Games Like Backrooms Protocol

"Echoes Of Despair" plunges players into the horror of an abandoned hospital, where Sarah, an investigative journalist, must survive supernatural forces while uncovering the dark secrets of the past.

Why similar: Adventure 27.3%, Puzzle 20.8%, Exploration 17.2%, First-Person 15.1%, 3D 9.7%

Bonded Forever is a co-op game that combines horror and puzzle elements. In this game, you and your friend try to go back to the place where you live in your childhood and solve the mysteries that happened while you were away and try to overcome the problems you will face by working together.

Why similar: Exploration 15.8%, Puzzle 15.5%, Thriller 13.6%, First-Person 11.6%, Adventure 10.2%

Experience this first-person horror game in a tiny Guatemalan home. As a journalist, you investigate a mysterious villa after your long-lost friend Eddie calls. Grim halls, monsters, and rusty mailbox blood await. The four chapters include spooky stories, jump scares, and difficult riddles.

Why similar: Adventure 19.6%, Puzzle 15.6%, Thriller 15.5%, Exploration 13.1%, First-Person 11%

Behind The Backrooms: Lost Levels is survival horror game where you explore eerie, hidden levels filled with terrifying entities, cryptic puzzles, and relentless dangers. survive deadly encounters, and find your way out—before you become another lost soul trapped forever.

Why similar: Thriller 18.4%, Puzzle 16.8%, Adventure 14.9%, Exploration 14.1%, First-Person 11.6%

The Secret of Whispering is a psychological horror puzzle game. The player is lured into an abandoned house by mysterious calls. As he explores the eerie property, he uncovers dark secrets and is drawn into a maelstrom of puzzles and gruesome revelations.

Why similar: Adventure 23.2%, Puzzle 18.2%, Realistic 15.3%, Exploration 15.2%, First-Person 13.4%

Cory wakes up several years into the future, everything has changed and his friends are missing. Complete puzzles, hide from monsters, explore the world around you and try to find what happened and where your friends are.

Why similar: Adventure 22.7%, Puzzle 17.8%, Exploration 14.8%, Realistic 12.1%, First-Person 12%

Discover the mystery behind Marcus Circus, the world's first circus with infinite energy generated by a mysterious crystal. You will have to try to survive by hiding, exploring, and solving puzzles.

Why similar: Survival Horror 22.2%, Puzzle 14.8%, Adventure 13.3%, First-Person 11.8%, Horror 10.4%

Welcome to the Threshold, a place where reality is altered, and memories become disturbing, dark reflections of what once was. Find items to help escape, and explore an almost fully interactive environment!

Why similar: Puzzle 23.8%, Exploration 18.5%, Adventure 18.1%, First-Person 14.9%, 3D 11.6%

Inn 8 is a first-person horror adventure game with unique gameplay mechanics. Stumbled upon a cursed inn while taking a selfie in the wild. Endless rooms and terrifying monsters await. Use your wits to uncover the house's evil secrets, defeat your enemies and break the curse.

Why similar: Adventure 22.6%, Puzzle 17.7%, Exploration 14.8%, Survival Horror 13.7%, Horror 9.9%

Backrooms Untold is an atmospheric horror experience where you’re lost in an endless, infinite maze of fluorescent lit corridors, stained carpet, and humming lights. The deeper you go, the more it feels wrong—familiar spaces twisting into something hostile and unknowable.

Why similar: Realistic 15.9%, Survival Horror 14.5%, Exploration 13.8%, Puzzle 12.3%, Horror 10.8%

You are being hunted by the Yeti. You must survive the cold of a dark, winter forest and keep the Yeti at bay by gathering wood to keep your fire from dying out.

Why similar: Thriller 21.3%, Survival Horror 17%, Adventure 12.9%, Horror 9.7%, Atmospheric 9.3%

THE LAST PORTRAIT is a spooky adventure that takes you to the abandoned Ashwood Manor. You're on a mission to steal a supposedly cursed painting from the old villa. Solve the difficult puzzles that secure the house and escape the ghost that guards the property!

