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Games Like Shifting To The Backrooms

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  1. #1 Backrooms: Exit from Supermarket
    97% matchMixed65% of 60 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: Psychological Horror 17.9%, Horror 15.7%, Walking Simulator 14.8%, Story Rich 10%, First-Person 9.5%

  2. #2 The Complex: Found Footage
    96% matchVery Positive93% of 9,623 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: Horror 20.2%, Psychological Horror 19.2%, Walking Simulator 15.8%, First-Person 10.9%, Exploration 8.9%

  3. #3 Enter The Backrooms
    96% matchVery Positive88% of 1,046 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: Psychological Horror 26%, Walking Simulator 24.3%, Horror 20.1%, Surreal 12%, First-Person 11.8%

  4. #4 Inside the Backrooms
    95% matchVery Positive80% of 46,110 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 31.7%, Psychological Horror 19.9%, Puzzle 12%, First-Person 8.4%, Exploration 7.4%

  5. #5 DREAM LOGIC
    94% matchVery Positive90% of 394 reviews2022
    Dev: Teleopsia Games
    Windows
    Median: 48 minMean: 2.2 hrs≥1hr: 38%

    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 17.3%, Walking Simulator 15.2%, Horror 13.9%, Exploration 8.5%, Puzzle 8.5%

  6. #6 Liminal Exit
    93% matchMostly Positive75% of 102 reviews2025
    Dev: LittleRedDread
    Windows

    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 20.7%, Psychological Horror 15.6%, Horror 13.6%, Surreal 13.3%, Puzzle 11.6%

  7. #7 Backrooms Doors
    94% matchMixed68% of 85 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 22%, Psychological Horror 18.6%, First-Person 14.4%, Puzzle 12.9%, Dark 9.6%

  8. #8 Transliminal: Beyond The Backrooms
    92% matchVery Positive93% of 130 reviews2022
    Dev: Corey JeffriesPub: Spatial Quotient
    Windows

    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: Psychological Horror 17.5%, Surreal 16.6%, Horror 15.4%, Walking Simulator 15.2%, Exploration 9.5%

  9. #9 Backrooms: Exploration
    91% matchMostly Positive74% of 86 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%, Psychological Horror 17.1%, First-Person 13.2%, Walking Simulator 12.9%, Story Rich 11.1%

  10. #10 MIND CORRIDORS: Paroniria
    91% matchVery Positive96% of 70 reviews2022
    Dev: Heartbyte Studios
    Windows

    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%, Psychological Horror 15.2%, Horror 13.7%, Surreal 12.4%, Puzzle 9.2%

  11. #11 Hotel 188
    89% matchVery Positive88% of 77 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 27.6%, Psychological Horror 25.1%, First-Person 13.3%, Exploration 8.6%, Atmospheric 7.5%

  12. #12 God's Basement
    90% matchMostly Positive74% of 1,316 reviews2018
    Dev: Erebus
    Windows
    Median: 3.0 hrsMean: 3.7 hrs≥1hr: 70%

    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 16.5%, Psychological Horror 15.5%, Horror 14%, First-Person 8.1%, Story Rich 7.4%

  13. #13 Project Liminal 2
    88% matchVery Positive90% of 63 reviews2026
    Dev: AquaHeaven StudiosPub: TXC
    Windows

    Explore terrifying liminal spaces. Horror walking simulator with reality-bending platforming and supernatural threats. Get lost between dimensions.

    Why similar: Puzzle 19.7%, Logic 13.7%, Exploration 13.2%, First-Person 12.5%, Psychological Horror 10.2%

  14. #14 Backrooms Descent: Multiplayer Horror
    89% matchMixed47% of 108 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: Psychological Horror 18.3%, Horror 16.4%, Puzzle 12%, First-Person 11.7%, Exploration 10.7%

  15. #15 The Backrooms 1998 - Found Footage Survival Horror Game
    86% matchVery Positive85% of 801 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: Psychological Horror 36.5%, Walking Simulator 21.6%, Puzzle 12.6%, Dark 10.9%, Atmospheric 5.7%

  16. #16 Backrooms: Lost Tape
    87% matchVery Positive83% of 1,343 reviews2022
    Dev: Cortez Productions
    Windows
    Median: 1.2 hrsMean: 2.7 hrs≥1hr: 60%

