Games Like Retail Hell

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 15.3%, Surreal 13.1%, Psychological Horror 11%, Mystery 10.2%, Dark 9.9%

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 33.1% ★, Time Management 18.5%, Horror 9.2%, Psychological Horror 8%, Multiple Endings 7.1%

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: Time Management 26.5%, Dark Humor 20.5%, Management 17.8%, Horror 15.8%, First-Person 9.9%

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 45.2% ★, Horror 17.8%, Simulation 9.2%, Mystery 7.6%, Psychological Horror 5.6%

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

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: Cozy 29.5%, Management 14.9%, Horror 14.8%, Psychological Horror 12.2%, Simulation 7.4%

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: Horror 19.8%, Psychological Horror 17.7%, First-Person 13.4%, Mystery 13%, Dark 11.6%

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% ★, Inventory Management 13.8%, Management 13%, Horror 9.6%, Psychological Horror 7.3%

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

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 22%, Management 19.1%, Psychological Horror 19%, First-Person 12.7%, Simulation 9.1%

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: Shop Keeper 39.3% ★, Horror 20.9%, Psychological Horror 16.7%, First-Person 11.2%, Simulation 6.4%

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

Why similar: Horror 35.8%, Mystery 14%, Surreal 13.2%, First-Person 8.6%, Dark 8%

A rogue-lite slot machine nightmare. Gamble for your life in a never-ending debt simulator!

Why similar: Dark Humor 19.6%, Psychological Horror 13.7%, Horror 13.5%, Surreal 11.3%, Dark 9.4%

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 18.9%, Mystery 16.3%, Dark 14%, First-Person 13.8%, Time Management 13.5%

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 27.9%, First-Person 17.5%, Simulation 16.8%, Mystery 14%, Dark 10.7%

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: Horror 16%, Surreal 15.5%, Psychological Horror 12.8%, Mystery 12.3%, Dark 11%

Experience working in retail with hardly any similarities to actually working in retail! Manage your time wisely to keep the shelves stocked, control the complaints of colorful and cranky customers, and be wary of the watchful eye of your manager to avoid being fired... or worse.

Why similar: Time Management 44%, Management 23.3%, Multiple Endings 15.1%, Horror 13.9%, Indie 2.2%

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: Shop Keeper 28.5% ★, Dark Humor 15.2%, Management 12.9%, Horror 12.6%, Simulation 7.5%

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: Horror 21.1%, Mystery 14.7%, Multiple Endings 12.4%, First-Person 11.3%, Dark 11%

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

Why similar: Horror 36%, Psychological Horror 17.4%, Surreal 9.6%, Mystery 8.2%, Simulation 7.4%

A 1-3 player co-op puzzle horror game set in an accursed megastore. Work together to decode the store's twisted logic, and find a way out before the lurking horrors doom you to shop forever.

Why similar: Horror 20.8%, Psychological Horror 16.9%, Surreal 14.6%, Dark 13%, First-Person 11.4%

You signed up to deliver food in the underworld, alone or with up to 8 friends. Everynight your work condition changes. Take orders, dodge monsters, and survive the night - or be trapped in hell forever.

Why similar: Horror 40.3%, First-Person 17.9%, Dark 16.6%, Simulation 13.5%, 3D 8.4%

Run a shop in the zombie apocalypse! Trade batteries, craft stock, manage your staff, and fend off undead hordes. Will you be a hero, or profit at any cost? Your choices shape your store - and your fate.

Why similar: Management 44.7%, Dark Humor 19.9%, Simulation 19.2%, Horror 11.2%, 3D 4%

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: Horror 25.2%, Psychological Horror 23.2%, First-Person 13.3%, Dark 13.3%, Simulation 13.2%

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: Horror 26.9%, Surreal 25.6%, First-Person 14.7%, Atmospheric 11.6%, Multiple Endings 8.3%

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: Horror 22.7%, Psychological Horror 18.6%, First-Person 14%, Simulation 12.9%, Multiple Endings 12.3%

Brew otherworldly coffee for ghostly patrons in a dark, cozy first-person café. Upgrade your shop, manage supplies, and turn a haunted café into a sanctuary amidst nightmares.

