- #1 Enter The Backrooms
97% 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: Psychological Horror 73.1%, Horror 26.9%
- #2 Hotel 188
96% 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 87%, Indie 13%
- #3 The Backrooms
96% 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: Psychological Horror 67.5%, Horror 32.5%
- #4 NOCLIP
95% 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: Psychological Horror 70.3%, Horror 29.7%
- #5 The Backrooms 1998 - Found Footage Survival Horror Game
94% 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: Psychological Horror 100%
- #6 The Backrooms Footage
94% 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 71.6%, Horror 28.4%
- #7 Inside the Backrooms
93% 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: Psychological Horror 56.9%, Horror 43.1%
- #8 Backrooms: Exit from Supermarket
92% matchMixed70% of 56 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: Psychological Horror 70.5%, Horror 29.5%
- #9 The Complex: Found Footage
90% 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 63.8%, Horror 31.7%, Indie 4.5%
- #10 Backrooms Descent: Multiplayer Horror
91% 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: Psychological Horror 70.1%, Horror 29.9%
- #11 Transliminal: Beyond The Backrooms
91% 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: Psychological Horror 70.5%, Horror 29.5%
- #12 Backrooms: Found Footage
89% 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: Psychological Horror 55.4%, Horror 30.4%, Indie 14.2%
- #13 EXPEDITION TO THE BACKROOMS
89% 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: Psychological Horror 67%, Horror 33%
- #14 Lost Hope: Backrooms
88% 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: Psychological Horror 58.1%, Horror 31.8%, Indie 10.1%
- #15 Shifting To The Backrooms
86% 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 64.6%, Horror 28.9%, Indie 6.5%
- #16 The Backrooms: Lost Tape
85% 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: Psychological Horror 69.1%, Horror 30.9%
- #17 UnderBackrooms
86% 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: Psychological Horror 49.1%, Indie 29.1%, Horror 21.9%
- #18 Liminalcore
84% matchVery Positive83% of 652 reviews2024
Dev: Shadow Owl Studios
Windows
Median: 2.0 hrsMean: 2.6 hrs≥1hr: 73%
Explore and admire while navigate through eerie, surreal environments inspired by the Backrooms lore. Explore this uncanny world lost in time and get lost in the otherworldly architecture in a world where reality bends and your sanity is tested.
Why similar: Psychological Horror 96%, Indie 4%
- #19 POOLS
82% matchOverwhelmingly Positive95% of 6,027 reviews2024
Dev: Tensori
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 1.7 hrsMean: 5.6 hrs≥1hr: 62%
Walking simulator. Explore, admire and listen. Uncanny. Relaxing. Unnerving. Eerie. Immersive. No monsters chasing you or jumping at your screen, but can feel oppressive at times by invoking fears of getting lost, the dark, tight spaces and liminal space architecture. Inspired by backrooms.
Why similar: Psychological Horror 90.7%, Indie 9.3%
- #20 The Backrooms
87% 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: Psychological Horror 50.7%, Horror 24.8%, Indie 24.5%
- #21 Backrooms Doors
84% 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: Psychological Horror 64%, Horror 36%
- #22 Backrooms Rec.
81% 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: Psychological Horror 64.9%, Horror 35.1%
- #23 Backrooms: Realm of Shadows
83% 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 57.5%, Horror 28.5%, Indie 14%
- #24 [REC] Paroxysm
81% matchVery Positive85% of 326 reviews2024
Dev: Perspektik
Windows
You're a horror content creator, venturing into frightening locations to captivate your audience. You're attempting to attract more viewers by recording paranormal events. However, these horror-filled adventures will one day come back to haunt you, at a high cost.
