- #1 Backrooms: Found Footage
97% matchVery Positive82% of 396 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: Realistic 16.6%, Horror 16%, First-Person 11.8%, Psychological Horror 10.2%, Adventure 10.1%
- #2 The Complex: Expedition
96% matchVery Positive90% of 2,787 reviews2025
Dev: pgWave
Windows
Median: 1.7 hrsMean: 9.1 hrs≥1hr: 73%
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 23.3%, Realistic 19.5%, Psychological Horror 16.4%, Story Rich 9.6%, First-Person 8.2%
- #3 Backrooms: Exit from Supermarket
96% 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 18.6%, Psychological Horror 16%, Dark 12.1%, First-Person 10.9%, Walking Simulator 10.6%
- #4 Inside the Backrooms
95% matchMostly Positive80% of 46,832 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 37.3%, Psychological Horror 17.7%, First-Person 9.5%, Dark 7.8%, Multiplayer 7.4%
- #5 The Backrooms Experiment
94% 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: Walking Simulator 23.2%, Realistic 23%, First-Person 16.8%, Adventure 15.3%, Psychological Horror 15.1%
- #6 BACKROOMS THE COMPANY
94% matchMixed68% of 50 reviews2024
Dev: kc6067
Windows
backrooms horror game
Why similar: Walking Simulator 18.4%, Realistic 18.1%, First-Person 13.4%, Psychological Horror 11%, Dark 10%
- #7 The Backrooms 1998 - Found Footage Survival Horror Game
92% matchVery Positive84% of 838 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: Psychological Horror 29.6%, Realistic 21.3%, Dark 16.5%, Walking Simulator 14%, Adventure 10.1%
- #8 Backrooms: What's Next
93% 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: Horror 25.8%, Walking Simulator 23.7%, First-Person 19.8%, Adventure 8.6%, Exploration 7.4%
- #9 EXPEDITION TO THE BACKROOMS
91% matchMixed67% of 180 reviews2025
Dev: 1_Cutter_1
Windows
You are the exploration team from company PhaseSync, 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: Horror 21%, Walking Simulator 19.2%, Realistic 18%, Psychological Horror 15.2%, First-Person 13.1%
- #10 The Complex: Found Footage
91% matchVery Positive93% of 9,931 reviews2022
Dev: pgWave
Windows
Median: 36 minMean: 1.5 hrs≥1hr: 23%
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: Horror 21.7%, Psychological Horror 15.5%, Realistic 12.4%, First-Person 11.2%, Walking Simulator 10.4%
- #11 Backrooms: Wit's End
90% matchVery Positive88% of 57 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: Horror 22.9%, Psychological Horror 21%, Realistic 18.4%, Walking Simulator 11.9%, First-Person 11.8%
- #12 BACKROOMS ANOMALY
89% matchMostly Positive76% of 68 reviews2026
Dev: liminal_games
Windows
An anomaly-spotting horror game set in Level 0 of the Backrooms. Study the looping corridor and identify changes ranging from subtle details to terrifying entities. Decide to turn back if something has changed, or continue ahead if everything seems normal.
Why similar: Horror 20%, Realistic 17.8%, Psychological Horror 17.2%, Walking Simulator 16.2%, First-Person 13.2%
- #13 Behind The Backrooms
89% matchMixed47% of 66 reviews2024
Dev: SupKai
Windows
Behind the Backrooms is a 1-4 player co-op horror exploration game
Why similar: Horror 44.4%, First-Person 23.3%, Adventure 10.2%, Exploration 8%, Mystery 5.9%
- #14 Backrooms: Lost Tape
87% matchVery Positive82% of 1,418 reviews2022
Dev: Cortez Productions
Windows
Median: 1.2 hrsMean: 2.7 hrs≥1hr: 60%
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: Horror 19.7%, Psychological Horror 15.9%, Realistic 12.6%, Dark 12%, Investigation 11.6%
- #15 Backrooms Lost Unit
86% matchVery Positive81% of 59 reviews2026
Dev: JD Archives
Windows
Find yourself lost in the Backrooms in this co-op journey for 1 to 4 players. Explore eerie levels, solve puzzles, and find your way out using scavenged items. Entities lurk everywhere, and the deeper you go, the deadlier it gets.
