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Night shift horror games

Horror games where you work a job, usually alone and usually at night: watching cameras, serving customers, cleaning, checking who is at the door, while something goes wrong around you. The ordinary routine of the shift is what makes the strange things stand out.

41 games

All night shift horror games

Night Delivery key art: a dark apartment doorway beside a staircase, washed in purple VHS light

[Chilla's Art] Night Delivery | 例外配達

One apartment block, a stack of boxes, and someone behind you.

PC

Night Security key art: a guard's silhouette in a lit office window, with a red glow in the dark beside it

[Chilla's Art] Night Security | 夜間警備

Lock up the building floor by floor. The last guard never came back.

PC

The Closing Shift key art: the Chilla's Coffee shop sign at night, with a barista in a green apron looking back over her shoulder

[Chilla's Art] The Closing Shift | 閉店事件

Make the coffee, close the shop, and wonder who is watching.

PC

The Convenience Store key art: a Japanese convenience store glowing under its white sign on a dark night street

[Chilla's Art] The Convenience Store | 夜勤事件

The night shift at a convenience store pays well. Now you know why.

PC / Switch

[HERROR] Gas Station Case key art: a lone lit gas station on a dark road among night-time pine woods

Story-led horror

[HERROR] Gas Station Case

Work the night shift at a gas station while people vanish in the woods.

PC

a pet shop after dark key art: a round-eyed cartoon girl with white hair and a curl on top stands in a grey and pink shop beside a hanging lamp and shelves

a pet shop after dark

Water the plants, feed the pets, and do not turn off the lights.

PC / Mac / Linux

Alternate Watch screenshot: a black-and-white security camera view of a kitchen at 00:02 AM, threat level vague

Alternate Watch

Watch the house until 6 am, and report every Alternate that gets in.

PC

Backseat screenshot: from the taxi's driver seat at night, a man in sunglasses and a long coat waits by the road among dark trees

Backseat

Drive the night shift for your wife's kidnapper, and don't give the passenger a reason.

PC

Cleaning Redville screenshot: the garbage truck parked by a green bin and a bag on a lamplit street at night

Horror on the jo

Cleaning Redville

Collect the garbage in a small town at night, and wonder why the job pays.

PC

Creepy Shift: House For Sale key art: a lone house with a for-sale sign under a green sky

Creepy Shift: House For Sale

Get the missing family's house ready for sale by dawn, and follow the rules.

PC / PlayStation / Xbox

Dead Signal screenshot: a hacked camera feed of a dim underground parking garage with parked cars under orange lights

Horror on the jo

Dead Signal

Watch the hacked cameras, meet the quota, and lock your door on the way out.

PC

Descending screenshot: a drilling machine glowing red between two control consoles at the bottom of a dark pit

Descending

Ten shifts at the bottom of a pit, a fax machine, and the storms.

PC

Dollmare art: two baby dolls in blue shirts at either side of a black background, the left one dirty and grinning with orange eyes

Dollmare

Check every doll on the line, and keep the doors closed.

PC

Freddy Fazbear's Pizzeria Simulator cover: a pixel-art Freddy Fazbear and a big pixel pizza under the game's title

Freddy Fazbear's Pizzeria Simulator

Run your own Freddy Fazbear's Pizzeria, and survive what you let inside.

PC / PlayStation / Xbox / Switch / iPhone / Android

GATE 37 title screen: the title over a snowy forest whose trees are covered in eyes, seen from the guard post window

Multiple endings

GATE 37

Seven nights at the gate. Decide who is human enough to let in.

Browser / PC / Mac

Happy's Humble Burger Barn screenshot: the grainy low-poly restaurant kitchen with counters and grills, and a prompt to turn on the Open sign

Horror on the jo

Happy's Humble Burger Barn

Your first shift. Nobody else showed up. Flip the burger, fill the cup.

PC

Happy's Humble Burger Farm key art: the burger restaurant and its neon signs at night under a dark sky

Happy's Humble Burger Farm

Work the night shift at a burger farm, and do not upset Happy.

PC / PlayStation / Xbox / Switch

Night-vision camera view of a kitchen and dining area with the anomaly report menu open, listing rooms and an abyss presence type

I'm on Observation Duty

Watch the cameras all night and report anything that changes.

PC / Mac / Linux / iPhone

Security camera view of a dim living room with a fireplace and a chessboard, the anomaly report menu open with types such as Ghost, Intruder and Object movement

I'm on Observation Duty 2

A whole house on camera this time, and Timothy is back.

PC / Mac / Linux

I'm on Observation Duty 4 screenshot: a black-and-white camera view of a dark gallery with portraits on every wall and a desk with a telephone

I'm on Observation Duty 4

Watch a house on camera all night and report everything that changes.

