- #1 Escape the Backrooms
97% matchVery Positive90% of 162,444 reviews2025
Dev: Fancy GamesPub: Secret Mode
Windows
Median: 6.8 hrsMean: 12.7 hrs≥1hr: 90%
Escape the Backrooms is a 1-4 player co-op horror exploration game. Traverse 30+ eerie backrooms levels while avoiding entities and other dangers. Try to escape but be warned: survival isn't guaranteed.
Why similar: Horror 30%, Psychological Horror 13.6%, Survival Horror 13.3%, Stealth 11.6%, Multiplayer 10.4%
- #2 Backrooms Doors
96% matchMixed69% of 88 reviews2023
Dev: Performance Artist
Windows
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 14.6%, Survival Horror 13.7%, Immersive Sim 11.4%, Survival 9.9%, Psychological Horror 9.6%
- #3 Inside the Backrooms
96% matchMostly Positive80% of 46,759 reviews2022
Dev: MrFatcat
Windows
Median: 4.7 hrsMean: 15.0 hrs≥1hr: 87%
Inside the Backrooms is a horror multiplayer game mixed with different mechanics that will make you spend an intense night with friends. Explore, think, interact, but be careful, it is rumored that there are several entities wishing to find you...
Why similar: Horror 27.6%, Survival Horror 15.9%, Psychological Horror 13.4%, Multiplayer 10.8%, Puzzle 9.2%
- #4 BACKROOMS THE COMPANY
95% matchMixed68% of 50 reviews2024
Dev: kc6067
Windows
backrooms horror game
Why similar: Exploration 22.5%, First-Person 17.9%, Psychological Horror 17.4%, 3D 12.5%, Action 10.7%
- #5 Backrooms: Escape Together
94% matchVery Positive89% of 48,556 reviews2022
Dev: Triiodide Studios
Windows
Median: 4.2 hrsMean: 6.1 hrs≥1hr: 91%
A visually lifelike co-op horror game for 1-6 people. Journey through 11 procedurally generated levels, using what's available to survive and progress deeper into the Backrooms.
Why similar: Horror 22.9%, Survival Horror 17%, Psychological Horror 16%, Multiplayer 10%, Exploration 6.9%
- #6 Backrooms Rec.
94% matchMixed69% of 2,102 reviews2024
Dev: Liminal Logic
Windows
Median: 2.5 hrsMean: 6.0 hrs≥1hr: 77%
Dive into the mysteries of the Backrooms with a solo-developed survival game. Explore eerie hallways, uncover secrets alone or in multiplayer (up to 6 players), and take on unique challenges.
Why similar: Survival Horror 22.1%, Horror 22.1%, Psychological Horror 15%, Multiplayer 10.6%, First-Person 10.2%
- #7 Backrooms: Extractions
93% matchMostly Positive73% of 796 reviews2025
Dev: Headlight Studio
Windows
Median: 3.3 hrsMean: 8.7 hrs≥1hr: 90%
Co-op horror for 1 to 6 players. Anyone can try to escape the Backrooms. You are going back in: locate the lost agents, solve the puzzles, film the entities, and hold out until extraction. Everything you carry can be lost. Your ranks, gear and storage are built to last.
Why similar: Stealth 17.8%, Horror 13.7%, Survival Horror 12.2%, Psychological Horror 11.2%, Survival 10.7%
- #8 The Backrooms 1998 - Found Footage Survival Horror Game
92% matchVery Positive84% of 832 reviews2025
Dev: Steelkrill Studio
Windows
Median: 1.2 hrsMean: 2.1 hrs≥1hr: 55%
The Backrooms: 1998 is a first-person found footage psychological horror survival game where it tells the story of a young teen after accidentally falling into the depths of The Backrooms in 1998. Roam freely, mark, explore and try unravel the story - however you are not alone. Don't scream.
