
Paperback is a short horror game that takes place in a public library at night with an aggressive thunderstorm raging in the vicinity where you take on the role of the newly hired novice librarian, Max.
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Paperback is a short horror game that takes place in a public library at night with an aggressive thunderstorm raging in the vicinity where you take on the role of the newly hired novice librarian, Max.

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A first-person shopkeeper extraction game where you run a mysterious antique store by day and explore dangerous locations by night in search of rare and valuable oddities. Extract with you're loot, grow your shop and decide what is worth selling - and what is worth keeping.

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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.
A first-person shopkeeper extraction game where you run a mysterious antique store by day and explore dangerous locations by night in search of rare and valuable oddities. Extract with you're loot, grow your shop and decide what is worth selling - and what is worth keeping.
Why similar: Shop Keeper 46.4% ★, Supernatural 14.8%, Simulation 11.5%, Physics 9.1%, First-Person 7.1%
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: Shop Keeper 30.2% ★, Immersive Sim 11.8%, Horror 9.6%, Realistic 7.5%, Dark 6.6%
A first-person horror adventure set in a remote Finnish cabin. Work at a quiet village shop, explore the wilderness, and uncover ancient forces drawn from Finnish mythology.
Why similar: Shop Keeper 20.4% ★, Immersive Sim 10.5%, Horror 10.2%, Simulation 10.1%, First-Person 9.9%
Run a rural Soviet shop during shortages and decide who gets food. Your children are dying, and the nearest hospital is far beyond Herota.
Why similar: Shop Keeper 28.4% ★, Immersive Sim 14.8%, Physics 10%, Realistic 8.1%, Choices Matter 8%
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: Supernatural 13.8%, Immersive Sim 12.5%, Horror 11.9%, Mystery 9.2%, Realistic 8.7%
Run a night-shift bakery inside a quarantine zone. Every customer looks human at first. Check their symptoms, fill the report, and make the call — bread, medicine, or the knife. Keep your supplies stocked and beware what waits outside the glass.
Why similar: Shop Keeper 40.3% ★, Horror 13.9%, Mystery 10.8%, Simulation 9.4%, Choices Matter 8.3%
Use your phone to survive the horrors, capture clues, and solve puzzles in this first-person psychological horror experience. Trapped inside a warped digital nightmare by a mysterious entity, you must navigate a world where technology distorts reality.
Why similar: Supernatural 19.8%, Horror 15.8%, Mystery 14.5%, Realistic 12.3%, Dark 11.4%
Dark fantasy shop sim in ancient Kyoto. 4 chapters, 28 turns. On the city's bleak fringes, a disgraced Onmyoji trades cursed goods. Avoid bankruptcy and madness—survive tough resource management. No customer returns. Your sister's secret. Can you withstand the truth? Reach the True End.
Why similar: Shop Keeper 26.3% ★, Horror 15.3%, Mystery 13%, Simulation 10.7%, Dark 10.7%
Work the night shift in an underground sorting facility. Weigh packages, compare their contents, and meet your quota by 6 AM. But beware, some packages hide dark secrets. Identify bad batches, earn cash, and survive the night in this tense PSX-style horror job simulator.
Why similar: Shop Keeper 26.8% ★, Horror 12.7%, Supernatural 12.1%, Immersive Sim 11.6%, Mystery 9.2%
The House of E. is a story-driven puzzle game with horror elements and a creepy atmosphere.
Why similar: Supernatural 18.5%, Horror 16.2%, Mystery 14%, Puzzle 10.9%, Dark 9.5%
You work at a pickup point. You scan packages, serve customers and keep the warehouse running. Unfortunately, some of the packages aren't really packages. WTF? LOL! They're mimics. Investigate suspicious customers and use the Mind Catcher to uncover mimics. But who is behind them? Find out!
Why similar: Shop Keeper 44.7% ★, Simulation 15.2%, Puzzle 9.7%, Supernatural 8.9%, First-Person 6.5%
A first-person psychological horror game inspired by The Hat Man urban legend, focusing on sleep paralysis, fear, and the terror of being unable to move.
