Games Like HELLMART

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

Why similar: Horror 28.2%, Psychological Horror 16%, Surreal 11.7%, Mystery 7%, Realistic 6.6%

Why You'll Like It: This title is the definitive experience for fans of night-shift retail horror, featuring similar atmospheric tension and mundane task-based gameplay.

Congrats, you're hired! Serve customers and maintain the Happy's Humble Burger Farm restaurant alone on the overnight. But be careful; things fall apart if you mess up! After work, head home and keep your eyes open for a way to escape the Barnyard Buds and their fast food fever-dream.

Why similar: Immersive Sim 20%, Survival Horror 19.9%, Horror 17.2%, Realistic 11.9%, First-Person 11%

Why You'll Like It: It perfectly captures the loop of performing repetitive job duties during the day while surviving surreal, terrifying events at night.

Alone with the dead... Embalm corpses, banish demons, save your soul.

Why similar: Supernatural 22%, Horror 20.8%, Surreal 11.8%, Mystery 8.8%, Dark 6.4%

Why You'll Like It: Like HELLMART, this game forces you to complete professional tasks under high-pressure, supernatural circumstances.

Take a night shift job in a place that runs on habit, not purpose. Restock shelves, take deliveries, clean the mess, and try to make it till morning. Not everything feels right and you’re never quite alone. Something waits in the dark.

Why similar: Life Sim 13%, Immersive Sim 10.3%, Survival Horror 8.8%, Psychological Horror 7.6%, Horror 7.6%

Why You'll Like It: It mirrors the exact premise of managing a convenience store while dealing with the eerie isolation of the night shift.

An observation-driven psychological horror set inside an endless furniture superstore. Spot anomalies, choose the correct path, complete your shopping list — and escape the loop.

Why similar: Supernatural 11.4%, Life Sim 10.8%, Surreal 9.7%, Immersive Sim 8%, Survival Horror 8%

Why You'll Like It: This game captures the feeling of being trapped in a massive, endless retail space where the environment itself becomes the enemy.

Trapped in an infinite shift, you are the sole clerk of purgatory’s only convenience store. Manage stock, pay your taxes and keep nightmarish creatures at bay as you uncover the secret of why your shift never ends. Clock in. Serve the dead. Survive the shift.

Why similar: Horror 15.5%, Surreal 13.1%, Psychological Horror 11%, Mystery 10.2%, Dark 9.9%

Why You'll Like It: It leans into the management and time-management aspects of retail while layering on a thick, unsettling atmosphere.

A short interactive first-person horror game. Walk, look around, and talk to people to finish the short story about closing your restaurant. Complete the story with immersive sounds, and spooky tension and jumpscares to keep you focused.

Why similar: Dark 18.8%, Horror 18.3%, Simulation 17.4%, Exploration 15.2%, Psychological Horror 14.6%

Why You'll Like It: Another masterclass in retail-based horror that focuses on the paranoia of working late hours in a public-facing environment.

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

Why similar: Supernatural 16.5%, Immersive Sim 14%, Psychological Horror 12%, Horror 11.9%, Mystery 8.7%

Why You'll Like It: This game excels at turning a routine, solitary job into a psychological nightmare through immersive first-person exploration.

Kiosk is a horror cooking game where you prepare orders for late-night customers who visit your cozy, rain-soaked kiosk. The eerie atmosphere clashes with the mounting tension as you serve your mysterious visitors.

Why similar: Horror 19.9%, Immersive Sim 18%, Psychological Horror 15.4%, First-Person 9%, Mystery 8.5%

Why You'll Like It: Combines the management of a small retail space with psychological horror elements and a distinct, eerie visual style.

Take on night shifts at a remote motel, handle unsettling guests, and navigate eerie events. Experience Emma’s unnerving apartment life, feel the unease of being watched, and question what’s real as the line between reality and nightmare blurs.

Why similar: Psychological Horror 14.9%, Life Sim 14%, Horror 13.1%, Immersive Sim 10.7%, First-Person 8.8%

Why You'll Like It: A strong focus on the isolation of night-time employment and the psychological toll of working in a potentially haunted location.

