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Running a small business gets harder when the night shift turns haunted. In CURE - A Hospital Simulator, Retail Hell and My Little Cafe Nightmare you greet guests, prepare food or care, tidy and grow the place and keep income ahead of costs while monsters, ghosts and curses interrupt. These tycoon sims mix hiring, pricing and expansion with staying alive and keeping frightened visitors calm.

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1. CURE - A Hospital Simulator

   

   Run a night-shift emergency room while the apocalypse starts outside. You diagnose patients with hands-on tools, stretch the budget for supplies, grow and decorate the ward, and grab a weapon when the undead push through the doors, solo or with up to six friends online.

   87%87% of 887 Steam reviews are positive45Players online now: 45$6.69

2. The Walking Trade

   

   You stock batteries, hire survivors, craft barricades, and decide whether to help the neighborhood or squeeze it dry. Commerce with teeth.

   85%85% of 3,173 Steam reviews are positive166Players online now: 166$6.95

3. Photomaly

   

   You inherit your father's photo studio and have to keep it running: take orders from odd locals, frame the shot, develop the film, hand over the prints, then spend the profits on supplies, decor, and better gear. All in chunky PSX-style first person, with something quietly wrong building underneath the till receipts.

   90%90% of 1,480 Steam reviews are positive4Players online now: 4$6.99

4. Zombie 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%89% of 840 Steam reviews are positive10Players online now: 10$7.19

5. Happy's Humble Burger Cult

   

   Run a cursed burger joint with up to three friends: grill burgers, fry sides, pour drinks, work the register, hit quota and keep customers happy, then close up and run when the mascot starts hunting. A fast, funny management shift where profit is survival.

   85%85% of 579 Steam reviews are positive80Players online now: 80$6.49

6. My Little Cafe Nightmare

   

   Run a haunted café for ghosts and monsters, first-person and hands-on. You brew each strange coffee to order, keep cups washed and shelves stocked, repair the rot and decorate the room into a warm refuge. Dark, cute and busy, with real budget pressure for tycoon fans.

   91%91% of 223 Steam reviews are positive24Players online now: 24$8.99

7. Ghost Master: Resurrection

   

   You run the scariest crew in Gravenville: a roster of specters, banshees and gremlins with their own tricks. You place them around 11 haunted spots, spend your supernatural budget wisely, and scare the living daylights out of mortals to solve each puzzle.

   81%81% of 394 Steam reviews are positive12Players online now: 12$19.99

8. The Plant Shop

   

   Run a late-night plant shop by day-job escapee Silvia: take orders, pot soil, seed and water into flowers, plants and cacti, expand the collection and upgrade the shop. Simple, cozy shopkeeping with a curse, strange customers and jokes mixed in.

   95%95% of 500 Steam reviews are positive20Players online now: 20$4.49

9. Retail Hell

   

   You are the only clerk in purgatory's only convenience store, working an infinite shift to pay off a debt. You brew coffee, make hot dogs, stock shelves, tidy up and serve the dead fast enough to earn tips and stay alive. A strange, dark little management sim for tycoon fans who want their budget balancing with curses.

   95%95% of 606 Steam reviews are positive11Players online now: 11$7.99

10. Wasteland Bites

    

    Wasteland Bites is a horror-based food truck sim. Cooking up questionable cuisine in your post-apocalyptic food truck is tough. Fending off mutants, UFOs, rabid dogs, and things lurking in the dark? That's the real challenge. A chaotic mix of cooking and survival in a long gone world.

    93%93% of 460 Steam reviews are positive3Players online now: 3$9.99

11. Meat Grinder: Hotdog Simulator

    

    Run your own hot dog shop in the foggy town of Grimshore. Cook and serve by day, solve your meat shortage by night, and try not to ask too many questions. How far will you go to keep the grill running?

    81%81% of 215 Steam reviews are positive1Players online now: 1$7.99

12. Graveyard Keeper 2

    

    A medieval cemetery sim where corpses become capital. You bury bodies, harvest organs and bones, rebuild the ruined Town, automate workshops with zombie labour, and turn sermons, quests and corpses into profit. Dark, grotesque and funny, with battles and fortifications on the side.

    75%75% of 10,506 Steam reviews are positive4.2KPlayers online now: 4,151$24.99

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