Games Like Deeply Dark: Found Footage

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 18.9%, Walking Simulator 14.9%, Realistic 12.5%, Mystery 10.9%, First-Person 10%

Why You'll Like It: It perfectly mirrors the found footage aesthetic and claustrophobic liminal space exploration found in the seed game.

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 26.9%, Dark 17.7%, Realistic 16%, Walking Simulator 15.2%, Survival 11.6%

Why You'll Like It: This title excels at recreating the specific VHS-style visual fidelity and psychological tension associated with backrooms-themed media.

Someone slipped a mysterious videotape under your door... Do you dare watch it?!

Why similar: Walking Simulator 18.7%, Psychological Horror 17.7%, Realistic 12.9%, Dark 11.2%, First-Person 9.4%

Why You'll Like It: It leans heavily into the 'cursed media' trope, providing a short, intense walking-simulator experience that feels like a forbidden discovery.

A short horror game where you pilot a tiny submarine through an ocean of blood on an alien moon.

Why similar: Psychological Horror 26.1%, Walking Simulator 14.5%, Horror 13.7%, Dark 12.1%, First-Person 10.8%

Why You'll Like It: It utilizes a claustrophobic, camera-based perspective that forces players to interpret their terrifying surroundings through grainy, limited visual feedback.

Stories Untold is a compilation tape of four experimental adventures, including a remaster of the original hit episode “The House Abandon”.

Why similar: Psychological Horror 46.6%, Horror 22.7%, Story Rich 12.3%, Mystery 6.7%, Indie 6.6%

Why You'll Like It: This game masterfully blends meta-horror with retro-simulation mechanics, making the player feel like they are interacting with a cursed piece of software.

Alone with the dead... Embalm corpses, banish demons, save your soul.

Why similar: Horror 21.5%, Mystery 20.7%, Dark 14.1%, Realistic 11.6%, First-Person 10.3%

Why You'll Like It: It combines realistic job simulation with intense psychological horror, grounding the supernatural elements in a believable, mundane setting.

You are trapped in an endless underground passageway. Observe your surroundings carefully to reach "The Exit 8".

Why similar: Walking Simulator 19.4%, Psychological Horror 16.9%, First-Person 9.8%, Realistic 9.6%, Mystery 9%

Why You'll Like It: It captures the essence of liminal space horror by forcing the player to observe subtle anomalies in a repetitive, realistic environment.

Smuggle contraband VHS tapes across the border. Discover the remnants of illicit industry. Prepare for an assassination. This is Paratopic, an atmospheric retro-3D horror adventure through a cursed fever dream.

Why similar: Psychological Horror 25.1%, Horror 19.3%, Walking Simulator 18.3%, Dark 15.4%, First-Person 7.2%

Why You'll Like It: Its surreal, low-poly aesthetic and fragmented narrative structure evoke the same unsettling, dream-like quality as found footage media.

A reverse-detective adventure, where you control your character's face

Why similar: Interactive Fiction 22.6%, Psychological Horror 18.2%, Lore-Rich 14.7%, First-Person 8.3%, Horror 7.9%

Why You'll Like It: This meta-horror game features unique interactive mechanics that challenge the player's perception of reality, much like the 'cursed' software theme.

As one of many kidnapped and enslaved Probants of the Project 13 Group... You need to find Anomalies through your Walk. If you not obey and report , you will be stuck in it forever.

Why similar: Walking Simulator 24.4%, Psychological Horror 19.6%, Realistic 11.4%, First-Person 9.9%, Simulation 9.2%

Why You'll Like It: This walking simulator focuses on exploration and atmospheric tension within a mysterious, confined facility.

Set in 1944 Italy, Martha Is Dead is an award-winning dark psychological thriller where the lines between truth, superstition, and tragedy blur. Explore a haunting countryside, uncover disturbing memories, and peel back layers of mystery. Every choice shapes the nightmare…are you ready to face it?

Why similar: Psychological Horror 25.9%, Dark 17.4%, Mystery 16.8%, Story Rich 11.5%, Horror 10%

Why You'll Like It: It uses photography and realistic period settings to explore deep psychological trauma and dark, atmospheric mystery.

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 19%, Dark 13.6%, Psychological Horror 13.5%, First-Person 12.2%, Exploration 10.9%

Why You'll Like It: It focuses on the exploration of liminal spaces with a specific emphasis on the aesthetic of amateur, handheld camera recordings.

