Games Like The Boba Teashop

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

Why similar: Horror 30.1%, Psychological Horror 20.6%, Walking Simulator 11.2%, Psychological 8.4%, First-Person 6%

Why You'll Like It: It is a foundational title in the job-horror genre that mirrors the isolation and routine-based gameplay of managing a small shop.

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: Horror 22.8%, Immersive Sim 20.6%, Management 18.1%, First-Person 14.3%, Atmospheric 10.6%

Why You'll Like It: This title combines fast-food restaurant management with surreal, first-person horror elements that escalate as the shift progresses.

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 20%, Psychological Horror 19.3%, Psychological 16.1%, Simulation 15.1%, Crime 12.9%

Why You'll Like It: This game perfectly captures the anxiety of working a late-night shift in a service role while being stalked by an unknown presence.

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 18.7%, Psychological Horror 17.4%, Immersive Sim 13.3%, Walking Simulator 13.3%, Dialogue Heavy 9.9%

Why You'll Like It: This game focuses on the claustrophobic nature of managing a small retail space while the world outside becomes increasingly hostile.

The Sushi Bar | 寿司バー is a Japanese-style horror game where you play as a sushi chef working the night shift.

Why similar: Psychological Horror 20.4%, Walking Simulator 17%, Horror 16.8%, Immersive Sim 15.9%, Simulation 8%

Why You'll Like It: Like the seed game, this title forces you to balance customer service and food preparation while navigating a dark, atmospheric environment.

The Bathhouse | 地獄銭湯 Remake is a Japanese horror game that revolves around working at a bathhouse. A complete revamp of the original bathhouse.

Why similar: Psychological Horror 25.3%, Horror 19.9%, Immersive Sim 19.5%, Female Protagonist 9.1%, First-Person 8.9%

Why You'll Like It: It offers a similar immersive-sim experience where you must perform maintenance duties in a public facility while being haunted by spirits.

Share thoughts and hot food with your last ever clients, as you wait for the world to end.

Why similar: Walking Simulator 24%, Psychological Horror 23.6%, Horror 19.4%, First-Person 8.8%, Simulation 6.2%

Why You'll Like It: Set in a diner, this game forces you to manage orders while engaging in deep, psychological conversations that reveal a looming catastrophe.

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

Why similar: Horror 48.9%, First-Person 11.7%, Atmospheric 10.7%, Simulation 8.2%, Mystery 6.3%

Why You'll Like It: It blends highly detailed job simulation tasks with intense psychological horror, requiring you to maintain focus while supernatural events occur.

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 20.7%, Horror 17.9%, Management 12.7%, Psychological 11.5%, Simulation 7.5%

Why You'll Like It: It directly mirrors the cozy-horror aesthetic by tasking the player with managing a sweet-treat shop that hides dark secrets.

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: Psychological Horror 19.5%, Horror 19.3%, Immersive Sim 17.7%, First-Person 11.5%, Atmospheric 8.6%

Why You'll Like It: This game focuses on the mundane, often stressful nature of retail management while introducing supernatural threats that disrupt your workflow.

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 21.3%, Walking Simulator 19.5%, Horror 18.3%, Immersive Sim 13.4%, First-Person 8.2%

Why You'll Like It: This title provides an atmospheric, immersive-sim experience where your work environment becomes the source of your psychological distress.

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: Psychological Horror 17.1%, Walking Simulator 17.1%, Horror 12.5%, Dialogue Heavy 11.3%, First-Person 8.2%

Why You'll Like It: It emphasizes the walking-simulator and job-simulation aspects of horror, focusing on the tension of being alone in a workplace at night.

Sydney Harper, a 23-year-old working at a consulting firm plans a weekend getaway to a Woodbury rental with her college friends. Little did she know what was about to unfold during their stay.

Why similar: Psychological Horror 23.7%, Walking Simulator 17.5%, Horror 15.8%, First-Person 10.1%, Atmospheric 7.3%

Why You'll Like It: It excels at building tension through mundane exploration and the feeling of being an outsider in a strange, isolated location.

