Games Like Backrooms: Escape Together

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 20.5%, Online Co-Op 18.2%, Multiplayer 17.8%, Survival Horror 11.9%, Psychological Horror 10.4%

Why You'll Like It: It is the closest match on Steam: a first-person co-op Backrooms game built around escaping procedurally shuffled liminal levels while avoiding entities.

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 19%, Multiplayer 18.8%, Survival Horror 14.2%, Online Co-Op 12.9%, Psychological Horror 10.2%

Why You'll Like It: Another direct Backrooms co-op horror where teams explore unsettling rooms, solve puzzles, and survive hostile creatures from a first-person perspective.

Cooperate with up to 6 players to explore, search, and extract lost agents within the Backrooms. Solve puzzles, unlock tools, survive against entities, and progress through increasingly dangerous levels.

Why similar: Online Co-Op 17%, Survival Horror 14.5%, Multiplayer 12.6%, Horror 12%, Psychological Horror 11.2%

Why You'll Like It: This leans into cooperative survival and extraction inside Backrooms-like environments, making it a natural fit if you want more entity-dodging liminal horror.

A co-op horror game like no other... Play with 1-8 players online as you solve puzzles, collect items and run from the horrors that lie within. Follow in the footsteps of Joan in the story mode or tackle procedurally generated maps that scale with your level and bring a fresh experience each game..

Why similar: Online Co-Op 18.8%, Horror 15.1%, Multiplayer 12%, Co-op 11.9%, Psychological Horror 11.6%

Why You'll Like It: Its co-op maze exploration, puzzle progression, and constant fear of being stalked through dark spaces closely mirror the seed game's escape-together tension.

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: Online Co-Op 17.2%, Survival Horror 17.1%, Multiplayer 13.9%, Horror 13.9%, Psychological Horror 11.7%

Why You'll Like It: Its multiplayer Backrooms premise and procedural survival setup make it one of the closest alternatives if the liminal setting itself is what you want more of.

PANICORE is a survival horror game that mixes permadeath, AI monsters and a co-op experience up to 5 players (4 players in demo). Try to escape and don't get caught, but beware: they don't only hear your steps, but also your voice.

Why similar: Online Co-Op 27.5%, Horror 24%, Multiplayer 17.8%, Psychological Horror 13.3%, Co-op 7.1%

Why You'll Like It: Like the seed game, it is built around cooperative first-person exploration, stealth, and escaping a monster-filled environment rather than fighting back.

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: Online Co-Op 19.7%, Survival Horror 18.4%, Multiplayer 14.8%, Horror 14.8%, Psychological Horror 13.6%

Why You'll Like It: It focuses on surviving and navigating threatening Backrooms spaces with other players, matching the seed game's blend of exploration and survival-horror.

Hospital 666 is a 1-4 player horror escape game. Traverse through eerie hospital levels while observing the occurrence of anomalies and choosing the correct elevator. Some abnormal bosses will chase you to death, and you must find the right way to escape them.

Why similar: Online Co-Op 27.1%, Horror 20.5%, Multiplayer 15.8%, Psychological Horror 15.3%, Realistic 8.6%

Why You'll Like It: The realistic first-person presentation, co-op structure, and get-out-alive pressure deliver a very similar 'stick together and survive' horror vibe.

Co-op horror (1-4 players). You are sent to explore a mysterious building at night. Find the Moon and try to return alive.

Why similar: Online Co-Op 18.5%, Horror 15.8%, Multiplayer 15.6%, Survival Horror 13.2%, Psychological Horror 11.4%

Why You'll Like It: Its oppressive first-person co-op horror and emphasis on navigating surreal hostile spaces make it a strong thematic match.

You and your friends 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 all find yourself in the Backrooms. Together figure out whats in the footage and try to ESCAPE AS FAST AS POSSIBLE!

Why similar: Online Co-Op 16.7%, Survival Horror 13%, Co-op 12.1%, Psychological Horror 11.5%, Horror 11.1%

Why You'll Like It: This is another direct multiplayer take on wandering and escaping uncanny Backrooms spaces with friends in first person.

Behind the Backrooms is a 1-4 player co-op horror exploration game

Why similar: Horror 26%, Co-op 23.3%, Online Co-Op 15.1%, First-Person 8%, Puzzle 7.9%

Why You'll Like It: It keeps the familiar mix of eerie Backrooms exploration, co-op puzzle solving, and entity avoidance.