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: Walking Simulator 20.4%, Psychological Horror 20.3%, Realistic 15.8%, Mystery 11.8%, First-Person 8.6%

Why You'll Like It: This game captures the eerie, empty feeling of urban liminal spaces, focusing on atmospheric exploration rather than combat.

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: Walking Simulator 18%, Psychological Horror 17.1%, Realistic 14.4%, Dark 13.3%, Mystery 10.7%

Why You'll Like It: A walking simulator that prioritizes atmospheric storytelling and psychological unease in a realistic setting.

In the summer of 2008. The main character, at the request of followers, goes to Russia to explore the abandoned camp "Yunost". Locals say that this place is inhabited by restless souls. This will need to be checked.

Why similar: Walking Simulator 15.3%, Psychological Horror 15.2%, Realistic 11.3%, Dark 10.4%, Horror 8.1%

Why You'll Like It: It offers a highly atmospheric, story-driven horror experience that feels like a personal, found-footage investigation into a haunted location.

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 26.1%, Horror 20.9%, Dark 13.6%, Mystery 12.5%, First-Person 10.3%

Why You'll Like It: A popular interpretation of the backrooms phenomenon that emphasizes exploration and puzzle-solving in a surreal, infinite space.

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 18.5%, Walking Simulator 17.5%, Realistic 16.5%, Dark 15.8%, First-Person 8.2%

Why You'll Like It: This title offers a gritty, psychological take on the backrooms, focusing on the survival and mental strain of being trapped.

Observation is a sci-fi thriller uncovering what happened to Dr. Emma Fisher, and the crew of her mission, through the lens of the station’s artificial intelligence S.A.M.

Why similar: Psychological Horror 22.7%, Horror 17.1%, Indie 15.3%, Mystery 14.6%, Story Rich 12.5%

Why You'll Like It: Players take on the role of a station AI, using camera systems to investigate a disaster, which mirrors the voyeuristic nature of found footage.

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 19.7%, Realistic 15.7%, Dark 14.5%, Horror 10%, Walking Simulator 9.3%

Why You'll Like It: It uses realistic graphics and microphone-based mechanics to heighten the tension of being hunted in a dark, atmospheric environment.

WARNING. Stay inside. Lock your doors. Close the blinds. Only let humans in. Eliminate all Visitors. An anxiety horror about paranoia in the End of Times.

Why similar: Psychological Horror 24.1%, Dark 16.6%, Mystery 14.4%, Horror 11.4%, First-Person 10.1%

Why You'll Like It: This indie horror title uses choices and psychological themes to create a unique, unsettling narrative experience.

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 30.7%, Horror 17.7%, Dark 15.2%, Walking Simulator 9%, First-Person 8.5%

Why You'll Like It: A deeply psychological horror game that excels at making mundane domestic spaces feel hostile and haunted.

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: Walking Simulator 25.2%, Psychological Horror 24%, Realistic 18.9%, First-Person 11.8%, Dark 8.4%

Why You'll Like It: It is a focused walking simulator that emphasizes the uncanny nature of liminal hotel corridors.

A short interactive first-person horror game. Walk, look around, and talk to people to finish the short story about closing your restaurant. Complete the story with immersive sounds, and spooky tension and jumpscares to keep you focused.

Why similar: Interactive Fiction 30.8%, Dark 15.8%, Psychological Horror 13.4%, Simulation 12.3%, Exploration 9.9%

Why You'll Like It: This realistic simulation game builds immense dread through the mundane, eventually spiraling into a terrifying stalker-horror experience.

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: Realistic 17.9%, Psychological Horror 16.5%, Dark 12.6%, Walking Simulator 11.9%, First-Person 11.8%

Why You'll Like It: It offers a story-rich, first-person perspective on the backrooms, emphasizing the mystery of the setting.

Five scary stories, but they all have the same ending. Can you play it? A psychological horror game from the first person, which few will pass.

Why similar: Psychological Horror 16.2%, Walking Simulator 15.1%, Mystery 13.1%, Dark 9.4%, Linear 7.8%

A horror game about claustrophobia. During a storm your service dog is forced down a broken sewer drain. You find the nearest sewer entrance and run in after it. Along the way you will meet others that are also stricken by abnormal or psychological fear.

Why similar: Psychological Horror 46.2%, Horror 18.9%, First-Person 17.8%, Survival 10.3%, Indie 4.7%

Why You'll Like It: It provides a claustrophobic, surreal journey through psychological landscapes that feel both grounded and deeply wrong.

