Games like Dystopicon
If Dystopicon is your kind of game, the closest matches are Shift Happens, Definitely A Unicorn and Lemonade Apocalypse — 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 Dystopicon: An uncomfortable dystopian time-management game where your job is watching TV to earn money and buy services to survive after robots replace humans at work. Choose to be a good citizen or a rebel. But beware! Curiosity has a price in this dystopian life simulator.
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Shift Happens
WHY THIS
Top pick for Dystopicon fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Simulation with Dystopicon.
Ever wanted to live out the American dream of working an abysmal 9–5 with rude management? No? Well too bad, I made a game about it anyway. Shift Happens is a first-person experience where you order stock, fill shelves, and keep the store running. The job is simple. Enjoy your shift.
Definitely A Unicorn
WHY THIS
Second-strongest match for Dystopicon fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Simulation with Dystopicon.
A co-op startup management sim where you make hard decisions, argue over priorities, manage chaos, and deal with deadlines, burnout, investors, and constant pressure. Failure is expected — and every disaster is wrapped in satire and dark humor.
Lemonade Apocalypse
WHY THIS
Third-strongest match for Dystopicon fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Simulation with Dystopicon.
Make obscene amounts of money with lemonade. Become president, fuel climate change and geopolitical events in the name of profit. An incremental game about business decisions that are technically legal.
Contracting at a Tech Giant
WHY THIS
Ranked #4 for Dystopicon fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie with Dystopicon.
A darkly comic workplace visual novel set inside a Chinese tech giant. Decide what programmer Lin Mo believes, what he says aloud, and which records he keeps. Your choices reshape credit, access, relationships, and the truth left behind across seven endings.
Labeloop
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Ranked #5 for Dystopicon fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Simulation with Dystopicon.
Labeloop is a darkly comic incremental clicker about a debt you can't escape. Slap labels on the Company's bottles, hit your nightly rent, and claw your way out of an ever-deeper hole. Clear your debt and they'll thank you with a bullet — then bill you for the funeral.
wageslave
WHY THIS
Ranked #6 for Dystopicon fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Simulation with Dystopicon.
A short, narrative, dystopian office survival game. Ship code to eat. Optimise your nootropics stack. Stay sane. Cope with HR's passive-aggressive pings. Climb the career ladder. Retire early (if you can).
How to Win: Season One
WHY THIS
Ranked #7 for Dystopicon fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie with Dystopicon.
How to Win is an anarchic adventure/gaming experiment where players decide the rules. Whatever you decide, that’s what happens next in our story. No matter what chaos it creates. Play through all 5 chapters of Season 1, then send us your ideas for Season 2!
Permaban
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Ranked #8 for Dystopicon fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Simulation with Dystopicon.
It's 2007. You moderate a dying internet forum. Ban trolls, enforce contradictory rules, and try not to lose your mind.
Cheaper alternatives
Games in the same vein priced at least 40% below Dystopicon at current Steam store prices.
POSTAL 2
WHY THIS
Priced ~88% under Dystopicon on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Dystopicon.
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 ~63% under Dystopicon on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Simulation with Dystopicon.
Play Russian roulette with a 12-gauge shotgun. Four enter. One leaves. Roll the dice with your life. Good luck!
GRIS
WHY THIS
Priced ~53% under Dystopicon on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Dystopicon.
Gris is a hopeful young girl lost in her own world, dealing with a painful experience in her life. Her journey through sorrow is manifested in her dress, which grants new abilities to better navigate her faded reality.
The Test
WHY THIS
Priced ~75% under Dystopicon on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Simulation with Dystopicon.
You will answer a series of questions that will reveal truths from deep within. These questions may make you uncomfortable, but with great knowledge comes great sacrifice. Can you make it all the way through The Test, and if you do, are you sure you want the answers you seek?
Milk inside a bag of milk inside a bag of milk
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Priced ~81% under Dystopicon on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Dystopicon.
A short story about what sort of challenges everyday little things can be. Help the girl buy milk, be the first not to disappoint her.
Crypt of the NecroDancer
WHY THIS
Priced ~63% under Dystopicon on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Dystopicon.
Crypt of the NecroDancer is an award winning hardcore roguelike rhythm game. Move to the music and deliver beatdowns to the beat! Groove to the epic Danny Baranowsky soundtrack, or select songs from your own MP3 collection!
A Short Hike
WHY THIS
Priced ~50% under Dystopicon on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Dystopicon.
Hike, climb, and soar through the peaceful mountainside landscapes of Hawk Peak Provincial Park as you make your way to the summit.
Super Hexagon
WHY THIS
Priced ~63% under Dystopicon on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Dystopicon.
Super Hexagon is a minimal action game by Terry Cavanagh, with music by Chipzel.
Free alternatives
Free-to-play games that recommended players of this title also tend to enjoy.
Life is Strange - Episode 1
WHY THIS
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
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Dystopicon.
Welcome to the ultimate FNAF mashup, featuring 50 selectable characters and custom difficulties!
ENA: Dream BBQ
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Dystopicon.
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 Dystopicon.
Sonic the Hedgehog...was murdered!? Get to the bottom of the mystery in this brand-new adventure!
The Looker
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Dystopicon.
You wake up, alone, on a strangely familiar island full of puzzles that will frustrate and annoy you.
Our Life: Beginnings & Always
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Dystopicon.
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.
A Date with Death
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Simulation with Dystopicon.
Fight against & romance the one hunting for your soul in A Date with Death, a romance chat simulator where you date(?) the Grim Reaper himself. Create your own character, decorate your apartment, and chat away with the charming yet dangerous Grim Reaper through text and video calls.
The Lab
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it.
Welcome to The Lab, a compilation of Valve’s room-scale VR experiments set in a pocket universe within Aperture Science. Fix a robot, defend a castle, adopt a mechanical dog, and more. Still not sold? It’s free!
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Frequently asked about Dystopicon
- How much does Dystopicon cost?
- Dystopicon is listed on Steam at 7.99 USD (current store price; Steam sales may reduce this temporarily).
- What games are most similar to Dystopicon?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Dystopicon are Shift Happens, Definitely A Unicorn, Lemonade Apocalypse.
- Who developed Dystopicon?
- Dystopicon was developed by Palitroque.
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