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Games like Need to Know
Monomyth Games · 2018 · 66 % positive of 286
24 games that play like Need to Know and 24 that look like it. Closest by gameplay: Orwell: Keeping an Eye On You, Orwell: Ignorance is Strength and Beholder 3.
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At a glance
What games like Need to Know have in common
- The tags they share most often with Need to Know: Simulation (17 of 24), Story Rich (15) and Puzzle (11).
- They came out between 2016 and 2025, 17 of them after Need to Know (2018).
- Best rated by Steam players: Do Not Feed the Monkeys (93 % positive of 11,026).
- 5 games both play and look like Need to Know, among them Orwell: Keeping an Eye On You, The Operator and Cyber Manhunt.
By gameplay
Plays like Need to Know
Matched from Steam descriptions and player tags. The tags under each game are the ones both games share.
Orwell: Keeping an Eye On You
90 % positive of 14,954
Shared: Simulation · Political Sim · Political
Orwell: Ignorance is Strength
75 % positive of 1,753
Shared: Simulation · Political Sim · Political
Beholder 3
66 % positive of 2,338
Shared: Simulation · Political Sim · Political
The Occupation
60 % positive of 387
Shared: Political · Puzzle · Story Rich
Beholder
91 % positive of 27,747
Shared: Simulation · Political Sim · Political
The Operator
92 % positive of 6,196
Shared: Simulation · Puzzle · Story Rich
Mainlining
77 % positive of 350
Shared: Simulation · Puzzle · Story Rich
Interrogation: You will be deceived
79 % positive of 344
Shared: Political Sim · Political · Story Rich
Anonymous Hacker Simulator
85 % positive of 589
Shared: Simulation · Indie
Cyber Manhunt
93 % positive of 14,720
Shared: Simulation · Puzzle · Story Rich
Replica
85 % positive of 3,437
Shared: Political · Puzzle · Story Rich
Shadows of Doubt
83 % positive of 15,428
Shared: Puzzle · Adventure · Indie
More matches
- Telling Lies63 % positive of 1,231Shared: Simulation · Puzzle · Story Rich
- Greyhat - A Digital Detective Adventure91 % positive of 224Shared: Simulation · Puzzle · Story Rich
- Cyber Manhunt 2: New World - The Hacking Simulator92 % positive of 4,209Shared: Simulation · Puzzle · Story Rich
- Keyword: A Spider's Thread82 % positive of 269Shared: Puzzle · Story Rich · Adventure
- Song of Farca81 % positive of 1,235Shared: Simulation · Story Rich · Point & Click
- Beholder 287 % positive of 7,143Shared: Simulation · Political Sim · Political
- 假如我是人工智能 Big Brother Is Shaping You85 % positive of 841Shared: Indie
- Uncover the Smoking Gun95 % positive of 363Shared: Simulation · Story Rich · Adventure
- Do Not Feed the Monkeys93 % positive of 11,026Shared: Simulation · Political Sim · Story Rich
- CaseCracker291 % positive of 614Shared: Simulation · Puzzle · Story Rich
- Scrutinized88 % positive of 1,173Shared: Simulation · Indie
- Silicon Dreams | cyberpunk interrogation94 % positive of 242Shared: Political · Story Rich · Point & Click
By look
Looks like Need to Know
Matched from screenshots. Each card shows the screenshot closest to the look of this game.
I Am Your President: Prologue
78 % positive of 579
Cyber Manhunt 2: New World - The Hacking Simulator
92 % positive of 4,209
Hacktag
66 % positive of 424
Operation: Tango - Friend Pass
85 % positive of 2,071
Operation: Tango
87 % positive of 7,997
Counter Terrorist Agency
45 % positive of 529
Cyber Manhunt
93 % positive of 14,720
Song of Farca
81 % positive of 1,235
This Is the Police
82 % positive of 10,652
This Is the President
68 % positive of 354
The Operator
92 % positive of 6,196
Orwell: Keeping an Eye On You
90 % positive of 14,954
More matches
- Delivery INC71 % positive of 210
- SIMULACRA 360 % positive of 308
- Song of Farca: Prologue90 % positive of 182
- Police Tactics: Imperio61 % positive of 421
- Not Tonight 281 % positive of 374
- This Is the Police 275 % positive of 6,157
- Private Military Manager: Tactical Auto Battler76 % positive of 200
- Power & Revolution 2019 Edition59 % positive of 1,231
- CaseCracker91 % positive of 2,871
- Dead State: Reanimated73 % positive of 2,510
- Phantom Doctrine74 % positive of 4,494
- Spinnortality | cyberpunk management sim79 % positive of 303
How these matches work
Matches come from embeddings of Steam descriptions, player tags and screenshots, computed offline. “Plays like” compares what the games are about and how players tag them; “Looks like” compares their screenshots. The share of positive reviews is based on Steam user reviews.