Games like DAKENSHI
by rspepe
Can you hear the bad can? Tap, listen, and reject defective cans in a sound-based inspection game. The line keeps accelerating. Three mistakes end your shift. Headphones strongly recommended.
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$17.99Kebab Chefs! - Restaurant Simulator
Jun 11 · Biotech Gameworks
Both: Cooking · Time Management
Kebab Chefs! is a Co-Op, cooking and restaurant management game that can be played up to 4 players. Design your own restaurant. Cook delicious foods, fill your menu with various recipes, feed customers and become the biggest kebab restaurant in town!
CookingMultiplayerSimulationManagementPhysicsSandboxFunnyTime ManagementImmersive SimBuilding👍 7,017
$3.99Kiosk
Jan 29 · Vivi
Both: Cooking
Kiosk is a horror cooking game where you prepare orders for late-night customers who visit your cozy, rain-soaked kiosk. The eerie atmosphere clashes with the mounting tension as you serve your mysterious visitors.
HorrorCookingPsychological HorrorImmersive SimPixel GraphicsFirst-PersonAction-Adventure3DAtmosphericWalking Simulator👍 2,555
-20%$5.59Cooking Crusade
4 days ago · toogaryn, zeydean
Both: Cooking · Time Management · Arcade
A cosy cooking time-management game set in a medieval tavern. Brew pottage, pour ale and slice snacks for a queue of impatient guests. Reinvest your coin to upgrade the kitchen, and collect a dozen legendary regulars who each break the rules their own way.
SimulationCookingCasualCozyMedievalCuteHand-drawnAtmosphericTime ManagementArcade
$3.99HOSHIKUI
Aug 28 · rspepe
Both: Arcade · Minimalist
An action roguelite with no attack button. You are a dying star: ramming other stars is how you attack, heal, move, and grow. Steal their heat, gain mass, and outrun the heat death of the universe — across an infinite, procedurally generated galaxy.
Action RoguelikeRoguelitePerma DeathArcade2DTop-DownControllerProcedural GenerationActionMinimalist
$9.99Arctic Eggs
May 16 · The Water Museum, cockydoody, abmarnie, Cameron Ginex
Both: Cooking
Eggs: perfection in two parts. The simple whites. The sublime yolk. Each the lesser without its partner. Chorus and verse. A symphony of flavor. The catchy tune reminding us of warm baths and late-night movies. The elevator music to whatever lies beyond.
CookingSurrealPhysicsAtmosphericSci-fiFirst-PersonExplorationLore-RichCyberpunkCrime👍 5,344
-35%$6.49Happy's Humble Burger Cult
Jul 16 · Scythe Dev Team
Both: Cooking
The original cooking horror returns in an unhinged co-op experience for 1-4 players. Grill burgers, serve customers, and hit your quota before the kitchen turns into a nightmare. When Asset Joy begins her hunt, try to escape alive and extract your hard-earned cash to survive another shift.
SimulationOnline Co-OpCookingHorrorComedyAtmosphericDark HumorCo-opPhysicsManagement👍 481
$1.00Dead Garden Zero
Dec 28 · Butterfly
Both: Arcade
Find as many of your friends as possible before the monster gets you. Save all you can, as the amount of friends you have is endless! You can't save them all but find the best strategy and do your best sweetie! I hope everything's ok and hope you'll enjoy this mini game I finished for you.
ActionCasualSurrealArcadeHorrorAbstractSurvival HorrorMinigamesExplorationHidden Object
$4.99The Kindeman Remedy
Nov 16 · Troglobytes Games
Both: Time Management
The most blasphemous, diabolical and insane management game ever created. Aided by a lascivious nun in a grim prison, rig executions, conduct horrid experiments and do the unspeakable to cook up your cure-all: The Kindeman Remedy. Do not be afraid. This time, you're the monster.
