Games Like Chained in the Backrooms

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 26.8%, Horror 25.7%, Multiplayer 14.4%, Co-op 12.6%, First-Person 6.4%

Why You'll Like It: A quintessential multiplayer Backrooms exploration game focused on surviving eerie levels and solving puzzles together.

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 27%, Horror 18.8%, Multiplayer 13.1%, Co-op 13%, First-Person 6.1%

Why You'll Like It: A terrifying multiplayer adventure through classic Backrooms environments that relies on close teamwork.

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 24.7%, Online Co-Op 19.3%, Multiplayer 15.6%, Co-op 12.2%, Dark 6.6%

Why You'll Like It: Offers a nearly identical co-op horror formula featuring entity avoidance and multi-step cooperative puzzles.

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 21%, Team-Based 19%, Horror 14.7%, Co-op 11.6%, Action-Adventure 7.9%

Why You'll Like It: Features sprawling, terrifying mazes that demand cooperative navigation and puzzle solving.

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: Online Co-Op 23.9%, Team-Based 17.2%, Horror 12.9%, Multiplayer 9.9%, Co-op 8.6%

Why You'll Like It: Another faithful adaptation of the Backrooms lore tailored for cooperative multiplayer groups.

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 26.8%, Horror 19.9%, Co-op 14.6%, Team-Based 14.2%, Multiplayer 9.4%

Why You'll Like It: A blend of survival horror and frantic escape gameplay where working together is your only way out.

A co-op horror about scavenging at abandoned moons to sell scrap to the Company.

Why similar: Online Co-Op 39%, Horror 21.7%, Co-op 15.5%, First-Person 10.2%, Action-Adventure 4.7%

Why You'll Like It: Captures the same dread-filled cooperative scavenger hunt vibe where communication is vital for survival.

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 24.6%, Horror 15.2%, Co-op 12.8%, Multiplayer 9.7%, Action-Adventure 9.3%

Why You'll Like It: Focuses on scavenging and surviving against terrifying entities within surreal liminal spaces.

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

Why similar: Online Co-Op 33.9%, Horror 20.5%, Co-op 15.3%, Multiplayer 10.9%, First-Person 9.2%

Why You'll Like It: Delivers tense, terrifying multiplayer exploration where staying close to your teammates is essential.

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

Why similar: Thriller 22%, Team-Based 19.7%, Horror 14.3%, Co-op 12.9%, Online Co-Op 9.6%

Why You'll Like It: Emphasizes cooperative puzzle-solving and exploration in a deeply unsettling environment.

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 34.3%, Horror 30.8%, Multiplayer 12.5%, Co-op 9.7%, Dark 4.7%

Why You'll Like It: An intense co-op survival horror game that requires tight coordination and puzzle-solving under pressure.

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 27.1%, Co-op 11.3%, Multiplayer 10.8%, Thriller 6.5%

Why You'll Like It: The gold standard of investigative co-op horror where group communication dictates life or death.

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: Horror 25.7%, Co-op 23.5%, Multiplayer 16.5%, First-Person 9.7%, Dark 7.9%

Why You'll Like It: Brings cooperative psychological horror and desperate survival mechanics to a team setting.

Dark Hours: Prologue is a free co-op survival horror game for 1-4 players. Your heist has been disrupted by a supernatural event, and your team of robbers is now trapped with a monster. Forget your plan, your mission: survive! Explore and cooperate to find a way out or hide and wish for daylight.

Why similar: Online Co-Op 24.3%, Team-Based 22.5%, Horror 19.6%, Multiplayer 11.6%, Co-op 9.1%

Why You'll Like It: A high-tension co-op horror game where players are trapped and hunted by supernatural horrors.

Boo Men is a 1-4 player online co-op horror game. You and your crew of burglars are tasked with stealing from ghosts. Just remember to stay in the light because you never know what could be lurking in the dark...

Why similar: Online Co-Op 26.7%, Horror 18.2%, Dark 10.7%, Multiplayer 9.8%, Co-op 9.5%

Why You'll Like It: Combines cooperative heist mechanics with horror elements requiring careful team synchronization.

Horror Squad is a 1-4 player online co-op horror game. Assemble your squad to clear the areas cursed by terrifying creatures.

Why similar: Thriller 18.1%, Online Co-Op 17%, Horror 13%, Co-op 12.1%, Dark 8.6%

Why You'll Like It: A team-based horror experience where players must investigate and survive supernatural threats together.

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%, Thriller 16.1%, Team-Based 14.8%, Horror 13.3%, Co-op 13%

Why You'll Like It: Blends corporate extraction gameplay with the terrifying entities of the Backrooms mythos.

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 31.4%, Horror 25.2%, Multiplayer 12.3%, Co-op 11.9%, Thriller 6.3%

Why You'll Like It: A classic co-op horror game where players must work together to neutralize a haunted environment.

Escape From Toon Kingdom is a 1–4 player co-op horror game. Play as mascots trapped in a dying theme park. Explore. Solve. Suffer. Every attraction holds a secret—and a piece of your escape.

