The Best Dystopian Games

Update : Despot Zombie added at rank #49.
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Mega Serval (2022)

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PC Windows

Serval's friends are in danger and it's up to her to save the day! Progress through 12 action-packed platforming stages in this "Kemono Friends Project" derivative work!

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  • 1980s
  • dystopian
  • nature
  • post-apocalyptic
  • 2d
  • platform
  • single-player
  • third-person
  • pixel
  • cartoony
  • colourful

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Silicon Dreams cyberpunk interrogation (2021)

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It’s 2065, and you are an interrogator-model android tasked with rooting out deviants among your own kind. You must probe for lies, monitor and exploit emotional spikes, earn the trust of your subjects, and make the final call: release, or destroy?

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  • conversation
  • investigation
  • choices
  • emotional
  • dystopian
  • cyberpunk
  • multiple-endings
  • experimental
  • political
  • story
  • sci-fi
  • detective
  • futuristic
  • visual-novel
  • atmospheric

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Papers, Please (2013)

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PC Windows Android vita IOS iPhone Linux Mac OS

Congratulations. The October labor lottery is complete. Your name was pulled. For immediate placement, report to the Ministry of Admission at Grestin Border Checkpoint. An apartment will be provided for you and your family in East Grestin. Expect a Class-8 dwelling.


  • dystopian
  • document
  • political
  • non-photographic
  • thriller
  • simulation
  • war
  • point-and-click
  • pixel
  • endless
  • puzzle
  • multiple-endings
  • story
  • addictive
  • difficult

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White Hell (2021)

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early access PC Windows

White Hell is a retro-style first-person shooter set in a frost-bound Finland after the apocalypse.

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  • snow
  • first-person
  • post-apocalyptic
  • 1990s
  • shooter
  • dystopian
  • humor
  • retro
  • fps
  • cyberpunk
  • dark
  • 3d
  • stylized
  • magic
  • mythology

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Cube Escape (2023)

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A horror game inspired by the liminal space aesthetic. Explore a huge unknown facility deep underground and solve puzzles while trying to figure out who you are, and why you are here.


  • underground
  • horror
  • editor
  • dystopian
  • level
  • sokoban
  • linear
  • psychological
  • puzzle
  • 3d
  • solitaire
  • single-player
  • exploration
  • stealth
  • first-person

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Hidden Objects Collection Volume 4 (2022)

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PC Windows Nintendo Switch

Search through lavishly illustrated and animated backgrounds. Play over 30 fun minigames, restoring one piece of art at a time! Enjoy the winter wonderland of Mia's hometown, Mikamaw Point! Meet Mia's family and the neighbors she grew up with as she catches up with them! Spread joy to the citizens of this lovely community as you help them through their annual Christmas donation drives!

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  • 2.5d
  • tps
  • visual-novel
  • dystopian
  • hidden-object
  • otome
  • drama
  • anime
  • third-person
  • exploration
  • cute
  • detective
  • shooter
  • rpg
  • horror

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Beholder: Adventure (2017)

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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?


  • dystopian
  • political
  • dark
  • simulation
  • multiple-endings
  • humor
  • choices
  • point-and-click
  • atmospheric

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ADACA (2022)

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A Sci-fi FPS set on the mysterious planet ADACA. - Use your GRAVITY-MANIPULATING arm to HURL objects at your foes or even RIP weapons directly from their hands! - EXPLORE and manipulate the environment in this EERIE and HOSTILE world!

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  • lore
  • first-person
  • dystopian
  • pve
  • open-world
  • shooter
  • fps
  • old-school
  • linear
  • horror
  • atmospheric
  • exploration
  • retro
  • sci-fi
  • colourful

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Booth: A Dystopian Adventure (2020)

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The year is 2036. In this famine-riddled world, food-centric sovereignty has been established. Living alone inside a food-inspection booth, you are striving to find truth and peace beyond the borderline.

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  • dystopian
  • simulation
  • immersive
  • life
  • multiple-endings
  • choices
  • conspiracy
  • atmospheric
  • political
  • point-and-click
  • pixel
  • story
  • management
  • mystery
  • sci-fi

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HAAK (2020)

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Explore the ruins of the once glorious city as Haak, the brave traveler. With retro-futuristic pixel world and hand-drawn graphics, this Metroidvania-style game will keep you hooked, using your hook, dash, and charged slash to uncover hidden rooms and secrets. Enjoy extremely good and fluid platforming, fun mechanics, solid level design and challenges that adapt to your skills. Make meaningful choices to change the game's fate with multiple endings. Join in and become the light that repels the darkness!


What we like:
  • Fun platforming
  • Great combat mechanics
  • Well-designed levels
  • Good controls
  • Engaging story and atmosphere
What could be improved:
  • Linear with stingy ability gating
  • Tedious and punishing platforming with dubious checkpoints
  • Inconsistent exploration
  • Poor translation
  • Lack of boss variety

  • platform
  • underground
  • dystopian
  • metroidvania
  • comic
  • post-apocalyptic
  • scroller
  • pixel
  • 2d
  • action-adventure
  • book
  • rpg
  • exploration
  • puzzle
  • combat

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