Why similar: Puzzle 15.3%, Thriller 14%, Realistic 13.7%, First-Person 12.2%, Horror 10.5%

YinYuan is a first person horror adventure decryption game based on Oriental culture. Everything around him is different from what he remembered before he was unconscious. The bizarre process of finding the protagonist with his family and gradually revealing the reason for him to leave here.

Why similar: Thriller 26.8%, Adventure 18.1%, Puzzle 14%, Horror 12.5%, Exploration 11.5%

You wake up disoriented in a labyrinth, armed with nothing but a flashlight and a video camera... Solve puzzles, uncover secrets, and find a way out, but you’ll have to hurry because time is running, and each day in the labyrinth brings you closer to the end... you are not alone in this place.

Why similar: Puzzle 23.8%, Exploration 20.5%, Adventure 20.2%, 3D 13.1%, Survival Horror 12.8%

In The Last Crawler you play as a ventilation repair man named David and you enter the vents of Blackwell Station but everything is not as it seems. The vents are not safe and you must find a new way out before its too late.

Why similar: Adventure 22.7%, Puzzle 17.2%, Exploration 14.4%, Realistic 12.4%, First-Person 10.6%

The Last Shift is a first-person adventure horror game. At midnight, demons roam the amusement park while you are alone on the night shift in the security booth. Collect clues, solve puzzles, face your enemies, and strive to survive the night!

Why similar: Adventure 20.8%, Puzzle 16.5%, Thriller 13.8%, Exploration 13.6%, Survival Horror 13.5%

Magic Kingdom - This is a 3D puzzle treasure adventure from a first-person perspective. You have to take on the role of an ordinary citizen in a small magical kingdom that lives in peace and prosperity and flourishes every year.

Why similar: Adventure 31.3%, Puzzle 23.5%, Exploration 19.4%, 3D 12.1%, Atmospheric 9.9%

Explore a dark world full of liminal rooms, abandoned corridors and surreal places. You will feel lost in the backrooms, wandering aimlessly through endless corridors and hoping to find a way out. But beware: you are not alone. How long can you survive? Will you find the exit - or get lost forever?

Why similar: Puzzle 25.7%, Adventure 19.6%, First-Person 19.1%, 3D 12.4%, Horror 12.1%

Explore a dark world of rust and worms. Phrixothrix is an adventure game with point and click elements, where you control yourself and an alien worm.

Why similar: Adventure 26.5%, Puzzle 21.1%, Exploration 17.6%, First-Person 14.7%, 3D 11%

A survival horror experience set in a cursed forest. Players must explore, solve puzzles, and evade terrifying creatures lurking in the shadows. With relentless tension, a haunting atmosphere, and monsters hiding within the woods. Survival depends on wit, and instinct.

Why similar: Adventure 28%, Puzzle 21%, Survival Horror 19.4%, First-Person 16.7%, Horror 11.5%

Ungrounded is a first-person puzzle adventure game. Explore, observe, and engage with Ungrounded’s mechanisms and machinery. The further you travel, the more uncertain the path home.

Why similar: Adventure 29.6%, Puzzle 28.4%, Exploration 20.1%, First-Person 17.5%, Indie 2.4%

Backrooms: Infinite Halls is a game about investigating and researching the Backrooms, going deeper and deeper down these unending spaces, roaming their halls and avoiding their horrors.

Why similar: Thriller 18.8%, Adventure 13%, Exploration 12.8%, Survival Horror 12.4%, First-Person 11.6%

Infiltrate a locked house as Daniel to secure a deadly virus. In this first-person stealth horror, you have no weapons, your only hope is to hide, solve environmental puzzles, and find keys to reach the basement lab before you are caught. Can you survive the tension?

Why similar: Thriller 27.7%, Adventure 18.8%, Puzzle 13.1%, Exploration 12.9%, Horror 12.7%

Take part in a dangerous ritual game that requires you to travel between reality and the "Spiritual Realm"

Why similar: Adventure 20.1%, Puzzle 16.8%, Exploration 14.2%, First-Person 9.9%, Thriller 9.4%

Maze: Rising Trials is a First Person Adventure Puzzle game where you solve your way out of massive and complex labyrinths. Solve puzzles, collect coins, leave markers, and find your path through each maze!

