Best Dystopian games on PC
Games set in oppressive or decaying societies, where players survive, resist those in power, or uncover how the system works through combat, stealth, exploration, or narrative choices.
- Oppressive or decaying settings
- Single-player story focus
- Themes of control and resistance
Related: Cyberpunk, Sci-fi, Story Rich, Singleplayer
813 games on PC, with requirements, reviews and prices.
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Demo Cargo Hunters
Third-person PvE extraction shooter with scavenging and replaceable robot limbs
79% positive
828 reviews
Headliner: NoviNews
A political news editing simulation with consequences beyond the newsroom
89% positive
827 reviews
假如我是人工智能 Big Brother Is Shaping You
A short visual novel about AI surveillance and online manipulation
84% positive
795 reviews
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Pawns of War
Military squad autobattler with weapon loadouts and grid-based battles
83% positive
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Possessor(s)
Side-scrolling action with aerial combos and branching city exploration
76% positive
784 reviews
Get Stuffed!
Multiplayer social horror where dead players can help or hinder
88% positive
Free
For the People
Political visual novel about running a city after a revolution
73% positive
773 reviews
Bot Wars
Real-time strategy with robot squads you can control directly
86% positive
766 reviews
Demo MINDHACK
Dystopian visual novel with typing sequences that rewrite minds
93% positive
749 reviews
The Eternal Castle [REMASTERED]
A cinematic platformer styled like an eighties computer game
86% positive
741 reviews
Demo Crisis in the Kremlin: The Cold War
Real-time political strategy about steering the Soviet Union through crisis
80% positive
740 reviews
Demo Execute
Active incremental strategy about reducing the world's population to zero
90% positive
735 reviews
Demo PEPPERED: an existential platformer
Pixel-art platformer where failures and choices change the story
96% positive
717 reviews
Technotopia
Card-based city puzzle with political choices and competing factions
85% positive
717 reviews
Sunday Gold
Point-and-click adventure combining room puzzles with turn-based tactical combat
76% positive
712 reviews
Demo Nocturne
A story-driven RPG with rhythm battles in a digital afterlife
98% positive
709 reviews
Demo LIBERATED
Side-scrolling action-adventure told through the panels of a comic book
76% positive
706 reviews
Demo Synergia
Cyberpunk visual novel about a police officer's relationship with an android
89% positive
693 reviews
DEATH IN UNISON
First-person co-op horror with prison duties and walkie-talkie teamwork
96% positive
693 reviews
Hatsune Miku VR
VR rhythm game where you catch notes beside a virtual singer
72% positive
676 reviews
Demo The Signal State
Logic puzzle game about wiring modules to transform signals
86% positive
675 reviews
JUNKPUNK
Open-world factory simulation about recycling scrap to restore a planet
62% positive
669 reviews
You Are Empty: Absolute Edition
Linear first-person shooter with grotesque monsters in alternate-history Soviet Kyiv
92% positive
662 reviews
Fortune's Run
A sci-fi first-person shooter with combat inspired by fighting games
81% positive
657 reviews