Games Like The Mortuary Assistant: Night-Shift Horror

Dollmare is the closest in feel: you take a badly needed job inspecting dolls on a factory line, passing the safe ones, disposing of the rest and following the factory's strange safety rules while some dolls do things they should not. Photomaly gives you your late father's photo studio, where you frame, develop and print customers' orders as wrong things start appearing in the shop and the prints, and Retail Hell makes you the only clerk of a convenience store between life and death, where upsetting a dead customer brings curses.

Two camera jobs make the watching the work: in Dead Signal you monitor hacked cameras for a darknet employer to an hourly quota and must leave your apartment for deliveries, and in Last Report you are a park ranger reading trail-camera photos through the night as the park's dark history shows through.

For the lonely night shift, Kiosk puts you in a rain-soaked fast food kiosk after the last worker vanished, Chilla's Art's Night Security has you lock up an office building floor by floor, and ORDER 13 sends you into a dark warehouse to fetch orders by flashlight. Night Bus puts you behind the wheel of a country bus through 1999 New Zealand on your first night, watching the passengers on CCTV, and I'm on Observation Duty makes the whole job a routine of checking security cameras through the night and filing a report for every anomaly before they pile up. No One Lives Under the Lighthouse turns the routine into a keeper's chores on a small island, with one rule never to open the basement door. Descending, free on itch.io and about 45 minutes long, is the most stripped down: ten shifts alone at the bottom of a giant pit, running drills and reading faxes while underground storms roll in, and Cleaning Redville puts you on a small town's garbage truck at night, loading bags while the rumours say the job is not what it seems.

Three more keep the work close to the dead or the dying. Dark Fracture: Prologue, free on Steam, puts you on the midnight shift at a body farm in the late 1990s, where reality gives way and a sanity meter falls unless you take one of a handful of pills. Chilla's Art's The Caregiver sends you across town to look after an elderly man in his old wooden house, where something from Japanese folk belief waits in the dark. [HERROR] Gas Station Case is a 1999 night shift at a remote Ohio gas station, serving customers and answering calls while people vanish by the lake.

If what you liked was naming the demon, Demonologist has you walk cursed houses with an EMF reader and a spirit box, working out which demon is there before it kills you, alone or with friends. She Was 98 is the quietest and saddest: caring for your grandmother, pills on the hour, with footsteps behind the wall at night, as she begins to look at you as if she does not know you.

If you only try one, play Dollmare for the closest mix of job and dread, or Demonologist to identify a demon with friends.

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