- #1 Shifting To The Backrooms
96% matchVery Positive85% of 55 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: Psychological Horror 15.6%, Narration 14%, Horror 13.6%, Walking Simulator 12.8%, Story Rich 8.7%
- #2 The Backrooms
97% matchMixed64% of 118 reviews2022
Dev: Ionized Games
Windows
Median: 2.0 hrsMean: 4.1 hrs≥1hr: 73%
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: Dark 18.1%, Psychological Horror 16.5%, Horror 15.6%, First-Person 14.2%, Atmospheric 10.9%
- #3 Backrooms: Exploration
96% matchMostly Positive73% of 73 reviews2025
Dev: HNStudios
Windows
Backrooms: Exploration is a single-player horror game, which takes place in 2020. Two friends have lost their jobs due to COVID-19, but they still have to bring food to the table. After a failed heist, one of them ends up in the Backrooms. Now your only mission is to survive.
Why similar: Horror 18.4%, Psychological Horror 16.2%, Dark 12.2%, First-Person 11%, Walking Simulator 10.5%
- #4 Backrooms Doors
95% matchMixed68% of 84 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: Survival Horror 22.4%, Dark 16.3%, Horror 15.9%, Psychological Horror 14.5%, First-Person 9.9%
- #5 Enter The Backrooms
94% matchVery Positive88% of 1,041 reviews2021
Dev: Justin KrohPub: Cosmic Crow Creations
Windows
Median: 1.6 hrsMean: 5.7 hrs≥1hr: 61%
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 26%, Psychological Horror 22.3%, Walking Simulator 17.9%, Horror 16%, First-Person 8.9%
- #6 Transliminal: Beyond The Backrooms
94% matchVery Positive94% of 119 reviews2022
Dev: Corey JeffriesPub: Spatial Quotient
Windows
An unsettling rogue-lite horror adventure. Iconic Backrooms 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: Survival Horror 19.5%, Psychological Horror 17.9%, Horror 14.6%, Walking Simulator 13.4%, Atmospheric 8.5%
- #7 Escape the Backrooms
91% matchVery Positive91% of 134,540 reviews2025
Dev: Fancy GamesPub: Secret Mode
Windows
Median: 7.0 hrsMean: 12.9 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 34%, Survival Horror 22.7%, Psychological Horror 21.7%, First-Person 8.7%, Exploration 4.1%
- #8 Dead of Night: Supermarket
93% matchMostly Positive73% of 62 reviews2025
Dev: SilverMoon Studios
Windows
Experience the dread of a midnight shift in a quiet supermarket. As mundane tasks blur with eerie events, discover that the darkness hides more than just silence.
Why similar: Psychological Horror 19.2%, Walking Simulator 18.3%, Horror 16%, Story Rich 8.6%, First-Person 8.4%
- #9 The Backrooms 1998 - Found Footage Survival Horror Game
92% matchVery Positive85% of 799 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 27.7%, Psychological Horror 24.1%, Dark 15.7%, Walking Simulator 12.2%, Atmospheric 5.8%
- #10 Backrooms: Found Footage
91% matchVery Positive84% of 280 reviews2024
Dev: HNStudios
Windows
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: Horror 15%, Dark 14%, Psychological Horror 13.9%, First-Person 12.2%, Adventure 8.8%
- #11 The Backrooms: Lost Tape
90% matchVery Positive84% of 1,325 reviews2022
Dev: Cortez Productions
Windows
Median: 1.2 hrsMean: 2.6 hrs≥1hr: 59%
You work in the cinema as an usher and accidentally fell into the Backrooms, now being trapped, needing to unravel the mysteries of the yellow rooms in order to get out of this place, but be careful, there are entities that will be in your way.
Why similar: Survival Horror 19.3%, Psychological Horror 16.1%, Dark 14.2%, Horror 14.1%, Mystery 8.2%
- #12 Liminal Exit
89% matchMostly Positive78% of 90 reviews2025
Dev: LittleRedDread
Windows
Step into an uncanny building trapped in endless loops. Use the elevator, uncover unsettling anomalies, and evade the Entity lurking behind you. Liminal Exit is an immersive game inspired by liminal spaces and Exit 8. Explore 3 liminal space floors and track anomalies to escape, but watch your back!
Why similar: Walking Simulator 23.4%, Psychological Horror 20.4%, Horror 16.5%, First-Person 11.3%, Mystery 8.6%
- #13 Backrooms Descent: Multiplayer Horror
89% matchMixed46% of 106 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: Survival Horror 19.3%, Psychological Horror 16.4%, Horror 13.6%, First-Person 9.3%, Story Rich 8.4%
- #14 Backrooms Rec.