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 18.4%, Realistic 18.3%, Mystery 14.5%, Horror 10%, Exploration 9.2%

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 26.3%, Walking Simulator 20.4%, Mystery 12.6%, Horror 11%, First-Person 9.9%

Why You'll Like It: A short, atmospheric experience that leans into the early-access, lo-fi aesthetic of backrooms-themed horror.

You have been sent photographs of a place where, according to rumors, an artifact of an ancient civilization is hidden... Do you dare to go there?!

Why similar: Walking Simulator 20%, Psychological Horror 18.8%, Dark 13.5%, First-Person 10%, Mystery 8.7%

Why You'll Like It: A psychological walking simulator that explores the internal state of the protagonist through a dark, first-person lens.

Congratulations, you've found Dingir OS — an operating system that lets you glimpse into the darkest corners of the internet. Browse forbidden websites, investigate lethal files, and immerse yourself in the world of digital legends. (We are not responsible for anything that may happen to you.)

Why similar: Interactive Fiction 25.4%, Psychological Horror 20.8%, Dark 18.2%, Story Rich 9.3%, Horror 9.1%

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: Walking Simulator 21.8%, Psychological Horror 21.3%, Realistic 16.4%, First-Person 8.6%, Exploration 7.2%

Why You'll Like It: This game provides a realistic, atmospheric take on the backrooms, focusing on the visual fidelity of the environment.

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 18.2%, Walking Simulator 16.6%, First-Person 10.2%, Story Rich 8.8%, Horror 8.6%

"God save you if you hear something wandering around nearby, because it sure as hell has heard you.."

Why similar: Psychological Horror 24%, Realistic 16.9%, Dark 14.8%, First-Person 11%, Horror 11%

A found footage horror game about two sisters who often play hide and seek in their family home, recording everything with their mother's VHS camera. What begins innocently, soon turns disturbing, when it becomes clear that something is terribly wrong.

Why similar: Walking Simulator 20.7%, Psychological Horror 17.2%, Horror 9.7%, Realistic 9.7%, Linear 9.4%

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 17.8%, Dark 15.7%, Walking Simulator 14%, Mystery 9.8%, First-Person 8.8%

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: Walking Simulator 18.2%, Psychological Horror 17.6%, Realistic 13.7%, Dark 13.2%, Linear 8.3%

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 28.1%, Walking Simulator 25.1%, First-Person 11.9%, Survival 11.1%, Horror 10.9%

This is a deep web exploration simulator. Discover hundreds of websites and files around the Web to get to the Silent House and save your friend. Find out creepy stories from the Web and meet its inhabitants. It's showtime!

Why similar: Interactive Fiction 21%, Mystery 15.4%, Dark 15.1%, Simulation 10.5%, Realistic 10%

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: Walking Simulator 25%, Psychological Horror 23.7%, Realistic 17.5%, First-Person 9.9%, Exploration 7.9%

The 98xx is an old computer OS from the 90s that’s recently been discovered after many years of being lost. There are still a few working files within the OS that can be explored.

Why similar: Psychological Horror 19%, Software 16.4% ★, Dark 14.5%, Lore-Rich 12.8%, Simulation 12.8%

Seybul Tech is a walking simulator. Navigate as an office employee, confronting peculiar encounters while in search of an exit from this enigmatic abyss.

Why similar: Walking Simulator 19.9%, Psychological Horror 19.3%, Dark 15.9%, Mystery 9.7%, Realistic 9.5%

Operate an oil-drilling submarine while taking instructions from a mysterious voice. Fail your quota, and they’ll cut your oxygen. This is deep-sea horror. Obey or drown.

Why similar: Psychological Horror 21%, Dark 17.3%, Mystery 15.3%, Lore-Rich 13%, First-Person 8.8%

RESTORER is a classic walking simulator set in an old, atmospheric mansion. Something roams the halls… It wants to share its secret—with the price being your sanity.

Why similar: Walking Simulator 19.5%, Psychological Horror 18.4%, Realistic 14%, Dark 10.9%, Linear 10.5%

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 18.7%, Realistic 17.5%, Mystery 16.5%, First-Person 9.9%, Horror 7.8%

This experience can be classified as a psychological and atmospheric horror game. However... This isn't a game... Remember all of the urban legends from your childhood? Imagine if it was all real, but we just weren't performing the right rituals to summon these beings from another realm... Well, now you can...