Why similar: Online Co-Op 33.6%, Horror 17.9%, Co-op 15.1%, Action-Adventure 10.9%, Multiplayer 10.4%

Why You'll Like It: A quirky online co-op horror adventure set in a bizarre and unsettling world.

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 25.5%, Horror 16.4%, Co-op 11.5%, Dark 10.2%, Multiplayer 10%

Why You'll Like It: A spooky indie co-op adventure focused on tackling supernatural phenomena with a team.

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: Horror 21.4%, Online Co-Op 20.2%, Co-op 13.9%, Multiplayer 11.2%, Dark 8.2%

Why You'll Like It: A dynamic co-op horror game featuring terrifying entities, cults, and ritualistic puzzles.

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 23%, Co-op 14.9%, Horror 14.4%, Dark 10.7%, Action-Adventure 8%

Why You'll Like It: A cooperative horror puzzle game centered around exploration and surviving liminal dimensions.

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: Online Co-Op 19.8%, Horror 15.5%, Co-op 12.5%, Dark 10%, First-Person 9.5%

Why You'll Like It: Provides a dark, atmospheric first-person horror experience suited for cooperative play.

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 18.3%, Dark 16.7%, First-Person 13.4%, Adventure 10.3%, Online Co-Op 9.6%

Why You'll Like It: Focuses on vertical exploration and puzzle-solving within the familiar Backrooms aesthetic.

Co-op horror game where you play in teams of 1 to 8 reckless journalists, ready to explore a city overrun by deadly creatures to snap spectacular footage. Your only goal: make the headlines without becoming one.

Why similar: Online Co-Op 25.4%, Team-Based 16%, Horror 14%, Co-op 12.7%, Multiplayer 7.9%

Why You'll Like It: An online co-op horror experience emphasizing teamwork and survival against monstrous foes.

Damned 2 is an asymmetrical multiplayer horror game where up to four survivors must work together to survive an unrelenting monster - either player or computer-controlled - while scavenging and solving puzzles in an attempt to escape.

Why similar: Team-Based 18%, Online Co-Op 17.9%, Thriller 12.9%, Horror 11.6%, Co-op 11%

Why You'll Like It: An asymmetric co-op horror game focusing on survival, strategy, and escaping a pursuing entity.

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 26.7%, Horror 16.4%, Co-op 13.7%, Team-Based 9.3%, First-Person 8%

GTFO is a hardcore cooperative horror shooter that throws you from gripping suspense to explosive action in a heartbeat. Stealth, strategy, and teamwork are necessary to survive in your deadly, underground prison. Work together or die together.

Why similar: Online Co-Op 28.6%, Team-Based 17.7%, Horror 16.2%, Co-op 15.3%, Multiplayer 9.6%

Why You'll Like It: A hardcore cooperative shooter-horror that demands absolute precision and team synchronization.

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 34.1%, Horror 21%, Multiplayer 14.4%, Action RPG 12.1%, First-Person 9.3%

Why You'll Like It: An early-access survival horror game expanding on the multiplayer Backrooms lore and exploration.

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: Online Co-Op 24.8%, Horror 14.9%, Co-op 14.6%, Action-Adventure 10.6%, First-Person 9.7%

An online 1-6 player co-op game about investigating and collecting data in the infinitely massive Backrooms with your fellow employees. Explore. Do your job. Return alive.

Why similar: Online Co-Op 29.5%, Multiplayer 13.7%, Horror 12.5%, Action RPG 9.9%, Action 8.4%

As we explore these frozen wastes, misfortune strikes once again. Through the fierce blizzard, a flare lights the sky, followed by a cry for help over the radio - broken, dying... No one else can come to their rescue. Can we make it back - together?

Why similar: Online Co-Op 30%, Co-op 14.1%, Horror 10%, Action-Adventure 9.2%, Multiplayer 8.3%

Why You'll Like It: A pure co-op puzzle adventure that tests communication skills in chilling, isolated environments.

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 26.4%, Horror 16.8%, Co-op 15.3%, Multiplayer 10.9%, First-Person 9.1%

Forest Escape: Last Train is a co-op surreal horror game for 1–4 players. Explore bizarre nightmare locations, gather resources, solve the insane Warden's twisted puzzles, and keep your locomotive running as you fight to escape his unhinged world.

Why similar: Online Co-Op 26.3%, Horror 17%, Co-op 14.9%, Multiplayer 10.6%, First-Person 8.5%

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 25.9%, Co-op 21.5%, Horror 15.8%, Multiplayer 14%, First-Person 9.9%

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 22.1%, Thriller 15.8%, Horror 15.2%, Co-op 12.3%, Dark 9.4%

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 25.9%, Co-op 18.8%, Horror 16.5%, First-Person 11.3%, Atmospheric 8.2%

Dark Hours is a co-op survival horror game for 1-4 players. Your heist has been disrupted by a supernatural event, and your team of robbers is now trapped with an evil entity. Forget your plan, your mission is to survive. Explore and cooperate to find a way out.

