Games Like [Chilla's Art] The Caregiver | 終焉介護

The Closing Shift | 閉店事件 is a Japanese horror game about a girl on a closing shift.

Why similar: Survival Horror 23.8%, Hidden Object 21.8%, Immersive Sim 20.8%, FPS 19.7%, Exploration 9.2%

Why You'll Like It: It shares the same signature job-simulation horror loop where mundane tasks are interrupted by escalating psychological tension.

The Convenience Store | 夜勤事件 is a J-horror game about a college girl on a night shift.

Why similar: Horror 77.2%, Exploration 13.8%, Casual 8.9%

Why You'll Like It: This title is a foundational example of the Japanese convenience store horror subgenre that heavily influenced the gameplay style of The Caregiver.

Night Security | 夜間警備 is a Japanese psychological horror game about night security.

Why similar: Immersive Sim 49.9%, Horror 38.7%, Casual 11.4%

Why You'll Like It: The game perfectly captures the isolation of a night shift worker tasked with monitoring a building while strange events unfold.

Parasocial | パラソーシャル is a Japanese horror game about a live streamer.

Why similar: Horror 47.9%, Immersive Sim 31%, Investigation 15.1%, Exploration 6.1%

Why You'll Like It: It explores the dark side of modern digital life with the same slow-burn, first-person psychological horror found in The Caregiver.

The Karaoke | ヒトカラ is a Japanese horror game about a high school girl at a Karaoke.

Why similar: Survival Horror 60.7%, Horror 39.3%

Why You'll Like It: This game excels at turning a familiar, confined public space into a terrifying environment through subtle environmental storytelling.

Night Delivery | 例外配達 is a psychological Japanese horror adventure game.

Why similar: Horror 66.3%, Exploration 17%, Casual 16.8%

Why You'll Like It: The game focuses on the unsettling nature of routine tasks performed in a dark, atmospheric urban setting.

The Kidnap | 誘拐事件 is a Japanese horror game about a kidnapping incident.

Why similar: Survival Horror 26.3%, Immersive Sim 21.6%, Investigation 21.5%, Horror 19%, Stealth 11.6%

Why You'll Like It: It maintains the high-stakes, narrative-driven psychological horror that defines the developer's most intense titles.

Shinkansen 0 | 新幹線 0号 is a game set in Japan where players are tasked with finding anomalies in the Shinkansen. (Japanese bullet train)

Why similar: Investigation 31.5%, Horror 23.2%, Immersive Sim 20.7%, Hidden Object 19.3%, Casual 4.2%

Why You'll Like It: It offers a unique, claustrophobic horror experience set on a Japanese train that relies on observation and psychological tension.

The Radio Station | 深夜放送 is a Japanese psychological horror game.

Why similar: Interactive Fiction 37.8%, Immersive Sim 36.8%, Exploration 16.8%, Casual 8.6%

Why You'll Like It: This title emphasizes the eerie feeling of being alone in a workplace at night, mirroring the core experience of The Caregiver.

Fears to Fathom is an episodic psychological horror game where each episode unveils a short story narrated by the ones who survived.

Why similar: Horror 60.2%, Interactive Fiction 21.1%, Exploration 12%, Casual 6.7%

Why You'll Like It: This episodic horror game shares the realistic, grounded approach to fear and the feeling of being watched in one's own home.

Jack Nelson, a 24-year-old fire lookout, transferred to a new outpost. As he settled into his new home, he couldn't shake the feeling that something was off, little did he know what was transpiring down in Ironbark State Park.

Why similar: Horror 43.1%, Driving 34.6%, Exploration 17.7%, Casual 4.6%

Why You'll Like It: It provides a similar sense of isolation and job-based anxiety as you manage a fire lookout tower while being stalked by an unseen presence.

You are trapped in an endless underground passageway. Observe your surroundings carefully to reach "The Exit 8".

Why similar: Immersive Sim 43.5%, Horror 29.7%, Exploration 21%, Casual 5.8%

Why You'll Like It: This game captures the liminal, repetitive horror of Japanese urban spaces that fans of Chilla's Art will find immediately familiar.

Stigmatized Property, 事故物件 (Jiko bukken) is a horror game inspired by haunted apartment rooms in Japan. These properties are known to have cheap rents and you play to find out the exact reason why.

Why similar: Horror 68.7%, Casual 20.9%, Exploration 10.3%

Why You'll Like It: This game explores the Japanese concept of haunted real estate with a focus on investigation and atmospheric horror.

