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Games like Elevator Operator: System Residue

If Elevator Operator: System Residue is your kind of game, the closest matches are The Lightkeeper Is Gone, Dreadwoods Gatekeeper and Hong Kong Horror Incident: Yik Sin House — 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 Elevator Operator: System Residue: A PSX-style horror game where you operate an elevator, check employees' IDs and information, and detect anomalies among the passengers.

AdventureSimulationWindowsby Mushy
Elevator Operator: System Residue — Steam game cover

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  1. The Lightkeeper Is Gone

    WHY THIS

    Top pick for Elevator Operator: System Residue fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Adventure and Simulation with Elevator Operator: System Residue.

    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.

    2026ActionIndieAdventureSteam ↗
  2. Dreadwoods Gatekeeper

    WHY THIS

    Second-strongest match for Elevator Operator: System Residue fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Adventure and Simulation with Elevator Operator: System Residue.

    Become a gatekeeper at an isolated outpost. Perform daily duties, inspect trading wagons, patrol the grounds, and maintain the weathered station as you begin to discover something is terribly wrong with this place.

    IndieAdventureSimulationSteam ↗
  3. Hong Kong Horror Incident: Yik Sin House

    WHY THIS

    Third-strongest match for Elevator Operator: System Residue fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Adventure with Elevator Operator: System Residue.

    The last food delivery order leads you into a residential building you can never leave. You thought it was just an ordinary job, but in the familiar Yik Sin House, you gradually fall into an inescapable nightmare.

    2026IndieAdventure2.39 USDSteam ↗
  4. DRINK HUMAN BEANS

    WHY THIS

    Ranked #4 for Elevator Operator: System Residue fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Adventure with Elevator Operator: System Residue.

    You will created to be tortured by a sentient job application. You will learn to live, laugh, love until the walls bleed. You will become a succulent beverage.

    2025IndieAdventure4.99 USDSteam ↗
  5. Decommission Protocol

    WHY THIS

    Ranked #5 for Elevator Operator: System Residue fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Adventure and Simulation with Elevator Operator: System Residue.

    Edith station has been abandoned for a year - an unusually long time to sit derelict. You are a space station engineer sent up to decommission the station in a manual service elevator with the ability to stop between floors. Will you discover the truth or simply follow protocol?

    2027IndieAdventureSimulationSteam ↗
  6. No, I'm not a Human

    WHY THIS

    Ranked #6 for Elevator Operator: System Residue fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Simulation with Elevator Operator: System Residue.

    WARNING. Stay inside. Lock your doors. Close the blinds. Only let humans in. Eliminate all Visitors. An anxiety horror about paranoia in the End of Times.

    2025IndieSimulation14.99 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  7. THRESHOLD

    WHY THIS

    Ranked #7 for Elevator Operator: System Residue fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Adventure with Elevator Operator: System Residue.

    In a lonely station atop a mountain, a train rumbles its precious cargo to places unknown. Now is your shift. Keep the pace. Uncover a mystery. Fight for your last breath. The air is thin up here.

    2024IndieAdventure9.99 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  8. Pieces of me

    WHY THIS

    Ranked #8 for Elevator Operator: System Residue fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Adventure and Simulation with Elevator Operator: System Residue.

    “Pieces of Me” is not a classic horror game with jump scares, but a psychological thriller-drama in the walking simulator genre. It is a spin-off of “September 7th”

    2025IndieAdventureSimulation8.99 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗

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  1. Doki Doki Literature Club!

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it.

    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. Shares Adventure with Elevator Operator: System Residue.

    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.

    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 Adventure with Elevator Operator: System Residue.

    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 Simulation with Elevator Operator: System Residue.

    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 Adventure with Elevator Operator: System Residue.

    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. The Looker

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it.

    You wake up, alone, on a strangely familiar island full of puzzles that will frustrate and annoy you.

    2022IndieFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  8. Sheepy: A Short Adventure

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Adventure with Elevator Operator: System Residue.

    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 Elevator Operator: System Residue

What games are most similar to Elevator Operator: System Residue?
Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Elevator Operator: System Residue are The Lightkeeper Is Gone, Dreadwoods Gatekeeper, Hong Kong Horror Incident: Yik Sin House.
Who developed Elevator Operator: System Residue?
Elevator Operator: System Residue was developed by Mushy.

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