You wake up in a dark warehouse, tasked with packing orders while something lurks in the shadows. Work fast, stay safe, and protect your cat. He’s all you’ve got.

Why similar: Life Sim 11.7%, Survival Horror 10.9%, Supernatural 10.9%, Immersive Sim 10.6%, Psychological Horror 8.1%

Why You'll Like It: Features the same immersive-sim and survival-horror DNA, focusing on atmospheric exploration in a confined space.

You've accepted a shady job offer at a doll factory. Inspect dolls for defects and anomalies. Follow strange protocols. Don't get fired and stay alive.

Why similar: Supernatural 21.2%, Horror 13.9%, Psychological Horror 13.3%, First-Person 8.7%, Multiple Endings 8.6%

Why You'll Like It: Provides a similar 3D first-person horror experience that relies on psychological tension rather than just jump scares.

Experience the dread of a midnight shift in a quiet supermarket. As mundane tasks blur with eerie events, discover that the darkness hides more than just silence.

Why similar: Surreal 16.8%, Horror 15.1%, Psychological Horror 14.9%, Realistic 10.6%, Immersive Sim 10.1%

Why You'll Like It: Specifically targets the supermarket setting, emphasizing the transition from a normal workplace to a survival-horror environment.

Your job at the Cabin Factory is simple: inspect the cabins and decide on whether they’re haunted or not. If you do find any anomalies, get out…immediately.

Why similar: Horror 15.1%, Psychological Horror 14.7%, Immersive Sim 14.3%, Choices Matter 11.7%, Realistic 7.8%

Why You'll Like It: Focuses on the intersection of work and horror, utilizing a walking-simulator style to build dread through environment.

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 26.5%, Immersive Sim 22%, Horror 18.9%, Multiple Endings 10.4%, First-Person 8.6%

Why You'll Like It: An immersive sim horror game that emphasizes stealth and survival within a claustrophobic, realistic setting.

A cozy horror game where you run an ice cream shop. Your illness twists reality. Sometimes you see things that shouldn't be there. Serve strange customers and try to separate your mind’s visions from the horrors at your door.

Why similar: Horror 21.6%, Psychological Horror 20.8%, Simulation 11.4%, Mystery 9.9%, First-Person 9.2%

Why You'll Like It: A job-simulator horror game that uses the cozy facade of a shop to mask a deeper, more sinister narrative.

Water Delivery is a first person, horror experience where you play as a water delivery boy. Ride along in the delivery truck from house to house. Deliver filled water jugs, find and return empty jugs, and collect all the payments. Will you be able to finish your final route of the evening?

Why similar: Supernatural 14.5%, Surreal 10.8%, Horror 9.1%, Psychological Horror 8.9%, Mystery 8%

Why You'll Like It: Offers a mystery-driven horror experience that relies on atmospheric storytelling and exploration in a realistic setting.

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 32.5%, Psychological Horror 21.5%, First-Person 11.3%, Realistic 8%, Atmospheric 6.3%

Why You'll Like It: This episodic horror title focuses on realistic, grounded scenarios that quickly spiral into terrifying, choice-driven experiences.

Immerse yourself in an atmospheric psychological horror with a haunting VHS aesthetic. As a night-shift waitress at a secluded roadside café, serve strange patrons and feel mounting dread. Each night, the nightmare becomes more real, and someone is watching from the darkness. Can you survive?

Why similar: Life Sim 16.6%, Survival Horror 14.7%, Immersive Sim 13.7%, Psychological Horror 11.5%, Horror 9.7%

Why You'll Like It: Explores the horror potential of isolated roadside businesses, mirroring the remote setting of HELLMART.

Spot anomalies and uncover hidden clues to escape an office where overwork turns strange and experiments happen more often than coffee breaks.

Why similar: Surreal 15.1%, Psychological Horror 12.1%, Horror 10.1%, Realistic 8.7%, Multiple Endings 8.5%

Why You'll Like It: Uses the 'workplace horror' trope to create a tense, first-person experience with branching narrative choices.

There's a serial killer stalking your video store, and you just got called into work on your day off! Stock shelves, deal with customers and RUN FOR YOUR LIFE!