The Night Way Home is a Japanese survival horror game.

Why similar: Hidden Object 100%

Why You'll Like It: It focuses on the psychological fear of walking through familiar streets that have become distorted and dangerous.

The Ghost Train | 幽霊列車 is a psychological train horror game.

Why similar: Programming 31.8% ★, Driving 19.8%, Hidden Object 14.2%, Immersive Sim 13.7%, Survival 9.1%

Why You'll Like It: This title offers a short, punchy horror experience that relies on environmental storytelling and a sense of entrapment.

Hanako | 花子さん is a Japanese survival horror adventure game.

Why similar: Runner 15.4%, Investigation 12.3%, Stealth 12.2%, Hidden Object 10.6%, Survival Horror 10.4%

Why You'll Like It: It brings a famous Japanese school ghost story to life with the developer's signature retro-horror aesthetic.

Inunaki tunnel (or Inunaki village) is a famous Japanese horror spot where people have been killed or burnt to death.

Why similar: Horror 64%, Exploration 20.6%, Casual 15.3%

Why You'll Like It: The game is based on a famous Japanese urban legend and delivers a similar sense of dread through environmental exploration.

Jisatsu | 自撮 is a Japanese found footage mockumentary horror game.

Why similar: Immersive Sim 44%, Horror 31.1%, Exploration 16.6%, Casual 8.3%

Why You'll Like It: This title experiments with realistic, modern horror elements that feel grounded and deeply unsettling.

Missing Children | 行方不明 is a Japanese horror-themed adventure game about a bully detective searching for reported missing children.

Why similar: Horror 52%, Casual 22.8%, Open World 15.3%, Exploration 9.8%

Why You'll Like It: The game combines investigation mechanics with a dark, psychological narrative that fits the Chilla's Art style perfectly.

Can you escape the home of a cannibal serial killer? It's only a matter of time until you're dinner!

Why similar: Survival Horror 31%, Stealth 28.3%, Immersive Sim 22.9%, Horror 17.9%

Why You'll Like It: It utilizes a distinct VHS aesthetic and stealth-based gameplay to create a terrifying, immersive-sim horror experience.

Onryo | 怨霊 is a survival action horror game set in Japan. Your mission is to lift the curse of a haunted house using your exorcistic camera. As you explore the house and uncover its secrets, you will face enemies and puzzles.

Why similar: Survival Horror 36.8%, Horror 35.2%, Exploration 14.1%, Casual 13.9%

Why You'll Like It: It provides a classic Japanese ghost story experience with a focus on exploration and survival in a haunted house.

Aka Manto (赤マント Red Cloak), aka Red Cape or Red Mantle, is a Japanese urban legend about a masked spirit who wears a red cloak, and who appears to people using public or school restrooms.

Why similar: Horror 46.5%, Survival Horror 35.4%, Exploration 11.9%, Casual 6.2%

Why You'll Like It: It leans into the slasher-horror side of Japanese urban legends with a high-tension, chase-heavy gameplay loop.

A cozy horror game where you own and manage a boba tea shop. Prepare boba teas, serve customers, and expand your menu to grow your business.

Why similar: Horror 33.4%, Immersive Sim 33.3%, Management 27.6%, Casual 5.6%

Visage is a first-person psychological horror game. Explore a mysterious ever-changing house in a slow-paced, atmospheric world that combines both uncannily comforting and horrifyingly realistic environments, and enjoy a genuinely terrifying experience.

Why similar: Horror 53.3%, Survival Horror 40%, Exploration 6.7%

Why You'll Like It: It is a premier psychological horror game that masterfully uses a house setting to build overwhelming dread and tension.

The Bathhouse | 地獄銭湯 Remake is a Japanese horror game that revolves around working at a bathhouse. A complete revamp of the original bathhouse.

Why similar: Immersive Sim 52.2%, Horror 37.5%, Casual 10.4%

Okaeri is a VHS Japanese psychological horror game about a middle school girl and her mother who recently moved to a new house.

Why similar: Horror 63.8%, Exploration 21.3%, Casual 14.9%

Why You'll Like It: It focuses on the domestic horror of a family home, creating a sense of unease through subtle changes in the environment.

Junji Ito Maniac: An Infinite Gaol is a first-person survival horror game inspired by Junji Ito's psychological horror and eerie aesthetics. This work centers on the twisted potential of human nature and fear of the unknown, taking you on a journey of survival where memory and mystery intertwine.