Why similar: Horror 18.1%, Supernatural 14.6%, Realistic 11.2%, Mystery 10.1%, Dark 8.9%
People come to the shop on Halsey Row to sell the memories they can't carry and buy the ones they can't live without. Appraise what they bring. Decide what it's worth, and who you'll sell it to. Run an honest shop, or a darker one, and piece together what this street is hiding.
Why similar: Shop Keeper 48.7% ★, Simulation 11.2%, Mystery 9.8%, Dark 9.7%, Choices Matter 9.5%
You don't ask where the evidence comes from. You just decide what disappears. Inspect packages, destroy bloody materials with machines, or return clean ones. A dark management game in a corrupt pharmaceutical giant's basement, until the wrong package makes you question everything.
Why similar: Immersive Sim 16.5%, Physics 15.5%, Realistic 8.8%, Mystery 8.7%, Multiple Endings 8.4%
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: Shop Keeper 42.3% ★, Horror 19.1%, Simulation 11.6%, Mystery 9.5%, Interactive Fiction 7.4%
Newton Street is a game about the cruel treatment of people, their lives, and the power that doesn’t always cope with everything.
Why similar: Shop Keeper 38.8% ★, Immersive Sim 16.2%, Simulation 15.1%, Mystery 7%, Horror 6.4%
Apartment 22 is a bite-sized horror game about being trapped in a loop. You look out for clues left by the previous resident or possibly by you to escape the apartment.
Why similar: Immersive Sim 16.7%, Horror 15.7%, Mystery 9.4%, Simulation 8.8%, Multiple Endings 8.2%
Explore a terrifyingly realistic "5th dimension" through the eyes of a VHS camcorder and unearth dark secrets along the way.
Why similar: Immersive Sim 22.3%, Physics 19.2%, Horror 11.3%, Simulation 10.5%, First-Person 8.2%
The doors are locked, the parking lot is empty, and the aisles are in complete disarray. Restock Master is a first person supermarket organization game. Pick up scattered groceries, sort them out, and fill every empty shelf. No clocks, no customers, no stress.
Why similar: Shop Keeper 44.2% ★, Immersive Sim 15%, Simulation 14.2%, Physics 11.6%, First-Person 7.1%
You’re a security guard working the night shift. There’s only one problem, you can’t leave until every task is finished. Something is lurking in the darkness of the office. Your only safe place is your room. You can't fight it. Seal the main entrance or hide.
Why similar: Horror 21.7%, Realistic 15.2%, First-Person 14.3%, Mystery 13.2%, Simulation 12.9%
You are a random person trapped in an empty concrete room under the watchful eye of a camera. The only way out is to risk pressing the forbidden button, after which more buttons appear. Each press brings you closer to the exit or to your demise.
Why similar: Horror 14.9%, Mystery 14.4%, Immersive Sim 14.1%, Puzzle 11.1%, Choices Matter 10.9%
A tiny gimbap café in a back alley, lights on until 4 a.m. Lured by oddly high pay, you take the night shift — greet customers, cook, walk home through the dark. Night by night, something slips out of place. Where did the last clerk go?
Why similar: Shop Keeper 39.5% ★, Simulation 14.4%, Horror 8.1%, Interactive Fiction 7.6%, Mystery 7.4%
Run your own hardware store. Stock the shelves, set your prices, serve customers at the checkout, and reinvest your profits to grow the business. Order tools, restock the warehouse, and build the DIY shop of your dreams, one sale at a time.
Why similar: Shop Keeper 56.9% ★, Immersive Sim 18.8%, Simulation 10.7%, First-Person 5.7%, 3D 3.7%
Goo Deer is a dark first-person gas station management game set in a foggy world addicted to the strange drink Goo Deer. Craft and sell new flavors, manage inventory, hire employees, and hunt deer in the misty forest for ingredients while something dangerous stalks the fog.
