The Best Dystopian Games

Update : Initium added at rank #1.
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Initium (2025)

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early access j Nintendo 3DS

Initium is a puzzle game with a hint of horror. As an experimenter, you must navigate your way through lucid dreams, such as a tropical island and open-air museum. Solve puzzles in order to advance to the next challenge and eventually return to reality. A Meta Quest headset is required to play.

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  • vision
  • 3d
  • development
  • mystery
  • dystopian
  • minimalist
  • vr
  • education
  • dungeon
  • futuristic
  • exploration
  • mythology
  • first-person
  • funny
  • horror

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Beholder: Conductor (2025)

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j Mac OS PC Windows

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!


  • choices
  • dystopian
  • investigation
  • trains
  • political
  • multiple-endings
  • point-and-click
  • dark
  • management
  • pixel
  • story
  • atmospheric
  • 2d
  • adventure
  • simulation

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SECLUSION (2025)

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early access PC Windows

The walls listen...

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  • psychological
  • first-person
  • resource-management
  • cinematic
  • adventure
  • rpg
  • horror
  • investigation
  • fiction
  • dystopian
  • lovecraftian
  • action
  • sandbox
  • action-adventure
  • realistic

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Kafkaesque: The Nightmare Trial (2025)

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Survive a twisted bureaucratic nightmare where every resource counts. Battle corrupted officials and solve psychological puzzles. Your choices shape multiple endings as you fight to prove your innocence.

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  • tps
  • horror
  • dystopian
  • 1990s
  • survival-horror
  • psychological
  • action-adventure
  • stylized
  • third-person
  • supernatural
  • exploration
  • puzzle
  • old-school
  • retro
  • action

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Orphans (2025)

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PC Windows Android IOS iPhone Xbox One j Playstation 5 Xbox Series X Nintendo Switch Playstation 4

If you like video games about dystopian worlds, don't miss this exciting fusion of adventure, stealth and puzzles that immerses you in an unforgettable experience. Join Victoria on her journey through a dystopian city, where the savage instincts lurk around every corner.


  • thriller-goosebumps
  • platform
  • mystery
  • underground
  • 2.5d
  • interactive
  • dystopian
  • puzzle
  • action-adventure
  • immersive
  • dark
  • stealth
  • emotional
  • horror
  • 3d

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Karma: The Dark World (2025)

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Xbox Series X PC Windows Playstation 5

KARMA: The Dark World is a first-person cinematic psychological thriller set in a dystopian world where the Leviathan Corporation is omnipresent. The time is 1984, the place is East Germany, and things are not quite what they seem.


  • psychological
  • horror
  • dystopian
  • walking-simulator
  • philosophical
  • sci-fi
  • cinematic
  • psychedelic
  • fiction
  • emotional
  • experimental
  • story
  • thriller
  • interactive
  • first-person

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SONOKUNI (2025)

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PC Windows j Nintendo Switch

Battle your way through a biopunk and Japanese mythology-inspired landscape filled with over-the-top, hip hop-infused 2D action. A single hit means death, but use your time-bending skills to take down your oppressors and you might yet save your dying nation.

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  • transhumanism
  • cyberpunk
  • hack-and-slash
  • dystopian
  • psychedelic
  • futuristic
  • top-down
  • pixel
  • historical
  • 2d
  • sci-fi
  • action-adventure
  • atmospheric
  • aliens
  • tactical

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Grimm's Folly (2025)

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PC Windows

In Grimm’s Folly, find yourself falling through a wormhole and landing in a trash heap. The world around you, dark and unfamiliar, is not your own. Someone has trapped you here. And that someone doesn’t ever want you to leave.

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  • 1990s
  • dystopian
  • science
  • narration
  • first-person
  • sci-fi
  • action-adventure
  • puzzle
  • story
  • controller-support
  • adventure
  • dark

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Mysteries of Perception (2025)

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Mysteries of Perception is a detective game where you will see the same scene through the eyes of different characters. Uncover their secrets by analyzing all the clues. Switch perspectives and learn everything about the artifacts of the Distant and the deaths in their wake. Glory to the Stars!

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  • dystopian
  • detective
  • conspiracy
  • investigation
  • narration
  • mystery
  • time
  • crime
  • thriller
  • 2d
  • manipulation
  • supernatural
  • dark
  • story
  • investigative

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Mutation (2025)

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early access PC Windows

Trapped in a laboratory, something hunts you, constantly mutating. Will you be able to save yourself?


  • transhumanism
  • lovecraftian
  • first-person
  • illuminati
  • dystopian
  • cinematic
  • pve
  • rogue-like
  • horror
  • resource-management
  • fps
  • soundtrack
  • zombies
  • crafting
  • inventory

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