Why similar: Survival Horror 18.5%, Psychological Horror 17.6%, Survival 17.5%, Sandbox 12.4%, Simulation 9.2%
- #9 Backroom Warfare II
91% matchMixed66% of 61 reviews2023
Dev: Naughty Clogs
Windows
Fight for survival in the Backrooms. Play with friends in multiplayer or solo against AI bots. Unearth the terrifying monster scorestreak and get ready for an intense experience!
Why similar: Horror 25.1%, First-Person 20.9%, Action 17.7%, 3D 15.1%, Atmospheric 11%
- #10 Enter The Backrooms
90% matchVery Positive87% of 1,063 reviews2021
Dev: Justin KrohPub: Cosmic Crow Creations
Windows
Median: 1.6 hrsMean: 5.7 hrs≥1hr: 63%
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: Survival Horror 21.1%, Psychological Horror 19.6%, Horror 19.4%, Survival 18%, First-Person 9.5%
- #11 Backrooms Descent: Multiplayer Horror
89% matchMixed46% of 111 reviews2023
Dev: Sushi Studio
Windows
If you are not careful enough, you may end up in that place, the place some call The Backrooms. The Backrooms of existence, a hellish dimension of infinite maze-like constructs, each level pushing deeper into the despair. Could you, a normal person find the way out? Dive deeper into the horror
Why similar: Stealth 16.8%, Horror 13%, Survival Horror 12.2%, Psychological Horror 11.3%, Exploration 9.3%
- #12 The Backrooms: Survival
88% matchVery Positive82% of 1,124 reviews2023
Dev: RE:CODE
Windows
Median: 1.7 hrsMean: 9.2 hrs≥1hr: 64%
Survival horror with roguelike elements. Explore randomized levels with different items and entities while trying to maintain your thirst, hunger, and sanity, ensuring a new experience every time. Play alone or with up to TEN friends online! Cross-platform multiplayer with Nintendo Switch.
Why similar: Horror 18.7%, Survival Horror 17.9%, Psychological Horror 15.6%, Survival 13.5%, Retro 8.6%
- #13 The Backrooms
89% matchMixed62% of 127 reviews2022
Dev: Ionized Games
Windows
Median: 2.0 hrsMean: 4.1 hrs≥1hr: 75%
The Backrooms is a first person survival horror game set in one of the most terrifying environments of the human psyche. Explore an ever evolving nightmare while running from terrifying creatures to stay alive.
Why similar: Horror 18.3%, Puzzle 16.8%, First-Person 14.5%, Psychological Horror 13.9%, Survival 13.1%
- #14 BrVR Backrooms Virtual Reality
87% matchVery Positive89% of 159 reviews2023
Dev: Paul WallacePub: LakesideCentral LLC
Windows
Explore 120+ Backrooms levels in a massive single‑player survival adventure. Build, craft, fight, or just wander endless liminal spaces shaped by the community.
Why similar: Sandbox 20.8%, Physics 19.1%, Horror 18.8%, Survival 17.8%, Exploration 10.2%
- #15 BACKROOMS ANOMALY
86% matchMostly Positive76% of 59 reviews2026
Dev: liminal_games
Windows
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: Immersive Sim 21.3%, Horror 15.7%, Psychological Horror 13.8%, Exploration 10.8%, Puzzle 9.7%
- #16 Pawperty Damage
86% matchVery Positive93% of 515 reviews2023
Dev: Dare Looks
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 54 minMean: 4.1 hrs≥1hr: 47%
Smash, kick, stomp and chomp your way through a fully destructible city! Go to town in this cathartic action sandbox, either alone or in split screen local multiplayer.
Why similar: Destruction 66.2%, Sandbox 17.7%, Action 5.1%, Psychological Horror 4.8%, Multiplayer 3%
- #17 A Liminal Place Remastered
84% matchMostly Positive73% of 109 reviews2024
Dev: Mirage Entertainment
Windows
A Liminal Place RMSTER is a solitary game, and relaxing on some levels. ALPR Uses Body-Cam, Analog Horror and Found Footage style. Including realistic Liminal Spaces, and "Backrooms" levels.
