Games like SHAWA
If SHAWA is your kind of game, the closest matches are Corner Shop: NightShift, Ranch Farm and Store Simulator and The Horrorscope: Fatal Awakening — 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 SHAWA: A typical shawarma stand. But the game notices where you're looking... and what you're ignoring. Endless shifts, a physics simulator, and a horror that only happens when you're not prepared.
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Corner Shop: NightShift
WHY THIS
Top pick for SHAWA fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Simulation with SHAWA.
Take a night shift job in a place that runs on habit, not purpose. Restock shelves, take deliveries, clean the mess, and try to make it till morning. Not everything feels right and you’re never quite alone. Something waits in the dark.
Ranch Farm and Store Simulator
WHY THIS
Second-strongest match for SHAWA fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Simulation with SHAWA.
Enjoy the experience of running your own ranch and store from the ground up. Grow crops, raise livestock, and keep your customers stocked with fresh products. Defend your farm from wild animal attacks. Hire employees and grow from a humble beginning into a thriving business.
The Horrorscope: Fatal Awakening
WHY THIS
Third-strongest match for SHAWA fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Simulation with SHAWA.
You will answer a series of questions that will reveal your potential fate. These questions may make you uncomfortable, but with great knowledge comes great sacrifice. Can you make it all the way through The Horrorscope, and if you do, are you sure you want the answers you seek?
Rest Area Simulator
WHY THIS
Ranked #4 for SHAWA fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Simulation with SHAWA.
Take over the gas station and convenience store at a roadside rest area and expand by purchasing new businesses. Manage a living world shaped by dynamic economy and random events. Upgrade your facilities, satisfy your customers, and play solo or with friends.
Recycling Center Simulator
WHY THIS
Ranked #5 for SHAWA fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Simulation with SHAWA.
Recycling Center Simulator is a business simulator game with a first person view. Make money from garbage, collect raw materials for your recycling center from different locations, recycle them, make money by producing new products and improve your factory.
Chaos Express: Delivery Simulator
WHY THIS
Ranked #6 for SHAWA fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Simulation with SHAWA.
Deliver goods with your friends in open-world city. Manage and upgrade your delivery point, acquire new ways of delivery and become the best.
HELLMART
WHY THIS
Ranked #7 for SHAWA fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Simulation with SHAWA.
Supermarket simulator meets horror. You’re a clerk at a 24-hour convenience store. During the day - serve customers and hit your sales goals. At night - beware of strange clients. Try to survive 7 days in the Far North.
Teddy's Haven - A Fantasy Inspired Shop Simulator
WHY THIS
Ranked #8 for SHAWA fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Simulation with SHAWA.
Teddy’s Haven is a cozy shop sim filled with magic and charm. Sell over 400 items, decorate with 250+ decorations, and create the shop of your dreams. Meet mythical creatures, level up your skills, harvest the land, and uncover the peaceful wonders of life on Ursa.
Cheaper alternatives
Games in the same vein priced at least 40% below SHAWA at current Steam store prices.
POSTAL 2
WHY THIS
Priced ~63% under SHAWA on Steam right now. Shares Indie with SHAWA.
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 ~45% under SHAWA on Steam right now. Shares Indie with SHAWA.
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.
shapez
WHY THIS
Priced ~63% under SHAWA on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Simulation with SHAWA.
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 ~63% under SHAWA on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Simulation with SHAWA.
"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!
Bit Blaster XL
WHY THIS
Priced ~63% under SHAWA on Steam right now. Shares Indie with SHAWA.
Bit Blaster XL is a fast-paced, retro arcade shoot 'em up (shmup) inspired by the classic quarter-munchers of the ‘80s. Easy to pick up, hard to put down, boost, dodge, shoot, and chase high scores in this addictive, old-school action game!
Dictators:No Peace Countryballs
WHY THIS
Priced ~63% under SHAWA on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Simulation with SHAWA.
Dictators : No Peace Countryballs is a war simulation and dictator game. This is a fun,simple and some say a funny countryballs game. If you like simulation games, you will love playing Dictators : No Peace. Play as a dictator of your favourite country and colonize the world.
TYRONE vs COPS
WHY THIS
Priced ~63% under SHAWA on Steam right now. Shares Indie with SHAWA.
Awaken the latent power of your melanin and kill cops in this thought-provoking game on police brutality in America.
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 SHAWA.
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.
Ultimate Custom Night
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with SHAWA.
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 with SHAWA.
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 SHAWA.
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 SHAWA.
You wake up, alone, on a strangely familiar island full of puzzles that will frustrate and annoy you.
missed messages.
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Simulation with SHAWA.
‘goth gf’s iPhone’ airdrops you - accept or decline? A love/horror story about life, death, & memes.
Grimm's Hollow
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with SHAWA.
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.
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Frequently asked about SHAWA
- How much does SHAWA cost?
- SHAWA is listed on Steam at 2.70 USD (current store price; Steam sales may reduce this temporarily).
- What games are most similar to SHAWA?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside SHAWA are Corner Shop: NightShift, Ranch Farm and Store Simulator, The Horrorscope: Fatal Awakening.
- Who developed SHAWA?
- SHAWA was developed by ObeZZZanDev.
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 SHAWA.
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