Medical SimTime ManagementCrimeIncrementalManagementVillain ProtagonistPoint & Click2.5DNoirDark Humor👍 270
$9.99DRYER DRAMA
May 28 · Curly Flipper
Both: Arcade · Time Management
Throw as many balls in the dryer as possible for the highest score as it spins unpredictably but be careful to manage them because if one of those balls touches the edge of the drum, the dryer will jam and explode!
IndieActionPuzzleArcadeStrategyCozyCasual3DTime ManagementFamily Friendly
$4.99Nubby's Number Factory
Mar 7 · MogDogBlog Productions
Both: Arcade
A plinko-style roguelike where you work at a number factory. Launch your spherical friend, Nubby, down a pegboard to make bigger and bigger numbers! But beware, if you fail to meet your number quota, the sun will explode.
RoguelikeStrategySurrealArcadeSingleplayerPsychological HorrorStylizedDeckbuildingIndie2D👍 18,152
$24.99Cuisineer
Nov 9 · BattleBrew Productions
Both: Cooking
A super cute and tasty roguelite-flavored dungeon crawler! Explore a lush world and defeat monsters with your trusty spatula and some boba tea, then gather delicious ingredients and bring them home to cook and serve at your restaurant!
CookingAction RoguelikeAnimeManagementWholesomeCasualDungeon CrawlerCuteHack and SlashFemale Protagonist👍 1,821
-20%$7.99The Farmer Was Replaced
Oct 10 · Timon Herzog
Both: Minimalist
Program and optimize a drone to automate a farm and watch it do the work for you. Collect resources to unlock better technology and become the most efficient farmer in the world. Improve your problem solving and coding skills.
ProgrammingAutomationEducationIdlerLogicPuzzleText-BasedFarming SimMinimalistResource Management👍 9,155
FreeFish Idle 2: Underwater Mystery
Nov 15 · Multicast
Both: Arcade
Dive into the most fun idle fishing arcade game! Manage your Fish Kingdoms with automated fishing, upgrade your boat and gear, invest in passive income, and outsmart the market. Become the ultimate fish tycoon!
CasualAdventurePoint & ClickArcadeTop-Down3DCuteFishingAtmosphericRelaxing👍 674
-20%$4.79xiuzhen idle
Feb 4 · 游戏养家工作室
Both: Time Management
This is a xiuzhen simulation placement game! From the refining of qi, building the foundation to the ascension of the celestial realm, crossed into the divine realm. (The game has been updated with the english mod, but you will need to select the "english" beta in the properties option to update it)
IdlerIndieWord GameCasualRPGEarly AccessSimulationIncrementalStrategyTime Management👍 2,314
$14.99Yet Another Zombie Survivors
Aug 20 · Awesome Games Studio
Both: Arcade
The Horde is coming, but you're ready to fight it! Assemble your squad, choose their upgrades, and build powerful synergies against thousands of undead. Survive. Then evolve. Then break every limit in this deceptively simple but addictive bullet heaven game.
Bullet HeavenAction RoguelikeZombiesTop-Down ShooterRogueliteIndieArcadeSingleplayerAction RPGRoguelike👍 14,162
New$2.99Mellow Flavor Alley
Yesterday · Pallang Studio
Both: Cooking
A tiny food alley that sits quietly at the bottom of your screen. Customers wander in, take a seat, eat, pay up, and head back out. Get the ingredients in place and the alley runs itself — while you work, while you watch something.
CasualSimulationIdler2DCutePixel GraphicsSingleplayerCookingDesktop CompanionCozy
-50%$2.49Dollmare
Oct 24 · Alex Grade, gonzeek, Oxeren
You've accepted a shady job offer at a doll factory. Inspect dolls for defects and anomalies. Follow strange protocols. Don't get fired and stay alive.
SimulationHorror3DPsychological HorrorFirst-PersonSupernaturalControllerWalking SimulatorMultiple EndingsLinear👍 2,047
$18.99Winter Survival
Nov 19 · DRAGO entertainment
Both: Cooking
Winter Survival is a story-driven survival game where trauma turns reality into a reflection of your breaking mind. Battle cold, hunger, hallucinations, and adapt to the wilderness as it adapts to you.