Why similar: Survival Horror 40.1%, Horror 25.6%, Exploration 17.7%, Stealth 16.6%

Yuki Onna | 雪女 is a PS1 inspired survival horror game. Some children went missing out of the blue. You receive a letter that says, "Come alone or I'll freeze them to death." Out of desperation, you decide to embark on a daunting rescue mission to an abandoned inn up the piercing cold mountains.

Why similar: Horror 40.6%, Survival Horror 40.2%, Exploration 13.3%, Casual 6%

Why You'll Like It: This game adapts a classic Japanese folktale into a modern, atmospheric horror experience with a distinct visual style.

As an employee of a mysterious organization your job is to monitor live surveillance camera footage and spot anomalies using your sharp eyes and good memory. Can you survive the entire night shift or will you succumb into paranoia?

Why similar: Horror 66.2%, Hidden Object 33.8%

Why You'll Like It: This game shares the core mechanic of monitoring a location for anomalies, which is a key component of the tension in The Caregiver.

Home Sweet Home is a first-person horror adventure game based on Thai myths and beliefs. The core gameplay focuses on storytelling and stealth to avoid perilous spirits hunting you. Moreover, few puzzles are added into the game, making gameplay more various.

Why similar: Horror 58.6%, Survival Horror 41.4%

Why You'll Like It: This game features intense stealth and puzzle-solving mechanics set within a terrifying, culturally specific horror environment.

Let's imagine that you have a game in which you care for a character. But could you imagine one day getting into that game yourself?

Why similar: Horror 64.1%, Hidden Object 35.9%

Can you endure until morning Monitor Japan's stigmatized properties and report any paranormal activity If you miss a report or make repeated mistakes——

Why similar: Investigation 30.3%, Immersive Sim 24.4%, Survival Horror 17.4%, Hidden Object 15.4%, Horror 9.2%

Care is an atmospheric first person horror game with puzzle elements, where your choices have consequences. Be observant with your surroundings and unravel the horrific secrets that hide within these walls.

Why similar: Investigation 28.5%, Interactive Fiction 25.5%, Horror 18.7%, Immersive Sim 18.2%, Exploration 9%

A.I.L.A is a first-person horror game set in a near-future filled with immersive technology. Play as the sole game tester for a revolutionary new fictional AI. Survive intense horror experiences that prey on your deepest fears as the lines between virtual and reality begin to blur…

Why similar: Survival Horror 61%, Horror 39%

『Japanese House Exploration』is a first-person puzzle horror adventure game set in a traditional Japanese house. You explore a house that is both eerie and nostalgic. To find a dear friend.

Why similar: FPS 33.8%, Hidden Object 31.8%, Horror 22.1%, Survival Horror 12.3%

This is a first-person Chinese horror game, players will go to a murder building, uncover the truth of the murder, find the missing people..

Why similar: Survival Horror 25.2%, Stealth 23.3%, Horror 21.8%, Investigation 18.5%, Exploration 8.7%

The Rotting Man | 悪臭男 is a psychological horror game that depicts a protagonist working as a clerk in a Japanese internet café.

Why similar: Interactive Fiction 28.4%, Immersive Sim 28.2%, Horror 26.5%, Hidden Object 11.2%, Casual 5.6%

"Unseasonable Flowering" is a first-person horror game set in Japan. After moving to a new home, the young protagonist, Mashiro, is met with eerie residents and inexplicable phenomena. Something "sprouting" everywhere quietly erodes her daily life.

Why similar: Horror 90.9%, Casual 9.1%

Steve Jackson, a 19-year-old guy, is looking after a friends house and encounters eerie events in a small town. Dive into the dark mystery of the events you unwittingly became a part of. Will you be able to uncover the truth?

Why similar: Horror 46.4%, Investigation 43.1%, Casual 10.4%

Horror/thriller visual novel with RPG elements about two friends that explores guilt, co-dependency, and personal limits being pushed.

Why similar: Horror 100%

Don't Be Afraid is an adventure horror game, that allows you to personate a boy, kidnapped by a psychopath. You have to survive, escape and find out how you were kidnapped. Exploring the gigantic, mysterious house of your torturer, you will soon reveal many secrets, hidden inside it’s walls…

Why similar: Survival Horror 36.1%, Survival 25.8%, Horror 24.2%, Exploration 13.9%

"Trapped in a cocoon, the silkworm weaves her final dream." Hollow Cocoon is a first-person horror adventure game set in 1980s Japan. Immerse yourself in meticulously recreated environments as you venture into the depths of unspeakable horrors that await you.

