Games Like BABBDI

You're stranded at a cathedral-like train station in the near future, searching for a ticket out of town. Explore the secret passageways, interact with strangers, dig for records, and get hypnotized by the soundtrack – a batch of original music courtesy of the band, Archie Pelago.

Why similar: Surreal 37.3%, Walking Simulator 30%, First-Person 7.7%, Atmospheric 6.8%, Horror 6.6%

Why You'll Like It: Shares the same surreal, dreamlike atmosphere and focus on exploring a bizarre, stylized environment.

Explore the mysterious Hotel Norwood in this surreal first-person adventure. Curious characters, forgotten secrets, and head-nodding music await your arrival.

Why similar: Surreal 25.6%, Walking Simulator 19.8%, Exploration 13.5%, First-Person 10.3%, Atmospheric 9.9%

Why You'll Like It: Features the same developer's signature surrealist aesthetic and deep, environmental storytelling.

Smuggle contraband VHS tapes across the border. Discover the remnants of illicit industry. Prepare for an assassination. This is Paratopic, an atmospheric retro-3D horror adventure through a cursed fever dream.

Why similar: Surreal 31.3%, Horror 13.9%, Experimental 13.1%, Walking Simulator 12.1%, Atmospheric 11.6%

Why You'll Like It: Captures a similarly unsettling, low-poly, and fragmented narrative experience that feels like a fever dream.

The most relaxing horror game you'll ever play. Anemoiapolis exists in the uncanny valley of American architecture -- endless carpeted floors and lonely malls. Escape for your life, and enjoy the scenery.

Why similar: Walking Simulator 18%, Surreal 17.6%, Exploration 12%, Psychological Horror 11.2%, Horror 10.2%

Why You'll Like It: Focuses on the liminal, unsettling feeling of exploring vast, empty spaces that mirror the isolation of BABBDI.

NaissanceE is an obscure and magical first person exploration game, a philosophical trip and an artistic experience. The adventure takes place in a primitive mysterious structure and the game mainly consists to explore and feel the deep and strong ambiance of this atemporal world.

Why similar: Walking Simulator 24.8%, Surreal 21.7%, Exploration 20.4%, Atmospheric 14%, First-Person 9.7%

Why You'll Like It: Uses brutalist architecture and a lonely, atmospheric tone to create a profound sense of scale and exploration.

SLUDGE LIFE is a first-person / open-world / vandalism-centric stroll through a polluted island full of cranky idiots and a vibe so thick you can taste it.

Why similar: Walking Simulator 27.9%, Open World 16.5%, Exploration 15.1%, Atmospheric 14.7%, 3D Platformer 10.5%

Why You'll Like It: An open-world exploration game that mirrors the weird, gritty, and surreal vibe found in BABBDI.

Explore a cold, abandoned, and dreary facility to piece together its mysteries and find a means for escape from the horror that lurks within.

Why similar: Walking Simulator 30.1%, Atmospheric 17.5%, Exploration 14.4%, Horror 13.9%, Psychological Horror 10.1%

Why You'll Like It: A short, atmospheric horror-walking simulator that focuses on navigating claustrophobic and unsettling spaces.

Walking simulator. Explore, admire and listen. Uncanny. Relaxing. Unnerving. Eerie. Immersive. No monsters chasing you or jumping at your screen, but can feel oppressive at times by invoking fears of getting lost, the dark, tight spaces and liminal space architecture. Inspired by backrooms.

Why similar: Walking Simulator 27.6%, Surreal 21.3%, Psychological Horror 14.2%, Atmospheric 13.1%, Exploration 11.5%

Why You'll Like It: A highly atmospheric walking simulator that relies on liminal spaces and environmental storytelling rather than traditional mechanics.

A sci-fi exploration sim for people who like to wander. Get lost in an alien city, hang out with locals, see some sights. There’s no goal but to stroll. Where will your feet take you?

Why similar: Walking Simulator 33.9%, Exploration 17.5%, Open World 16%, Atmospheric 13.5%, First-Person 11.1%

Why You'll Like It: A free, atmospheric exploration experience that lets you wander through strange, alien cityscapes.