Why similar: Psychological Horror 32.5%, Simulation 14.6%, Dark 14.4%, Horror 13.5%, Story Rich 13.4%

You have arrived in a forest where people are rumored to disappear and strange things happen... Locals often see bright flashes and hear strange sounds...

Why similar: Walking Simulator 18.1%, Psychological Horror 16.9%, Realistic 14.4%, Mystery 11.8%, Linear 8.3%

Experience the unknown world of utility rooms through a VHS camera, you will have to feel all the fear and anxiety of loneliness, plunging deeper and deeper into the world of utility rooms behind the scenes In search of that very, cherished, last room

Why similar: Psychological Horror 70.2%, Horror 15.8%, Indie 13.9%

You are here to listen to The Voice, do what he says. But don't listen to other voices...

Why similar: Dark 19.4%, Walking Simulator 16.1%, Realistic 12.4%, Horror 12.1%, First-Person 9.6%

《Back》 is a full-motion audio live horror game. Special Note 1: This game is very supernatural and scary, timid or heart disease players do not buy ！！！！ The game will reveal different ending plots step by step through various searches and choices for your character.

Why similar: Psychological Horror 30.7%, Mystery 21.1%, Horror 15.3%, First-Person 15.2%, Exploration 7.4%

This is a short, first-person psychological horror game with VHS effects. Be careful, you are facing a terrifying being.

Why similar: Walking Simulator 27.2%, Psychological Horror 25.9%, Horror 12.1%, Dark 8.8%, First-Person 7.2%

Silent Still is a first-person psychological horror game that delves into the terrifying experience of sleep paralysis and nightmares. You will feel the true horror that sleep paralysis can bring and the overwhelming fear it instills in a person.

Why similar: Walking Simulator 18.8%, Psychological Horror 15.1%, Realistic 13%, Dark 10.2%, First-Person 9.5%

Chapter-based Backrooms experience. Embark on a chilling journey through the unknown. Visuals based on early 2000's camcorders.

Why similar: Walking Simulator 19.2%, Psychological Horror 15%, Realistic 10.6%, Linear 10.3%, Mystery 9.9%

The Empty Eyes is a first-person psychological horror experience that immerses you in an investigation steeped in mystery. Every step inside the house brings you closer to a hidden truth, while tension mounts and fear takes root in your mind.

Why similar: Psychological Horror 19.1%, Mystery 15%, Dark 11.4%, Realistic 10.2%, Horror 9.1%

This is not a video game. This is a psychological torture device. Do not attempt to play this game. You won't have an enjoyable experience. And that's intentional.

Why similar: Psychological Horror 35.3%, Lore-Rich 29.9%, Dark 15.4%, Exploration 9.3%, 3D 5.3%

You have no weapons. You have no means of defending yourself. Some will chase you, some will outsmart you. If you are in danger, run and hide.

Why similar: Psychological Horror 31.1%, Walking Simulator 28.9%, Horror 17.2%, First-Person 11.3%, 3D 5.7%

《Back：Fade》 is a full-motion audio live horror game. Special Note 1: This game is very supernatural and scary, timid or heart disease players do not buy ！！！！ The game will reveal different ending plots step by step through various searches and choices for your character.

Why similar: Psychological Horror 19.5%, Interactive Fiction 18.8%, Mystery 11.6%, Realistic 11.3%, Story Rich 9.4%

A psychological first-person horror about a house that hides a disturbing truth beneath its walls. Explore, uncover fragments of the past, and decide whether to confront what lies below… or leave it buried forever.

Why similar: Walking Simulator 14.8%, Psychological Horror 14.6%, Dark 10.6%, Mystery 10%, Realistic 8.9%

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 29.9%, Psychological Horror 17.8%, First-Person 14.2%, Exploration 13.4%, Horror 9.2%

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 16.9%, Dark 15.1%, Lore-Rich 14.9%, Mystery 12.9%, Realistic 11.1%

MIRROR MIRROR is a first-person psychological horror game. You repeatedly find yourself in a house where you find presence of unknown entities. Go through unreal experiences in the house and uncover the secrets of your fractured mind. Experience the tension and fear in the repeating space.

Why similar: Psychological Horror 16.4%, Walking Simulator 15.7%, Realistic 13.6%, Mystery 10.7%, Dark 9.3%