Surreal simulator hidden gems
Night shifts here bend sideways into something strange, and these surreal hidden gems let you clock in anyway. In Photomaly you frame portraits and develop film while your subjects turn uncanny, in My Little Cafe Nightmare you brew for ghostly visitors while scrubbing and repairing the room, and in Uncle Chop's Rocket Shop you mend odd spacecraft with fiddly tools. Expect stocking, cleaning and serving wrapped in dream logic.
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Monk Took Book
A game about organizing, stacking and remembering where you put hundreds of books in a cozy-creepy medieval library. Play solo or with up to three fellow monks.
97% of 165 Steam reviews are positive$8.99Hubble Bubble
Run a hookah lounge on a space station with up to three friends. You pack bowls, stretch foil, heat coals, brew coffee and run orders to impatient aliens before their patience runs out. Earnings go back into carpets, paintings, an aquarium and a drive-thru for spaceships. Physics applies to everything, including you.
94% of 181 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 86$7.99Carpet Cleaning Simulator
Scrub dirty carpets with brushes and sponges, build up foam, rinse it off and push it down the drain for cash. Spend it on better tools, then lose the run when a meteor resets time and start stronger. A calm, repetitive cleaning loop with an odd end-of-the-world twist that simulator games rarely try.
86% of 564 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 59$6.99My 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$8.99Wax Heads
Wax Heads is a cozy-punk narrative sim about working in a struggling record store. Chat to quirky customers with unique tastes, explore a handcrafted record collection, fall in love with bands (and their drama!), or just slack off with your colleagues - whatever gets everyone’s groove back!
96% of 550 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 5$14.99The House Always Wins
Run your own casino solo or with up to five friends: place slots and tables, stock the bar, fix smoking machines with a wrench, and chase off graffiti artists, geese, and aliens. A colorful, chaotic sim about keeping the money rolling in.
84% of 916 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 58$12.99Playrooms
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$9.99Dog Brew
You are a dog with a debt and a brewery. In Dog Brew you grow vegetables, raise fish, mix strange brews, and sell them to picky island residents until Rex is paid off. Short, cheap, and odd in a good way.
97% of 1,531 Steam reviews are positive$0.73Uncle 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. Read the manual, fumble with tools, beat the daily clock, and feed the story's strange factions. Demanding, funny, and easy to replay.
84% of 1,117 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 13$19.99The 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$7.99
