Games like Employee of The Month
If Employee of The Month is your kind of game, the closest matches are Subway Midnight, Hope Deferred and American Eristics — picked from the ranked list below. Reviewers single out its gen z humor shines, multiple endings reward replay and comedic. Each pick is ranked by what players of this game also play, shared genres and tags, and review-mined similarity — not a generic popularity list.
Get personalized picks →About Employee of The Month: An atmospheric retro inspired survival horror game. Enjoy the late shift at 'The Month' in an abstract and unsettling night of terror, spooks and convenience.

Players who liked Employee of The Month also play
Steam players who put hours into Employee of The Month also tend to own these titles — a signal called collaborative filtering. imho.run cross-references millions of library ownership patterns to surface games whose real audiences overlap, regardless of whether their genre tags match.
Subway Midnight
WHY THIS
Shares an unsettling mood with Employee of The Month.
Top pick for Employee of The Month fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with Employee of The Month.
Board the train! Run away from a weirdo! Solve some puzzles! Make friends with some ghosts! Try not to become a ghost yourself!
Hope Deferred
WHY THIS
Shares puzzle solving and an unsettling mood with Employee of The Month.
Second-strongest match for Employee of The Month fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries.
Hope Deferred is a first-person psychological horror RPG. Explore nightmare worlds and search for understanding in this PSX inspired dungeon crawler.
American Eristics
WHY THIS
Third-strongest match for Employee of The Month fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Adventure with Employee of The Month.
Would you believe one of your friends is a killer? Return home in this 2.5D horror story.
Candlehead
WHY THIS
Ranked #4 for Employee of The Month fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with Employee of The Month.
Explore a dark and eerie first person folk horror game where your doom flickers in the form of a candle barely visible through the dusky gloom.
Heir Obscure: A Hunt in the Dark
WHY THIS
Ranked #5 for Employee of The Month fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Adventure with Employee of The Month.
Escape the clutches of a decadent cult of aristocrats and the demon that haunts their retreat. Stay quiet, stick to the shadows, uncover the dark secrets of the sadistic Empire and of the mysterious Plightswoman who claims to want to help you. A story-rich horror game with immersive stealth.
A House Inside Me
WHY THIS
Ranked #7 for Employee of The Month fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with Employee of The Month.
A psychological horror experience told through environmental storytelling. Explore a house inhabited by trauma, denial, and fractured memories. Three endings. Multiple interpretations. This is the house that lives inside me.
The Backrooms Game FREE Edition
WHY THIS
Shares an unsettling mood with Employee of The Month.
Ranked #8 for Employee of The Month fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with Employee of The Month.
Nothing but the stink of old, moist carpets, the madness of mono-yellow, and the blinding light of fluorescent bulbs at maximum hum-buzz. Over 600 million sq. miles of randomly segmented rooms. God save you if you hear something wandering nearby, because it sure as hell has heard you.
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Return to Monkey Island
WHY THIS
Shares a funny mood with Employee of The Month.
Reviewers of Employee of The Month cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Adventure with Employee of The Month.
Return to Monkey Island is an unexpected, thrilling return of series creator Ron Gilbert that continues the story of the legendary adventure games.
SILENT HILL 2
WHY THIS
Shares puzzle solving and an unsettling mood with Employee of The Month.
Reviewers of Employee of The Month cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Adventure with Employee of The Month.
Investigating a letter from his late wife, James returns to where they made so many memories - Silent Hill. What he finds is a ghost town, prowled by disturbing monsters and cloaked in deep fog. Confront the monsters, solve puzzles, and search for traces of your wife in this remake of SILENT HILL 2.
Whisper of the House
WHY THIS
Shares puzzle solving and a mysterious mood with Employee of The Month.
Reviewers of Employee of The Month cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Indie with Employee of The Month.
Whisper of the House is a cozy game about organizing and decorating. You'll take on various tasks from the townspeople—helping them move, organize, and clean their spaces. In the process, your gentle touch might make a difference in their lives, and perhaps uncover some hidden stories...
Cheaper alternatives
Games in the same vein priced at least 40% below Employee of The Month at current Steam store prices.