Why similar: Survival Horror 18.1%, Horror 13.2%, Mystery 10%, Dark 9.5%, Multiple Endings 8.9%

Why You'll Like It: A retro-styled horror game that captures the feeling of being trapped in a commercial environment with a dark secret.

A broke young man takes on the night shift at a roadside diner. In the glow of the blood moon, routine tasks turn into a fight for survival. First-person horror based on a dark creepypasta with a set of rescue rules.

Why similar: Supernatural 19.6%, Survival Horror 16.7%, Realistic 12%, Dark 9.7%, Horror 9.5%

Why You'll Like It: Focuses on the survival-horror aspects of working at a remote, supernatural-infested business.

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: Psychological Horror 19.5%, Horror 19.5%, Immersive Sim 17.7%, First-Person 11.3%, Atmospheric 8.6%

Why You'll Like It: Blends the cozy aesthetic of a shop simulator with the creeping dread of a psychological horror game.

First-person horror game where you work the night shift at a Mexican convenience store, handling daily tasks while facing eerie and unexpected events.

Why similar: Horror 19.2%, Psychological Horror 17.9%, Life Sim 17.7%, First-Person 10.3%, Survival Horror 7.4%

Why You'll Like It: A direct exploration of the night-shift horror subgenre with a focus on 3D environmental storytelling.

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: Supernatural 19%, Horror 13.6%, Survival Horror 12.7%, Psychological Horror 10.8%, Mystery 9.3%

Why You'll Like It: Features a mix of mystery and supernatural horror that aligns well with the exploration-heavy gameplay of HELLMART.

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: Surreal 13.2%, Immersive Sim 11.2%, Realistic 10.1%, Psychological Horror 9.8%, Horror 9.2%

Why You'll Like It: Focuses on realistic, atmospheric exploration in a way that mirrors the unsettling, liminal-space vibe of a quiet supermarket.

A PSX-style horror game where you manage a photo studio. Restock supplies, buy upgrades, photograph customers and print their order whilst encountering unexpected events.

Why similar: Supernatural 18.8%, Horror 17.5%, Psychological Horror 15.9%, Life Sim 11.5%, Simulation 10.3%

In a lonely station atop a mountain, a train rumbles its precious cargo to places unknown. Now is your shift. Keep the pace. Uncover a mystery. Fight for your last breath. The air is thin up here.

Why similar: Surreal 13.1%, Horror 11.4%, Psychological Horror 11.3%, Dark 10.7%, Choices Matter 9.4%

Why You'll Like It: A dark, atmospheric walking simulator that excels at building tension through environmental cues.

UFOPHILIA is a first-person psychological horror game where you explore areas marked by alien phenomena. Use specialized equipment to detect, identify, and photograph aliens—but do so at your own risk... They are watching you too.

Why similar: Supernatural 20.9%, Horror 13.4%, Psychological Horror 12.3%, Immersive Sim 8.8%, Dark 8.8%

Why You'll Like It: Provides a first-person horror experience that relies on atmosphere and mystery to keep the player on edge.

A cinematic, story-driven alien horror set in 1999 Ohio. Work the night shift at a remote gas station. A mysterious briefcase from the lake. Stolen uranium fuel. A blood-covered coworker.

Why similar: Horror 17.9%, Psychological Horror 17.8%, Survival Horror 12.7%, First-Person 10.1%, Exploration 9.8%

Handyman needed - ASAP! The investor’s coming in the morning, and the house still isn’t ready! Take on an extra shift where horror meets simulation. Tackle the chaos, uncover dark secrets, and finish everything before dawn.

Why similar: Immersive Sim 14.4%, Survival Horror 13.8%, Horror 13.5%, Realistic 10.2%, First-Person 8.6%

"Nightwatch : Closer" is a first-person horror game whose goal is to hold out for 10 minutes by preventing unknown anomalies in a small post. In a dark, narrow post, you have to hold out until the shift worker comes, keeping out the anomalies by yourself.

Why similar: Horror 16.4%, Psychological Horror 13.3%, Dark 12%, Immersive Sim 10.5%, Realistic 7.7%

Why You'll Like It: A 3D horror game that emphasizes the isolation of night-time security work and the dangers lurking in the dark.

A cozy horror game where you craft plants for late-night customers while you manage a small plant shop. Expand your plant collection, upgrade your shop & grow your business.