88% matchMixed70% of 1,667 reviews2024
Dev: Liminal Logic
Windows
Median: 2.5 hrsMean: 3.8 hrs≥1hr: 78%
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 29.4%, Horror 19.4%, Psychological Horror 18.3%, First-Person 10.2%, Atmospheric 8.3%
- #15 The Backrooms Footage
87% 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: Psychological Horror 24.9%, Horror 19.3%, Walking Simulator 17.5%, Atmospheric 11.8%, First-Person 8.9%
- #16 Lost Hope: Backrooms
86% matchMixed69% of 99 reviews2023
Dev: mdvdPub: Lost Hope games
Windows
Lost Hope, a chilling horror game set in the eerie Backrooms universe, challenges players to delve into enigmatic locations teeming with bizarre and inexplicable phenomena. Embark on an expedition alone or with friends!
Why similar: Survival Horror 27.3%, Horror 21.8%, Psychological Horror 20.4%, First-Person 13.4%, Adventure 5%
- #17 Inside the Backrooms
84% matchVery Positive81% of 45,968 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 24.8%, Survival Horror 21.4%, Psychological Horror 16.8%, Dark 8.7%, First-Person 6.2%
- #18 EXPEDITION TO THE BACKROOMS
84% matchMixed68% of 146 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: Walking Simulator 27.6%, Psychological Horror 20.3%, Horror 19.5%, First-Person 12.1%, Exploration 7.8%
- #19 The Backrooms: Found Footage
86% matchMostly Positive71% of 62 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: Walking Simulator 22.4%, Psychological Horror 21.2%, Horror 17.1%, First-Person 11.7%, Story Rich 9.6%
- #20 Reflection
83% matchVery Positive84% of 230 reviews2025
Dev: JustTomcuk
Windows
You woke up in some basement and don't remember who you are or how you ended up here... But what you do know is that you need to get out of here...
Why similar: Psychological Horror 17.5%, Walking Simulator 16.6%, Horror 14.4%, Dark 13.5%, Atmospheric 8.3%
- #21 SCP-3008: Infinite Store
82% matchVery Positive89% of 97 reviews2026
Dev: YAPPub: Yet Another Publisher
Windows · Mac
An observation-driven psychological horror set inside an endless furniture superstore. Spot anomalies, choose the correct path, complete your shopping list — and escape the loop.
Why similar: Survival Horror 17%, Psychological Horror 14.2%, Dark 13.3%, Horror 12.5%, First-Person 8.5%
- #22 Backrooms: Realm of Shadows
85% matchMixed42% of 169 reviews2023
Dev: Cyprus Games
Windows
Backrooms: Realm of Shadows is a horror game that takes place in a seemingly endless maze of interconnected rooms and hallways, known as the Backrooms.
Why similar: Psychological Horror 19.4%, Survival Horror 19%, Horror 18.8%, Dark 17.1%, Adventure 11.1%
- #23 Don't Be Afraid 2
82% matchMostly Positive72% of 249 reviews2024
Dev: Eneida Games
Windows
Descend deep into the nightmare that seamlessly blends with reality in this uncanny horror escape room game. Can you find your way out of the horrid mansion or will you succumb to your fears? Can you face and overcome your past, or will it break you?
Why similar: Survival Horror 12.7%, Psychological Horror 12.2%, Walking Simulator 11%, Dark 10.2%, Narration 10.1%
- #24 The Empty Eyes
81% matchVery Positive80% of 51 reviews2026
Dev: 99 Grados Games
Windows
The Empty Eyes is a first-person psychological horror experience that immerses you in an investigation steeped in mystery. Every step inside the house brings you closer to a hidden truth, while tension mounts and fear takes root in your mind.
Why similar: Survival Horror 18.2%, Psychological Horror 16.8%, Horror 14.9%, Dark 9.9%, Mystery 8.8%
- #25 In The Backrooms
80% matchMixed57% of 154 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: Psychological Horror 23%, Horror 19.5%, Dark 14.1%, First-Person 10%, Atmospheric 8.3%
- #26 The Exit 8
75% matchVery Positive93% of 10,306 reviews2023
Dev: KOTAKE CREATEPub: PLAYISM
Windows
Median: 1.1 hrsMean: 1.9 hrs≥1hr: 58%
You are trapped in an endless underground passageway. Observe your surroundings carefully to reach "The Exit 8".
