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Games Like The Mortuary Assistant: Night-Shift Horror

The Mortuary Assistant leaves you alone at night with bodies to embalm step by step, while a demon plays with what you see and you work out its name. These games share that horror of a job to do, a routine to follow and something in the building that will not let you finish.

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  1. Dollmare key art: a dirty baby doll with amber eyes and a clean one with blue eyes, both in blue cloud pajamas, at either end of a black banner under red light PsychologicalDollmareA badly needed job inspecting dolls on a factory line, following strange safety rules while some dolls do things they should not.
  2. Kiosk art: the dim tiled kitchen of the kiosk, with a steel table, an open notebook, shelves of bread and cabbages, and the serving window onto the dark PsychologicalKioskAlone on the night shift in a rain-soaked fast food kiosk after the last worker vanished.
  3. Night Security key art: a uniformed guard in a peaked cap stands in a dark security office beside bright blue cabinets and a white window Psychological[Chilla's Art] Night Security | 夜間警備Patrol an office building floor by floor at night, checking doors and alarms while strange things happen.
  4. Photomaly key art: two close-up faces with staring eyes and unnaturally wide grins on either side of the yellow title, framed by camera viewfinder corners PsychologicalPhotomalyRun your late father's photo studio, developing and printing orders while wrong things appear in the prints.
  5. I'm on Observation Duty key art: the dark silhouette of a man in a suit raising a hand to his face in front of a large frame on a dim wall PsychologicalI'm on Observation DutyA night watching security cameras, where the job is to spot every change and file a report before the anomalies overwhelm you.
  6. Night Bus key art: a rainy night bus shelter under a street lamp, a faint antlered figure in the dark behind the glass, and the pixel title above PsychologicalNight BusYour first night driving a country bus through 1999 New Zealand, watching the passengers on CCTV.
  7. Dead Signal key art: a glowing cyan satellite dish over a hooded silhouette on black, with the title in digital-display lettering Night shiftDead SignalA night shift watching hacked cameras to an hourly quota, then leaving your apartment for deliveries with the door unlocked behind you.
  8. Last Report key art: a pixel-art cabin with lit windows in a moonlit pine forest, a huge red-eyed tentacled shadow looming over its roof beside the dripping red title Night shiftLast ReportA park ranger's night shift reviewing trail-camera photo reports, until the shapes in them are not deer.
  9. Retail Hell key art: a grinning pale monster reaches out from behind the shop window toward a soda can and cash on the counter, beside the title PsychologicalRetail HellThe only clerk of a convenience store between life and death, where upsetting a dead customer brings curses.
  10. SHE WAS 98 key art: a rotting, grinning old woman with long grey hair and one glowing eye stands in a dim green room beside a wooden chair PsychologicalSHE WAS 98Care for your grandmother, pills on the hour, as she starts to look at you as if she does not know you.
  11. Demonologist key art: a pale girl with dark eyes and grimy cheeks stares out of the dark beside two lit candles Co-opDemonologistIdentify the demon in a cursed house with an EMF reader and spirit box before it kills you, alone or with friends.
  12. No one lives under the lighthouse key art: a stone lighthouse under a dark stormy sky and a pale moon, with a seagull flying past PsychologicalNo one lives under the lighthouse Director's cutA keeper's routine on an island lighthouse, with one rule: never open the basement door.
  13. Descending key art: the title in pink letters above a metal lift shaft with a cage car, running down into a dark red void PsychologicalDescendingTen shifts alone at the bottom of a giant pit, running drills and reading a one-way fax while storms roll in; free, about 45 minutes.
  14. Cleaning Redville key art: the title over a dark, empty night street of low-poly wooden houses, dim streetlights and a red fire hydrant Night shiftCleaning RedvilleA night shift collecting a small town's rubbish, where the job may not be what it seems; pay what you want, about 20 minutes.
  15. ORDER 13 key art: a hand shines a purple UV flashlight on an orange cat sitting in a dark warehouse, beside the glowing title PsychologicalORDER 13Fetch orders by flashlight in a dark warehouse while something lurks between the shelves.
  16. Dark Fracture key art: a hooded figure seen from behind faces a fleshy, ribbed cave lit in sickly green, beside the jagged title PsychologicalDark Fracture: PrologueFree: the midnight shift at a body farm, a falling sanity meter and a few pills to hold reality together.
  17. The Caregiver key art in black and white: a caregiver in white, her head out of frame, with a hand on the shoulder of an old man in a wheelchair, his face blacked out, dark trees behind Psychological[Chilla's Art] The Caregiver | 終焉介護A caregiver's visit to an old man's wooden house, where something from Japanese folk belief waits.
  18. [HERROR] Gas Station Case key art: a lit gas station with a parked car at the edge of a dark forest road at night Walking simulators[HERROR] Gas Station CaseA 1999 gas station night shift of customers and calls while people vanish in the woods by the lake.

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.

Questions

What games are like The Mortuary Assistant?

Dollmare, Photomaly and Retail Hell share its horror of a job with steps to follow while something goes wrong around you; Demonologist shares its demon to identify.

Is there a co-op game like The Mortuary Assistant?

Demonologist can be played with friends: you identify the demon in a cursed house together before you exorcise it.

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