Why similar: Horror 26.8%, Psychological Horror 22.6%, First-Person 20.1%, Realistic 16.5%, Exploration 6.6%
- #16 Backrooms: Extractions
84% matchMostly Positive74% of 824 reviews2025
Dev: Headlight Studio
Windows
Median: 3.2 hrsMean: 8.6 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: Horror 23.7%, Realistic 19.3%, Psychological Horror 18.8%, First-Person 13.6%, Adventure 6.5%
- #17 Escape the Backrooms
81% matchVery Positive90% of 166,958 reviews2025
Dev: Fancy GamesPub: Secret Mode
Windows
Median: 6.9 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 47.4%, Psychological Horror 21%, First-Person 12.4%, Multiplayer 8.4%, Adventure 4.6%
- #18 The Backrooms
88% matchMostly Negative23% of 59 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 20.7%, Horror 20%, First-Person 16%, Psychological Horror 14.7%, Multiple Endings 10%
- #19 Return the Backrooms
85% matchMixed63% of 140 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: Horror 24.1%, Psychological Horror 20.8%, First-Person 17%, Dark 10.2%, Adventure 6.8%
- #20 The Backrooms Multiplayer
86% matchMostly Negative37% of 73 reviews2022
Dev: Untold Backrooms Stories
Windows
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: Horror 20.1%, Realistic 18.8%, Psychological Horror 18.5%, Walking Simulator 13.1%, First-Person 9.3%
- #21 The Backrooms: Escape
83% matchVery Positive80% of 50 reviews2023
Dev: QuixM Interactive
Windows
The Backrooms: Escape is an experience in the liminal world of backrooms. Move freely, explore the secrets of the corporation, but remember - you are not alone.
Why similar: Realistic 22.4%, Psychological Horror 20.7%, Walking Simulator 20%, First-Person 14.4%, Adventure 5.4%
- #22 The Backrooms : Last Expedition
84% 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 31.1%, Psychological Horror 26.2%, First-Person 19.4%, Adventure 10%, Multiplayer 6.3%
- #23 Backrooms Descent: Multiplayer Horror
82% matchMixed46% of 112 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: Horror 19.7%, Realistic 17.3%, Psychological Horror 16.7%, First-Person 13.6%, Story Rich 10%
- #24 Shifting To The Backrooms
79% matchVery Positive87% of 76 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 21.1%, Psychological Horror 17.1%, First-Person 13%, Walking Simulator 12.9%, Story Rich 11.2%
- #25 Backrooms Rec.
80% matchMixed69% of 2,129 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: Horror 27.8%, Psychological Horror 18.4%, Realistic 17.4%, First-Person 14.8%, Multiplayer 6.8%
- #26 The Backrooms
82% matchMixed62% of 127 reviews2022
Dev: Ionized Games
Windows
Median: 2.0 hrsMean: 4.1 hrs≥1hr: 76%
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: Realistic 22.2%, Horror 18.4%, First-Person 16.8%, Psychological Horror 13.6%, Dark 12.8%
- #27 Backrooms: Escape Together
78% matchVery Positive89% of 49,842 reviews2022
Dev: Triiodide Studios
Windows
Median: 4.2 hrsMean: 6.2 hrs≥1hr: 92%
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 31.2%, Psychological Horror 21.1%, Realistic 15.2%, First-Person 10.6%, Multiplayer 6.9%
- #28 Backrooms: The Phobolore
81% matchMixed54% of 52 reviews2024
Dev: SUDT Games
Windows
Backrooms: The Phobolore is a cooperative multiplayer online horror game for 1-4 players. In this game you will take control of a character who woke up in an unknown place and does not remember anything, your task will be to pass the game levels trying to remember who you are...
Why similar: Horror 29%, Dark 17.6%, Psychological Horror 17.2%, First-Person 16.1%, Exploration 5.7%
- #29 Backrooms - 2005
77% matchVery Positive84% of 74 reviews2025
Dev: Rendern Studios
Windows
Backrooms - 2005 is a chapter-based Backrooms exploration game.
Why similar: Walking Simulator 22.7%, Realistic 22.3%, First-Person 16.8%, Adventure 15.4%, Horror 11.2%
- #30 Enter The Backrooms
78% matchVery Positive87% of 1,064 reviews2021
Dev: Justin KrohPub: Cosmic Crow Creations
Windows
Median: 1.6 hrsMean: 5.7 hrs≥1hr: 64%
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: Horror 26.1%, Psychological Horror 25.6%, Walking Simulator 19.1%, First-Person 14.8%, Adventure 10.2%
- #31 Reflection
77% matchVery Positive84% of 264 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: Horror 18.1%, Realistic 15.9%, Psychological Horror 15.5%, Walking Simulator 13.7%, Dark 10.3%
- #32 Backrooms Doors
79% 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 23.5%, Realistic 18.1%, Psychological Horror 15.1%, First-Person 14.9%, Dark 14.5%
- #33 The Backrooms: Unbounded
76% matchMostly Positive76% of 708 reviews2023
Dev: BluSkie
Windows
The Backrooms: Unbounded is a Free Simple Linear single player first person body camera horror game based on the backrooms. You take the role of a police officer who noclips out of reality while on duty. Will you make it out alive?
