Games Like The Classrooms

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 35.1%, Psychological Horror 30.7%, Dark 14.9%, Atmospheric 6.5%, Adventure 4.6%

Why You'll Like It: This title leans heavily into the found-footage style and 1990s aesthetic that defines the visual identity of The Classrooms.

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 11%, Surreal 11%, 1990's 10.6%, Procedural Generation 10.4%, 1980s 10%

Why You'll Like It: It offers a highly polished take on the liminal horror genre, focusing on eerie, empty environments that feel both nostalgic and deeply wrong.

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: Psychological Horror 25.6%, Surreal 24.5%, Atmospheric 11%, First-Person 10.1%, Exploration 10%

Why You'll Like It: This game perfectly captures the liminal space aesthetic with its surreal, water-filled environments and focus on atmospheric exploration.

Visage is a first-person psychological horror game. Explore a mysterious ever-changing house in a slow-paced, atmospheric world that combines both uncannily comforting and horrifyingly realistic environments, and enjoy a genuinely terrifying experience.

Why similar: Psychological Horror 25.8%, Horror 23%, Survival Horror 18.4%, Dark 9.5%, Surreal 7.1%

Why You'll Like It: As a benchmark for psychological horror, it provides the intense, claustrophobic atmosphere and environmental storytelling that fans of liminal horror will appreciate.

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: Survival Horror 23.1%, Horror 22.6%, Psychological Horror 18%, Dark 6.9%, Exploration 6.7%

Why You'll Like It: It combines survival-horror mechanics with the iconic Backrooms setting, offering a more structured, puzzle-oriented experience.

Experience backrooms 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: Surreal 19.2%, Psychological Horror 15.6%, Investigation 12.9%, Horror 9.6%, Exploration 8.3%

Why You'll Like It: A surreal, non-linear exploration game that masterfully utilizes liminal spaces and dream-like logic to create a sense of unease.

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

Why similar: Psychological Horror 22.2%, Surreal 19.2%, Horror 15.2%, Exploration 12.3%, First-Person 11.7%

Why You'll Like It: This game focuses on the psychological horror of navigating repeating, anomalous corridors, mirroring the core gameplay loop of The Classrooms.

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 21.9%, Horror 18.1%, 1990's 15.5%, First-Person 10.8%, Exploration 10.1%

Why You'll Like It: Directly inspired by the found-footage genre, it focuses on the terror of being trapped in an endless, shifting office environment.

Trapped in what appears to be an endless hallway in your home, rooms begin to feel unfamiliar. Capture anomalies on camera and stay away from any sinister entities.

Why similar: Psychological Horror 18.2%, Surreal 15.9%, Procedural Generation 13.4%, Horror 12%, Exploration 8.5%

Why You'll Like It: An immersive-sim horror experience that emphasizes exploration and the psychological impact of being trapped in a hostile, shifting space.

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 13.5%, Surreal 11.6%, Psychological Horror 11.3%, Investigation 10.2%, 1980s 9.3%

Why You'll Like It: Focuses on the found-footage aspect of the Backrooms, emphasizing the feeling of being hunted in a dark, procedurally generated space.

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: Surreal 19.1%, Psychological Horror 16.3%, Investigation 14.8%, Horror 10.7%, Mystery 9.2%

Why You'll Like It: Focuses on hyper-realistic, liminal environments that challenge the player's perception of space and reality.

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 30%, Survival Horror 23.6%, Psychological Horror 22.4%, First-Person 9%, Exploration 7.2%

Why You'll Like It: A popular multiplayer survival-horror game that translates the various levels of the Backrooms into a cohesive, playable experience.

MADiSON is a first person psychological horror game that delivers an immersive and terrifying experience. With the help of an instant camera, connect the human world with the beyond, take pictures and develop them by yourself. Solve puzzles, explore your surroundings and most importantly, survive.

Why similar: Psychological Horror 22.3%, Survival Horror 19%, Horror 17.1%, Dark 11.6%, Demons 8.4%

Why You'll Like It: A first-person psychological horror game that uses environmental manipulation and a haunting atmosphere to keep players constantly on edge.

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 24.3%, Psychological Horror 24.2%, Surreal 17.8%, Horror 15.6%, Atmospheric 9.3%

Why You'll Like It: This game excels at creating a surreal, claustrophobic atmosphere that feels like a fever dream, heavily inspired by classic psychological horror.

A short horror game where you pilot a tiny submarine through an ocean of blood on an alien moon.

