Games like Nightshift
If Nightshift is your kind of game, the closest matches are The Galaxy Rider, CtrlC and Neon Highways — picked from the ranked list below. 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 Nightshift: Feel the retro vibes of the ‘80s with the colorful experience of NIGHTSHIFT - an 8-bit visual and playable arcade experience! Make your way on the highway, collect all the cassettes, boost your speed and reach Synthecity!
Players who liked Nightshift also play
Steam players who put hours into Nightshift 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.
The Galaxy Rider
WHY THIS
Top pick for Nightshift fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Casual with Nightshift.
Welcome to The Galaxy Rider! Cruise the cosmos as a space taxi driver! Your mission? Get rich while carrying passengers between planets. Ready for an out-of-this-world ride?
CtrlC
WHY THIS
Second-strongest match for Nightshift fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Casual with Nightshift.
CtrlC is an arcade game with the look of the 80s and the technology of today. You have to reach your goal, level by level. The coders among you know: Ctrl+C cancels a running program in the terminal. You might need that info sometime.
Neon Highways
WHY THIS
Third-strongest match for Nightshift fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Casual with Nightshift.
Welcome to a retro-futuristic '80s world of supercars, neon-lit cities, and synthwave beats. Neon Highways is a minimalist casual arcade racer where you cruise through vibrant cityscapes and endless highways, all set to an iconic synthwave soundtrack.
Slipstream
WHY THIS
Ranked #4 for Nightshift fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Casual with Nightshift.
Arcade-style racing game inspired by the spirit of the early 90s, with drifting mechanics and exotic tracks.
Outmode
WHY THIS
Ranked #5 for Nightshift fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Casual with Nightshift.
A Synthwave themed arcade racer featuring a retro-futuristic neon aesthetic of the beaches, cities and highways of the 1980s - do battle against legendary cars and let the good times roll.
Radiant Rush
WHY THIS
Ranked #6 for Nightshift fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Racing with Nightshift.
Drift through psychedelic, retro-futuristic worlds that evolve in sync with a synthwave soundtrack. Embark on a cinematic journey through the stars to restore harmony to the galaxy.
PalmRide
WHY THIS
Ranked #7 for Nightshift fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Casual with Nightshift.
PalmRide, the retrofuturistic fast-paced driving game inspired by classic games, and the modern outrun aesthetics. Drive through busy streets of the city, climb the tallest mountains, or just chill out on your way to the beach. Avoid obstacles and be the first in the leaderboard! Be the rad guy!
Razortron 2000
WHY THIS
Ranked #8 for Nightshift fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Casual with Nightshift.
RAZORTRON 2000 is a retro top-down endless racing game. Try to beat your highscore, unlock new cars and climb your way to the top of the leaderboards on this love letter to coin eater arcade machines era!
Cheaper alternatives
Games in the same vein priced at least 40% below Nightshift at current Steam store prices.
POSTAL 2
WHY THIS
Priced ~60% under Nightshift on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Nightshift.
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?
Milk inside a bag of milk inside a bag of milk
WHY THIS
Priced ~40% under Nightshift on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Nightshift.
A short story about what sort of challenges everyday little things can be. Help the girl buy milk, be the first not to disappoint her.
Blood and Bacon
WHY THIS
Priced ~60% under Nightshift on Steam right now. Shares Casual with Nightshift.
This Co-op Shooter , has Day and Night levels, multiple maps, players will take on 25 enemy types and numerous bosses, like Gargantuan Monsters and Minibosses every 10 days as you explore, shoot and run for your life against the onslaught of porcine monstrosities.
Peggle Deluxe
WHY THIS
Priced ~60% under Nightshift on Steam right now. Shares Casual with Nightshift.
Take your best shot with energizing arcade fun! Aim, shoot, clear the orange pegs, then sit back and cheer as 10 whimsical teachers guide you to Peggle greatness.
shapez
WHY THIS
Priced ~60% under Nightshift on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Casual with Nightshift.
shapez is an easy-going, minimalistic factory building game about the automation of shapes through extraction and satisfying production lines. Adapt to increasingly complex shapes and grow your factory across an infinitely expanding map. Your only limitation is your creativity!
Shower With Your Dad Simulator 2015: Do You Still Shower With Your Dad
WHY THIS
Priced ~60% under Nightshift on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Nightshift.
"Shower With Your Dad Simulator 2015: Do You Still Shower With Your Dad?" is a fast paced shower-simulation where you shower with your 8-bit dad.It's good, clean fun!
Insaniquarium Deluxe
WHY THIS
Priced ~60% under Nightshift on Steam right now. Shares Casual with Nightshift.
The craziest aquarium game ever! Tend to your fish, keep them happy and they'll reward you with coins and jewels. Buy tank upgrades or egg parts which hatch different in-tank pets. These pets can help you feed your fish, collect coins, or even protect against the aliens that will invade your tank.
Free alternatives
Free-to-play games that recommended players of this title also tend to enjoy.
Life is Strange - Episode 1
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it.
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.
Bongo Cat
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Nightshift.
Bongo cat needs your help. Bongo cat needz more hatz!!! Every time you press a key, Bongo cat will punch your taskbar. Type, click, play, work to collect more points. Which hats will you find?
ENA: Dream BBQ
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Nightshift.
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 with Nightshift.
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 Nightshift.
You wake up, alone, on a strangely familiar island full of puzzles that will frustrate and annoy you.
Sheepy: A Short Adventure
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Casual with Nightshift.
A Short Handcrafted Pixel Art Platformer that follows Sheepy, an abandoned plushy brought to life. Sheepy: A Short Adventure is the first short game from MrSuicideSheep.
missed messages.
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Casual with Nightshift.
‘goth gf’s iPhone’ airdrops you - accept or decline? A love/horror story about life, death, & memes.
Narrow it down
Head-to-head comparisons
Frequently asked about Nightshift
- How much does Nightshift cost?
- Nightshift is listed on Steam at 2.50 USD (current store price; Steam sales may reduce this temporarily).
- What games are most similar to Nightshift?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Nightshift are The Galaxy Rider, CtrlC, Neon Highways.
- Who developed Nightshift?
- Nightshift was developed by Glitched Polygons.
imho.run ranks Steam game alternatives using a mix of collaborative filtering (ALS / iALS / EASE / LightGCN), content scoring over genres, categories, Steam tags, developers, and publishers, plus AI-extracted vibes mined from review text. The page above is generated in seed mode anchored on Nightshift.
For library-aware picks tuned to your specific taste, sign in with Steam on the home page.