Games like Border Officer
If Border Officer is your kind of game, the closest matches are In The Long Run The Game, LivingForest and Nightmare Drive — picked from the ranked list below. Reviewers single out its dystopian atmosphere feels immersive, mistakes carry real consequences and bleak. Each pick is ranked by what players of this game also play, shared genres and tags, and review-mined similarity — not a generic popularity list.
Get personalized picks →About Border Officer: Usually everyone is unemployed here. But by chance you got a job. You'il work for the state.Everyone in your family is sick or unemployed, only you can help them. You're an immigrant officer.
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Steam players who put hours into Border Officer also tend to own these titles — a signal called collaborative filtering. imho.run cross-references millions of library ownership patterns to surface games whose real audiences overlap, regardless of whether their genre tags match.
In The Long Run The Game
WHY THIS
Top pick for Border Officer fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Border Officer.
Build and manage your space base - Survive in extreme environments - Explore Open World scenarios based on real topographic data - Gather Resources, Craft your items - Drive futuristic rovers and more...
LivingForest
WHY THIS
Second-strongest match for Border Officer fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Border Officer.
From a first or third person perspective, living this forest.
Nightmare Drive
WHY THIS
Shares a tense mood with Border Officer.
Third-strongest match for Border Officer fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Border Officer.
The apocalypse didn't end the world, it just emptied the roads. Build your vehicle up from salvaged parts, manage resources and drive across endless highways. When midnight comes, the hordes hunt, a Road Trip Game
Into the End (of the World)
WHY THIS
Ranked #4 for Border Officer fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Adventure with Border Officer.
Drive, maintain, and survive. Explore procedural biomes in a post-apocalyptic world, scavenge for parts, and fight infected zones with friends. Build your survival machine from the chassis up and keep it running - because without it, you won’t get far.
IRON NEST: Heavy Turret Simulator
WHY THIS
Ranked #5 for Border Officer fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Border Officer.
IRON NEST is a brutal dieselpunk heavy-artillery game where you dominate the battlefield through a colossal war machine. Take map measurements based on the received coordinates, strain the hydraulics, and gunlay the cannons to unleash devastating blows ⟹ Will you obey High Command, Operator?
Jalopy
WHY THIS
Shares resource management with Border Officer.
Ranked #6 for Border Officer fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with Border Officer.
Build, repair, refuel and drive a dilapidated old car on a grand journey through the territories of the former Eastern bloc. Explore Germany, CSFR, Hungary, Yugoslavia and Bulgaria
Contraband Police
WHY THIS
Shares document inspection and a stressful mood with Border Officer.
Ranked #7 for Border Officer fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Adventure with Border Officer.
Take over the duties of a border guard inspector in a communist country of the 80's. Smuggling, corruption and forgery are the order of the day here. Be vigilant and earn the respect of your superiors.
EmergeNYC
WHY THIS
Shares a stressful mood with Border Officer.
Ranked #8 for Border Officer fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Border Officer.
EmergeNYC is a simulation of New York City's Emergency Services. Drive over 30 different Emergency Vehicles with up to 32 of your friends through busy City Streets with blazing sirens and air horns. Take the role of a firefighter, medic, or police officer and ride with your friends to emergencies
Cheaper alternatives
Games in the same vein priced at least 40% below Border Officer at current Steam store prices.
Garry's Mod
WHY THIS
Priced ~50% under Border Officer on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Simulation with Border Officer.
Garry's Mod is a physics sandbox. There aren't any predefined aims or goals. We give you the tools and leave you to play.
Vampire Survivors
WHY THIS
Priced ~50% under Border Officer on Steam right now. Shares Action and Indie with Border Officer.
Mow down thousands of night creatures and survive until dawn! Vampire Survivors is a gothic horror casual game with rogue-lite elements, where your choices can allow you to quickly snowball against the hundreds of monsters that get thrown at you. Be the bullet hell!
Titanfall® 2
WHY THIS
Priced ~55% under Border Officer on Steam right now. Shares Action with Border Officer.
Respawn Entertainment gives you the most advanced titan technology in its new, single player campaign & multiplayer experience. Combine & conquer with new titans & pilots, deadlier weapons, & customization and progression systems that help you and your titan flow as one unstoppable killing force.
Cookie Clicker
WHY THIS
Priced ~50% under Border Officer on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Simulation with Border Officer.
An idle game about making cookies! Originally released in 2013 on the web, and actively developed since then. This is the official version for Steam.
WEBFISHING
WHY THIS
Priced ~50% under Border Officer on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Border Officer.
WEBFISHING a multiplayer chatroom-focused fishing game! Relax and fish (on the web!)
