
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".
60+ similar titles based on shared tags and player behavior. Themes include Psychological Horror, First-Person, Adventure, Atmospheric.

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".

Backrooms: Exit from Supermarket
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?

Enter The Backrooms
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.
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: Psychological Horror 15.6%, Narration 14%, Horror 13.6%, Walking Simulator 12.8%, Story Rich 8.7%
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: Psychological Horror 26.1%, Walking Simulator 24.3%, Horror 20.1%, Surreal 12%, First-Person 11.8%
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: Horror 31.6%, Psychological Horror 20%, Puzzle 11.9%, First-Person 8.4%, Exploration 7.4%
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: Psychological Horror 17.4%, Walking Simulator 15.1%, Horror 13.9%, Exploration 8.5%, Puzzle 8.4%
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: Psychological Horror 17.5%, Surreal 16.6%, Horror 15.3%, Walking Simulator 15.1%, Exploration 9.5%
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: Horror 20.6%, Psychological Horror 19.8%, Walking Simulator 16%, First-Person 11.2%, Exploration 9.1%
Explore terrifying liminal spaces. Horror walking simulator with reality-bending platforming and supernatural threats. Get lost between dimensions.
Why similar: Puzzle 18.4%, Drama 15.8%, Logic 12.9%, Exploration 12.5%, First-Person 11.8%
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 21.4%, Psychological Horror 16.2%, Horror 14.1%, Surreal 13.8%, Puzzle 11.9%
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: Horror 23.1%, Psychological Horror 19.6%, First-Person 15.2%, Puzzle 13.4%, Dark 10.1%
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 28.6%, Psychological Horror 26.2%, First-Person 13.8%, Exploration 9%, Atmospheric 7.8%
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: Psychological Horror 19%, Horror 16.9%, Puzzle 12.3%, First-Person 12.1%, Exploration 11.1%
A fever-dream-like puzzle horror game. Descend to the depths of a sleeping curse, survive every floor and find your way out of the never ending nightmare.
Why similar: Walking Simulator 17.3%, Psychological Horror 15.6%, Horror 14%, Surreal 12.7%, Puzzle 9.3%
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 16.4%, Horror 15.3%, Surreal 12.8%, Exploration 8%, Cinematic 8%
Backrooms: Found Footage is a single-player horror game where you are the main character trying to survive the Backrooms. Curiosity wins and you decide to explore this weird place that you got trapped in. What could go wrong?
Why similar: Horror 18.6%, Psychological Horror 16.2%, First-Person 16%, Exploration 15%, Dark 7.5%
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 19.3%, Horror 16.8%, Puzzle 12.4%, First-Person 12.4%, Exploration 11.5%
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 27.8%, Horror 18.3%, Psychological Horror 17.8%, First-Person 11.9%, Exploration 11.5%
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: Narration 15.6%, Walking Simulator 14.5%, Psychological Horror 13.5%, Cinematic 9.2%, Drama 8.3%
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 19.3%, Psychological Horror 14.8%, Surreal 14.4%, First-Person 13.9%, Horror 13.8%
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 39.8%, Walking Simulator 23.2%, Puzzle 13.5%, Dark 11.8%, Atmospheric 6.2%
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: Puzzle 19.1%, Horror 18.2%, Psychological Horror 18.1%, First-Person 17.5%, Dark 9.1%
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 26.8%, Horror 15.7%, Psychological Horror 15.4%, Exploration 13.5%, First-Person 13.1%
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 21.7%, Psychological Horror 17.8%, First-Person 13.6%, Walking Simulator 13.3%, Story Rich 11.5%
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 22.3%, Psychological Horror 21.2%, Horror 13.1%, Exploration 9.7%, First-Person 9.6%
Descend deep into the nightmare that seamlessly blends with reality in this uncanny horror escape room game. Can you find your way out of the horrid mansion or will you succumb to your fears? Can you face and overcome your past, or will it break you?