A dark/sad/weird/funny first person exploration game. You play a man on his last night alive as he obsesses over a mysterious painting. More of a story game in that it emphasizes mood and character over gameplay. Takes ten minutes to play and has "next-gen" features like a shrimp tank.

Why similar: Walking Simulator 26.4%, Psychological Horror 22.9%, Horror 17.4%, First-Person 10%, Surreal 9.9%

Why You'll Like It: A short, free, and deeply surreal experience that explores dark themes through first-person exploration.

A slow burn walking sim with an interactive soundtrack and horror vibes. You explore abstract locations and create your own unique sound for each of them by moving around and using Monoliths.

Why similar: Walking Simulator 26.5%, Surreal 24.9%, Psychological Horror 12.4%, Atmospheric 11.2%, Exploration 8.7%

Why You'll Like It: Provides a surreal, sci-fi exploration experience that prioritizes visual storytelling over combat.

Explore a mysterious abandoned bunker and find notes that paint a disturbing picture.

Why similar: Walking Simulator 27.3%, Psychological Horror 15.5%, Horror 13.9%, Exploration 12.4%, First-Person 11.8%

Why You'll Like It: A short, free, and unsettling exploration game that relies on environmental clues to tell a dark story.

Scanner Sombre is a 3d horror cave exploration game where darkness is your greatest foe. Illuminate the unseen with your LIDAR scanner, revealing the eerie beauty and peril of the abyss. From the creators of Prison Architect, this immersive adventure uses light and shadow for a haunting experience.

Why similar: Walking Simulator 31.4%, Exploration 17.6%, Atmospheric 13.9%, Horror 13.8%, First-Person 8.1%

Why You'll Like It: Offers a unique, point-cloud visual style that makes exploring its dark, cavernous environments feel mysterious and alien.

You don't know how you got here, and you don't know how you'll leave. Wander the depths of the Backrooms in hopes of finding something more.

Why similar: Surreal 32.9%, Exploration 18.7%, Atmospheric 16.3%, Open World 14.2%, Walking Simulator 6.3%

Why You'll Like It: Focuses on the atmospheric exploration of liminal spaces, capturing a similar sense of isolation and mystery.

Enter the lost world of Kairo. Explore vast abandoned monuments. Bring strange and ancient machinery back to life. Slowly uncover the true purpose of Kairo and fulfil a great destiny.Kairo is an atmospheric 3D exploration and puzzle solving game.

Why similar: Surreal 28.2%, Exploration 21.2%, Atmospheric 15.7%, Walking Simulator 13.4%, First-Person 11.7%

Why You'll Like It: A minimalist, surreal puzzle-exploration game that emphasizes atmosphere and architectural discovery.

They may be awkward dimensions, but they're my dreams...

Why similar: Walking Simulator 35.4%, Horror 14.2%, Surreal 12.3%, First-Person 12.1%, Atmospheric 9.7%

Why You'll Like It: A collection of surreal, experimental environments that capture the same weird, indie spirit as BABBDI.

Perception is reality. In this mind-bending first-person puzzler, you escape a surreal dream world through solving impossible puzzles using the ambiguity of depth and perspective.

Why similar: Surreal 40.9%, First-Person 16.1%, Exploration 14.4%, Psychological Horror 13.8%, Horror 8.5%

Why You'll Like It: Uses perspective-based puzzles to create a surreal, dreamlike environment that feels constantly shifting.

Shadow of Pharos is a short first-person horror game.

Why similar: Walking Simulator 25%, Horror 19.7%, Atmospheric 18.1%, Psychological Horror 15%, Exploration 9.7%

Why You'll Like It: An immersive, atmospheric mystery that relies on environmental exploration to build its psychological tension.

Proteus is a game about exploration and immersion in a dream-like island world where the soundtrack to your play is created by your surroundings. Played in first-person, the primary means of interaction is simply your presence in the world and how you observe it.

Why similar: Walking Simulator 35.8%, Exploration 22.5%, Experimental 11.3%, First-Person 7.2%, Atmospheric 5.4%

Why You'll Like It: Focuses entirely on the joy of exploration and the atmospheric connection to a strange, procedurally generated world.

