- #1 Anomaly Company
96% matchVery Positive87% of 69 reviews2026
Dev: Kekdot
Windows
You and your crew are sent in to assess reality in this 4-player co-op horror game. Memorize the environment. Spot disturbing anomalies. Decide if the timeline is safe. One bad call—and you’re forced to start over.
Why similar: Walking Simulator 17.3%, Co-op 16.2%, Psychological 12.9%, Psychological Horror 12.2%, Horror 12.1%
- #2 The Backrooms Experiment
97% matchMixed60% of 72 reviews2023
Dev: Efe Mert
Windows
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 31.7%, Thriller 14.4%, Realistic 13.3%, Psychological Horror 10%, Co-op 9.8%
- #3 Inside the Backrooms
95% matchVery Positive81% of 45,968 reviews2022
Dev: MrFatcat
Windows
Median: 4.7 hrsMean: 15.0 hrs≥1hr: 87%
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 23.4%, Multiplayer 23.2%, Co-op 16.8%, Psychological Horror 13.4%, Puzzle 8%
- #4 The Backrooms Multiplayer
96% matchMostly Negative37% of 73 reviews2022
Dev: Untold Backrooms Stories
Windows
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: Walking Simulator 18.1%, Co-op 17.9%, Psychological Horror 12.4%, Horror 11.2%, Realistic 11%
- #5 Exit Together
94% matchMostly Positive73% of 51 reviews2025
Dev: Çınar's Art
Windows
ANOMALY LOOP ADVENTURE Play solo or with up to 6 players. Spot anomalies, solve puzzles, and escape the loop. Will you reach Room 9 or stay trapped forever?
Why similar: Walking Simulator 18.6%, Immersive Sim 11.8%, Psychological Horror 10%, Horror 9.2%, Realistic 8%
- #6 Escape the Backrooms
92% matchVery Positive91% of 134,540 reviews2025
Dev: Fancy GamesPub: Secret Mode
Windows
Median: 7.0 hrsMean: 12.9 hrs≥1hr: 90%
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 26.1%, Multiplayer 22.7%, Co-op 18.3%, Psychological Horror 14.2%, First-Person 7.2%
- #7 Backrooms: Extractions
93% matchMostly Positive74% of 618 reviews2025
Dev: Headlight Studio
Windows
Median: 3.4 hrsMean: 4.3 hrs≥1hr: 92%
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: Multiplayer 16.6%, Horror 15.9%, Psychological Horror 15.8%, Co-op 12.8%, Realistic 12%
- #8 Backrooms Rec.
91% matchMixed70% of 1,667 reviews2024
Dev: Liminal Logic
Windows
Median: 2.5 hrsMean: 3.8 hrs≥1hr: 78%
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: Multiplayer 21.7%, Horror 18.2%, Co-op 17.7%, Psychological Horror 14.6%, Realistic 12.1%
- #9 The Backrooms Footage
91% matchMixed67% of 75 reviews2022
Dev: Untold Backrooms Stories
Windows · Linux
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: Walking Simulator 19.9%, Co-op 18.2%, Psychological Horror 14.8%, Horror 13.5%, Multiplayer 13.5%
- #10 NOCLIP
90% matchMostly Positive71% of 54 reviews2024
Dev: DELIRIUM Labs
Windows
Chapter-based Backrooms experience. Embark on a chilling journey through the unknown. Visuals based on early 2000's camcorders.
