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Games like Chores in the Night

If Chores in the Night is your kind of game, the closest matches are Melbourne: Route 96, The Nameless City and Corpo Connections — 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 Chores in the Night: "I want this apartment spotless!" shouts your mom before going to her night shift. Use your cleaning supplies and courage to have the house cleaned before your mom comes back. A first person short story about doing chores and avoiding evil forces to survive the night.

2024IndieCasual2.99 USDWindowsby Deep Dive Project
Chores in the Night — Steam game cover

Players who liked Chores in the Night also play

Steam players who put hours into Chores in the Night 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. Melbourne: Route 96

    WHY THIS

    Top pick for Chores in the Night fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie with Chores in the Night.

    Part travel journal, part visual novel with a hint of psychological horror, Melbourne: Route 96 is an experimental game about catching a tram in the wrong direction - and a polaroid camera.

    2025Indie0.99 USDSteam ↗
  2. The Nameless City

    WHY THIS

    Second-strongest match for Chores in the Night fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Casual with Chores in the Night.

    Narrative-driven first person horror adventure inspired by Lovecraft's short novel "The Nameless City". Explore the ruins of a city that some say they are older than humanity itself. While you delve deeper into the ancient buildings, reality and visions blend into an indistinct haze.

    2024IndieAdventureCasual5.99 USDSteam ↗
  3. Corpo Connections

    WHY THIS

    Third-strongest match for Chores in the Night fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie with Chores in the Night.

    Corpo Connections is a stylistic, narrative-driven, horror adventure game where you match anomalies and their descriptions. Uncover hidden secrets, solve scrambled messages, and piece together the mysterious workings of your new employer.

    2024IndieAdventure5.99 USDSteam ↗
  4. The Lies We Tell Ourselves

    WHY THIS

    Ranked #4 for Chores in the Night fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie with Chores in the Night.

    The Lies We Tell Ourselves is an episodic first person psychological action-adventure game with introspective/horror elements and a focus on subtle storytelling and atmosphere. Explore, solve puzzles, survive and uncover truths buried deep within a castle of lies.

    2025IndieAdventure7.99 USDSteam ↗
  5. The Midnight Town Stories: Adam's Forgotten Secrets

    WHY THIS

    Ranked #5 for Chores in the Night fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie with Chores in the Night.

    This is not just a game—it’s a tribute. Adam wakes trapped in his apartment, surrounded by darkness and strange visions. To uncover the mystery and escape, he must find missing diary pages in this thrilling first-person horror/novel/adventure: The Midnight Town Stories: Adam’s Forgotten Secrets.

    2023ActionStrategyIndie9.99 USDSteam ↗
  6. Shadow Falls

    WHY THIS

    Ranked #6 for Chores in the Night fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Casual with Chores in the Night.

    Shadow Falls is a first-person horror game, where you explore a mysterious farmhouse deep in the forest, solving eerie puzzles and uncovering secrets that reveal the thin veil between the world of the living and the dead. Delve deeper and uncover the sinister forces that led you here.

    2025IndieAdventureSimulation11.99 USDSteam ↗
  7. Not My Son

    WHY THIS

    Ranked #7 for Chores in the Night fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie with Chores in the Night.

    A psychological horror game where a stepfather is left alone with a disturbing child. Explore a quiet house, face growing nightmares, and piece together the truth behind the boy’s behavior.

    2026IndieAdventureSteam ↗
  8. Farsight

    WHY THIS

    Ranked #8 for Chores in the Night fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Casual with Chores in the Night.

    Something is very wrong with your eyes. A routine eye exam pulls you into the house inside the machine. Beware. The figures in the image are closer than they appear.

    IndieAdventureCasualSteam ↗

Cheaper alternatives

Games in the same vein priced at least 40% below Chores in the Night at current Steam store prices.

  1. POSTAL 2

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~67% under Chores in the Night on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Chores in the Night.

    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?

    2012ActionIndieAdventure0.99 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  2. Milk inside a bag of milk inside a bag of milk

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~50% under Chores in the Night on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Chores in the Night.

    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.

    2020IndieAdventure1.49 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  3. Blood and Bacon

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~67% under Chores in the Night on Steam right now. Shares Casual with Chores in the Night.

    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.

    2016ActionAdventureCasual0.99 USDSteam ↗
  4. Peggle Deluxe

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~67% under Chores in the Night on Steam right now. Shares Casual with Chores in the Night.

    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.

    2007Casual0.99 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  5. shapez

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~67% under Chores in the Night on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Casual with Chores in the Night.

    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!

    2020StrategyIndieSimulation0.99 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  6. Shower With Your Dad Simulator 2015: Do You Still Shower With Your Dad

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~67% under Chores in the Night on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Chores in the Night.

    "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!

    2015ActionIndieSimulation0.99 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  7. Insaniquarium Deluxe

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~67% under Chores in the Night on Steam right now. Shares Casual with Chores in the Night.

    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.

    2006Casual0.99 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  8. Montaro

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~67% under Chores in the Night on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Casual with Chores in the Night.

    Montaro is a DOGE.

    2016IndieCasual0.99 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗

Free alternatives

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

  1. Doki Doki Literature Club!

    WHY THIS

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

    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.

    2017IndieFree To PlayCasualFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  2. 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.

    2015ActionAdventureFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  3. Ultimate Custom Night

    WHY THIS

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

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

    2018ActionIndieFree To PlayFreeSteam ↗
  4. ENA: Dream BBQ

    WHY THIS

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

    Experience surreal environments and inexplicable characters as ENA in a new wild world.

    2025IndieAdventureFreeDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  5. The Murder of Sonic the Hedgehog

    WHY THIS

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

    Sonic the Hedgehog...was murdered!? Get to the bottom of the mystery in this brand-new adventure!

    2023IndieSimulationFree To PlayFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  6. Indigo Park: Chapter 1

    WHY THIS

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

    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 ↗
  7. STRAFTAT

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it.

    STRAFTAT is a 1v1/2v2 ONLINE first person SHOOTER with quick rounds in over 350 MAPS ; Including all WEAPONS, proximity chat and 4 players FFA.

    2024ActionFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  8. The Looker

    WHY THIS

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

    You wake up, alone, on a strangely familiar island full of puzzles that will frustrate and annoy you.

    2022IndieFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗

Frequently asked about Chores in the Night

How much does Chores in the Night cost?
Chores in the Night is listed on Steam at 2.99 USD (current store price; Steam sales may reduce this temporarily).
What games are most similar to Chores in the Night?
Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Chores in the Night are Melbourne: Route 96, The Nameless City, Corpo Connections.
Who developed Chores in the Night?
Chores in the Night was developed by Deep Dive Project.

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 Chores in the Night.

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