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Games like The Complex

2020USK 18PC, PlayStation, Xbox, Nintendo Switch, Steam Deck verified78 % positive−77 % 14.79 € 3.40 €

An interactive full-motion-video sci-fi thriller where your decisions steer the story set in a sealed research facility. It focuses on branching, cinematic storytelling rather than traditional gameplay.

  • Choices with consequences
  • Strong, story-driven narrative
  • Sci-fi setting
  • Dark, serious atmosphere

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In short: Games like The Complex

Each of these 10 games shares something of what makes The Complex special. The reasons are listed right on each game.

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Late Shift

94 %Match

2016USK 18PC, PlayStation, Xbox, Nintendo Switch, Steam Deck verified86 % positive−76 % 14.79 € 3.54 €

Brings what grabs you about The Complex: choices with consequences, a strong story and a relaxed difficulty.

An interactive live-action crime thriller where you guide student Matt through a London heist with split-second decisions. Seven different endings encourage replaying to see how the story can change.

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Orwell: Keeping an Eye on You

Accessible and relaxed

You work as an investigator for a government surveillance program, combing through chats, files and profiles of citizens and deciding which information to pass on. It makes the moral cost of mass surveillance tangible within a gripping thriller story.

Detroit: Become Human

Sci-fi setting

A cinematic narrative adventure where you guide three androids through a near-future Detroit. The story branches dramatically with every choice, and characters can live or die depending on your decisions.

She Sees Red

Accessible and relaxed

An interactive live-action thriller where you play a detective hunting a killer after a nightclub massacre. Your decisions branch the plot and lead to multiple outcomes.

Tender Loving Care

Accessible and relaxed

A 1998 live-action interactive movie in which a psychiatrist narrates a suspenseful tale and the game builds a psychological profile from your answers, subtly shaping how the story unfolds.

Blade Runner

Sci-fi setting

A detective adventure set in neon-soaked 2019 Los Angeles, where you play a Blade Runner questioning suspects, collecting clues and hunting replicants. Your choices reshape the story and lead to one of six different endings.

Silicon Dreams

Sci-fi setting

You play an android interrogator in 2065, coaxing secrets out of disobedient androids by playing on their emotions. Your choices decide who is spared or scrapped, and they challenge your own loyalty to your creators.

Mecha Ace

Sci-fi setting

You pilot a giant robot through an interstellar civil war, where every choice you make shapes the story and your fate. It is a purely text-based interactive novel that relies on your imagination rather than graphics or sound.

Minds Beneath Us

Sci-fi setting

A story-driven sci-fi thriller adventure set in a futuristic, fully AI-automated Asian city where you are trapped in someone else's body. Your choices shape the fate you share with him.

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