Games Like Escape the Backrooms

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 27.4%, Multiplayer 21.1%, Online Co-Op 12.8%, Survival Horror 12%, Psychological Horror 9.6%

Why You'll Like It: It is the closest match on Steam, built around co-op Backrooms exploration, puzzle solving, and surviving hostile entities in liminal spaces.

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: Horror 20.5%, Online Co-Op 17.9%, Multiplayer 17.5%, Survival Horror 11.9%, Psychological Horror 10.6%

Why You'll Like It: This is another direct Backrooms co-op horror game centered on escaping eerie levels with teammates while avoiding monsters and solving objectives.

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: Horror 25.4%, Online Co-Op 21.9%, Multiplayer 15.8%, Co-op 13.5%, Psychological Horror 12.7%

Why You'll Like It: Its co-op first-person horror mixes maze navigation, puzzle progression, and tense creature encounters in a way that strongly echoes Escape the Backrooms.

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 25.3%, Multiplayer 19.9%, Co-op 15.7%, Survival Horror 14.1%, Psychological Horror 11.4%

Why You'll Like It: It delivers intense co-op psychological horror with stealth, survival, and objective-based escapes through disturbing first-person environments.

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: Horror 30.1%, Online Co-Op 23.9%, Multiplayer 17.5%, Psychological Horror 10.9%, Co-op 6.1%

Why You'll Like It: This is a strong fit for players who want first-person co-op horror focused on exploration, hiding, and escaping while being stalked.

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: Horror 18.9%, Multiplayer 15.8%, Survival Horror 13.6%, Psychological Horror 11.8%, Co-op 10.7%

Why You'll Like It: It targets the same niche with multiplayer Backrooms-style exploration, unsettling spaces, and survival-focused progression.

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: Horror 19.1%, Online Co-Op 17.6%, Multiplayer 14.9%, Survival Horror 13.9%, Psychological Horror 11.4%

Why You'll Like It: Its Backrooms setting, first-person co-op play, and emphasis on surviving threats in uncanny environments make it an obvious alternative.

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: Horror 29%, Online Co-Op 26.4%, Multiplayer 17.5%, Psychological Horror 14.1%, Exploration 3.1%

Why You'll Like It: It captures a similar uncanny, disorienting horror vibe through cooperative first-person exploration of looping, threat-filled spaces.

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: Horror 17.8%, Online Co-Op 14.4%, Escape Room 14.1% ★, Multiplayer 13.6%, Survival Horror 8.7%

Why You'll Like It: Its multiplayer horror emphasis on eerie environments, co-op tension, and psychological unease makes it a strong modern match.

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: Horror 33.3%, Online Co-Op 22.2%, Multiplayer 16.6%, Survival Horror 10.5%, Co-op 7.1%

Why You'll Like It: It is great for groups who want fast, tense co-op horror where teamwork and objective completion matter as much as survival.

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: Horror 24.1%, Online Co-Op 20.8%, Survival Horror 13.4%, Multiplayer 13%, Co-op 11.7%

Why You'll Like It: Like Escape the Backrooms, it blends co-op exploration, puzzle-like objectives, and dangerous entities in atmospheric first-person maps.

Your goal is simple, spot anomalies to escape. Play alone or together with up to 8 players in online co-op. Make the right decisions to advance to the next level, or risk being reset to the beginning!

Why similar: Online Co-Op 21.4%, Horror 20.6%, Multiplayer 15.9%, Psychological Horror 13.1%, Co-op 13%

Why You'll Like It: Its co-op horror structure and focus on navigating strange, hostile spaces gives it a similar liminal and psychological feel.

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: Horror 34.6%, Online Co-Op 23%, Multiplayer 16.9%, Psychological Horror 10.8%, Co-op 9.8%

Why You'll Like It: Although more investigation-focused, it nails the same cooperative first-person dread, communication, and atmospheric exploration.

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: Horror 29.4%, Online Co-Op 22.2%, Multiplayer 17.7%, Co-op 9.4%, Psychological Horror 9%

Why You'll Like It: It offers compact co-op horror sessions built around searching dangerous spaces, completing objectives, and escaping an aggressive supernatural threat.

School labyrinth is a 1~4 co-op horror game set in a randomly generated school at night. Cooperate with your friends and try to escape from the school building!

Why similar: Horror 32.9%, Online Co-Op 26.2%, Multiplayer 19.4%, Co-op 9.1%, Stealth 8.3%

Why You'll Like It: This leans into the same appeal of escaping a creepy first-person maze with friends while dealing with horror threats.

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: Horror 23.3%, Online Co-Op 20.3%, Multiplayer 17.4%, Psychological Horror 12.7%, Co-op 12.7%

Why You'll Like It: It shares the first-person co-op horror atmosphere and methodical exploration that make Escape the Backrooms so effective with friends.

