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2016 PC 12.99 €

A visual novel with strategic elements: after your colony ship crashes, you guide the survivors on an alien planet, manage scarce resources and make weighty decisions.

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

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The closest matches for The Next World are Lunar Ascendant, Star Trek: Voyager - Across the Unknown and Gods Will Be Watching. Each of these 10 games shares something of what makes The Next World special – the reasons are listed right on each game.

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Lunar Ascendant

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2026 PC 12.99 €

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

You run Artemis, humanity's first lunar colony, steering it through power struggles between rival factions and the controversial use of human brains as processors. Your decisions shape the future of space colonization.

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Star Trek: Voyager - Across the Unknown

Choices with consequences

As captain of the USS Voyager you guide the ship across the Delta Quadrant, juggling scarce resources and crew while making tough calls on the way home. It blends Star Trek storytelling with survival strategy.

Gods Will Be Watching

Choices with consequences

A minimalist pixel-art thriller where you guide Sergeant Burden and his crew through harsh moral dilemmas. Each chapter is a punishing resource-management puzzle where sacrifice and tough choices truly hurt.

Star Dynasties

Choices with consequences

A sci-fi grand strategy game about running a noble dynasty in a fractured galaxy, built around intrigue, marriage politics and succession. A procedurally generated narrative makes every dynasty's saga different.

Legacy of Dorn: Herald of Oblivion

Choices with consequences

A text-driven choose-your-own-adventure gamebook set in the Warhammer 40,000 universe, where you play a Space Marine. Your decisions and stats shape how the branching story unfolds.

The Fermi Paradox

Choices with consequences

A narrative strategy game where you guide civilizations across millennia, and your decisions ripple through distant parts of the galaxy. It centers on first contact, diplomacy and whether harmony among species is possible.

Dead In Antares

Choices with consequences

A turn-based survival management game on an alien planet where you keep a stranded crew alive, juggle their needs and relationships, and explore the surroundings to find a way home.

Out There: Oceans of Time

Choices with consequences

An atmospheric space survival game where you captain a starship, manage scarce resources, explore alien systems and shape your mission through text-based choices. Each run is tough and different.

The Alters

Choices with consequences

Stranded worker Jan clones alternate versions of himself, each shaped by a different life choice, and must manage them in a mobile base while racing a lethal sunrise. It's survival management fused with a thoughtful drama about identity and roads not taken.

Survive the Blackout

Dark, serious atmosphere

A narrative survival game set in a bleak post-apocalyptic world after a blackout. You manage a small group, scavenge for supplies and face tough moral decisions about what you will sacrifice to stay alive.