Games Like The Backrooms: Found Footage

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 16.7%, Collectathon 16.6%, Procedural Generation 14.8%, Psychological Horror 13.8%, Horror 9.8%

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: Surreal 17.6%, Walking Simulator 14.7%, Procedural Generation 13.4%, Psychological Horror 13.1%, Roguelite 11.2%

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: Dungeon Crawler 24.6%, Psychological Horror 17.6%, Roguelike 17.4%, Roguelite 17.3%, Horror 15.2%

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: Lore-Rich 18.3%, Nonlinear 13.8%, Dungeon Crawler 12.5%, Procedural Generation 11.1%, Horror 9.3%

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 38.7%, Walking Simulator 29.6%, Realistic 17.2%, Action 7.9%, 3D 6.7%

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: Dungeon Crawler 29.7%, Roguelite 20.8%, First-Person 11.3%, Realistic 11.3%, Psychological Horror 11.2%

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: Dungeon Crawler 17.4%, Procedural Generation 13.7%, Roguelite 13.2%, Nonlinear 12.6%, Psychological Horror 11.2%

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: Exploration 18.5%, Horror 17.7%, Realistic 16.7%, First-Person 16%, Psychological Horror 15.8%

Noclipped is a Survival Horror Adventure game located in the Backrooms. Explore infinite levels, collect resources, fight or flee from dangerous beings and survive in the harsh environments of the Backrooms.

Why similar: Procedural Generation 21.9%, Exploration 15.5%, First-Person 14.6%, Walking Simulator 14.6%, Horror 14.4%

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: Surreal 23.1%, Procedural Generation 18.7%, Psychological Horror 17.8%, Horror 12%, Exploration 10.7%

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 23%, Horror 22.8%, Procedural Generation 14.9%, Realistic 10.3%, First-Person 9.4%

You have found a camera with a footage in it. For some reason you can't rewind the video, and as soon as you try winding it forward you find yourself in the Backrooms. Figure out whats in the footage and try to ESCAPE AS FAST AS POSSIBLE!

Why similar: Dungeon Crawler 23.5%, Walking Simulator 19.8%, Psychological Horror 18.8%, Horror 14.5%, Exploration 10%

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

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: Walking Simulator 20.1%, Psychological Horror 18.9%, Horror 18.3%, First-Person 11.1%, Exploration 10.7%

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 33.6%, Psychological Horror 21.6%, Dungeon Crawler 16%, First-Person 10.2%, Exploration 8.6%

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 22.5%, Psychological Horror 21%, Horror 17.1%, First-Person 11.7%, Story Rich 9.6%

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: Lore-Rich 21.9%, Surreal 18%, Psychological Horror 16.2%, Horror 14.1%, Exploration 9.8%

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 21.2%, Psychological Horror 19.4%, First-Person 15.7%, Realistic 14.3%, Surreal 10.9%

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 20%, Psychological Horror 17.6%, Walking Simulator 17.2%, Realistic 14.3%, First-Person 14.1%

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 26.4%, Psychological Horror 19.4%, Realistic 11.3%, Horror 11.1%, Exploration 10.9%

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%, Nonlinear 17.7%, Surreal 16.2%, Psychological Horror 12.1%, Horror 8.9%

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 28.3%, Lore-Rich 26.6%, Nonlinear 16.4%, Exploration 14%, Walking Simulator 5.7%

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 27.7%, Exploration 13.2%, Psychological Horror 12.2%, Horror 11.6%, First-Person 10.8%

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: Dungeon Crawler 20.5%, Surreal 17.7%, Psychological Horror 13.9%, Horror 10.7%, Realistic 9.7%

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: Dungeon Crawler 21.9%, Psychological Horror 20.3%, Horror 17.2%, First-Person 12%, Exploration 11.7%

THE_ABYSS_HAS_WALLS takes you into Ad Infinitum (also known as "The Backrooms") like never seen before. Review footage. Document fate.

Why similar: Horror 33.3%, Procedural Generation 30%, Exploration 15.9%, Action 12.9%, 3D 7.9%

SKUF BACKROOMS is a psychological horror game that takes the player to the Backrooms level, consisting of intertwining transition zones of post-Soviet living spaces.

Why similar: Walking Simulator 25.5%, Psychological Horror 18.4%, Surreal 12.1%, Horror 11%, Realistic 10.6%

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

Why similar: Exploration 20.4%, Realistic 16.6%, First-Person 16.3%, Action 13.8%, Psychological Horror 12.8%

Explore 120+ Backrooms levels in a massive single‑player survival adventure. Build, craft, fight, or just wander endless liminal spaces shaped by the community.

