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

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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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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Galaxy Pass Station

A compact colony-sim and document-checking game about running a space station for aliens while catching criminals.

2023-09-13

Adventure
Indie
Side view
Simulator

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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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CorpoNation: The Sorting Process

A satirical corporate-dystopia simulation where you sort genetic samples for credits while fending off temptations to rebel, in a roughly 23-hour campaign based on limited reviewer data.

2024-02-22

Puzzle
Adventure
Strategy
Indie
Side view
Simulator
Mystery
Point-and-click

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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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Teller's Duty

A dystopian 1980 bank-teller simulation about navigating absurd rules and moral choices, with a grimly satirical tone and roughly 7-9 hours of clunky but ambitious play.

2026-06-12

First person
Indie
Simulator
Historical
Business
Point-and-click

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Retale

A short, satirical retail-management game where shelf-stocking, cranky customers, and a watchful manager create tense, humorous time-management pressure.

2024-07-03

Strategy
Bird view / Isometric
Indie
Role-playing (RPG)
Stealth

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Time Bandit – Part 1: Appendages of the Machine

A quirky resource-management adventure about reclaiming stolen time from a corporate conspiracy, with retro-3D cutscenes and a darkly humorous edge.

2023-07-24

Comedy
Puzzle
Adventure
Third person
Bird view / Isometric
Indie
Simulator
Real Time Strategy (RTS)
Stealth
Non-fiction
Drama

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Not For Broadcast

In this single-player dystopian political satire, a janitor runs a news station's editing booth, choosing what to broadcast through live-action footage and navigating government pressure toward multiple story branches—a goofy, task-heavy management sim.

2022-01-25

First person
Comedy
Adventure
Indie
Simulator
Point-and-click
Drama

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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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Border Officer

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

2019-07-19

Action
Adventure
Indie
Simulator
Open world