Why similar: Psychological Horror 60.5%, Horror 21.8%, Indie 17.7%
- #25 Backrooms: Exploration
80% 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: Psychological Horror 63.1%, Horror 36.9%
- #26 The Backrooms Multiplayer
82% 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: Psychological Horror 71.8%, Horror 28.2%
- #27 SKUF BACKROOMS
79% 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 76.5%, Horror 23.5%
- #28 Liminal City
78% 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 67.4%, Horror 20%, Indie 12.5%
- #29 Subliminal
76% matchVery Positive81% of 236 reviews2026
Dev: Accidental StudiosPub: Gone Shootin
Windows
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: Psychological Horror 71.2%, Horror 28.8%
- #30 Escape the Backrooms
71% 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: Psychological Horror 50.9%, Horror 40.7%, Indie 8.3%
- #31 Within the Backrooms
77% matchVery Positive96% of 190 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: Indie 100%
- #32 THE_ABYSS_HAS_WALLS
79% matchMixed59% of 56 reviews2022
Dev: James Madsen Digital Enterprises
Windows
THE_ABYSS_HAS_WALLS takes you into Ad Infinitum (also known as "The Backrooms") like never seen before. Review footage. Document fate.
Why similar: Horror 100%
- #33 The Backrooms Regret
77% matchMixed61% of 147 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: Psychological Horror 57%, Horror 28.9%, Indie 14%
- #34 The Backrooms Project
78% matchMostly Positive70% of 143 reviews2022
Dev: 3AM Studios
Windows · Linux
Scientists made a new discovery about the Backrooms. Noclipping out of bounds in normal reality was a myth for long, but now it can be real! Now they are looking for subjects to test it on civil people. There are already scientists inside, so you have nothing to worry about, they say. Or do you?
Why similar: Psychological Horror 70.5%, Horror 29.5%
- #35 Backrooms Media
75% 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: Psychological Horror 71.2%, Horror 28.8%
- #36 The Backrooms: Found Footage
76% 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: Psychological Horror 70.8%, Horror 29.2%
- #37 The Backrooms Game FREE Edition
73% matchVery Positive80% of 3,604 reviews2019
Dev: Pie On A Plate Productions
Windows · Linux
Nothing but the stink of old, moist carpets, the madness of mono-yellow, and the blinding light of fluorescent bulbs at maximum hum-buzz. Over 600 million sq. miles of randomly segmented rooms. God save you if you hear something wandering nearby, because it sure as hell has heard you.
Why similar: Psychological Horror 54.9%, Horror 34.3%, Indie 10.8%
- #38 Return the Backrooms
74% 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 70.6%, Horror 29.4%
- #39 Behind The Backrooms
74% matchMixed48% of 58 reviews2024
Dev: SupKai
Windows
Behind the Backrooms is a 1-4 player co-op horror exploration game
Why similar: Horror 91.9%, Indie 8.1%
- #40 The Backrooms: Unbounded
72% matchMostly Positive76% of 658 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: Psychological Horror 58.8%, Horror 25.1%, Indie 16.1%
- #41 Stairs
75% matchMostly Positive70% of 361 reviews2015
Dev: GreyLight EntertainmentPub: Digital Tribe
Windows
Median: 3.1 hrsMean: 3.7 hrs≥1hr: 90%
STAIRS is a first-person atmospheric psychological horror game, inspired by real-life events, that takes players through the stories of three missing people as seen through the eyes of journalist Christopher Adams. Start preparing yourself now, for to descend down these steps is to descend into madness...
Why similar: Psychological Horror 48.7%, Horror 28%, Indie 23.3%
- #42 White Room Protocol
71% 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 62.6%, Horror 27.2%, Indie 10.1%
- #43 Welcome To The Backrooms
73% matchMixed46% of 147 reviews2022
Dev: Brickmade ProductionsPub: Brickmade Productions
Windows · Mac
Welcome to the Backrooms is a indie horror game developed by Brickmade Productions. This game will bring you the ultimate Backrooms survival experience, crafting, lore, entities, and a very in-depth health system which will keep you checking your watch non-stop.