Why similar: Immersive Sim 21.3%, Sandbox 18%, Survival 14.1%, Exploration 11.2%, Puzzle 9.4%
- #18 The Backrooms: Found Footage
84% matchMostly Positive71% of 63 reviews2022
Dev: BaddWeatherPub: Euclid Games
Windows
The Backrooms: Found Footage is a survival horror game with rogue-lite elements, where you explore 600 million miles of randomly generated office space, contend with entities, collect unique and useful lore- all while attempting to maintain your sanity as you try to escape.
Why similar: Horror 25.8%, Psychological Horror 23.2%, Exploration 19.6%, First-Person 15.5%, 3D 10.5%
- #19 Transliminal: Beyond The Backrooms
82% matchVery Positive91% of 150 reviews2022
Dev: Corey JeffriesPub: Spatial Quotient
Windows
An unsettling rogue-lite survival horror adventure. Iconic levels reshape around you. Classic and original entities lurk as greater beings bid for your favor. Collect relics and strange items. Grow stronger. Survive, escape, or claim more uncertain fates. Fall in. Get lost. Go beyond The Backrooms.
Why similar: Horror 21.8%, Survival Horror 19.4%, Psychological Horror 19.3%, Exploration 14.8%, First-Person 9.4%
- #20 Backrooms: What's Next
82% matchMixed63% of 67 reviews2025
Dev: SUDT Games
Windows
Backrooms: What's Next is a Co-op horror game up to 4 players, where you and your friends will explore the game, try to pass the game level using your mind, wit, remembering the places where you were
Why similar: Stealth 24.2%, Horror 12.5%, Exploration 11.3%, Survival Horror 9.8%, Puzzle 9.6%
- #21 THE_ABYSS_HAS_WALLS
83% matchMixed60% of 57 reviews2022
Dev: James Madsen Digital Enterprises
Windows
THE_ABYSS_HAS_WALLS takes you into Ad Infinitum (also known as "The Backrooms") like never seen before. Review footage. Document fate.
Why similar: Survival Horror 31.7%, Horror 27.1%, Atmospheric 10.9%, Exploration 10.7%, Action 9.1%
- #22 EXPEDITION TO THE BACKROOMS
81% matchMixed66% of 179 reviews2025
Dev: 1_Cutter_1
Windows
You are the exploration team from company Async, you arrive to reported anomaly place and searching for anomalies, but what would you find? Prepare yourself for a gripping and heart-pounding adventure in EXPEDITION TO THE BACKROOMS, where every step could be your last.
Why similar: Immersive Sim 21.9%, Horror 18.4%, Psychological Horror 13.7%, Exploration 12.6%, First-Person 9.9%
- #23 后室重生Backrooms Rebirth
81% matchMixed59% of 75 reviews2024
Dev: SJGZS
Windows
这是一款以后室题材的游戏,主要是一些恐怖元素和解谜内容组合起来的元素,这是我们的第一款游戏也是开始
Why similar: Immersive Sim 27.3%, Horror 17.5%, Exploration 14.1%, Puzzle 12%, First-Person 10.5%
- #24 Project Liminal 2
79% matchVery Positive82% of 70 reviews2026
Dev: AquaHeaven StudiosPub: TXC
Windows
Explore terrifying liminal spaces. Horror walking simulator with reality-bending platforming and supernatural threats. Get lost between dimensions.
Why similar: Puzzle 18.7%, Exploration 15.7%, First-Person 11.3%, Adventure 11.2%, Action 11.2%
- #25 Shifting To The Backrooms
78% matchVery Positive87% of 75 reviews2026
Dev: Oopsome Games
Windows
Experience Will's complicated story, find a way out of the nightmare of liminal spaces by solving challenging puzzles and avoiding dangerous entities — all this awaits you in "Shifting To The Backrooms".
