Games Like Photomaly

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

Why similar: Horror 29%, Supernatural 20.9%, Demons 17.4%, Mystery 9.4%, Simulation 6.5%

Why You'll Like It: Like managing a photo studio while dealing with the supernatural, you must perform mundane mortuary tasks while enduring terrifying paranormal events.

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 24.7%, Horror 22.7%, Management 14.8%, Simulation 10.4%, Atmospheric 7.2%

Why You'll Like It: It combines cozy shop management with psychological horror elements, echoing the tense duality found in Photomaly.

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 24.3% ★, Horror 14.5%, Management 13.4%, Psychological Horror 11.3%, Inventory Management 10.6%

Why You'll Like It: This game taps into the terrifying and surreal side of retail work and customer management.

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: Conspiracy 29.7% ★, Horror 23.5%, Management 20.1%, Atmospheric 8.6%, First-Person 6.9%

Why You'll Like It: This game shares the same core loop of managing a stressful fast-paced service counter while unraveling a deeply unsettling dark mystery.

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: Retro 25.7%, Horror 24.5%, Mystery 14.1%, Simulation 13.9%, Atmospheric 8.4%

Why You'll Like It: Operating a retro video store at night parallels the eerie atmosphere and customer-interaction mechanics of running a creepy photo studio.

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 18.8%, Horror 17.5%, Psychological Horror 15.9%, Life Sim 11.5%, Simulation 10.3%

Why You'll Like It: Running a night shift store while encountering bizarre, supernatural elements makes this a great companion to Photomaly.

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 23.4%, Horror 19.3%, Shop Keeper 16.9% ★, Simulation 12.7%, Management 11.8%

Why You'll Like It: Managing a specialized store while navigating psychological horror themes creates a nearly identical thematic experience.

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 26.8% ★, Horror 22.6%, Simulation 13.2%, Retro 10.8%, Psychological Horror 9.1%

Why You'll Like It: Working a solitary night shift behind a counter while horror unfolds around you directly mirrors Photomaly's gameplay.

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 26.5%, Retro 14.3%, Investigation 11.6%, Multiplayer 10.2%, Psychological Horror 10.1%

Why You'll Like It: The co-op night shift survival elements capture the tense multiplayer dread of working through creepy tasks together.

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: Psychological Horror 22.7%, Supernatural 22.7%, Horror 21.8%, Simulation 13.8%, First-Person 6.3%

Why You'll Like It: It features the same eerie, atmospheric simulation and first-person horror vibe centered around an unconventional workspace.

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 27.1%, Psychological Horror 22.9%, Retro 11%, Simulation 9.1%, Mystery 8.8%

Why You'll Like It: Operating a small storefront with pixel graphics and psychological horror undertones matches Photomaly's retro aesthetic.

MADiSON is a first person psychological horror game that delivers an immersive and terrifying experience. With the help of an instant camera, connect the human world with the beyond, take pictures and develop them by yourself. Solve puzzles, explore your surroundings and most importantly, survive.

Why similar: Horror 33.4%, Psychological Horror 32.7%, Demons 12.2%, Atmospheric 7%, First-Person 6.5%

Why You'll Like It: Photography plays a central, terrifying gameplay mechanic here, making it a must-play for fans of camera-based horror.

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: Psychological Horror 26.1%, Demons 25.9%, Horror 23.2%, Investigation 10.6%, Atmospheric 5.6%

Why You'll Like It: Both games revolve around using a camera to capture the supernatural in a gritty, nostalgic 1990s setting.

Phasmophobia is a 4 player online co-op psychological horror. Paranormal activity is on the rise and it’s up to you and your team to use all the ghost-hunting equipment at your disposal in order to gather as much evidence as you can.

Why similar: Horror 31.4%, Psychological Horror 16.9%, Supernatural 14.1%, Multiplayer 10.8%, Investigation 9.8%

Why You'll Like It: For players who love hunting and documenting the supernatural with equipment, this co-op classic is an essential match.

