Scary simulator hidden gems
Closing up alone feels different in these scary hidden gems where routine jobs keep you inside haunted rooms. In My Little Cafe Nightmare you mix drinks for restless regulars while patching up the space, in The Bathhouse | 地獄銭湯 Restored Edition you clean basins, take payments and face visitors who seem off, and in Photomaly you run a small studio where prints reveal things you did not expect. You stock, tidy, serve and fix equipment while dread builds around ordinary work.
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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. You repair and decorate, order cups and ingredients, wash up, and keep hostile anomalies from shutting you down. Dark, cute, and busy in a satisfying way.
91% of 223 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 24$8.99Playrooms
Someone has to put 200,000 balls back into the ball pits, and the job fell to you. Collect, scoop, unlock new rooms, and when your shift ends and the lights go out one by one, stay in the light. A cleaning job with something almost no one else in it.
96% of 310 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 1,631$5.59Sunken 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, sell what the sea gives up, and dig into the mystery he left behind. Keep your customers happy, your family fed and your sanity intact.
79% of 889 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 19$8.84Backrooms Cleanup Crew
You and your crew are tasked with cleaning up after the last exploration team's ill-fated journey into the Backrooms. Dodge deadly incursions, scrub every surface, and leave no trace.
91% of 486 Steam reviews are positive$9.99CURE - A Hospital Simulator
Run the night shift of an ER as the apocalypse starts, solo or with up to six friends online. You check in patients, run tests for stranger and stranger symptoms, choose normal care or quarantine, then treat, charge and expand. Between the beds and the budget, the undead need handling too.
87% of 885 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 63$6.69Zombie Graveyard Simulator
Run your own graveyard by day: bury and cremate the dead, sell flowers, keep visitors generous and hire staff. When night falls, the zombies come for your freshly buried work, so you build defenses, stock up on ammo and fight back. A calm business sim with a messy after-hours shift.
89% of 840 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 10$7.19The Bathhouse | 地獄銭湯 Restored Edition
You run the night shift at a Japanese bathhouse: greet patrons, keep the rooms clean, handle odd requests. Then the ordinary work turns strange, with choices that lead to different endings. A short, scary job sim for sim fans who want their shift work haunted.
90% of 1,256 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 4$7.99The Walking Trade
Run a small shop during the zombie apocalypse, where you stock shelves, set prices and keep customers happy and alive. Between sales you craft stock, hire survivors and hold the door against hordes. Simulator games with a dark sense of humor will find plenty to do here.
85% of 3,173 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 166$6.95ZOMBUTCHER: 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 resource management all while eating BRA-A-A-INS!
68% of 145 Steam reviews are positive$12.99Fortune Seller
A gothic roguelike shopkeeping game where you sell antiques, read the tarot, and manage your inventory to survive crushing rent increases. Match strange customers with the relics they crave, unlock powerful cards, and gamble your way out of debt, one deal at a time.
85% of 81 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 3$6.99Zombie Diner Simulator 🥩 💀
Zombie Diner — In a post-apocalyptic world, you run the only diner for the undead. Cook grotesque meals, serve hungry zombie patrons, and blast those who lose patience. Survival, management, and dark humor all on the menu!
72% of 67 Steam reviews are positive$14.99Midnight 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 shadows. Upgrade your shop, get to know your customers, and uncover the fate of the other late-night food carts.
80% of 44 Steam reviews are positive$4.99
