Games Like Backrooms Rec.

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: Online Co-Op 20.9%, Horror 18.6%, Multiplayer 17.5%, Survival Horror 14%, Psychological Horror 8.8%

Why You'll Like It: Widely considered the definitive Backrooms experience, it features expansive levels and intense survival mechanics that mirror the seed game's goals.

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: Multiplayer 18.3%, Horror 17.2%, Survival Horror 16.9%, Online Co-Op 14.5%, Psychological Horror 8.7%

Why You'll Like It: This title offers a highly polished co-op experience that perfectly replicates the claustrophobic and puzzle-heavy nature of the Backrooms.

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: Online Co-Op 19.7%, Survival Horror 16.1%, Multiplayer 14.9%, Horror 12.6%, Psychological Horror 9.2%

Why You'll Like It: A solid multiplayer-focused title that stays true to the lore and aesthetic of the original Backrooms internet phenomenon.

Phasmophobia is a 4 player online co-op psychological horror. Paranormal activity is on the rise and it’s up to you and your team to use all the ghost-hunting equipment at your disposal in order to gather as much evidence as you can.

Why similar: Online Co-Op 30.1%, Horror 25%, Multiplayer 16.9%, Psychological Horror 11.4%, Co-op 9.7%

Why You'll Like It: While focused on ghost hunting, it is the gold standard for co-op psychological horror and atmospheric investigation.

Demonologist is a Co-Op horror game that can be played with at least 1 and up to 4 players. Your goal is to identify the type of evil spirit in cursed places and exorcise it using your equipment, either alone or with your team.

Why similar: Online Co-Op 25%, Multiplayer 16.3%, Horror 15.9%, Psychological Horror 12.5%, Co-op 11.9%

Why You'll Like It: This game provides a terrifying co-op experience with high-quality visuals and unpredictable scares that match the intensity of Backrooms survival.

Red Barrels invites you to experience mind-numbing terror, this time with friends. Whether you go through the trials alone or in teams, if you survive long enough and complete the therapy, Murkoff will happily let you leave… but will you be the same?

Why similar: Survival Horror 20.8%, Multiplayer 18.3%, Horror 16.9%, Co-op 14.4%, Psychological Horror 10.9%

Why You'll Like It: It offers a brutal, high-stakes cooperative survival experience that emphasizes stealth and psychological pressure in a confined environment.

A co-op horror game like no other... Play with 1-8 players online as you solve puzzles, collect items and run from the horrors that lie within. Follow in the footsteps of Joan in the story mode or tackle procedurally generated maps that scale with your level and bring a fresh experience each game..

Why similar: Online Co-Op 20.3%, Team-Based 13.4%, Horror 13.1%, Multiplayer 11.2%, Co-op 9.6%

Why You'll Like It: This game excels at building tension through cooperative exploration and complex puzzle-solving within maze-like environments.

FOREWARNED is a 1-4 player co-op survival horror. Delve deep into ancient Egyptian ruins with your team of fellow archaeologists. Investigate phenomena, collect treasure, discover lore, survive danger, and banish the evil that lurks within.

Why similar: Online Co-Op 23.7%, Survival Horror 19.2%, Horror 15.3%, Multiplayer 11.4%, Co-op 10.3%

Why You'll Like It: An archaeological horror game that features cooperative exploration and survival against ancient, supernatural entities.

Backrooms Society is a 1-8 player co-op horror game. Make your way through unique levels of the backrooms while trying to survive and avoid mysterious entities. Scavenge each level for gear and resources, bring it back to The Hub where you can sell valuables and buy/craft new gear.

Why similar: Online Co-Op 20.7%, Survival Horror 19.3%, Multiplayer 13.7%, Horror 11.8%, Nonlinear 10.2%

Why You'll Like It: This title adds procedural generation and social elements to the Backrooms formula, increasing replayability for groups.

Film your friends doing scary things to become SpöökTube famous! (strongly advised to not go alone)

Why similar: Online Co-Op 28.4%, Horror 15.8%, Multiplayer 14.2%, Survival Horror 11.4%, Co-op 11%

Why You'll Like It: It blends cooperative exploration with a unique horror-comedy aesthetic that captures the feeling of venturing into dangerous, unknown spaces.