Why similar: Stealth 34.5%, Survival Horror 33.3%, Horror 22.8%, Exploration 9.5%

BrokenLore: DON'T LIE is a Japanese psychological horror game exploring trauma, isolation, and a fractured reality where perception becomes increasingly unreliable.

Why similar: Stealth 37.6%, Investigation 32.1%, Horror 30.3%

Subliminal is a psychological horror game inspired by the urban legend of The Backrooms. Bleeding edge lighting and rendering, handcrafted open-ended levels, light and perspective-based puzzles, nostalgic spaces, unfamiliar faces, and a rotting feeling that something is not quite right.

Why similar: Investigation 36.9%, Immersive Sim 28.5%, Horror 21.3%, Exploration 13.2%

The Sushi Bar | 寿司バー is a Japanese-style horror game where you play as a sushi chef working the night shift.

Why similar: Immersive Sim 31.4%, FPS 27%, Horror 23.5%, Exploration 13.1%, Casual 5%

The Maid is a first-person psychological horror and mystery game that focuses on creating fear and tension in the player.

Why similar: Survival Horror 40.8%, Horror 33.4%, Exploration 25.8%

"Hariti" is a first-person psychological horror game. You will play as a mother searching for her missing daughter in a crisis-ridden hospital. Experience an atmosphere of extreme dread within the halls of this abandoned Chinese-style medical facility.

Why similar: Horror 43.4%, Survival Horror 22.6%, Casual 18.2%, Survival 15.8%

2006. You become the new reserve caretaker. Patrol the territory in your rugged 4x4, check the phototraps, and monitor the area using surveillance cameras. But remember: you are not the only one watching.

Why similar: Survival Horror 34.7%, Horror 30%, Investigation 22.2%, Exploration 7%, Casual 6%

Mirror Forge is a first-person psychological survival horror game. Roam between realities of fear, madness & machinery. Solve puzzles, explore an atmospheric world, survive horrifying entities.

Why similar: Survival Horror 38.6%, Survival 25.8%, Horror 24.6%, Exploration 11%

A Japanese survival horror game full of tension, drama, and violence. If you like psychological horror games with exploration, puzzles, and limited resources, you'll enjoy an intense experience where every decision can mean the difference between finding Sayuri or getting lost in the forest forever.

Why similar: Survival Horror 40.6%, Horror 23.6%, Survival 23.1%, Exploration 12.7%

Robert battles early Alzheimer's and nightly sleep paralysis. Each night reveals fragments of his past. Uncover the truth and help him solve the mysteries haunting his mind.

Why similar: Hidden Object 26.1%, Stealth 24%, Immersive Sim 22%, Horror 17.1%, Exploration 10.8%

A slow-burning, psychological horror walking sim set in a haunted Japanese neighborhood.

Why similar: Hidden Object 42.6%, Horror 33.9%, Exploration 23.5%

Akai Onna | 赤い女 is a psychological J-horror game featuring a student.

Why similar: Horror 54.4%, Immersive Sim 28.1%, Casual 17.5%

AccidentHouse is a short first-person horror game developed by a 19-year-old Japanese student. Explore a dark abandoned house, collect keys, evade lurking threats, and uncover the truth behind a mysterious incident from two years ago.

Why similar: Investigation 24%, Survival Horror 19.6%, FPS 16.6%, Horror 12.7%, Stealth 12.7%

You receive a cursed digital camera that captures ghosts from a strange website. The website allows you to liberate your loved ones by uploading images of their spirits using the camera. You decide to go to the nearest park where your girl was last seen.

Why similar: Immersive Sim 25.6%, Hidden Object 22.5%, Horror 19.6%, Investigation 17.2%, Exploration 9.9%

Saiko No Sutoka is a Horror Survival Game where you as a Protagonist must escape and avoid the crazy yandere girl who wants you dead.

Why similar: Horror 59%, Survival Horror 38.2%, Casual 2.8%

A horror game where you manage a ramen shop. Take orders from your customers, serve hot delicious ramens and sweet cold drinks to hungry customers.

Why similar: Immersive Sim 49.7%, Horror 39.9%, Casual 10.4%

A 3rd person, fixed-camera survival horror adventure. Fear the Presence, a mysterious entity you cannot fight: stay alert, hide, breathe slowly... Explore cursed places where unseen spirits and lost souls linger in a true horror story for the ages.

Why similar: Investigation 32.6%, Survival Horror 26.9%, Horror 18.4%, Exploration 11.2%, Survival 10.9%