Why similar: Psychological Horror 60.7%, Horror 39.3%
- #44 The Backrooms : Last Expedition
73% matchMixed52% of 66 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: Psychological Horror 59.1%, Horror 25.3%, Indie 15.6%
- #45 Dreamcore
68% matchVery Positive89% of 1,505 reviews2025
Dev: MontraluzPub: Tlön Industries
Windows
Median: 2.0 hrsMean: 3.9 hrs≥1hr: 71%
Experience liminal spaces like never before. Dreamcore is the ultimate psychological exploration game, set in the largest liminal world ever made. No guides, no path—only intuition. Will you keep your bearings in a world designed to make you lose them?
Why similar: Psychological Horror 62.1%, Horror 23.8%, Indie 14.1%
- #46 Don't Be Afraid 2
70% 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: Psychological Horror 70.6%, Horror 29.4%
- #47 BACKROOM LOOP
68% 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: Psychological Horror 51%, Horror 35.5%, Indie 13.5%
- #48 SILENT BREATH
69% matchMixed69% of 1,156 reviews2024
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: Psychological Horror 62.2%, Horror 30%, Indie 7.8%
- #49 In The Backrooms
71% 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 69.7%, Horror 30.3%
- #50 BACKROOMS: APPREHENSION
67% 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: Psychological Horror 68.5%, Horror 31.5%
- #51 Paranormal VHS
69% matchMostly Positive71% of 138 reviews2023
Dev: Elite Lords Studios
Windows
Paranormal VHS is a horror game that features a VHS tape-inspired aesthetic. The game's story revolves around a popular vlogger who spends a night in haunted locations in search of paranormal activity. Brace for intense jumpscares.
Why similar: Psychological Horror 65.3%, Horror 28.6%, Indie 6.2%
- #52 Anomalies Detective
68% matchMostly Positive77% of 70 reviews2024
Dev: ChenGame
Windows
A psychological horror game with a chapter-based plot, thriller and unusual elements! You are a novice paranormal detective, exploring secrets and finding ways to escape in an infinite loop of scenes. Many unusual things happen during this process, as if some strange force wants to devour you...
Why similar: Psychological Horror 63.3%, Horror 22%, Indie 14.7%
- #53 Layers of Fear VR
70% matchMostly Positive71% of 273 reviews2019
Dev: Incuvo S.A.Pub: Bloober Team SA
Windows
Median: 1.1 hrsMean: 2.9 hrs≥1hr: 51%
Enter a tangibly horrifying Virtual Reality and explore a mansion of horror as an artist falling into the depths of insanity. Will you find the muse for your masterpiece... or madness?
Why similar: Indie 61.8%, Psychological Horror 24.4%, Horror 13.8%
- #54 The Renovator: Origins
67% matchVery Positive86% of 235 reviews2024
Dev: Peace_Studio
Windows
You play as the son of a restorer, a museum worker who died tragically. While searching for the memorabilia, the door suddenly closes and strange things begin to happen. The hero is waiting for immersion in the world of art and the paranormal.
Why similar: Psychological Horror 57.7%, Horror 26.1%, Indie 16.2%
- #55 Visage
66% matchVery Positive84% of 10,620 reviews2020
Dev: SadSquare Studio
Windows
Median: 3.0 hrsMean: 7.6 hrs≥1hr: 77%
Visage is a first-person psychological horror game. Explore a mysterious ever-changing house in a slow-paced, atmospheric world that combines both uncannily comforting and horrifyingly realistic environments, and enjoy a genuinely terrifying experience.
Why similar: Psychological Horror 61.1%, Horror 33.5%, Indie 5.4%
- #56 The Complex: Expedition
63% 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: Psychological Horror 66%, Horror 34%
- #57 Exanimum: The Silent Call
65% matchVery Positive84% of 278 reviews2024
Dev: Perspektik
Windows
"Exanimum: The Silent Call" is a first-person psychological horror game. In this chilling experience, you will find yourself confronting terrifying mysteries and chilling secrets.
Why similar: Psychological Horror 57%, Horror 25.8%, Indie 17.1%