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Games like Graveyard Shift

2023PCSteam Deck playable75 % positive6.89 €

You start your first night shift guarding a cemetery and watch strange events unfold through security cameras. The appeal lies in slowly investigating the grounds and the growing sense that the place hides something far worse than it first seems.

  • Dread and tension
  • Dark, serious atmosphere

The closest matches for Graveyard Shift are Nightmare Files: Clap Clap, Missing Hiker and Slender: The Arrival. Each of these 10 games shares something of what makes Graveyard Shift special – the reasons are listed right on each game.

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Nightmare Files: Clap Clap

95 %Match

2024PCSteam Deck playable95 % positivefree

  • Dread and tension
  • Dark, serious atmosphere
  • Accessible and relaxed

You play a house sitter who notices stranger and stranger events in what looks like an ordinary home. This short indie horror game relies on an uneasy atmosphere and slow-building tension rather than action.

Missing Hiker

Easy to pick up

You search for your missing brother Ethan in this short indie horror game set on an eerie hiking trail. Tension comes mostly from atmosphere and slow exploration rather than combat.

Slender: The Arrival

Realistic visuals

A short first-person horror trip where you gather clues through dark forests and abandoned buildings, weaponless, while the Slender Man closes in. Tension comes from darkness, a flickering flashlight and sudden jump scares.

Fingerbones

Accessible and relaxed

A short psychological horror game where you wander an abandoned building and piece together a disturbing story from notes you find. It leans on atmosphere and mystery rather than combat.

Anatomy

Accessible and relaxed

You explore an eerie suburban house from a first-person view, collecting cassette tapes and piecing together a disturbing story from fragments. The game thrives on its quiet, unsettling atmosphere and the curiosity about what lurks within its walls.

Jisatsu

Easy to pick up

Jisatsu unfolds as a Japanese found-footage mockumentary, letting you piece together a disturbing story from fragmented material. Its strength lies in its unsettling atmosphere and the slow dread of uncovering what really happened.

Flesh, Blood, & Concrete

Easy to pick up

You explore an ordinary apartment building where everyday life slowly turns unsettling. The game thrives on eerie atmosphere and the sense that something is wrong behind every door.

Try to Fall Asleep

Accessible and relaxed

You play John Herrin, whose brain damage from an accident means you can only piece together his past by falling asleep. Within his dreams, visions and hallucinations make every attempt to rest harder than it looks.

Araya

Accessible and relaxed

You explore an eerie Thai hospital in first person and piece together a mysterious murder case through the eyes of three different characters. Its tension comes mainly from the oppressive atmosphere and the sense that something disturbing waits behind every door.

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