Games like Graveyard Shift
If Graveyard Shift is your kind of game, the closest matches are The Lightkeeper, ZahmahreL - Chapter 1 and CROSSWIRE — picked from the ranked list below. Reviewers single out its atmosphere builds relentless dread, atmospheric and dark. 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.
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The Lightkeeper
WHY THIS
Shares environmental puzzle solving, hidden collectibles and atmospheric with Graveyard Shift.
Top pick for Graveyard Shift fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with Graveyard Shift.
Alone on a remote island, you're tasked with keeping a lighthouse. But the horrific events that claimed the lives of previous keepers still whisper through the air. Each day, the line between reality and delusion fades and something in the dark is waiting for the last keeper
ZahmahreL - Chapter 1
WHY THIS
Second-strongest match for Graveyard Shift fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with Graveyard Shift.
As a YouTuber investigating supernatural events, explore the mysterious and terrifying happenings in an abandoned location. Your camera is your only ally, but can you uncover these dark secrets?
CROSSWIRE
WHY THIS
Third-strongest match for Graveyard Shift fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with Graveyard Shift.
CROSSWIRE is a psychological horror game where Alex Keller, a radio technician, uncovers twisted experiments of a deranged scientist in a remote mountain tower. Haunted frequencies fill the air, and survival is your only broadcast.
Untold Memories: Potter's Field
WHY THIS
Ranked #4 for Graveyard Shift fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with Graveyard Shift.
After a tragic accident, Mark struggles to recover, battling debt and deep psychological scars. One day, a mysterious job offer appears and seems like hope. As the night begins, everything changes. Is this his chance to start over, or his first step into the heart of darkness?
INKUBO
WHY THIS
Ranked #5 for Graveyard Shift fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with Graveyard Shift.
Eve, who suffers from sleep issues and nightmares, takes pills from Dr. Isaac that put her into REM sleep. She becomes trapped in a loop inside a distorted, other-dimensional version of her own home. She must find anomalies, make the right choices, and survive deadly entities to break the cycle.
Clink
WHY THIS
Ranked #6 for Graveyard Shift fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with Graveyard Shift.
You are a lonely woman, secluded in a house with your cat... and the secrets of the past. What hides within your mind — illness, or something otherworldly? Nightmares and reality intertwine… everything is so foggy. Do you have the courage to remember what happened?
Paranormal Inc.
WHY THIS
Ranked #7 for Graveyard Shift fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with Graveyard Shift.
Horror with a real life footage. You will watch live CCTV footage and report the anomalies you see.
Eilean Mor: The Lost Keepers
WHY THIS
Ranked #8 for Graveyard Shift fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with Graveyard Shift.
At the beginning of the 20th century, the Eilean Mor lighthouse fell silent. The light is out, and its three keepers are missing. No one is answering the radio. As a reserve keeper, you’re sent to investigate this horror mystery. But beware you may become the fourth to vanish.
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Outlast
WHY THIS
Shares a tense mood with Graveyard Shift.
Reviewers of Graveyard Shift cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Indie and Adventure with Graveyard Shift.
Hell is an experiment you can't survive in Outlast, a first-person survival horror game developed by veterans of some of the biggest game franchises in history. As investigative journalist Miles Upshur, explore Mount Massive Asylum and try to survive long enough to discover its terrible secret... if you dare.
Visage
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Graveyard Shift.
Reviewers of Graveyard Shift cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Indie and Adventure with Graveyard Shift.
Visage is a first-person psychological horror game. Explore a mysterious ever-changing house in a slow-paced, atmospheric world that combines both uncannily comforting and horrifyingly realistic environments, and enjoy a genuinely terrifying experience.
Nightmare of Decay
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Graveyard Shift.
Reviewers of Graveyard Shift cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Indie and Adventure with Graveyard Shift.
A first-person action horror game set in a nightmarish manor infested with zombies, psychotic cultists, and a horde of other horrors. Utilize an assortment of different weapons in a brutal fight for survival as you try to escape from the Nightmare of Decay.
Cheaper alternatives
Games in the same vein priced at least 40% below Graveyard Shift at current Steam store prices.