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 35.3%, Psychological Horror 34.2%, First-Person 11.3%, Female Protagonist 7.3%, Retro 5.9%

Why You'll Like It: It highlights the vulnerability of working alone at night, forcing the player to manage tasks while being hunted.

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 18.6%, Psychological 17.4%, Psychological Horror 16.1%, First-Person 9.6%, Immersive Sim 8.6%

Why You'll Like It: This title focuses on the management of a hospitality business where the guests and the environment are deeply unsettling.

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 19.1%, Psychological Horror 18.5%, Horror 15.6%, Psychological 12.7%, First-Person 8.2%

Why You'll Like It: This game leans into the retail-horror trope, requiring you to navigate a familiar environment that has become a source of terror.

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 33.9%, Immersive Sim 25.4%, First-Person 14.7%, Atmospheric 7.6%, 3D 7.4%

Why You'll Like It: It combines cooking mechanics with a 1990s-inspired aesthetic and psychological horror, making it a strong thematic match.

A psychological horror game where you spend a night in the shoes of an arcade worker named Marcus. Win prizes on the crane machine and shoot some hoops. Just make sure to keep the doors locked.

Why similar: Walking Simulator 21.1%, Psychological Horror 17.6%, Immersive Sim 16.9%, Horror 14.7%, First-Person 10%

Why You'll Like It: This game offers a slow-burn, atmospheric experience that focuses on exploration and the quiet tension of a solitary job.

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: Psychological Horror 18.5%, Walking Simulator 17.2%, Horror 13.9%, First-Person 10.3%, Atmospheric 8.5%

Why You'll Like It: This title emphasizes the retro, atmospheric simulation of running a cafe, providing a similar vibe to the seed game's management loop.

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 24.3%, Horror 21.7%, First-Person 11.5%, Dialogue Heavy 9.4%, Crime 7.7%

Why You'll Like It: This game focuses on the first-person perspective of a night shift worker, emphasizing the isolation and fear of the unknown.

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 27.2%, First-Person 14.6%, Atmospheric 11.9%, Simulation 11.6%, 3D 7.4%

Why You'll Like It: It utilizes a retro aesthetic to deliver a survival-horror experience centered around the mundane setting of a video rental store.

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 20.7%, Horror 16%, Immersive Sim 14%, Dialogue Heavy 11.9%, First-Person 8.4%

Unravel the mystery in this cute psychological horror VN, set deep in the woods of the Tatras Mountains. Will you wind up on the chopping block?

Why similar: Psychological Horror 28.2%, Horror 24.5%, Atmospheric 11.4%, Anime 11.3%, Female Protagonist 11.2%

Why You'll Like It: It blends cooking and social management with a dark, psychological narrative that subverts the cozy aesthetic.

PSYCHOLOGICAL HORROR // ANTI-DATING SIM about learning to say NO.

Why similar: Psychological Horror 20.7%, Walking Simulator 17.4%, Horror 17.1%, Psychological 11.4%, First-Person 9.4%

The Sweet Spot is a cozy horror game where you work the last shift at an 80s ice cream shop. Make ice cream, serve customers and watch out for strange things.

Why similar: Psychological Horror 17.6%, Walking Simulator 15.2%, Horror 15.2%, Immersive Sim 12.2%, Dialogue Heavy 10.8%

A creepy-cozy cooking simulator where you befriend local wildlife and feed them their favorite snacks! With a strange house to search and forest to explore, the witching hour has only begun.

Why similar: Horror 26.7%, First-Person 24.3%, Atmospheric 16.5%, Simulation 11.4%, 3D 11.3%

Parasocial | パラソーシャル is a Japanese horror game about a live streamer.

Why similar: Horror 29.4%, Psychological Horror 28%, Immersive Sim 13.4%, Atmospheric 7.4%, Anime 5.7%

The Closing Shift | 閉店事件 is a Japanese horror game about a girl on a closing shift.

Why similar: Walking Simulator 27.1%, Immersive Sim 21.8%, First-Person 13.5%, Simulation 9.8%, Anime 9.8%

Start your new job in a store overrun by maniacal consumers and their unrelenting thirst for customer service. RETAIL IS HELL!