PC / Mac / Linux

I'm on Observation Duty 5 screenshot: a black-and-white camera view of a house entrance hall and staircase, with a timestamp and report button

I'm on Observation Duty 5

Six places, one night each, and something different every time you switch cameras.

PC / Mac / Linux

A security camera view of a lakeside cottage with a red wall, a sauna door, deck chairs and a rowing boat by a wooden dock

I'm on Observation Duty 6

Six places, one night shift, and something different on every camera.

PC / Mac / Linux

Camera view of an indoor pool with a green spiral waterslide, timestamped 01:18 and labelled Waterslide

I'm on Observation Duty 7

Six new places on camera, one night shift each, and paranoia to fight.

PC / Mac / Linux / PlayStation / Xbox

Camera view labelled Catwalk: two figures stand at the end of a dim fashion runway between rows of red seats

I'm on Observation Duty 8

A catwalk, a stable, the deep sea: six more nights on the cameras.

PC / Mac / Linux / PlayStation / Xbox

JR's

Find the possessed animatronic before it finds you.

PC

Kiosk art: the dim tiled kitchen of the kiosk, with a steel table, an open notebook, shelves of food and the serving window

Kiosk

Cook for the night customers and find out what happened to the last guy.

PC / Mac / Linux / PlayStation / Xbox / Switch / Android

Last Report screenshot: grainy night-vision camera feeds marked REC, one showing a tall antlered shape standing among the trees

Horror on the jo

Last Report

Check the night's camera reports. It is probably just another deer.

PC

Night Bus driver's view at night: rain on the windscreen, a lit bus shelter with a waiting man and a CCTV monitor above the dashboard

Night Bus

Your first night shift on a country bus route. Please ignore That Which Has No Eyes.

PC

Night of the Consumers screenshot: a box marked Drinks in hand in a long yellow supermarket aisle lined with sale signs

Night of the Consumers

Stack the shelves before closing, and run from the customers.

PC

ORDER 13: a dark warehouse aisle with tall blue racks, scattered boxes and a red light at the far end

ORDER 13

Pack the orders, mind the shadows, and keep your cat alive.

PC / PlayStation / Xbox

Overnight Interview screenshot: a convenience store at night seen from behind the counter, long aisles of shelves under hanging lamps

Horror on the jo

Overnight Interview

The devils opened a convenience store. Your interview starts at midnight.

Browser / PC

Para Eyes key art: a pale, bald figure with goggles and cables plugged into its head reaches out in front of a wall of glowing green monitors

Para Eyes

Watch the cameras, report what changed, and hold on to your sanity until morning.

PC

Retail Hell screenshot: a skinless red creature with a wide grin at the counter window beside a till and a Day 01 clock

Retail Hell

Clock in. Serve the dead. Survive the shift.

PC

Rewind Or Die art: a bloody blade curving beside a lit video rental store at night under a purple sky

Multiple endings

Rewind Or Die

Work the late shift at the video store while a killer works his own.

PC / Mac / PlayStation / Xbox / Switch

Shift At Midnight key art: a grinning, wide-eyed monster with clawed hands leans over a gas station till, holding up an ID card that reads Real Human

Shift At Midnight

Serve the night customers, check their IDs, and shoot the ones who are not human.

PC

Spectator key art: a faceless Slender-like figure in a suit and a grinning animatronic bear in a top hat loom out of a dark forest in orange and teal

Spectator

Watch the cameras until 6 AM, and report everything that changes.

PC / Mac / Linux / Switch

Terminal 81 key art: a supermarket's lit sign and parked cars on a dark, misty street at night

Terminal 81

A supermarket job in a São Paulo neighbourhood where women go missing.

PC / Linux / PlayStation / Xbox / Switch

That's not my Neighbor key art: two grey clawed hands with red nails pressed against the doorman's window, smeared with blood

That's not my Neighbor

Check the papers, study the face, and decide who gets through the door.

PC / Linux

The Cabin Factory key art: a log cabin with a lit window standing on a dark factory floor

The Cabin Factory

Inspect each cabin on the line and say whether it is haunted.

PC

The Mortuary Assistant key art: a close-up of a pale, rotting face with a bloody open mouth in a dark room

The Mortuary Assistant

Embalm the dead alone at night, and find the demon before it finds you.

PC / PlayStation / Xbox / Switch

THRESHOLD screenshot: a dark train runs beside a wooden fence through a misty mountain gorge, with a rope bridge and a stream

THRESHOLD

Keep the train on schedule. Don't run. Don't look in the train. The air is thin up here.

PC

Guides

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