Games Like Kiosk

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: Horror 21.7%, Immersive Sim 19.8%, 1990's 14.4%, First-Person 10.4%, Pixel Graphics 9.7%

Why You'll Like It: It is the definitive fast-food horror experience that balances cooking simulation mechanics with intense, surreal psychological terror.

Share thoughts and hot food with your last ever clients, as you wait for the world to end.

Why similar: Horror 21.4%, Psychological Horror 19.9%, Walking Simulator 18.8%, Mystery 9%, First-Person 7.4%

Why You'll Like It: Set in a diner, this game forces you to manage customer orders while navigating a psychological narrative as the world outside begins to end.

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: Horror 24.9%, Action-Adventure 18.6%, Psychological Horror 18.3%, Simulation 13.5%, Dark 11.9%

Why You'll Like It: This game perfectly captures the eerie, mundane dread of working a late-night service job while being stalked by a mysterious presence.

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

Why similar: Horror 50.1%, Mystery 12.7%, First-Person 9.1%, Atmospheric 7.7%, Dark 7.2%

Why You'll Like It: Like Kiosk, it combines a specific, detailed job simulation with terrifying supernatural elements that escalate as you work.

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

Why similar: Horror 40.1%, Psychological Horror 20.9%, Walking Simulator 10.7%, First-Person 6.1%, Mystery 5.9%

Why You'll Like It: A foundational title for the night-shift horror genre that uses simple, repetitive tasks to build overwhelming dread.

The year is 1996 and you’re employed by a science lab called Nova Nexus. You work as a security guard at the front gate to the lab, inside a guard booth. However, tonight it seems something important is happening inside of Nova Nexus and things are... well... a little strange.

Why similar: Horror 14.5%, Psychological Horror 14%, Walking Simulator 13.8%, Mystery 11.6%, Retro 9.8%

Why You'll Like It: It captures the isolation of a night shift job where the environment feels increasingly hostile and wrong.

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 25.5%, Psychological Horror 19.3%, Walking Simulator 15.5%, First-Person 8.2%, Atmospheric 7.6%

Why You'll Like It: It provides a claustrophobic, atmospheric exploration experience that feels very similar to the cramped, rain-soaked aesthetic of Kiosk.

STOMACH is a first-person survival horror cooking game located in a cruise ship with PS1 inspired graphics to capture that retro horror feeling. Your task is to read a food order, search for food ingredients, and make it back safely to the kitchen to cook your ingredients before time runs out.

Why similar: Cooking 43.7%, Horror 22.1%, First-Person 12%, 3D 7.5%, Action-Adventure 5.5%

Why You'll Like It: This game blends cooking mechanics with visceral body horror, mirroring the unsettling nature of preparing food in a nightmare scenario.

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

Why similar: Horror 17.3%, Psychological Horror 16.1%, Immersive Sim 15.8%, 1990's 9.8%, Walking Simulator 8.6%

Why You'll Like It: This title focuses on the repetitive, atmospheric nature of night-shift work interrupted by disturbing, unexplained events.

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 15%, Horror 14.3%, Walking Simulator 14%, Dialogue Heavy 13.7%, Immersive Sim 9.1%

Why You'll Like It: A direct exploration of the psychological horror that occurs when a workplace becomes a site of supernatural activity.

Supermarket simulator meets horror. You’re a clerk at a 24-hour convenience store. During the day - serve customers and hit your sales goals. At night - beware of strange clients. Try to survive 7 days in the Far North.

Why similar: Horror 19.7%, Immersive Sim 18.2%, Psychological Horror 15.3%, First-Person 9%, Mystery 8.5%

Why You'll Like It: This game turns a retail job into a survival horror experience, focusing on the choices you make while working in an eerie environment.

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 21.8%, Walking Simulator 21.4%, Horror 13.7%, First-Person 11.1%, Mystery 9.3%

Why You'll Like It: It emphasizes the observational horror of noticing subtle, unsettling changes in a mundane environment while performing a routine task.

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: Cooking 18.9%, Horror 14%, Immersive Sim 13.2%, Psychological Horror 12.9%, Walking Simulator 10%

Why You'll Like It: It combines the specific niche of cooking simulation with psychological horror and immersive-sim elements.

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 37.3%, Psychological Horror 22.7%, Dialogue Heavy 10.9%, First-Person 9.6%, Walking Simulator 8.1%

Why You'll Like It: This episodic horror game excels at creating a sense of vulnerability and tension within a familiar, domestic setting.

