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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.

93 games

Jumpscare horror games: the top 30, ranked · CCTV horror games: the top 30, ranked · Pizzeria horror games: the top 28, ranked · Animatronic horror games: the top 30, ranked · Office horror games: the top 30, ranked · Power outage horror games: the top 30, ranked · Security guard horror games: the top 30, ranked · Gas station horror games: the top 16, ranked · Bedroom horror games: the top 22, ranked

All night shift horror games

Night Delivery key art: a grey metal door ajar at the top of steps beside a cardboard box, in purple light, with the red title 例外配達 Night Delivery

[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 uniformed guard in a peaked cap stands in a dark security office beside bright blue cabinets and a white window

[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: Chilla's Coffee at night with its glowing sign and patio umbrella, and 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 lit convenience store alone in a dark parking lot at night, a white light strip along its roof and red signs over yellow windows

[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 lit gas station with a parked car at the edge of a dark forest road at night

Walking simulators

[HERROR] Gas Station Case

Work the night shift at a 1999 gas station while people vanish in the woods.

PC

A Bite at Freddy's key art: close-up of a worn brown animatronic bear in a top hat and red jacket, grinning, beside the stacked white title in a dark room

A Bite at Freddy's

Test the food delivery machine at Freddy Fazbear's Grill, and keep an eye on the cameras.

PC / Mac / Linux

a pet shop after dark key art: a pale cartoon girl with a white bob, a curl on top and big black eyes stands behind a dark counter in a dim grey and rose shop with 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: black-and-white camera view of an empty kitchen at 00:02 AM, a checkered table with candles in front, threat level vague

Alternate Watch

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

PC

Angel Engine key art: the title beside a pale skull-like face and a bloodied figure strapped into a metal frame under robotic syringe arms

Angel Engine

Operate on test subjects for the Angel Engine, and do not let them wake.

PC / PlayStation / Xbox / Switch

Anomaly Company key art: two crew members in orange hazmat suits, one in a gas mask, in a blue-lit arched field tent with supply cases

Anomaly Company

Memorise the room, spot what changed and decide with your crew.

PC

Backseat key art: a night road seen from the driver's seat, a bald grinning man in the rear-view mirror and the blood-red title on the left

Backseat

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

PC

Beary the Hatchet key art: the bear-masked clerk leans on a gas station counter by a bloody knife, the goth fan at her shoulder, a jack-o'-lantern and a bear trap below the title

Multiple endings

Beary the Hatchet

A killer's Halloween shift, a body in the back and a fan at the counter.

PC

Cleaning Redville key art: the title over a dark, empty night street of low-poly wooden houses, dim streetlights and a red fire hydrant

Cleaning Redville

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

PC

Crawlspace key art: a long-haired doll in a blue dress slumps against a stained wall in a pool of light

Crawlspace

Crawl under a house in VR to fetch dolls that do not want to come back.

PC / VR

Creepy Shift: House For Sale key art: a dark farmhouse with a FOR SALE sign on a black field under a starry green sky

Creepy Shift: House For Sale

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

PC / PlayStation / Xbox

DEAD LETTER DEPT. key art: the white title over a red background with a barcode strip and a torn, burnt letter postmarked San Francisco

DEAD LETTER DEPT.

Type up the lost mail. Some of it seems to be writing back.

PC / Linux

Dead Plate cover art: a startled, sweating Rody and a calm, bare-shouldered Vince in oval frames above a plate and cutlery, with the title and 'Free on itch.io'

Dead Plate

Wait tables for a week at a 1960s bistro and learn what the chef is hiding.

PC / Mac

Dead Signal key art: a glowing cyan satellite dish over a hooded silhouette on black, with the title in digital-display lettering

Dead Signal

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

PC

Deadly Delivery

Deliver the parcel to the doorstep at the bottom of the haunted mine. Make quota. Try not to…

VR

DEATH IN UNISON key art: a pixelated pale face with one blue eye and a jagged grin leans out of the dark beside a field of blue static

DEATH IN UNISON

Run a prison of supernatural killers with a partner you can only reach by walkie-talkie.

PC

Descending key art: the title in pink letters above a metal lift shaft with a cage car, running down into a dark red void

Descending

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

PC

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

Dollmare

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

PC / PlayStation / Xbox / Switch

Doppelpartment key art: the white-bearded building manager in a teal sweater amid a crowd of grotesque, distorted pixel-art faces, under the title

Doppelpartment

Some of your tenants are not your tenants anymore.

Browser / PC / Mac

Elevated Dread key art: the title in green neon letters below an open red-lit elevator holding pale skull-faced figures, in a dark teal corridor

Elevated Dread

One last building of flyers, one elevator, and a long night.