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: Psychological Horror 26%, Horror 22.9%, Supernatural 13.3%, Investigation 11.9%, Conspiracy 9.2% ★

Why You'll Like It: Carefully monitoring environments through a visual medium to spot anomalies captures the vigilant gameplay loop of checking photos.

Survive 6 hours as a night guard, monitoring for anomalies. Act fast, or risk losing your mind to the unexplained horrors that lurk beyond the screens.

Why similar: Conspiracy 31.8% ★, Investigation 12.9%, Life Sim 12.8%, Supernatural 12.3%, Horror 9%

Why You'll Like It: It leans heavily into surveillance, photography, and conspiracy themes that fit right alongside Photomaly.

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: Psychological Horror 20.7%, Horror 20.4%, Shop Keeper 17.6% ★, Retro 17.1%, Life Sim 7.8%

Why You'll Like It: Enduring a terrifying retro-styled night shift encapsulates the exact atmosphere found in the seed game.

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 21.5%, Retro 20.3%, Psychological Horror 18.2%, Mystery 13.9%, Simulation 9.7%

Why You'll Like It: The combination of retro styling, atmospheric mystery, and flashes of horror matches the unique vibe of Photomaly.

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 28% ★, Psychological Horror 18.4%, Horror 16.7%, Life Sim 12%, Simulation 9.8%

Why You'll Like It: The isolated late-night store management and time-management mechanics echo the stressful shifts in Photomaly.

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: Psychological Horror 24%, Horror 22.9%, Management 17.5%, Simulation 12.9%, Mystery 8%

Why You'll Like It: It combines standard job-simulation and customer service tasks with unexpected psychological horror twists.

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 20.6%, Horror 19.4%, Psychological Horror 19.4%, Investigation 13.8%, Mystery 8.3%

Why You'll Like It: Conspiracy theories and supernatural encounters blend with first-person horror exploration similarly to Photomaly's lore.

Manage a haunted funeral service as a priest in a cursed forest. Bury or cremate the dead, perform exorcisms, fend off demonic possessions, and quiet restless souls. Survive terrifying encounters, maintain sanity, and experience the pinnacle of horror simulation in The Unholy Priest!

Why similar: Supernatural 16.1%, Demons 15.6%, Horror 13.2%, Psychological Horror 11.8%, Management 11.7%

Why You'll Like It: The eerie supernatural themes and surreal simulation elements appeal to fans of dark, niche horror scenarios.

Run your bar as a gorilla and hunt down the humans in animal costumes hiding among your customers. Observe them closely, spot the clues that give their disguises away, test their slogans, and blow the imposters away with your shotgun. Choose your targets wisely... or become the hunted.

Why similar: Conspiracy 18.9% ★, Shop Keeper 17.1% ★, Psychological Horror 11.4%, Horror 10.6%, Investigation 10.3%

Why You'll Like It: Running a strange establishment while dealing with bizarre customers and horror investigation ties closely to shop simulation.

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 24.5%, Psychological Horror 21.9%, Horror 21.1%, Mystery 13.8%, Atmospheric 7.9%

Why You'll Like It: It delivers a first-person psychological horror experience steeped in mystery and supernatural dread.

Manage your very own video store in the early 90s! Rent, sell, decorate and expand your business from the ground up and relive the golden ages of video rentals!

Why similar: Shop Keeper 30.2% ★, Management 16.3%, Inventory Management 12.6%, Simulation 12.1%, Resource Management 9.8%

Why You'll Like It: Though more relaxing, the nostalgic 90s retro video store management style is a thematic cousin to the photo studio.

Your memory is fading. Things around your home keep changing; they are not what they appear to be. Find what is wrong, take pictures to restore your memory. Try to remember. Learn what you have forgotten, learn what has happened. It is not what it seems to be.

Why similar: Psychological Horror 18.8%, Horror 17.3%, Demons 17.3%, Supernatural 13.4%, Mystery 10.7%

Why You'll Like It: The heavy psychological horror elements and puzzle-solving in a confined space mirror the tension of running a closed studio.