    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%, Horror 15.1%, Surreal 12.5%, Exploration 7.9%, Cinematic 7.8%

  17. #17 EXPEDITION TO THE BACKROOMS
    86% matchMixed67% of 159 reviews2025
    Dev: 1_Cutter_1
    Windows

    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%, Horror 17.7%, Psychological Horror 17.1%, First-Person 11.5%, Exploration 11.2%

  18. #18 LIMINAL SHIFT
    85% matchVery Positive82% of 252 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 18.5%, Psychological Horror 14.1%, Surreal 13.8%, First-Person 13.4%, Horror 13.3%

  19. #19 Liminal City
    83% matchMostly Positive73% of 91 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 21.5%, Psychological Horror 20.3%, Horror 12.6%, Exploration 9.3%, First-Person 9.2%

  20. #20 The Backrooms
    84% matchMixed63% of 122 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: Puzzle 18.3%, Horror 17.5%, Psychological Horror 17.2%, First-Person 16.7%, Dark 8.6%

  21. #21 Return the Backrooms
    84% 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 19.2%, Horror 16.8%, Puzzle 12.5%, First-Person 12.4%, Exploration 11.5%

  22. #22 Backrooms: Found Footage
    81% matchVery Positive82% of 318 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: Horror 18.5%, Psychological Horror 15.2%, First-Person 14.8%, Exploration 14.4%, Dark 7%

  23. #23 SKUF BACKROOMS
    82% matchMixed59% of 96 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 21.5%, Psychological Horror 20.1%, Horror 12.9%, Surreal 9.3%, First-Person 8.7%

  24. #24 Liminalcore
    80% matchVery Positive83% of 688 reviews2024
    Dev: Shadow Owl Studios
    Windows
    Median: 2.1 hrsMean: 2.7 hrs≥1hr: 74%

    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 27.3%, Psychological Horror 22.7%, Surreal 13.8%, Exploration 10.6%, Mystery 7.5%

  25. #25 Backrooms: What's Next
    81% matchMixed65% 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 26.3%, Horror 17.3%, Puzzle 15.1%, Exploration 14.2%, First-Person 13.8%

  26. #26 Subliminal
    78% matchMostly Positive72% of 3,177 reviews2026
    Dev: Accidental StudiosPub: Gone Shootin
    Windows
    Median: 2.7 hrsMean: 4.3 hrs≥1hr: 81%

    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 17.6%, Surreal 15.9%, Horror 14.7%, First-Person 10%, Story Rich 9.3%

  27. #27 Jumpscare Simulator: System Breach
    78% matchVery Positive91% of 89 reviews2025
    Dev: Durultay Games
    Windows

    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 19.8%, Walking Simulator 19.2%, Horror 17.8%, Puzzle 11.2%, First-Person 8.7%

  28. #28 The Backrooms Regret
    79% matchMixed61% of 150 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: Horror 17.3%, Psychological Horror 16.2%, Puzzle 13.6%, Cinematic 12.2%, Exploration 11.3%

  29. #29 The Backrooms
    82% 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 26.9%, Horror 15.8%, Psychological Horror 15.3%, Exploration 13.5%, First-Person 13.1%

  30. #30 NOCLIP
    79% matchMostly Positive71% of 55 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 21.6%, Psychological Horror 16.1%, Horror 14.3%, First-Person 10.8%, Exploration 10.3%

  31. #31 Backrooms Rec.
    77% matchMixed70% of 1,769 reviews2024
    Dev: Liminal Logic
    Windows
    Median: 2.5 hrsMean: 3.9 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: Horror 33.2%, Psychological Horror 28.9%, First-Person 18.3%, Atmospheric 8.3%, Realistic 4.3%

  32. #32 Escape the Backrooms
    71% matchVery Positive91% of 139,253 reviews2025
    Dev: Fancy GamesPub: Secret Mode
    Windows
    Median: 7.1 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 45.9%, Psychological Horror 27.2%, First-Person 12.3%, Exploration 8.8%, Adventure 2.5%

  33. #33 White Room Protocol
    76% matchMostly Positive78% of 55 reviews2025
    Dev: Lefto Studio
    Windows

    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 20.4%, Psychological Horror 18.8%, Horror 17.2%, First-Person 8.4%, Story Rich 6.6%

  34. #34 EMOTIONLESS : The Last Ticket
    74% matchVery Positive83% of 137 reviews2025
    Dev: X1 Games
    Windows