Why similar: Horror 24.6%, Psychological Horror 20.4%, Puzzle 13.9%, Exploration 13.9%, First-Person 13.1%
- #26 Backrooms Cleanup Crew
77% matchVery Positive92% of 519 reviews2025
Dev: On The Bridge Games
Windows
Median: 3.0 hrsMean: 5.3 hrs≥1hr: 87%
You and your crew are tasked with cleaning up after the last exploration team's ill-fated journey into the Backrooms. Dodge deadly incursions, scrub every surface, and leave no trace.
Why similar: Immersive Sim 17.7%, Physics 14.2%, Horror 12.3%, Survival Horror 11.8%, Psychological Horror 11.7%
- #27 Backrooms: Exit from Supermarket
78% matchMixed65% of 60 reviews2025
Dev: CGI LAB GAMES
Windows
In the Backrooms: Exit from Supermarket, you find yourself trapped in a labyrinth of endless, flickering aisles. Unearth dark secrets behind every shelf while evading lurking apparitions and supernatural terrors. Can you survive the haunted corridors and escape before the nightmare consumes?
Why similar: Horror 20.3%, Psychological Horror 18%, Survival Horror 17.8%, First-Person 10.3%, Atmospheric 8.2%
- #28 The Backrooms : Last Expedition
80% matchMixed51% of 67 reviews2023
Dev: Valkyrie Interactive
Windows
"The Backrooms: Last Expedition" is a cooperative horror game designed for 1 to 4 players. Its main objective is to create an enjoyable gaming experience for friends. Players will navigate through terrifying levels, filled with various entities and dangers, as they strive to escape.
Why similar: Horror 16.9%, Psychological Horror 14.7%, Survival Horror 14.6%, Immersive Sim 11.3%, First-Person 9.1%
- #29 CantEscapeTheBackrooms
79% matchMixed60% of 257 reviews2023
Dev: BlackArtStudios
Windows
CantEscapeTheBackrooms is a single player horror game. Explore numerous treacherous and dangerous levels, avoid contact with evil entities, and do whatever it takes to find your way out!
Why similar: Stealth 21%, Horror 20%, Survival Horror 12.2%, Puzzle 11.3%, First-Person 10.7%
- #30 Climb The Backrooms
75% matchVery Positive81% of 1,214 reviews2025
Dev: LovDEV
Windows
Median: 2.6 hrsMean: 10.6 hrs≥1hr: 83%
Ascend through the twisted levels of the Backrooms using physics-based object manipulation to overcome obstacles, solve mind-bending puzzles, and uncover unsettling secrets. Play solo or team up in online co-op with up to 4 players as you climb higher, think smarter, and survive the unknown.
Why similar: Horror 28.3%, Puzzle 24.3%, First-Person 18.6%, 3D 13.2%, Adventure 11.3%
- #31 White Room Protocol
76% matchMostly Positive78% of 55 reviews2025
Dev: Lefto Studio
Windows
A psychological first-person horror game where you enter a memory-erasing protocol and relive a trauma. Uncover dark secrets, and experience fear through immersive atmosphere.
Why similar: Horror 29.4%, Psychological Horror 25.1%, First-Person 12%, Atmospheric 10.5%, 3D 8.2%
- #32 Backrooms: Hide Together
77% matchMixed46% of 95 reviews2025
Dev: ICON GAME STUDIO
Windows
A visually realistic 1-7 player co-op survival horror game. Explore 5 levels filled with confined environments, puzzles, and entities with new levels and content added regularly. Beware of terrifying moments and ruthless monsters. Do whatever it takes to escape, even if it means hiding.
Why similar: Horror 17%, Survival Horror 15.1%, Psychological Horror 13.9%, Exploration 12%, Puzzle 9.5%
- #33 Backrooms Society
76% matchVery Positive80% of 706 reviews2023
Dev: Mikael Bihl
Windows
Median: 3.5 hrsMean: 9.1 hrs≥1hr: 91%
Backrooms Society is a 1-8 player co-op horror game. Make your way through unique levels of the backrooms while trying to survive and avoid mysterious entities. Scavenge each level for gear and resources, bring it back to The Hub where you can sell valuables and buy/craft new gear.
