Games like Monitor State
If Monitor State is your kind of game, the closest matches are TNOC, Citizen Sleeper 2: Starward Vector and Citizen Sleeper — 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 Monitor State: You are an operator in a dystopia world, watch and punish citizens. Experience a deep narrative with moral dilemmas. Obey, resist or find another path.
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TNOC
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Top pick for Monitor State fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Simulation with Monitor State.
Investigate a corporate conspiracy, manage field agents, analyze classified documents, and defend critical infrastructure in a story-rich cyberpunk future where every decision reveals another piece of the truth.
Citizen Sleeper 2: Starward Vector
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Second-strongest match for Monitor State fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie with Monitor State.
A dice-driven RPG, in a human and heartfelt sci-fi world. You are an escaped android, with a malfunctioning body, a price on your head and no memory of your past. Get a ship, find a crew, and take on contracts while you navigate across the Starward Belt.
Citizen Sleeper
WHY THIS
Third-strongest match for Monitor State fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie with Monitor State.
Roleplaying in the ruins of interplanetary capitalism. Live the life of an escaped worker, washed-up on a lawless station at the edge of an interstellar society. Inspired by the flexibility and freedom of TTRPGs, explore the station, choose your friends, escape your past and change your future.
Silicon Dreams | cyberpunk interrogation
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Ranked #4 for Monitor State fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Simulation with Monitor State.
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?
Let Bions Be Bygones
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Ranked #5 for Monitor State fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie with Monitor State.
Having lost everything, a retired, hardboiled detective, John Cooper, must take his last case to find a missing upper-class girl among the lowest parts of the dystopian city-planet Terrahive. Choose your unique path in this atmospheric narrative future-noir thriller.
Quarantine Circular
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Ranked #6 for Monitor State fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie with Monitor State.
In the middle of a world-ending pandemic, a group of scientists discover the galaxy has been watching. From the award-winning team behind Thomas Was Alone and Subsurface Circular, Quarantine Circular is the next mutation in text-based adventure.
Strange Antiquities
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Ranked #7 for Monitor State fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Simulation with Monitor State.
Become the custodian of a store dealing in occult antiquities. Explore the quaint and gloomy town of Undermere, where strange goings-on and dark mysteries abound. Find and identify arcane artefacts, use your collection to aid the townsfolk with their unusual problems — and remember to pet your cat!
Uncover the Smoking Gun
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Ranked #8 for Monitor State fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Simulation with Monitor State.
A Battle of Wits with AI: Solve the case by conversing with a suspect robot using GPT to gather evidence. What single truth emerges from countless dialogues and pieces of information?
Free alternatives
Free-to-play games that recommended players of this title also tend to enjoy.
Life is Strange - Episode 1
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it.
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
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Monitor State.
Welcome to the ultimate FNAF mashup, featuring 50 selectable characters and custom difficulties!
Bongo Cat
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Simulation with Monitor State.
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
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Monitor State.
Experience surreal environments and inexplicable characters as ENA in a new wild world.
The Murder of Sonic the Hedgehog
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Simulation with Monitor State.
Sonic the Hedgehog...was murdered!? Get to the bottom of the mystery in this brand-new adventure!
Indigo Park: Chapter 1
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Monitor State.
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.
Sheepy: A Short Adventure
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Monitor State.
A Short Handcrafted Pixel Art Platformer that follows Sheepy, an abandoned plushy brought to life. Sheepy: A Short Adventure is the first short game from MrSuicideSheep.
Our Life: Beginnings & Always
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Monitor State.
A twenty-dollar bill, four summers, fifteen years, and a one of a kind life. Create an experience that’s all your own in this near-fully customizable visual novel where you grow from childhood to adulthood with the lonely boy next door.
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Frequently asked about Monitor State
- What games are most similar to Monitor State?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Monitor State are TNOC, Citizen Sleeper 2: Starward Vector, Citizen Sleeper.
- Who developed Monitor State?
- Monitor State was developed by Artur Pukhavoi.
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 Monitor State.
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