Games Like Photomaly

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 30% ★, Horror 22.4%, Management 20.7%, Atmospheric 8.7%, First-Person 7%

Why You'll Like It: Features a similar blend of fast-paced restaurant management and terrifying, reality-bending horror events.

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

Why similar: Horror 27.9%, Supernatural 21.4%, Demons 17.7%, Mystery 9.5%, Simulation 6.6%

Why You'll Like It: Combines repetitive, detail-oriented job tasks with escalating supernatural horror and a need for careful observation.

Film your friends doing scary things to become SpöökTube famous! (strongly advised to not go alone)

Why similar: Horror 32%, Psychological Horror 15.6%, Multiplayer 15.3%, Investigation 12.6%, Mystery 8.3%

Why You'll Like It: This multiplayer game perfectly captures the loop of filming supernatural entities for profit while managing equipment and inventory.

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 19.2%, Horror 16.7%, Psychological Horror 15.7%, Life Sim 11.8%, Simulation 10.4%

Why You'll Like It: A shop-management horror game that forces you to balance customer service with surviving bizarre supernatural occurrences.

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: Psychological Horror 32.8%, Horror 32.4%, Demons 12.4%, Atmospheric 7.2%, First-Person 6.7%

Why You'll Like It: Centers entirely on the use of an instant camera to solve puzzles and survive against malevolent forces.

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 30.3%, Psychological Horror 16.8%, Supernatural 14.5%, Multiplayer 10.9%, Investigation 10.1%

Why You'll Like It: The definitive multiplayer experience for using cameras and investigative tools to document supernatural entities.

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 25.4% ★, Management 13.7%, Horror 13.6%, Psychological Horror 10.9%, Inventory Management 10.7%

Why You'll Like It: A shop-keeping simulator that uses the stress of retail work to build a foundation for psychological 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: Demons 26.4%, Psychological Horror 25.8%, Horror 22.4%, Investigation 10.9%, Atmospheric 5.7%

Why You'll Like It: A retro-styled horror game that relies on photography mechanics to uncover dark secrets in a realistic setting.

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: Retro 22.7%, Psychological Horror 17.1%, Mystery 15.6%, Horror 14.6%, Simulation 8.5%

Why You'll Like It: Focuses on the mundane duties of a night shift worker while introducing unsettling, conspiracy-driven narrative elements.

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 25.9%, Horror 22.2%, Supernatural 13.4%, Investigation 12%, Conspiracy 9.5% ★

Why You'll Like It: Requires intense focus on monitoring environments for anomalies, matching the investigative and observational nature of Photomaly.

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

Why similar: Psychological Horror 19.9%, Demons 18.6%, Supernatural 17.8%, Horror 17.6%, Mystery 10.3%

Why You'll Like It: Captures the isolating feeling of working a late-night job where the environment slowly turns hostile and paranormal.

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 24.5%, Retro 14.8%, Investigation 12.4%, Multiplayer 10.1%, Psychological Horror 10%

Why You'll Like It: A multiplayer-focused horror game that places players in a high-stress work environment during the night shift.

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 31.9% ★, Investigation 13.1%, Life Sim 13%, Supernatural 12.5%, Psychological Horror 8.6%

Why You'll Like It: Focuses on the intersection of surveillance, photography, and conspiracy-themed horror.

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 23.3%, Psychological Horror 22.4%, Horror 20.9%, Simulation 14%, First-Person 6.4%

Why You'll Like It: A first-person simulation horror game that shares the unsettling, claustrophobic atmosphere of a workplace gone wrong.

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 20.8%, Retro 20.3%, Psychological Horror 18.1%, Mystery 14.2%, Simulation 9.9%

Why You'll Like It: A short, atmospheric horror experience that utilizes photography and retro visuals to build mystery.

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 16.3%, Demons 15.7%, Horror 12.5%, Management 12.1%, Psychological Horror 11.5%

Why You'll Like It: Blends simulation mechanics with supernatural horror, requiring the player to perform specific tasks while under threat.

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 29.4% ★, Psychological Horror 17.8%, Horror 15.7%, Life Sim 12.1%, Simulation 9.7%

Why You'll Like It: Focuses on the time-management aspects of running a shop while dealing with the eerie nature of the night.

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 23.5%, Mystery 14.3%, Simulation 14.2%, Atmospheric 8.5%

Why You'll Like It: A retro-inspired horror game that leans into the aesthetic of 90s media and VHS-style tension.

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 28.4% ★, Horror 21.5%, Simulation 13.2%, Retro 10.6%, Psychological Horror 8.9%

Why You'll Like It: A survival-horror game that centers on the mundane tasks of a gas station attendant while under constant threat.

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 38.8%, Psychological Horror 38.6%, Atmospheric 13.9%, First-Person 7%, 3D 1.8%

Why You'll Like It: Provides a grounded job-based horror experience that emphasizes isolation and environmental storytelling.

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 18.5%, Psychological Horror 16.1%, Horror 14.8%, Demons 12.5%, Investigation 12.5%

Why You'll Like It: A multiplayer horror game that emphasizes the discovery of supernatural anomalies in a confined space.

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 20.2%, Horror 19.4%, Shop Keeper 19% ★, Retro 16.8%, Life Sim 8.1%

Why You'll Like It: A retro-styled horror game that focuses on the dread of working alone in a commercial environment.

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 22.6% ★, Retro 14.9%, Psychological Horror 14.3%, Horror 11.6%, Mystery 9.1%

Why You'll Like It: Captures the 1990s retro aesthetic and simulation gameplay that defines the visual style of Photomaly.

