The Best Dystopian Games

Update : SONOKUNI added at rank #1.
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SONOKUNI (2025)

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PC Windows j Nintendo Switch

Battle your way through a biopunk and Japanese mythology-inspired landscape filled with over-the-top, hip hop-infused 2D action. A single hit means death, but use your time-bending skills to take down your oppressors and you might yet save your dying nation.

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  • transhumanism
  • cyberpunk
  • hack-and-slash
  • dystopian
  • psychedelic
  • futuristic
  • top-down
  • pixel
  • historical
  • 2d
  • sci-fi
  • action-adventure
  • atmospheric
  • aliens
  • tactical

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Grimm's Folly (2025)

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PC Windows j

In Grimm’s Folly, find yourself falling through a wormhole and landing in a trash heap. The world around you, dark and unfamiliar, is not your own. Someone has trapped you here. And that someone doesn’t ever want you to leave.

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  • 1990s
  • dystopian
  • science
  • narration
  • first-person
  • sci-fi
  • puzzle
  • action-adventure
  • story
  • controller-support
  • adventure

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Mutation (2025)

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early access j PC Windows

Trapped in a laboratory, something hunts you, constantly mutating. Will you be able to save yourself?


  • transhumanism
  • lovecraftian
  • first-person
  • illuminati
  • dystopian
  • cinematic
  • pve
  • rogue-like
  • resource-management
  • fps
  • horror
  • crafting
  • zombies
  • inventory
  • survival-horror

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Mysteries of Perception (2025)

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PC Windows Mac OS

Mysteries of Perception is a detective game where you will see the same scene through the eyes of different characters. Uncover their secrets by analyzing all the clues. Switch perspectives and learn everything about the artifacts of the Distant and the deaths in their wake. Glory to the Stars!

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  • dystopian
  • detective
  • conspiracy
  • investigation
  • narration
  • mystery
  • time
  • crime
  • thriller
  • 2d
  • manipulation
  • supernatural
  • dark
  • story
  • investigative

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Everfall 1999 (2025)

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early access PC Windows

A very basic cyberpunk action game.

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  • dystopian
  • shoot-em-up
  • 1990s
  • cyberpunk
  • tps
  • walking-simulator
  • post-apocalyptic
  • character
  • third-person
  • pve
  • futuristic
  • sci-fi
  • 3d
  • customization
  • retro

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Cacotopia (2025)

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PC Windows

FPS where physics matter to the gameplay, fusing FPS with elements of pool. Do trick shots to take out your enemies, or use special ammo to set objects in the world on fire, make them EMP charged, explosive or magnetic - or combinations thereof to overcome your foes. Think and act fast!

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  • dystopian
  • illuminati
  • cyberpunk
  • destruction
  • capitalism
  • first-person
  • bullet-hell
  • conspiracy
  • shooter
  • politics
  • action-adventure
  • arena
  • futuristic
  • fps
  • 3d

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Lightracer: For Judge (2025)

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PC Windows

In a dystopian future, as The Judge with immense power, you journey through space to find hope in a divided society. This sci-fi adventure explores hope amidst adversity.

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  • dystopian
  • noir
  • multiple-endings
  • simulation
  • political
  • visual-novel
  • space
  • choices
  • word
  • cyberpunk
  • sci-fi
  • surreal
  • drama
  • point-and-click
  • detective

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What Awaits, Aleksey? (2024)

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Linux Mac OS PC Windows

Utilize your analytical skills to connect the dots and unveil hidden conspiracies! Join the ranks of the People's Intelligence Bureau as a junior cryptologist, decipher cryptic messages and unravel plots brewed up by enemies of the state. Or . . . decide to save them...?


  • cold
  • typing
  • dynamic
  • lore
  • dystopian
  • logic
  • investigation
  • political
  • narration
  • point-and-click
  • dark
  • mystery
  • pixel
  • retro
  • war

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An Engineer and the Great Machine (2024)

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PC Windows

You, a new engineer at SKP, have become entangled in the project known as ‘The Great Machine’, stakes are high and instructions unclear. Design systems, decipher the red tape, and unravel the plot without falling prey to the bureaucracy.

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  • capitalism
  • abstract
  • isometric
  • dystopian
  • satire
  • investigation
  • stylized
  • historical
  • alternate
  • steampunk
  • simulation
  • puzzle
  • sci-fi
  • linear

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Project Nihilum - Zero (2024)

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PC Windows

Project Nihilum Zero is a narrative-driven Visual Novel. Discover the twisted story from different points of views and make your own choices. Discover 1 or 3 abilities: Mind Glimpse, Shape Shift and Hybrid. Use your ability wisely to see the past, influence the present and shape the future.

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  • psychological
  • dystopian
  • immersive
  • horror
  • cyberpunk
  • science
  • futuristic
  • visual-novel
  • dark
  • anime
  • colourful
  • supernatural
  • 2d
  • choices
  • narration

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