Games like Department 98
If Department 98 is your kind of game, the closest matches are 1,000,000 POTATOES, Spinnopoly and FACEMINER — 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 Department 98: Your placement is confirmed. Report to District Intake, desk seven. The previous occupant's effects have been cleared. An idle game inside a fake 1990s office OS about paperwork, promotion, and a job going very well.
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1,000,000 POTATOES
WHY THIS
Top pick for Department 98 fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Simulation with Department 98.
Peeling simulator with creeping horror. Peel, haul, and automate your way through 1,000,000 potatoes in a freezing 1991 warehouse. Build a machine empire of fryers, mashers, and stills - and watch the giant pile shrink. Most potatoes are just potatoes. Some are not.
Spinnopoly
WHY THIS
Second-strongest match for Department 98 fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Simulation with Department 98.
One reel away from glory. Starting with a 1 in 178 billion chance, some people would have given up by now. Your whole life you have always been a loser, is it gonna be different this time?
FACEMINER
WHY THIS
Third-strongest match for Department 98 fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Simulation with Department 98.
Build a biometric data harvesting empire from scratch in FACEMINER, the hardcore thriller clicker set in 1999. Classify data, upgrade mining infrastructure, and scale up your A.I. surveillance empire to obscene ends in this creepy narrative-driven incremental management sim with a dystopian twist.
UFO98
WHY THIS
Ranked #4 for Department 98 fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Simulation with Department 98.
Defy the government, leak top-secret alien telemetry, and wake up the world… inside an isolated Win98 workstation.
SECTOR GRID: Efficiency Protocol
WHY THIS
Ranked #5 for Department 98 fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Simulation with Department 98.
A first-person incremental management game set in a dystopian corporation. Rise from a mindless worker to a ruthless manager, forced to choose between extreme efficiency and humanity.
System.Execute
WHY THIS
Ranked #6 for Department 98 fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Simulation with Department 98.
Take control of a high-contrast terminal in System.Execute, a retro-styled incremental idle game. Generate FLOPS, upgrade through 15 tiers of hardware, prestige into Neural Weights, install optimization nodes, choose an endgame Protocol, and climb the global leaderboard.
Feed The Vessel
WHY THIS
Ranked #7 for Department 98 fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Simulation with Department 98.
A Short Active Incremental game where you grow clones in vats, feed them to the entity, butcher and burn them for meat, blood, and ichor, upgrade your ship's stations, push the engine into overdrive, and reach the other side.
IncrementalOS
WHY THIS
Ranked #8 for Department 98 fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Simulation with Department 98.
An incremental love letter to the 90s desktop. Start with a blank desktop and one icon, unlock programs, systems and minigames, make more money, and build your way up to a system worth bragging about.
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 Department 98.
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.
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 Department 98.
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 Department 98.
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 with Department 98.
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 Department 98.
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 with Department 98.
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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Frequently asked about Department 98
- What games are most similar to Department 98?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Department 98 are 1,000,000 POTATOES, Spinnopoly, FACEMINER.
- Who developed Department 98?
- Department 98 was developed by Sven Schäfer and published by Wegfreund Games.
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