Tense simulator hidden gems
Running a small counter or workshop sounds calm until the night shift turns strange, and these tense hidden gems keep you clocked in while something feels off. In Crime Scene Cleaner you scrub rooms and carry out what the mob leaves behind, in Meat Grinder: Hotdog Simulator you keep a foggy grill stand open while handling supply problems after hours, and in Photomaly you develop portraits that show more than you shot.
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Playrooms
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$8.84I Know a Guy: Shady Life Simulator
Run a pizza shop by day and pay off your mafia debt with dirty jobs by night. You knead dough, serve customers, then clean bloody clothes and burn evidence in your own oven while keeping police attention down. Messy, funny, and best with friends.
89% of 603 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 89$9.09Backrooms 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$9.99Uncle 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$19.99CURE - 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$6.69The 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$7.99ZOMBUTCHER: 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$12.99Trailer Shop Simulator
In this game, you run a shady roadside stall selling outlawed everyday goods while staying one step ahead of the law. Prices rise, tension builds — will you cash in or get shut down in a midnight raid?
73% of 270 Steam reviews are positive$0.99Crime Scene Cleaner
You are Kovalsky, a cleaner hired by the mob to scrub crime scenes spotless. Mop blood, bag bodies, pocket valuables, and spend your pay on better tools. Grim work, strange stories, and oddly calm, satisfying cleaning for sim fans.
98% of 33,055 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 674$29.99AMPANIC
AMPANIC is a hyper-fast tool shop sim played entirely with your aim. You grab passersby, gather materials, process and craft orders, and deliver them before angry customers walk out and end the run. It suits sim fans who want speed and multitasking over a calm till shift.
100% of 69 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 17$3.99Zombie 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$14.99