Red Barrels invites you to experience mind-numbing terror, this time with friends. Whether you go through the trials alone or in teams, if you survive long enough and complete the therapy, Murkoff will happily let you leave… but will you be the same?

Why similar: Horror 18.8%, Multiplayer 18.8%, Survival Horror 17.8%, Co-op 17.1%, Psychological Horror 12.9%

Why You'll Like It: If you want polished co-op survival-horror with realistic visuals, stealth, and shared panic inside hostile test environments, this is an excellent step outward.

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: Survival Horror 14.8%, Multiplayer 12.9%, Horror 12.1%, Psychological Horror 11.5%, Co-op 10.1%

Why You'll Like It: The appeal here is cooperative exploration through ominous Backrooms areas with puzzles and threats blocking deeper progress.

Venture forth as part of a specialized team of fellow players tasked with retrieving classified materials, evading the black goo virus, and the nightmarish entities it has spawned. With time running out before the US government initiates a devastating nuclear strike to contain the spreading menace.

Why similar: Online Co-Op 21.6%, Survival Horror 18%, Horror 13.4%, Co-op 11.4%, Psychological Horror 9%

Why You'll Like It: The first-person co-op survival and tense navigation through a hostile, lethal setting make it a good pick if you enjoy the seed game's pressure and teamwork.

An online co-op horror game where you pacify, weaken and capture supernatural creatures for PAH Inc. Each level has a different story, unique monsters, and multiple endings. Play single player or together with up to 6 friends. Includes proximity voice chat with fun effects.

Why similar: Online Co-Op 23%, Horror 21.2%, Multiplayer 16.3%, Co-op 10%, Psychological Horror 10%

Why You'll Like It: This is another first-person co-op horror game where a small team searches an eerie map, manages resources, and tries to escape an aggressive entity.

FOREWARNED is a 1-4 player co-op survival horror. Delve deep into ancient Egyptian ruins with your team of fellow archaeologists. Investigate phenomena, collect treasure, discover lore, survive danger, and banish the evil that lurks within.

Why similar: Online Co-Op 21.5%, Horror 17.3%, Survival Horror 16.5%, Co-op 12.3%, Multiplayer 12%

Why You'll Like It: This co-op horror has the same pattern of exploring dangerous maze-like spaces, gathering what you need, and reacting to lethal supernatural threats together.

An online co-op horror game with up to 6 players. Locate valuable, fully physics-based objects and handle them with care as you retrieve and extract to satisfy your creator's desires.

Why similar: Online Co-Op 28.9%, Horror 20.4%, Multiplayer 19.3%, Co-op 14.3%, Procedural Generation 4.9%

Why You'll Like It: This also turns co-op first-person horror into a tense extract-and-escape loop where communication and improvisation matter more than combat.

Multiplayer survival horror game based on stories from the SCP Foundation. The game is about a facility containing anomalous entities known as SCPs. When a catastrophic containment breach occurs at one of the facilities, it is your main goal to escape the facility. Try to escape with your friends!

Why similar: Horror 20.2%, Multiplayer 17.3%, Online Co-Op 17.1%, Survival Horror 11.8%, Co-op 11%

Why You'll Like It: Escaping a deadly labyrinthine facility with friends under constant monster pressure captures a lot of the same panic and improvisation.

A co-op horror about scavenging at abandoned moons to sell scrap to the Company.

Why similar: Online Co-Op 25.8%, Horror 16.6%, Survival Horror 14.4%, Co-op 11.8%, Psychological Horror 9.5%

Why You'll Like It: The mix of cooperative scavenging, procedural danger, and sudden creature encounters captures the same 'go deeper, get out alive' energy.

Lunch Lady is a 1-4 player online co-op survival horror game. The school final exams are coming up and the best idea you and your friends had was to steal the test answers. Find all 10 pages and don't get caught by the murderous Lunch Lady!

Why similar: Online Co-Op 20.5%, Horror 16.9%, Survival Horror 14.4%, Multiplayer 13.8%, Co-op 11.8%

Why You'll Like It: The formula of exploring a hostile indoor space, grabbing objectives, and escaping while a monster hunts your group is very close in feel.