SurvivalOpen World Survival CraftCookingOpen WorldAtmosphericExplorationSingleplayerAdventureFirst-PersonBase Building👍 595
$3.99Paragnosia
Oct 24 · Sine Coda
Observe every corner of your apartment by moving your camera along a rail that runs through the rooms. Find and take pictures of paranormal anomalies to exorcise them. Locked in your surveillance room, will you survive tonight's 8 rounds?
Psychological HorrorHidden ObjectAtmosphericHorrorStealthPuzzleFirst-Person3DTime ManipulationRealistic👍 229
$9.99Scale the Depths
May 28 · Glass Gecko Games
Both: Arcade
Fish, scale, sell, repeat. Scale the Depths is a casual fishing game built around this simple but satisfying loop. Feed hungry customers, upgrade your gear, and uncover the many secrets hidden beneath the surface.
FishingCasualPixel GraphicsFunnyUnderwaterEconomyRelaxingArcadeSimulationExploration👍 1,891
$5.99Vault
Jan 3 · ItllBeFunTheySaid
Both: Minimalist
Vault is a spooky, atmospheric exploration game. Uncover the story of a mysterious island through the lens of a primitive drone as you search for the artifact concealed within it, and avoid the guardian of the island.
AtmosphericPsychological HorrorIndieTypingRogueliteShortPixel GraphicsOpen WorldMinimalistAdventure
$5.99Night Raider
Jan 26 · TSUKUYOMIC
Night Raider is a thrilling adventure exploration shooter game. Players need to carry weapons into the city occupied by zombies, as far as possible in various buildings to collect necessary supplies, evacuate alive to bring supplies back to the camp. But you have to face are not just zombies...
AdventureGun CustomizationTop-Down ShooterInventory ManagementPixel GraphicsZombiesPerma DeathDarkExplorationShooter👍 1,910
$4.99仙途放置:无尽天梯和完美装备
Jul 9 · 小熠
Both: Minimalist
一款修仙题材的放置RPG。你将扮演一名初入仙途的修士,通过挑战无尽天梯、收集神兵利器、修炼功法秘籍,逐步突破境界,最终九转成仙! 【核心玩法】 无尽天梯 ,一亿层关卡,挂机自动战斗。九转成仙 - 9次转生系统,越转越强 🏭 生产技能 - 冥想修炼、采药炼丹、离线自动生产 【特色系统】 · 怪物梗技能 - 55种怪物各有专属热梗技能,20种Boss各有独特大招 · 异宝系统 - 不灭金身、天赐暴击、玄武真身等传说级装备 · 道树天赋 - 修罗道/玄武道/太虚道三大路线,自由搭配 · 装备评分 - 智能评分一键换装,轻松管理装备 · 多存档 - 最多8个存档槽位
CasualStrategyWord GameIdlerAbstractMinimalistLootIndieSimulationAutomation
$6.99Liar's Bar
Oct 2 · Curve Animation
Dive into this multiplayer online experience set in a sketchy bar where the games are as dangerous as the patrons. Join a table of 4 and test your skills in Liar's Dice and Liar's Deck, where lying and bluffing are key to victory. Ready for a night at Liar's Bar?
MultiplayerCasualPvPOnline Co-OpCo-opIndieFunnyFPS3DFirst-Person👍 48,720
$4.99Gnosis
Mar 15 · So Ro
Both: Minimalist
A dark atmospheric test that asks you to see things in new ways, including the experience of playing itself. In this love letter to flash horror, explore 60 ending permutations and reactivity to your answers, as the game not only allows but implores you to play and break it how you see fit.
Interactive FictionPoint & ClickGothicChoose Your Own AdventureAtmosphericHand-drawnMinimalistMysteryStylizedText-Based
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Both: Arcade
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