Games like 4am
If 4am is your kind of game, the closest matches are Eddie’s Last Shift, Purrfect Bliss and Don't Go to the Bathroom — 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 4am: A tiny gimbap café in a back alley, lights on until 4 a.m. Lured by oddly high pay, you take the night shift — greet customers, cook, walk home through the dark. Night by night, something slips out of place. Where did the last clerk go?
Players who liked 4am also play
Steam players who put hours into 4am 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.
Eddie’s Last Shift
WHY THIS
Top pick for 4am fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Simulation with 4am.
Run a late-night burger shop during a deadly outbreak. Cook orders, identify infected customers, and stop the Silent Plague before your town is lost.
Purrfect Bliss
WHY THIS
Second-strongest match for 4am fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Adventure and Simulation with 4am.
Purrfect Bliss is a cat cafe built on a dark history. Will you survive the night shift? Serve customers, take care of the cats, and uncover the terrifying truth in this psychological horror game.
Don't Go to the Bathroom
WHY THIS
Third-strongest match for 4am fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Simulation with 4am.
You woke up in grandma's house at midnight and need to reach the bathroom alone. Observe the hallway carefully. If something feels wrong, turn back immediately. If nothing changed... keep walking.
SimulationSteam ↗Shoku Pain
WHY THIS
Ranked #4 for 4am fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with 4am.
Run a night-shift bakery inside a quarantine zone. Every customer looks human at first. Check their symptoms, fill the report, and make the call — bread, medicine, or the knife. Keep your supplies stocked and beware what waits outside the glass.
Late Night Fears
WHY THIS
Ranked #5 for 4am fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with 4am.
Work in a gloomy little supermarket during the pandemic. Do your job and keep the boss satisfied. Or maybe you would rather flip burgers in a small kiosk run by your grandpa? But perhaps you just want to take the bus home, one that is packed with anomalies
Menthal
WHY THIS
Ranked #6 for 4am fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with 4am.
Menthal is a first-person horror game where you are the test subject. Take experimental medicine, endure the side effects, and try to survive what happens next.
Below, Rusted Gods
WHY THIS
Ranked #7 for 4am fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with 4am.
You are the lifeline supporting an expedition into the unknown. Keep both yourself and your squad alive by interpreting instrument readings, explore the facilities, and uncover something ancient and eager to be born.
Buried Apparition
WHY THIS
Ranked #8 for 4am fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with 4am.
You're a horror Vlogger who stumbles into an isolated mountain inn to film paranormal footage. Strange phenomena close in—but you don't care. This is the content you've been chasing. Until you discover your camera captures more than your eyes can see. A multi-ending psychological horror simulation.
Cheaper alternatives
Games in the same vein priced at least 40% below 4am at current Steam store prices.
POSTAL 2
WHY THIS
Priced ~80% under 4am on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Adventure with 4am.
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?
The Test
WHY THIS
Priced ~60% under 4am on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Adventure with 4am.
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 ~70% under 4am on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Adventure with 4am.
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 ~80% under 4am on Steam right now. Shares Adventure with 4am.
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.
Placid Plastic Duck Simulator
WHY THIS
Priced ~60% under 4am on Steam right now. Shares Simulation with 4am.
The ultimate high-tech rubber duck simulation, Placid Plastic Duck brings you dangerous levels of relaxation. With chill music, dreamy 3D graphics, and many different happy ducks, your only priority is to float around. Zero Ducks given.
shapez
WHY THIS
Priced ~80% under 4am on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Simulation with 4am.
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!
The Test: Hypothesis Rising
WHY THIS
Priced ~60% under 4am on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Adventure with 4am.
The second chapter in The Test trilogy. Answer a series of in-depth questions to reveal hidden truths about yourself and unlock secrets to discover how your life can change drastically with just a few, slight modifications. ...But are you sure you want the answers you seek?
The Test: Final Revelation
WHY THIS
Priced ~60% under 4am on Steam right now. Shares Simulation with 4am.
The third chapter in The Test Trilogy. Answer a series of in-depth questions to reveal hidden truths about yourself and unlock secrets to discover who you really are as a person. The Final Revelation is upon us... but are you sure you TRULY want the answers you seek?
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 4am.
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 4am.
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 4am.
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 4am.
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 and Simulation with 4am.
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 4am.
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 4am.
You wake up, alone, on a strangely familiar island full of puzzles that will frustrate and annoy you.
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Frequently asked about 4am
- How much does 4am cost?
- 4am is listed on Steam at 4.99 USD (current store price; Steam sales may reduce this temporarily).
- What games are most similar to 4am?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside 4am are Eddie’s Last Shift, Purrfect Bliss, Don't Go to the Bathroom.
- Who developed 4am?
- 4am was developed by Studio Marigold.
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 4am.
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