Games Like Enter 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: Horror 31.6%, Survival Horror 26.1%, Psychological Horror 23%, First-Person 7.8%, 3D 4%

Why You'll Like It: This title offers a high-fidelity, multiplayer experience that perfectly captures the iconic levels and entities of the Backrooms lore.

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: Survival Horror 31.5%, Horror 29.5%, Psychological Horror 22.7%, First-Person 7.2%, Adventure 5.1%

Why You'll Like It: It combines intense survival-horror mechanics with puzzle-solving in a way that emphasizes the feeling of being trapped in a shifting, hostile reality.

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: Walking Simulator 16.6%, Collectathon 16.6%, Procedural Generation 14.8%, Psychological Horror 13.8%, Horror 9.8%

Why You'll Like It: This game leans heavily into the VHS aesthetic, providing a grounded and terrifying exploration experience that mirrors the original internet mythos.

The most relaxing horror game you'll ever play. Anemoiapolis exists in the uncanny valley of American architecture -- endless carpeted floors and lonely malls. Escape for your life, and enjoy the scenery.

Why similar: Experimental 22.4% ★, Psychological Horror 15.3%, Procedural Generation 15.2%, Walking Simulator 13.8%, Horror 11.1%

Why You'll Like It: It is widely considered the gold standard for liminal horror, focusing on the eerie beauty and psychological discomfort of abandoned indoor spaces.

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 29.7%, Psychological Horror 27.9%, Surreal 12.8%, First-Person 9.6%, Relaxing 6%

Why You'll Like It: This game is a masterclass in liminal space design, focusing on the unsettling, quiet atmosphere of empty, water-filled environments.

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: Walking Simulator 21.7%, Psychological Horror 19.3%, Horror 12.7%, Surreal 12.1%, First-Person 8.6%

Why You'll Like It: It focuses on surreal, dream-like exploration that captures the uncanny, non-Euclidean nature of liminal spaces.

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: Procedural Generation 21.9%, Survival Horror 21.7%, Psychological Horror 18.7%, Surreal 11.4%, Horror 11.2%

Why You'll Like It: This title features high-quality procedural generation that ensures every run through its surreal, school-like environments feels unique and unpredictable.

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 25.2%, Survival 19.5%, Walking Simulator 14.4%, Adventure 6.1%

Why You'll Like It: It provides an authentic VHS-style survival experience that emphasizes the terror of being hunted in a confined, retro-inspired space.

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: Walking Simulator 35.9%, Psychological Horror 30.6%, Surreal 12.5%, Adventure 7.9%, Relaxing 6.9%

Why You'll Like It: This title is dedicated entirely to the aesthetic of liminal spaces, offering a pure, atmospheric walking-simulator experience.

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

Why similar: Psychological Horror 30.3%, Horror 25.9%, Walking Simulator 17.2%, First-Person 10.1%, Adventure 6%

Why You'll Like It: While set in a submarine, it perfectly replicates the claustrophobic, isolated dread and limited visibility found in the best Backrooms experiences.

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: Horror 26.5%, Psychological Horror 24.6%, Survival Horror 15.6%, Walking Simulator 14.9%, First-Person 5.2%

Why You'll Like It: As the original classic, it remains a foundational experience for anyone interested in the core Backrooms aesthetic.

Perception is reality. In this mind-bending first-person puzzler, you escape a surreal dream world through solving impossible puzzles using the ambiguity of depth and perspective.

Why similar: Psychological 29.5%, Psychological Horror 23.5%, Surreal 22.4%, First-Person 15.9%, Adventure 6.9%

Why You'll Like It: It utilizes perspective-based puzzles to create a surreal, dream-like environment that mirrors the logic-defying nature of the Backrooms.

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: Survival Horror 23.1%, Psychological Horror 21.1%, Horror 14.2%, Psychological 13.4%, Survival 8.6%

Why You'll Like It: This psychological horror game excels at creating claustrophobic, shifting environments that prey on the player's sense of direction and sanity.

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: Experimental 31.5% ★, Horror 16.2%, Surreal 14.6%, Psychological Horror 13.1%, Walking Simulator 9.4%

Why You'll Like It: Its low-poly, surreal narrative style creates a deeply unsettling atmosphere that feels like a fever dream of liminal exploration.

A visually lifelike co-op horror for 1-6 people. Journey through 10 procedurally generated levels, using what's available to survive and progress deeper into the Backrooms.

Why similar: Survival Horror 26.7%, Psychological Horror 21.5%, Horror 18.7%, Procedural Generation 15.6%, First-Person 6.3%

Why You'll Like It: It provides a cooperative multiplayer experience that makes the terrifying task of navigating the Backrooms slightly more manageable with friends.

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 26.7%, Horror 25.2%, Survival Horror 20.8%, Walking Simulator 8.1%, Experimental 6% ★

Why You'll Like It: It is a masterclass in psychological horror, using shifting, realistic environments to create a constant state of unease.

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: Survival Horror 26.5%, Procedural Generation 24.8%, Psychological Horror 18.2%, Horror 15.2%, First-Person 6.1%

Why You'll Like It: It adds a procedural survival layer to the Backrooms, focusing on resource management and cooperative exploration.