Why similar: Shop Keeper 33.4% ★, Supernatural 12.1%, Horror 11%, Immersive Sim 10.8%, Physics 8.6%
Order up! DONUT PANIC is an anomaly horror game with a cooking sim twist. Take customer orders. Prepare and serve up delicious donuts. But when the hallucinations appear, run for your life. Your panic room is there for a reason...
Why similar: Shop Keeper 30.8% ★, Horror 16.7%, Simulation 12.3%, Dark 9.5%, Immersive Sim 8%
Vow is a mystical game about a cursed village frozen between sunset and night. Explore abandoned houses, read birch bark letters, and observe ancient rituals to uncover the mystery of the disappearance of its inhabitants — and your own fate.
Why similar: Immersive Sim 17.4%, Supernatural 14.6%, Realistic 11.5%, Simulation 11.3%, Mystery 9.9%
Build your hardware empire from scratch! Experience real business with product sourcing, dynamic pricing, online orders, and delivery management. Boost your popularity, expand your store, and become the country's most successful hardware merchant!
Why similar: Shop Keeper 40.9% ★, Immersive Sim 17.1%, Simulation 16.1%, Realistic 8.9%, First-Person 6.1%
Checkout Midnight is a supermarket night-shift simulator with horror elements. A simple job - scanning groceries in a half-empty supermarket - gradually turns into a real nightmare.
Why similar: Shop Keeper 40.4% ★, Horror 13.9%, Mystery 11.5%, Supernatural 9.6%, Simulation 8.7%
Cursed Bet is a horror game where you play from a body camera perspective. Enter the abandoned preschool, the subject of terrible rumors, in the midnight. Struggle the cursed doll Ebeleen as you investigate the school's dark past. Will you be able to destroy him and his curse?
Why similar: Supernatural 20%, Horror 16.2%, Mystery 13.1%, Dark 11.1%, Realistic 9.6%
You are the night shift supervisor at the warehouse of the postal company. You need to make sure that there is nothing prohibited in the package, but are all parcels worth checking?
Why similar: Horror 19.8%, Immersive Sim 19.6%, Mystery 11.9%, Multiple Endings 10.1%, First-Person 9.3%
A first-person psychological horror game where you explore your childhood home, solve symbolic puzzles, and uncover a family curse that slowly takes control of your actions.
Why similar: Horror 22.9%, Puzzle 15.3%, Supernatural 11.5%, First-Person 11%, Dark 10.8%
A simulation game with light horror. Excavate antiques, run a shop in Misty Mountain. Dig, hunt flea markets, bid at auctions to recover lost relics, and secretly probe your predecessor's disappearance. But beneath lies unknown terror; a dark truth hides in the mist, waiting for you.
Why similar: Shop Keeper 44.3% ★, Immersive Sim 15.4%, Mystery 8.8%, Puzzle 7.7%, Simulation 6.7%
The Last Lodge is a medieval psychological horror game where you work as an innkeeper. Listen closely to your patrons' stories, prepare their orders, and ultimately, choose which traveller has visited their very last lodge.
Why similar: Shop Keeper 36% ★, Immersive Sim 13.3%, Horror 12.1%, Supernatural 9.8%, Choices Matter 6.5%
A retrieved obscure software from the late 90's that supposedly "renders anomalies in signals’ frequency spectra as 3D simulations".
Why similar: Horror 17.7%, Puzzle 15.3%, Simulation 14.3%, Supernatural 14.1%, Mystery 13.2%
A life sim where you grind late-night jobs to pay off debt. Manage hunger and fatigue as you work. Want a shot at turning your life around? Scratch and pray!
Why similar: Shop Keeper 44.7% ★, Simulation 16.4%, Immersive Sim 15.8%, Physics 8.7%, Realistic 8.4%
Welcome to the night shift. Your tasks are simple: follow the nightly janitorial routine and ignore all disturbances. Last seven nights to earn your transfer to headquarters.
Why similar: Immersive Sim 17.7%, Horror 16.2%, Supernatural 14.6%, Simulation 10.5%, Multiple Endings 10.1%
At an isolated gas station in the 1990s, Cole takes a night-shift job that comes with a room to stay in. As you serve customers, unexplained events begin to unfold in this psychological horror game.