Why similar: Horror 32.9%, Immersive Sim 24.5%, First-Person 14.3%, Simulation 13.1%, 3D 8.3%

Why You'll Like It: This game turns the mundane task of stocking shelves into a high-stress horror experience, mirroring the pressure of service jobs.

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

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

Immerse yourself in an atmospheric psychological horror with a haunting VHS aesthetic. As a night-shift waitress at a secluded roadside café, serve strange patrons and feel mounting dread. Each night, the nightmare becomes more real, and someone is watching from the darkness. Can you survive?

Why similar: Psychological Horror 20.1%, Walking Simulator 17.8%, Immersive Sim 15.4%, Horror 14.1%, Simulation 7.9%

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: Management 45.3%, First-Person 30.6%, Simulation 24%

You’re reborn—back at the beginning of your startup journey. In your last life, poor management led to your shop being crushed by competitors. This time, the sweet scent of condensed milk runs through your veins, and you’re set on one goal: turn “Sugarville” into the top name in the industry.

Why similar: Immersive Sim 29.5%, Management 25.5%, First-Person 17%, Simulation 13.6%, 3D 9.5%

Stigmatized Property, 事故物件 (Jiko bukken) is a horror game inspired by haunted apartment rooms in Japan. These properties are known to have cheap rents and you play to find out the exact reason why.

Why similar: Horror 27.8%, Psychological Horror 16.7%, Simulation 11.8%, Walking Simulator 8.6%, Psychological 6.3%

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: Walking Simulator 25.5%, Horror 21.7%, First-Person 15.7%, Atmospheric 10.5%, Mystery 6.2%

Fear the Spotlight is an atmospheric third-person horror adventure with a disturbing mystery to unravel. Sneak into school after hours with Vivian and Amy, survive a séance gone wrong, solve tactile puzzles, and, whatever you do, stay out of the spotlight…

Why similar: Psychological Horror 29.1%, Horror 23.8%, Atmospheric 13.5%, Female Protagonist 13%, 3D 7.4%

“Mayoi Shoutengai” is a first-person horror game where you must escape from a terrifying shopping district. You are the protagonist. Once you start, there’s no turning back.

Why similar: Walking Simulator 24.2%, Immersive Sim 21%, Horror 15.7%, First-Person 11%, Dialogue Heavy 10.7%

A cozy pixel art adventure about saving a struggling Boba Tea shop. Brew up tasty drinks, battle enemies for inspiration, make friends with customers, and much much more, on your quest to serve up the best tea in town!

Why similar: Management 49.2%, Simulation 28.3%, Casual 11.2%, Action 5.6%, Indie 5.6%

A story-driven psychological horror game where you must balance cooking authentic Vietnamese Pho with surviving chilling, unexpected events in a quiet, mysterious village.

Why similar: Horror 31.9%, Walking Simulator 16.3%, 3D 12.5%, Simulation 8.7%, First-Person 7.9%

Okaeri is a VHS Japanese psychological horror game about a middle school girl and her mother who recently moved to a new house.

Why similar: Horror 20.5%, Psychological Horror 15.8%, Walking Simulator 15.4%, Psychological 7.7%, Simulation 7.2%

Boba Tea shop simulator. Manage recipe, stock and customer satisfaction.

Why similar: Management 67.4%, Simulation 23.4%, Casual 9.2%

"Milk Tea Time" is simulation business game that includes all the elements of production, deployment and construction. You need to make each cup of milk tea. Research new flavors to win customer praise. Build and decorate your milk tea shop by hand. Create your own beautiful milk tea shop!

Why similar: Immersive Sim 34.1%, Management 31.3%, Simulation 18.3%, 3D 10.3%, Casual 6%

You're trapped in an endlessly looping art gallery — familiar, yet uncanny. If you can notice the changes, maybe you can find your way out.

Why similar: Walking Simulator 24.4%, Psychological Horror 23.3%, Horror 15%, Immersive Sim 11%, First-Person 10.1%

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: Psychological Horror 22.9%, Immersive Sim 19.9%, Horror 18.8%, First-Person 12.5%, Atmospheric 8.6%

A story-rich psychological horror inspired by real-life experiences. Follow Emily, 23, as she moves to Brooklyn for a fresh start, but finds herself drawn into a slow spiral of obsession and control. Featuring voice acting, this atmospheric and grounded experience is deeply unsettling.

