Most played tense simulator games

Night shifts turn uneasy when you scrub scenes in Crime Scene Cleaner, run a front pizza shop with hidden work in I Know a Guy: Shady Life Simulator, and develop strange film in Photomaly. These simulator jobs keep the routine of mopping, cooking, serving and repairing, but every task carries risk of getting caught, losing customers or facing something wrong. You earn cash, upgrade tools and keep the business open while pressure keeps rising.

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1. 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%96% of 310 Steam reviews are positive1.6KPlayers online now: 1,631$5.59

2. Crime 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%98% of 33,055 Steam reviews are positive674Players online now: 674$29.99

3. I 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%89% of 603 Steam reviews are positive89Players online now: 89$9.09

4. CURE - 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%87% of 885 Steam reviews are positive63Players online now: 63$6.69

5. 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, 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%79% of 889 Steam reviews are positive19Players online now: 19$8.84

6. AMPANIC

   

   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%100% of 69 Steam reviews are positive17Players online now: 17$3.99

7. 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. Read the manual, fumble with tools, beat the daily clock, and feed the story's strange factions. Demanding, funny, and easy to replay.

   84%84% of 1,117 Steam reviews are positive13Players online now: 13$19.99

8. 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, solo or in online co-op, while the tape player reads the lore aloud. Monsters optional.

   85%85% of 33 Steam reviews are positive11Players online now: 11$4.99

9. FirstPlate

   

   Run a restaurant in first person, from a tiny kitchen to a hall serving dozens of tables. Design every wall and counter, curate the menu, cook under real pressure, and play solo, in co-op, or soon head-to-head against a rival kitchen.

   93%93% of 28 Steam reviews are positive10Players online now: 10$8.49

10. GHOSTFLIPPERS

    

    Flip haunted houses with your friends… before the ghost flips you. Reach your quota, grow your business, and survive the night.

    64%64% of 14 Steam reviews are positive5Players online now: 5$14.99

11. The 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%90% of 1,256 Steam reviews are positive4Players online now: 4$7.99

12. Backrooms 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%91% of 486 Steam reviews are positive$9.99

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