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Need to Know

Welcome to the Department of Liberty. Ascend the ranks of the NSA-like surveillance agency and decide: will you stand up for privacy, or help create an unstoppable police state? Spy on people’s deepest secrets, pick apart their private lives and decide their fate in this modern surveillance thriller.

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Beholder: Conductor

91% 👍 OF 5.0K
About This Game

A Beholder series spin-off. Become a conductor of the Determination Bringer train: monitor passengers, report incidents, and carry out important Ministry assignments — whose level of secrecy depends only on your loyalty. And remember: mission success is very important to you!

In this game, you can…

  • …plant banned items in someone's bag, then "discover" them to blackmail or get them arrested.
  • …rummage through passenger luggage and put everything back before anyone notices.
  • …help someone out, get rewarded with a gun, then get searched after a death and have the guards treat you like the killer.
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Do Not Feed the Monkeys

94% 👍 OF 12K
About This Game

A digital voyeur simulator where you watch strangers through surveillance cameras. Invade their privacy and witness their most intimate moments, but don’t interact with the subjects – anything could happen if you dare feed the monkeys!

In this game, you can…

  • …solve a real-time emergency by figuring out how to free a man trapped in an elevator before he dies of thirst.
  • …tell Hitler you're a big fan and accidentally start World War III.
  • …listen in, jot down names and numbers, then use the in-game computer to email, call, or message the people you're watching.
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Beholder

92% 👍 OF 31K
About This Game

You’re a state-installed landlord in a totalitarian country. Place listening devices, steal and sneak into your tenants’ apartments. Use what you uncovered to report anyone capable of plotting against the state. You MUST! But WILL you?

In this game, you can…

  • …plant illegal items in someone's home, report them, and watch them get dragged out in handcuffs.
  • …turn petty new laws into leverage by catching people with apples, books, jeans, or even crying in public.
  • …bribe a doctor with a prostitute for your daughter's medicine, then arrest him for reading a medical book.
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Rulers of Nations

50% 👍 OF 179
About This Game

Will you become the greatest Head of State ?Play one of the powerful rulers of a nation! . Slip into the shoes of the President of the U.S., or the leader of China, Russia, United Kingdom, or other countries. Expand your influence on the world stage.

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Beholder 3

65% 👍 OF 2.8K
About This Game

When a high-ranking security officer saves you from prison, you end up a pawn in her schemes. Now you must eliminate anyone standing in the way of her secret plans and try to get your life back while working two jobs. No tenant, employee or superior is safe from your spying.

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Beholder 2

87% 👍 OF 8.1K
About This Game

You are an intern at the central ministry of a totalitarian state with your whole career ahead of you. Work your way up the ladder by scheming against employees, spying on your boss, and completing paperwork. Or do you turn against the state and expose corruption. The choice is still yours to make!

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Respublica

59% 👍 OF 219
About This Game

Create a politician and start your legacy. Run in national and local elections. Create and vote on legislation. Respublica is an online roleplay game, where users can run for office and control the outcome of the world within the game.

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Orwell: Ignorance is Strength

76% 👍 OF 1.9K
About This Game

Step into the shoes of a government official in a top-secret department of the Orwell surveillance program. Given the power to both uncover and fabricate "the truth", how far will you go in the service of your country? Season 2 of Orwell, the award-winning surveillance thriller.

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The Political Process

95% 👍 OF 2.1K
About This Game

Explore a dynamic world of politics in this turn-based, political simulator. Create a character, run for political office, write legislation, balance budgets, and more as you move up the political hierarchy.

In this game, you can…

  • …zero out the entire army budget, dump hundreds of billions into education and the poor, and still get reelected president
  • …raise six million dollars at 0% polling, drop out of a presidential run, then immediately steamroll into a state senate seat
  • …promise a minimum-wage hike to win a tiny city council race, cut it after election, then ride out the backlash into higher office