Games Like Shift 87

You are trapped on a train that runs forever. Keep an eye out for anomalies and find a way out.

Why similar: Walking Simulator 19.9%, Hidden Object 16.7%, Psychological Horror 15.9%, Puzzle 6.7%, First-Person 6.7%

Why You'll Like It: Created by the same developer as The Exit 8, it offers a similar experience of navigating a repeating environment to find anomalies.

You are trapped in an endless underground passageway. Observe your surroundings carefully to reach "The Exit 8".

Why similar: Walking Simulator 25.2%, Psychological Horror 17.6%, First-Person 10.6%, Puzzle 9.2%, Horror 8.3%

Why You'll Like It: This is the definitive anomaly-spotting game that popularized the loop-based horror mechanic found in Shift 87.

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 40.8%, Horror 22%, Hidden Object 16.3%, Puzzle 15.6%, Atmospheric 4.6%

Why You'll Like It: The original title in the series that established the surveillance-based horror gameplay loop.

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: Hidden Object 24.4%, Psychological Horror 21.1%, Mystery 11.2%, Horror 10.4%, Puzzle 9.4%

Why You'll Like It: Offers a modern take on the observation genre with high-fidelity visuals and complex anomaly patterns.

A thrilling psychological horror game. Your job is to look for anomalies in a haunted house. If you see anyhting suspicious (furniture moving, extra objects, intruders), take a photo and send a report. Includes both VR- (windows only) and non-VR (windows, mac, linux)-versions.

Why similar: Hidden Object 20.8%, Psychological Horror 18.9%, Mystery 12.1%, First-Person 9.4%, Puzzle 8.5%

Why You'll Like It: Continues the series with refined mechanics and increasingly unsettling supernatural occurrences.

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 22%, Hidden Object 19.3%, Mystery 11.9%, Dark 10.4%, Horror 10.2%

Why You'll Like It: Introduces new mechanics and more intense psychological pressure while monitoring security feeds.

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 28.9%, Hidden Object 25.4%, Horror 12.4%, Puzzle 9.9%, Mystery 8.7%

Why You'll Like It: The latest entry in the series, providing the most challenging and atmospheric surveillance experience yet.

A spot the difference -type of puzzle horror game about monitoring live surveillance camera footage and spotting anomalies. Anomalies range from furniture movement to intruders. Fix anomalies by filing reports. You will need sharp eyes and good memory. The goal is to survive the entire night.

Why similar: Psychological Horror 21.3%, Hidden Object 20.1%, Mystery 14%, Horror 9.7%, Puzzle 9.5%

Why You'll Like It: Features a wider variety of environments, requiring sharper observation skills to catch shifting details.

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: Walking Simulator 23.9%, Thriller 20.4%, Psychological Horror 18.9%, First-Person 9.6%, Horror 7.9%

Why You'll Like It: Focuses on the same 'night shift' atmosphere where mundane tasks are interrupted by psychological horror.

Your job is to monitor live surveillance camera footage and spot anomalies in the monitored rooms. Anomalies range from furniture movement to otherworldly intruders. When you spot an anomaly you have to file a report to fix it. You will need sharp eyes and good memory to survive the entire night.

Why similar: Psychological Horror 48.5%, Horror 24.8%, Puzzle 19.8%, Atmospheric 6%, Singleplayer 0.9%

Why You'll Like It: Expands on the original with more complex rooms and subtle anomalies to track.

A psychological first-person horror game where you enter a memory-erasing protocol and relive a trauma. Uncover dark secrets, and experience fear through immersive atmosphere.

Why similar: Walking Simulator 21.7%, Thriller 18.3%, Psychological Horror 17%, Dark 8.6%, Horror 8.4%

Why You'll Like It: Features a sterile, confined environment where players must identify subtle changes to survive.

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: Hidden Object 27.8%, Psychological Horror 22.7%, Mystery 14.7%, Puzzle 10.7%, Horror 10.2%

Why You'll Like It: Refines the anomaly-spotting formula with more polished graphics and diverse room layouts.

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: Walking Simulator 19.9%, Psychological Horror 15.8%, Thriller 12.8%, First-Person 7.7%, Horror 6.6%

Why You'll Like It: Combines the walking simulator genre with anomaly detection in a sci-fi setting.

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: Walking Simulator 17.1%, Psychological Horror 16.8%, Thriller 12.7%, Hidden Object 12.2%, First-Person 9.6%

Why You'll Like It: Uses a first-person perspective to create an unsettling atmosphere where the environment feels alive and malicious.

