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2020 PCPlayStationXboxNintendo Switch 14.79 € 👍 78 % Mostly positive, 3,270 reviews on Steam

An interactive full-motion-video sci-fi thriller where your decisions steer the story set in a sealed research facility. It focuses on branching, cinematic storytelling rather than traditional gameplay.

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

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The closest matches for The Complex are The Expanse: A Telltale Series, Late Shift and Detroit: Become Human. Each of these 10 games shares something of what makes The Complex special – the reasons are listed right on each game.

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The Expanse: A Telltale Series

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2023 PCPlayStationXbox 24.50 € 👍 78 % Mostly positive, 1,922 reviews on Steam

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

An interactive story adventure in the Expanse universe: as Camina Drummer you make decisions during a mutiny aboard the Artemis that shape the fate of the crew and ship. The focus is on dialogue, tension and moral dilemmas rather than combat.

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Late Shift

Realistic visuals

An interactive live-action crime thriller where you guide student Matt through a London heist with split-second decisions. Seven different endings encourage replaying to see how the story can change.

Detroit: Become Human

Choices with consequences

A cinematic narrative adventure where you guide three androids through a near-future Detroit. The story branches dramatically with every choice, and characters can live or die depending on your decisions.

She Sees Red

Dark, serious atmosphere

An interactive live-action thriller where you play a detective hunting a killer after a nightclub massacre. Your decisions branch the plot and lead to multiple outcomes.

Blade Runner

Choices with consequences

A detective adventure set in neon-soaked 2019 Los Angeles, where you play a Blade Runner questioning suspects, collecting clues and hunting replicants. Your choices reshape the story and lead to one of six different endings.

Adastra

Choices with consequences

A visual novel in which a human abducted by a wolf-like alien is drawn into the political intrigue of a people left without an emperor. It focuses on science-fiction drama, romance and mature content.

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.

Steins;Gate 0

Choices with consequences

A dark, emotional visual novel sequel to Steins;Gate in which Okabe struggles with trauma and guilt in a timeline without time travel, torn over whether to change the past again. Your choices lead to different endings in a dense, time-travel-driven story.

Beyond: Two Souls

Realistic visuals

Quantic Dream's interactive drama tells Jodie's life in non-chronological episodes, bound to the ghostly entity Aiden whom you can also control. Decisions and quick-time sequences shape a cinematic, motion-captured story with strong lead performances.

Lifeline

Choices with consequences

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.