Games like The Determinator

If The Determinator scratched a story-driven and dark itch for you, keep reading. You will find a few strong contenders among these games.

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. The rules are absurd, the customers are worse, and every stamp feels like a small moral exam. Funny, bleak, and hard to put down.
Story-driven, Dark, Replayable
71% of 394 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 4$11.99
Bad Credit? No Problem!
It's your first job at a small title-loan shop. Survive probation and build a career: do the paperwork, keep up as new rules pile on, play some video games on the office PC and take the occasional bribe along the way. A cozy, funny pixel-art desk job.
Story-driven, Replayable
73% of 15 Steam reviews are positive$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 pay your own rent and keep your sanity. Dark humor, pixel art and multiple endings: your tiny desk, other people's lives.
Story-driven, Dark, Replayable
80% of 1,018 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 44$13.99
JudgeSim
JudgeSim puts you on the bench in the Banana Republic, a struggling island where anarchists fill the streets and corruption runs deep. Read case files, weigh evidence, question the accused and hand down your verdict. Stay honest, take the bribes, or juggle both, and see which ending your choices earn you.
Story-driven, Dark, Replayable
84% of 1,411 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 12$6.99
Rules for Thee
You're dead, understaffed, and temporarily in charge of the Kingdom's admissions desk. Read lives, question souls, follow an incomplete rulebook, and stamp ASCEND, HOLD, DESCEND, or REFER—then live with the Kingdom your paperwork creates.
Story-driven, Dark, Replayable
$4.99
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.
Story-driven, Dark, Replayable
86% of 7,928 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 14$12.99
Insurance Worker Game
Review documents, examine supporting evidence, question customers, and decide whether each case should be approved or denied.
Story-driven, Replayable
$9.99
Monitor State
You are an operator in a dystopia world, watch and punish citizens. Experience a deep narrative with moral dilemmas. Obey, resist or find another path.
Story-driven, Dark, Replayable
75% of 12 Steam reviews are positive$4.99
I.T. Never Ends
The printer is bleeding, the Wi-Fi is haunted, and Ticket #666 just came in. As the latest hire for a company run by cosmic horrors, your job is simple: Swipe to survive. Make binary decisions to survive the night shift in this dark comedy desktop simulator. I.T truly never ends.
Story-driven, Dark, Replayable
99% of 75 Steam reviews are positive$12.99
Paper Pusher
A short atmospheric psychological horror game. Locked in a corporate contract, you must decide who lives and who dies based only on details that can be written down about them. How will you justify your choices?
Story-driven, Dark, Replayable
90% of 39 Steam reviews are positiveFree
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, Dark, Replayable
91% of 23,401 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 76$1.39
Claim Denied!
You're an insurance investigator. Review evidence, spot fraud, make decisions. Every case is a puzzle — approve, reject, or negotiate. Limited energy, a ticking clock, and your reputation on the line
Story-driven, Replayable, Mysterious
25% of 4 Steam reviews are positive$6.79

Cheaper than The Determinator

Beholder

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

$1.39

Simulator RKM

Immerse yourself in the rigors of working at the RKM. Join the ranks of the supervisory staff and experience the responsibility (and absurdity) of…

$0.99

PROBATION: EXTENDED COVERAGE

You triage requests inside a corporate OS that lies by omission: cover a window and it keeps showing yesterday's data, perfectly confident.

$1.19

USAID Approvals Department

Play as a relaxed Woke DEI hire in USAID’s Approvals Department, an outlandish ASMR and LOFI style US Government sim: review request, Approve or…

$0.99

Stamped : Visa Officer

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

$0.99

Payroll

This is what a game would be like if it was a 20-minute office simulator in Windows 95.

$0.99

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

AfterClerk

In the office of the afterlife, you weigh the dead. Read each soul's ledger, hear their final plea, and seal them to Heaven or Hell.

$0.99

HardWorker Simulator

HardWorker Simulator - is an unusual 2D quest where you will have to live playing as a person who must work hard day by day to achieve something in…

$0.99

Console Space

You are the captain aboard a starship. Make decisions in the terminal's text logs: from repairing the reactor to moral dilemmas that irreversibly…

$0.99

100 for Justice

A text-driven political roguelite and life-management sim about building resistance across up to 100 lives.

$1.70

The Ferryman's Trial

Death is searching for a successor. To claim his mantle, you must judge the souls of the dead during a surprisingly short, strange and unsettling…

$0.99

Hidden gems like The Determinator

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

Unemployment Simulator 2018

Social welfare survival horror based on real events. Endure emotional pain and societal pressure. Stay entertained.

$9.99

JudgeSim

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

$6.99

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

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

CorpoNation: The Sorting Process

Greetings, valued employee. You have been tasked with sorting the Ringo CorpoNation's genetic samples.

$12.99

Booth: A Dystopian Adventure

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

$5.49

Field Hospital: Dr. Taylor's Story

Field Hospital is a text-based bureaucratic detective game about hard decisions. Decide who to treat and whom to refuse. Face consequences.

$4.99

Self-Isolation

This game is a simulation of self-isolation. You need to support your family, not to lose your job and finally not to go crazy.

$4.99

You are the Judge!

As a judge of the Kobardde court, solve complex cases inspired by actual events.

$12.99

Headliner: NoviNews

Award-winning adventure where you control the news and its impact on society, your friends and career.

$13.99

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