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Games like Lifeline

2015PC65 % positive

You guide a stranded astronaut on an alien planet purely through text messages. Your choices branch the story in real-time-feeling conversations and lead to different outcomes.

Choices with consequences
Sci-fi setting
Strong, story-driven narrative
Dark, serious atmosphere

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The closest matches for Lifeline are CorpoNation: The Sorting Process, Between Horizons and Do Not Feed the Monkeys 2099. Each of these 10 games shares something of what makes Lifeline special – the reasons are listed right on each game.

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Best alternative overall: CorpoNation: The Sorting Process 83% match – Sci-fi setting
Newest alternative: Security 51 80% match – released 2026

Best match

CorpoNation: The Sorting Process

83 %Match

2024PCXboxNintendo SwitchSteam Deck verified72 % positive12.99 €

You work as an employee of a shadowy corporation, sorting genetic samples and earning credits to pay bills and spend on leisure. Between the monotonous shifts, rogue workers tempt you to betray your employer in a dystopian office-sorting puzzle sim.

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Between Horizons

Choices with consequences

A narrative 2.5D sci-fi detective adventure aboard a starship whose 33-year mission is suddenly threatened. You hunt for the culprit, and your choices branch the story toward different endings.

Do Not Feed the Monkeys 2099

Choices with consequences

You belong to a secret club that watches strangers through surveillance cameras and uncovers their private lives. Deciding whether to intervene or merely watch carries moral weight in a 2099 setting.

Sorry, James

Linear, curated structure

As a security engineer at a weapons company, you decrypt strange employee chats and find yourself tasked with hacking a love story. This non-linear puzzle game tells its tale in an unusual way, pulling you into conversations that hide far more than they reveal.

Stay

Dark, serious atmosphere

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.

Lucifer Within Us

Dark, serious atmosphere

As a digital exorcist in a futuristic church, you investigate murders by gathering evidence, exposing contradictions and purging the daemons of suspects. A narrative detective game mixing deduction puzzles and interrogations.

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.

Security 51

Choices with consequences

As a security officer in Area 51, you inspect staff and clearances and decide who may ride the elevator. The deeper you go, the more you suspect some of the people in front of you are no longer human.

Root Letter

Accessible and relaxed

A mystery visual novel where you travel to a town, question Aya's old acquaintances and uncover why she vanished after sending a letter. Your choices during interrogations lead to multiple endings.

Amplitude: A Visual Novel

Easy to pick up

A story-focused visual novel where you play a murder victim who strikes a shady deal, using a borrowed body to seek revenge and uncover the truth. Mystery and romance drive the experience.