An online co-op horror game where you pacify, weaken and capture supernatural creatures for PAH Inc. Each level has a different story, unique monsters, and multiple endings. Play single player or together with up to 6 friends. Includes proximity voice chat with fun effects.

Why similar: Online Co-Op 27.5%, Horror 20.3%, Multiplayer 16.9%, Survival Horror 11.1%, Psychological Horror 9%

Why You'll Like It: This game delivers a tense, objective-based co-op horror experience that relies on atmosphere and jump scares.

DEVOUR is a co-op horror survival game for 1-4 players. Stop possessed cultists before they drag you to hell. Run. Scream. Hide. Just don't get caught.

Why similar: Online Co-Op 28.1%, Horror 23.4%, Survival Horror 16.5%, Multiplayer 16.1%, Co-op 6.8%

Why You'll Like It: A fast-paced co-op horror game that forces players to work together to survive against supernatural threats in eerie, contained locations.

Remnant Records is a horror investigation game for 1 to 4 players. Explore places haunted by the dead, survive elaborate and unique ghosts and find out what happened to them through thousands of generated stories.

Why similar: Online Co-Op 18.5%, Survival Horror 17.3%, Multiplayer 11.6%, Horror 10.6%, Co-op 9.6%

Why You'll Like It: Players must work together to investigate haunted locations, mirroring the investigative and survival elements found in the seed game.

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: Online Co-Op 18.3%, Survival Horror 15.8%, Multiplayer 11.2%, Horror 10.4%, Psychological Horror 8.8%

Why You'll Like It: Focuses on the extraction-shooter aspect of the Backrooms, adding a layer of risk-reward gameplay to the exploration.

PANICORE is a survival horror game that mixes permadeath, AI monsters and a co-op experience up to 5 players (4 players in demo). Try to escape and don't get caught, but beware: they don't only hear your steps, but also your voice.

Why similar: Online Co-Op 31%, Horror 21.6%, Multiplayer 17.3%, Psychological Horror 11.4%, Co-op 6.1%

Why You'll Like It: A survival horror game that emphasizes hiding and scavenging in dangerous environments, perfect for fans of the Backrooms aesthetic.

Lunch Lady is a 1-4 player online co-op survival horror game. The school final exams are coming up and the best idea you and your friends had was to steal the test answers. Find all 10 pages and don't get caught by the murderous Lunch Lady!

Why similar: Online Co-Op 19.4%, Survival Horror 14.3%, Horror 12.8%, Multiplayer 11.2%, Team-Based 9.6%

Why You'll Like It: A classic co-op horror game where players must scavenge for items while being hunted, sharing the same frantic energy as Backrooms survival.

Clock in for the worst cleaning shift of your life: Unclog nasty toilets and scrub ectoplasm in this 1-4 player online co-op survival horror game. Get the job done and don't get caught by the entities hunting you!

Why similar: Online Co-Op 16.1%, Survival Horror 13.4%, Team-Based 12.4%, Nonlinear 10.7%, Horror 9.3%

Why You'll Like It: A first-person co-op horror game that combines mundane tasks with terrifying supernatural encounters.

A visually realistic 1-7 player co-op survival horror game. Explore 5 levels filled with confined environments, puzzles, and entities with new levels and content added regularly. Beware of terrifying moments and ruthless monsters. Do whatever it takes to escape, even if it means hiding.

Why similar: Online Co-Op 19%, Survival Horror 15.8%, Multiplayer 12.1%, Horror 10.4%, Psychological Horror 8.9%

Why You'll Like It: A multiplayer-focused experience that leans into the hide-and-seek mechanics of survival horror.

Ghost Exorcism INC is a horror game where you can play alone, or in a team of up to 6 exorcists. Your mission will be to identify paranormal entities, and then exorcise them.

Why similar: Online Co-Op 32.6%, Multiplayer 20.4%, Survival Horror 17.7%, Horror 15.4%, Atmospheric 6%

Why You'll Like It: This game offers a deep co-op investigation experience with a focus on equipment and survival against paranormal entities.