Why similar: Adventure 27.4%, Puzzle 21.3%, Exploration 17.7%, First-Person 14.2%, 3D 11.1%

Scary Together is a 4-player co-op horror game. Explore terrifying levels filled with jump scares, solve puzzles, and experience the thrill of being scared together. Perfect for players who love screaming—and laughing—with friends. Screams turn into laughter as you watch your friends freak out

Why similar: Adventure 22%, Thriller 18.3%, Puzzle 16.1%, Exploration 13.4%, First-Person 11.8%

Uncontrolled is a co-op horror adventure where you control your friend, not yourself. Solve puzzles, survive traps, and escape a twisted facility using only voice and trust. Can you work together when control isn’t in your hands?

Why similar: Co-op Campaign 27.5% ★, Thriller 22.4%, Realistic 11%, Online Co-Op 8.1%, Horror 7.7%

Hüddam: The Cursed Mansion is a first-person psychological horror game. Explore a 19th-century cursed mansion in Istanbul. Armed with only a flashlight, find the hidden talismans, survive the relentless Djinn, and uncover the dark secrets of Molla Celil.

Why similar: Survival Horror 16.8%, Adventure 12.5%, First-Person 11.3%, Horror 10.6%, Thriller 10.4%

Boston Nursing Home is a First-Person Indie Horror Game. There’s luggage stacked on the ground, bloodstains on the wall. What happened here and why did people move out in such a hurry? What unpredictable disaster made everything lose control? The truth, is waiting to be uncovered...

Why similar: Survival Horror 20.8%, Adventure 19.3%, Puzzle 14.4%, Horror 14.1%, Exploration 10.5%

"Lost's Hotel" is a 3D horror adventure puzzle game which make you explore and find the way out from this mysterious hotel.You have to find the 4 codes that are hidden in different rooms to unlock the way down to the next floor. The last exit is on the lowest floor.

Why similar: Adventure 29.3%, Thriller 21.4%, Puzzle 20.2%, First-Person 14.4%, 3D 11.3%

GUILT is indie horror game inspired by P.T GUILT contain Jumpscares, Puzzles, Flickering Light, Psychological Atmosphere. Support 32 and 64 bit. Recommend using headphones while playing this game

Why similar: Adventure 30.8%, Puzzle 23.4%, First-Person 17.1%, 3D 13.2%, Horror 9.2%

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: Co-op Campaign 17.6% ★, Adventure 15.5%, Puzzle 12.3%, Exploration 9.7%, Realistic 9.5%

A new home owner begins to experience and capture unsettling occurrences around his property.

Why similar: Adventure 22.3%, Puzzle 17.9%, Realistic 15.4%, Exploration 15%, First-Person 13.4%

Aokifahara : The Death Forest is a psychological horror game set in a cursed forest where hallucinations blur reality. Solve puzzles, survive terrifying visions, and uncover the truth behind the legend—before you lose your

Why similar: Adventure 15.6%, Thriller 15%, Survival Horror 14.3%, First-Person 12.4%, Puzzle 11.1%

Uncle's Basement is a survival horror game with puzzle solving elements. In it you will have to go through all the difficulties and find a way out of the place of confinement.

Why similar: Puzzle 17.1%, Adventure 16.1%, Horror 14.7%, Exploration 14.5%, Survival Horror 11.4%

Junji Ito Maniac: An Infinite Gaol is a first-person survival horror game inspired by Junji Ito's psychological horror and eerie aesthetics. This work centers on the twisted potential of human nature and fear of the unknown, taking you on a journey of survival where memory and mystery intertwine.

Why similar: Survival Horror 18.8%, Exploration 15.3%, Thriller 12.6%, First-Person 12%, Horror 10.8%

Survive The Backrooms is a multiplayer CO-OP horror story game. The game is about 4 strangers who all have a dream and are now trapped in the backrooms. They can free themselves by solving the riddles and escaping the monsters.