Why similar: Horror 23%, Survival Horror 22%, Psychological Horror 17.6%, Exploration 11%, Multiplayer 9.9%
- #34 Backrooms: Wit's End
74% matchVery Positive87% of 54 reviews2025
Dev: Augusto Micheli Debard
Windows
Backrooms: Wit's End is an immersive coop survival horror game, featuring procedurally generated, non-linear level progression and dynamic gameplay mechanics. Explore the different disturbing levels with your friends, while trying to escape from many puzzling entities.
Why similar: Stealth 18.1%, Immersive Sim 14.1%, Horror 13.6%, Psychological Horror 12.8%, Survival Horror 11.5%
- #35 Perfect Vermin
74% matchVery Positive93% of 3,863 reviews2020
Dev: Talia bob MairPub: ItsTheTalia
Windows
Your task is simple, exterminate all vermin. The sledge hammer you have been provided is capable of destroying almost all office appliances and furniture that may be uncooperative. Your time is running out.
Why similar: Destruction 32.3%, Horror 18.3%, Psychological Horror 15.7%, First-Person 9.3%, Atmospheric 4.9%
- #36 Noclipped
75% matchVery Positive80% of 61 reviews2022
Dev: MateussDev
Windows
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: Stealth 16.3%, Survival 14.7%, Sandbox 14.3%, Survival Horror 12.7%, Horror 11.6%
- #37 GoreBox
72% matchVery Positive84% of 24,589 reviews2023
Dev: F2Games
Windows
Median: 11.5 hrsMean: 47.4 hrs≥1hr: 89%
GoreBox is a chaotic physics-driven sandbox where creativity meets destruction. Use the Reality Crusher to spawn, manipulate, and obliterate anything. Customize, roleplay, or face devious creatures. In this world, your imagination rules, and chaos is your playground!
Why similar: Sandbox 29.9%, Physics 21.6%, Immersive Sim 17.1%, First-Person 9.4%, Exploration 8.1%
- #38 The Classrooms
72% matchVery Positive89% of 3,217 reviews2022
Dev: Xefier Games
Windows
Median: 2.2 hrsMean: 4.3 hrs≥1hr: 71%
The Classrooms is a procedural, liminal-space, found-footage, survival horror game. Explore The Classrooms and discover the various anomalies it contains; from malicious entities, to harmless oddities. And remember, it's different every time you play, so your found footage is uniquely yours.
Why similar: Psychological Horror 19.3%, Survival Horror 18.7%, Horror 18%, Exploration 13.1%, First-Person 10.9%
- #39 Jumpscare Simulator: System Breach
71% matchVery Positive91% of 91 reviews2025
Dev: Durultay Games
Windows
Jumpscare Simulator is a sci-fi horror game featuring a story-driven main game and two additional game modes. Pass through doors carefully, battle the simulation, and try to fall from your seat as little as possible!
Why similar: Horror 21.4%, Psychological Horror 18.6%, Survival Horror 17.6%, Puzzle 11.9%, First-Person 8.8%
- #40 Clean Break
71% matchVery Positive94% of 132 reviews2025
Dev: Benjamin Pilbrow
Windows
Explore a quiet house. Destroy any furniture that seems... off. This is just a bit of decluttering. Probably.
Why similar: Destruction 61%, Exploration 11.3%, First-Person 9.4%, 3D 4.9%, Action 4.6%
- #41 SKUF BACKROOMS
73% matchMixed57% of 99 reviews2024
Dev: akhsotoen
Windows
SKUF BACKROOMS is a psychological horror game that takes the player to the Backrooms level, consisting of intertwining transition zones of post-Soviet living spaces.