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: Walking Simulator 25.4%, Psychological Horror 20.7%, Mystery 14.2%, First-Person 8.3%, Realistic 6.3%

Why You'll Like It: Captures the dread of working late in an environment that begins to warp and change around you.

You woke up in some basement and don't remember who you are or how you ended up here... But what you do know is that you need to get out of here...

Why similar: Walking Simulator 22.1%, Psychological Horror 17.1%, Thriller 13.5%, Dark 9%, Mystery 8.4%

Why You'll Like It: Focuses on the psychological toll of observing a reality that is constantly shifting and reflecting your fears.

A psychological horror game with a chapter-based plot, thriller and unusual elements! You are a novice paranormal detective, exploring secrets and finding ways to escape in an infinite loop of scenes. Many unusual things happen during this process, as if some strange force wants to devour you...

Why similar: Walking Simulator 39.5%, Psychological Horror 24.8%, First-Person 13.7%, Horror 9.8%, 3D 7.2%

Why You'll Like It: Directly tasks the player with investigating and cataloging anomalies within a first-person perspective.

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: Hidden Object 20.7%, Walking Simulator 20.4%, Psychological Horror 14%, Mystery 9%, Horror 8.3%

Why You'll Like It: Uses a similar loop-based structure to build tension through environmental storytelling and subtle changes.

Can you endure until morning Monitor Japan's stigmatized properties and report any paranormal activity If you miss a report or make repeated mistakes——

Why similar: Psychological Horror 23.6%, Thriller 22.2%, Hidden Object 16.4%, Dark 10%, Realistic 7.5%

Why You'll Like It: Focuses on investigating haunted properties, requiring careful attention to detail to identify supernatural shifts.

You find yourself trapped in the endless maze of Kyoto's backstreets, trying to reach the temple of Hōkan-ji before the main tourist rush. Inspect the street for anomalies, choose the right path, and reach your destination... or be trapped forever.

Why similar: Walking Simulator 18.3%, Hidden Object 15.4%, Psychological Horror 14.9%, Thriller 13.8%, Mystery 7.8%

Why You'll Like It: Blends traditional Japanese horror aesthetics with the observation-based gameplay loop.

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: Psychedelic 18.5%, First-Person 15.5%, Horror 13.4%, Mystery 11.8%, Walking Simulator 10.1%

Why You'll Like It: A simulation-horror hybrid that forces players to inspect a property while being haunted by anomalies.

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: Walking Simulator 21%, Psychedelic 15.2%, Mystery 12.3%, First-Person 10.9%, Dark 10.8%

Why You'll Like It: Provides a grounded setting that slowly descends into psychedelic horror through environmental changes.

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

Why similar: Psychological Horror 25.5%, Hidden Object 22.6%, Mystery 14%, Puzzle 12.1%, Realistic 7.5%

Why You'll Like It: Combines the classic night shift trope with supernatural anomaly detection mechanics.

You are trapped at home in an endless loop. Remember your surroundings and watch out for anomalies, if you ever want to leave.

Why similar: Hidden Object 20.2%, Walking Simulator 20.1%, Psychological Horror 15.9%, Puzzle 7.4%, Mystery 6.9%

Why You'll Like It: Uses hidden-object mechanics within a psychological horror framework to challenge the player's perception.

Implements of Hell is a first-person psychological horror game. Explore the mysteries, unlock the secrets, and change the outcome in a slow-paced atmospheric, and extremely horrifying experience.

Why similar: Walking Simulator 19.2%, Thriller 16.6%, Psychological Horror 13.5%, Mystery 8%, Dark 7%

Why You'll Like It: Delivers a slow-burn horror experience where the environment is the primary source of fear.

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: Hidden Object 19%, Psychological Horror 17.3%, Mystery 10.9%, First-Person 9.5%, Dark 9.4%

Why You'll Like It: A psychological horror game that relies on environmental observation and puzzle-solving to progress.

Liminal Shift is a unique atmospheric suspense game developed using the latest Unreal Engine 5 technologies such as Lumen and Nanite. With every step you take, Liminal Shift pushes you deeper into an eerie, unsettling experience like no other.

Why similar: Walking Simulator 20.5%, Thriller 18.5%, Psychological Horror 13.3%, First-Person 11.9%, 3D 7.6%

Why You'll Like It: Explores the liminal space aesthetic with a focus on exploration and subtle environmental horror.

You’ve been trapped in a school by a mysterious God. Memorize your surroundings, spot the anomalies, and reach floor 0 to earn your escape.