Rediscover gravity and explore an Escher-esque world of impossible architecture. Witness infinity in first-person and master its rules to solve physics-defying puzzles. Cultivate a garden to open new paths forward, where an eternal expanse awaits.

Why similar: Surreal 35.2%, Experimental 17.2%, Exploration 16.2%, First-Person 13%, Atmospheric 12.9%

Why You'll Like It: Features impossible, surreal architecture that rewards the player for exploring its infinite, mind-bending geometry.

Get out of the building via the stairway. Observe the levels carefully for a successful exit.

Why similar: Walking Simulator 51.3%, Psychological Horror 28.2%, First-Person 12.5%, Immersive Sim 4.1%, Singleplayer 2.3%

Why You'll Like It: An immersive, psychological walking simulator that uses its environment to tell a cryptic and unsettling story.

Seybul Tech is a walking simulator. Navigate as an office employee, confronting peculiar encounters while in search of an exit from this enigmatic abyss.

Why similar: Walking Simulator 26.1%, Surreal 23.9%, Psychological Horror 13.7%, Exploration 11.8%, Horror 9.3%

Why You'll Like It: A surreal, dark walking simulator that focuses on navigating strange, industrial-feeling environments.

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Why similar: Surreal 32%, Walking Simulator 17.2%, Horror 16.2%, Exploration 15.6%, Psychological Horror 10.1%

Why You'll Like It: Features a surreal, stylized world that encourages exploration and rewards the player with eerie, Lovecraftian imagery.

Deep Sorrow is a horror/adventure game which leads you to a bunker and makes you feel desperate to get out.

Why similar: Walking Simulator 28.6%, Horror 15.7%, Psychological Horror 14.2%, Atmospheric 13.7%, First-Person 12.4%

Why You'll Like It: A brief, first-person exploration game that focuses on creating a moody and melancholic atmosphere.

Experience the liminal world of the backrooms through a VHS camera, immersing into a mysterious story and wandering the dream-like structures... Might there be something following you?

Why similar: Walking Simulator 21.6%, Horror 16.1%, Psychological Horror 14.8%, Exploration 14.2%, First-Person 11%

Why You'll Like It: A first-person exploration game that captures the feeling of being trapped in a surreal, unending space.

LiDAR Exploration Program is a relaxing atmospheric game with light horror elements, where you explore in complete darkness using a scanner to reveal the world around you.

Why similar: Walking Simulator 25.7%, Exploration 15.7%, Atmospheric 15.2%, Psychological Horror 14.2%, Horror 13.1%

Why You'll Like It: Uses a unique visual aesthetic to turn simple exploration into a haunting and atmospheric experience.

An indie psychological horror experience about surviving infinity. Navigate an endless expanse of rooms, ascend through various levels, gather items and artifacts, avoid going insane, evade corrupted entities, and see just how deep the realm known as The Backrooms goes.

Why similar: Walking Simulator 24.6%, Experimental 15.9%, Psychological Horror 15%, Surreal 14.4%, Horror 12%

Why You'll Like It: Combines exploration with survival elements in a way that highlights the weird, procedural nature of its environments.

Free single-player Backrooms game developed on a low budget.

Why similar: Walking Simulator 41.8%, Horror 18.4%, Atmospheric 16.4%, Casual 10.4%, Adventure 9%

Why You'll Like It: A casual, 3D exploration game that focuses on the simple, eerie joy of navigating strange, empty corridors.

A short first-person horror game where you wander through an eerie forest using the dials of a microwave.

Why similar: Surreal 27.1%, Walking Simulator 15.4%, Psychological Horror 12.4%, Exploration 12.2%, Horror 12.2%

Find a way out.

Why similar: Walking Simulator 26.8%, Surreal 24%, Psychological Horror 13.7%, Horror 11.8%, Atmospheric 10.7%

Something has gone terribly wrong in TRAPPED Alaska. Except for you, and a handful of survivors, the whole town has been emptied. Everywhere, what should be water has been replaced by a black semi-sentient sludge that seems to change everything it touches. And it’s rising...