Why similar: Walking Simulator 24.5%, Immersive Sim 17.1%, Psychological Horror 11.1%, Horror 10.8%, Exploration 9.5%
- #11 Enter The Backrooms
89% matchVery Positive88% of 1,041 reviews2021
Dev: Justin KrohPub: Cosmic Crow Creations
Windows
Median: 1.6 hrsMean: 5.7 hrs≥1hr: 61%
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: Walking Simulator 28.7%, Psychological Horror 18.6%, Horror 15.8%, Psychological 13%, First-Person 9.5%
- #12 Behind The Backrooms
89% matchMixed48% of 58 reviews2024
Dev: SupKai
Windows
Behind the Backrooms is a 1-4 player co-op horror exploration game
Why similar: Co-op 23.1%, Thriller 22.9%, Horror 17.6%, Exploration 11.2%, Puzzle 10.1%
- #13 The Backrooms : Last Expedition
88% matchMixed52% of 66 reviews2023
Dev: Valkyrie Interactive
Windows
"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: Multiplayer 17.9%, Psychological Horror 17.8%, Horror 17.6%, Immersive Sim 12%, First-Person 11.6%
- #14 Backrooms: Escape Together
86% matchVery Positive88% of 34,229 reviews2022
Dev: Triiodide Studios
Windows
Median: 3.9 hrsMean: 5.6 hrs≥1hr: 91%
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: Multiplayer 18.8%, Co-op 17.5%, Horror 17%, Psychological Horror 14.5%, Realistic 9.2%
- #15 Backrooms Descent: Multiplayer Horror
87% matchMixed46% of 106 reviews2023
Dev: Sushi Studio
Windows
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: Co-op 15.6%, Multiplayer 13.7%, Psychological Horror 13%, Horror 12.8%, Realistic 11.8%
- #16 Lost in Anomaly
85% matchMixed64% of 993 reviews2024
Dev: Aximus Games
Windows
In Lost in Anomaly, you wake up on the 9th floor of an unknown building. The only way out of here is to detect and mark anomalies. One wrong move and you could be trapped forever.
Why similar: Walking Simulator 20.4%, Psychological Horror 12.5%, Horror 12.1%, Immersive Sim 10.6%, Co-op 10.2%
- #17 Return the Backrooms
86% matchMixed63% of 139 reviews2022
Dev: Skmaestro
Windows
Return the Backrooms is a Co-op horror game for 1-4 players where you can have a great time with your friends. Think, Explore, Wander, find the key items and try to escape. but be careful because something is lurking in the dark...
Why similar: Psychological Horror 17.5%, Horror 16.8%, Co-op 14.8%, Exploration 14.1%, First-Person 12.6%
- #18 Backrooms: What's Next
84% matchMixed66% of 65 reviews2025
Dev: SUDT Games
Windows
Backrooms: What's Next is a Co-op horror game up to 4 players, where you and your friends will explore the game, try to pass the game level using your mind, wit, remembering the places where you were
Why similar: Walking Simulator 28.4%, Co-op 14.2%, Exploration 12.5%, Horror 12.5%, First-Person 10.1%
- #19 The Backrooms Regret
84% matchMixed61% of 147 reviews2024
Dev: Noirware
Windows
Are you ready to survive in this hostile world? Discover who you are and how you ended up in this dimension. But don't worry, you can rely on warm company that will make your experience much more 'pleasant.' Oh, and good luck, you'll need it.
Why similar: Multiplayer 20.4%, Horror 15.3%, Psychological Horror 13.1%, Exploration 12.2%, Puzzle 10.9%
- #20 Backrooms: Exit from Supermarket
82% matchMixed70% of 56 reviews2025
Dev: CGI LAB GAMES
Windows
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: Walking Simulator 27.6%, Psychological Horror 20.3%, Horror 19.5%, First-Person 12.1%, Exploration 7.8%
- #21 The Anomaly Project
82% matchVery Positive81% of 581 reviews2024
Dev: Kekdot
Windows
Median: 2.5 hrsMean: 3.0 hrs≥1hr: 86%
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: Walking Simulator 18.7%, Co-op 15.5%, Psychological 12.8%, Psychological Horror 11.8%, Horror 11.4%
- #22 Lost Hope: Backrooms
83% matchMixed69% of 99 reviews2023
Dev: mdvdPub: Lost Hope games
Windows
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: Horror 28.7%, Psychological Horror 22.7%, First-Person 18.9%, Exploration 12.3%, Co-op 9.1%
- #23 The Backrooms 1998 - Found Footage Survival Horror Game
79% matchVery Positive85% of 799 reviews2025
Dev: Steelkrill Studio
Windows
Median: 1.2 hrsMean: 2.1 hrs≥1hr: 55%
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 25.7%, Psychological Horror 22.3%, Walking Simulator 21.6%, Realistic 13.9%, Puzzle 7.6%
- #24 Abnormality
81% matchMostly Positive73% of 238 reviews2024
Dev: Nightmare Studios
Windows
Explore abandoned locations, collect paranormal evidence, and survive the wrath of the former residents still haunting them. Team up with up to 3 friends to investigate by day, and hide for your life by night. What begins as an investigation quickly turns into a desperate struggle to stay alive.