Why similar: Co-op Campaign 21.1% ★, Survival Horror 17.9%, Puzzle 12.8%, Adventure 11.3%, Horror 10.9%

Trapped in a bunker connected to an old sewer, you must survive a few days before the creature lurking below finds you. Explore dark tunnels, gather key items, solve environmental puzzles, and uncover what happened underground before “it” finally devours you.

Why similar: Adventure 26.7%, Exploration 14.9%, 3D 12%, First-Person 11.7%, Survival Horror 11.6%

Lightout 2 is a psychological horror game with a scary atmosphere, the game takes place in an Abandoned hospital.

Why similar: Thriller 20.1%, Puzzle 13.2%, Realistic 11.1%, Adventure 10.8%, Exploration 9.7%

Backrooms M.E.G is a 1–4 player multiplayer psychological horror game. Explore undocumented levels in the deepest corners of the Backrooms, collect data, and try to survive. Silence is your only ally… something might be watching you.

Why similar: Adventure 17.5%, Puzzle 14%, Thriller 13.3%, Exploration 10.2%, Realistic 10.2%

Arjun, a young man grappling with the mysterious disappearance of his brother and his own struggles with drug use, players must unravel the mystery behind his brother’s disappearance, confront terrifying visions, and explore the ominous secrets of Baoli, an ancient stepwell with a dark past.

Why similar: Thriller 16.8%, Puzzle 14.1%, Adventure 12.3%, Realistic 12.2%, Exploration 11.8%

Everything is for Humanity is a story-driven, exploration and puzzle-solving based science fiction horror game which sets in a massive science facility in 2020. You will discover tons of things and find out about the blood-chilling truths with its first-person experience.

Why similar: First-Person 14.2%, Adventure 13.3%, Thriller 12.8%, Puzzle 12.3%, Horror 10.5%

Shadows of Elsewhen is an alchemy-inspired, murder mystery-themed 1st-person puzzle game. Explore the cryptic Temple Elsewhen and solve your way through the many ancient machinations, arcane devices, and puzzles which hold the secret to the ghost of young Arriel's mysterious and untimely demise.

Why similar: Adventure 26.4%, Puzzle 20.7%, Exploration 17.2%, First-Person 15.3%, Realistic 10.9%

The 54-year-old protagonist, living solely on memories from the past 10 years, undergoes a year of hypnotherapy with a psychiatrist to recover lost memories from 44 years ago. On January 14th, with no significant progress in the therapy, he encounters ruins and a young girl during hypnosis.

Why similar: Adventure 30.3%, Puzzle 22.8%, Exploration 18.9%, First-Person 14.9%, 3D 11.7%

Urbex Murder is a cooperative horror game where you explore abandoned places alone or with friends. Solve puzzles, confront events, and uncover hidden secrets. Each map offers unique scenarios for an immersive and terrifying experience.

Why similar: Co-op Campaign 23.3% ★, Survival Horror 14.4%, Realistic 12.1%, Exploration 10.5%, First-Person 9.2%

You are trapped in a never-ending street loop. Observe your surroundings carefully and identify anomalies. Make the right choice at the end of each street and try to escape the loop.

Why similar: Thriller 15.6%, Puzzle 15.2%, Adventure 13.9%, Exploration 12.9%, Realistic 12.2%

"Cross the C" is a top-down 3D ice-sliding puzzle game. Control your ship and navigate across the frozen sea to reach the islands. Some stages feature special items called "Pieces" that can be placed onto the board from above. Use them strategically to solve the puzzles.

Why similar: Adventure 22.4%, Puzzle 18.6%, Exploration 15.3%, First-Person 12.9%, Realistic 12.6%

Escape the Liminal Space is a 1–4-player co-op horror-adventure. Trapped alone in a vast, ever-shifting complex, you’ll face bizarre phenomena and eerie levels. Avoid monsters, outwit deadly hazards, and do whatever it takes to get out alive!

Why similar: Thriller 18.4%, Puzzle 13.6%, Exploration 13.5%, Adventure 11%, First-Person 10.9%

MECHANIS OBSCURA is an indie psychological escape-room thriller game, blending FMV cutscenes, 2000s horror vibes, and intricate puzzle mechanisms. After unknowingly enrolling in a deep-web trial, you have been abducted into a nightmarish escape room. No choices, only one reality remains...ESCAPE!

