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Binary Lunar · 2025 · Windows

Steam: 73 % positive of 212 reviews, as of Oct 28

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.

24 games that play like Nightmare Shift and 24 that look like it. Closest by gameplay: Creepy Shift: Uncle Joe’s Motel, Limoria and The Cabin Factory.

Player tags

  • Psychological Horror
  • Walking Simulator
  • Story Rich
  • Horror
  • First-Person
  • Atmospheric
  • Thriller
  • Conversation
Map region: Psychological Horror
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Plays and looks like Nightmare Shift

These games are close to it by gameplay and by look, so they appear in both lists below.

By gameplay

Plays like Nightmare Shift

Matched from Steam descriptions and player tags. The tags under each game are the ones both games share.

More matches

  1. Luto85 % positive of 1,254Shared: Psychological Horror · Walking Simulator · Story Rich
  2. Corner Shop: NightShift83 % positive of 211Shared: Psychological Horror · Story Rich · Horror
  3. Homesick75 % positive of 1,286Shared: Psychological Horror · Walking Simulator · Story Rich
  4. DREAM LOGIC89 % positive of 394Shared: Psychological Horror · Walking Simulator · Story Rich
  5. Reflection83 % positive of 254Shared: Psychological Horror · Walking Simulator · Story Rich
  6. Afterdream90 % positive of 307Shared: Psychological Horror · Walking Simulator · Story Rich
  7. Ethel92 % positive of 238Shared: Psychological Horror · Walking Simulator · Story Rich
  8. LIMINAL SHIFT82 % positive of 269Shared: Psychological Horror · Walking Simulator · Horror
  9. Coincidences?90 % positive of 410Shared: Psychological Horror · Walking Simulator · Story Rich
  10. Once Upon A Mind - A Little Too Friendly91 % positive of 245Shared: Psychological Horror · Walking Simulator · Story Rich
  11. The Testing Chamber95 % positive of 696Shared: Psychological Horror · Walking Simulator · Horror
  12. That's not my Neighbor88 % positive of 4,617Shared: Psychological Horror · Horror · First-Person

By look

Looks like Nightmare Shift

Matched from screenshots. Each card shows the screenshot closest to the look of this game.

More matches

  1. The Other Side92 % positive of 1,254
  2. Befriended Curse92 % positive of 289
  3. 9 Childs Street90 % positive of 743
  4. [Chilla's Art] Night Security | 夜間警備88 % positive of 892
  5. 11F82 % positive of 173
  6. Abnormality74 % positive of 240
  7. Dead Frontier 268 % positive of 28,528
  8. El Paso, Elsewhere89 % positive of 1,409
  9. Coincidences?90 % positive of 410
  10. Mists of Aiden90 % positive of 982
  11. Ethel92 % positive of 238
  12. Escape the Ayurok80 % positive of 1,000

At a glance

What games like Nightmare Shift have in common

  • The tags they share most often with Nightmare Shift: Psychological Horror (24 of 24), Walking Simulator (21) and Story Rich (13).
  • They came out between 2015 and 2026, 5 of them after Nightmare Shift (2025).
  • Best rated by Steam players: The Inn-Sanity (96 % positive of 1,582).

How these matches work

Matches come from embeddings of Steam descriptions, player tags and screenshots, computed offline. “Plays like” compares what the games are about and how players tag them; “Looks like” compares their screenshots. The share of positive reviews is based on Steam user reviews.

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