Games Like The Backrooms Project

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 32%, Survival Horror 23.5%, Psychological Horror 20.5%, First-Person 7.3%, Exploration 6.3%

Why You'll Like It: This is widely considered the definitive Backrooms experience, featuring iconic levels and intense survival-horror mechanics.

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 27.5%, Survival Horror 26.1%, Psychological Horror 18.6%, Dark 9.3%, Exploration 6.6%

Why You'll Like It: It offers a highly polished cooperative experience with challenging puzzles and terrifying entities that mirror the seed game's atmosphere.

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 19.8%, Gore 19%, Psychological Horror 15.7%, Dark 9.9%, Walking Simulator 9.6%

Why You'll Like It: The VHS-style aesthetic and realistic movement make this an incredibly immersive experience for fans of the found footage genre.

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 26.6%, Psychological Horror 23.5%, Realistic 16.9%, Atmospheric 10.1%, Exploration 9%

Why You'll Like It: This game masterfully captures the liminal space aesthetic with a focus on exploration and unsettling, dreamlike environments.

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 26.8%, Psychological Horror 16.4%, Horror 15.8%, Realistic 15.5%, Exploration 10.3%

Why You'll Like It: This game offers a cooperative exploration experience that emphasizes the scale and mystery of the Backrooms levels.

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: Outbreak Sim 37.5% ★, Psychological Horror 13.4%, Walking Simulator 11.3%, Horror 10.4%, Atmospheric 6.1%

Why You'll Like It: A solid entry that leans into the sandbox and atmospheric elements of the Backrooms mythos.

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: Psychological Horror 20.1%, Horror 19.5%, Walking Simulator 16.9%, Realistic 12.8%, First-Person 9.1%

Why You'll Like It: This title excels at recreating the specific visual style and sense of isolation found in popular Backrooms short films.

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: Survival Horror 20.9%, Realistic 20.2%, Psychological Horror 17.9%, Horror 14.1%, Atmospheric 10.7%

Why You'll Like It: It focuses on the uncanny nature of non-Euclidean spaces and provides a high-fidelity exploration experience.

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: Psychological Horror 18.1%, Walking Simulator 17.4%, Horror 15%, Realistic 13.7%, Dark 11.1%

Why You'll Like It: It emphasizes the psychological horror of navigating vast, empty, and surreal locations that feel both familiar and wrong.

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: Survival Horror 16.8%, Psychological Horror 14.2%, Walking Simulator 12.2%, Dark 12.1%, Horror 11.6%

Why You'll Like It: It provides a unique take on the Backrooms concept by focusing on a specific, recognizable liminal setting.

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 25.9%, Perma Death 18.7%, Survival Horror 17.6%, Realistic 15.8%, Psychological Horror 13%

Why You'll Like It: It focuses on a realistic, walking-simulator approach to the Backrooms, emphasizing the feeling of being a test subject.

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: Survival Horror 22.8%, Psychological Horror 19%, Walking Simulator 17.1%, Horror 15.6%, Exploration 10%

Why You'll Like It: This title expands on the exploration aspect, offering a variety of surreal environments to investigate.

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 19.6%, Realistic 18.1%, Psychological Horror 17.2%, Walking Simulator 13.4%, Dark 12.6%

Why You'll Like It: A straightforward, story-rich exploration game that captures the realistic visual style of the Backrooms.

Amnesia: The Bunker is a first-person horror game set in a WW1 bunker. A relentless, AI-driven monster stalks you. Survival depends on finding tools, crafting items, and keeping the lights on.

Why similar: Survival Horror 25.8%, Psychological Horror 17.1%, Horror 16%, Action-Adventure 10%, Atmospheric 9.2%

Why You'll Like It: The focus on survival, resource management, and being hunted by an unpredictable entity aligns perfectly with the tension of the seed game.

A horror game about claustrophobia. During a storm your service dog is forced down a broken sewer drain. You find the nearest sewer entrance and run in after it. Along the way you will meet others that are also stricken by abnormal or psychological fear.

Why similar: Survival Horror 27.8%, Psychological Horror 25.1%, Horror 19.2%, Atmospheric 10.5%, Gore 9.1%

Why You'll Like It: A masterclass in claustrophobic psychological horror that mirrors the feeling of being trapped in an inescapable, shifting labyrinth.