Chained in the Backrooms is a 1-4 player co-op, mission-based horror game. Trapped in a blurry subconscious and chained together, toy bears must solve puzzles, complete challenging missions, and survive against creatures trying to destroy them.

Why similar: Online Co-Op 24.1%, Team-Based 17.3%, Horror 12.7%, Multiplayer 9.9%, Co-op 8.7%

Why You'll Like It: Adds a unique cooperative mechanic that forces players to stay connected, heightening the sense of vulnerability.

Venture forth as part of a specialized team of fellow players tasked with retrieving classified materials, evading the black goo virus, and the nightmarish entities it has spawned. With time running out before the US government initiates a devastating nuclear strike to contain the spreading menace.

Why similar: Online Co-Op 25.6%, Survival Horror 22.2%, Horror 12.6%, Co-op 10%, Multiplayer 8.3%

Why You'll Like It: A co-op survival horror game that shares the first-person perspective and intense atmosphere of the seed game.

Co-op horror (1-4 players). You are sent to explore a mysterious building at night. Find the Moon and try to return alive.

Why similar: Online Co-Op 21.5%, Survival Horror 16.2%, Multiplayer 15.7%, Horror 14.9%, Psychological Horror 10%

Why You'll Like It: Provides a solid, team-based horror experience with a focus on psychological tension and environmental storytelling.

If you are not careful enough, you may end up in that place, the place some call The Backrooms. The Backrooms of existence, a hellish dimension of infinite maze-like constructs, each level pushing deeper into the despair. Could you, a normal person find the way out? Dive deeper into the horror

Why similar: Survival Horror 18.8%, Multiplayer 13.4%, Horror 11.7%, Psychological Horror 10.5%, Co-op 9.1%

Why You'll Like It: Features a strong emphasis on puzzle-solving and exploration in a dark, atmospheric setting.

Occult is a dynamic cooperative game with elements of horror and quest. You are waiting for a variety of opponents, puzzles and endings!

Why similar: Online Co-Op 19.2%, Horror 18.8%, Multiplayer 16.6%, Co-op 11.3%, Psychological Horror 10.5%

Why You'll Like It: A co-op horror game with a focus on ritual and investigation that feels right at home for fans of the Backrooms genre.

The Backrooms: 1998 is a first-person found footage psychological horror survival game where it tells the story of a young teen after accidentally falling into the depths of The Backrooms in 1998. Roam freely, mark, explore and try unravel the story - however you are not alone. Don't scream.

Why similar: Survival Horror 31.5%, Psychological Horror 18.1%, FPS 11.7%, Realistic 9.4%, Action-Adventure 8%

Why You'll Like It: This game excels at the 'found footage' aesthetic, providing a uniquely immersive and terrifying psychological experience.

Cry of Fear is a psychological single-player and co-op horror game set in a deserted town filled with horrific creatures and nightmarish delusions. You play as a young man desperately searching for answers in the cold Scandinavian night, finding his way through the city as he slowly descends into madness.

Why similar: Horror 22.7%, Survival Horror 18.5%, Multiplayer 12.9%, Psychological Horror 11%, Online Co-Op 9.9%

Why You'll Like It: A classic, gritty survival horror game that features a cooperative mode and a deeply unsettling psychological atmosphere.

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: Online Co-Op 21.8%, Survival Horror 21.5%, Multiplayer 14.2%, Horror 13.1%, Psychological Horror 11.4%

Why You'll Like It: A straightforward survival-horror take on the Backrooms that emphasizes resource management and co-op play.

Zort is an action, adventure, and horror game that can be played with up to 4 people. Explore maps with your friends and have fun while escaping from various creatures. Experience a realistic horror experience with in-game voice chat with your friends!

Why similar: Online Co-Op 22.9%, Horror 13%, Co-op 10.1%, Psychological Horror 9.5%, FPS 7.4%

Deep within a secure underground facility, a sudden containment breach allows many of the secured anomalies to escape from their chambers. Assist the Foundation in re-securing the facility, help the Insurgency in their goal to capture it, or wreak havoc as an SCP in a frantic bid to escape.