DEVOUR is a co-op horror survival game for 1-4 players. Stop possessed cultists before they drag you to hell. Run. Scream. Hide. Just don't get caught.

Why similar: Horror 26%, Online Co-Op 25%, Multiplayer 16.6%, Survival Horror 14%, Co-op 8.2%

Why You'll Like It: Its co-op loop of collecting key items, completing objectives, and barely surviving a roaming threat scratches a similar survival-escape itch.

Solo or up to 8 players. Get rid of your employer's failed experiments in abandoned underwater labs. Navigate your submarine, avoid abyssal terrors, and remove all corpses.

Why similar: Online Co-Op 18.5%, Multiplayer 15%, Horror 14.5%, Survival Horror 13.8%, Psychological Horror 12.3%

Why You'll Like It: Its co-op descent into dangerous underwater facilities offers similar teamwork, first-person tension, and monster-avoidance with a darker comedic edge.

Phasmophobia is a 4 player online co-op psychological horror. Paranormal activity is on the rise and it’s up to you and your team to use all the ghost-hunting equipment at your disposal in order to gather as much evidence as you can.

Why similar: Horror 27.3%, Online Co-Op 26.2%, Multiplayer 17.1%, Psychological Horror 13.1%, Co-op 11.4%

Why You'll Like It: While more investigation-driven, its realistic co-op first-person horror, voice-driven tension, and methodical room-to-room exploration overlap well.

Silent Rain is a challenging and immersive co-op horror game, for 1 to 4 players. Explore abandoned locations, solve puzzles, and gather information while trying to survive the threats lurking in the dark. How many tries will it take you to master your fear?

Why similar: Survival Horror 16.2%, Online Co-Op 15.5%, Horror 14%, Multiplayer 13%, Co-op 11.2%

Why You'll Like It: It offers a similarly atmospheric co-op horror experience focused on exploration, puzzle solving, and escaping a realistic haunted environment.

Demonologist is a Co-Op horror game that can be played with at least 1 and up to 4 players. Your goal is to identify the type of evil spirit in cursed places and exorcise it using your equipment, either alone or with your team.

Why similar: Online Co-Op 22.2%, Horror 17.7%, Multiplayer 16.8%, Psychological Horror 14.8%, Co-op 14.2%

Why You'll Like It: Its realistic co-op presentation and methodical exploration of haunted spaces appeal to players who mainly want tense first-person horror with friends.

Ghost Watchers is a co-op online horror game. You will explore and hunt ghosts in abandoned houses

Why similar: Horror 24%, Co-op 20.2%, Survival Horror 17.3%, Multiplayer 13.9%, Online Co-Op 9%

Why You'll Like It: Though more ghost-hunting focused, it remains a strong first-person co-op horror option for players who want tense exploration in realistic environments.

GTFO is a hardcore cooperative horror shooter that throws you from gripping suspense to explosive action in a heartbeat. Stealth, strategy, and teamwork are necessary to survive in your deadly, underground prison. Work together or die together.

Why similar: Online Co-Op 25.7%, Survival Horror 17.8%, Horror 16.9%, Co-op 16%, Multiplayer 15.8%

Why You'll Like It: It is far more combat-heavy, but the oppressive co-op descent, resource scarcity, and terrifying first-person atmosphere make it a solid harder-core alternative.

In Silence is a multiplayer horror game. One player takes on the role of the monster who has hypersensitive hearing abilities and is almost completely blind. The other players(2-6) play as survivors, trying to escape or hunting the monster.

Why similar: Horror 21.1%, Online Co-Op 21%, Multiplayer 18.1%, Survival Horror 15.7%, Co-op 10.3%

Why You'll Like It: This asymmetric co-op horror still nails the same helpless, stealthy feeling of trying to move, communicate, and escape while a monster hunts you.

Zort is an action, adventure, and horror game that can be played with up to 4 people. Explore maps with your friends and have fun while escaping from various creatures. Experience a realistic horror experience with in-game voice chat with your friends!

Why similar: Online Co-Op 24.2%, Horror 17.3%, Co-op 14.3%, Psychological Horror 13.3%, Multiplayer 7.9%

Ghost Exorcism INC is a horror game where you can play alone, or in a team of up to 6 exorcists. Your mission will be to identify paranormal entities, and then exorcise them.