Why similar: Psychological Horror 20.8%, Immersive Sim 19.2%, Horror 18.7%, Simulation 11.6%, First-Person 11.6%

A PSX Horror where the bizarre is routine. Survive 5 nights managing a gas station infested by 10 entities with unique death animations. Unravel the mystery buried beneath the fuel pumps before your shift ends in one of 3 endings.

Why similar: Survival Horror 24.4%, Horror 22.1%, Simulation 12.1%, Mystery 10.2%, Psychological Horror 8.2%

Christmas Nightmare is an atmospheric horror game about New Year's Eve.

Why similar: Surreal 14.2%, Realistic 12.2%, Psychological Horror 9.8%, Survival Horror 9.6%, Simulation 9.4%

Run your own hot dog shop in the foggy town of Grimshore. Cook and serve by day, solve your meat shortage by night, and try not to ask too many questions. How far will you go to keep the grill running?

Why similar: Simulation 15.6%, Dark 14.5%, Mystery 14.3%, First-Person 14.1%, Life Sim 12%

A psychological horror game where you spend a night in the shoes of an arcade worker named Marcus. Win prizes on the crane machine and shoot some hoops. Just make sure to keep the doors locked.

Why similar: Immersive Sim 18.8%, Horror 12.6%, Psychological Horror 12.6%, Exploration 10.2%, Dark 9.7%

Escape a distorted version of your own newly rented apartment in this interactive nightmare.

Why similar: Psychological Horror 16.9%, Supernatural 16.7%, Horror 12.2%, Realistic 11.8%, First-Person 9.1%

An unknown actress takes a job at Uncle’s Motel to make ends meet. She’s running from trouble but peace is the last thing she’ll find here. A blend of cozy simulation, horror, and psychological depth, wrapped in a dark, noir-tinged atmosphere.

Why similar: Horror 20.6%, Psychological Horror 14.7%, Realistic 14.7%, Immersive Sim 12.3%, Simulation 10.8%

An online co-op detective horror for up to 3 players. Work together across randomly generated shifts to investigate your customers, as some are only pretending to be human. Make one mistake, and you’ll be forced to board up, set traps, and hide.

Why similar: Horror 26%, Survival Horror 17.5%, Mystery 10.4%, Psychological Horror 9.1%, First-Person 8.7%

In the Backrooms: Exit from Supermarket, you find yourself trapped in a labyrinth of endless, flickering aisles. Unearth dark secrets behind every shelf while evading lurking apparitions and supernatural terrors. Can you survive the haunted corridors and escape before the nightmare consumes?

Why similar: Survival Horror 16.9%, Psychological Horror 14.3%, Horror 14.3%, Dark 13.8%, First-Person 8.4%

A psychological horror game set in a Korean apartment building. Explore eerie occurrences throughout the complex and uncover the truth behind them.

Why similar: Psychological Horror 16.4%, Horror 13.9%, Supernatural 11.9%, Immersive Sim 9.1%, Choices Matter 8.9%

This is an indie horror from the first person, in which you find yourself in an area called Kowloon in search of cheap housing. The inhabitants of this place only at first glance seem to be ordinary people, but if we dig deeper, we will see their real faces.

Why similar: Horror 19%, Psychological Horror 15.6%, Dark 11.4%, Realistic 11.2%, Atmospheric 8.8%

The Door Factory is a first-person horror game where you inspect mysterious doors before they are sent into production. Step inside, observe the environment, spot anomalies, and decide whether each door should be approved or reported.

Why similar: Immersive Sim 12.4%, Horror 11.3%, Psychological Horror 10.9%, Choices Matter 9.8%, Surreal 9.5%

You're trapped in an endlessly looping art gallery — familiar, yet uncanny. If you can notice the changes, maybe you can find your way out.

Why similar: Psychological Horror 16.4%, Supernatural 16%, Horror 12.7%, Immersive Sim 12%, First-Person 8.8%

A PSX Inspired horror game where you must work and cook at a shop late at night and the horrors that comes with it.