Why similar: Dungeon Crawler 22.3%, Lore-Rich 20.6%, Nonlinear 17.7%, Horror 14.4%, Exploration 9.5%

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 27.3%, Psychological Horror 25.7%, First-Person 19.9%, Exploration 12.8%, 3D 10.7%

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: Psychological Horror 20.1%, Horror 16.6%, Exploration 14.5%, First-Person 13.4%, Realistic 12.9%

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 19%, Psychological Horror 13.5%, Horror 9.9%, Nonlinear 9.6%, Roguelike 9.4%

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 38.9%, Psychological Horror 26.4%, Exploration 12.1%, First-Person 11.6%, 3D 6.3%

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 30.6%, Psychological Horror 15%, Horror 14.4%, Exploration 12.1%, Realistic 11%

Nothing but the stink of old, moist carpets, the madness of mono-yellow, and the blinding light of fluorescent bulbs at maximum hum-buzz. Over 600 million sq. miles of randomly segmented rooms. God save you if you hear something wandering nearby, because it sure as hell has heard you.

Why similar: Horror 29.1%, Psychological Horror 24.1%, Walking Simulator 19.6%, Abstract 11.1%, First-Person 7.1%

Explore an infinite procedurally-generated abandoned juvie as you try to survive a monstrous egg with legs named Egghead Gumpty that’s hiding in the building. He can watch you from anywhere, so catch him stalking you before it’s too late in this unique horror experience.

Why similar: Lore-Rich 18.8%, Walking Simulator 17.1%, Surreal 15.6%, Psychological Horror 13.4%, Horror 11.6%

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 22.1%, Nonlinear 18%, Surreal 15.5%, Psychological Horror 12.9%, Horror 10.3%

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: Nonlinear 24.5%, Horror 20.7%, Psychological Horror 19.5%, First-Person 12.8%, Realistic 11.4%

A roguelite multiplayer Backrooms game that bases itself on The Backrooms Deluxe's levels and expands on the mechanics, levels, networking and enemy AI.

Why similar: Walking Simulator 34.4%, Roguelite 21.6%, First-Person 12.1%, Exploration 11.8%, Roguelike 10.8%

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 24.7%, Psychological Horror 17.3%, Surreal 17.1%, Nonlinear 12%, Realistic 9.6%

A procedural first-person horror adventure. You are on your own after something goes terribly wrong in this top-secret containment facility. Collect items to aid in your escape and try to uncover the truth, as horror lurks behind every door. Can you make it out alive?

Why similar: Surreal 18.5%, Procedural Generation 17.3%, Lore-Rich 17.1%, Horror 15.1%, Exploration 10.7%

Backrooms: Realm of Shadows is a horror game that takes place in a seemingly endless maze of interconnected rooms and hallways, known as the Backrooms.

Why similar: Psychological Horror 33.6%, Horror 32.3%, Action 17.1%, 3D 17%

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 25.8%, Psychological Horror 18.8%, Horror 15.7%, First-Person 11.5%, Realistic 10.8%

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: Surreal 22.5%, Psychological Horror 18.1%, Horror 14.2%, Realistic 11.4%, First-Person 10.9%

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 29.5%, Psychological Horror 19%, Surreal 16.4%, Nonlinear 12.6%, Realistic 11.4%

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 20%, Horror 19.9%, Realistic 14.8%, Exploration 14.4%, Story Rich 9.3%

You are trapped in an endless underground passageway. Observe your surroundings carefully to reach "The Exit 8".

Why similar: Walking Simulator 23.3%, Psychological Horror 15%, Surreal 14.4%, Horror 12.2%, Exploration 10.5%

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 34.2%, Nonlinear 17.8%, Psychological Horror 13.7%, Realistic 13%, First-Person 12.5%

You're trapped in an apartment with ever-changing rooms. Capture anomalies on camera, survive deadly entities and escape an endless nightmare.

Why similar: Psychological Horror 20.6%, Horror 17.2%, Exploration 12.7%, Surreal 12.1%, Realistic 10.7%

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: Psychological Horror 21.6%, Horror 18.9%, Exploration 16.2%, Realistic 16.1%, First-Person 11.6%

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: Dungeon Crawler 19.3%, Walking Simulator 18.3%, Psychological Horror 15.9%, Horror 12.1%, Realistic 10%

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 27.1%, Nonlinear 22.2%, Psychological Horror 19.1%, Realistic 11.2%, First-Person 10.5%

You and your crew are tasked with cleaning up after the last exploration team's ill-fated journey into the Backrooms. Dodge deadly incursions, scrub every surface, and leave no trace.

Why similar: Psychological Horror 30.6%, Horror 23.2%, First-Person 19.3%, 3D 12.1%, Action 7.7%

CantEscapeTheBackrooms is a single player horror game. Explore numerous treacherous and dangerous levels, avoid contact with evil entities, and do whatever it takes to find your way out!

Why similar: Horror 41.8%, First-Person 30.3%, 3D 18.8%, Action 9.1%

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: Psychological Horror 21.8%, Horror 21.5%, Exploration 18.8%, First-Person 14.4%, 3D 12.3%

Spot anomalies and uncover hidden clues to escape an office where overwork turns strange and experiments happen more often than coffee breaks.

Why similar: Walking Simulator 23.1%, Surreal 19.1%, Psychological Horror 16.3%, Horror 11%, First-Person 9.5%

"God save you if you hear something wandering around nearby, because it sure as hell has heard you.."

Why similar: Psychological Horror 24.6%, Horror 20.7%, Exploration 13.1%, Realistic 13%, First-Person 12.6%