Why similar: Walking Simulator 21%, Psychological Horror 20.1%, Horror 16.3%, First-Person 11.2%, Mystery 7.3%
- #27 The Backrooms Experiment
79% matchMixed60% of 72 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: Walking Simulator 28%, Survival Horror 20.9%, Psychological Horror 16.9%, First-Person 13%, Adventure 10.3%
- #28 EMOTIONLESS : The Last Ticket
76% matchVery Positive82% of 136 reviews2025
Dev: X1 Games
Windows
Step into a liminal, cosmic horror experience set in an abandoned amusement park. Uncover the haunting narrative behind its twisted rides and empty tunnels to discover what lurks within a reality that shouldn't exist…
Why similar: Lovecraftian 25.3%, Psychological Horror 13%, Walking Simulator 11.6%, Dark 11.1%, Horror 10.9%
- #29 Everloop
77% matchVery Positive95% of 91 reviews2024
Dev: Infinity Green Game Studio
Windows
You are trapped in an endless hallway. Observe your surroundings carefully to reach your destiny.
Why similar: Psychological Horror 18.6%, Walking Simulator 18%, Horror 14.3%, Mystery 9.6%, First-Person 9%
- #30 The Backrooms
81% matchMostly Negative24% of 58 reviews2019
Dev: WASABAE Studios
Windows
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 26.6%, Psychological Horror 17.6%, Horror 16.8%, First-Person 13.2%, Atmospheric 10.4%
- #31 White Room Protocol
76% matchMostly Positive80% of 54 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: Psychological Horror 18.1%, Walking Simulator 16.9%, Horror 15.4%, Dark 13.5%, Atmospheric 8.3%
- #32 Return the Backrooms
78% matchMixed63% of 139 reviews2022
Dev: Skmaestro
Windows
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: Psychological Horror 17.6%, Horror 14.3%, Survival Horror 13.8%, Dark 10.1%, First-Person 10%
- #33 CantEscapeTheBackrooms
77% matchMixed60% of 232 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: Horror 25.5%, Survival Horror 23.5%, Dark 18.6%, First-Person 15.7%, Adventure 5.2%
- #34 It follows you
79% matchMixed50% of 50 reviews2022
Dev: Boom Games
Windows
You are all alone in this dark and frightening place. Run and hide, hurry to find a way out, because it follows you...
Why similar: Survival Horror 19%, Walking Simulator 14.8%, Psychological Horror 14.6%, Horror 13.1%, Dark 11.5%
- #35 The Complex: Expedition
73% matchVery Positive89% of 2,232 reviews2025
Dev: pgWave
Windows
Median: 1.6 hrsMean: 10.4 hrs≥1hr: 74%
When a routine expedition into The Complex goes horribly wrong, you're left alone and lost, wandering the seemingly infinite maze of hallways, otherwise known as the Backrooms. Might there be something following you?
Why similar: Horror 20%, Psychological Horror 19.8%, Mystery 10.6%, Story Rich 10.4%, First-Person 7.1%
- #36 Chorus of Carcosa
75% matchMostly Positive79% of 188 reviews2025
Dev: Chameleon 42
Windows
Chorus of Carcosa is a first-person psychological horror game about an anxious sculptor who is trapped in a dark and ever-changing building. Stay silent, survive its twisted labyrinths and escape the monsters. Just don’t lose your way in the shadows or within your own mind.
Why similar: Lovecraftian 16.7%, Psychological Horror 12.5%, Walking Simulator 12%, Dark 10.6%, Survival Horror 10.6%
- #37 Project Liminal 2
73% matchVery Positive96% of 56 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: Adventure 15.4%, Dark 14.7%, First-Person 13.9%, Psychological Horror 12.9%, Action 12.5%
- #38 UnderBackrooms
78% matchMostly Negative39% of 72 reviews2023
Dev: okeyplaystudio
Windows
UnderBackrooms is a cooperative horror game set in a mysterious parallel universe of empty rooms and endless corridors. With moments of tension and surprise, players must be on guard to survive. Explore the backrooms and uncover their secrets to escape this nightmare world.
Why similar: Survival Horror 29.7%, Psychological Horror 24.9%, Horror 21.7%, Atmospheric 12.6%, Adventure 11.2%
- #39 The Liminal Dimension
74% matchVery Positive83% of 98 reviews2024
Dev: Airem
Windows · Mac · Linux
You're trapped in an endless loop within a liminal dimension, where each loop leads to increasingly unsettling places. Will you find the way out of this psychological horror? The game offers a unique déjà vu experience that blurs the lines between reality and illusion.