Fear Therapy, is a multiplayer(1-4) and single player psychological horror game.Try to complete the quests and leave the horror house before it is too late! Satan getting angrier every second and nothing holding it back.

Why similar: Horror 41.1%, Multiplayer 28.9%, Co-op 12.2%, Psychological Horror 11.6%, Survival Horror 4%

Why You'll Like It: Its co-op psychological horror and survival structure scratches a similar itch for players who want tense exploration with friends.

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: Horror 24.3%, Online Co-Op 20.5%, Multiplayer 15.5%, Survival Horror 12.2%, Co-op 11.5%

Why You'll Like It: This is another straightforward co-op horror game about searching a threatening environment for key items while being relentlessly hunted.

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: Horror 25.6%, Online Co-Op 24.8%, Co-op 14.3%, Psychological Horror 12.8%, Multiplayer 9.1%

Why You'll Like It: It mixes co-op horror exploration and chase-driven survival in a way that suits players who like Escape the Backrooms with a slightly lighter edge.

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

Why similar: Online Co-Op 26.6%, Horror 24.6%, Survival Horror 12.5%, Co-op 11.9%, Psychological Horror 9.2%

Why You'll Like It: It trades liminal hallways for scavenging runs, but the co-op first-person exploration, dread, and sudden danger feel very familiar.

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: Horror 26.6%, Online Co-Op 23.4%, Multiplayer 17.7%, Co-op 9.3%, Stealth 7.8%

Why You'll Like It: Its co-op stealth-horror gameplay revolves around coordinating under pressure in dangerous spaces, which fits the same team-survival appeal.

Ghost Watchers is a co-op online horror game. You will explore and hunt ghosts in abandoned houses

Why similar: Horror 33.8%, Co-op 19.4%, Multiplayer 15.3%, Survival Horror 14.3%, Online Co-Op 8.9%

Why You'll Like It: This is another atmospheric co-op horror game where careful exploration and teamwork are key to surviving supernatural encounters.

An online co-op horror game with up to 6 players. Locate valuable, fully physics-based objects and handle them with care as you retrieve and extract to satisfy your creator's desires.

Why similar: Horror 26.5%, Online Co-Op 26.1%, Multiplayer 19.7%, Co-op 12.7%, Stealth 5.7%

Why You'll Like It: While more physics-driven and chaotic, it still captures the core thrill of co-op first-person horror exploration under constant monster pressure.

In Silence is a multiplayer horror game. One player takes on the role of the monster who has hypersensitive hearing abilities and is almost completely blind. The other players(2-6) play as survivors, trying to escape or hunting the monster.

Why similar: Horror 27.6%, Online Co-Op 19%, Multiplayer 18.5%, Survival Horror 12%, Co-op 9.1%

Why You'll Like It: It recreates that hunted, high-stress multiplayer horror feeling by forcing a team to navigate and escape while avoiding a deadly monster.

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 31.5%, Horror 26.7%, Multiplayer 25.8%, Survival Horror 13.7%, Singleplayer 1.2%

Why You'll Like It: This is a good pick if you enjoy cooperative first-person horror with investigation, tense exploration, and escalating supernatural danger.

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: Horror 19.9%, Online Co-Op 18.4%, Multiplayer 14.9%, Survival Horror 11.9%, Co-op 11.1%

Why You'll Like It: It offers stealthy co-op horror with objective play and high-pressure escapes, which aligns well with the seed game's multiplayer tension.

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: Horror 20.3%, Online Co-Op 15.6%, Multiplayer 14.8%, Survival Horror 13.8%, Co-op 11.1%

Why You'll Like It: It emphasizes co-op psychological horror and oppressive first-person exploration, making it a strong mood match for Backrooms fans.

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 22.9%, Horror 21.7%, Multiplayer 15.9%, Co-op 13.9%, Survival Horror 13.4%

Why You'll Like It: It is more combat-heavy, yet its oppressive co-op first-person horror, navigation, and survival tension make it a worthwhile adjacent pick.

Sign of Silence is a 4-player cooperative horror game set in dreadful outskirts of Danwille town. Whether you will escape the place or stay here forever depends on cautious and coordinated actions of the whole team!

Why similar: Horror 31.4%, Multiplayer 19.2%, Co-op 18.7%, Online Co-Op 10%, Psychological Horror 6.8%

Why You'll Like It: Its cooperative survival-horror pacing and unsettling environments deliver a similar sense of vulnerability and disorientation.

