Popular dark simulator games
Clocking in feels heavier in these popular dark simulator games, where everyday work happens in grim places. In Bladesong you hammer out custom blades for a struggling stronghold, while My Little Cafe Nightmare has you brewing drinks and fixing up a haunted cafe, and Photomaly puts you behind the counter of a photo studio with unsettling clients. You stock, craft, clean and serve to keep each business alive.
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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$5.59Bladesong
You are the swordsmith of Eren Keep, shaping freeform blades and assembling modular hilts to match each customer's demands for balance, materials and style. Take commissions, earn coin, hire help and grow your forge, all wrapped in a dark story of rebellion and a tyrant king. A calm, hands-on craft for sim fans who like making things to order.
95% of 1,552 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 60$19.99Potato Please
A first-person job sim about peeling a mountain of potatoes for the army, one spud at a time. Start with a shaky hand and a dull knife, work your way up to machines, conveyors and a crane, and discover that a dystopian potato depot has more story than it lets on. Calm, repetitive and quietly funny.
88% of 1,026 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 3,845$8.99My 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$8.99Sunken 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$8.84The 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$6.95Medieval Blacksmith
You run a ruined blacksmith shop in a cruel medieval land, hammering out daggers, swords and spears to order. Mix alloys, shape each part and match the weapon to the customer and the enemy they face, because what you forge decides who lives to pay you.
79% of 597 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 12$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$6.69Uncle 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$19.99Rise of Gun
Rise of Gun puts you in charge of a gun shop in a small settlement after a zombie epidemic. You bolt together barrels, scopes, stocks and silencers from over 200 parts, put the results on shelves, and spend the earnings on workbenches, generators and decorations. A steady shop loop for simulator games fans who like building, selling and tidying up a business.
84% of 1,100 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 7$12.99No 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. A slow, moody shop sim for sim fans who like paperwork with secrets.
80% of 1,410 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 7$19.99Crime 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$29.99
