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Games like Graveyard Shift

2023PC, Steam 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

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In short: Games like Graveyard Shift

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

94 %Match

2024PC, Steam Deck playable95 % positivefree

Brings what grabs you about Graveyard Shift: dread and tension, a dark atmosphere as well as a calm pace.

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.

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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.

Missing Hiker

Accessible and relaxed

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.

Jisatsu

Realistic visuals

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.

Araya

Calm and deliberate

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.

Flesh, Blood, & Concrete

Accessible and relaxed

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.

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.

The House in the Woods

Calm and deliberate

You wander alone through a seemingly endless forest, trying to figure out what is going on. The game lives on atmosphere, unease, and the feeling that the woods will not let you leave.

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