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 18.7%, Psychological Horror 17.4%, Immersive Sim 13.3%, Walking Simulator 13.3%, Dialogue Heavy 9.9%

Why You'll Like It: It shares the cozy-horror aesthetic of Kiosk, focusing on the contrast between a simple shop and a psychological threat.

A slow-burn atmospheric horror game about managing a toast shop in a desolate location in Central Anatolia, Turkey. Make toasts for customers, cash in, buy more ingredients, and witness strange events unfolding.

Why similar: Cooking 32.5%, Psychological Horror 14.8%, Immersive Sim 14.6%, 1990's 11.2%, First-Person 6.4%

Why You'll Like It: A job-simulator that leans heavily into 1990s aesthetics and psychological lore, much like the retro-inspired horror of Kiosk.

Wasteland Bites is a horror-based food truck sim. Cooking up questionable cuisine in your post-apocalyptic food truck is tough. Fending off mutants, UFOs, rabid dogs, and things lurking in the dark? That's the real challenge. A chaotic mix of cooking and survival in a long gone world.

Why similar: Cooking 44.6%, Horror 22.4%, Psychological Horror 14.9%, First-Person 8.3%, Simulation 6.8%

Why You'll Like It: It adds a post-apocalyptic layer to the cooking-horror genre, requiring time management under the threat of external dangers.

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 28.6%, Psychological Horror 25.4%, First-Person 9.2%, Simulation 8.6%, Mystery 7.8%

Why You'll Like It: This game uses the cozy facade of a dessert shop to hide a dark, job-based horror simulation.

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: Cooking 26.2%, Horror 13%, Psychological Horror 12.8%, Immersive Sim 11.5%, Dialogue Heavy 10.2%

Why You'll Like It: A cooking-based psychological horror game that uses the setting of a small restaurant to build tension.

In the Salesman, you play as a recently laid-off employee trying to survive the grind of job applications, debt, and dwindling hope. Trade your belongings for ad-supported replacements as you slowly sell away your life in this psychological horror game

Why similar: Horror 22.8%, Psychological Horror 18.3%, Simulation 8.6%, Retro 8%, Walking Simulator 7.5%

Why You'll Like It: It focuses on the psychological toll of a job-based narrative, blending exploration with retro-horror aesthetics.

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: Horror 15.9%, Immersive Sim 14.9%, Walking Simulator 14.3%, 1990's 9.4%, Psychological Horror 9.2%

Why You'll Like It: It centers on the anxiety of interacting with mysterious visitors, mirroring the core tension of serving customers in Kiosk.

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 21.8%, Psychological Horror 19.5%, Walking Simulator 16.6%, Immersive Sim 16.2%, First-Person 7.4%

Why You'll Like It: An immersive sim that forces you to make difficult choices while trapped in a high-tension, horror-filled workplace.

A creepy-cozy cooking simulator where you befriend local wildlife and feed them their favorite snacks! With a strange house to search and forest to explore, the witching hour has only begun.

Why similar: Cooking 57.4%, Horror 14.9%, First-Person 10.4%, Atmospheric 6.4%, 3D 5.1%

Why You'll Like It: While more stylized, it shares the core cooking-simulation loop with an added layer of eerie, creature-focused mystery.

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: Horror 22.4%, Walking Simulator 18.7%, Mystery 12.5%, First-Person 12.4%, Dark 10.6%

Why You'll Like It: This game leans into the classic 'roadside horror' trope, combining survival elements with a psychedelic, supernatural atmosphere.

A short first-person horror game where you wander through an eerie forest using the dials of a microwave.

Why similar: Horror 21.3%, Psychological Horror 18.1%, Walking Simulator 11.1%, Dark 8.9%, First-Person 7.8%

Why You'll Like It: A surreal, exploration-heavy horror game that captures the same late-night, lonely atmosphere found in Kiosk.

Arcadia Cafe - domestic horror in early 2000s. Work the night shift as a student at a roadside cafe. Meet bizarre guests, get cash for your job, but beware — homecoming may be much more horrible than you expect.

Why similar: Psychological Horror 13.2%, Horror 12.9%, 1990's 12.5%, Walking Simulator 11.4%, Mystery 7.6%

Why You'll Like It: This game focuses on the atmospheric, retro simulation of running a cafe with an underlying sense of unease.

