- #1 Backrooms: Found Footage
97% matchVery Positive82% of 381 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 16.4%, Horror 15.8%, First-Person 12%, Adventure 10.1%, Psychological Horror 10%
- #2 The Complex: Expedition
96% matchVery Positive90% of 2,731 reviews2025
Dev: pgWave
Windows
Median: 1.7 hrsMean: 9.2 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 23.2%, Realistic 19.4%, Psychological Horror 16.5%, Story Rich 9.6%, First-Person 8.3%
- #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 18.5%, Psychological Horror 16%, Dark 12.1%, First-Person 10.9%, Walking Simulator 10.6%
- #4 Inside the Backrooms
95% 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 37.5%, Psychological Horror 17.8%, First-Person 9.6%, Dark 7.9%, Multiplayer 6.9%
- #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 16.9%, Adventure 15.2%, 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 13.5%, Psychological Horror 11%, Dark 10%
- #7 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: Psychological Horror 29.7%, Realistic 21.3%, Dark 16.6%, Walking Simulator 14%, Adventure 10%
- #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 23.8%, First-Person 20%, Adventure 8.5%, Exploration 7.4%
- #9 Backrooms: Wit's End
91% 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: Horror 22.9%, Psychological Horror 21.1%, Realistic 18.4%, First-Person 11.9%, Walking Simulator 11.9%
- #10 EXPEDITION TO THE BACKROOMS
91% 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: Horror 21.1%, Walking Simulator 19.2%, Realistic 18%, Psychological Horror 15.3%, First-Person 13.2%
- #11 The Complex: Found Footage
89% matchVery Positive93% of 9,917 reviews2022
Dev: pgWave
Windows
Median: 36 minMean: 1.5 hrs≥1hr: 22%
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 15.6%, Realistic 12.4%, First-Person 11.3%, Walking Simulator 10.3%
- #12 Behind The Backrooms
90% matchMixed47% of 64 reviews2024
Dev: SupKai
Windows
Behind the Backrooms is a 1-4 player co-op horror exploration game
Why similar: Horror 44.3%, First-Person 23.5%, Adventure 10.1%, Exploration 8%, Mystery 6%
- #13 The Backrooms Multiplayer
89% 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 20.2%, Realistic 18.8%, Psychological Horror 18.6%, Walking Simulator 13.2%, First-Person 9.4%
- #14 Escape the Backrooms
84% 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 47.7%, Psychological Horror 21.1%, First-Person 12.5%, Multiplayer 7.7%, Adventure 4.6%
- #15 Backrooms: Extractions
86% 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: Horror 23.7%, Realistic 19.3%, Psychological Horror 18.9%, First-Person 13.7%, Adventure 6.4%
- #16 Return the Backrooms
87% 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 17.2%, Dark 10.2%, Adventure 6.7%
- #17 Backrooms: Lost Tape
85% matchVery Positive82% of 1,411 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 19.6%, Psychological Horror 15.8%, Realistic 12.5%, Dark 12%, Investigation 11.6%
- #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 20.6%, Horror 19.9%, First-Person 16.1%, Psychological Horror 14.7%, Multiple Endings 10%
- #19 The Backrooms : Last Expedition
86% 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 31.2%, Psychological Horror 26.4%, First-Person 19.6%, Adventure 9.9%, Multiplayer 5.8%
- #20 Shifting To The Backrooms
82% 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 21.1%, Psychological Horror 17.1%, First-Person 13.1%, Walking Simulator 12.9%, Story Rich 11.1%
- #21 Backrooms Descent: Multiplayer Horror
84% 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: Horror 19.8%, Realistic 17.3%, Psychological Horror 16.7%, First-Person 13.7%, Story Rich 10%
- #22 Backrooms: Escape Together
80% 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 31.2%, Psychological Horror 21.3%, Realistic 15.2%, First-Person 10.7%, Multiplayer 6.3%
- #23 Backrooms: The Phobolore
83% 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 17.7%, Psychological Horror 17.2%, First-Person 16.2%, Exploration 5.7%
- #24 Backrooms Rec.
