Games like The Night Kitchen
If The Night Kitchen is your kind of game, the closest matches are Serve Or Die, The Lightkeeper Is Gone and Muska — 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 Night Kitchen: The Night Kitchen is a psychological horror game. You just started a new job - the night shift in a kitchen. Grill, oven, deep fryer. Take orders, prepare the food, talk to the customer. Simple work. Seven nights. Each one stranger than the last.
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Steam players who put hours into The Night Kitchen 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.
Serve Or Die
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Top pick for The Night Kitchen fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Simulation with The Night Kitchen.
In Serve Or Die, you work alone in a small sandwich shop during the night shift. With a VHS-inspired style and an increasingly unsettling atmosphere, survive as simple orders turn into something far more disturbing.
The Lightkeeper Is Gone
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Second-strongest match for The Night Kitchen fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with The Night Kitchen.
The Lightkeeper Is Gone is a retro-styled horror adventure set in the 1930's on a lone island. Take on the job of keeping the lighthouse while discovering the story of those that came before.
Muska
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Third-strongest match for The Night Kitchen fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with The Night Kitchen.
No weapons. No escape. Just silence... and a truth awaiting you. In this atmospheric psychological horror game inspired by Turkish paranormal horror, uncover the secrets of an abandoned hospital and complete the ritual.
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Ranked #4 for The Night Kitchen fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with The Night Kitchen.
A first-person psychological horror game about grief, obsession, and love. Sleep to enter dreams, take control of them, and descend into deeper layers where time moves slower. Explore, solve puzzles, and uncover the mystery of a grieving father who created a world frozen in time.
Unseen - Someone
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Ranked #5 for The Night Kitchen fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with The Night Kitchen.
Michael, is a 14-year-old teenager living the ordinary life of a game developer. He usually preferred to work at night because he felt the calm and special atmosphere there. At one point, he needed to leave the room at night but it seems that was a mistake...
Clink
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Ranked #6 for The Night Kitchen fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with The Night Kitchen.
You are a lonely woman, secluded in a house with your cat... and the secrets of the past. What hides within your mind — illness, or something otherworldly? Nightmares and reality intertwine… everything is so foggy. Do you have the courage to remember what happened?
Nightmare Shift
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Ranked #7 for The Night Kitchen fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with The Night Kitchen.
Take on night shifts at a remote motel, handle unsettling guests, and navigate eerie events. Experience Emma’s unnerving apartment life, feel the unease of being watched, and question what’s real as the line between reality and nightmare blurs.
Christmas Story
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Ranked #8 for The Night Kitchen fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with The Night Kitchen.
Christmas Story is a horror game filled with Christmas warmth and coziness, where every festive light hides darkness, and the sense of comfort fades with every step you take.
Free alternatives
Free-to-play games that recommended players of this title also tend to enjoy.
Doki Doki Literature Club!
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with The Night Kitchen.
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. Shares Adventure with The Night Kitchen.
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 Night Kitchen.
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 and Adventure with The Night Kitchen.
Experience surreal environments and inexplicable characters as ENA in a new wild world.
The Murder of Sonic the Hedgehog
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Simulation with The Night Kitchen.
Sonic the Hedgehog...was murdered!? Get to the bottom of the mystery in this brand-new adventure!
Indigo Park: Chapter 1
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Adventure with The Night Kitchen.
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
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with The Night Kitchen.
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 The Night Kitchen
- What games are most similar to The Night Kitchen?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside The Night Kitchen are Serve Or Die, The Lightkeeper Is Gone, Muska.
- Who developed The Night Kitchen?
- The Night Kitchen was developed by Rodu Games.
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 Night Kitchen.
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