Garry's Mod
WHY THIS
Priced ~50% under Employee of The Month on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Employee of The Month.
Garry's Mod is a physics sandbox. There aren't any predefined aims or goals. We give you the tools and leave you to play.
Vampire Survivors
WHY THIS
Priced ~50% under Employee of The Month on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Employee of The Month.
Mow down thousands of night creatures and survive until dawn! Vampire Survivors is a gothic horror casual game with rogue-lite elements, where your choices can allow you to quickly snowball against the hundreds of monsters that get thrown at you. Be the bullet hell!
Cookie Clicker
WHY THIS
Priced ~50% under Employee of The Month on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Employee of The Month.
An idle game about making cookies! Originally released in 2013 on the web, and actively developed since then. This is the official version for Steam.
WEBFISHING
WHY THIS
Priced ~50% under Employee of The Month on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Employee of The Month.
WEBFISHING a multiplayer chatroom-focused fishing game! Relax and fish (on the web!)
POSTAL 2
WHY THIS
Priced ~90% under Employee of The Month on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Adventure with Employee of The Month.
Live a week in the life of "The POSTAL Dude"; a hapless everyman just trying to check off some chores. Buying milk, returning an overdue library book, getting Gary Coleman's autograph, what could possibly go wrong?
Buckshot Roulette
WHY THIS
Priced ~70% under Employee of The Month on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Employee of The Month.
Play Russian roulette with a 12-gauge shotgun. Four enter. One leaves. Roll the dice with your life. Good luck!
Brotato
WHY THIS
Priced ~50% under Employee of The Month on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Employee of The Month.
Brotato is a top-down arena shooter roguelite where you play a potato wielding up to 6 weapons at a time to fight off hordes of aliens. Choose from a variety of traits and items to create unique builds and survive until help arrives.
Your Only Move Is HUSTLE
WHY THIS
Priced ~50% under Employee of The Month on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Employee of The Month.
Master your technique, execute flashy combos, and outsmart opponents across the world, frame-by-frame. Slow down the clock to fine-tune your fighting style in this innovative, turn-based combat simulator. Pulverize your friends and choreograph spectacular fight scenes. No training mode required.
Free alternatives
Free-to-play games that recommended players of this title also tend to enjoy.
Doki Doki Literature Club!
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Employee of The Month.
The Literature Club is full of cute girls! Will you write the way into their heart? This game is not suitable for children or those who are easily disturbed.
Life is Strange - Episode 1
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Adventure with Employee of The Month.
Episode 1 now FREE! Life is Strange is an award-winning and critically acclaimed episodic adventure game that allows the player to rewind time and affect the past, present and future.
Ultimate Custom Night
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Employee of The Month.
Welcome to the ultimate FNAF mashup, featuring 50 selectable characters and custom difficulties!
ENA: Dream BBQ
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Adventure with Employee of The Month.
Experience surreal environments and inexplicable characters as ENA in a new wild world.
Indigo Park: Chapter 1
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Adventure with Employee of The Month.
Explore the abandoned childhood wonder of Indigo Park! Guided by Rambley the Raccoon, help restore power to the destroyed amusement park while you run from the reason it shut down.
The Looker
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Employee of The Month.
You wake up, alone, on a strangely familiar island full of puzzles that will frustrate and annoy you.
There Is No Game: Jam Edition 2015
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Adventure with Employee of The Month.
A little game that’s not a game, winner of an old game jam that nobody’s ever heard of. So DON'T INSTALL IT!
Dagon: by H. P. Lovecraft
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Adventure with Employee of The Month.
Face unspeakable horrors. Succumb to madness. Welcome to a free daemonic narrative experience inspired by H. P. Lovecraft.
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Frequently asked about Employee of The Month
- How much does Employee of The Month cost?
- Employee of The Month is listed on Steam at 9.99 USD (current store price; Steam sales may reduce this temporarily).
- What games are most similar to Employee of The Month?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Employee of The Month are Subway Midnight, Hope Deferred, American Eristics.
- Who developed Employee of The Month?
- Employee of The Month was developed by Projeckt Skeleton.
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