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Games like Boarding House: Night Shift

If Boarding House: Night Shift is your kind of game, the closest matches are The Silent Fare, Buenos Aires Mirror Line and WitchOver — 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 Boarding House: Night Shift: Boarding House: Night Shift is a horror game. As a night-shift caretaker of an eerie, old boarding house, you must endure unsettling urban legends, manage your survival resources, and uncover the dark secrets lurking in the shadows before the morning comes

IndieSimulationRPGWindowsby Artunesia Studio
Boarding House: Night Shift — Steam game cover

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Steam players who put hours into Boarding House: 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. The Silent Fare

    WHY THIS

    Top pick for Boarding House: Night Shift fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Simulation with Boarding House: Night Shift.

    A psychological horror anomaly game where you observe your apartment, report strange changes, and uncover a disturbing story hidden in the environment.

    2026IndieAdventureSimulationSteam ↗
  2. Buenos Aires Mirror Line

    WHY THIS

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

    Carefully observe your sorroundings and come back to your reality by finding what doesn't fit. If something's wrong take the bus back from across the street. A game situated in the haze of Buenos Aires.

    2026ActionIndieAdventure5.99 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  3. WitchOver

    WHY THIS

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

    Watch the witches.Don't miss the anomalies.Despairing witches slowly lose themselves and become monsters. 12:00 AM – 6:00 AM.Your job is to manage the “witches.” As the caretaker of a facility, monitor the witches who possess dangerous powers and resolve any anomalies that occur within the facility.

    2026IndieSimulationEarly AccessSteam ↗
  4. Like a dog

    WHY THIS

    Ranked #4 for Boarding House: Night Shift fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Simulation with Boarding House: Night Shift.

    Inside an infinite laboratory where inhumane experiments were conducted on dogs, a concise story about loneliness, perseverance, and madness is told...

    2026IndieSimulation6.99 USDSteam ↗
  5. A Spooky Item Game

    WHY THIS

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

    Figure out what type of entity is haunting your object, correctly dispose of it and try not to fall victim to madness. Progress to uncover new hauntings, make it to the end of the week and you might just get yourself a pretty paycheck.

    2025IndieAdventureSimulation3.99 USDSteam ↗
  6. Bump in the Night

    WHY THIS

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

    You are trapped in a terrible dream. Observe your surroundings carefully and discern whether you are truly in your own home, or if you are experiencing a waking nightmare.

    2024IndieAdventureSimulation2.99 USDSteam ↗
  7. Chiasmus

    WHY THIS

    Ranked #7 for Boarding House: Night Shift fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie with Boarding House: Night Shift.

    Viktor finds himself in a mysterious apartment with no way out. He discovers an amazing ability to move between two parallel worlds. This discovery helps him piece together the scattered fragments of what is happening and find the key to solving the mystery.

    2026IndieAdventureSteam ↗
  8. Night Train Simulator: Blackout

    WHY THIS

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

    Drive the train. Follow the schedule. Ignore what's outside.

    2026IndieSimulationSteam ↗

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 with Boarding House: Night 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.

    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 Boarding House: Night Shift.

    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 Boarding House: Night Shift.

    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 Simulation with Boarding House: Night Shift.

    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 Boarding House: 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 ↗
  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. Sheepy: A Short Adventure

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Boarding House: 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 ↗

Frequently asked about Boarding House: Night Shift

What games are most similar to Boarding House: Night Shift?
Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Boarding House: Night Shift are The Silent Fare, Buenos Aires Mirror Line, WitchOver.
Who developed Boarding House: Night Shift?
Boarding House: Night Shift was developed by Artunesia Studio.

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 Boarding House: Night Shift.

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