Why similar: Shop Keeper 43.4% ★, Cozy 26.8%, Management 14.6%, First-Person 7%, Simulation 6.6%

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: Management 39.7%, Simulation 25.1%, Inventory Management 17.5%, First-Person 10%, Singleplayer 3.6%

Meat shop simulator where you play as a ZOMBIE! Sell meat to humans by day, butcher them by night, and manage a dark business through stealth and resource management all while eating BRA-A-A-INS!

Why similar: Shop Keeper 41.8% ★, Management 16.7%, Dark Humor 13.2%, First-Person 8.7%, Simulation 7.4%

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

Why similar: Horror 22.9%, Psychological Horror 19.3%, First-Person 16.2%, Dark 12.1%, Simulation 10.6%

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 23.9%, Psychological Horror 20.2%, Surreal 17.2%, First-Person 12.6%, Mystery 11.7%

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 29.2%, Psychological Horror 17.9%, First-Person 15%, Simulation 14.6%, Atmospheric 7.8%

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 37%, Mystery 14.6%, First-Person 13%, Psychological Horror 11.5%, Simulation 10.5%

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 46.3% ★, Inventory Management 18.2%, Management 15.4%, Simulation 7.7%, First-Person 5.2%

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 26.2%, Psychological Horror 19.6%, Simulation 16.4%, Dark Humor 9.6%, Dark 7.8%

Trapped in a department store during a storm, survive with only a flashlight while completing tasks and evading a malevolent presence that only moves when you're not looking. Uncover secrets and face evolving horrors in this immersive first-person horror game.

Why similar: Horror 30.1%, First-Person 17.6%, Multiple Endings 14.7%, Puzzle 11.2%, Atmospheric 8.7%

Lovecraft meets Papers, Please. Play as a lighthouse keeper and guide ships safely into the harbor using your radio. Survive the presence of something impossible, and don’t let the shadows consume you!

Why similar: Horror 19.2%, Psychological Horror 16.5%, Multiple Endings 14.6%, Dark 13.4%, First-Person 11.9%

Sorry, We're Open is a Supermarket Management Horror RPG. As the new Manager of your local supermarket, you'll need to make the hard decisions to keep the store running. Remember, your store's reputation and your employees' livelihoods are in your hands.

Why similar: Horror 42.5%, Dark Humor 34.2%, Management 23.2%

You're trapped in an old English pub. Unravel a chilling tale by identifying anomalies while trying to escape. Confront the horror as you survive the endless loop of Ten Bells.

Why similar: Horror 20.6%, Psychological Horror 18.4%, Dark 14.7%, First-Person 12.5%, Mystery 10.8%

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: Horror 23.4%, Psychological Horror 20.1%, Dark 16.4%, First-Person 13.4%, Mystery 12.1%

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: Dark Humor 20.7%, Management 14.9%, Simulation 14.5%, First-Person 13.4%, Mystery 12.8%

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: Dark Humor 24.7%, Psychological Horror 21.6%, Horror 15.8%, First-Person 12.8%, Simulation 9.5%

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: Horror 25.3%, Psychological Horror 24.6%, First-Person 16.6%, Mystery 10.3%, Simulation 10.2%

In a world where electric cars reign supreme, you are now the owner of an old gas station out in the wilderness. Establish trade, develop your business and uncover the secret of this strange place in the compact gas station simulator.

Why similar: Shop Keeper 37.5% ★, Cozy 23.6%, Management 13.4%, Mystery 8.6%, Multiple Endings 6.8%

Social welfare survival horror based on real events. Endure emotional pain and societal pressure. Stay entertained. Survive the routine and become the hero of your studio apartment—battle inner demons, hide skeletons in the closet, and most importantly… keep the bathroom clean.