Why similar: Online Co-Op 22%, Team-Based 21.8%, Horror 14.2%, Co-op 11.7%, Multiplayer 8.6%

the cabin game is a 1-4 player, chaotic horror game where you are trapped inside a cabin and the only way out is through a game of cards. Just beware, as the cards you play have a surprising twist on this humble abode...

Why similar: Online Co-Op 20.4%, Thriller 16.9%, Horror 14.1%, Co-op 12%, Action-Adventure 9%

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: Online Co-Op 29.9%, Horror 20.8%, Multiplayer 14.7%, Action-Adventure 12.3%, Atmospheric 9.1%

Woke up in strange dark spot. Who has done it with you? And why? Try to get out from that scary place and stay alive...

Why similar: Online Co-Op 27.3%, Horror 20.2%, Co-op 14.7%, Multiplayer 10%, Team-Based 9.8%

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: Team-Based 22.5%, Online Co-Op 21.4%, Horror 13.3%, Action-Adventure 10.1%, First-Person 8.1%

Chased by Darkness is a 1-4 players co-op survival horror. Your mission is to face supernatural entities and banish them to the spiritual plane. Explore, fight enemies and don't let the darkness reach you.

Why similar: Online Co-Op 27.5%, Horror 19%, Thriller 15.9%, Co-op 14.8%, Multiplayer 9.5%

KLETKA is a co-op (up to 6 players) horror game about going down in an elevator that is trying to eat you. Feed the elevator, explore deadly floors and descend deeper.

Why similar: Online Co-Op 23.9%, Horror 15.6%, Co-op 15.4%, Action-Adventure 9.5%, First-Person 9.4%

Climb up from the depths of Hell. Scale various worlds solo or chained together with your friends in the 1-4 player platforming sensation.

Why similar: Co-op 34.9%, Online Co-Op 31.3%, Action-Adventure 13.3%, Multiplayer 12.9%, Adventure 7.5%

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: Team-Based 24%, Online Co-Op 21.1%, Horror 15.5%, Multiplayer 12.5%, Dark 6.6%

In this co-op horror game, your team visits abandoned toy factories. Collect various junk, extract materials from it, create and improve your equipment. And try to survive, because while you are exploring the dark dungeons of factories, bloodthirsty toys are hunting you

Why similar: Online Co-Op 24.7%, Horror 14.5%, Thriller 12.7%, Co-op 12.1%, Action-Adventure 8.9%

A co-op extraction horror for 1-4 players where you survive nuclear wastelands on a train. Scavenge scrap for fuel and supplies, and use voice mechanics to stay alive.

Why similar: Online Co-Op 21.3%, Team-Based 13.5%, Thriller 13.1%, Horror 11.3%, Action-Adventure 9.5%

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 16.6%, Multiplayer 12.9%, Online Co-Op 12.1%, Action-Adventure 11.8%, First-Person 9.8%

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 27.7%, Thriller 18.8%, Horror 17.7%, First-Person 10.1%, Action-Adventure 8.8%

HUSHED is a 1–4 player online co-op horror game where your team is split by different senses, tied together by a rope, and hunted by a monster that hears your voice. Work together, guide each other, and escape before it catches you.

Why similar: Online Co-Op 23.1%, Team-Based 16.3%, Horror 14.9%, Co-op 12.8%, Dark 9.9%

Trapped in a sinking submarine, two players must communicate through walkie-talkies to solve puzzles, complete tasks, navigate the depths, and escape before time runs out.

Why similar: Team-Based 26.2%, Co-op 13.3%, Action-Adventure 10.2%, Dark 9%, Multiplayer 7.4%

PARANOIA PLACE is a 1-4 player online co-op survival horror game. Together or alone, you will need to solve puzzles, find items and run from the bloodthirsty demonic killer.

Why similar: Online Co-Op 22.6%, Horror 19.5%, Co-op 16.8%, First-Person 11.6%, Action-Adventure 9.7%

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 26.1%, Horror 19.5%, Co-op 13.6%, Multiplayer 12%, First-Person 7.3%

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: Thriller 36.1%, Dark 15.7%, Action-Adventure 12.6%, Action 7.4%, Adventure 7%

Trapped and separated across two connected houses, you and your friend must use voice chat to solve puzzles from different perspectives. But beware, a blind presence is listening to your conversations. Your voice is your only way out.

Why similar: Online Co-Op 25.4%, Horror 14.7%, Thriller 14.3%, Co-op 11.6%, Multiplayer 9.2%

A 4-player online co-op survival horror game. Avoid the contaminated rain, gather scrap and get back to the tram. Monsters that copy your friends' voices and behavior, and many other threats, stand in your way. Gear up and stick together to survive.

Why similar: Online Co-Op 39.3%, Horror 19.3%, Action-Adventure 16.9%, First-Person 13.5%, Action 7.1%

Find yourself lost in the Backrooms in this co-op journey for 1 to 4 players. Explore eerie levels, solve puzzles, and find your way out using scavenged items. Entities lurk everywhere, and the deeper you go, the deadlier it gets.

Why similar: Horror 25.6%, First-Person 18.4%, Online Co-Op 17.3%, Co-op 12.1%, 3D 11.7%