Why similar: Walking Simulator 23.6%, Psychological Horror 22.8%, Horror 15.3%, Dark 13.5%, Adventure 6.6%
- #40 DEAD END
74% matchVery Positive83% of 59 reviews2024
Dev: PHANTOM PIXEL
Windows
Trapped in a hallucinatory, liminal-space style underground passageway, explore and unravel the endless "dead-end" paths to find a way forward. "Dead Path is a short ambient horror puzzle game that references Exit 8, but with a completely different core mechanic.
Why similar: Psychological Horror 24.1%, Walking Simulator 22.7%, Horror 17.9%, Atmospheric 9.7%, First-Person 6.9%
- #41 Backrooms Society
73% matchMostly Positive80% of 656 reviews2023
Dev: Mikael Bihl
Windows
Median: 3.4 hrsMean: 8.4 hrs≥1hr: 90%
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: Survival Horror 29.6%, Psychological Horror 22%, Horror 21%, First-Person 8.7%, Exploration 6.3%
- #42 Backrooms: Extractions
72% matchMostly Positive74% of 618 reviews2025
Dev: Headlight Studio
Windows
Median: 3.4 hrsMean: 4.3 hrs≥1hr: 92%
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: Survival Horror 25.3%, Psychological Horror 21.4%, Horror 18.2%, First-Person 10.7%, Atmospheric 8.8%
- #43 Backrooms: Escape Together
71% matchVery Positive88% of 34,229 reviews2022
Dev: Triiodide Studios
Windows
Median: 3.9 hrsMean: 5.6 hrs≥1hr: 91%
A visually lifelike co-op horror for 1-6 people. Journey through 10 procedurally generated levels, using what's available to survive and progress deeper into the Backrooms.
Why similar: Survival Horror 25%, Psychological Horror 21.9%, Horror 21.7%, First-Person 7.5%, Atmospheric 7.4%
- #44 Liminal City
71% matchMostly Positive73% of 79 reviews2025
Dev: LIGHTWORKER GAMES
Windows
Liminal City is a psychological horror and exploration game based on found footage, set in Backrooms Level 11. Walk through the streets of Level 11, filled with soulless buildings, dynamically moving to different levels and searching for a way out. Once you fall in here will you be able to get out?
Why similar: Psychological Horror 22.3%, Walking Simulator 20.5%, Horror 13%, Atmospheric 9.4%, First-Person 9%
- #45 The Complex: Found Footage
70% matchVery Positive93% of 9,432 reviews2022
Dev: pgWave
Windows
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: Psychological Horror 19.2%, Horror 18.7%, Walking Simulator 13.5%, First-Person 9.6%, Mystery 7.4%
- #46 BACKROOMS: APPREHENSION
69% matchVery Positive80% of 661 reviews2025
Dev: DMNT Interactive
Windows
Median: 1.1 hrsMean: 2.8 hrs≥1hr: 56%
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 28.9%, Psychological Horror 20.8%, Horror 18.7%, Atmospheric 11.2%, First-Person 7.9%
- #47 SCP – Containment Breach
67% matchVery Positive99% of 497 reviews2026
Dev: Undertow GamesPub: SCP-CB Community Preservation Project
Windows
A procedural first-person horror adventure. You are on your own after something goes terribly wrong in this top-secret containment facility. Collect items to aid in your escape and try to uncover the truth, as horror lurks behind every door. Can you make it out alive?
Why similar: Survival Horror 20.6%, Horror 19.1%, Dark 11.9%, Atmospheric 10.5%, Mystery 9.5%
- #48 BACKROOM LOOP
69% matchVery Positive95% of 123 reviews2025
Dev: N.C Bana
Windows
Backroom Loop is a first-person psychological horror (entertainment) game. You are trapped in a familiar-feeling space, exploring and escaping… only to return to the start. Can you break free from the loop?
Why similar: Horror 36.4%, First-Person 27.3%, Psychological Horror 26.7%, Adventure 6.1%, Singleplayer 3.5%
- #49 Exit From
71% matchVery Positive85% of 548 reviews2021
Dev: White Box
Windows
Median: 3.0 hrsMean: 4.4 hrs≥1hr: 88%
Exit From - is a first-person horror-stealth game with quest and procedural generation elements where you have to get out of the old Soviet house, which changes every new game.
