Games like The Killing Shift
If The Killing Shift is your kind of game, the closest matches are Unredeemable, The Christmas Shift and LastWatch — 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 The Killing Shift: The Killing Shift is a survival horror sim where you work the night shift at a battery shipping company. Charge and ship batteries, complete your quotas, buy upgrades, and survive the dangers lurking inside the warehouse.
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Unredeemable
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Top pick for The Killing Shift fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie with The Killing Shift.
Search to escape the school halls and fight to be free from the guilt that haunts the past. Where monsters birthed are memories made manifest and your fate is yours alone. Experience a beautifully haunting narrative in this psychological survival horror as David Cook, a boy in search of his end.
The Christmas Shift
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Second-strongest match for The Killing Shift fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie with The Killing Shift.
The Christmas Shift is a cozy horror game where you work the holiday shift at a local café. Prepare hot drinks, serve fresh pastries, and keep your customers happy.
LastWatch
WHY THIS
Third-strongest match for The Killing Shift fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie with The Killing Shift.
A first-person psychological survival horror set in an abandoned subway station. Monitor cameras, manage your sanity, and survive the night shift while something moves through the tunnels.
Signs Of Devourer
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Ranked #4 for The Killing Shift fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie with The Killing Shift.
Its another night shift in the store, except this time you are trapped with monster disguised as one of the items. Keep the floor clean, shelves full, serve the customers... and try to not get devoured until the dawn.
Project Vic
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Ranked #5 for The Killing Shift fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie with The Killing Shift.
As a freelance journalist, you receive a tip-off from a policeman friend about a death. You immediately make your way to the scene to get a first-hand impression of the case. But shortly after you arrive, you realize that things are not quite right here...
Arrogation: Unlight of Day
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Ranked #6 for The Killing Shift fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie with The Killing Shift.
Arrogation: Unlight of Day is a psychological horror game set in World War II. You will play as a lone reporter searching for his lost family in an abandoned village from 80s China. Beyond darkness, you will find nightmarish creatures and secrets from the long lost Imperial Japanese Army.
Ashes of the Damned: The Forgotten Ward
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Ranked #7 for The Killing Shift fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie with The Killing Shift.
Explore an abandoned psychiatric ward in this first-person psychological horror. Find patient files, solve puzzles, uncover your connection to the ward, and survive the entities stalking its halls. You cannot fight back.
Hatch
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Ranked #8 for The Killing Shift fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie with The Killing Shift.
"Hatch is a single-player, first-person horror game. You find a hatch in your room and strange things start to happen to you. You are the target of psycho killers. You have to find the truth behind the hatch and escape from the crazy world.
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 The Killing 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.
Life is Strange - Episode 1
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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.
Ultimate Custom Night
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with The Killing Shift.
Welcome to the ultimate FNAF mashup, featuring 50 selectable characters and custom difficulties!
ENA: Dream BBQ
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with The Killing Shift.
Experience surreal environments and inexplicable characters as ENA in a new wild world.
Indigo Park: Chapter 1
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with The Killing 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.
The Looker
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with The Killing Shift.
You wake up, alone, on a strangely familiar island full of puzzles that will frustrate and annoy you.
Sheepy: A Short Adventure
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with The Killing 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.
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Frequently asked about The Killing Shift
- What games are most similar to The Killing Shift?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside The Killing Shift are Unredeemable, The Christmas Shift, LastWatch.
- Who developed The Killing Shift?
- The Killing Shift was developed by MultifacetedMask.
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 The Killing Shift.
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