Why similar: Co-op 16.3%, Immersive Sim 14.4%, Multiplayer 13.3%, Psychological Horror 13.1%, Horror 13.1%
- #25 Transliminal: Beyond The Backrooms
81% matchVery Positive94% of 119 reviews2022
Dev: Corey JeffriesPub: Spatial Quotient
Windows
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: Walking Simulator 24.5%, Psychological 17.3%, Psychological Horror 17.1%, Horror 16.5%, Exploration 12.5%
- #26 Backroom Company
79% matchMostly Positive77% of 497 reviews2025
Dev: Hypercent Inc.
Windows
Median: 3.0 hrsMean: 5.1 hrs≥1hr: 81%
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: Co-op 25.5%, Multiplayer 18%, Thriller 17.8%, Horror 17.8%, Psychological Horror 10.7%
- #27 SILENT BREATH
80% matchMixed69% of 1,156 reviews2024
Dev: EXODIAC STUDIOS
Windows
Median: 1.0 hrsMean: 1.8 hrs≥1hr: 51%
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: Thriller 15.9%, Horror 15.1%, Psychological Horror 13.6%, Realistic 11.4%, Walking Simulator 11.2%
- #28 The Complex: Found Footage
77% matchVery Positive93% of 9,432 reviews2022
Dev: pgWave
Windows
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: Walking Simulator 20.7%, Horror 17.7%, Psychological Horror 15.5%, Multiplayer 14.3%, Realistic 10.8%
- #29 Backrooms: Exploration
77% matchMostly Positive73% of 73 reviews2025
Dev: HNStudios
Windows
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 21.8%, Walking Simulator 20.1%, Realistic 18.7%, Psychological Horror 16.2%, First-Person 14%
- #30 Backrooms Media
76% matchMixed41% of 614 reviews2025
Dev: NPK GamesPub: Pretty Soon
Windows
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: Co-op 24.3%, Multiplayer 17.2%, Psychological Horror 13.1%, Horror 12.3%, Realistic 11.7%
- #31 The Complex: Expedition
73% matchVery Positive89% of 2,232 reviews2025
Dev: pgWave
Windows
Median: 1.6 hrsMean: 10.4 hrs≥1hr: 74%
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: Horror 18.3%, Realistic 16.3%, Psychological Horror 15.4%, Immersive Sim 13.9%, Exploration 12.3%
- #32 The Backrooms Project
78% matchMostly Positive70% of 143 reviews2022
Dev: 3AM Studios
Windows · Linux
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: Walking Simulator 26.8%, Psychological Horror 16.4%, Horror 15.8%, Realistic 15.5%, Exploration 10.3%
- #33 UnderBackrooms
78% matchMostly Negative39% of 72 reviews2023
Dev: okeyplaystudio
Windows
UnderBackrooms is a cooperative horror game set in a mysterious parallel universe of empty rooms and endless corridors. With moments of tension and surprise, players must be on guard to survive. Explore the backrooms and uncover their secrets to escape this nightmare world.