Why similar: Online Co-Op 30.8%, Multiplayer 22.4%, Horror 18.1%, Survival Horror 15.9%, Atmospheric 5.7%

Why You'll Like It: If you like coordinating tools and exploring creepy locations with a team, this delivers a similar co-op horror rhythm in a more paranormal-investigation format.

No More Room in Hell 2 is an intense 8 player zombie shooter. Overcome the endless undead. Avoid infection. Survive hell together.

Why similar: Online Co-Op 23.1%, Survival Horror 19.2%, Multiplayer 17.7%, Co-op 15.4%, Horror 12.6%

Why You'll Like It: The emphasis on vulnerable first-person teamwork, limited resources, and surviving a hostile environment fits the survival-horror side of the seed game.

4 Player co-op survival horror game. When the cursed rain falls, 'Mimesis' appear, perfectly imitating your teammates, bringing a new level of tension you've never experienced before.

Why similar: Online Co-Op 22.1%, Survival Horror 16.8%, Horror 13.8%, Psychological Horror 13%, Procedural Generation 8.7%

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: Online Co-Op 19.8%, Survival Horror 16.1%, Multiplayer 14.8%, Horror 12.4%, Psychological Horror 9.2%

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 24.9%, Puzzle 11.7%, First-Person 11.3%, Co-op 11.2%, Online Co-Op 11.2%

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: Online Co-Op 14.5%, Multiplayer 14.2%, Co-op 13.8%, Survival Horror 12.8%, Psychological Horror 10.2%

A terrifying multiplayer horror experience with social deduction elements. Trapped in the Backrooms, up to 12 players must try to work together to survive and expose the shapeshifting Skin Stealer hiding among them before it’s too late. Who will you trust?

Why similar: Survival Horror 18.8%, Online Co-Op 17.6%, Multiplayer 15.8%, Horror 14.2%, Psychological Horror 12.3%

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: Online Co-Op 16.1%, Survival Horror 12.7%, Multiplayer 11.8%, Horror 11%, Psychological Horror 9.9%

Backrooms Lost Runners is a co-op survival horror with team play, voice-reactive AI, and immersive puzzles. This isn’t a “walking simulator”: explore liminal spaces, outsmart entities, and remember—even a whisper can give you away.

Why similar: Survival Horror 20.7%, Co-op 16.1%, Horror 15.8%, Psychological Horror 15.4%, Multiplayer 15.1%

Film your friends doing scary things to become SpöökTube famous! (strongly advised to not go alone)

Why similar: Online Co-Op 21.7%, Horror 15.2%, Multiplayer 12.6%, Co-op 11.4%, Procedural Generation 11%

A very simple co-op jumpscare horror experience where you and friends walk through a pitch black forest and try to stay quiet. Reach 8:00 AM without screaming or making a loud noise, or everyone dies. You will scream, shout, and probably laugh.

Why similar: Online Co-Op 24.8%, Horror 22.4%, Multiplayer 16.3%, Survival Horror 14.3%, Co-op 9%

KLETKA is a co-op (up to 6 players) horror game about going down in an elevator that is trying to eat you. Feed the elevator, explore deadly floors and descend deeper.

Why similar: Online Co-Op 28.1%, Horror 21.1%, Co-op 20.7%, First-Person 7.8%, Action-Adventure 5.8%

The Escape: Together is a 1-3 player Online CO-OP escape horror. The paranormal creature has taken over the house. You must use everything you find to survive and make your runaway.

Why similar: Horror 22.8%, Survival Horror 18.7%, Psychological Horror 15.4%, Co-op 12.6%, Realistic 12%

Dark Hours: Prologue is a free co-op survival horror game for 1-4 players. Your heist has been disrupted by a supernatural event, and your team of robbers is now trapped with a monster. Forget your plan, your mission: survive! Explore and cooperate to find a way out or hide and wish for daylight.

Why similar: Online Co-Op 19.5%, Horror 17.9%, Multiplayer 16.4%, Survival Horror 14.5%, Psychological Horror 9.9%

Dark Hours is a co-op survival horror game for 1-4 players. Your heist has been disrupted by a supernatural event, and your team of robbers is now trapped with an evil entity. Forget your plan, your mission is to survive. Explore and cooperate to find a way out.

