Games Like The Mortuary Assistant: Night-Shift Horror

Dollmare is the closest in feel: you take a badly needed night 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.

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.

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 through the night, pills on the hour, 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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