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: Surreal 29.2%, Stylized 21.2%, Adventure 14.4%, Nonlinear 10.1%, Walking Simulator 9.3%

Why You'll Like It: This game uses a retro, surreal style to emphasize the feeling of being lost in an endless, non-linear maze.

Amnesia: The Bunker is a first-person horror game set in a WW1 bunker. A relentless, AI-driven monster stalks you. Survival depends on finding tools, crafting items, and keeping the lights on.

Why similar: Survival Horror 30.1%, Psychological Horror 20.1%, Survival 17.9%, Horror 16.5%, First-Person 10%

Why You'll Like It: The intense claustrophobia and the constant threat of an unseen entity make it a perfect match for the survival-horror elements of the Backrooms.

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: Survival Horror 32.6%, Psychological Horror 25%, Horror 19.2%, Surreal 13%, First-Person 8.7%

Why You'll Like It: It focuses on the found-footage horror subgenre, providing a dark and gritty exploration of the Backrooms levels.

A classic survival horror experience set in a dystopian future where humanity has uncovered a dark secret. Unravel a cosmic mystery, escape terrifying creatures, and scavenge an off-world government facility as Elster, a technician Replika searching for her lost dreams.

Why similar: Survival Horror 54.4%, Psychological Horror 38.6%, Adventure 5.4%, Singleplayer 1.6%

Why You'll Like It: This game blends surreal, psychological horror with survival mechanics in a way that feels deeply connected to the themes of lost identity and infinite space.

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: Survival Horror 34.5%, Psychological Horror 19.8%, Horror 18.4%, First-Person 9.3%, Nonlinear 7%

Why You'll Like It: This multiplayer title offers a unique choose-your-own-adventure style of progression within its survival-horror framework.

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: Survival Horror 28%, Psychological Horror 16.6%, Horror 16.1%, Survival 13.3%, First-Person 9.7%

Why You'll Like It: It focuses on the action-oriented side of Backrooms survival, emphasizing the need to navigate through doors to escape entities.

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: Walking Simulator 28.7%, Psychological Horror 18.6%, Horror 15.8%, Psychological 13%, First-Person 9.5%

Why You'll Like It: This co-op focused game emphasizes exploration and survival in a vast, procedurally generated environment.

You are trapped in an endless hallway. Observe your surroundings carefully to reach your destiny.

Why similar: Walking Simulator 20.5%, Psychological Horror 18.7%, Psychological 15%, Horror 12.7%, Surreal 10.6%

Why You'll Like It: It is a psychological walking simulator that focuses on the repetitive, looping nature of surreal environments.

The Stanley Parable: Ultra Deluxe is an expanded re-imagining of 2013's The Stanley Parable. You will play as Stanley, and you will not play as Stanley. You will make a choice, and you will become powerless. You are not here to win. The Stanley Parable is a game that plays you.

Why similar: Walking Simulator 38.7%, Psychological Horror 22.8%, First-Person 13.7%, Horror 7.3%, 3D 6.7%

Why You'll Like It: Its meta-narrative and surreal, office-like environments touch upon the same feelings of existential confusion found in liminal spaces.

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 28.9%, Survival Horror 25.5%, Psychological Horror 20.8%, Psychological 10.2%, Survival 6.5%

Why You'll Like It: This psychological survival-horror game captures the feeling of navigating a dark, urban nightmare that feels deeply personal and isolating.

Can you survive 1000 rooms of cute terror? Or will you break once the cuteness starts to fade off and you're running for your life from the unspeakable hideous beings that shake and writhe in bowels of this house? They wait for you, they wait and hunger for meeting you.

Why similar: Horror 28.3%, Psychological Horror 17.3%, Survival Horror 11.7%, Procedural Generation 10.9%, First-Person 9%

Why You'll Like It: Despite its cute aesthetic, it effectively uses the concept of endless, procedurally generated rooms to build tension and horror.

The Backrooms Experiment is a co-op walking simulator with horror and thriller elements. Find your way in Backrooms, avoid the entities, cheese entities with voices, explore the levels, cooperate with your friends, and most importantly, do not die.

Why similar: Walking Simulator 28.9%, Survival Horror 20.8%, Psychological Horror 15.4%, Adventure 11.2%, First-Person 10.1%

Why You'll Like It: This game offers a realistic, first-person walking-simulator experience that focuses on the sheer scale of the Backrooms.

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: Survival Horror 26.7%, Psychological Horror 19.7%, Horror 15%, Psychological 14.3%, Survival 13.2%

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: Survival Horror 17%, Procedural Generation 16.3%, Psychological Horror 14.4%, Walking Simulator 12.1%, Psychological 11%

In this weirdcore 1-4 player survival horror wander the infinite mall and encounter the strange and unique entities that inhabit it. Death is your best guide in learning how to exist in this place.

