Does the end justify the means?
Mysterious, Story-driven, Tense
77% of 321 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 1$12.99The Occupation
The Occupation is a fixed-time, investigative thriller set in North West England on Saturday 24th October, 1987.
Mysterious, Story-driven, Tense
67% of 185 Steam reviews are positive$29.99Mainlining
After MI7 has been hacked, your primary goal is to bring a cyber-criminal network to justice. Played entirely from your computer's desktop, Mainlining is a thrilling point and click hacking adventure that features a gripping narrative which will have you hooked from the very first case.
Mysterious, Story-driven, Tense
77% of 286 Steam reviews are positive$12.99Not 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, Tense, Dark
94% of 10,399 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 24$24.99Song of Farca
A dark cyberpunk detective story where you never leave your chair. Isabella Song, private investigator under house arrest, hacks cameras and drones, digs through darknet data and interrogates suspects to crack a chain of crimes in the city of Farca. Choices carry real consequences, and the truth is rarely clean.
Mysterious, Story-driven, Tense
78% of 1,407 Steam reviews are positive$19.99Replica
A stranger's phone lands in your hands, and a government agent on the line wants evidence of terrorism. Snoop through messages, photos and social media to find it. A short, sharp interactive novel about surveillance, guilt and twelve very different ways out.
Mysterious, Story-driven, Tense
85% of 2,977 Steam reviews are positive$2.99Cyber Manhunt
A hacker-for-hire puzzle game about the dark side of the internet. Search databases, crack passwords, send phishing links and chat with targets in disguise to solve dangerous cases. Every case touches cyber violence and privacy in ways that feel uncomfortably real, and your choices shape where the story goes.
Mysterious, Story-driven, Tense
92% of 14,584 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 15$9.99Security 51
You run the checkpoint at the bottom of an Area 51 elevator shaft. Check papers, scan blood, X-ray ribs, and decide who goes down and who goes into quarantine. A pixel-art document thriller with anomalies, dark humour and many endings, where the real question is not who is lying, but who is still human.
Mysterious, Story-driven, Tense
70% of 518 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 11$9.99
Cheaper than Need to Know
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: 23$13.99
Beholder
Snoop through an apartment building for the regime, then decide which neighbors deserve to be reported and which secrets stay buried.
91% of 23,406 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 76$1.39
Orwell: Ignorance is Strength
Dig through citizens' data as a government agent, then decide how much of the truth your country actually needs.
76% of 1,522 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 5$9.99
Interrogation: You will be deceived
As a detective tasked with bringing down a dangerous terrorist group, you fight on two fronts: interrogating suspects & managing your team and its…
77% of 321 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 1$12.99
Mainlining
After MI7 has been hacked, your primary goal is to bring a cyber-criminal network to justice.
77% of 286 Steam reviews are positive$12.99
Cyber Manhunt
A hacker-for-hire puzzle game about the dark side of the internet.
92% of 14,584 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 15$9.99
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
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.
70% of 518 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 11$9.99
Headliner: NoviNews
Award-winning adventure where you control the news and its impact on society, your friends and career.
88% of 770 Steam reviews are positive$13.99
Scrutinized
File reports on a quiet town's suspects from home, knowing two murderers are heading straight for your door.
89% of 1,326 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 5$9.99
Greyhat - A Digital Detective Adventure
How far would you go to save your daughter? As an infamous hacker-for-hire you have the skills to steal almost any secret.
90% of 242 Steam reviews are positive$9.99
Hidden gems like Need to Know
Legion Was Here
You are Legion, a spy who can rebuild his own face at will. Study a dossier, deduce what your target's brother actually looks like, then sit down…
95% of 268 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 20$9.99
Expelled!
A School Prefect has been pushed out of a window, and everyone's blaming YOU.
92% of 228 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 3$14.99
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…
80% of 1,019 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 44$13.99
Welcome to the Game III
Simon owes dangerous people money, and tonight the only way out is The Game: dig through the dark net for hidden puzzle pieces, hack other PCs while…
76% of 680 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 5$19.99
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
Dead Signal
A night shift on the wrong side of the cameras. Watch 23 hacked feeds, file reports on schedule, and hand-deliver shady packages while hitmen stalk…
89% of 1,018 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 2$12.99
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).
95% of 423 Steam reviews are positive$9.99
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: 23$13.99
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.
70% of 518 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 11$9.99
Silicon Dreams | cyberpunk interrogation
It’s 2065, and you are an interrogator-model android tasked with rooting out deviants among your own kind.
94% of 222 Steam reviews are positive$14.99
Shadows of Doubt
A private eye in a simulated, procedurally generated 1980s cyberpunk city.
82% of 14,771 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 211$24.99
Scrutinized
File reports on a quiet town's suspects from home, knowing two murderers are heading straight for your door.
89% of 1,326 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 5$9.99
Newest games like Need to Know
Legion Was Here
You are Legion, a spy who can rebuild his own face at will. Study a dossier, deduce what your target's brother actually looks like, then sit down…
95% of 268 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 20$9.99
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
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.
70% of 518 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 11$9.99
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
Welcome to the Game III
Simon owes dangerous people money, and tonight the only way out is The Game: dig through the dark net for hidden puzzle pieces, hack other PCs while…
76% of 680 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 5$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…
80% of 1,019 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 44$13.99
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
Expelled!
A School Prefect has been pushed out of a window, and everyone's blaming YOU.
92% of 228 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 3$14.99
Shadows of Doubt
A private eye in a simulated, procedurally generated 1980s cyberpunk city.
82% of 14,771 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 211$24.99
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: 23$13.99
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
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