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2017PC

You play a ruthless strategist hired by a billionaire to save the planet from pollution by any means necessary. Beneath the cynical strategy surface lies a somber, reflective take on our bond with the environment.

  • Dark, serious atmosphere
  • Strong, story-driven narrative

The closest matches for Depopulation are The Westport Independent, This Is the Police and Orwell: Keeping an Eye on You. Each of these 10 games shares something of what makes Depopulation special – the reasons are listed right on each game.

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The Westport Independent

86 %Match

2016PC75 % positive

  • Dark, serious atmosphere
  • Strong, story-driven narrative
  • Pure single-player experience

As editor of a newspaper under an authoritarian regime, you decide each week which stories run, balancing government pressure, readers and your conscience. A short, oppressive censorship management game with multiple endings.

This Is the Police

Dark, serious atmosphere

As aging police chief Jack Boyd, you dispatch officers, manage staff, and make morally murky choices while scraping together retirement money over 180 days. A grim noir tale of corruption and guilt told in a stylish silhouette art style.

Orwell: Keeping an Eye on You

Dark, serious atmosphere

You work as an investigator for a government surveillance program, combing through chats, files and profiles of citizens and deciding which information to pass on. It makes the moral cost of mass surveillance tangible within a gripping thriller story.

The Invisible Hand

Dark, serious atmosphere

A stock-trading sim with a narrative: as an ambitious broker you trade shares and commodities and chase insider tips, while greed and ethics increasingly threaten your life.

Beholder 2

Dark, serious atmosphere

You climb the ranks of a totalitarian ministry through scheming, blackmail and moral compromise. Every decision carries consequences for your career and conscience in a grim, satirical dystopia.

Beholder

Dark, serious atmosphere

As a state-appointed apartment manager in a totalitarian regime, you spy on tenants and make morally heavy decisions. Time, money and conscience are all scarce, and your choices lead to many different endings.

Do Not Feed the Monkeys

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.

Suzerain

Dark, serious atmosphere

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.

Rain of Reflections

Dark, serious atmosphere

An atmospheric dystopian adventure whose turn-based confrontations revolve around a motivation mechanic. Every decision is permanent and reshapes the world and its characters.

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