The multiplayer supermarket has arrived to your neighbourhood for free! Stock your shop space, unlock perks and franchises, hire employees or chase those pesky shoplifters. The more players, the more action!

Why similar: Management 25.5%, Simulation 25%, Multiplayer 20.8%, Life Sim 9.5%, Resource Management 6.6%

Why You'll Like It: A multiplayer management game that can be played with a focus on the chaotic, often eerie nature of running a store.

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 23.7%, Horror 22%, Management 18.2%, Simulation 13%, Mystery 8%

Why You'll Like It: A job-simulator horror game that uses a cozy aesthetic to mask a deeply unsettling experience.

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 18.5%, Demons 17.5%, Horror 16.6%, Supernatural 13.7%, Mystery 10.8%

Why You'll Like It: A psychological horror game that prioritizes environmental investigation and puzzle-solving in a first-person perspective.

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

Why You'll Like It: A psychological horror game that uses cooking and shop management mechanics to create a sense of unease.

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 31.1% ★, Management 16.3%, Inventory Management 12.6%, Simulation 11.7%, Resource Management 9.9%

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 24.5%, Horror 21.7%, Management 15.4%, Simulation 10.5%, Atmospheric 7.3%

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 21.1%, Psychological Horror 19.1%, Horror 18.6%, Investigation 14.1%, Mystery 8.3%

Observation is a sci-fi thriller uncovering what happened to Dr. Emma Fisher, and the crew of her mission, through the lens of the station’s artificial intelligence S.A.M.

Why similar: Horror 37%, Psychological Horror 25%, Indie 13.1%, Mystery 11.4%, Atmospheric 11.1%

Why You'll Like It: A unique sci-fi horror game where you play as the station's AI, focusing on camera control and environmental interaction.

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 20.4% ★, Management 12.6%, Supernatural 12.3%, Horror 11.3%, Psychological Horror 11.2%

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 22.8%, Retro 18.9%, Multiplayer 11.1%, Atmospheric 9%

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 25.1%, Psychological Horror 21.6%, Horror 20.3%, Mystery 13.9%, Atmospheric 8%

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 31.8%, Horror 25.1%, Mystery 19.7%, Atmospheric 10.3%, Pixel Graphics 7%

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

Why similar: Horror 19.9%, Psychological Horror 16.9%, Supernatural 12.9%, Retro 12.7%, Resource Management 11.6%

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 18.1%, Psychological Horror 16.9%, Horror 15.5%, Demons 15.4%, Mystery 11%

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 31.8%, Horror 26.4%, Simulation 16.3%, Retro 8.6%, First-Person 6.9%

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: Psychological Horror 21.6%, Horror 18.2%, Investigation 17.6%, Mystery 13.8%, Simulation 10.5%

AVAILABLE TO PLAY IN NON-VR (KEYBOARD/MOUSE AND CONTROLLER) VR HEADSET NO LONGER REQUIRED.“PARANORMAL ACTIVITY: THE LOST SOUL” immerses you in a terrifying realistic environment with haunting atmosphere, and the need to survive.

Why similar: Horror 65.3%, Psychological Horror 25.9%, Multiplayer 6.7%, Indie 2.2%

Why You'll Like It: Utilizes a camera-based mechanic to navigate and investigate a haunted environment.

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 26.3%, Simulation 18.6%, Demons 14.9%, Supernatural 12.2%, Mystery 11.5%

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 19.6%, Supernatural 17.1%, Horror 16.7%, Life Sim 11.2%, Simulation 10.4%

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

Why similar: Supernatural 28.3%, Psychological Horror 27.5%, Mystery 13.9%, Horror 10.9%, Demons 10.2%

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: Demons 21.5%, Psychological Horror 21.3%, Horror 17.7%, Mystery 11.4%, Simulation 10.6%

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 35.8%, Simulation 22.6%, Atmospheric 15.1%, 3D 11.3%, First-Person 11.1%

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 19.7%, Psychological Horror 17.2%, Demons 16.6%, Investigation 14.7%, Horror 13.5%

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 35.6%, Psychological Horror 32.1%, Retro 24.7%, First-Person 5.6%, Indie 2%

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 18.9%, Investigation 18%, Psychological Horror 17.1%, Supernatural 10.9%, Mystery 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: Supernatural 20.9%, Horror 20.3%, Psychological Horror 18.2%, Mystery 11.3%, Investigation 9.7%

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%, Mystery 16.3%, Resource Management 15.2%, Simulation 9.5%, First-Person 8.6%

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 29.1%, Horror 23.1%, Simulation 13.3%, Mystery 9.9%, Atmospheric 8.7%

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 24.4%, Supernatural 24.3%, Horror 16.2%, 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 26.6%, Horror 25.1%, Retro 13.6%, Mystery 11.2%, Atmospheric 8.1%

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 21.8%, Life Sim 18.1%, Inventory Management 15.5%, Simulation 14%, Resource Management 11.1%

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 21.6%, Demons 21.4%, Horror 17.5%, Mystery 11.1%, Simulation 10.5%

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 42.5%, Horror 23.7%, Simulation 16.8%, First-Person 9.5%, Atmospheric 6.1%

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 24.4%, Psychological Horror 23.9%, Retro 19.7%, Simulation 18%, Atmospheric 5.4%

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%, Horror 30.4%, Simulation 11.9%, Atmospheric 9%, First-Person 6.7%

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

Why similar: Demons 15.6%, Supernatural 14.7%, Horror 13.7%, Investigation 12.6%, Simulation 10%

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 28.6%, Investigation 22.7%, Mystery 18.1%, Horror 14.6%, Atmospheric 10.2%