Dark job simulators with grim shops

These simulator jobs put you to work in bleak places where every customer hides something. You hammer out blades, pour coffee, mend ships and clean bathhouses while the stories turn darker.

Playrooms

Playrooms

Someone has to put 200,000 balls back into the ball pits, and the job fell to you.

96% of 310 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 1,631$5.59
Bladesong

Bladesong

You are the swordsmith of Eren Keep, shaping freeform blades and assembling modular hilts to match each customer's demands for balance, materials…

95% of 1,552 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 60$19.99
Potato Please

Potato Please

A calm first-person job sim where a dull knife, a mountain of spuds and a dystopian depot slowly turn into something more.

88% of 1,026 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 3,845$8.99
My Little Cafe Nightmare

My Little Cafe Nightmare

Run a crumbling haunted café in first person, brew strange coffees for ghostly regulars, and slowly turn the place into a warm refuge.

91% of 223 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 24$8.99
Sunken Engine

Sunken Engine

A first-person ship repair sim with a Lovecraftian twist. You inherit your father's shipyard on a strange island, fix the ships that dock there…

79% of 889 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 19$8.84
The Walking Trade

The Walking Trade

Run a small shop during the zombie apocalypse, where you stock shelves, set prices and keep customers happy and alive.

85% of 3,173 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 166$6.95
Medieval Blacksmith

Medieval Blacksmith

You run a ruined blacksmith shop in a cruel medieval land, hammering out daggers, swords and spears to order.

79% of 597 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 12$19.99
CURE - A Hospital Simulator

CURE - A Hospital Simulator

Run the night shift of an ER as the apocalypse starts, solo or with up to six friends online.

87% of 885 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 63$6.69
Uncle Chop's Rocket Shop

Uncle Chop's Rocket Shop

You run Wilbur's repair bay on a lonely asteroid station, fixing procedurally generated spaceships module by module to pay rising R.E.N.T.

84% of 1,117 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 13$19.99
Rise of Gun

Rise of Gun

Rise of Gun puts you in charge of a gun shop in a small settlement after a zombie epidemic.

84% of 1,100 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 7$12.99
No Umbrellas Allowed

No Umbrellas Allowed

You run Darcy's, a secondhand shop in the rainy city of Ajik in 2080. Buy low, sell high, keep your reputation intact.

80% of 1,410 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 7$19.99
Crime Scene Cleaner

Crime Scene Cleaner

You are Kovalsky, a cleaner hired by the mob to scrub crime scenes spotless.

98% of 33,055 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 674$29.99
Zombie Graveyard Simulator

Zombie Graveyard Simulator

Run your own graveyard by day: bury and cremate the dead, sell flowers, keep visitors generous and hire staff.

89% of 840 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 10$7.19
Which Sausage, Mate?

Which Sausage, Mate?

You lost your coal mine job, now you're a cashier at Poland's landmark convenience store.

97% of 112 Steam reviews are positive$5.99
S.A.N.D.Y. - Beach Cleaner

S.A.N.D.Y. - Beach Cleaner

Clean up trash from the beach in this short, relaxing, and grim game! Recycle waste, upgrade your robot. Explore new territories.

92% of 371 Steam reviews are positive$5.99
ZOMBUTCHER: Monster Business Simulator

ZOMBUTCHER: Monster Business Simulator

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…

68% of 145 Steam reviews are positive$12.99
Arctic Shift: Fuel Station

Arctic Shift: Fuel Station

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

44% of 87 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 2$13.99
Fortune Seller

Fortune Seller

A gothic roguelike shopkeeping game where you sell antiques, read the tarot, and manage your inventory to survive crushing rent increases.

85% of 81 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 3$6.99
The Last Elixir

The Last Elixir

You are a journeyman alchemist: experiment to learn the secrets of the alchemical sciences, and leverage them to produce a diverse menu of potions…

90% of 68 Steam reviews are positiveFree
Zombie Diner Simulator 🥩 💀

Zombie Diner Simulator 🥩 💀

Zombie Diner — In a post-apocalyptic world, you run the only diner for the undead.

72% of 67 Steam reviews are positive$14.99
Midnight Mazesoba

Midnight Mazesoba

Midnight Mazesoba is a bite-sized atmospheric horror-cooking sim where you run a cozy ramen stall, serving warm bowls of mazesoba amid creeping…

80% of 44 Steam reviews are positive$4.99
Quarantine Market Simulator: Prologue

Quarantine Market Simulator: Prologue

Run a market inside a quarantine zone. Check temperatures, manage customers and inventory, and defend the walls during zombie raids.

64% of 44 Steam reviews are positiveFree
Tidy Up The Backrooms

Tidy Up The Backrooms

You are the new archivist for 18,000 lost Backrooms tapes. Read each spine, find its labelled rack, and file thousands of volumes back in order…

85% of 33 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 11$4.99

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