POSTAL 2
WHY THIS
Priced ~90% under Border Officer on Steam right now. Shares Action and Indie with Border Officer.
Live a week in the life of "The POSTAL Dude"; a hapless everyman just trying to check off some chores. Buying milk, returning an overdue library book, getting Gary Coleman's autograph, what could possibly go wrong?
Buckshot Roulette
WHY THIS
Priced ~70% under Border Officer on Steam right now. Shares Action and Indie with Border Officer.
Play Russian roulette with a 12-gauge shotgun. Four enter. One leaves. Roll the dice with your life. Good luck!
Brotato
WHY THIS
Priced ~50% under Border Officer on Steam right now. Shares Action and Indie with Border Officer.
Brotato is a top-down arena shooter roguelite where you play a potato wielding up to 6 weapons at a time to fight off hordes of aliens. Choose from a variety of traits and items to create unique builds and survive until help arrives.
Free alternatives
Free-to-play games that recommended players of this title also tend to enjoy.
Doki Doki Literature Club!
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Border Officer.
The Literature Club is full of cute girls! Will you write the way into their heart? This game is not suitable for children or those who are easily disturbed.
Life is Strange - Episode 1
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action and Adventure with Border Officer.
Episode 1 now FREE! Life is Strange is an award-winning and critically acclaimed episodic adventure game that allows the player to rewind time and affect the past, present and future.
Ultimate Custom Night
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action and Indie with Border Officer.
Welcome to the ultimate FNAF mashup, featuring 50 selectable characters and custom difficulties!
Bongo Cat
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Simulation with Border Officer.
Bongo cat needs your help. Bongo cat needz more hatz!!! Every time you press a key, Bongo cat will punch your taskbar. Type, click, play, work to collect more points. Which hats will you find?
Indigo Park: Chapter 1
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action and Indie with Border Officer.
Explore the abandoned childhood wonder of Indigo Park! Guided by Rambley the Raccoon, help restore power to the destroyed amusement park while you run from the reason it shut down.
missed messages.
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Simulation with Border Officer.
‘goth gf’s iPhone’ airdrops you - accept or decline? A love/horror story about life, death, & memes.
NGU IDLE
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Adventure with Border Officer.
NGU Idle is a Free To Play Idle game that's full of weird humor, tons of upgrades and hundreds of hours of content! Try out NGU Idle today and experience the joy of Numbers Going Up!
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More from Cheesecake Dev
Other recommendable Steam games by Cheesecake Dev, ranked by review count so the studio's hits land first.
Internet Cafe Simulator 2
WHY THIS
Another title from Cheesecake Dev, the studio behind Border Officer. Shares Action and Indie with Border Officer.
Internet Cafe Simulator 2 is an extremely comprehensive and detailed internet cafe business simulation game.
Internet Cafe Simulator
WHY THIS
Another title from Cheesecake Dev, the studio behind Border Officer. Shares Indie and Adventure with Border Officer.
Internet Cafe Simulator is an internet cafe business simulation game. Build the best internet café in the world!
Streamer Life Simulator
WHY THIS
Shares a stressful mood with Border Officer.
Another title from Cheesecake Dev, the studio behind Border Officer. Shares Action and Indie with Border Officer.
Streamer Life Simulator is a very comprehensive streamer life simulation game. Be the most popular streamer in the world.
Streamer Life Simulator 2
WHY THIS
Shares resource management and a stressful mood with Border Officer.
Another title from Cheesecake Dev, the studio behind Border Officer. Shares Indie and Simulation with Border Officer.
In the second game of the series, competition has increased and now everyone wants to be a streamer. Are you ready to stream until your cpu burns out?
Computer Repair Shop
WHY THIS
Shares resource management and a stressful mood with Border Officer.
Another title from Cheesecake Dev, the studio behind Border Officer. Shares Indie and Simulation with Border Officer.
Become a dishonest computer repairman, steal rams. Burn the motherboards!
Horror Squad
WHY THIS
Another title from Cheesecake Dev, the studio behind Border Officer. Shares Action and Indie with Border Officer.
Horror Squad is a 1-4 player online co-op horror game. Assemble your squad to clear the areas cursed by terrifying creatures.
Frequently asked about Border Officer
- Does Border Officer run on Steam Deck?
- Border Officer is rated Playable on Steam Deck — it runs, but expect some manual adjustments (control remapping, text size, or graphics settings) for the best experience.
- How much does Border Officer cost?
- Border Officer is listed on Steam at 9.99 USD (current store price; Steam sales may reduce this temporarily).
- What games are most similar to Border Officer?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Border Officer are In The Long Run The Game, LivingForest, Nightmare Drive.
- Who developed Border Officer?
- Border Officer was developed by Cheesecake Dev.
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