Why similar: Open World 70.4%, Adventure 20.8%, Indie 8.8%

Why You'll Like It: A short, indie-horror walking simulator that emphasizes atmosphere and environmental discovery.

Walking simulator. Explore cozy liminal spaces that feel unsettlingly familiar and spark your imagination, like a dream you’ve been in before.

Why similar: Walking Simulator 27.3%, Surreal 18.2%, Exploration 15.3%, Psychological Horror 12.4%, First-Person 9.3%

Backrooms: Found Footage is a single-player horror game where you are the main character trying to survive the Backrooms. Curiosity wins and you decide to explore this weird place that you got trapped in. What could go wrong?

Why similar: Exploration 24.1%, Horror 15.4%, First-Person 15.3%, Atmospheric 13.9%, Psychological Horror 12.4%

Welcome to Liminal Lane. A short, single player, first person, atmospheric walking simulator. A nostalgic, surreal experience exploring Liminal Spaces. Uncover the secrets of Liminal Lane and escape the Lucid Dreams and Haunting Nightmares.

Why similar: Walking Simulator 35.5%, Exploration 18.6%, First-Person 12.1%, Atmospheric 11.8%, Dystopian 11.5%

A surreal first person walking sim about the end of humanity. Explore magnificent sky-bound ruins, and learn why they were built.

Why similar: Walking Simulator 48%, Atmospheric 16.1%, First-Person 11.9%, Exploration 10.7%, Casual 5.9%

Placed in a world without change, you must create fate by watering an ancient plant. Determine a future and live with it.

Why similar: Surreal 24.8%, Atmospheric 13.6%, Horror 8.4%, First-Person 8.3%, Psychological Horror 8.1%

Explore the origins of the mysterious Banban’s Kindergarten. Survive the dark past of the establishment. Try to make some friends. Uncover the truth behind the place, and who you are…

Why similar: Walking Simulator 18.2%, Horror 17.6%, Psychological Horror 15.7%, Surreal 14.5%, First-Person 14.1%

Find clues and solve puzzles to escape

Why similar: Experimental 32.5%, Dystopian 20.7%, First-Person 19.7%, Atmospheric 12.4%, Casual 10.9%

You find yourself in a strange world with no idea how you got there. As you explore more, the world gets increasingly convoluted and unstable. You are now in... The Backrooms.

Why similar: Walking Simulator 28.3%, Exploration 16.8%, First-Person 10.3%, Atmospheric 10.3%, Horror 9.7%

On a task to find your sister, you find yourself exploring an old abandoned house. But you soon find out that things are not as they seem.

Why similar: Walking Simulator 33.5%, Horror 18.6%, Exploration 13.9%, Atmospheric 9.2%, First-Person 8.6%

A short psychological horror game where your friends invite you to hang out tonight — you have 7 days to think about it.

Why similar: Walking Simulator 27.2%, Surreal 17.7%, Exploration 17.2%, Psychological Horror 9.8%, First-Person 9.2%

You are trapped in a corridor suspended above the clouds. Each time you open the door at the end of the corridor, explore the environment that awaits you, find anomalies, use the alarm, and break the loop.

Why similar: Walking Simulator 25.5%, Surreal 17.2%, Psychological Horror 13.3%, Exploration 13.3%, Atmospheric 11.3%

You’ve wandered into a strange dimension while shopping.A mysterious monster is chasing you.You must escape."Backmooms" is a first-person adventure game.

Why similar: Walking Simulator 25.6%, Psychological Horror 20%, Exploration 14.4%, Horror 13.8%, First-Person 8.5%

Backrooms Doors - This is an atmospheric first-person horror game. Explore spaces that can't exist in the real world and find your way out before the entities find you.

Why similar: Horror 22.3%, First-Person 18.7%, Psychological Horror 18.2%, Surreal 15%, Atmospheric 14.2%

You are trapped in an endless underground passageway. Observe your surroundings carefully to reach "The Exit 8".

Why similar: Walking Simulator 25.1%, Surreal 16.6%, Exploration 14.1%, Psychological Horror 12%, Horror 10.9%

Explore terrifying liminal spaces. Horror walking simulator with reality-bending platforming and supernatural threats. Get lost between dimensions.

