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A dark and satirical management sim, where you take control of a recycling factory with a twist: it recycles humans. Your job is to decide who gets to escape our dying planet in a cozy spaceship and who sacrifices their blood, sweat and tears for humanity. Literally.

Assume the presidency of Velistra, a nation teetering on collapse. Every choice reshapes destiny amid ruthless factions, moral dilemmas, and global pressures. A careful balance must be struck in both economics and politics. How will you lead?

You are an intern at the central ministry of a totalitarian state with your whole career ahead of you. Work your way up the ladder by scheming against employees, spying on your boss, and completing paperwork. Or do you turn against the state and expose corruption. The choice is still yours to make!

Award-winning adventure where you control the news and its impact on society, your friends and career. Different choices lead to unique combinations of endings. Share your story with the community, and see what the players before you did.

You’re a state-installed landlord in a totalitarian country. Place listening devices, steal and sneak into your tenants’ apartments. Use what you uncovered to report anyone capable of plotting against the state. You MUST! But WILL you?

News. Public opinion. Manipulation. When truth is twisted and facts are buried, the pen itself wields power—and you remain the unseen hand pulling the strings from the shadows.

A deep management strategy sim blending political intrigue and character-driven narrative. Acquire and train gladiators with unique backstories and skills, manage your ludus from resources to staff, and navigate a world of political maneuvering and sabotage. Every choice leads to glory or ruin.

Smuggle banned books to save the Nation! Make tough choices, manage resources, and decipher secret messages in this narrative adventure based on true events. Help preserve a forbidden language — one dangerous mission at a time.

Step into the shoes of J. Edgar Hoover and combat the Mafia, Communists, the Ku Klux Klan, the Black Panthers, the Weather Underground, and more as you shape history with your every move. Download now and become the ultimate mastermind in this thrilling management RPG!

When a high-ranking security officer saves you from prison, you end up a pawn in her schemes. Now you must eliminate anyone standing in the way of her secret plans and try to get your life back while working two jobs. No tenant, employee or superior is safe from your spying.

You are local mafia kingpin, Jeffrey Koch. Your empire in New Kandinski is in total chaos because an unknown Mastermind has decided to take your place. And they’ve planted a sleeper Mole inside your operation. It’s time to act, but you need to act smart.

Ministry of Order is a narrative logic-puzzler set in a totalitarian 1920s maternity ward. Match babies to parents using a genetics puzzle, shape destinies through branching dialogues, decide your role in a secret plot, and stretch your modest salary to survive.

For the People is a mix of a political management sim and a visual novel, putting players in the shoes of an idealistic young state official tasked with shaping the future of a communist factory town. Will the party provide for the people, or are the people just cogs in its machine?..

Become the leader of the USSR consumed by the vision of establishing a world-class superpower. Wage the Cold War brutally and without compromise, or through cunning politics and effective propaganda.

The city is drowning in plague. You are the last one who can save it — or finish it off...

You've been hired as a chief editor to make this newspaper grow, but your writers are awful. Correct their drafts, set the tone of the news to fit your audience, make readership grow; and form a relationship with the shady politicians that will push you to give them good press in an electoral year

A Beholder series spin-off. Become a conductor of the Determination Bringer train: monitor passengers, report incidents, and carry out important Ministry assignments — whose level of secrecy depends only on your loyalty. And remember: mission success is very important to you!

Big Brother has arrived - and it’s you. Investigate the lives of citizens to find those responsible for a series of terror attacks. Information from the internet, personal communications and private files are all accessible to you. But, be warned, the information you supply will have consequences.

Interrogate, investigate, and judge in an authoritarian regime. In Civil Purgatory, real-time AI-generated role-playing dialogue adds depth and dynamism to this narrative simulation full of moral dilemmas, where you decide who walks free… and who doesn’t.

You just became the editor for a newspaper in a troublesome country. After months of unemployment; you just had to took it. First, you have to make a choice. Will you support the government or will you go against it? Dreams, nightmares, don’t matter anymore; you have a new opportunity in your life.

An antidote shop simulator in a grimdark setting. Save lives by diagnosing poison types and administering precious cures. Or risk playing executioner in white gloves — save one, slip another a fake cure and watch how your choice echoes through this rotten world.

Follow the new worker of the disinformation agency day by day. Decide how to oppose news and people through the use of fake scandals and redirections. Ensure a win for your employers - or find some conscience after all.

A narrative-driven choice game set in a bleak dystopia. Maintain a balance between the corrupt demands of the ruling party and the desperate needs of the people. Gain wealth, collect taxes, or aid the suffering—this will determine the fate of your street in this oppressive regime

In an uninhabitable Siberian wilderness, in a wake of October Revolution, a group of passengers survives the mysterious catastrophe of Trans-Siberian railway train. They must endure in a harsh ice-clad climate until rescue arrives. Facing many dangers, their own weaknesses and, their own prejudice.

A sci-fi roguelike document-inspection game where you approve or deny alien travelers, scan for contraband, and navigate shifting galactic laws across border outposts, with each run shaping the future political climate.

The year is 2037. The war is over, and Great Raskovia is in a deep economic crisis. Your duty is to distribute rations based on documents. It’s up to you to decide who gets fed and who goes hungry.

You are an Administrator serving your probationary period in a medieval town. Make decisions to affect the town's reputation, order, military and supplies. Choose wisely to deal with bandits, famines, cultists and plagues. The most difficult choices will decide the fate of your town!

An isolated village during the war. Men leave one by one, along the winding forest path painted crimson by distant fires, and do not return. Young Nadia becomes a part-time postwoman filling in for her sick mother. She is now a messenger of hope and of trouble.

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You're an employee of the Section Six that handles postal censorship. Outside the window is an alternative Russia of the late 19th — early 20th century. Write reports accusing both the guilty and the innocent, steal things, break lives... or not...

《My Child Lebensborn》is a story driven nurture game based on real events. Play as the adoptive parent of Karin or Klaus, and experience the struggles they go through along them. Balance your time and resources wisely, while helping your child cope with effects of hatred.