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: Horror 23.7%, Psychological Horror 22.1%, Survival Horror 17.4%, Dark 10.4%, Walking Simulator 7.1%

Why You'll Like It: It provides a deeply unsettling psychological horror experience that relies on environmental storytelling and atmospheric dread.

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: Survival Horror 28.6%, Psychological Horror 22.2%, Walking Simulator 21.6%, Horror 16%, First-Person 8%

Why You'll Like It: It incorporates procedural generation to make every run through the Backrooms feel distinct and unpredictable.

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: Survival Horror 22%, Psychological Horror 16.9%, Horror 14.4%, Realistic 11.8%, Action-Adventure 8.5%

Why You'll Like It: This game adds a layer of objective-based gameplay to the standard Backrooms survival formula.

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

Why similar: Horror 43.3%, Exploration 23.3%, First-Person 20.1%, Simulation 13.4%

Why You'll Like It: A cooperative horror experience that balances puzzle-solving with the need to evade entities.

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: Realistic 20.2%, Horror 16.3%, Psychological Horror 15.2%, Dark 14.8%, Exploration 13.5%

Why You'll Like It: A strong focus on the first-person perspective and 3D exploration makes this a compelling atmospheric title.

Chapter-based Backrooms experience. Embark on a chilling journey through the unknown. Visuals based on early 2000's camcorders.

Why similar: Walking Simulator 25%, Psychological Horror 18%, Horror 14.9%, Realistic 12.3%, Exploration 11%

Why You'll Like It: It focuses on the immersive-sim aspects of the Backrooms, allowing for a more tactile interaction with the environment.

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: Survival Horror 28%, Horror 16.8%, Psychological Horror 15.9%, Realistic 12%, Action-Adventure 9.3%

Why You'll Like It: It utilizes a choose-your-own-adventure style to add narrative depth to the survival-horror experience.

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 25.9%, Horror 25.7%, Exploration 17.4%, Simulation 13.3%, First-Person 13%

Why You'll Like It: This title blends simulation and puzzle-solving to create a unique atmosphere of mystery.

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 22.9%, Psychological Horror 20.8%, Realistic 15.8%, Horror 12.1%, Exploration 9.2%

Why You'll Like It: This game captures the essence of a vast, empty urban environment that feels both realistic and deeply unsettling.

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

Why similar: Psychological Horror 18.2%, Horror 15.4%, Realistic 12.4%, Dark 10.7%, Action-Adventure 9.5%

Why You'll Like It: It offers a cinematic approach to the Backrooms, focusing on high-tension moments and supernatural encounters.

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 24.7%, Psychological Horror 19.4%, Horror 15.6%, Realistic 12.8%, Exploration 11.1%

Why You'll Like It: A dungeon-crawler-inspired take on the Backrooms that emphasizes exploration and collection.

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 21.3%, Survival Horror 18.3%, Horror 17.3%, Exploration 12.2%, Dark 11.8%

Why You'll Like It: It provides a solid FPS-style experience within the Backrooms, focusing on PvE survival mechanics.

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: Survival Horror 21.6%, Horror 14%, Dark 13.8%, Psychological Horror 12.7%, Realistic 12.1%

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

Why similar: Realistic 21.2%, Exploration 15.6%, Action 14.7%, Dark 13.9%, Psychological Horror 12.6%

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: Realistic 21%, Dark 17.1%, Psychological Horror 16.1%, Horror 15.2%, First-Person 12.4%

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: Survival Horror 32.7%, Horror 26%, Psychological Horror 18.5%, Action-Adventure 13%, Exploration 9.7%

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 23.1%, Survival Horror 17.7%, Horror 13.7%, Gore 11.6%, Exploration 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: Survival Horror 17.4%, Psychological Horror 15.2%, Walking Simulator 14%, Realistic 12.4%, Horror 11.7%

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: Survival Horror 20.6%, Psychological Horror 15.9%, Horror 13.3%, Realistic 13.2%, Action-Adventure 10%

Explore the poolrooms in a inmersive cooperative horror game. Immerse yourself in the story of scientists who are exploring the depths of the poolrooms and end up encountering various obstacles in order to find a way back to reality.