    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 16.9%, Psychological Horror 16.3%, Horror 14.8%, Surreal 7.7%, Story Rich 6.9%

  35. #35 The Backrooms: Unbounded
    75% matchMostly Positive76% of 678 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 18.3%, Psychological Horror 17.2%, Horror 15.5%, First-Person 10.1%, Puzzle 9.1%

  36. #36 Nightmare Shift
    73% matchMostly Positive75% of 236 reviews2025
    Dev: Binary Lunar
    Windows

    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 22.9%, Psychological Horror 21.3%, Horror 16.6%, Story Rich 11.7%, First-Person 11.5%

  37. #37 Welcome To The Backrooms
    77% matchMixed46% of 148 reviews2022
    Dev: Brickmade ProductionsPub: Brickmade Productions
    Windows · Mac

    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 32.2%, Psychological Horror 23.7%, First-Person 18.7%, Exploration 18.7%, Realistic 6.7%

  38. #38 The Backrooms: Found Footage
    76% matchMostly Positive71% of 62 reviews2022
    Dev: BaddWeatherPub: Euclid Games
    Windows

    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 20.7%, Psychological Horror 16.8%, Surreal 16.6%, Horror 14.6%, First-Person 10.5%

  39. #39 Within the Backrooms
    74% matchVery Positive95% of 198 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: Surreal 36.5%, Exploration 20.8%, Atmospheric 12.8%, First-Person 8.2%, Walking Simulator 8.1%

  40. #40 Reflection
    72% matchVery Positive84% of 247 reviews2025
    Dev: JustTomcuk
    Windows

    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%, Psychological Horror 19%, Horror 16.8%, Story Rich 8.5%, Dark 6.7%

  41. #41 The Third Shift
    70% matchVery Positive98% of 50 reviews2026
    Dev: Teebowah Games
    Windows

    In this Game Boy styled horror game, uncover the mystery of the Roanoke Museum of History and Wonder. Get lost in its maze-like exhibits, solve peculiar puzzles, and survive being hunted by grotesque creatures from the controversial Human Body Exhibit. Can you leave the museum alive?

    Why similar: Walking Simulator 30.4%, Horror 26.9%, Puzzle 17.3%, Mystery 9.9%, Adventure 5.5%

  42. #42 MIRROR MIRROR
    71% matchMixed70% of 69 reviews2025
    Dev: ZeroZeroThirteen
    Windows

    MIRROR MIRROR is a first-person psychological horror game. You repeatedly find yourself in a house where you find presence of unknown entities. Go through unreal experiences in the house and uncover the secrets of your fractured mind. Experience the tension and fear in the repeating space.

    Why similar: Walking Simulator 16.5%, Psychological Horror 16.4%, Horror 13.1%, Surreal 11.1%, First-Person 7.9%

  43. #43 Luto
    69% matchVery Positive85% of 1,263 reviews2025
    Dev: Broken Bird Games
    Windows
    Median: 5.2 hrsMean: 5.6 hrs≥1hr: 87%

    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 18.3%, Psychological Horror 17.1%, Cinematic 11.5%, Story Rich 9.3%, Puzzle 7.8%

  44. #44 Anomalies Detective
    71% matchMostly Positive75% of 74 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 30.2%, Psychological Horror 22.3%, Horror 16.3%, First-Person 13.1%, Exploration 12.6%

  45. #45 The Backrooms Experiment
    73% 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 41.6%, Psychological Horror 21.6%, First-Person 18.9%, Adventure 9%, Realistic 5.2%

  46. #46 The Hotel
    72% matchMostly Positive79% of 92 reviews2022
    Dev: Constant ArtPub: Constant_Art
    Windows

    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 15.5%, Psychological Horror 14.3%, Horror 13%, Surreal 9.1%, First-Person 8.1%

  47. #47 Lost Hope: Backrooms
    68% matchMixed68% of 100 reviews2026
    Dev: mdvdPub: Lost Hope games
    Windows

    Explore 20+ handcrafted levels filled with puzzles, secrets, and hidden lore. Collect, trade, and upgrade your tools as you uncover the story behind a realistic world full of danger and discovery.