Why similar: Walking Simulator 20.1%, Hidden Object 18.3%, Psychological Horror 15.3%, Dark 7%, First-Person 6.9%

Why You'll Like It: Features a school setting where players must identify anomalies to escape a repeating nightmare.

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: Walking Simulator 24.8%, Hidden Object 20.5%, Psychological Horror 15.4%, Thriller 11.8%, Horror 9.4%

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: Walking Simulator 28.5%, Psychological Horror 24.1%, Horror 11.7%, First-Person 10%, 3D 5.7%

You have been sent photographs of a place where, according to rumors, an artifact of an ancient civilization is hidden... Do you dare to go there?!

Why similar: Walking Simulator 22.8%, Psychological Horror 17.4%, First-Person 9.4%, Horror 8.5%, Dark 8.5%

Why You'll Like It: A psychological horror game that uses environmental cues and shifts to represent the protagonist's mental state.

Seybul Tech is a walking simulator. Navigate as an office employee, confronting peculiar encounters while in search of an exit from this enigmatic abyss.

Why similar: Walking Simulator 27.3%, Psychological Horror 21.4%, Dark 11.9%, Mystery 8.5%, Horror 7.6%

Why You'll Like It: A surreal walking simulator that relies on observation to navigate its dark and mysterious world.

You've been trapped in a looping Finnish summer cottage. Use your observation and memory to find anomalies and make the right choice to escape the Finnish Cottage 8.

Why similar: Walking Simulator 21.1%, Psychological Horror 16.2%, Thriller 12%, First-Person 8.8%, Puzzle 7.2%

You are a young college student working the night shift as a security guard at a remote cemetery deep in the Arkansas woods. What starts as routine surveillance quickly turns into something far more unsettling.

Why similar: Walking Simulator 28.7%, Psychological Horror 22.8%, Thriller 18.9%, Horror 12.2%, Adventure 5.2%

Luto is a psychological horror experience where you take on the role of someone unable to leave their home. Every attempt to escape will lead you deeper into the unknown, where nothing is as it seems and everything will test your senses.

Why similar: Walking Simulator 21.2%, Psychological Horror 16.7%, Thriller 15.3%, Dark 9.3%, Mystery 8.4%

Experience Will's complicated story, find a way out of the nightmare of liminal spaces by solving challenging puzzles and avoiding dangerous entities — all this awaits you in "Shifting To The Backrooms".

Why similar: Walking Simulator 24%, Psychological Horror 21.4%, First-Person 12.2%, Horror 10.9%, Puzzle 10.5%

ROUTINE is a First Person Sci-Fi Horror set on an abandoned lunar base designed around an 80s vision of the future. Explore and investigate your surroundings as you survive against unknown threats.

Why similar: Walking Simulator 18.7%, Thriller 18%, Psychological Horror 16.8%, Dark 10.3%, First-Person 8%

[SUBJECT] is a first-person psychological horror game. You wake up confused in a dark room, not knowing where you are. The last thing you remember is a robotic voice echoing through you ears. How you got here or why is unclear, but you do know one thing: You're being watched.

Why similar: Thriller 18.1%, Walking Simulator 16.9%, Psychological Horror 13.1%, Hidden Object 8%, Dark 7.3%

"Psalm 5:9-13" is a first-person psychological horror game with VHS effect. Be careful and attentive, there is something hiding in these rooms, something is watching from the darkness.

Why similar: Walking Simulator 17.9%, Thriller 16.5%, Psychological Horror 15.3%, Mystery 9.4%, First-Person 7.5%

Walking simulator. Explore, admire and listen. Uncanny. Relaxing. Unnerving. Eerie. Immersive. No monsters chasing you or jumping at your screen, but can feel oppressive at times by invoking fears of getting lost, the dark, tight spaces and liminal space architecture. Inspired by backrooms.

Why similar: Walking Simulator 34%, Psychological Horror 26.4%, First-Person 11.4%, Realistic 8.8%, Dark 4.3%

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: Walking Simulator 23.1%, Psychological Horror 22.4%, Mystery 13.4%, Horror 9.7%, First-Person 9.2%

As one of many kidnapped and enslaved Probants of the Project 13 Group... You need to find Anomalies through your Walk. If you not obey and report , you will be stuck in it forever.

Why similar: Walking Simulator 28.2%, Psychological Horror 18.4%, First-Person 9.5%, Horror 9%, Psychedelic 8.6%

Spot anomalies and uncover hidden clues to escape an office where overwork turns strange and experiments happen more often than coffee breaks.

