60+ similar titles based on shared tags and player behavior. Themes include Psychological Horror, Atmospheric, First-Person, Adventure.
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.
POOLS
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.
Dreamcore
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?
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 23.2%, Psychological Horror 16.6%, Realistic 10.8%, Surreal 10.2%, Atmospheric 7.3%
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 16.6%, Underwater 13.9% ★, Psychological Horror 11.5%, Surreal 9.6%, Realistic 8%
Walking simulator. Explore cozy liminal spaces that feel unsettlingly familiar and spark your imagination, like a dream you’ve been in before.
Why similar: Walking Simulator 23.1%, Psychological Horror 14.8%, Underwater 12.2% ★, Surreal 9.2%, Exploration 8.5%
Explore, Listen and Observe. LIMINAL WATERS is a liminal space exploration game. Discover a large facility with diverse rooms and themes and be enchanted by the radiant beauty of Unreal Engine 5.6. Relaxation, anxiety, confusion or familiarity? The mysterious Poolrooms are waiting for you.
Why similar: Walking Simulator 39.5%, Surreal 17.2%, Realistic 14.7%, Relaxing 10.1%, Atmospheric 7.1%
Subliminal is a psychological horror game inspired by the urban legend of The Backrooms. Bleeding edge lighting and rendering, handcrafted open-ended levels, light and perspective-based puzzles, nostalgic spaces, unfamiliar faces, and a rotting feeling that something is not quite right.
Why similar: Psychological Horror 18.9%, Realistic 15.6%, Immersive Sim 15%, Surreal 14.9%, Mystery 12.6%
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 27.6%, Psychological Horror 20.8%, Realistic 14.2%, Exploration 9.2%, Mystery 9.2%
You are trapped in an endless underground passageway. Observe your surroundings carefully to reach "The Exit 8".
Why similar: Walking Simulator 25.8%, Psychological Horror 17%, Immersive Sim 15.9%, Surreal 10.1%, Exploration 9.3%
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 24.1%, Immersive Sim 16.7%, Psychological Horror 14.4%, Surreal 10.8%, Nonlinear 9.5%
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 22.5%, Psychological Horror 13.6%, Immersive Sim 12.2%, Surreal 11.7%, Realistic 11.1%
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 23.2%, Psychological Horror 16.7%, Realistic 11.6%, Nonlinear 9.2%, Immersive Sim 7.5%
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 41.3%, Walking Simulator 16%, Realistic 8.9%, Surreal 7.8%, Atmospheric 7.8%
Inside the Backrooms is a horror multiplayer game mixed with different mechanics that will make you spend an intense night with friends. Explore, think, interact, but be careful, it is rumored that there are several entities wishing to find you...
Why similar: Psychological Horror 39.8%, Mystery 14.4%, Exploration 14.2%, Atmospheric 12%, Adventure 8.2%
An exploration game that delves into the depths of loneliness. Wander through empty rooms, search for signs of an abandoned world, and listen to the sounds around you. No dangerous chases, just silence and an empty world to explore.
Why similar: Walking Simulator 26.5%, Psychological Horror 17.8%, Surreal 13.9%, Realistic 12.2%, Exploration 9.7%
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 36.1%, Psychological Horror 30.6%, Surreal 12.4%, Adventure 7.9%, Relaxing 6.8%
Welcome to a world where you are lost between consciousness and dreams. As you wander the dark corridors of an old hotel, face the games your mind plays on you. Your memories linger like a shadow following you. But there's nowhere to escape... Are you ready to confront your darkest fears?
Why similar: Psychological Horror 24.3%, Walking Simulator 21%, Immersive Sim 14.6%, Realistic 10.7%, Atmospheric 10.3%
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 24.2%, Psychological Horror 23.3%, Realistic 13.6%, Exploration 10.4%, Mystery 10.2%
DREAM LOGIC is a story driven first-person atmospheric horror game which takes place in liminal spaces. Explore various nostalgic, dreamlike, uncanny environments. But don't feel too safe, there's a sneaky creature watching your every move.
Why similar: Walking Simulator 26.3%, Psychological Horror 23.8%, Mystery 13.7%, Atmospheric 11.5%, Exploration 11.3%
Explore terrifying liminal spaces. Horror walking simulator with reality-bending platforming and supernatural threats. Get lost between dimensions.
Why similar: Realistic 21.8%, Adventure 18.4%, Exploration 17.7%, Psychological Horror 14.2%, Atmospheric 11.2%
An unsettling rogue-lite survival horror adventure. Iconic 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 26%, Psychological Horror 23.8%, Surreal 19.8%, Exploration 12.5%, Atmospheric 10.9%
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 22.9%, Realistic 20%, Immersive Sim 14.1%, Mystery 13.6%, Exploration 12.9%
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: Walking Simulator 21.4%, Psychological Horror 18.4%, Realistic 12.7%, Surreal 12.3%, Mystery 10.6%
Immerse yourself in the obscure and mysterious autumnal forest, where every wrong step could be your last. As you travel uncover the dark story behind this place, where beauty and danger have become as one.