    Why similar: Horror 28.2%, Psychological Horror 24.5%, First-Person 18.3%, Logic 11.6%, Exploration 9.9%

  48. #48 Left Alone
    73% matchMostly Positive75% of 643 reviews2016
    Dev: SpeedTutor
    Windows
    Median: 2.5 hrsMean: 3.5 hrs≥1hr: 78%

    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 16.9%, Psychological Horror 12.5%, Horror 11.4%, Logic 11.2%, Puzzle 8.9%

  49. #49 CoRoT
    69% matchMixed67% of 55 reviews2025
    Dev: Azteck Game Studios
    Windows

    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 15.6%, Surreal 14.5%, Walking Simulator 13.5%, Horror 11.7%, Puzzle 8.4%

  50. #50 Prison Loop
    70% matchMostly Positive74% of 69 reviews2024
    Dev: Leakage Games
    Windows

    Embark on a journey of anomalies and repetition in "Prison Loop," a captivating indie puzzle game. Trapped in a mysterious temporal loop within a high-security prison, your objective is to observe anomalies throughout the environment.

    Why similar: Walking Simulator 16.6%, Psychological Horror 14.8%, Surreal 12.7%, Horror 11.6%, First-Person 8.7%

  51. #51 POOLS
    65% matchOverwhelmingly Positive95% of 6,218 reviews2024
    Dev: Tensori
    Windows · Mac · Linux
    Median: 1.7 hrsMean: 6.5 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 24.6%, Psychological Horror 22.3%, Surreal 15.5%, First-Person 10%, Exploration 8.7%

  52. #52 Implements of Hell
    70% matchMostly Positive75% of 103 reviews2021
    Dev: PsychoRavens
    Windows

    Implements of Hell is a first-person psychological horror game. Explore the mysteries, unlock the secrets, and change the outcome in a slow-paced atmospheric, and extremely horrifying experience.

    Why similar: Walking Simulator 18.7%, Psychological Horror 15.5%, Horror 13%, Cinematic 8.6%, Puzzle 7.2%

  53. #53 The Complex: Expedition
    64% matchVery Positive89% of 2,327 reviews2025
    Dev: pgWave
    Windows
    Median: 1.6 hrsMean: 10.1 hrs≥1hr: 73%

    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 19.4%, Psychological Horror 18%, Cinematic 11%, Exploration 10.5%, Story Rich 10.3%

  54. #54 Exit The Abyss
    67% matchMostly Positive72% of 79 reviews2025
    Dev: Veloneer Games
    Windows

    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 14.4%, Psychological Horror 11.1%, Horror 10%, Surreal 9.9%, Cinematic 9.7%

  55. #55 50 Floors: The Paranormal Investigators Prologue
    67% matchMostly Positive76% of 477 reviews2024
    Dev: Arsonist Studio
    Windows

    Find a way out.

    Why similar: Walking Simulator 20.8%, Psychological Horror 18.6%, Surreal 15.7%, Horror 15.6%, First-Person 10.5%

  56. #56 JANITOR BLEEDS
    68% matchVery Positive87% of 270 reviews2022
    Dev: KorpusPub: Bonus Stage Publishing
    Windows
    Median: 2.3 hrsMean: 5.0 hrs≥1hr: 75%

    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 14.3%, First-Person 10.2%, Puzzle 10%

  57. #57 Shift 87
    66% matchVery Positive88% of 208 reviews2024
    Dev: PixelsplitPub: Daedalic Entertainment
    Windows · Mac
    Median: 2.8 hrsMean: 3.8 hrs≥1hr: 84%

    Your task today: Memorize your environment and report any anomalies. Good luck with your shift! "Shift 87" is an observation horror game with subtle anomalies and unsettling occurrences.

    Why similar: Walking Simulator 23.4%, Psychological Horror 20.7%, First-Person 11.8%, Horror 10.6%, Puzzle 10.3%

  58. #58 Dreamcore
    64% matchVery Positive89% of 1,683 reviews2025
    Dev: MontraluzPub: Tlön Industries
    Windows
    Median: 2.1 hrsMean: 4.2 hrs≥1hr: 71%

    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 17.9%, Psychological Horror 15.7%, Surreal 14.8%, Horror 12.5%, First-Person 9.2%

  59. #59 Don't Be Afraid 2
    66% matchMostly Positive73% of 257 reviews2024
    Dev: Eneida Games
    Windows

    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: Walking Simulator 16%, Psychological Horror 15.3%, Horror 13.4%, First-Person 9.3%, Puzzle 8.9%

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