Why similar: Psychological Horror 24.2%, Horror 19.9%, Atmospheric 11%, First-Person 9.3%, Dark 8.3%

Why You'll Like It: While set in a submarine, it masters the art of claustrophobic, atmospheric horror where the environment itself is the primary antagonist.

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 32%, Psychological Horror 20.1%, Horror 18.1%, First-Person 11.1%, Atmospheric 7.9%

Why You'll Like It: A multiplayer-focused horror experience that emphasizes the choose-your-own-adventure nature of exploring anomalous spaces.

Smuggle contraband VHS tapes across the border. Discover the remnants of illicit industry. Prepare for an assassination. This is Paratopic, an atmospheric retro-3D horror adventure through a cursed fever dream.

Why similar: Surreal 36%, Horror 19.4%, Psychological Horror 16.3%, Atmospheric 9.8%, Dark 7.5%

Why You'll Like It: Its lo-fi, fragmented narrative and unsettling, dream-like pacing perfectly mirror the found-footage and surrealist elements of The Classrooms.

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: Procedural Generation 17.3%, Survival Horror 15.6%, Surreal 15.4%, Horror 12.6%, Exploration 8%

Why You'll Like It: A classic procedural horror game that set the standard for navigating dangerous, shifting facilities filled with anomalous entities.

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 19.3%, Horror 12.1%, 1980s 10.6%, 1990's 10.3%, Exploration 9.5%

Why You'll Like It: An exploration-heavy game that leans into the surreal and atmospheric qualities of liminal spaces.

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 21.9%, Procedural Generation 21.5%, Psychological Horror 18.8%, Horror 11.4%, Surreal 11.4%

Why You'll Like It: Features procedural generation and survival mechanics that directly mirror the core gameplay loop of The Classrooms.

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: Cinematic 21.4%, Psychological Horror 20.2%, Horror 13.2%, Demons 12.6%, Exploration 8.7%

Why You'll Like It: A sandbox-style horror game that allows players to experience the found-footage aesthetic with a focus on environmental atmosphere.

Remnant Records is a horror investigation game for 1 to 4 players. Explore places haunted by the dead, survive elaborate and unique ghosts and find out what happened to them through thousands of generated stories.

Why similar: Survival Horror 13.8%, Procedural Generation 13.2%, Demons 12.3%, Investigation 12%, Psychological Horror 11.3%

Why You'll Like It: A first-person horror game that focuses on investigating haunted locations, providing a similar sense of discovery and dread.

Cry of Fear is a psychological single-player and co-op horror game set in a deserted town filled with horrific creatures and nightmarish delusions. You play as a young man desperately searching for answers in the cold Scandinavian night, finding his way through the city as he slowly descends into madness.

Why similar: Horror 31.9%, Survival Horror 26.9%, Psychological Horror 24.4%, First-Person 6.8%, Atmospheric 6.2%

Why You'll Like It: A classic 1990s-style psychological horror game that uses its dated aesthetic to enhance the feeling of isolation and dread.

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: Mystery Dungeon 27.5%, Survival Horror 21.9%, Psychological Horror 17.7%, Horror 12.9%, Dark 10.7%

Why You'll Like It: Focuses on the survival-horror elements of the Backrooms, requiring players to manage resources while navigating hostile, shifting levels.

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 27.2%, Psychological Horror 19.9%, Horror 15.7%, First-Person 11.5%, Exploration 10.2%

Why You'll Like It: Provides a tense, survival-horror experience where the environment is a persistent threat, requiring careful navigation and resource management.

Unpredictable horrors lurk around every corner, forcing you to find the missing people while desperately clinging to survival. In this experience even your own mind can become your enemy. Stay vigilant and keep your voice hushed, or risk becoming another victim of the forest's darkness

Why similar: 1990's 24.2%, Psychological Horror 22.2%, Horror 17.6%, Dark 11.9%, First-Person 8.7%

Why You'll Like It: A realistic, 1990s-inspired horror game that focuses on the psychological tension of being hunted in a dark, atmospheric environment.

Project Nightmares is a survival horror game with a procedural structure, creating unique scares every time you play. A machine will induce you into a dream state, throwing you into a living nightmare firsthand in order to discover the story of Henrietta Kedward, an old woman with a dark past.

Why similar: Survival Horror 17.7%, Procedural Generation 16%, 1980s 12.1%, Horror 10.7%, Demons 8.6%

Why You'll Like It: A psychological horror game that uses intense, violent imagery and atmospheric dread to create a disturbing experience.

