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I'm on Observation Duty 7

2024

Should you play it?

As an employee of a mysterious organization your job is to monitor live surveillance camera footage and spot anomalies using your sharp eyes and good memory. Can you survive the entire night shift or will you succumb into paranoia?

What works

  • Challenging and rewarding gameplay
  • Creative and varied anomalies
  • High replay value with multiple maps and modes
  • Engaging atmosphere and sound design
  • Supports social play via streaming and friends

Things to keep in mind

  • Steep difficulty curve may frustrate some players
  • Some anomalies are overly subtle or ambiguous
  • Reporting system can be unintuitive or tedious
  • Long sessions may cause fatigue
  • Lack of player customization and deeper story

What to play next

Top picks

Games that feels the closest overall

  • I'm on Observation Duty

  • I'm on Observation Duty 6

  • I'm on Observation Duty 5

  • 50 Floors: The Paranormal Investigators Prologue

  • Ten Bells

  • Paragnosia

Less social

Games that feels like I'm on Observation Duty 7 but with less teamwork and cooperation

  • I'm on Observation Duty 2

  • SCP: Observer

  • Born Into Fear

  • CAPTURED

  • [Chilla's Art] Night Security | 夜間警備

  • Who's at the door?

More intimate

Games that feels like I'm on Observation Duty 7 but with more focus on close relationships

  • Anomaly Exit

  • DEVOUR

  • School 666

  • Backrooms: Extractions

  • Escape the Backrooms

  • The Anomaly Project

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Similarity map

Each dot is a game placed from its motivation profile relative to this page’s game. Direction shows which motivation differs most; distance along that axis shows how large the gap is.

  • Purple star: this page’s game at the centre — everything is relative to it.
  • Direction: each axis is a main motivational difference vs this game (e.g. more / less competitive).
  • Distance on an axis: how large that difference is (ring scales show +/− points).
  • Coloured chips: click to highlight games that mainly differ on that motivation; click again to reset.
  • Dotted line: link between this page’s game and the one selected for comparison.
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  • Scroll or double-click the chart to zoom.

How to read the map This is a polar difference map: direction = which motivation differs, and distance = how much (same units as the sidebar deltas).

I'm on Observation Duty 7: Less representative of its motivational profile, with noticeable differences. Motivations that often define this kind of title include Violence, Survival, Fellowship, Intimacy. Here, the score leans higher than usual among comparable games on Cooperation, Fellowship. It leans lower than usual among comparable games on Violence.

Last update: 03/08/2026