Why similar: Walking Simulator 26%, Psychological Horror 20.1%, First-Person 10.7%, Horror 8%, Mystery 6.7%

You are an observer tasked with monitoring surveillance footage for suspicious activity. This innocuous job soon takes a turn for the creepy, as anomalies begin to appear, from moving furniture... to them. Experience a real-time horror straight from horror-filled creepypastas!

Why similar: Hidden Object 20%, Thriller 18.6%, Psychological Horror 17.2%, Dark 10.6%, Horror 8.4%

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: Thriller 23.5%, Psychological Horror 19.4%, First-Person 11.4%, Dark 10.7%, Horror 9.2%

Unpredictable horrors lurk around every corner, forcing you to find the missing people while desperately clinging to survival. In this experience even your own mind can become your enemy. Stay vigilant and keep your voice hushed, or risk becoming another victim of the forest's darkness

Why similar: Thriller 23%, Psychological Horror 19.2%, Walking Simulator 11.3%, Horror 10.5%, Dark 9.6%

Jumpscare Simulator is a sci-fi horror game featuring a story-driven main game and two additional game modes. Pass through doors carefully, battle the simulation, and try to fall from your seat as little as possible!

Why similar: Thriller 19.5%, Walking Simulator 19%, Psychological Horror 16.7%, Dark 10.1%, Horror 8.1%

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: Thriller 21.5%, Psychological Horror 19.1%, Dark 15.3%, Horror 11.4%, 3D 10.8%

You are wetware, working a mysterious job.

Why similar: Walking Simulator 27.4%, Psychological Horror 20.7%, First-Person 11.3%, Horror 9.2%, Puzzle 8.8%

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: Hidden Object 19.1%, Psychological Horror 15.6%, Mystery 9.1%, First-Person 8.5%, Dark 8.3%

"From the Other Side" immerses you in a chilling first-person psychological horror game. You are Steve, a security guard on his first night at work, tasked with monitoring security cameras and fixing unsettling anomalies that will make you question reality.

Why similar: Walking Simulator 25.5%, Psychological Horror 19.6%, Dark 10.6%, First-Person 10.3%, Horror 9.4%

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

Why similar: Walking Simulator 31.2%, Psychological Horror 20.7%, First-Person 13.1%, Horror 10%, Dark 9.5%

The Wellmonts Case is a first-person psychological horror game set in 1993, Northern Maine. As a private detective, you explore the abandoned Wellmont farm, search for clues, photograph unsettling evidence, and uncover the truth behind a family's unexplained disappearance.

Why similar: Thriller 19.5%, Walking Simulator 19.2%, Psychological Horror 15.2%, Dark 8.3%, Mystery 8.1%

Lost in a series of endless train station hallways, find your way to the exit Platform in this First-Person Anomaly Spotting game set in the Midnight Monitor universe. Watch out for anomalies - If you see any, turn back immediately! Can you find your way out of Aldercourt Station?

Why similar: Walking Simulator 22.2%, Hidden Object 19.4%, Psychological Horror 16.5%, First-Person 9.7%, Horror 7.6%

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 36.1%, Horror 18.5%, First-Person 18.3%, 3D 10.8%, Adventure 5.7%

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: Walking Simulator 23.1%, Psychological Horror 17.7%, Thriller 14.9%, Horror 8.6%, First-Person 8.4%

A "spot the difference" horror game where you have to monitor cameras in a haunted house and report anomalies. You have no choice but to finish the job. Can you spot every anomaly? Can you survive the night?

Why similar: Hidden Object 24.4%, Psychological Horror 18.7%, Mystery 12.3%, First-Person 9.6%, Horror 8.5%

RESTORER is a classic walking simulator set in an old, atmospheric mansion. Something roams the halls… It wants to share its secret—with the price being your sanity.

Why similar: Walking Simulator 23.8%, Psychological Horror 18.2%, Thriller 14.1%, Psychedelic 11.4%, Dark 7.3%

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: Thriller 19.6%, Psychological Horror 15.2%, Walking Simulator 13.6%, Mystery 10.3%, Horror 9.1%

Last Report is a dark horror game where you play as a night shift park ranger. While monitoring the camera footage, you start noticing strange events. Uncover the terrifying secret of the National Park. Something moved in the window, but don’t worry it’s probably just another deer, right?

Why similar: Psychological Horror 29.6%, Horror 17.1%, Dark 16.1%, Mystery 13.5%, Puzzle 7.5%