Why similar: Horror 27.6%, Psychological Horror 22.3%, Multiple Endings 18.2%, Choices Matter 11.4%, First-Person 9.1%

To save money, you rent an unusually cheap apartment, believing you could coexist with “them” as you always have. But you soon discover that the disturbances here run far deeper—and are far more dangerous—than anything you’ve encountered before.

Why similar: Supernatural 20.7%, Life Sim 15%, Horror 11.6%, Immersive Sim 10.9%, Realistic 10.1%

Run your own supermarket! Stock shelves, set your prices, take payments, hire staff, expand your store, handle shoplifters, and design your layout. Purchase goods from online or local markets around town, and personally deliver online orders to your customers.

Why similar: Simulation 26.3%, Life Sim 24.5%, Immersive Sim 19.1%, Realistic 10.4%, First-Person 10.1%

You've just been hired as the newest checker at your local Shoppy Mart. You'll be tasked with bagging groceries for the endless waves of customers that will enter your store on a daily basis.

Why similar: Life Sim 40.1%, Psychological Horror 20.6%, Simulation 18.6%, Horror 9.4%, Indie 6.6%

A claustrophobic anomaly-horror game where you can only turn, blink, and decide: is it real or not? Survive five endings and uncover Mike’s story.

Why similar: Simulation 14%, Surreal 13.5%, Psychological Horror 12%, Horror 11.7%, Dark 9.8%

Silent Nights - A short horror game with realistic graphics, touching storyline and scary moments.

Why similar: Survival Horror 16.8%, Horror 13.5%, Psychological Horror 13.3%, Dark 10.9%, Realistic 9.2%

Zoochosis is a bodycam horror simulation game. You’re a zookeeper. Identify infected mutant animals, make a vaccine and cure them. Will you save all of them and survive?

Why similar: Realistic 15.9%, Dark 12.6%, Survival Horror 11.6%, Horror 10.1%, Choices Matter 8.9%

You're hired to dig up graves at a local church, looting valuables while demonic activity escalates. You must find and return all the burnt bones to stop the demonic activity. Each night you will dig for valuables to find bones, fend off growing corruption, and survive to solve the mystery.

Why similar: Immersive Sim 15%, Horror 12.2%, Dark 10.6%, Mystery 10.1%, Psychological Horror 9.2%

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 19.1%, Psychological Horror 18.3%, Horror 16.8%, Dark 12.2%, Simulation 9.3%

WARNING. Stay inside. Lock your doors. Close the blinds. Only let humans in. Eliminate all Visitors. An anxiety horror about paranoia in the End of Times.

Why similar: Horror 16%, Psychological Horror 15.2%, Choices Matter 14.4%, Multiple Endings 11.1%, Dark 11.1%

You are trapped in a small house, suffering from psychosis with no memory. Carefully observe your surroundings to distinguish reality from hallucinations, and overcome your illness by taking medication from visitors at the right time.

Why similar: Immersive Sim 14.5%, Horror 12.1%, Realistic 10.1%, Survival Horror 10%, Mystery 7.7%

An atmospheric retro survival horror game. Your first night on the job as a mall cop gets rudely interrupted, and you must survive somehow.

Why similar: Surreal 24.2%, Survival Horror 20%, Horror 16.5%, Atmospheric 9.5%, First-Person 9.2%

In Serve Or Die, you work alone in a small sandwich shop during the night shift. With a VHS-inspired style and an increasingly unsettling atmosphere, survive as simple orders turn into something far more disturbing.

Why similar: Immersive Sim 23.3%, Horror 21.2%, Psychological Horror 19.3%, Life Sim 11.1%, Simulation 10.5%

Monitor camera feeds, report valuable info, and hand-deliver shady packages. An hourly quota of reports will test your keen eye to spot the differences, while timed deliveries will force you outside unexpectedly. Until you clock out for the night almost nowhere is safe.

Why similar: Horror 22.9%, Simulation 17.8%, Realistic 17.7%, Dark 11.6%, Psychological Horror 9.4%

Your task today: Memorize your environment and report any anomalies. Good luck with your shift! "Shift 87" is an observation horror game with subtle anomalies and unsettling occurrences.

Why similar: Psychological Horror 19.6%, Mystery 13%, Dark 12.8%, First-Person 12.2%, Horror 11.3%