Why similar: Multiplayer 18.4%, Survival Horror 16.3%, Horror 15.5%, Online Co-Op 14.4%, Co-op 10.1%

Why You'll Like It: This multiplayer game captures the feeling of being trapped in a facility filled with anomalous threats, much like the Backrooms.

The chaotic multiplayer hide-and-seek game. Possess seemingly harmless objects as Ghosts or chase them down as Hunters before the clock strikes midnight!

Why similar: Team-Based 22.7%, Multiplayer 17.7%, FPS 16.4%, Horror 11.1%, Co-op 9.7%

Why You'll Like It: While more action-oriented, it provides a high-tension multiplayer horror experience that rewards teamwork and environmental awareness.

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: Survival Horror 27.1%, Multiplayer 16.2%, Horror 15.7%, Co-op 15%, Psychological Horror 14.5%

Escape together or die alone. A relentless creature is hunting you in this intense co-op bodycam horror experience. Communicate. Stay quiet. Survive. Every move matters. Every sound could be your last. Made by one developer.

Why similar: Online Co-Op 18.3%, Horror 15.3%, FPS 13.6%, Survival Horror 12%, Multiplayer 10.7%

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: Online Co-Op 18.5%, Survival Horror 15.2%, Co-op 10.1%, Horror 9.8%, Multiplayer 9.8%

Why You'll Like It: An early-access title that offers a cinematic and atmospheric take on the Backrooms for groups of players.

Ascend through the twisted levels of the Backrooms using physics-based object manipulation to overcome obstacles, solve mind-bending puzzles, and uncover unsettling secrets. Play solo or team up in online co-op with up to 4 players as you climb higher, think smarter, and survive the unknown.

Why similar: Horror 25.8%, First-Person 17.4%, Online Co-Op 14.7%, Co-op 11.1%, Multiplayer 10.8%

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: Survival Horror 22.8%, FPS 15.7%, Horror 12.9%, Team-Based 12.7%, Psychological Horror 8.2%

Skibidi Gyatrooms is a 1-4 player co-op horror game. You and the homies just fell into the Backrooms, you must out-GYAT the Skibidi Toilet with max rizz or get flushed. Expect cursed levels, and brainrot that’ll keep you on edge.

Why similar: Online Co-Op 20.1%, Survival Horror 17.1%, Multiplayer 12.9%, Horror 11.8%, Psychological Horror 10.6%

A terrifying multiplayer horror experience with social deduction elements. Trapped in the Backrooms, up to 12 players must try to work together to survive and expose the shapeshifting Skin Stealer hiding among them before it’s too late. Who will you trust?

Why similar: Survival Horror 20%, Online Co-Op 17.9%, Multiplayer 13.8%, Horror 11.5%, Psychological Horror 9.4%

"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: Online Co-Op 21.6%, Survival Horror 19%, Multiplayer 14.1%, Horror 12.9%, Psychological Horror 11.6%

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: Survival Horror 16%, Nonlinear 14.1%, Online Co-Op 11.5%, Multiplayer 11.1%, Horror 11.1%

Ghost Janitors is a multiplayer psychological horror game for 1-4 players. Your job? Cleaning haunted houses while avoiding terrifying monsters. Ready to face the spine-tingling challenge with your team?

Why similar: Online Co-Op 23.9%, Multiplayer 14.6%, Horror 14.2%, Psychological Horror 12.3%, Co-op 9.3%

Species: Unknown is a 1 to 4 players co-op survival horror. Complete high-risk missions aboard an abandoned ship while being hunted by an unknown creature. Survive and upgrade your gear to face each new threat that lurks in the dark.

Why similar: Online Co-Op 24.1%, Survival Horror 17.2%, Horror 13.9%, FPS 11%, Multiplayer 10.8%

You and your crew are tasked with cleaning up after the last exploration team's ill-fated journey into the Backrooms. Dodge deadly incursions, scrub every surface, and leave no trace.