Last Guest is a first-person psychological horror game. You are a tired traveler who stops at a creepy roadside motel. The motel on the highway seems normal at first glance, but only at first glance. Strange staff and rumors about room 8 will make you question the reality of what is happening.

Why similar: Dialogue Heavy 21.2%, Horror 16%, Psychological Horror 14.7%, Immersive Sim 12.6%, Walking Simulator 10.9%

Why You'll Like It: A dialogue-heavy, first-person horror game that focuses on the unsettling interactions between a worker and their guests.

A cozy horror cooking game with a deadly twist. Serve bizarre fantasy creatures and secretly eliminate targets as an assassin hiding in plain sight. Just keep an eye out for those out to get you.

Why similar: Walking Simulator 16.1%, Immersive Sim 15.4%, Horror 12.3%, Action-Adventure 9.8%, Simulation 9.1%

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: Immersive Sim 15.8%, Psychological Horror 15.7%, Horror 14.4%, 1990's 14.1%, Walking Simulator 13%

KinitoPET is a psychological horror experience that takes place through Kinito, an early 2000s virtual assistant. Kinito is able to walk, talk, browse, adapt, and play games as Kinito is like no other with its adaptive technology!

Why similar: Psychological Horror 22.5%, Horror 20.2%, Immersive Sim 14.5%, 1990's 9.8%, Dialogue Heavy 9.7%

You are the Nightslink. Traverse abandoned roads under cover of night. Deliver cassette tapes in a post-apocalyptic world. An atmospheric retro-3D horror adventure.

Why similar: Horror 17.5%, Walking Simulator 16.9%, Psychological Horror 15.6%, First-Person 9%, Pixel Graphics 7.1%

Why You'll Like It: A walking simulator that excels at building a thick, psychological atmosphere in a 3D environment.

The Sweet Spot is a cozy horror game where you work the last shift at an 80s ice cream shop. Make ice cream, serve customers and watch out for strange things.

Why similar: Horror 14.2%, Psychological Horror 12.6%, Immersive Sim 11.6%, Dialogue Heavy 10.6%, Walking Simulator 10.2%

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%, Walking Simulator 16.5%, Horror 16.1%, Psychological Horror 14.8%, First-Person 8.4%

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: Cooking 33.4%, First-Person 9.9%, Pixel Graphics 9.2%, Simulation 8.4%, Mystery 8%

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 28.3%, Psychological Horror 18.7%, First-Person 12.5%, Mystery 11.1%, Dark 8.4%

[Bober Bros] The Hole is a first-person horror game that explores the cracks in domestic life. Your neighbor’s drilling starts the nightmare, but the holes reveal dark secrets far deeper than any wall could hide. No cheap scares, only disturbing reality.

Why similar: Cooking 29.3%, Horror 15.5%, Psychological Horror 14.5%, Walking Simulator 11.9%, First-Person 6.8%

'The Guest' is a gloomy adventure full of enigmas where the exploration of your surroundings comes to prominence; puzzles, secrets and riddles will help you discover who has locked you in this somber hotel room and most importantly, why.

Why similar: Horror 31.7%, Mystery 16.1%, Walking Simulator 14.2%, Psychological Horror 12.7%, First-Person 11.2%

Why You'll Like It: An indie psychological horror title that emphasizes the feeling of being trapped in a dark, mysterious space.

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: Horror 18.4%, Psychological Horror 16.5%, Walking Simulator 14.5%, Mystery 9.7%, First-Person 8.6%

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: Horror 26.4%, Psychological Horror 22.8%, Retro 11.1%, Simulation 9.2%, Mystery 9%

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 41.2%, Psychological Horror 30.6%, Retro 12.4%, First-Person 10%, Adventure 4.2%

"ELEVATOR: AVICI" is a 1st-person psychological horror with a retro, HK lo-fi aesthetic. Trapped in a decaying apartment elevator, your only link to the outside is a strange voice on the intercom claiming to be a repairman. Will you follow his commands, or find your own escape from the darkness?

Why similar: Psychological Horror 22.7%, Horror 21.9%, Walking Simulator 15.7%, First-Person 10.7%, Retro 8.8%

The original cooking horror returns in an unhinged co-op experience for 1-4 players. Grill burgers, serve customers, and hit your quota before the kitchen turns into a nightmare. When Asset Joy begins her hunt, try to escape alive and extract your hard-earned cash to survive another shift.