Why similar: Exploration 29.9%, First-Person 17.9%, Atmospheric 17.4%, Adventure 13.6%, Psychological Horror 11.1%

The NADI Project it is a free-to-play, first person graphic adventure, in which you will face various obstacles to escape from your destiny.

Why similar: Exploration 29.4%, First-Person 24.4%, Horror 17.3%, Adventure 11.8%, Atmospheric 6.8%

In Our Parlor is a short, horror walking simulator. The player must make their way through a mysterious manor to unfold the story, find the parlor, and escape this nightmare. Navigate a series of dark set pieces and follow the music to discover the path forward.

Why similar: Walking Simulator 36.1%, First-Person 16.7%, Psychological Horror 14.2%, Exploration 10.9%, Horror 8.9%

Explore the strange world within the screen in this ambient exploration experience featuring the music of Red Vox.

Why similar: Surreal 34.7%, Walking Simulator 29.5%, First-Person 10.6%, Atmospheric 10.2%, Horror 4.7%

You come to your senses in this place, you do not understand what is happening, but you know that it is better to get out of here as soon as possible

Why similar: Walking Simulator 27.2%, Horror 16.5%, Atmospheric 15%, Psychological Horror 14.5%, First-Person 12.6%

A short, 3D narrative-driven horror platformer. Journey deep into the meat tunnel and talk with survivors to uncover the grim truth.

Why similar: Walking Simulator 31.8%, Exploration 21.7%, 3D Platformer 13.4%, Psychological Horror 13.1%, First-Person 11.2%

BLACKSHARD is a first-person exploration game. Wander through a strange megastructure, the Labyrinth, to unravel its mysteries... Your behavior within the Labyrinth will define the outcome of your journey. What path will you choose to take?

Why similar: Walking Simulator 36.5%, Surreal 23.8%, Exploration 12.7%, Atmospheric 11.2%, First-Person 8.7%

Experience backrooms like never before. Dreamcore is the ultimate psychological exploration game, set in the largest liminal world ever made. No guides, no path—only intuition. Will you keep your bearings in a world designed to make you lose them?

Why similar: Walking Simulator 22.8%, Surreal 22.1%, Exploration 12.5%, Psychological Horror 11.3%, Atmospheric 9.2%

An immersive and twisted adventure created before the official development of the Doorways saga

Why similar: Horror 19.1%, Walking Simulator 15.9%, Surreal 13.4%, Psychological Horror 9.7%, First-Person 9.6%

Explore a looping corridor filled with anomalies. Walk through the fluorescent-lit backrooms environment, examine your surroundings, and spot subtle changes in reality.

Why similar: Walking Simulator 22.3%, Surreal 21.6%, Exploration 12.4%, Psychological Horror 10.8%, Horror 9.8%

Noclipped is a Survival Horror Adventure game located in the Backrooms. Explore infinite levels, collect resources, fight or flee from dangerous beings and survive in the harsh environments of the Backrooms.

Why similar: Exploration 20.2%, Open World 17%, Walking Simulator 15.3%, First-Person 14.3%, Horror 12.4%

Explore the truly frightening subway cars and find out what fears the main character will have to face.

Why similar: Walking Simulator 31.3%, Exploration 17.6%, Horror 14.9%, Psychological Horror 11.9%, First-Person 10.2%

An uncanny liminal space themed walking-simulator.

Why similar: Walking Simulator 53.6%, Atmospheric 20.7%, Surreal 14.8%, Adventure 5.4%, Singleplayer 2.3%

Enter Banban's Kindergarten, and you're sure to make some friends. Explore the mysterious establishment and don't lose your life and sanity. Uncover the horrifying truth behind the place, but be careful, as you are far from alone…

Why similar: Surreal 22.2%, Walking Simulator 22.2%, Psychological Horror 13.2%, Horror 12.6%, Atmospheric 11%

You are wetware, working a mysterious job.

Why similar: Walking Simulator 21.5%, Surreal 19.6%, Psychological Horror 10.9%, Exploration 10.8%, Horror 9.2%