Why similar: Shop Keeper 31.1% ★, Horror 11.6%, Supernatural 10.7%, Mystery 9.4%, First-Person 7.3%
Build your hardware empire from scratch! Experience real business with product sourcing, dynamic pricing, online orders, and delivery management. Boost your popularity, expand your store, and become the country's most successful hardware merchant!
Why similar: Shop Keeper 41.2% ★, Immersive Sim 16.8%, Simulation 16.4%, Realistic 9.5%, First-Person 6.5%
Work the returns desk of a dying department store. Inspect what customers bring back — weigh it, open it, sweep it under UV — and decide who's lying. Then the register prints a receipt from a branch that doesn't exist, dated tomorrow. Every return has a story. Most of them are false.
Why similar: Shop Keeper 41.7% ★, Immersive Sim 17.3%, Simulation 14%, First-Person 6.5%, Mystery 5.2%
The Host's deadly games is a first-person psychological horror game where you explore a mysterious house, uncover its dark past, and solve puzzles to survive.
Why similar: Supernatural 21.3%, Horror 20.1%, Mystery 11.7%, First-Person 11.4%, Dark 9.9%
Clean, restore, and manage hotel rooms under pressure. Remove messes, satisfy guests, and keep ratings high in Hotel Cleaner Simulator.
Why similar: Shop Keeper 40.8% ★, Immersive Sim 18.7%, Simulation 17.7%, Physics 8.9%, First-Person 6.6%
Take control of a motel in Winston Springs! Design unique interiors, care for guests, earn and invest in a hotel network. Plan room layouts and furnishings, and hire staff. Transform outdated spaces into luxurious apartments with attention to every detail. Will you create the hotel of your dreams?
Why similar: Shop Keeper 39% ★, Immersive Sim 18.9%, Simulation 16.2%, Realistic 12.4%, First-Person 4.3%
A first-person horror game where you manipulate objects around a house to frighten an intruder. Stay out of his reach, raise his fear, drive him away, and uncover the truth behind his strange visits.
Why similar: Horror 21.9%, Mystery 19.7%, Dark 14.6%, Immersive Sim 9.8%, First-Person 9.6%
Join Lia in this mystery-horror adventure as she chases the shadows of her distant past in the Orphic House, trying to uncover the truth she once chose to forget
Why similar: Mystery 21.3%, Horror 18.9%, Multiple Endings 10.8%, Interactive Fiction 8.9%, Puzzle 8.6%
Manage your own grocery store. In this simulator, you have the opportunity to run your own business in challenging times of the past. Order products, decorate the interior, serve impatient customers, fight off thieves, build your reputation, and survive unpredictable events.
Why similar: Shop Keeper 47.6% ★, Immersive Sim 17%, Simulation 15.2%, Realistic 7.8%, First-Person 6.2%
Coney's is a 1 or 2 player online co-op game in which you work at an ice cream parlor that specializes in cones! Bake cones! Scoop ice cream! Serve with a smile! And at the end of your shift, don’t forget to clean up the store before you head home! Nothing bad will happen 🍦
Why similar: Shop Keeper 34.7% ★, Horror 16.4%, Simulation 12.8%, Supernatural 8.6%, Multiple Endings 6.7%
You're the newest steward of Thoth Observatory, tasked with researching the strange Kerr black hole SJ-1765—the Sejanus Singularity. The data gathered here is invaluable, so maintain the installation and preserve your sanity until your rotation ends in this deteriorating station.
Why similar: Immersive Sim 20.5%, Simulation 19.4%, Physics 12%, Horror 10.8%, First-Person 9.5%
Work the night shift at a haunted library, alone or with up to three friends. Help strange patrons, finish your duties, and survive what waits between the shelves. Earn your pay, follow the rules, and uncover the past Bellweather tried to bury.