PC

Five Nights at Freddy's: Help Wanted key art: Freddy Fazbear with glowing white eyes in the dark, surrounded by the faces of Bonnie, Chica, Foxy, Funtime Foxy and other animatronics

Five Nights at Freddy's: Help Wanted

Work the night shift at Freddy's in VR, with the animatronics inches away.

PC / PlayStation / Xbox / Switch / VR

Five Nights at Freddy's: Help Wanted 2 key art: a cluster of animatronic heads with Funtime Freddy at the centre, Circus Baby and Ballora beside him and the Sun daycare attendant above

Five Nights at Freddy's: Help Wanted 2

Work every job at the Pizzaplex, with killer animatronics an arm's length away.

PC / PlayStation / Xbox / Switch / VR

Five Nights at Freddy's: Sister Location cover: the face of a white and purple animatronic bear next to blue balloons and the words Sister Location

Five Nights at Freddy's: Sister Location

Take the night technician job at Circus Baby's, among machines that are still awake.

PC / PlayStation / Xbox / Switch / iPhone / Android

flies in a jar cover: an old-style window reading flies in a jar by Jet Simon with a Play Now button on a teal screen, a timestamp below

flies in a jar

First night as a security guard at an agency that keeps flies in a jar.

Browser / PC

For Sale key art: the white title with a house-and-camera icon beside hands holding a digital camera, on dark grey

For Sale

Photograph the house for the listing. Check every picture.

PC / Linux

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 key art: the title in white ransom-note letters over a dark hall of tilted, broken metal beams with faint glitch edges

Multiple endings

GATE 37

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

Browser / PC / Mac / Linux

Ghost Janitors key art: a pale, bloody jester ghoul in a blue and yellow bell hat reaches out of the dark above the white title

Ghost Janitors

Clean the haunted house with your crew, and keep the lights on.

PC

Grunn key art: a red-hatted garden gnome in a dark night garden beside a gravestone, daisies and a bloody cleaver

Grunn

Tend a stranger's garden until Monday. Do not stay out after dark.

PC / Mac

Handy Harry's Haunted House Services key art: a nearly black hallway with a dim floor lamp and two small white eyes glinting in the dark at the far end

Handy Harry's Haunted House Services

Fix the attic, flip the master switch, and get out before the ghost finds you.

PC

Happy's Humble Burger Barn cover: a painted hamburger on dark red with the title in dripping, jagged green letters

Happy's Humble Burger Barn

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

PC

Happy's Humble Burger Cult

Hit the burger quota before the simulation breaks and the cow mascot comes for you.

PC

Happy's Humble Burger Farm key art: the smiling cow mascot holds up a tray of glowing burgers before a red-lit restaurant, with monstrous mascot faces in the mist

Happy's Humble Burger Farm

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

PC / PlayStation / Xbox / Switch

Home Safety Hotline key art: a pink push-button telephone wrapped in green vines, a dark furry creature behind it

Home Safety Hotline

Answer the phones at a 1990s pest hotline. Some pests are not pests.

PC / PlayStation / Xbox / Switch

HORSES key art: a terrified man's face below a dark shadow topped by a man in a hat and a bridled horse's head, in red and purple under the white title

HORSES

Fourteen days on a horse farm, and a few rules to follow.

PC

HR: Human Remains key art: a giant red tentacled demon with a fanged maw looms over stacks of paper in a dark office, with the title in red below

Multiple endings

HR: Human Remains

The demons won. You still have to go to work.

PC

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

I'm on Observation Duty

Watch the cameras all night and report anything that changes.

PC / Mac / Linux

I'm on Observation Duty 2 key art: a very dark living room with a stone fireplace, an armchair and a chessboard on a low table

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 3 key art: a dark, empty hallway with a wooden floor and pale doors, the title in white letters across the middle

I'm on Observation Duty 3

No cameras this time: walk the haunted house yourself and photograph what changed.

PC / Mac / Linux / VR

I'm on Observation Duty 4 key art: a blurred black-and-white camera view down onto a wooden sauna bench, a bright window in the corner

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 key art: a dark school corridor lined with lockers

I'm on Observation Duty 5

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

PC / Mac / Linux

I'm on Observation Duty 6 key art: the title over a tunnel of small security camera screens

I'm on Observation Duty 6

Six places to watch on camera from midnight to six, and something different in every room.

PC / Mac / Linux

I'm on Observation Duty 7 key art: the title over a dark security room with a wall of CCTV monitors and a large camera lens

I'm on Observation Duty 7

A pool, a museum, a canning line: six more nights on the cameras, with paranoia to fight.

PC / Mac / Linux / PlayStation / Xbox

I'm on Observation Duty 8 key art: a pale shadowy face beside a large glowing camera lens in the dark, with the title in white letters

I'm on Observation Duty 8

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

PC / Mac / Linux / PlayStation / Xbox

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