Games Like Inside 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 27.3%, Multiplayer 21%, Online Co-Op 12.9%, Survival Horror 12%, Psychological Horror 9.7%

Why You'll Like It: It is the closest match on Steam, offering co-op first-person Backrooms exploration with puzzles, entities, and the same liminal survival-horror feel.

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 23.3%, Multiplayer 16.6%, Online Co-Op 15.8%, Co-op 12.9%, Psychological Horror 12.5%

Why You'll Like It: Like Inside the Backrooms, it drops a group into eerie maze-like spaces where teamwork, navigation, and puzzle-solving are as important as surviving monsters.

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 31.3%, Multiplayer 20.6%, Online Co-Op 19.4%, Psychological Horror 12%, Co-op 6.5%

Why You'll Like It: This co-op first-person horror game similarly emphasizes exploring hostile spaces, hiding from threats, and escaping through teamwork under pressure.

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 23.4%, Multiplayer 20.9%, Survival Horror 17.1%, Co-op 15%, Psychological Horror 11.3%

Why You'll Like It: It delivers intense co-op stealth horror with objective-driven levels, relentless enemies, and the same kind of frantic voice-chat coordination.

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 21.3%, Survival Horror 15.5%, Online Co-Op 14.5%, Multiplayer 13.1%, Co-op 10.7%

Why You'll Like It: Its blend of co-op exploration, puzzle mechanics, cursed environments, and deadly supernatural pursuers makes it a strong fit for Backrooms fans.

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 31.9%, Multiplayer 18.1%, Online Co-Op 16.8%, Survival Horror 13%, Co-op 7.1%

Why You'll Like It: This is another tight co-op survival-horror experience where players complete objectives while a powerful entity hunts the team.

There is reportedly an evil inside that house. Something about an old funeral parlor offering a last chance to talk to their dead loved ones. Plus something about lights, laughter, a girl, missing people, etc... You know the same stuff everyone claims. Take a team, and check the place out.

Why similar: Horror 27.5%, Multiplayer 18.8%, Online Co-Op 16.2%, Co-op 9.1%, Psychological Horror 9%

Why You'll Like It: It captures a very similar loop of entering a dangerous location, collecting key items, solving the situation, and surviving an aggressive roaming threat.

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 31.7%, Multiplayer 17.6%, Online Co-Op 16.6%, Psychological Horror 10.6%, Co-op 9.3%

Why You'll Like It: Although more investigative, it matches the seed game's tense first-person co-op, communication-heavy play, and fear of unpredictable supernatural encounters.

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 21.9%, Multiplayer 15.9%, Online Co-Op 14.5%, Survival Horror 14.2%, Co-op 10.8%

Why You'll Like It: Searching a dangerous school for needed items while evading a patrolling enemy feels very close to Inside the Backrooms' run-hide-solve rhythm.

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 21.2%, Multiplayer 18%, Online Co-Op 14.5%, Psychological Horror 12.4%, Co-op 12%

Why You'll Like It: Its first-person co-op ghost hunting, dark interiors, and constant supernatural pressure scratch a similar multiplayer horror itch.

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

Why similar: Horror 29.2%, Co-op 17.3%, Survival Horror 16%, Multiplayer 15%, Online Co-Op 6.1%

Why You'll Like It: Its team-based exploration of haunted maps and escalating supernatural danger make it a strong match for players who want more co-op scares.

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 16.9%, Survival Horror 14.8%, Multiplayer 13.9%, Online Co-Op 10.2%, Co-op 9.5%

Why You'll Like It: It mixes co-op haunted-location exploration, puzzles, and stalking supernatural enemies in a way that feels very aligned with the seed game.

The Blackout Club is a first-person co-op horror game centered around a group of teenage friends investigating a monstrous secret beneath the skin of their small town. 1-4 players explore procedurally-generated missions against a fearsome enemy you can only see with your eyes closed.

Why similar: Horror 30.8%, Multiplayer 24.4%, Co-op 19.1%, Psychological Horror 9.1%, Online Co-Op 8.7%

Why You'll Like It: This objective-based co-op stealth horror game shares the same teamwork-heavy exploration and tension from avoiding detection in unsettling spaces.

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: Multiplayer 25%, Horror 22.8%, Online Co-Op 21.1%, Survival Horror 15.1%, Dark 6.2%

Why You'll Like It: Like Inside the Backrooms, it is built around first-person co-op, dangerous paranormal spaces, and players coordinating tools and tasks under stress.

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 29.3%, Multiplayer 22%, Online Co-Op 20.2%, Co-op 10.6%, Dark 7.2%

Why You'll Like It: Its smaller-scale co-op horror structure of scavenging items, sneaking through interiors, and escaping a monster is very close in feel.