Why similar: Online Co-Op 18.5%, Survival Horror 14.1%, Horror 13.9%, Multiplayer 13.3%, Co-op 11.4%

Chained in the Backrooms is a 1-4 player co-op, mission-based horror game. Trapped in a blurry subconscious and chained together, toy bears must solve puzzles, complete challenging missions, and survive against creatures trying to destroy them.

Why similar: Online Co-Op 27.4%, Horror 18.1%, Co-op 13.2%, Multiplayer 12.9%, First-Person 6.2%

This is a creepy co-op horror game. In which you find yourself locked in a crazy Granny's house. But Granny is not the only danger that awaits you in the house, someone else creepy lives in the basement. You have five days to get out of the house!

Why similar: Survival Horror 22.7%, Horror 19.5%, Multiplayer 16.6%, Psychological Horror 12.5%, Realistic 6.2%

"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: Online Co-Op 19.6%, Survival Horror 16.4%, Multiplayer 14.8%, Horror 14.6%, Psychological Horror 13.9%

Ghost Janitors is a multiplayer psychological horror game for 1-4 players. Your job? Cleaning haunted houses while avoiding terrifying monsters. Ready to face the spine-tingling challenge with your team?

Why similar: Online Co-Op 21%, Horror 15.6%, Multiplayer 14.8%, Psychological Horror 14.2%, Co-op 10.9%

School 666 is a 1-4 Player Co-op Survival Horror. You must escape this endless nightmare. Try to identify the correct path and survive the anomalies in this endless school. Some extremely powerful anomalies will catch you to their dimensions. Explore the reason why you are here... and don't die.

Why similar: Online Co-Op 26.3%, Horror 19.4%, Psychological Horror 17.9%, Realistic 11%, First-Person 6.8%

Species: Unknown is a 1 to 4 players co-op survival horror. Complete high-risk missions aboard an abandoned ship while being hunted by an unknown creature. Survive and upgrade your gear to face each new threat that lurks in the dark.

Why similar: Online Co-Op 23.5%, Horror 16.9%, Survival Horror 15.7%, Multiplayer 12%, Psychological Horror 9.4%

Escape together or die alone. A relentless creature is hunting you in this intense co-op bodycam horror experience. Communicate. Stay quiet. Survive. Every move matters. Every sound could be your last. Made by one developer.

Why similar: Horror 19.5%, Online Co-Op 18.1%, Psychological Horror 12.8%, Multiplayer 12.7%, Survival Horror 12%

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: Online Co-Op 18.6%, Survival Horror 17.1%, Co-op 15.6%, Psychological Horror 14.3%, Horror 13.7%

Skibidi Gyatrooms is a 1-4 player co-op horror game. You and the homies just fell into the Backrooms, you must out-GYAT the Skibidi Toilet with max rizz or get flushed. Expect cursed levels, and brainrot that’ll keep you on edge.

Why similar: Online Co-Op 17.8%, Survival Horror 14.4%, Multiplayer 13.2%, Horror 13.1%, Psychological Horror 12.4%

A 1-3 co-op puzzle horror game. Lost in an accursed megastore, work together to find the exit before its lurking horrors trap you forever.

Why similar: Online Co-Op 21.3%, Co-op 15.8%, Horror 15.4%, Psychological Horror 14%, Multiplayer 12.7%

Return the Backrooms is a Co-op horror game for 1-4 players where you can have a great time with your friends. Think, Explore, Wander, find the key items and try to escape. but be careful because something is lurking in the dark...

Why similar: Horror 14.2%, Psychological Horror 13.9%, Online Co-Op 12.2%, Survival Horror 11.9%, Co-op 8.6%

Backroom Company (aka Async Corporation) is a mysterious group exploring “Noclip.” No one knows who created it. Follow the missing explorers' traces and find strange items deep in the Backrooms.

Why similar: Online Co-Op 18.7%, Survival Horror 15.5%, Multiplayer 15.4%, Horror 15.2%, Co-op 15%

On your way home on the train, you weren't paying attention. Until you realised the train had been stopping at the same station over, and over again. Watch out for anomalies, and avoid the Anomaly Exit! Made for singleplayer and 2-6 co-operative multiplayer.

Why similar: Online Co-Op 24.9%, Psychological Horror 16.6%, Horror 15.8%, Multiplayer 14%, Co-op 11.1%