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2021PCPlayStationXboxNintendo SwitchSteam Deck playable94 % positive7.99 €

A retro 1980s-style computer game pastiche in which a seemingly friendly AI buddy leads you through mini-games while an unsettling secret gradually unfolds. A short, surprising experience that plays with your expectations.

  • Choices with consequences
  • Strong, story-driven narrative
  • Lots of humour
  • Distinctive, stylised art style

The closest matches for Buddy Simulator 1984 are Do Not Feed the Monkeys, While We Wait Here and Hatoful Boyfriend. Each of these 10 games shares something of what makes Buddy Simulator 1984 special – the reasons are listed right on each game.

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Do Not Feed the Monkeys

91 %Match

2018PCPlayStationXboxNintendo SwitchSteam Deck playable94 % positive−85 % 15.79 € 2.36 €

  • Choices with consequences
  • Strong, story-driven narrative
  • Dark, serious atmosphere

You join a secret club that spies on strangers through surveillance cameras and decide whether and how to interfere in their lives. You also have to pay rent and buy food, which makes every moral choice harder.

While We Wait Here

Accessible and relaxed

You run a diner serving the last customers while the world ends outside. Between flipping burgers and talking with guests, a quiet, reflective story about time and human psychology unfolds.

Beat Cop

Choices with consequences

As beat cop Jack Kelly you patrol 1980s Brooklyn, writing tickets, juggling time and favors, and trying to clear your name of a frame-up murder. Pixel art, dark humor and choices between honesty and corruption give it a retro cop-show flavor.

Stay

Choices with consequences

You talk with an abducted man trapped in an abandoned house, trying to help him through text conversation and light puzzles. Your choices and the time you take shape multiple endings in this tense, emotional tale.

The Mailroom

Lots of humour

A horror job simulator where you sort mail and send it through pneumatic tubes in the mailroom of a small regional branch of Hell in Modesto. The mundane office routine turns sinister as you try to uncover what is really going on and escape.

Unemployment Simulator 2018

Lots of humour

A satirical survival horror about unemployment, where you cope with daily pressure, boredom and demons while keeping your bathroom clean. Dark humor meets a gloomy mystery.

The Convenience Store

Accessible and relaxed

A Japanese-style horror game in which you play a college student working a night shift at a convenience store. Mundane job tasks blend with creeping dread, puzzles and multiple possible outcomes.

Winion Virus

Distinctive, stylised art style

A pixel-art horror visual novel with point-and-click gameplay where you fix errors inside a computer. Cute graphics contrast with a dark fairy-tale story full of twists.

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