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Games like Chinese Parents

2018PCNintendo SwitchSteam Deck playable91 % positive8.19 €

A life sim where you grow up as a child in China, balancing study, friendships and fun while heading toward the Gaokao exam. Your choices shape your life, including later as a parent.

  • Choices with consequences
  • Pixel art
  • Emotional impact
  • Lots of humour

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Mushroom Musume

91 %Match

2022PCSteam Deck verified95 % positive14.79 €

Fits your focus: Combat like Chinese Parents.

A text-based life sim in the vein of Princess Maker 2, where you raise a mushroom girl as a hermit and shape who she becomes through your choices. Quirky, humorous and full of different possible outcomes.

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Beat Cop

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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.

Do Not Feed the Monkeys

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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.

Suzerain

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A text-heavy political simulation in which you lead the fictional nation of Sordland as president through crises, corruption and conflict. Your decisions reshape relationships, policy and the ending.

Cahors Sunset

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You guide an elderly Frenchman through monthly decisions, trying to keep him alive as long as possible while every action carries wanted and unwanted health effects. A small indie experiment about weighing trade-offs and consequences.

Consume Me

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A semi-autobiographical life sim about surviving high school, where you juggle time, diet and obligations through puzzle-style mechanics. Funny, painfully honest and visually distinctive.

Always Sometimes Monsters

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A narrative indie RPG set in the modern day: you have 30 days to cross the US and reach your true love before she marries someone else. Morally gray decisions shape the people and places you meet along the way.

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