Why similar: Walking Simulator 29%, Surreal 14.2%, Realistic 12.5%, Atmospheric 9.4%, Exploration 9%
Luto is a psychological horror experience where you take on the role of someone unable to leave their home. Every attempt to escape will lead you deeper into the unknown, where nothing is as it seems and everything will test your senses.
Why similar: Walking Simulator 29.8%, Psychological Horror 22.1%, Mystery 10.6%, Realistic 9.2%, Exploration 8.7%
Chapter-based Backrooms experience. Embark on a chilling journey through the unknown. Visuals based on early 2000's camcorders.
Why similar: Walking Simulator 28.5%, Immersive Sim 17.8%, Psychological Horror 16.9%, Realistic 10.5%, Exploration 10.4%
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 29.9%, Exploration 18.7%, Atmospheric 17.8%, Nonlinear 13.1%, Adventure 10%
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: Psychological Horror 51.3%, Escape Room 18.2% ★, Exploration 16%, Adventure 7.4%, Multiplayer 5%
You work in the cinema as an usher and accidentally fell into the Backrooms, now being trapped, needing to unravel the mysteries of the yellow rooms in order to get out of this place, but be careful, there are entities that will be in your way.
Why similar: Psychological Horror 24.3%, Surreal 16.7%, Mystery 14.1%, Realistic 14.1%, Exploration 11.5%
You're trapped in an endless loop within a liminal dimension, where each loop leads to increasingly unsettling places. Will you find the way out of this psychological horror? The game offers a unique déjà vu experience that blurs the lines between reality and illusion.
Why similar: Walking Simulator 27.7%, Psychological Horror 18.2%, Underwater 15.9% ★, Realistic 11%, Surreal 9.1%
Step into a liminal, cosmic horror experience set in an abandoned amusement park. Uncover the haunting narrative behind its twisted rides and empty tunnels to discover what lurks within a reality that shouldn't exist…
Why similar: Walking Simulator 25.7%, Psychological Horror 19.6%, Mystery 10.1%, Realistic 8.2%, Surreal 8.1%
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: Psychological Horror 33%, Realistic 22.8%, Nonlinear 19.5%, Atmospheric 14.2%, Adventure 6.5%
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: Walking Simulator 27.3%, Psychological Horror 22.7%, Surreal 13.8%, Exploration 10.6%, Mystery 7.5%
wandering into the uncanny concept of liminality, captured in DV tape format you explore what seems to be another dimension, lost in an endless space that looks human-made but isn't.
Why similar: Walking Simulator 66.1%, Atmospheric 19.9%, Exploration 9.6%, Adventure 3.5%, Indie 0.8%
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 40.4%, Psychological Horror 18.2%, Exploration 15.4%, Atmospheric 10.4%, Surreal 6.3%
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: Psychological Horror 41.7%, Realistic 22%, Atmospheric 13.6%, Exploration 12.2%, Adventure 6.2%
You're trapped in an endlessly looping art gallery — familiar, yet uncanny. If you can notice the changes, maybe you can find your way out.
Why similar: Walking Simulator 36%, Psychological Horror 25.3%, Immersive Sim 12.9%, Realistic 10%, Exploration 9.6%
A first-person exploration game where you walk through eerie and realistic spaces, searching for an exit. Powered by Unreal Engine's Lumen, it's perfect for those who enjoy quiet walks or simple games. Use the sandbox feature to create your own space! Requires a DirectX12-compatible GPU.
Why similar: Walking Simulator 91.5%, Adventure 7.1%, Singleplayer 1.4%
You are trapped on a train that runs forever. Keep an eye out for anomalies and find a way out.
Why similar: Walking Simulator 26.4%, Psychological Horror 19.6%, Immersive Sim 13%, Realistic 10.6%, Exploration 7.8%
The Backrooms: 1998 is a first-person found footage psychological horror survival game where it tells the story of a young teen after accidentally falling into the depths of The Backrooms in 1998. Roam freely, mark, explore and try unravel the story - however you are not alone. Don't scream.
Why similar: Psychological Horror 30.1%, Walking Simulator 22.5%, Realistic 15.8%, Escape Room 11.1% ★, Atmospheric 7%
Welcome to Liminal Lane. A short, single player, first person, atmospheric walking simulator. A nostalgic, surreal experience exploring Liminal Spaces. Uncover the secrets of Liminal Lane and escape the Lucid Dreams and Haunting Nightmares.
Why similar: Walking Simulator 52.2%, Exploration 17.6%, Atmospheric 12.2%, Adventure 10.1%, Dark 7.9%
Snap your own homemade liminal space photos using a mysterious SLR camera as you explore a variety of empty, strange, and familiar spaces.
Why similar: Walking Simulator 46.6%, Exploration 20.3%, Atmospheric 17.5%, Relaxing 7.7%, Adventure 6.5%
A slow burn walking sim with an interactive soundtrack and horror vibes. You explore abstract locations and create your own unique sound for each of them by moving around and using Monoliths.
Why similar: Walking Simulator 32.6%, Psychological Horror 21.2%, Surreal 18%, Atmospheric 9.7%, Exploration 6.9%
Wander through an interactive nightmare set within the confines of a once-happy household. Piece together the mystery behind a harrowing series of events while struggling to survive encounters with an entity that relentlessly stands in the way of finding absolution.