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 26.5%, Multiplayer 20.2%, Survival Horror 14.9%, Online Co-Op 14.4%, Co-op 9.1%

Why You'll Like It: Communication, stealth, and surviving a powerful hunter are at the center here, much like the most intense moments in Inside the Backrooms.

Multiplayer survival horror game based on stories from the SCP Foundation. The game is about a facility containing anomalous entities known as SCPs. When a catastrophic containment breach occurs at one of the facilities, it is your main goal to escape the facility. Try to escape with your friends!

Why similar: Horror 25.2%, Multiplayer 19.2%, Online Co-Op 11.6%, Survival Horror 11.1%, Co-op 9.6%

Why You'll Like It: Escaping a monster-filled facility with puzzles, navigation stress, and constant danger makes it a natural pick for Backrooms fans.

Stay Close is open-world horror game, with options for single-player and co-op. It has an unique and new gameplay approach unseen so far in any other game. You'll find yourself in a creepy and anomalous town, what is your next move?

Why similar: Horror 33.6%, Co-op 22%, Multiplayer 16.7%, Survival Horror 16.5%, Psychological Horror 8.4%

Why You'll Like It: This co-op survival-horror adventure focuses on bleak exploration, puzzle progression, and avoiding monsters rather than simply fighting them.

You are a Bigfoot hunter with an important mission: to put an end to rumours once and for all and prove to yourself that Bigfoot is not just a myth or an invention of the mind...

Why similar: Horror 18.2%, Survival Horror 17.6%, Multiplayer 16.8%, Online Co-Op 12%, Co-op 10.6%

Why You'll Like It: While more open-ended, it shares the same first-person co-op tension of exploring dark maps while being stalked by a deadly creature.

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

Why similar: Horror 21.8%, Online Co-Op 17%, Multiplayer 16%, Co-op 11.6%, Survival Horror 9.3%

Why You'll Like It: Its co-op expeditions into unsettling, monster-filled environments recreate the same mix of fear, exploration, and chaotic teamwork, just with a lighter tone.

Deep within a secure underground facility, a sudden containment breach allows many of the secured anomalies to escape from their chambers. Assist the Foundation in re-securing the facility, help the Insurgency in their goal to capture it, or wreak havoc as an SCP in a frantic bid to escape.

Why similar: Horror 23.2%, Multiplayer 22.4%, Survival Horror 13.9%, Co-op 11.3%, Online Co-Op 9.4%

Why You'll Like It: Its chaotic first-person survival inside a hostile labyrinthine facility captures a similar sense of panic, pursuit, and uncertain safety.

SCP: 5K is a co-op or singleplayer tactical horror FPS project that puts players in the midst of a conspiracy where the SCP Foundation has turned on humanity. Enjoy Early Access as we continue to work towards a completed full release of the project!

Why similar: Horror 27.4%, Co-op 25.2%, Multiplayer 24.5%, FPS 11.9%, First-Person 7.6%

Why You'll Like It: This tactical co-op horror FPS leans more action-heavy, but its oppressive facility exploration and anomaly threats fit the same mood well.

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: Horror 20.4%, Multiplayer 17%, Online Co-Op 16.9%, Survival Horror 16.3%, Co-op 13.6%

Why You'll Like It: It is harsher and more combat-focused, but the claustrophobic co-op exploration, tension, and dependency on team coordination are very similar.

An intense round-based zombie survival FPS, play solo or co-op. Shoot your way through relentless waves of vicious horrors with high-octane objectives, upgrading steampunk weapons, collecting Celtic God powers, and surviving the onslaught of the Quiet Ones.

Why similar: Co-op 16.2%, Survival Horror 14.9%, Horror 14.8%, Multiplayer 14.5%, Online Co-Op 11.7%

Why You'll Like It: It is more combat-oriented than the seed game, but its co-op horror atmosphere and survival focus still make it a reasonable stretch pick.

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 18.8%, Multiplayer 18.4%, Survival Horror 14.3%, Online Co-Op 12.8%, Psychological Horror 10.5%

Obsideo is a 1-4 player online co-op psychological horror, where you and your team of priests explore different locations experiencing paranormal events in an attempt to figure out what ghost they're dealing with and exorcise it from the property.

Why similar: Horror 23.6%, Online Co-Op 17.6%, Survival Horror 16.1%, Co-op 15.8%, Psychological Horror 15.6%

Why You'll Like It: Another strong first-person co-op paranormal game, it emphasizes exploration, equipment use, and surviving escalating horror events together.

Hellcoming is a co-op horror survival game for 1-4 players, who need to clean large areas from hellish abomination with the help of special tools.