Why similar: Multiplayer 32.6%, Horror 28.8%, Psychological Horror 28.1%, Adventure 10.5%
- #34 Shifting To The Backrooms
74% matchVery Positive85% of 55 reviews2026
Dev: Oopsome Games
Windows
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: Walking Simulator 27.8%, Horror 18.3%, Psychological Horror 17.8%, First-Person 11.9%, Exploration 11.5%
- #35 Backrooms Cleanup Crew
73% matchVery Positive90% of 428 reviews2025
Dev: On The Bridge Games
Windows
Median: 2.7 hrsMean: 4.7 hrs≥1hr: 85%
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: Co-op 22.6%, Immersive Sim 19.6%, Psychological Horror 14.6%, Horror 13%, Multiplayer 12.5%
- #36 BACKROOMS: APPREHENSION
72% matchVery Positive80% of 661 reviews2025
Dev: DMNT Interactive
Windows
Median: 1.1 hrsMean: 2.8 hrs≥1hr: 56%
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: Immersive 28.8% ★, Multiplayer 17.1%, Horror 14.9%, Psychological Horror 14%, Realistic 8.2%
- #37 Liminal City
73% matchMostly Positive73% of 79 reviews2025
Dev: LIGHTWORKER GAMES
Windows
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 27.2%, Psychological Horror 15.5%, Thriller 14%, Realistic 12.9%, Horror 10.6%
- #38 Everything Is For Humanity
76% matchMixed68% of 118 reviews2022
Dev: Vanquisher Games
Windows
Everything is for Humanity is a story-driven, exploration and puzzle-solving based science fiction horror game which sets in a massive science facility in 2020. You will discover tons of things and find out about the blood-chilling truths with its first-person experience.
Why similar: Psychological Horror 14.2%, Horror 14%, First-Person 10.4%, Thriller 9.4%, Realistic 8.6%
- #39 The Backrooms
75% matchMixed64% of 118 reviews2022
Dev: Ionized Games
Windows
Median: 2.0 hrsMean: 4.1 hrs≥1hr: 73%
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: Artificial Intelligence 20.2%, Realistic 17.2%, Horror 13.4%, First-Person 13.1%, Puzzle 12.8%
- #40 POOLS
70% matchOverwhelmingly Positive95% of 6,027 reviews2024
Dev: Tensori
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 1.7 hrsMean: 5.6 hrs≥1hr: 62%
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 26.4%, Immersive 26.4% ★, Psychological Horror 14.7%, Realistic 11.6%, Exploration 7.8%
- #41 BACKROOMS NO RETURN: Prologue
74% matchMostly Negative33% of 1,186 reviews2024
Dev: FriedGPU
Windows
Explore the poolrooms in a inmersive cooperative horror game. Immerse yourself in the story of scientists who are exploring the depths of the poolrooms and end up encountering various obstacles in order to find a way back to reality.
Why similar: Psychological 21%, Multiplayer 19.6%, Psychological Horror 19.3%, Horror 18.7%, First-Person 13.6%
- #42 Hotel 188
70% matchVery Positive88% of 73 reviews2025
Dev: Leonn CamayoPub: Andes Interactive
Windows
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 31.9%, Psychological Horror 17.6%, Realistic 14.7%, Immersive Sim 11.4%, First-Person 10.4%
- #43 Backrooms: Found Footage
70% matchVery Positive84% of 280 reviews2024
Dev: HNStudios
Windows
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: Multiplayer 21.4%, Realistic 17.3%, Horror 15.1%, Exploration 14.8%, First-Person 13.2%
- #44 Backrooms: Hide Together
71% matchMixed49% of 88 reviews2025
Dev: ICON GAME STUDIO
Windows
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: Multiplayer 14.8%, Realistic 13.9%, Horror 13.7%, Psychological Horror 13.2%, Co-op 11.2%
- #45 SKUF BACKROOMS
71% matchMixed60% of 93 reviews2024
Dev: akhsotoen
Windows
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 25.8%, Psychological Horror 14.7%, Thriller 13.7%, Realistic 11.9%, Horror 10.4%
- #46 Backrooms Doors
72% matchMixed68% of 84 reviews2023
Dev: Performance Artist
Windows
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: Horror 19.7%, Realistic 15.9%, Immersive Sim 15.7%, Psychological Horror 15.2%, First-Person 13.2%
- #47 Anomalies Detective
69% matchMostly Positive77% of 70 reviews2024
Dev: ChenGame
Windows
A psychological horror game with a chapter-based plot, thriller and unusual elements! You are a novice paranormal detective, exploring secrets and finding ways to escape in an infinite loop of scenes. Many unusual things happen during this process, as if some strange force wants to devour you...