From the creators of Amnesia: The Dark Descent comes SOMA, a sci-fi horror game set below the waves of the Atlantic ocean. Struggle to survive a hostile world that will make you question your very existence.

Why similar: Survival Horror 19.6%, Psychological Horror 18.7%, Horror 14.4%, Dark 11.5%, First-Person 8.5%

Why You'll Like It: While more narrative-driven, its focus on existential dread and atmospheric, isolated environments makes it a must-play for fans of psychological horror.

A visually lifelike co-op horror game for 1-6 people. Journey through 11 procedurally generated levels, using what's available to survive and progress deeper into the Backrooms.

Why similar: Survival Horror 23%, Psychological Horror 20.1%, Horror 17.6%, Procedural Generation 13.5%, First-Person 6.9%

Delve into the infinitely AI-generated, ghastly haunted mansion of TORUTARU. Use talismans, maps, your wits, and the friends you make along the way to fight off the angered spirits and survive. Every playthrough is a unique experience.

Why similar: Procedural Generation 18.7%, Survival Horror 18%, Surreal 15.4%, Psychological Horror 12.6%, Horror 11.1%

Why You'll Like It: Uses pixel graphics and procedural generation to create a unique, retro-styled survival-horror experience.

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: 1990's 16.2%, Psychological Horror 11.8%, Horror 11%, Exploration 10.7%, Investigation 10.4%

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: Mystery Dungeon 19.3%, Surreal 12.7%, 1980s 12.6%, Procedural Generation 11.2%, Survival Horror 11.2%

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 18.5%, 1990's 14.8%, Horror 13.4%, Surreal 9.9%, Exploration 9.2%

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: Survival Horror 24.4%, Procedural Generation 22.7%, Psychological Horror 18.1%, Horror 14.4%, Exploration 7.9%

When a routine expedition into The Complex goes horribly wrong, you're left alone and lost, wandering the seemingly infinite maze of hallways, otherwise known as the Backrooms. Might there be something following you?

Why similar: Psychological Horror 18.6%, Cinematic 16.8%, Horror 15.7%, 1990's 11.1%, Exploration 10.6%

Co-op horror for 1 to 6 players. Anyone can try to escape the Backrooms. You are going back in: locate the lost agents, solve the puzzles, film the entities, and hold out until extraction. Everything you carry can be lost. Your ranks, gear and storage are built to last.

Why similar: Survival Horror 24.5%, Psychological Horror 20.8%, Horror 15.6%, First-Person 10.3%, Exploration 9.7%

A different kind of liminal experience. Explore surreal spaces inspired by nostalgia, discover hidden paths, and unravel a mystery that is shaped by your own mind. No monsters, no combat. Just atmosphere, discovery, and dread.

Why similar: Mystery Dungeon 30.2%, Psychological Horror 16.6%, Surreal 15.1%, Horror 10.8%, Exploration 8%

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: Psychological Horror 21.2%, First-Person 17.9%, Dark 17.3%, Horror 17%, Atmospheric 12.3%

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: Psychological Horror 28.8%, Surreal 23%, Exploration 13.4%, Atmospheric 12.1%, Mystery 11.5%

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: Surreal 23.1%, Procedural Generation 18.4%, Psychological Horror 18%, Horror 12.2%, Exploration 10.7%

Come Cook With Us! Let's learn together how to cook delicious meals for you and your family. Because remember, can't live with an empty belly! Find the right VHS scattered around the house through a random system of placement in order to find the code to escape the house. Good Luck!

Why similar: 1990's 17.7%, Survival Horror 13.5%, Psychological Horror 10.4%, Horror 9.8%, Investigation 9.6%

Backrooms Lost Runners is a co-op survival horror with team play, voice-reactive AI, and immersive puzzles. This isn’t a “walking simulator”: explore liminal spaces, outsmart entities, and remember—even a whisper can give you away.

Why similar: Survival Horror 21.6%, Procedural Generation 20.2%, Psychological Horror 17.3%, Horror 12%, First-Person 9.3%

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 34.8%, Procedural Generation 19%, Horror 16.8%, Atmospheric 10.6%, Exploration 7.7%

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 22.9%, Psychological Horror 14.9%, Horror 13.8%, Dark 12.5%, First-Person 10%

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

Why similar: Exploration 16.4%, First-Person 13.6%, Psychological Horror 12.8%, Adventure 11.4%, Dark 10.9%

A Liminal Place RMSTER is a solitary game, and relaxing on some levels. ALPR Uses Body-Cam, Analog Horror and Found Footage style. Including realistic Liminal Spaces, and "Backrooms" levels.