Why similar: Narration 15.9%, Walking Simulator 13.4%, Psychological Horror 13%, Horror 11.3%, First-Person 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 22.4%, Psychological Horror 21.1%, Horror 13.5%, Surreal 9.8%, First-Person 9.1%
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 28%, Psychological Horror 23.5%, Surreal 14.4%, Exploration 11%, Mystery 7.8%
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 26.9%, Horror 17.8%, Puzzle 15.4%, Exploration 14.6%, First-Person 14.1%
Chapter-based Backrooms experience. Embark on a chilling journey through the unknown. Visuals based on early 2000's camcorders.
Why similar: Walking Simulator 22%, Psychological Horror 16.6%, Horror 14.6%, First-Person 11%, Exploration 10.5%
"From the Other Side" immerses you in a chilling first-person psychological horror game. You are Steve, a security guard on his first night at work, tasked with monitoring security cameras and fixing unsettling anomalies that will make you question reality.
Why similar: Walking Simulator 18.3%, Psychological Horror 16.7%, Horror 14.7%, Drama 11.9%, First-Person 9.2%
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: Horror 17.8%, Psychological Horror 16.8%, Puzzle 13.9%, Cinematic 12.6%, Exploration 11.7%
The Hotel is a psychological horror thriller in which the player will have to face the evil living within the walls of a lonely hotel. But more importantly, the player will have to decide what this evil is to him. Maybe the nature of this evil is deeper than it seems at first glance.
Why similar: Walking Simulator 13.9%, Psychological Horror 13%, Horror 11.7%, Drama 9.6%, Surreal 8.3%
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 36.6%, Exploration 20.9%, Atmospheric 12.9%, First-Person 8.2%, Walking Simulator 7.9%
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: Horror 34.4%, Psychological Horror 30.4%, First-Person 19%, Atmospheric 8.9%, Adventure 3.8%
Jumpscare Simulator is a sci-fi horror game featuring a story-driven main game and two additional game modes. Pass through doors carefully, battle the simulation, and try to fall from your seat as little as possible!
Why similar: Psychological Horror 20.1%, Walking Simulator 19.3%, Horror 18%, Puzzle 11.2%, First-Person 8.8%
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 45.7%, Psychological Horror 27.4%, First-Person 12.3%, Exploration 8.8%, Adventure 2.5%
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 16.2%, Surreal 14.3%, Horror 13.7%, Mystery 9.4%, First-Person 9.4%
Take on night shifts at a remote motel, handle unsettling guests, and navigate eerie events. Experience Emma’s unnerving apartment life, feel the unease of being watched, and question what’s real as the line between reality and nightmare blurs.
Why similar: Walking Simulator 21.1%, Psychological Horror 19.8%, Horror 15.3%, Drama 14.5%, Story Rich 10.9%
A psychological first-person horror game where you enter a memory-erasing protocol and relive a trauma. Uncover dark secrets, and experience fear through immersive atmosphere.
Why similar: Walking Simulator 21%, Psychological Horror 19.5%, Horror 17.8%, First-Person 8.7%, Story Rich 6.8%
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 17.9%, Psychological Horror 16.9%, Horror 15.1%, First-Person 8.8%, Story Rich 8.1%
The Backrooms: Found Footage is a survival horror game with rogue-lite elements, where you explore 600 million miles of randomly generated office space, contend with entities, collect unique and useful lore- all while attempting to maintain your sanity as you try to escape.
Why similar: Walking Simulator 21.1%, Psychological Horror 17.3%, Surreal 17%, Horror 14.9%, First-Person 10.7%
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 21.6%, Psychological Horror 19.8%, Horror 17.4%, Story Rich 8.8%, Dark 7%
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 17.2%, Psychological Horror 16.7%, Horror 15%, Surreal 7.8%, Story Rich 7%
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 30.1%, Psychological Horror 22.4%, Horror 16.3%, First-Person 13.1%, Exploration 12.6%
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 28.2%, Psychological Horror 24.6%, First-Person 18.3%, Logic 11.6%, Exploration 9.9%
Left Alone plunges you into a first-person psychological horror journey, where darkness and memories intertwine. As secrets emerge from shadows, use your wits to solve puzzles and explore haunting, forgotten locations. Every step echoes with the past; can you face the truths that await?