Why similar: Horror 18.8%, Survival Horror 16.1%, Multiplayer 15.8%, Online Co-Op 14.3%, Co-op 11.4%

Why You'll Like It: Its co-op occult survival-horror setup revolves around completing dangerous objectives while supernatural enemies pressure the team.

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 17.5%, Multiplayer 16.1%, Survival Horror 15.9%, Online Co-Op 13.4%, Psychological Horror 11.3%

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 17.8%, Horror 17%, Survival Horror 17%, Online Co-Op 14.8%, Psychological Horror 8.9%

Enjoy a 4vs1 asymmetric horror experience like no other. Be a part of the investigator team, or take control of the creature and devour them!

Why similar: Horror 24.8%, Multiplayer 19.3%, Survival Horror 16.7%, Online Co-Op 10%, Co-op 9.3%

Why You'll Like It: Navigating dark maps, collecting clues, and staying alive against a roaming creature gives it a familiar multiplayer horror structure.

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 20.4%, Multiplayer 17.8%, Online Co-Op 13%, Survival Horror 13%, Psychological Horror 10.2%

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: Horror 14.9%, Psychological Horror 10.1%, Survival Horror 9.5%, Multiplayer 7.9%, FPS 7.3%

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 22%, Survival Horror 20.4%, Multiplayer 19.5%, Online Co-Op 14.8%, Psychological Horror 12.8%

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 37.5%, Multiplayer 29.9%, Co-op 11.5%, Psychological Horror 11.3%, Survival Horror 4.7%

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 27.6%, Puzzle 16.1%, Dark 10.9%, First-Person 9.3%, Co-op 8.4%

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 25.2%, Multiplayer 18.3%, Co-op 11.3%, Online Co-Op 11.2%, Psychological Horror 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: Multiplayer 17.9%, Horror 14.5%, Survival Horror 13.8%, Co-op 13.7%, Online Co-Op 11.2%

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

Why similar: Horror 30%, Co-op 18.8%, Puzzle 11.1%, Online Co-Op 9.5%, Exploration 7.1%

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 24.1%, Online Co-Op 18.3%, Co-op 14%, Psychological Horror 13%, Multiplayer 9.7%

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: Horror 16.1%, Multiplayer 15.3%, Survival Horror 15%, Psychological Horror 10.7%, Co-op 9.5%

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: Survival Horror 19.4%, Multiplayer 19.4%, Horror 19%, Online Co-Op 13.1%, Psychological Horror 11.7%

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: Horror 16.4%, Multiplayer 15.6%, Survival Horror 14.2%, Online Co-Op 13%, Psychological Horror 10.2%

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 18.4%, Survival Horror 17.4%, Multiplayer 16.4%, Online Co-Op 13.4%, Psychological Horror 11.7%

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

Why similar: Horror 24.1%, Online Co-Op 20.4%, Survival Horror 15.9%, Co-op 11.9%, Psychological Horror 9.5%

"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 20.4%, Multiplayer 18.2%, Survival Horror 17.3%, Online Co-Op 14.9%, Psychological Horror 13.4%

PROJECT: PLAYTIME is a Free-to-Play multiplayer horror game where six players attempt to create one giant toy while surviving a terrifying monster that roams the toy factory. A seventh player controls the monster and is given only one goal: Find and kill everyone.

Why similar: Multiplayer 22.4%, Horror 20.1%, Survival Horror 18.6%, Online Co-Op 12.8%, Psychological Horror 6.5%

Play as a paranormal investigator in our hybrid between first person survival and psychological horror story game. Investigate a haunted forest with up to 5 players CO-OP, try to lift the curse, experience a tragic story and take decisions together. Will you survive or will you lose your soul?

Why similar: Horror 20.4%, Multiplayer 17.5%, Survival Horror 16.3%, Online Co-Op 12.7%, Psychological Horror 10.1%

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: Horror 17.2%, Survival Horror 13.4%, Multiplayer 12.2%, FPS 10%, Co-op 9.4%

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 20%, Multiplayer 17.8%, Survival Horror 15%, Co-op 13.7%, Online Co-Op 13.1%

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 35.6%, Psychological Horror 26.1%, Dark 10%, Puzzle 8.8%, FPS 8.1%

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: Horror 24.2%, Online Co-Op 20%, Multiplayer 15.3%, Co-op 12.4%, Dark 6.7%

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 18.2%, Online Co-Op 13.9%, Multiplayer 13.4%, Co-op 13.2%, Psychological Horror 11.6%

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 28.3%, Online Co-Op 20%, Multiplayer 19.3%, Psychological Horror 14.8%, Mystery 4%

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: Horror 17%, Survival Horror 15.1%, Multiplayer 14%, Online Co-Op 14%, Co-op 13%