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A short indie simulation about working as an immigrant officer to support your sick, unemployed family in a grim town.

Booth: A Dystopian Adventure
A story-rich dystopian simulation where you run a food-inspection booth in 2036, with Papers Please-style inspection and a praised narrative.
2020-07-22
- Science fiction

Adventure

Indie

Simulator

Text

Mystery

Point-and-click

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1998: The Toll Keeper Story

A bleak yet compassionate narrative simulation about a pregnant toll keeper navigating moral choices in a country on the brink of collapse.

2025-10-28

Bird view / Isometric
Indie
Simulator

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Thank You For Your Application

A compact, story-driven interview simulation about screening resumes and sending thank-you letters in a bleak corporate world, with engaging paperwork gameplay but a story that reviewers find lacking in humanity.

2026-06-19

Science fiction
Indie
Simulator
Role-playing (RPG)

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Contraband Police

A single-player border-inspection sim set in a corrupt 1980s communist country, blending document forgery checks with car chases, sneaking missions, and checkpoint upgrades.

2023-03-08

Shooter
Action
First person
Adventure
Third person
Indie
Simulator
Stealth

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Death and Taxes

A short 2D narrative game about being the Grim Reaper in an office job, making life-or-death choices with consequences; chill but repetitive.

2020-02-20

First person
Comedy
Puzzle
Adventure
Strategy
Indie
Simulator
Role-playing (RPG)
Point-and-click
Visual Novel

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Not Tonight

A Brexit-inspired bureaucratic bouncer simulation set in an alternate-history Britain, with a ~12-hour campaign that starts engaging but grows repetitive.

2018-08-17

Comedy
Science fiction
Puzzle
Adventure
Side view
Simulator
Role-playing (RPG)

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Martial Law

A brief, emotional adventure about a marginalized father in communist Poland, with a slow-paced narrative that lasts under an hour.

2021-12-23

Adventure
Indie
Side view
Historical

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Quarantine Zone: The Last Check

A tense single-player strategy/sim of checkpoint defense and survivor screening in a zombie apocalypse, with meaningful choices but persistent inspection bugs and about 10 hours of playtime.

2026-01-12

Action
First person
Science fiction
Strategy
Indie
Simulator
Sandbox

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Toll Booth Simulator

A short, quirky desert toll-booth management sim where you inspect passports, mix mocktails, and dodge cops to pay off your debt.

2026-04-27

Action
First person
Comedy
Strategy
Indie
Simulator

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Papers, Please

A grim single-player dystopian document-inspection sim with moral dilemmas and family-management stakes; reviewer playtimes center around 8–11 hours.

2013-08-08

First person
Puzzle
Thriller
Indie
Simulator
Text
Point-and-click

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The State of Nowhere

A dystopian bureaucratic simulation about serving products and enforcing state rules, with tense rule-checking and multiple endings.

2026-03-11

Indie
Simulator

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Next Patient

A short single-player simulation set in a dystopian republic, where you run a checkpoint and decide who survives.

2026-04-27

Indie
Simulator