Why similar: Walking Simulator 16.8%, Psychological Horror 12.5%, Horror 11.3%, Logic 11.1%, Puzzle 8.9%
Enter the abandoned arcade after your car has crashed, and the shelter you were looking for is trying to eat you alive in this dark mystery-horror adventure. Solve mysteries, keep JANITOR satisfied, and always be aware of what's behind your back.
Why similar: Psychological Horror 16.4%, Surreal 16.2%, Horror 14.2%, First-Person 10.2%, Puzzle 10%
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: Psychological Horror 16%, Surreal 14.9%, Walking Simulator 13.7%, Horror 11.9%, Puzzle 8.5%
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 18.3%, Psychological Horror 16%, Surreal 15.1%, Horror 12.8%, First-Person 9.4%
Welcome to the Backrooms is a indie horror game developed by Brickmade Productions. This game will bring you the ultimate Backrooms survival experience, crafting, lore, entities, and a very in-depth health system which will keep you checking your watch non-stop.
Why similar: Horror 34.5%, Psychological Horror 25.5%, First-Person 20%, Exploration 20%
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 18.7%, Psychological Horror 17.7%, Horror 15.8%, First-Person 10.4%, Puzzle 9.2%
Find a way out.
Why similar: Walking Simulator 21.7%, Psychological Horror 19.6%, Surreal 16.5%, Horror 16.3%, First-Person 11%
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 25%, Psychological Horror 23.1%, Surreal 15.9%, First-Person 10.5%, Exploration 9.1%
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 43.8%, Psychological Horror 22.9%, First-Person 19.9%, Adventure 9.5%, Singleplayer 2.1%
This story-driven adventure follows a mystery of death and despair from reality into the surreal realms of objective memories and subjective experiences. Search the mind, solve puzzles, and unravel the dark truth in this psychological thriller.
Why similar: Psychological Horror 18.5%, Walking Simulator 17.7%, Surreal 16.9%, Story Rich 8.7%, First-Person 8.3%
Explore an abandoned building, encountering puzzles and clues to discover what happened, as you try to escape in both your nightmares and the waking world. Be immersed in the hauntingly beautiful 3D atmosphere in this puzzle exploration mystery game.
Why similar: Walking Simulator 19.8%, Horror 14.1%, Puzzle 13.5%, First-Person 11.5%, Exploration 11.1%
Exit the Abyss is a psychological horror game where you are trapped in an abandoned, haunted hospital. The game focuses on an oppressive atmosphere, exploration, and mysteries, with minimalist puzzle elements. Immerse yourself in a distorted reality, confront your fears, and find the way out!
Why similar: Walking Simulator 14.5%, Psychological Horror 11.4%, Surreal 10.1%, Horror 10.1%, Cinematic 9.9%
A first-person atmospheric horror-puzzle game that focuses on the narrative to tie together the gruesome world with creative puzzles. Explore the mind of a twisted serial killer who wants nothing else than to show his work of art as well as tell his story to the world.
Why similar: Narration 22.5%, Horror 17%, Psychological Horror 12.6%, Puzzle 11.2%, Atmospheric 7.2%
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 19%, Psychological Horror 16.9%, Horror 14.1%, First-Person 9.9%, Cinematic 9.9%
The Shattering is a first-person, story-driven, psychological thriller. Its defining features are the dynamic environments, beautiful aesthetic and intriguing story. The gameplay is meant to submerge you in the mind of John, as you take each step forward into the twisted mystery of what happened.
Why similar: Adventure 16.7%, Horror 15.8%, First-Person 14.8%, Walking Simulator 14.5%, Psychological Horror 11.6%