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Backstab Industries · 2025 · Windows, macOS, Linux

Steam: 81 % positive of 732 reviews, as of Oct 28

In the Salesman, you play as a recently laid-off employee trying to survive the grind of job applications, debt, and dwindling hope. Trade your belongings for ad-supported replacements as you slowly sell away your life in this psychological horror game

24 games that play like The Salesman and 24 that look like it. Closest by gameplay: Yuppie Psycho: Executive Edition, Retail Hell and Dollmare.

Player tags

  • Simulation
  • Horror
  • Psychological Horror
  • Retro
  • Adventure
  • 3D
  • Linear
  • Action-Adventure
Map region: Psychological Horror
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Plays and looks like The Salesman

Close to it by gameplay and by look, so it appears in both lists below.

By gameplay

Plays like The Salesman

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

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  1. blank_0194 % positive of 269Shared: Simulation · Horror · Psychological Horror
  2. Creepy Shift: Uncle Joe’s Motel90 % positive of 191Shared: Simulation · Horror · Psychological Horror
  3. Employee of The Month94 % positive of 173Shared: Psychological Horror · Walking Simulator · First-Person
  4. The Cabin Factory89 % positive of 3,506Shared: Simulation · Horror · Psychological Horror
  5. The Suits Have Gone Mad!93 % positive of 248Shared: Horror · Psychological Horror · Story Rich
  6. Make Good Choices87 % positive of 566Shared: Psychological Horror · Linear · Walking Simulator
  7. Job Simulator91 % positive of 4,427Shared: Simulation · Horror · Psychological Horror
  8. Red Tape87 % positive of 242Shared: Horror · Linear · Story Rich
  9. Kiosk87 % positive of 2,691Shared: Simulation · Horror · Psychological Horror
  10. Pleh!94 % positive of 1,369Shared: Horror · Psychological Horror · Linear
  11. Welcome to the Karoshi Club90 % positive of 175Shared: Horror · Psychological Horror · Dark
  12. A Simple job95 % positive of 527Shared: Horror · Psychological Horror · Walking Simulator

By look

Looks like The Salesman

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

More matches

  1. Jaden Williams' The Stalking Stairs87 % positive of 348
  2. erdetspill98 % positive of 1,153
  3. Retail Hell94 % positive of 593
  4. Photomaly88 % positive of 1,442
  5. Cannibal Abduction95 % positive of 348
  6. Self-Isolation84 % positive of 418
  7. Emily Wants To Play78 % positive of 2,061
  8. Bloodwash92 % positive of 1,226
  9. Streamer Life Simulator77 % positive of 7,092
  10. Static Dread: The Lighthouse90 % positive of 1,431
  11. Bitardia87 % positive of 730
  12. Skinfreak85 % positive of 391

At a glance

What games like The Salesman have in common

  • The tags they share most often with The Salesman: Horror (21 of 24), Psychological Horror (20) and Simulation (12).
  • They came out between 2015 and 2026, 4 of them after The Salesman (2025).
  • Best rated by Steam players: Yuppie Psycho: Executive Edition (94 % positive of 8,076).

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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