Why similar: Survival Horror 25.3%, Psychological Horror 22.7%, Horror 18.6%, Dark 16.9%, First-Person 11.3%

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: Survival Horror 23.7%, Psychological Horror 18.8%, Horror 18.7%, Realistic 10.9%, Atmospheric 6.1%

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: Survival Horror 22.1%, Psychological Horror 16.8%, Horror 14.7%, Dark 14.4%, Realistic 10.6%

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 24.1%, Psychological Horror 21.8%, Horror 18.3%, Realistic 16.2%, First-Person 10.2%

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: Survival Horror 25.5%, Psychological Horror 21%, Horror 15.9%, Atmospheric 10.1%, First-Person 9.9%

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 23%, Psychological Horror 15%, Gore 13.9%, Horror 13.5%, Realistic 8.1%

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 29.7%, Psychological Horror 16.3%, Horror 15.6%, Exploration 13.8%, First-Person 11%

Experience the unknown world of utility rooms through a VHS camera, you will have to feel all the fear and anxiety of loneliness, plunging deeper and deeper into the world of utility rooms behind the scenes In search of that very, cherished, last room

Why similar: Psychological Horror 70.5%, Horror 29.5%

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 25.7%, Psychological Horror 22.6%, Realistic 17.2%, Atmospheric 9.9%, First-Person 9.5%

UnderBackrooms is a cooperative horror game set in a mysterious parallel universe of empty rooms and endless corridors. With moments of tension and surprise, players must be on guard to survive. Explore the backrooms and uncover their secrets to escape this nightmare world.

Why similar: Gore 40.6%, Survival Horror 21.3%, Psychological Horror 16.2%, Horror 14.1%, Atmospheric 7.8%

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: Survival Horror 23.6%, Psychological Horror 20.2%, Horror 13.7%, Dark 13%, Exploration 9.5%

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: Exploration 36.8%, Atmospheric 34.9%, Walking Simulator 15%, First-Person 11.9%, Casual 1.5%

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 17.8%, Psychological Horror 15.8%, Horror 13.5%, Realistic 11.9%, Dark 11.4%

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

Why similar: Survival Horror 41.3%, Horror 21.5%, Atmospheric 12.4%, Action 9%, Exploration 8%

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: Survival Horror 24.2%, Horror 20.4%, Dark 12.2%, Exploration 11.5%, Atmospheric 10.7%

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: Survival Horror 28.8%, Horror 20.9%, Psychological Horror 19.5%, First-Person 11.6%, Action-Adventure 8.6%

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: Realistic 26.5%, Horror 23.3%, Psychological Horror 18.4%, Exploration 13.9%, First-Person 11.6%

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 21.2%, Psychological Horror 21%, Realistic 20.4%, Exploration 12%, First-Person 6.7%

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: Survival Horror 23.2%, Psychological Horror 18.4%, Realistic 15%, Horror 14.6%, Exploration 8.5%

A scientific research and development facility based in Norilsk, Flow Crop. is attempting to investigate crimes through people's nightmares. The player gets to walk into a virtual world, and investigate the reason for such nightmares. solve puzzles and face enemies.

Why similar: Walking Simulator 33.2%, Psychological Horror 24.8%, Dark 17.1%, Horror 13.3%, First-Person 11.6%

Your goal is simple, spot anomalies to escape. Play alone or together with up to 8 players in online co-op. Make the right decisions to advance to the next level, or risk being reset to the beginning!

Why similar: Psychological Horror 24%, Walking Simulator 23.8%, Horror 19.6%, First-Person 10.5%, Exploration 9.6%

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: Narration 19.4%, Psychological Horror 17.9%, Walking Simulator 17.7%, Horror 15.7%, First-Person 8.5%

A scientific experiment in which no one survives, in a first-person survival horror game made by one developer In the role of a random person who is trapped in an experiment, try to get out and find out what is happening in this abandoned place.

Why similar: Psychological Horror 24.6%, Dark 17.6%, Gore 12.1%, Atmospheric 11.8%, First-Person 10.5%

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 22.9%, Psychological Horror 20.7%, Realistic 15.5%, Horror 12.4%, Atmospheric 9%