Games like Good News
If Good News is your kind of game, the closest matches are Ministry of Order, Your letter has been rejected. and For the People — picked from the ranked list below. 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 Good News: You've been hired as a chief editor to make this newspaper grow, but your writers are awful. Correct their drafts, set the tone of the news to fit your audience, make readership grow; and form a relationship with the shady politicians that will push you to give them good press in an electoral year
Players who liked Good News also play
Steam players who put hours into Good News 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.
Ministry of Order
WHY THIS
Top pick for Good News fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Good News.
Match babies to their parents by solving genetics puzzles. Get paid for being right, fined for mistakes. Each choice in branching dialogues has different consequences. Immerse yourself in the atmosphere of the gloomy 1920s totalitarian state.
Your letter has been rejected.
WHY THIS
Second-strongest match for Good News fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with Good News.
貴殿を検閲官へと任ずる。 手紙のやり取りに問題がないか確認するように。 問題がある手紙は、決して送り届けてはならない。 我々は貴殿の働きに期待している。 我らがグルツァナに栄光あれ。
For the People
WHY THIS
Third-strongest match for Good News fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Good News.
For the People is a mix of a political management sim and a visual novel, putting players in the shoes of an idealistic young state official tasked with shaping the future of a communist factory town. Will the party provide for the people, or are the people just cogs in its machine?..
Beholder 2
WHY THIS
Ranked #4 for Good News fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Good News.
You are an intern at the central ministry of a totalitarian state with your whole career ahead of you. Work your way up the ladder by scheming against employees, spying on your boss, and completing paperwork. Or do you turn against the state and expose corruption. The choice is still yours to make!
Sanatorium - A Mental Asylum Simulator
WHY THIS
Ranked #5 for Good News fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with Good News.
The year is 1923—step inside Castle Woods Sanatorium, where care and cruelty blur together. Disguised as a doctor, you’ll diagnose and treat patients using a deck of symptoms, tests, and outdated therapies. But tread carefully: one wrong move could expose you as an impostor.
Beholder
WHY THIS
Ranked #6 for Good News fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Good News.
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?
Beholder: Conductor
WHY THIS
Ranked #7 for Good News fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Good News.
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!
1979 Revolution: Black Friday
WHY THIS
Ranked #8 for Good News fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with Good News.
1979 Revolution: Black Friday is a choice driven, narrative game that brings players into the brooding world of a nation on the verge of collapse. Play as Reza, an aspiring photojournalist, and make life and death decisions as you survive the gritty streets of Iran in the late 1970’s.
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 Good News.
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 Adventure with Good News.
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 Indie with Good News.
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 Good News.
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?
ENA: Dream BBQ
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Adventure with Good News.
Experience surreal environments and inexplicable characters as ENA in a new wild world.
The Murder of Sonic the Hedgehog
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Simulation with Good News.
Sonic the Hedgehog...was murdered!? Get to the bottom of the mystery in this brand-new adventure!
Indigo Park: Chapter 1
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Adventure with Good News.
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.
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Valve-Verified or Playable picks from the similar pool — ready to go on Deck out of the box.
Beholder 2
WHY THIS
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Strategy and Indie with Good News.
You are an intern at the central ministry of a totalitarian state with your whole career ahead of you. Work your way up the ladder by scheming against employees, spying on your boss, and completing paperwork. Or do you turn against the state and expose corruption. The choice is still yours to make!
Sanatorium - A Mental Asylum Simulator
WHY THIS
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Indie and Adventure with Good News.
The year is 1923—step inside Castle Woods Sanatorium, where care and cruelty blur together. Disguised as a doctor, you’ll diagnose and treat patients using a deck of symptoms, tests, and outdated therapies. But tread carefully: one wrong move could expose you as an impostor.
Beholder
WHY THIS
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Strategy and Indie with Good News.
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?
Beholder: Conductor
WHY THIS
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Strategy and Indie with Good News.
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!
Frequently asked about Good News
- What games are most similar to Good News?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Good News are Ministry of Order, Your letter has been rejected., For the People.
- Who developed Good News?
- Good News was developed by Augusto Salgado.
imho.run ranks Steam game alternatives using a mix of collaborative filtering (ALS / iALS / EASE / LightGCN), content scoring over genres, categories, Steam tags, developers, and publishers, plus AI-extracted vibes mined from review text. The page above is generated in seed mode anchored on Good News.
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