Why similar: Online Co-Op 20.5%, Survival Horror 19.8%, Co-op 12.8%, Horror 12%, Psychological Horror 11.9%

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: Online Co-Op 17.4%, Survival Horror 16.2%, Multiplayer 14.7%, Co-op 12.4%, Horror 9.8%

Hospital 666 is a 1-4 player horror escape game. Traverse through eerie hospital levels while observing the occurrence of anomalies and choosing the correct elevator. Some abnormal bosses will chase you to death, and you must find the right way to escape them.

Why similar: Online Co-Op 30.4%, Horror 18.4%, Multiplayer 15.3%, Psychological Horror 12.9%, Realistic 9.7%

Explore 20+ handcrafted levels filled with puzzles, secrets, and hidden lore. Collect, trade, and upgrade your tools as you uncover the story behind a realistic world full of danger and discovery.

Why similar: Survival Horror 22.2%, Online Co-Op 17.1%, Horror 13.7%, Psychological Horror 11.7%, Co-op 9.2%

Behind the Backrooms is a 1-4 player co-op horror exploration game

Why similar: Team-Based 22.9%, Horror 21%, Co-op 17.6%, Online Co-Op 15.3%, First-Person 9.8%

The Other Side is a co-op psychological thriller for up to 6 players. Your goal is to investigate haunted locations using modern ghost hunting equipment, gather evidence, identify entities, and cleanse them from the location. Customize your character, headquarters, and more.

Why similar: FPS 16.5%, Horror 13.1%, Multiplayer 10.2%, Psychological Horror 9.7%, Co-op 9.4%

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: Multiplayer 22.2%, Horror 18.4%, Co-op 17.5%, Psychological Horror 14.3%, Realistic 12.1%

The Classrooms is a procedural, liminal-space, found-footage, survival horror game. Explore The Classrooms and discover the various anomalies it contains; from malicious entities, to harmless oddities. And remember, it's different every time you play, so your found footage is uniquely yours.

Why similar: Survival Horror 32%, Psychological Horror 20.1%, Horror 18%, First-Person 11.1%, Atmospheric 7.9%

4 Player co-op survival horror game. When the cursed rain falls, 'Mimesis' appear, perfectly imitating your teammates, bringing a new level of tension you've never experienced before.

Why similar: Online Co-Op 28.2%, Survival Horror 22.4%, Horror 14%, Psychological Horror 12.4%, Action-Adventure 8.1%

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: Online Co-Op 18.7%, Survival Horror 16.4%, Multiplayer 13.3%, Horror 12.3%, Co-op 11.2%

PROJECT: PLAYTIME is a Free-to-Play multiplayer horror game where six players attempt to create one giant toy while surviving a terrifying monster that roams the toy factory. A seventh player controls the monster and is given only one goal: Find and kill everyone.

Why similar: Survival Horror 20.2%, Online Co-Op 18.4%, Multiplayer 17.1%, Team-Based 15.4%, Horror 12.5%

Silent Rain is a challenging and immersive co-op horror game, for 1 to 4 players. Explore abandoned locations, solve puzzles, and gather information while trying to survive the threats lurking in the dark. How many tries will it take you to master your fear?

Why similar: Survival Horror 19.1%, Online Co-Op 17.4%, Multiplayer 12.6%, Horror 12.5%, Co-op 9.4%

A 1-3 player co-op puzzle horror game set in an accursed megastore. Work together to decode the store's twisted logic, and find a way out before the lurking horrors doom you to shop forever.

Why similar: Online Co-Op 25.2%, Horror 14.6%, Co-op 14%, Multiplayer 12.9%, Psychological Horror 12.6%

School 666 is a 1-4 Player Co-op Survival Horror. You must escape this endless nightmare. Try to identify the correct path and survive the anomalies in this endless school. Some extremely powerful anomalies will catch you to their dimensions. Explore the reason why you are here... and don't die.

Why similar: Online Co-Op 28.6%, Horror 16.9%, Psychological Horror 14.7%, Realistic 12%, First-Person 8.9%

Solo or up to 8 players. Get rid of your employer's failed experiments in abandoned underwater labs. Navigate your submarine, avoid abyssal terrors, and remove all corpses.

Why similar: Online Co-Op 23.2%, Survival Horror 18.2%, Multiplayer 16.1%, Horror 14.5%, Psychological Horror 11.6%