Why similar: Horror 22.2%, Simulation 18%, Supernatural 13.9%, Mystery 11.9%, First-Person 10.2%
"Just Anomaly: Hospital" is a psychological horror/anomaly game where your goal is to reach the 15th floor. With its realistic graphics, it puts you through a test of attention in a terrifying hospital setting. Will you be able to finish this game?
Why similar: Horror 16.5%, Immersive Sim 14.4%, Mystery 12.4%, Puzzle 11.4%, Simulation 8.3%
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: Shop Keeper 40.6% ★, Horror 12.9%, Mystery 9.1%, Simulation 7.5%, First-Person 6.7%
"High pay. Simple tasks. Room and board included." Monitor "anomalies" through hidden CCTV cameras scattered throughout the hotel rooms. You must accurately judge and report whether a situation requires a mere cleaner, the intervention of law enforcement, or... something far beyond.
Why similar: Immersive Sim 20.4%, Horror 12.3%, Puzzle 10.9%, Simulation 10.6%, First-Person 8.6%
An ancient cult lurks in an old apartment; a mother sacrifices her daughter. A decade later, her son enters the Netherworld to save his family from a deity’s torment, evading spirits to reach "Penglai Island" and destroy the Soul-Refining Furnace. Uncanny Abode blends 1990s Taiwan with cult horror.
Why similar: Horror 21.2%, Supernatural 17.3%, Realistic 15.8%, Immersive Sim 12.4%, Puzzle 11.8%
You thought moving to a peaceful Japanese village and starting a new life was a good idea, well was it? Inspired by eerie real life events and Japanese folklore, this immersive first person horror will have you explore Nichishima but you will soon realize that every shadow might hide your fate.
Why similar: Supernatural 23.1%, Horror 18.9%, Simulation 11.5%, Multiple Endings 11.2%, Choices Matter 11.1%
You've been hired by an outfit known as SMS Group to retrieve an artifact lost somewhere inside the abandoned Folcroft Monastery. Locals say the place is haunted by restless spirits, but the pay was too good to pass up. You asked little questions. Find the artifact requested and get out alive.
Why similar: Horror 17.1%, Dark 12.4%, Immersive Sim 11.9%, Mystery 11.1%, Puzzle 10.1%
Your new duty is to inspect properties before move-in. It does not matter what waits inside — all responsibility will rest on your shoulders alone. Do the job well, and there is a good chance this inspection will not be your last...
Why similar: Immersive Sim 20.6%, Simulation 16.2%, Horror 16.2%, Mystery 9.1%, Puzzle 8.5%
This is a first-person horror game about covering up a murder before sunrise. Dismember the body, clean the blood, dispose of the evidence, and keep your story straight when the police come knocking. By dawn, there can be no trace.
Why similar: Horror 22.8%, Immersive Sim 20.2%, Simulation 19.3%, First-Person 11.2%, Multiple Endings 8.8%
A typical shawarma stand. But the game notices where you're looking... and what you're ignoring. Endless shifts, a physics simulator, and a horror that only happens when you're not prepared.
Why similar: Shop Keeper 32.4% ★, Supernatural 13.5%, Immersive Sim 12.8%, Physics 11.8%, Horror 10.9%
Become the Ocean’s Ultimate Dive Master
Why similar: Shop Keeper 60.8% ★, Simulation 21.6%, Choices Matter 7.4%, 3D 6.6%, Singleplayer 1.9%
A psychological horror job sim. Complete security maintenance in a sprawling, desolate mall while surviving creeping, unpredictable threats. Manage electrical systems, monitor CCTV cameras, and survive a night shift where you never know what is lurking in the dark.
Why similar: Immersive Sim 15.2%, Supernatural 14.3%, Horror 12.9%, Mystery 11.3%, Dark 9.5%
Run a late-night burger shop during a deadly outbreak. Cook orders, identify infected customers, and stop the Silent Plague before your town is lost.
Why similar: Shop Keeper 33.7% ★, Horror 15.8%, Mystery 11.9%, Choices Matter 8.9%, Simulation 8.9%