Why similar: Psychological Horror 22.5%, Horror 18.6%, Exploration 12.6%, First-Person 10.4%, Atmospheric 9.4%
- #42 The Backrooms Experiment
73% matchMixed59% of 74 reviews2023
Dev: Efe Mert
Windows
The Backrooms Experiment is a co-op walking simulator with horror and thriller elements. Find your way in Backrooms, avoid the entities, cheese entities with voices, explore the levels, cooperate with your friends, and most importantly, do not die.
Why similar: Survival Horror 24%, Psychological Horror 21.1%, First-Person 19.7%, 3D 14.1%, Adventure 13.8%
- #43 Very Scary Backrooms Game
71% matchVery Positive86% of 184 reviews2023
Dev: Wilboforce
Windows
You have no weapons. You have no means of defending yourself. Some will chase you, some will outsmart you. If you are in danger, run and hide.
Why similar: Stealth 22.2%, Horror 19.8%, Survival Horror 17%, Psychological Horror 14%, First-Person 5.8%
- #44 Welcome To The Backrooms
73% matchMixed47% of 151 reviews2022
Dev: Brickmade ProductionsPub: Brickmade Productions
Windows · Mac
Welcome to the Backrooms is a indie horror game developed by Brickmade Productions. This game will bring you the ultimate Backrooms survival experience, crafting, lore, entities, and a very in-depth health system which will keep you checking your watch non-stop.
Why similar: Horror 30.9%, Exploration 19.7%, Psychological Horror 17.7%, First-Person 15%, 3D 9.8%
- #45 People Playground
67% matchOverwhelmingly Positive98% of 317,170 reviews2019
Dev: mestiezPub: Studio Minus
Windows
Median: 8.0 hrsMean: 57.5 hrs≥1hr: 85%
Shoot, stab, burn, poison, tear, vaporise, or crush ragdolls in a large open space.
Why similar: Destruction 34.6%, Sandbox 27.8%, Physics 17.4%, Simulation 5.9%, Psychological Horror 5.6%
- #46 Teardown
67% matchOverwhelmingly Positive96% of 135,234 reviews2022
Dev: Tuxedo Labs
Windows
Median: 7.0 hrsMean: 29.0 hrs≥1hr: 88%
Prepare the perfect heist in a fully destructible, simulated voxel world. Tear down walls with vehicles or use explosives to create your own shortcuts. Shape the environment to your advantage in the most creative ways you can imagine. Play solo or with up to 12 players in multiplayer.
Why similar: Destruction 43.8%, Sandbox 15.6%, Physics 13.6%, First-Person 5.7%, Puzzle 5.1%
- #47 Backrooms Media
70% matchMostly Negative40% of 647 reviews2025
Dev: NPK Games
Windows
Backrooms Media is a 1-4 player co-op horror that plunges you into unsettling, hyper-realistic liminal spaces. Navigate eerie environments filled with lurking horrors. Group up with your friends to face the terror of the endless backrooms together and... try to escape.
Why similar: Horror 15.7%, Survival Horror 15.2%, Psychological Horror 14.4%, Survival 14.2%, Exploration 9.8%
- #48 Netbreak
69% matchMixed67% of 59 reviews2025
Dev: Tarba Paul CornelPub: Galactic Crows
Windows
Welcome to Netbreak™, a horror-puzzle experience. When a mysterious USB drive arrives on your desk, your curiosity drags you into a nightmare. Piece together clues, watch forbidden videos, and take down an underground SNUFF marketplace, that allows you to see interactive torture and murder.
Why similar: Simulation 21.1%, Immersive Sim 17.4%, Horror 15.3%, Survival Horror 12.9%, Psychological Horror 11.8%
- #49 Deconstruction Simulator: Prologue
68% matchMostly Positive73% of 1,288 reviews2025
Dev: Games Incubator
Windows
Median: 36 minMean: 2.9 hrs≥1hr: 35%
Deconstruction Simulator: Prologue is the ultimate demolition simulator, offering you complete freedom of action and a wide array of contracts to complete. Get ready for spectacular destruction.