Why similar: Dark Humor 23.8%, Mystery 13%, Surreal 11.1%, Psychological Horror 10.5%, Horror 10.3%

Survive the night in a deadly asylum—deliver sinister meds, keep the insane in line, and outwit a killer hiding in the dark.

Why similar: Time Management 23.9%, Horror 15.2%, Psychological Horror 13.2%, Dark 9.9%, Simulation 8.5%

A 3D horror game where your only goal is to finish your work… and survive the night. Unnatural anomalies creep into the office as you complete your tasks. Can you make it to the end of your shift alive.

Why similar: Horror 29.7%, Psychological Horror 19.8%, Management 14.4%, Atmospheric 10.6%, First-Person 10%

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: Management 19%, Horror 16.2%, Surreal 15.3%, Psychological Horror 11.4%, Simulation 10%

While trying to avoid the dangers of working the night shift at a store deep in the forest, you'll also make decisions that shape the fate of the story.

Why similar: Psychological Horror 30.7%, Horror 22%, Multiple Endings 20.9%, First-Person 16.6%, 3D 4.8%

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 40.8% ★, Horror 10.9%, Psychological Horror 10.3%, Mystery 9.8%, First-Person 8.1%

Dungeon Bodega Simulator is a retro styled fantasy shop game where you can grow crops, brew potions, sell items and raise slimes as pets! Can you build up your bodega into a one stop adventuring shop while solving the mysteries of the dungeon beneath you?

Why similar: Shop Keeper 43.4% ★, Cozy 22.5%, Management 16.4%, First-Person 7.4%, Simulation 7.2%

You have wandered into an infinite looping shopping mall in Japan. If you notice changes within the mall, you might be able to escape.

Why similar: Psychological Horror 35.2%, Surreal 34.8%, First-Person 15.2%, 3D 7%, Indie 4.6%

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 24.9%, Multiple Endings 20.7%, First-Person 11.6%, Indie 3.3%

Cage an angel. Ransack Heaven. In a far-flung dystopian future, the Angel Engine Initiative carries on as the last hope for humanity. Seal yourself in your operating room, perform surgery on comatose test subjects, and pray you make it out alive.

Why similar: Time Management 36.2%, Horror 15.9%, Psychological Horror 15.8%, First-Person 10.2%, Simulation 7.7%

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: Simulation 31.6%, Psychological Horror 31.6%, Horror 16.8%, Indie 11.1%, Singleplayer 8.9%

Step into an uncanny building trapped in endless loops. Use the elevator, uncover unsettling anomalies, and evade the Entity lurking behind you. Liminal Exit is an immersive game inspired by liminal spaces and Exit 8. Explore 3 liminal space floors and track anomalies to escape, but watch your back!

Why similar: Dark Humor 17.3%, Horror 13%, Psychological Horror 11.2%, Surreal 10.9%, Multiple Endings 9.4%

Operate a remote fuel station deep in the Arctic. Manage customers, supplies and vital systems while surviving brutal weather, wildlife and isolation.

Why similar: Shop Keeper 34.2% ★, Inventory Management 16.7%, Time Management 15.5%, Management 13.1%, Simulation 7.2%

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 25.4%, Simulation 23%, Dark 18.9%, Psychological Horror 17.4%, 3D 7.8%

Run your own tabletop game shop! Stock shelves, glue & paint minis, battle customers on game night, and grow your store into the ultimate nerd paradise.

Why similar: Shop Keeper 53.3% ★, Management 17.3%, Inventory Management 9.6%, Simulation 8.9%, First-Person 7.4%

This game is a simulation of self-isolation. You need to support your family, not to lose your job and finally not to go crazy.

Why similar: Time Management 24.8%, Horror 19.3%, Dark 16.4%, Simulation 10.6%, Atmospheric 9.4%