Why similar: Horror 19.8%, Psychological Horror 16.7%, Realistic 15.4%, Walking Simulator 14.1%, First-Person 12.5%
- #34 Unanswered
74% matchVery Positive95% of 101 reviews2026
Dev: WhiteRoot Studio
Windows
You wake up in a strange place, not knowing who you are, where you are, or how you got here. Trapped in an environment that twists to break your sanity, your only way out is to delve into the unknown and face the horrors of a past your mind is trying to hide.
Why similar: Horror 21.8%, Psychological Horror 20.8%, First-Person 14.1%, Realistic 9.8%, Walking Simulator 8.7%
- #35 The Backrooms: Survival
75% matchVery Positive82% of 1,127 reviews2023
Dev: RE:CODE
Windows
Median: 1.7 hrsMean: 9.1 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 30.4%, Psychological Horror 24.6%, Dark 17.2%, First-Person 13.6%, Adventure 8.1%
- #36 The Backrooms Regret
76% matchMixed61% of 159 reviews2024
Dev: Noirware
Windows
Are you ready to survive in this hostile world? Discover who you are and how you ended up in this dimension. But don't worry, you can rely on warm company that will make your experience much more 'pleasant.' Oh, and good luck, you'll need it.
Why similar: Horror 24.9%, Psychological Horror 17.7%, Adventure 17.4%, First-Person 14.3%, Story Rich 8.1%
- #37 Within the Backrooms
74% matchVery Positive94% of 236 reviews2023
Dev: Shattered Display
Windows
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: Adventure 23%, Multiple Endings 18.5%, Atmospheric 16.6%, First-Person 14.3%, Exploration 13.2%
- #38 Backrooms: Code Yellow
73% matchMixed49% of 394 reviews2026
Dev: GameMechanic
Windows
An online 1-6 player co-op game about investigating and collecting data in the infinitely massive Backrooms with your fellow employees. Explore. Do your job. Return alive.
Why similar: Psychological Horror 31.4%, Horror 24.2%, Adventure 15.5%, First-Person 12.2%, Multiplayer 8.4%
- #39 Transliminal: Beyond The Backrooms
75% matchVery Positive91% of 155 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 22.1%, Psychological Horror 19%, Walking Simulator 13.2%, First-Person 11%, Story Rich 8.5%
- #40 SUBSUMED
73% matchVery Positive83% of 64 reviews2026
Dev: HazzyPub: adjective noun
Windows
A claustrophobic first-person horror game about crawling through a dark, winding cave system in search of three missing divers.
Why similar: Horror 21.6%, Psychological Horror 15.3%, Realistic 12.6%, First-Person 7.5%, Investigation 7.2%
- #41 Welcome to Kowloon
72% matchVery Positive81% of 1,989 reviews2023
Dev: a1esskaPub: N4bA
Windows
Median: 1.1 hrsMean: 1.9 hrs≥1hr: 56%
This is an indie horror from the first person, in which you find yourself in an area called Kowloon in search of cheap housing. The inhabitants of this place only at first glance seem to be ordinary people, but if we dig deeper, we will see their real faces.
Why similar: Horror 21.2%, Psychological Horror 14.9%, Realistic 11.8%, Walking Simulator 11%, First-Person 9.1%
- #42 CantEscapeTheBackrooms
73% matchMixed60% of 258 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 36.9%, First-Person 22.7%, Dark 15.9%, Multiplayer 9.1%, Adventure 8.6%
- #43 Backroom Company
69% matchVery Positive82% of 730 reviews2025
Dev: Hypercent Inc.