Why similar: Psychological Horror 18.2%, Horror 15%, Walking Simulator 14.5%, Mystery 10.5%, Atmospheric 9.1%
- #50 Backrooms Media
70% matchMixed41% of 614 reviews2025
Dev: NPK GamesPub: Pretty Soon
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: Survival Horror 24.6%, Psychological Horror 21.5%, Horror 17%, First-Person 10.9%, Atmospheric 9.5%
- #51 SKUF BACKROOMS
70% matchMixed60% of 93 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 24.3%, Walking Simulator 22.4%, Horror 14.6%, Atmospheric 11.1%, First-Person 9.3%
- #52 Lost in Anomaly
68% matchMixed64% of 993 reviews2024
Dev: Aximus Games
Windows
In Lost in Anomaly, you wake up on the 9th floor of an unknown building. The only way out of here is to detect and mark anomalies. One wrong move and you could be trapped forever.
Why similar: Psychological Horror 22.2%, Walking Simulator 19.1%, Horror 18.4%, First-Person 9.2%, Mystery 6.5%
- #53 Hotel 188
68% matchVery Positive88% of 73 reviews2025
Dev: Leonn CamayoPub: Andes Interactive
Windows
Dive into a realistic experience of the Backrooms, without jumpscares, getting lost in impossible spaces and feeling like something is watching you. The uncertainty of not knowing where you're going will make you want to quit… Will you be able to make it to the end?
Why similar: Psychological Horror 25.8%, Walking Simulator 24.4%, First-Person 12%, Atmospheric 11.8%, Dark 9%
- #54 Ten Bells
66% matchOverwhelmingly Positive97% of 549 reviews2024
Dev: Hillfort Games
Windows · Mac
You're trapped in an old English pub. Unravel a chilling tale by identifying anomalies while trying to escape. Confront the horror as you survive the endless loop of Ten Bells.
Why similar: Walking Simulator 18.7%, Psychological Horror 17.6%, Dark 15.2%, Horror 13.9%, First-Person 8.5%
- #55 Left Alone
72% matchMostly Positive75% of 641 reviews2016
Dev: SpeedTutor
Windows
Median: 2.5 hrsMean: 3.5 hrs≥1hr: 78%
Left Alone plunges you into a first-person psychological horror journey, where darkness and memories intertwine. As secrets emerge from shadows, use your wits to solve puzzles and explore haunting, forgotten locations. Every step echoes with the past; can you face the truths that await?
Why similar: Walking Simulator 15.2%, Psychological Horror 13%, Survival Horror 11.9%, Horror 11%, Dark 8.3%
- #56 Floor 9
68% matchMostly Positive74% of 175 reviews2024
Dev: Room Games
Windows · Mac
In Floor 9, you find yourself trapped in a mysterious hotel known as "Hotel Liminal." To escape, you must identify anomalies on each floor. These anomalies can be anywhere - on the ground, in paintings, or even right in front of your eyes.
Why similar: Psychological Horror 25%, Walking Simulator 19.4%, Horror 13.1%, First-Person 10.9%, Atmospheric 9.2%
- #57 Garten of Banban 0
66% matchMostly Positive71% of 3,977 reviews2025
Dev: Euphoric Brothers
Windows
Median: 1.2 hrsMean: 2.1 hrs≥1hr: 59%
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: Horror 15.2%, Survival Horror 15%, Psychological Horror 14.9%, Dark 12.6%, First-Person 9%
- #58 NOCLIP
69% matchMostly Positive71% of 54 reviews2024
Dev: DELIRIUM Labs
Windows
Chapter-based Backrooms experience. Embark on a chilling journey through the unknown. Visuals based on early 2000's camcorders.
Why similar: Walking Simulator 18.6%, Psychological Horror 16.1%, Horror 13.3%, First-Person 9.6%, Story Rich 7.2%
- #59 Backmooms
65% matchVery Positive85% of 110 reviews2025
Dev: LuuuLuuuL
Windows
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: Psychological Horror 30.4%, Horror 19.3%, Walking Simulator 18.6%, First-Person 8.6%, Exploration 6.2%
- #60 HELLMART
63% matchMostly Positive78% of 908 reviews2026
Dev: GAZE IN GAMES
Windows
Median: 3.2 hrsMean: 4.1 hrs≥1hr: 90%
Supermarket simulator meets horror. You’re a clerk at a 24-hour convenience store. During the day - serve customers and hit your sales goals. At night - beware of strange clients. Try to survive 7 days in the Far North.
Why similar: Survival Horror 16.8%, Psychological Horror 14.4%, Dark 14%, Horror 13.6%, First-Person 8.5%