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2021 PC 12.79 € 81 % positive Very positive, 511 reviews on Steam

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.

What defines The Invisible Hand:

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

The closest matches for The Invisible Hand are Beholder 3, For the People and Faceminer. Each of these 10 games shares something of what makes The Invisible Hand special – the reasons are listed right on each game.

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Beholder 3

91 %

2022 PCPlayStationXboxNintendo Switch −80 % 17.49 € 3.49 € 2 days left 66 % positive Mixed, 2,338 reviews on Steam

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

Beholder 3 is a grim surveillance and intrigue game set in a totalitarian state: you spy on others, juggle two jobs, and decide whom to sacrifice for your handler's schemes.

For the People

Pure single-player experience

As the newly appointed mayor of a small town under a socialist system, you balance the party line against the wellbeing of its citizens. A narrative blend of visual novel and light management strategy.

Faceminer

Linear, curated structure

A dystopian management clicker set in 1999 where you build a biometric data processing empire. You classify dubious data, expand your mining infrastructure and grow an AI surveillance operation while a dark story unfolds.

Beholder

Tactical depth

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.

Sanatorium: A Mental Asylum Simulator

Pure single-player experience

You run a psychiatric asylum in a fictionalized 1920s, testing, diagnosing and treating patients through card-based mechanics. It offers a critical look at the troubled history of psychiatry and pseudoscience.

Suzerain

Linear, curated structure

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.

The Westport Independent

Linear, curated structure

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.

Raging Loop

Tactical depth

A grim visual novel set in a fog-bound Japanese village, where a werewolf-style game of suspicion, logic and betrayal plays out. Its intricate, looping plot thrives on deduction and shocking twists.

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