Why similar: Adventure 19.8%, Puzzle 16.4%, Exploration 13.8%, Realistic 11.4%, First-Person 9.8%

An immersive horror-adventure game. Betrayed by a trusted friend, Baxter finds himself trapped in an abandoned gold mine. Set traps, gather creature samples, and make life-or-death decisions to survive. Can you face the horrors lurking in the darkness of the night?

Why similar: Thriller 21.5%, Survival Horror 16.3%, Puzzle 12.7%, Exploration 10.6%, Horror 9.6%

You will play as an ordinary person who has been chosen by the main god and can fulfill a wish by completing a trial assigned by the main god, with four different characters to choose from, each with their own unique abilities, and up to four players can play together.

Why similar: Adventure 18.6%, Exploration 13.4%, First-Person 12.2%, Thriller 12.2%, Horror 11.5%

A chilling psychological horror set in 1980s Kerala. After weeks of silence, you arrive on a remote island to search for your missing wife. Explore an abandoned house, uncover local folklore, survive haunting encounters, and unravel the island’s buried secrets.

Why similar: Exploration 22.2%, Adventure 16.9%, 3D 14.1%, First-Person 12.4%, Realistic 10.8%

"Chase & Escape" is a single-player horror game about Chen Lin, a construction worker. After his night shift, his girlfriend Jiayi vanishes, strange dolls appear, and he’s chased by her. What’s behind these eerie events? Discover the truth!

Why similar: Puzzle 20.9%, Thriller 16.7%, First-Person 14.7%, Adventure 12.6%, Realistic 11.9%

A first-person atmospheric horror-puzzle game that focuses on the narrative to tie together the gruesome world with creative puzzles. Explore the mind of a twisted serial killer who wants nothing else than to show his work of art as well as tell his story to the world.

Why similar: Thriller 18.4%, Adventure 16.3%, Puzzle 16.1%, Horror 10.9%, Atmospheric 10.2%

You have been invited, but not by your own will, rescue your best friend before HE finds you... Delve into this first-person single-player puzzle game and experience horror segments mixed with challenging gameplay!

Why similar: Thriller 27.1%, Survival Horror 16.9%, Puzzle 12.1%, Horror 9.6%, Exploration 8.8%

THANATOS is a first-person psychological horror mystery game that involves finding clues, solving puzzles, and uncovering secrets to prevent a friend from taking their own life.

Why similar: Adventure 29.6%, Puzzle 22.9%, Exploration 18.6%, First-Person 16.4%, Horror 11.2%

Single-player horror game based on the backrooms universe. Your task is to pass levels, puzzles and try not to die during all this.

Why similar: Thriller 21.6%, Puzzle 11.6%, First-Person 10.7%, Horror 10%, Realistic 9.9%

Dying 1983 is the new adventure from the Dying franchise. In this first person puzzle game, Dying 1983, you will operate the protagonist to freely explore the 3D scenes, using a variety of props collected to solve one puzzle after another, ultimately discovering the hidden truth behind the scenes.

Why similar: Survival Horror 18.2%, First-Person 12.4%, Exploration 11.7%, Realistic 11.1%, Puzzle 11%

Step into the story of a young girl tormented by her past. Discover dark mysteries and solve complicated riddles on a scary school campus. The unsettling atmosphere, important clues, and Lily's broken recollections await you. Can you help her find comfort in darkness?

Why similar: Adventure 22.1%, Thriller 20.6%, First-Person 19.1%, Puzzle 18%, Exploration 9.7%

Embark on a chilling journey into the unknown with the game "Level Unknown: Backrooms," a horror-puzzle set in the mysterious realm of the Backrooms. Test your logical skills and nerves in both a single-player adventure or a multiplayer cooperative mode.

Why similar: Survival Horror 15.4%, Puzzle 14%, Realistic 12.5%, Online Co-Op 11.5%, Horror 10.4%