Why similar: Walking Simulator 33.1%, Immersive Sim 16.7%, Psychological Horror 14.9%, Horror 11.9%, Exploration 11.3%
- #48 The Backrooms: Survival
69% matchVery Positive82% of 1,124 reviews2023
Dev: RE:CODE
Windows
Median: 1.8 hrsMean: 8.7 hrs≥1hr: 64%
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: Co-op 21.8%, Multiplayer 17.4%, Horror 17.1%, Psychological Horror 16.8%, Psychological 16%
- #49 The Backrooms
75% matchMostly Negative24% of 58 reviews2019
Dev: WASABAE Studios
Windows
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 37.5%, Exploration 15.3%, Horror 14.6%, Psychological Horror 13%, First-Person 12.4%
- #50 Anomaly Exit
67% matchVery Positive91% of 1,158 reviews2024
Dev: ExamlGuy
Windows
Median: 2.1 hrsMean: 3.0 hrs≥1hr: 80%
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: Walking Simulator 22.4%, Psychological Horror 14.1%, Co-op 12.9%, Horror 12.4%, Multiplayer 11.2%
- #51 Climb The Backrooms
67% matchVery Positive80% of 962 reviews2025
Dev: LovDEV
Windows
Median: 2.6 hrsMean: 2.6 hrs≥1hr: 79%
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 19%, Horror 17.9%, Puzzle 16.1%, First-Person 14.8%, Co-op 11.4%
- #52 Backrooms Society
69% matchMostly Positive80% of 656 reviews2023
Dev: Mikael Bihl
Windows
Median: 3.4 hrsMean: 8.4 hrs≥1hr: 90%
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: Multiplayer 19.9%, Horror 19.8%, Psychological Horror 17.6%, Realistic 16.6%, Exploration 11.4%
- #53 Within the Backrooms
68% matchVery Positive96% of 190 reviews2023
Dev: Shattered Display
Windows
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: Exploration 44.4%, Walking Simulator 20.6%, First-Person 14.5%, Adventure 13.2%, Puzzle 5.3%
- #54 Nuclear Nightmare
64% matchVery Positive81% of 17,749 reviews2024
Dev: BG Productions
Windows
Median: 2.4 hrsMean: 5.1 hrs≥1hr: 76%
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: Co-op 26.3%, Horror 21.1%, Psychological Horror 15.2%, Multiplayer 12.5%, First-Person 10.9%
- #55 Liminalcore
65% matchVery Positive83% of 652 reviews2024
Dev: Shadow Owl Studios
Windows
Median: 2.0 hrsMean: 2.6 hrs≥1hr: 73%
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 34.9%, Psychological Horror 17.6%, Immersive Sim 17%, Realistic 15.1%, Exploration 11.1%
- #56 Hospital 666
66% matchMostly Positive72% of 1,342 reviews2024
Dev: Lokin
Windows
Median: 3.4 hrsMean: 3.6 hrs≥1hr: 87%
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: Walking Simulator 19.4%, Horror 14.5%, Thriller 12.4%, Psychological Horror 11.7%, Multiplayer 11.2%
- #57 LIMINAL SHIFT
64% matchVery Positive82% of 235 reviews2025
Dev: NextPhase Studios
Windows
Liminal Shift is a unique atmospheric suspense game developed using the latest Unreal Engine 5 technologies such as Lumen and Nanite. With every step you take, Liminal Shift pushes you deeper into an eerie, unsettling experience like no other.
Why similar: Walking Simulator 19.4%, Thriller 12.2%, Immersive Sim 11.7%, Psychological 11.3%, First-Person 9.5%
- #58 The Backrooms: Unbounded
66% matchMostly Positive76% of 658 reviews2023
Dev: BluSkie
Windows
The Backrooms: Unbounded is a Free Simple Linear single player first person body camera horror game based on the backrooms. You take the role of a police officer who noclips out of reality while on duty. Will you make it out alive?
Why similar: Walking Simulator 22.7%, Psychological Horror 12.9%, Horror 12.8%, Multiplayer 12.4%, Realistic 10.5%