Why similar: Experimental 21.3% ★, Procedural Generation 19.8%, Survival Horror 19.7%, Survival 10.5%, Psychological Horror 9.9%

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

Why similar: Walking Simulator 24.2%, Psychological Horror 20.4%, Horror 14.6%, Psychological 11.6%, First-Person 9.7%

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: Survival Horror 28.9%, Psychological Horror 19.8%, Horror 18.7%, First-Person 11.1%, Survival 8.6%

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: Survival Horror 28%, Psychological Horror 19.5%, Walking Simulator 18.5%, Horror 17.6%, First-Person 5.7%

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: Survival Horror 26%, Psychological Horror 22.3%, Walking Simulator 17.9%, Horror 16%, First-Person 8.9%

A procedural first-person horror adventure. You are on your own after something goes terribly wrong in this top-secret containment facility. Collect items to aid in your escape and try to uncover the truth, as horror lurks behind every door. Can you make it out alive?

Why similar: Procedural Generation 20.9%, Survival Horror 19.1%, Horror 14.3%, Moddable 11.5% ★, Surreal 9.5%

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 26.1%, Walking Simulator 24.3%, Horror 20.1%, Surreal 12%, First-Person 11.8%

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 26%, Horror 21.5%, Survival 19.1%, First-Person 18.9%, Adventure 14.5%

THE_ABYSS_HAS_WALLS takes you into Ad Infinitum (also known as "The Backrooms") like never seen before. Review footage. Document fate.

Why similar: Survival Horror 41.7%, Procedural Generation 21.8%, Horror 19.3%, Stylized 7.9%, Adventure 4.1%

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 35.3%, Horror 31.3%, First-Person 10.7%, Adventure 8.4%, Walking Simulator 6.2%

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 73.1%, Horror 26.9%

Noclipped is a Survival Horror Adventure game located in the Backrooms. Explore infinite levels, collect resources, fight or flee from dangerous beings and survive in the harsh environments of the Backrooms.

Why similar: Survival Horror 22.3%, Procedural Generation 21%, Survival 17%, Horror 11%, Walking Simulator 9.5%

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 30.3%, Psychological Horror 17.7%, Horror 14.9%, First-Person 11.3%, Casual 7.5%

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: Horror 26%, Psychological Horror 25.9%, Walking Simulator 19%, First-Person 15%, Adventure 9.8%

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 24.9%, Horror 23.5%, Adventure 18.9%, First-Person 18.5%, 3D 13.1%

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: Procedural Generation 31.6%, Horror 21%, Psychological Horror 18.8%, First-Person 11.2%, Nonlinear 9.9%

Mirror Forge is a first-person psychological survival horror game. Roam between realities of fear, madness & machinery. Solve puzzles, explore an atmospheric world, survive horrifying entities.

Why similar: Survival Horror 19.8%, Psychological Horror 17.1%, Survival 12.4%, Psychological 12.3%, Walking Simulator 11.5%

You are trapped in an endless stairway with no end in sight. Solve twisted puzzles and maybe you will escape your fate.

Why similar: Survival Horror 18.9%, Psychological Horror 18.1%, Psychological 16.3%, Horror 12.3%, Surreal 9.9%

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

Why similar: Psychological Horror 27.2%, Horror 20.3%, Survival 15%, First-Person 10.1%, Psychological 9.4%

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 32.1%, Psychological Horror 30%, First-Person 11.9%, Nonlinear 9.8%, Relaxing 8.8%

Explore the origins of the mysterious Banban’s Kindergarten. Survive the dark past of the establishment. Try to make some friends. Uncover the truth behind the place, and who you are…

Why similar: Survival Horror 21.1%, Psychological Horror 19.2%, Horror 17.2%, Walking Simulator 12.4%, First-Person 9.9%

Step into an uncanny building trapped in endless loops. Use the elevator, uncover unsettling anomalies, and evade the Entity lurking behind you. Liminal Exit is an immersive game inspired by liminal spaces and Exit 8. Explore 3 liminal space floors and track anomalies to escape, but watch your back!

Why similar: Walking Simulator 22.8%, Psychological Horror 17.6%, Horror 12.6%, Psychological 12.1%, Surreal 10%

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 26.8%, Psychological Horror 25.7%, Horror 13.6%, Stylized 11.6%, First-Person 8.3%

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: Psychological 23%, Horror 21.2%, First-Person 15.8%, Adventure 15.1%, Casual 13.6%

Jumpscare Simulator is a sci-fi horror game featuring a story-driven main game and two additional game modes. Pass through doors carefully, battle the simulation, and try to fall from your seat as little as possible!

Why similar: Survival Horror 21.2%, Psychological Horror 19%, Walking Simulator 17.9%, Horror 14%, Stylized 6.7%

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: Survival Horror 23.1%, Psychological Horror 18.5%, Survival 14.2%, Horror 12.8%, Surreal 10.7%

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 31.2%, Psychological Horror 24.3%, Horror 17.8%, First-Person 11.7%, 3D 8.1%

Cooperate with up to 6 players to explore, search, and extract lost agents within the Backrooms. Solve puzzles, unlock tools, survive against entities, and progress through increasingly dangerous levels.

Why similar: Survival Horror 33.9%, Psychological Horror 26.3%, Horror 19.7%, First-Person 11.2%, Casual 5%