Windows
Median: 3.0 hrsMean: 5.2 hrs≥1hr: 83%
Backroom Company (aka Axiom 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: Horror 42.8%, Psychological Horror 22.8%, Adventure 8.7%, Multiplayer 8.6%, Mystery 7.6%
- #44 NOCLIP
72% matchMixed70% of 56 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: Horror 17.8%, Walking Simulator 16.3%, Psychological Horror 15.2%, First-Person 13%, Realistic 13%
- #45 Backrooms Media
71% matchMixed40% of 649 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 22.7%, Realistic 20.6%, Psychological Horror 20.3%, First-Person 14.9%, Multiplayer 6.4%
- #46 SILENT BREATH
67% matchMixed68% of 1,268 reviews2026
Dev: EXODIAC STUDIOS
Windows
Median: 1.0 hrsMean: 1.8 hrs≥1hr: 52%
Unpredictable horrors lurk around every corner, forcing you to find the missing people while desperately clinging to survival. In this experience even your own mind can become your enemy. Stay vigilant and keep your voice hushed, or risk becoming another victim of the forest's darkness
Why similar: Horror 22.8%, Psychological Horror 17%, Realistic 16.4%, Dark 10.5%, First-Person 9.7%
- #47 BACKROOMS: APPREHENSION
66% matchVery Positive83% of 1,672 reviews2025
Dev: DMNT Interactive
Windows
Median: 1.2 hrsMean: 5.9 hrs≥1hr: 58%
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: Horror 23.8%, Psychological Horror 18.1%, Investigation 15.6%, Realistic 12%, First-Person 9.8%
- #48 SKUF BACKROOMS
70% 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 20.5%, Realistic 19.1%, Walking Simulator 17.5%, Horror 17.4%, First-Person 11.2%
- #49 Backrooms Loop
67% matchVery Positive92% of 145 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 35.3%, First-Person 26.3%, Psychological Horror 18.9%, Multiple Endings 10.2%, Adventure 6.9%
- #50 Liminal City
68% matchMostly Positive73% of 113 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 18.8%, Realistic 18.8%, Walking Simulator 16.3%, Horror 15.8%, First-Person 11.3%
- #51 UnderBackrooms
71% 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: Horror 34.6%, Psychological Horror 28%, Adventure 21.1%, Atmospheric 8.6%, Multiplayer 7.8%
- #52 God's Basement
70% matchMostly Positive74% of 1,318 reviews2018
Dev: Erebus
Windows
Median: 2.9 hrsMean: 3.6 hrs≥1hr: 69%
God's Basement is a first-person, narrative-driven, single player horror game. Uncover the secrets of an afterlife shrouded in mystery, as an entity known as "The Operator" leads you deeper into the fringes of a seemingly eternal purgatory.
Why similar: Horror 18.2%, Psychological Horror 15.2%, Walking Simulator 13%, Dark 11.3%, First-Person 10.1%
- #53 The Backrooms: Found Footage
70% 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 20%, Psychological Horror 17.5%, Walking Simulator 17.2%, Realistic 14.5%, First-Person 13.9%
- #54 Insomnia: Chapter One
65% matchMostly Positive76% of 154 reviews2026
Dev: Melon PolygonsPub: MonkeyFactory Media
Windows
2012. The Arctic research station "Persei" loses contact with the outside world. You are Ethan Miller, a technician sent to the facility to fix the issues. But something here has clearly gone out of control.
Why similar: Psychological Horror 19.1%, Walking Simulator 15.4%, Horror 13.7%, First-Person 11.4%, Realistic 10.7%
- #55 White Room Protocol
67% 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 19.2%, Psychological Horror 15.9%, Realistic 14.8%, Walking Simulator 13.6%, Dark 10%
- #56 BACKROOMS NO RETURN: Prologue
69% matchMostly Negative32% of 1,237 reviews2024
Dev: FriedGPU
Windows
Explore the poolrooms in a inmersive cooperative horror game. Immerse yourself in the story of scientists who are exploring the depths of the poolrooms and end up encountering various obstacles in order to find a way back to reality.
Why similar: Horror 23%, Psychological Horror 19.8%, First-Person 15.8%, Dark 13.1%, Story Rich 11.7%
- #57 Hotel 188
66% matchVery Positive90% of 90 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 20.6%, Realistic 19.6%, Walking Simulator 18%, First-Person 13.8%, Adventure 6.4%
- #58 Subliminal
63% matchMostly Positive74% of 3,794 reviews2026
Dev: Accidental StudiosPub: Gone Shootin
Windows
Median: 2.8 hrsMean: 4.4 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: Realistic 16%, Horror 15.5%, Psychological Horror 14.1%, Investigation 10.4%, First-Person 10.2%