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Games like Night Shift

If Night Shift is your kind of game, the closest matches are VOIDFACE, Diced Up! and Hook Line and Sniper — 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.

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About Night Shift: An arcade shooter in an amusement park: defeat enemies one wave after the other to keep the park clean of unwanted visitors. Unlock a variety of different weapons; upgrading them unlocks their special abilities. This is your first shift - will you be able to keep the park's rides safe?

ActionIndieWindowsby Tensssion Games
Night Shift — Steam game cover

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Steam players who put hours into Night Shift 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.

  1. VOIDFACE

    WHY THIS

    Top pick for Night Shift fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Night Shift.

    Face off in a challenging bullet-hell arena shooter, and try to clear bite-sized boss rush challenges. Learn to dodge their attacks, cast spells to gain an upper hand, and kill everything that gets in your way.

    2026ActionIndieDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  2. Diced Up!

    WHY THIS

    Second-strongest match for Night Shift fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Night Shift.

    Survive as long as you can in an endless bullet hell with randomized stats and weapons.

    2024ActionIndieCasual9.99 USDSteam ↗
  3. Hook Line and Sniper

    WHY THIS

    Third-strongest match for Night Shift fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Night Shift.

    You are a fish. Armed with your grappling hook-equipped sniper rifle, go on the ultimate krilling spree in Hook Line & Sniper! In this fast-paced arcade shooter, rack up points by mastering your arsenal and maximizing your style.

    2025ActionIndie7.99 USDSteam ↗
  4. Scientific Shutdown

    WHY THIS

    Ranked #4 for Night Shift fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action with Night Shift.

    Scientific Shutdown is a top-down arcade shooter in which you find yourself kidnapped by Dr Hans Trottelstein, the mad scientist, to test the deadliness of his latest batch of rock monsters. With help from up to three friends, how many simulated environments can YOU survive?

    2021Action11.99 USDSteam ↗
  5. NanoMachina

    WHY THIS

    Ranked #5 for Night Shift fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Night Shift.

    Challenging retro twin-stick shooter inspired by old ZX Spectrum games. Defeat all bosses and earn special power-ups before your lives run out.

    2021ActionIndieCasual2.99 USDSteam ↗
  6. Hooking Season

    WHY THIS

    Ranked #6 for Night Shift fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Night Shift.

    Hooking Season is a chaotic couch competitive new take on the twin stick shooter gameplay, up to four players. Use your hook for maneuvering around the levels, and grabbing your opponents. The more you eat the fatter you get and in this world the fatter the better.

    2023ActionIndieFree To PlayFreeSteam ↗
  7. Ultra Bushwick

    WHY THIS

    Ranked #7 for Night Shift fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Night Shift.

    An indie twin-stick shooter set in Bushwick, Brooklyn, made by one guy from Queens. Fight wave after wave of your gentrifying neighbors for the money you need to pay rent. Also, herd some cats for power-ups.

    2021ActionIndie4.99 USDSteam ↗
  8. C6: Frontlines

    WHY THIS

    Ranked #8 for Night Shift fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Night Shift.

    C6: Frontlines is a bullet hell co-op roguelike where only YOU (and your friends) can bring the Azapall galaxy to peace. Wield 30+ weapons and gadgets of mass destruction to even the playing field, wave after wave, against a seemingly endless onslaught of evil!

    2026ActionStrategyIndieSteam ↗

Free alternatives

Free-to-play games that recommended players of this title also tend to enjoy.

  1. Helltaker

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Night Shift.

    Helltaker is a short game about sharply dressed demon girls.

    2020IndieAdventureFree To PlayFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  2. Ultimate Custom Night

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action and Indie with Night Shift.

    Welcome to the ultimate FNAF mashup, featuring 50 selectable characters and custom difficulties!

    2018ActionIndieFree To PlayFreeSteam ↗
  3. Bongo Cat

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Night Shift.

    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?

    2025IndieSimulationMassively MultiplayerFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  4. Indigo Park: Chapter 1

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action and Indie with Night 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.

    2024ActionIndieAdventureFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  5. Sheepy: A Short Adventure

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Night Shift.

    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.

    2024IndieAdventureFree To PlayFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  6. Awaria

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action and Indie with Night Shift.

    Awaria is a short game about working in haunted maintenance tunnels.

    2024ActionIndieFree To PlayFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  7. Grimm's Hollow

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Night Shift.

    A spooky, freeware RPG where you search the afterlife for your brother. Reap ghosts with your scythe, explore haunted caves, and eat ghostly treats on your journey through death.

    2019IndieAdventureRPGFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  8. The Expendabros

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action and Indie with Night Shift.

    The Expendabros have assembled and set their sights on the forces of ruthless arms dealer Conrad Stonebanks in the forests of Eastern Europe.

    2014ActionIndieAdventureFreeDeck VerifiedSteam ↗

Frequently asked about Night Shift

What games are most similar to Night Shift?
Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Night Shift are VOIDFACE, Diced Up!, Hook Line and Sniper.
Who developed Night Shift?
Night Shift was developed by Tensssion Games.

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 Night Shift.

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