81% 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: Horror 27.9%, Psychological Horror 18.5%, Realistic 17.4%, First-Person 15%, Multiplayer 6.2%
- #25 The Backrooms
82% 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: Realistic 22.1%, Horror 18.4%, First-Person 17%, Psychological Horror 13.7%, Dark 12.8%
- #26 Backrooms Doors
81% 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%, Psychological Horror 15.1%, First-Person 15%, Dark 14.6%
- #27 The Backrooms: Survival
79% 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 30.5%, Psychological Horror 24.8%, Dark 17.3%, First-Person 13.8%, Adventure 8%
- #28 Backrooms - 2005
78% matchVery Positive85% of 71 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 16.9%, Adventure 15.3%, Horror 11.2%
- #29 Enter The Backrooms
79% 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: Horror 26.1%, Psychological Horror 25.6%, Walking Simulator 19.1%, First-Person 14.9%, Adventure 10.1%
- #30 Reflection
78% matchVery Positive83% of 260 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 15.8%, Psychological Horror 15.6%, Walking Simulator 13.6%, Dark 10.3%
- #31 Unanswered
75% matchVery Positive96% of 91 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 14.2%, Realistic 9.7%, Walking Simulator 8.6%
- #32 The Backrooms Regret
77% matchMixed61% of 158 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 25%, Psychological Horror 17.9%, Adventure 17.3%, First-Person 14.5%, Story Rich 8.1%
- #33 The Backrooms: Unbounded
76% matchMostly Positive76% of 703 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 16.8%, Realistic 15.4%, Walking Simulator 14.1%, First-Person 12.6%
- #34 Transliminal: Beyond The Backrooms
77% 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 22%, Psychological Horror 19%, Walking Simulator 13.1%, First-Person 11.1%, Story Rich 8.4%
- #35 SUBSUMED
75% matchVery Positive84% of 57 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 12.7%, First-Person 7.5%, Investigation 7.2%
- #36 Within the Backrooms
76% matchVery Positive94% of 231 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 22.8%, Multiple Endings 18.5%, Atmospheric 16.7%, First-Person 14.4%, Exploration 13.2%
- #37 Welcome to Kowloon
74% matchVery Positive81% of 1,974 reviews2023
Dev: a1esskaPub: N4bA
Windows
Median: 1.1 hrsMean: 1.9 hrs≥1hr: 55%
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 15%, Realistic 11.7%, Walking Simulator 11%, First-Person 9.1%
- #38 BACKROOMS ANOMALY
73% 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: Horror 20%, Realistic 17.7%, Psychological Horror 17.2%, Walking Simulator 16.2%, First-Person 13.3%
- #39 CantEscapeTheBackrooms
74% 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: Horror 36.9%, First-Person 23.1%, Dark 16.2%, Adventure 8.7%, Multiplayer 8.3%
- #40 Backrooms Media
73% 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 22.8%, Realistic 20.6%, Psychological Horror 20.4%, First-Person 15.1%, Multiplayer 5.9%
- #41 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 13.1%, Realistic 12.9%
- #42 Backroom Company
69% matchMostly Positive79% of 587 reviews2025
Dev: Hypercent Inc.
Windows
Median: 2.9 hrsMean: 5.2 hrs≥1hr: 82%
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 43%, Psychological Horror 22.9%, Adventure 8.7%, Multiplayer 8%, Mystery 7.7%
- #43 SILENT BREATH
68% matchMixed68% of 1,238 reviews2026
Dev: EXODIAC STUDIOS
Windows
Median: 1.0 hrsMean: 1.8 hrs≥1hr: 51%
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 10.6%, First-Person 9.9%
- #44 SKUF BACKROOMS
71% 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 11.3%
- #45 UnderBackrooms
73% 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 34.8%, Psychological Horror 28.2%, Adventure 21%, Atmospheric 8.7%, Multiplayer 7.2%
- #46 Liminal City
69% matchMostly Positive71% of 108 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 18.7%, Walking Simulator 16.3%, Horror 15.8%, First-Person 11.3%
- #47 Backrooms Loop
68% 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 35.2%, First-Person 26.5%, Psychological Horror 18.8%, Multiple Endings 10.2%, Adventure 6.8%
- #48 Backrooms Lost Runners
66% matchMostly Positive78% of 662 reviews2026
Dev: ShimStudioGames
Windows
Median: 2.7 hrsMean: 2.7 hrs≥1hr: 85%
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: Horror 25.6%, Psychological Horror 22.1%, Dark 16.8%, Story Rich 14.6%, Adventure 8.9%
- #49 BACKROOMS: APPREHENSION
66% matchVery Positive83% of 1,621 reviews2025
Dev: DMNT Interactive
Windows
Median: 1.2 hrsMean: 5.8 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 18.2%, Investigation 15.7%, Realistic 12%, First-Person 9.9%
- #50 Lost in Anomaly
68% matchMixed63% of 1,301 reviews2024
Dev: Axakal Interactive
Windows
In this single-player experience, 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: Horror 23.2%, Psychological Horror 20%, Walking Simulator 15.5%, Realistic 12.2%, First-Person 11.8%
- #51 God's Basement
71% matchMostly Positive74% of 1,317 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 12.9%, Dark 11.3%, First-Person 10.2%
- #52 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 14.4%, First-Person 14%
- #53 BACKROOMS NO RETURN: Prologue
70% matchMostly Negative32% of 1,231 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 19.9%, First-Person 16%, Dark 13.1%, Story Rich 11.7%
- #54 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 19.1%, Psychological Horror 15.8%, Realistic 14.8%, Walking Simulator 13.7%, Dark 10.1%
- #55 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: Horror 26.8%, Psychological Horror 24.4%, Walking Simulator 15.8%, First-Person 12.6%, Atmospheric 7%
- #56 Insomnia: Chapter One
65% matchMostly Positive75% of 150 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 11.5%, Realistic 10.7%
- #57 Noclipped
69% 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: Horror 23.1%, Realistic 21.9%, First-Person 20.3%, Walking Simulator 10.1%, Adventure 9.5%
- #58 Subliminal
63% 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: Realistic 15.9%, Horror 15.5%, Psychological Horror 14.1%, Investigation 10.5%, First-Person 10.3%