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: Horror 15.3%, Online Co-Op 14.9%, Escape Room 14.8% ★, Multiplayer 12.5%, Survival Horror 10.8%

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 23%, Horror 20.4%, Survival Horror 16%, Co-op 11.7%, Multiplayer 9.7%

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 20.6%, Horror 18.6%, Multiplayer 17.2%, Survival Horror 14.1%, Psychological Horror 9%

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 36.6%, First-Person 12.4%, Online Co-Op 11.2%, Co-op 11.1%, Multiplayer 10.3%

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: Escape Room 17.4% ★, Multiplayer 14.6%, Horror 13.4%, Online Co-Op 13.2%, Co-op 12.3%

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: Horror 19.5%, Multiplayer 17.1%, Online Co-Op 16.6%, Survival Horror 15.2%, Psychological Horror 11%

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: Horror 21.1%, Online Co-Op 18.1%, Multiplayer 16.5%, Survival Horror 15.1%, Psychological Horror 11.5%

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: Horror 22.1%, Online Co-Op 20.7%, Multiplayer 16.4%, Psychological Horror 13.2%, Co-op 10.6%

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

Why similar: Horror 23.5%, Online Co-Op 23.1%, Multiplayer 15.3%, Co-op 12%, Survival Horror 7.6%

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: Horror 20.4%, Online Co-Op 19.3%, Co-op 15.8%, Survival Horror 14.9%, Psychological Horror 13.9%

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

Why similar: Horror 36%, Co-op 21.9%, Online Co-Op 14.5%, First-Person 8.2%, Exploration 7%

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 23.8%, Horror 21.4%, Survival Horror 15.3%, Psychological Horror 13.2%, Dungeon Crawler 7.5%

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 26.8%, Horror 25.5%, Multiplayer 14.2%, Co-op 12.6%, First-Person 6.5%

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: Horror 17.2%, Online Co-Op 16.2%, Multiplayer 13.6%, Survival Horror 11.1%, Psychological Horror 10.6%

The Escape: Together is a 1-3 player Online CO-OP escape horror. The paranormal creature has taken over the house. You must use everything you find to survive and make your runaway.

Why similar: Horror 31.6%, Survival Horror 15.2%, Psychological Horror 14%, Co-op 11.7%, Stealth 9.3%

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 28.3%, Multiplayer 18.1%, Online Co-Op 16%, Co-op 12.3%, Psychological Horror 10.9%

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: Horror 29.2%, Online Co-Op 27.4%, Psychological Horror 17.5%, First-Person 7.6%, Action-Adventure 4%

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: Escape Room 35.2% ★, Survival Horror 27%, Psychological Horror 23.9%, Action-Adventure 5.1%, Adventure 3.3%

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: Horror 22.6%, Online Co-Op 21.7%, Multiplayer 12.9%, Survival Horror 12.6%, Psychological Horror 8.5%

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: Horror 26.8%, Online Co-Op 24.8%, Co-op 17.9%, Dungeon Crawler 8.4%, First-Person 7.4%

A 1-3 co-op puzzle horror game. Lost in an accursed megastore, work together to find the exit before its lurking horrors trap you forever.

Why similar: Horror 20.3%, Online Co-Op 19.6%, Co-op 14.2%, Multiplayer 13.1%, Psychological Horror 12.1%

On your way home on the train, you weren't paying attention. Until you realised the train had been stopping at the same station over, and over again. Watch out for anomalies, and avoid the Anomaly Exit! Made for singleplayer and 2-6 co-operative multiplayer.

Why similar: Online Co-Op 25%, Horror 22.8%, Multiplayer 15.9%, Psychological Horror 15.7%, Co-op 10.9%

Backroom Company (aka Async 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: Horror 21.3%, Online Co-Op 17.8%, Multiplayer 16.8%, Co-op 14.2%, Survival Horror 12.4%

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: Horror 25.8%, Online Co-Op 19.3%, Multiplayer 18.2%, Survival Horror 12.2%, Psychological Horror 9.2%

"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: Horror 18.5%, Online Co-Op 17.2%, Multiplayer 14.6%, Survival Horror 12.1%, Psychological Horror 11.4%

A 1-8 player co-op sci-fi looter horror game that takes place on a mysterious asteroid belt where players must complete contracts by traveling to exotic planets to kill creatures, find loot, and/or farm planetary materials that they must return to an ominous figure named Sketchy.

Why similar: Online Co-Op 21.1%, Horror 20.6%, Co-op 13.6%, Survival Horror 13.6%, Psychological Horror 10.6%

Play as plague doctors with your friends in this multiplayer co-op medieval horror! Purge the plague. Create the cure. Escape the mutated creatures. Make the queen proud.

Why similar: Horror 17.2%, Online Co-Op 17%, Multiplayer 13.6%, Survival Horror 10.5%, Psychological Horror 10.1%