Why similar: Psychological Horror 25.5%, Walking Simulator 24.5%, Realistic 12.4%, Surreal 11.3%, Atmospheric 8.9%
Seybul Tech is a walking simulator. Navigate as an office employee, confronting peculiar encounters while in search of an exit from this enigmatic abyss.
Why similar: Walking Simulator 27.7%, Psychological Horror 20.3%, Surreal 14.9%, Realistic 8.8%, Exploration 8%
LiDAR Exploration Program is a relaxing atmospheric game with light horror elements, where you explore in complete darkness using a scanner to reveal the world around you.
Why similar: Walking Simulator 33.1%, Psychological Horror 25.5%, Atmospheric 14%, Exploration 13.3%, Adventure 7.8%
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 31.4%, Psychological Horror 23.3%, Realistic 15.8%, Atmospheric 10.2%, Surreal 9.5%
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: Surreal 39.3%, Psychological Horror 31.1%, Exploration 15.3%, Adventure 8.2%, Minimalist 4.3%
A Liminal Place RMSTER is a solitary game, and relaxing on some levels. ALPR Uses Body-Cam, Analog Horror and Found Footage style. Including realistic Liminal Spaces, and "Backrooms" levels.
Why similar: Immersive Sim 47.9%, Exploration 28.6%, Atmospheric 14.3%, Adventure 8.1%, Singleplayer 0.6%
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: Psychological Horror 28.6%, Surreal 23.1%, Exploration 13.4%, Atmospheric 12.3%, Mystery 11.6%
You woke up in some basement and don't remember who you are or how you ended up here... But what you do know is that you need to get out of here...
Why similar: Walking Simulator 30.2%, Psychological Horror 21.7%, Realistic 16.1%, Mystery 10.3%, Atmospheric 9.9%
CoRoT is a first-person psychological meta-horror game. Search for cassettes in a transforming house, unraveling its macabre past. A sinister atmosphere surrounds you as you try to understand what's happening and where you really are. Can you discover the truth hidden in its walls?
Why similar: Walking Simulator 23%, Psychological Horror 21.2%, Surreal 17.3%, Realistic 13.4%, Atmospheric 8.7%
RESTORER is a classic walking simulator set in an old, atmospheric mansion. Something roams the halls… It wants to share its secret—with the price being your sanity.
Why similar: Walking Simulator 33.3%, Psychological Horror 23.8%, Realistic 16%, Atmospheric 10.6%, Dark 4.9%
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: Psychological Horror 24.5%, Realistic 21.4%, Immersive Sim 17.4%, Atmospheric 9.7%, Dark 9.7%
A short horror experience rendered with a real-time VHS filter (grain, scan lines). Freely explore the spaces of a strange yellow maze. Independently created by a 12-year-old developer using UE5, it immerses you in a purely liminal space atmosphere.
Why similar: Psychological Horror 36.9%, Adventure 34.6%, Atmospheric 24.3%, Indie 2.3%, Singleplayer 1.9%
God's Basement is a first-person, narrative-driven, single player horror game. Uncover the secrets of an afterlife shrouded in mystery, as an entity known as "The Operator" leads you deeper into the fringes of a seemingly eternal purgatory.
Why similar: Walking Simulator 27.7%, Psychological Horror 20.6%, Mystery 9.8%, Atmospheric 8.9%, Realistic 8.8%
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 26.1%, Psychological Horror 25%, Atmospheric 12%, Mystery 10.4%, Dark 7.7%
Trapped in a hallucinatory, liminal-space style underground passageway, explore and unravel the endless "dead-end" paths to find a way forward. "Dead Path is a short ambient horror puzzle game that references Exit 8, but with a completely different core mechanic.
Why similar: Walking Simulator 29.8%, Psychological Horror 21.7%, Realistic 9.9%, Exploration 9.2%, Surreal 8.8%
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 35%, Psychological Horror 17.5%, Immersive Sim 16.8%, Realistic 15.1%, Exploration 11%
Sector 404 is a first-person anomaly horror game set in a crumbling Soviet housing block. After taking your medicine, your world begins to fracture. Climb from floor to floor, uncovering distorted anomalies and your own unraveling mind. Miss too much, and reality resets. Will you ever make it home?
Why similar: Walking Simulator 26.9%, Psychological Horror 19.8%, Realistic 12.6%, Immersive Sim 11.5%, Mystery 7.8%
Longing for light, a sunless world begins devouring itself. Every step shifts the landscape beneath you as you search for what remains of her.
Why similar: Walking Simulator 28%, Psychological Horror 18.6%, Surreal 16.7%, Mystery 11.1%, Exploration 8.6%
Get lost in a lucid dream, bending the lines between reality and fiction. Utilize the strange camera to navigate through the ghosts' mysterious residence. Find the purpose of your nocturnal visit in a vivid and dreamlike setting.
Why similar: Walking Simulator 27.4%, Psychological Horror 26.3%, Surreal 14%, Mystery 11.6%, Atmospheric 11.4%