The 18th Attic is a psychological horror game where you play as a man trapped in the attic with your cat companion, armed only with a camera. Hunt down paranormal anomalies by taking their pictures and detecting their presence to unravel secrets of your past. Each photo unlocks a new memory.

Why similar: Psychological Horror 26.7%, Horror 23.5%, Retro 18.8%, Multiplayer 11%, Atmospheric 8.8%

Why You'll Like It: Hunting for paranormal anomalies in a spooky environment shares the observational dread of developing customer photos.

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 19.5% ★, Management 12.4%, Supernatural 12.2%, Horror 12.1%, Psychological Horror 11.6%

Why You'll Like It: First-person management and shopkeeping meet unsettling horror themes in a comparable indie package.

Explore haunted locations, collect paranormal evidence, and survive the revenge of the former residents still haunting them. Team up with up to 3 friends to figure out the ghost, however, what begins as an investigation quickly turns into a desperate struggle to stay alive.

Why similar: Supernatural 18%, Psychological Horror 16.3%, Horror 15.5%, Demons 12.4%, Investigation 12.2%

Why You'll Like It: The multiplayer psychological horror and supernatural elements provide a similar cooperative scare factor.

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: Shop Keeper 21.3% ★, Retro 15.2%, Psychological Horror 14.7%, Horror 12.2%, Mystery 9.1%

Why You'll Like It: The atmospheric retro simulation in a stylized 1990s environment provides a great visual parallel to Photomaly.

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: Psychological Horror 21.9%, Horror 19%, Investigation 17.2%, Mystery 13.7%, Simulation 10.3%

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: Psychological Horror 32%, Horror 27.1%, Simulation 15.9%, Retro 8.5%, First-Person 6.8%

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 17.6%, Psychological Horror 17.2%, Horror 16.3%, Demons 15.2%, Mystery 10.9%

The year is 1998. Step into the shoes of a real estate agent, tasked with photographing a seemingly ordinary house for an upcoming sale. Explore the environment, use your camera to take pictur-- wait, what’s that in the last photo?

Why similar: Psychological Horror 31.9%, Horror 25.8%, Mystery 19.4%, Atmospheric 10.1%, Pixel Graphics 6.9%

Uncover a disturbing mystery in a haunted museum. Track and exorcise restless spirits using your rail-mounted camera, spot up to 130 anomalies, and photograph them before they take over, with you along.

Why similar: Psychological Horror 21.8%, Demons 21%, Horror 18.2%, Mystery 10.9%, Simulation 10.4%

Paranormal Night Shift is an observation and spot the anomaly game set in a haunted house in the 1980s.

Why similar: Psychological Horror 27.9%, Supernatural 27.6%, Mystery 13.8%, Horror 11.3%, Demons 10.1%

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: Psychological Horror 19.9%, Horror 17.5%, Supernatural 16.7%, Life Sim 11%, Simulation 10.4%

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

Why similar: Horror 20.7%, Psychological Horror 17.1%, Retro 12.8%, Supernatural 12.5%, Resource Management 11%

Observe every corner of your apartment by moving your camera along a rail that runs through the rooms. Find and take pictures of paranormal anomalies to exorcise them. Locked in your surveillance room, will you survive tonight's 8 rounds?

Why similar: Psychological Horror 21.5%, Demons 21.1%, Horror 18.3%, Mystery 11.3%, Simulation 10.5%

I made this first-person single player ghost hunting simulation game, trying to take an authentic approach at investigating ghosts. Use essential paranormal tools to help your community alleviate their concerns and put their minds at ease.

Why similar: Supernatural 19.3%, Psychological Horror 17.5%, Demons 16.5%, Investigation 14.4%, Horror 14.1%

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 36.2%, Psychological Horror 31.9%, Retro 24.4%, First-Person 5.5%, Indie 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: Horror 37%, Simulation 22.2%, Atmospheric 14.8%, 3D 11.1%, First-Person 10.8%

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: Psychological Horror 37.8%, Mystery 16.3%, Resource Management 14.6%, Simulation 9.5%, First-Person 8.4%

It’s an indie horror game where John, a forensic photographer, after an unexpected and exhausting shift, is forced to spend the night away from home. What seemed like a temporary rest soon begins to turn unsettling.