Why similar: Exploration 27.1%, 1990's 22.1%, First-Person 21.3%, Atmospheric 12%, 3D 11.3%

Backrooms: The Phobolore is a cooperative multiplayer online horror game for 1-4 players. In this game you will take control of a character who woke up in an unknown place and does not remember anything, your task will be to pass the game levels trying to remember who you are...

Why similar: Survival Horror 27%, Horror 14.8%, Psychological Horror 14.7%, Dark 13.2%, Exploration 10.5%

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 20.1%, Psychological Horror 18.8%, Horror 12.9%, Dark 12.3%, First-Person 8.7%

You awaken in a cold unfamiliar building crawling with grotesque creatures. Stave off terror using your wits and anything you can find, then try to make it out alive in this highly atmospheric environmental horror game.

Why similar: Survival Horror 15.7%, Surreal 15.6%, Psychological Horror 13.1%, Investigation 9.8%, Horror 9.2%

Backrooms: Wit's End is an immersive coop survival horror game, featuring procedurally generated, non-linear level progression and dynamic gameplay mechanics. Explore the different disturbing levels with your friends, while trying to escape from many puzzling entities.

Why similar: Procedural Generation 25.3%, Psychological Horror 20.5%, Survival Horror 19.9%, Horror 13.2%, Exploration 9%

Paranormal first-person horror, which takes place in an abandoned orphanage. Walk through the corridors of your childhood, but do remember that you're not only one here.

Why similar: Survival Horror 21.9%, Horror 21.9%, Psychological Horror 21.5%, Dark 12.1%, First-Person 8.8%

Dark Fracture is a psychological horror experience in which you explore an ever-changing world where reality and nightmares collide. Walk on the edge of madness in the shoes of a tormented soul as you descend into the darkest depths of the human psyche, and question everything you see.

Why similar: Survival Horror 15.4%, Surreal 14.1%, Psychological Horror 12.1%, Demons 11.4%, Horror 10.3%

An online 1-6 player co-op game about investigating and collecting data in the infinitely massive Backrooms with your fellow employees. Explore. Do your job. Return alive.

Why similar: Psychological Horror 31.8%, Procedural Generation 16.2%, Horror 14.6%, Exploration 10%, First-Person 8.5%

Find yourself lost in the Backrooms in this co-op journey for 1 to 4 players. Explore eerie levels, solve puzzles, and find your way out using scavenged items. Entities lurk everywhere, and the deeper you go, the deadlier it gets.

Why similar: Psychological Horror 21.2%, Horror 14.9%, Cinematic 14.3%, Exploration 13.5%, Survival Horror 13.2%

An anomaly-spotting horror game set in Level 0 of the Backrooms. Study the looping corridor and identify changes ranging from subtle details to terrifying entities. Decide to turn back if something has changed, or continue ahead if everything seems normal.

Why similar: Surreal 24.1%, Psychological Horror 19.2%, Horror 13.3%, Exploration 10.6%, First-Person 10%

backrooms horror game

Why similar: 1980s 21.4%, 1990's 17.5%, Psychological Horror 10.9%, Exploration 9.9%, First-Person 9.1%

Enter Banban's Kindergarten, and you're sure to make some friends. Explore the mysterious establishment and don't lose your life and sanity. Uncover the horrifying truth behind the place, but be careful, as you are far from alone…

Why similar: Survival Horror 17%, Surreal 16.5%, Psychological Horror 15.5%, Horror 11.2%, Dark 9.4%

You are trapped in a corridor suspended above the clouds. Each time you open the door at the end of the corridor, explore the environment that awaits you, find anomalies, use the alarm, and break the loop.

Why similar: Psychological Horror 24.8%, Surreal 20.1%, Horror 13.1%, Exploration 11.8%, Mystery 10.4%

The Backrooms: Escape is an experience in the liminal world of backrooms. Move freely, explore the secrets of the corporation, but remember - you are not alone.

Why similar: Survival Horror 23.7%, Psychological Horror 19.2%, Exploration 10.9%, 1980s 9.9%, First-Person 9.1%

School 666 is a 1-4 Player Co-op Survival Horror. You must escape this endless nightmare. Try to identify the correct path and survive the anomalies in this endless school. Some extremely powerful anomalies will catch you to their dimensions. Explore the reason why you are here... and don't die.

Why similar: Psychological Horror 31.4%, Horror 22.9%, First-Person 15.6%, Exploration 9.4%, Mystery 6.2%