Why similar: Cooking 39.5%, Horror 17.6%, Comedy 9.4%, First-Person 6.7%, Simulation 6.3%

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 39.5%, Psychological Horror 28%, Dark 7.7%, Walking Simulator 7.4%, First-Person 7.3%

The Guest is a first-person psychological horror game that focuses on creating fear and tension for the player.

Why similar: Horror 23.2%, Psychological Horror 20.9%, Walking Simulator 17.3%, First-Person 10.4%, Dark 10%

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

Why similar: Horror 27.6%, Immersive Sim 25.1%, 1990's 18.2%, Retro 11.4%, First-Person 9.4%

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: Immersive Sim 19.8%, Horror 18.5%, Psychological Horror 17.3%, First-Person 9.4%, Dark 7.8%

A horror game where you play a hand-held console in the backseat during a long drive home.

Why similar: Horror 23.9%, Psychological Horror 16.7%, Dark 11.3%, Story Rich 9.7%, First-Person 9.2%

Killer Frequency is a first-person horror puzzle game set in 1987, that puts you in the role of a late-night radio talk show host in small town America whose callers are being stalked by a mysterious killer.

Why similar: Horror 22.8%, Walking Simulator 19.1%, Comedy 10.8%, 1990's 10.6%, First-Person 10.6%

A 90's horror inspired first-person game about working the midnight shift at a gas station.

Why similar: Walking Simulator 16.6%, Horror 16.5%, Psychological Horror 15%, 1990's 9.5%, First-Person 8.9%

A story-driven psychological horror game where you must balance cooking authentic Vietnamese Pho with surviving chilling, unexpected events in a quiet, mysterious village.

Why similar: Horror 30.9%, Retro 13.5%, Comedy 12.4%, Walking Simulator 11.3%, 3D 9.9%

Sector 404 is a first-person anomaly horror game set in a crumbling Soviet housing block. After taking your medicine, your world begins to fracture. Climb from floor to floor, uncovering distorted anomalies and your own unraveling mind. Miss too much, and reality resets. Will you ever make it home?

Why similar: Psychological Horror 17.4%, Horror 16.6%, Walking Simulator 16.2%, Immersive Sim 12.4%, First-Person 7.9%

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: Horror 16.9%, Psychological Horror 16.5%, Immersive Sim 16%, Mystery 9.5%, First-Person 8.3%

This is a short, first-person psychological horror game with VHS effects. Be careful, you are facing a terrifying being.

Why similar: Horror 27.6%, Psychological Horror 24.1%, Walking Simulator 22.9%, First-Person 6.3%, Retro 5.2%

Enter the abandoned arcade after your car has crashed, and the shelter you were looking for is trying to eat you alive in this dark mystery-horror adventure. Solve mysteries, keep JANITOR satisfied, and always be aware of what's behind your back.

Why similar: Horror 20.5%, Psychological Horror 19.1%, First-Person 10.6%, Mystery 10.2%, Pixel Graphics 9.8%

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: Horror 20.7%, Psychological Horror 18.8%, Walking Simulator 18.1%, Immersive Sim 10.9%, First-Person 8.3%

You've been hired by a real estate agency to photograph their listings at night, giving them a unique look online. Grab your camera, explore dark, quiet homes, and capture every required shot before the property notices you. Uncover the truth: why do these listings need to be photographed at night?

Why similar: Horror 18.9%, Psychological Horror 13.5%, Walking Simulator 10.9%, Mystery 9.5%, Immersive Sim 9.5%

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 17.5%, Psychological Horror 16%, Walking Simulator 14%, Dialogue Heavy 11.4%, 1990's 9.9%

DREAM LOGIC is a story driven first-person atmospheric horror game which takes place in liminal spaces. Explore various nostalgic, dreamlike, uncanny environments. But don't feel too safe, there's a sneaky creature watching your every move.

Why similar: Psychological Horror 18.7%, Horror 18.5%, Walking Simulator 14.2%, Mystery 9.4%, First-Person 7.2%

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 25.6%, Psychological Horror 21.9%, Dialogue Heavy 11.8%, First-Person 10.4%, Retro 9.6%

Step into a liminal, cosmic horror experience set in an abandoned amusement park. Uncover the haunting narrative behind its twisted rides and empty tunnels to discover what lurks within a reality that shouldn't exist…

Why similar: Horror 19.8%, Psychological Horror 17.8%, Walking Simulator 16%, Dark 8.4%, Mystery 8%