Why similar: Psychological Horror 29.2%, Horror 23.8%, Simulation 13%, Mystery 9.7%, Atmospheric 8.5%

Start your own photography studio! Hire staff, upgrade your interior, and manage your business to attract more customers. Transform your humble studio into a full-scale photography base. Invite models, build relationships, go on dates, and unlock exclusive private photo shoots.

Why similar: Management 21.7%, Life Sim 18.1%, Inventory Management 15.4%, Simulation 14.2%, Resource Management 10.8%

Sort forms, get to know your mysterious new collegues & unravel mysteries they're trying to cover up as you step in to replace the previous RH at this mysterious pharmaceutical company.

Why similar: Psychological Horror 42.6%, Horror 24.4%, Simulation 16.5%, First-Person 9.2%, Atmospheric 5.9%

Somni is a thrilling paranormal investigation first person shooter. Investigate your surroundings and survive your encounters with Ethereal Beings or Cryptids.

Why similar: Demons 15.5%, Supernatural 14.5%, Horror 14.4%, Investigation 12.4%, Psychological Horror 10.2%

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: Horror 27.4%, Simulation 18.5%, Demons 14.7%, Supernatural 11.9%, Mystery 11.4%

You are alone in a deserted station. Or are you? Take pictures of strange anomalies around the station and you might find a way out.

Why similar: Horror 19.8%, Investigation 17.6%, Psychological Horror 17.3%, Supernatural 10.6%, Mystery 10%

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 25.2%, Psychological Horror 24%, Retro 19.6%, Simulation 17.7%, Atmospheric 5.3%

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: Demons 24.3%, Supernatural 23.8%, Horror 16.9%, Mystery 12.1%, Atmospheric 6.4%

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: Psychological Horror 26.7%, Horror 25.9%, Retro 13.5%, Mystery 11%, Atmospheric 7.9%

You're working overtime again in your dead-end job, whilst your boss is on vacation. However, strange things are happening throughout the office. Complete your daily work tasks, explore your office, report any anomalies you may find, and you may just find yourself getting a promotion...

Why similar: Psychological Horror 29%, Investigation 22.1%, Mystery 17.9%, Horror 15.2%, Atmospheric 10.1%

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: Horror 21.3%, Supernatural 20.3%, Psychological Horror 18.4%, Mystery 11.2%, Investigation 9.5%

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: Horror 25.4%, Psychological Horror 25.2%, Retro 19.8%, Simulation 13.3%, Mystery 6.5%

Concluse is an atmospheric horror game which features puzzles, outstanding cutscenes, and something a little twisted..

Why similar: Horror 29.5%, Psychological Horror 22%, Mystery 12.4%, Simulation 10.9%, Retro 10.5%

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: Psychological Horror 33.1%, Horror 31.2%, Simulation 11.6%, Atmospheric 8.8%, First-Person 6.5%

A photographer enters the Great Pyramids to photograph Pharaoh Rudamon’s remains, but is soon overwhelmed by a sinister curse, as the ancient tomb awakens dark forces that claw at his sanity.

Why similar: Horror 49%, Atmospheric 14.5%, Psychological Horror 13.1%, Supernatural 9.1%, 3D 7.7%

Unpossess is a 1-4 co-op exorcism simulator game set in the early 1900s. Players take on the role of exorcists responsible for addressing cases of human possession.

Why similar: Supernatural 21.3%, Psychological Horror 18.8%, Demons 17.5%, Horror 16.5%, Multiplayer 9.5%

You play as the son of a restorer, a museum worker who died tragically. While searching for the memorabilia, the door suddenly closes and strange things begin to happen. The hero is waiting for immersion in the world of art and the paranormal.

Why similar: Psychological Horror 39.2%, Horror 38.7%, Atmospheric 12.1%, Simulation 6.3%, Indie 3.8%