Why similar: Psychological Horror 19.8%, Walking Simulator 19.1%, Horror 15.5%, First-Person 9.1%, Atmospheric 6.6%

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 23.9%, Psychological Horror 23%, Walking Simulator 15.8%, First-Person 10.2%, Atmospheric 7.4%

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: Psychological Horror 18.7%, Horror 17.5%, Management 16.8%, Immersive Sim 14.9%, First-Person 11.4%

A cozy horror cooking game with a deadly twist. Serve bizarre fantasy creatures and secretly eliminate targets as an assassin hiding in plain sight. Just keep an eye out for those out to get you.

Why similar: Walking Simulator 23.7%, Immersive Sim 16%, Simulation 13.3%, Horror 12.9%, Psychological Horror 7.8%

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: Management 30.6%, Immersive Sim 22%, First-Person 19.5%, Simulation 15.7%, 3D 6.8%

The Ghost Train | 幽霊列車 is a psychological train horror game.

Why similar: Walking Simulator 23.2%, Immersive Sim 18.9%, Psychological Horror 17.8%, Horror 15.7%, First-Person 11.5%

Steve Jackson, a 19-year-old guy, is looking after a friends house and encounters eerie events in a small town. Dive into the dark mystery of the events you unwittingly became a part of. Will you be able to uncover the truth?

Why similar: Walking Simulator 21.5%, Psychological Horror 19.3%, Horror 17.7%, Dialogue Heavy 15.1%, Psychological 8.4%

Night shift office cleaning. All that greets you, a new hire, is a dirty floor… and a formless sense of unease. In the silent floors above, something is unmistakably moving.

Why similar: Walking Simulator 26.7%, Immersive Sim 18%, Psychological Horror 14.5%, Horror 13.1%, First-Person 10.4%

Midnight Prowl is a horror exploration game set in a Japanese town, where you will experience the horror that takes place there.

Why similar: Walking Simulator 24.9%, Horror 17.7%, Immersive Sim 13.1%, Psychological Horror 12.9%, First-Person 10.9%

The old Lily Flash Games are being recompiled for modern systems! In Lily's Lil Video help Lily learn to be the best worker at the Happy Video Store! Sort through VHS tapes, stock up the shelves, and pick up after messy customers. Strive for perfection every day so Lily can be the best employee!

Why similar: Psychological Horror 33.9%, Horror 28.1%, Female Protagonist 12.5%, Simulation 11.7%, Anime 9.6%

From the creator of The Stanley Parable and The Beginner’s Guide comes Wanderstop, a narrative-centric cozy game about change and tea.

Why similar: Simulation 22.4%, Psychological Horror 20.1%, Management 18.4%, Female Protagonist 14.3%, 3D 12.9%

On your first day at the sushi shop, everything seemed normal. But a subtle sense of unease begins to seep into your daily routine. And slowly, you find yourself drawn toward something hidden within.

Why similar: Horror 28.9%, First-Person 21.2%, Atmospheric 11.6%, Simulation 11.4%, 3D 10.6%

Open your own bookshop! Order books, stock your shelves, and earn revenue. Use your profits to decorate, expand, and hire staff. Collect rare books that give powerful abilities. Adopt a cat to keep you and your customers company along the way!

Why similar: Management 29.2%, Immersive Sim 27.9%, First-Person 18%, Simulation 15%, 3D 9.9%

Jack Williams, a 26 year old hard-working man, is finally taking a day off after a long week at work. He decides to spend his day off at his quiet cottage for a weekend of relaxation. Little did he know what would happen during his stay there.

Why similar: Psychological Horror 23%, Walking Simulator 19.3%, Horror 17.8%, First-Person 9.6%, Crime 6.6%

Early 90s. You stayed in a quiet hotel for just one night and the next morning you’ve found out that the old world was destroyed. Alien dreams, secrets of your past and other guests that are turning into monsters. This hotel will not let you to check out.

Why similar: Walking Simulator 21.9%, Psychological Horror 21.7%, Horror 18.2%, Dialogue Heavy 16.3%, First-Person 8.8%