Why similar: Destruction 42.6%, Sandbox 14.9%, Immersive Sim 12.1%, Simulation 9.1%, First-Person 6.2%
- #50 The Backrooms Footage
70% matchMixed67% of 75 reviews2022
Dev: Untold Backrooms Stories
Windows · Linux
You have found a camera with a footage in it. For some reason you can't rewind the video, and as soon as you try winding it forward you find yourself in the Backrooms. Figure out whats in the footage and try to ESCAPE AS FAST AS POSSIBLE!
Why similar: Sandbox 21.9%, Horror 18.4%, Psychological Horror 17.2%, Exploration 10.5%, Atmospheric 7.5%
- #51 Backrooms - 2005
66% matchVery Positive85% of 71 reviews2025
Dev: Rendern Studios
Windows
Backrooms - 2005 is a chapter-based Backrooms exploration game.
Why similar: Exploration 23%, First-Person 19.1%, Simulation 18.5%, Horror 14.8%, Adventure 13.5%
- #52 Dreamcore
65% matchVery Positive89% of 1,955 reviews2025
Dev: MontraluzPub: Tlön Industries
Windows
Median: 2.1 hrsMean: 4.2 hrs≥1hr: 70%
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: Horror 22.5%, Psychological Horror 22.4%, Exploration 16.8%, First-Person 14%, 3D 9.1%
- #53 Subliminal
65% matchMostly Positive74% of 3,705 reviews2026
Dev: Accidental StudiosPub: Gone Shootin
Windows
Median: 2.8 hrsMean: 4.3 hrs≥1hr: 79%
Subliminal is a psychological horror game inspired by the urban legend of The Backrooms. Bleeding edge lighting and rendering, handcrafted open-ended levels, light and perspective-based puzzles, nostalgic spaces, unfamiliar faces, and a rotting feeling that something is not quite right.
Why similar: Immersive Sim 20.5%, Horror 16.7%, Psychological Horror 15.6%, Exploration 10.3%, First-Person 9.5%
- #54 DOCTOR VISCERA
66% matchVery Positive93% of 118 reviews2025
Dev: Liminal RoadPub: Nuntius Games
Windows
Trapped in an abandoned asylum, survive by exploring, solving puzzles, and escaping the terrifying Doctor Viscera. Hide, fight back with limited resources, and uncover documents that reveal the way out before you become the next victim of his gruesome experiments.
Why similar: Stealth 19.6%, Survival Horror 12.8%, Survival 11.7%, Horror 10.5%, Psychological Horror 9.2%
- #55 In The Backrooms
69% matchMixed58% of 160 reviews2022
Dev: BLOCK 211
Windows
"God save you if you hear something wandering around nearby, because it sure as hell has heard you.."
Why similar: Immersive Sim 19.3%, Horror 17.5%, Psychological Horror 15%, Survival 10.6%, Exploration 9.1%
- #56 Box of Broken Nails
64% matchVery Positive98% of 158 reviews2025
Dev: Cdodge
Windows
First-person psychological horror about ignorance and attempts. Protect yourself as a lone carpenter, hastily look for materials in your house to board up a door that shouldn’t exist. At any cost.
Why similar: Psychological Horror 25.4%, Horror 21.7%, Exploration 15%, Atmospheric 9.9%, First-Person 9%
- #57 Paranormal Cleanup
64% matchVery Positive88% of 1,178 reviews2025
Dev: Manic Mice
Windows
Median: 2.8 hrsMean: 8.6 hrs≥1hr: 80%
Clock in for the worst cleaning shift of your life: Unclog nasty toilets and scrub ectoplasm in this 1-4 player online co-op survival horror game. Get the job done and don't get caught by the entities hunting you!
Why similar: Stealth 25.3%, Horror 17.7%, Psychological Horror 15.5%, Survival Horror 15%, First-Person 9.7%