POSTAL 2
WHY THIS
Priced ~86% under Graveyard Shift on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Adventure with Graveyard Shift.
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 ~57% under Graveyard Shift on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Graveyard Shift.
Play Russian roulette with a 12-gauge shotgun. Four enter. One leaves. Roll the dice with your life. Good luck!
GRIS
WHY THIS
Priced ~46% under Graveyard Shift on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Adventure with Graveyard Shift.
Gris is a hopeful young girl lost in her own world, dealing with a painful experience in her life. Her journey through sorrow is manifested in her dress, which grants new abilities to better navigate her faded reality.
The Test
WHY THIS
Priced ~72% under Graveyard Shift on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Adventure with Graveyard Shift.
You will answer a series of questions that will reveal truths from deep within. These questions may make you uncomfortable, but with great knowledge comes great sacrifice. Can you make it all the way through The Test, and if you do, are you sure you want the answers you seek?
Milk inside a bag of milk inside a bag of milk
WHY THIS
Priced ~79% under Graveyard Shift on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Adventure with Graveyard Shift.
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 ~86% under Graveyard Shift on Steam right now. Shares Adventure with Graveyard Shift.
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.
Crypt of the NecroDancer
WHY THIS
Priced ~57% under Graveyard Shift on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Graveyard Shift.
Crypt of the NecroDancer is an award winning hardcore roguelike rhythm game. Move to the music and deliver beatdowns to the beat! Groove to the epic Danny Baranowsky soundtrack, or select songs from your own MP3 collection!
A Short Hike
WHY THIS
Priced ~43% under Graveyard Shift on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Adventure with Graveyard Shift.
Hike, climb, and soar through the peaceful mountainside landscapes of Hawk Peak Provincial Park as you make your way to the summit.
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 Graveyard Shift.
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 Graveyard Shift.
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 Graveyard Shift.
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 Graveyard Shift.
Experience surreal environments and inexplicable characters as ENA in a new wild world.
The Murder of Sonic the Hedgehog
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Graveyard Shift.
Sonic the Hedgehog...was murdered!? Get to the bottom of the mystery in this brand-new adventure!
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 Graveyard Shift.
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.
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Other recommendable Steam games by Darkphobia Games, ranked by review count so the studio's hits land first.
Amenti
WHY THIS
Shares point and click, environmental puzzle solving and atmospheric with Graveyard Shift.
Another title from Darkphobia Games, the studio behind Graveyard Shift. Shares Adventure with Graveyard Shift.
A photographer enters the Great Pyramids to photograph Pharaoh Rudamon’s remains, but is soon overwhelmed by a sinister curse, as the ancient tomb awakens dark forces that claw at his sanity.
The Lightkeeper
WHY THIS
Shares environmental puzzle solving, hidden collectibles and atmospheric with Graveyard Shift.
Another title from Darkphobia Games, the studio behind Graveyard Shift. Shares Indie and Adventure with Graveyard Shift.
Alone on a remote island, you're tasked with keeping a lighthouse. But the horrific events that claimed the lives of previous keepers still whisper through the air. Each day, the line between reality and delusion fades and something in the dark is waiting for the last keeper
Homeless
WHY THIS
Another title from Darkphobia Games, the studio behind Graveyard Shift. Shares Adventure with Graveyard Shift.
Beneath the dazzling lights of New York, a sinister darkness lurks. In the hour when the whole city is sleeping, a strange and terrifying man emerges from the darkness, intent on shattering your mind and spirit
Frequently asked about Graveyard Shift
- Does Graveyard Shift run on Steam Deck?
- Graveyard Shift is rated Playable on Steam Deck — it runs, but expect some manual adjustments (control remapping, text size, or graphics settings) for the best experience.
- How much does Graveyard Shift cost?
- Graveyard Shift is listed on Steam at 6.99 USD (current store price; Steam sales may reduce this temporarily).
- What games are most similar to Graveyard Shift?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Graveyard Shift are The Lightkeeper, ZahmahreL - Chapter 1, CROSSWIRE.
- Who developed Graveyard Shift?
- Graveyard Shift was developed by Darkphobia Games.
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