Games Like The Complex: Found Footage

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 23%, Walking Simulator 21.9%, Realistic 12.3%, First-Person 9.7%, Exploration 8.5%

Why You'll Like It: This game perfectly captures the unsettling, dream-like atmosphere of liminal spaces through its focus on exploration and realistic, empty environments.

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: Psychological Horror 16.2%, Walking Simulator 16%, Horror 14.4%, Realistic 9.2%, First-Person 9%

Why You'll Like It: It shares the same surreal, liminal aesthetic and focus on first-person exploration of uncanny, non-Euclidean spaces.

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 15.3%, Horror 15%, Walking Simulator 12.1%, 1990's 9.3%, First-Person 8.8%

Why You'll Like It: A quintessential liminal horror experience that excels at turning mundane architectural spaces into sources of genuine dread.

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 30.8%, Multiplayer 21.6%, Psychological Horror 17.3%, First-Person 6.9%, Exploration 6.1%

Why You'll Like It: A definitive multiplayer experience that brings the Backrooms lore to life with puzzle-solving and survival-horror mechanics.

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 18.8%, Horror 17.5%, Realistic 12.7%, Mystery 11.6%, First-Person 10.1%

Why You'll Like It: It offers a high-fidelity, realistic take on liminal space exploration that emphasizes mystery and atmospheric tension.

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: Horror 17.6%, Psychological Horror 15.6%, 1990's 11%, Realistic 9%, Multiplayer 8.7%

Why You'll Like It: This game uses a realistic, body-cam style aesthetic to create a terrifying sense of presence and psychological horror.

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: Psychological Horror 19.5%, Walking Simulator 17.8%, Horror 13.5%, Realistic 11%, Exploration 8.5%

Why You'll Like It: It focuses heavily on the walking-simulator aspect of liminal horror, emphasizing atmospheric storytelling over combat.

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

Why similar: Walking Simulator 20%, Psychological Horror 19.2%, Horror 18.8%, First-Person 11.2%, Exploration 10.3%

Why You'll Like It: This game masterfully utilizes the concept of recurring, liminal environments to build tension through subtle anomalies.

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 15.4%, Realistic 11.6%, Psychological Horror 11.4%, First-Person 10.4%, 1990's 10.3%

Why You'll Like It: A direct thematic successor that focuses on the core loop of wandering through dream-like, dangerous structures.

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

Why similar: Walking Simulator 18.7%, Psychological Horror 16.2%, Horror 16%, First-Person 10.2%, Exploration 9.8%

Why You'll Like It: An immersive-sim approach to the Backrooms that emphasizes exploration and the feeling of being lost in a vast, empty structure.

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 20.5%, Psychological Horror 17%, Realistic 12.2%, Exploration 9.4%, Mystery 9.4%

Why You'll Like It: A natural follow-up for fans of the original, expanding on the exploration and psychological horror elements.

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: Horror 16.5%, Psychological Horror 16.4%, Walking Simulator 15.1%, Multiplayer 11.4%, First-Person 9.1%

Why You'll Like It: A solid exploration-based Backrooms game that offers both singleplayer and multiplayer modes for navigating the maze.

The Backrooms: 1998 is a first-person found footage psychological horror survival game where it tells the story of a young teen after accidentally falling into the depths of The Backrooms in 1998. Roam freely, mark, explore and try unravel the story - however you are not alone. Don't scream.

Why similar: Psychological Horror 39.6%, Walking Simulator 20.2%, Realistic 17%, Dark 10.8%, Atmospheric 5.6%

Why You'll Like It: This title leans directly into the VHS found-footage aesthetic to deliver a visceral, grounded horror experience.

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: Psychological Horror 21.8%, Horror 17.8%, 1990's 15.8%, First-Person 10.9%, Exploration 10.1%

Why You'll Like It: A procedurally generated liminal horror game that captures the feeling of being trapped in an endless, shifting institutional space.

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: Psychological Horror 23.6%, Walking Simulator 22.5%, Realistic 13.4%, First-Person 11.8%, Exploration 7.7%

Why You'll Like It: It utilizes a realistic, first-person perspective to explore psychological horror within the confines of a liminal hotel setting.

You are trapped on a train that runs forever. Keep an eye out for anomalies and find a way out.

Why similar: Psychological Horror 21.9%, Walking Simulator 20.2%, Horror 12.6%, Realistic 9.7%, First-Person 9.1%

Why You'll Like It: As a spiritual successor to The Exit 8, it continues the focus on identifying anomalies within a repetitive, liminal transit setting.

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 19.1%, Horror 17.2%, Walking Simulator 14.5%, Mystery 10.2%, Exploration 9%

Why You'll Like It: It captures the surreal, dream-like quality of liminal spaces with a strong emphasis on atmospheric exploration.

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 24.2%, Psychological Horror 23.3%, Realistic 13.6%, Exploration 10.4%, Mystery 10.2%

Why You'll Like It: This game is dedicated to the core aesthetic of liminal spaces, focusing on the feeling of being in a place that shouldn't exist.

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: 1990's 19.9%, Exploration 18.1%, Open World 16.7%, Atmospheric 10.7%, First-Person 7.1%

Why You'll Like It: A retro-styled approach to the Backrooms that uses surreal visuals to enhance the sense of mystery and isolation.

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

Why similar: Horror 27.1%, Psychological Horror 23.2%, Walking Simulator 11.7%, First-Person 9.7%, Atmospheric 7.1%

Why You'll Like It: While set in a submarine, it shares the claustrophobic, low-fi aesthetic and intense sense of dread found in found-footage horror.

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 19.8%, Horror 19.4%, Walking Simulator 14.8%, Exploration 10.2%, Open World 9.6%

Why You'll Like It: An exploration-focused title that leans into the psychological horror aspects of the Backrooms mythos.

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: Psychological Horror 21.3%, Horror 19.8%, Walking Simulator 15%, Multiplayer 14%, Exploration 8.7%

Why You'll Like It: It utilizes an early-access sandbox approach to let players experience the atmospheric dread of the Backrooms at their own pace.

Sector 404 is a first-person anomaly horror game set in a crumbling Soviet housing block. After taking your medicine, your world begins to fracture. Climb from floor to floor, uncovering distorted anomalies and your own unraveling mind. Miss too much, and reality resets. Will you ever make it home?

Why similar: Psychological Horror 18.2%, Walking Simulator 16.9%, Horror 15.8%, Realistic 9.5%, First-Person 8.8%

Why You'll Like It: A first-person psychological horror game that captures the feeling of navigating a sterile, unsettling environment.

Someone slipped a mysterious videotape under your door... Do you dare watch it?!

Why similar: Psychological Horror 19.5%, Horror 19.4%, Walking Simulator 18.8%, First-Person 10.6%, Realistic 10.3%

Why You'll Like It: This game uses the VHS-style aesthetic to frame a psychological horror story that feels like a lost piece of found footage.

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

Why You'll Like It: A title that stays true to the original found-footage genre, emphasizing a collectathon and exploration-heavy gameplay loop.

Explore a cold, abandoned, and dreary facility to piece together its mysteries and find a means for escape from the horror that lurks within.

Why similar: Horror 24.4%, Walking Simulator 23.9%, Psychological Horror 16.3%, First-Person 11.3%, Exploration 10.6%

Why You'll Like It: A walking simulator that prioritizes atmospheric tension and first-person exploration in a mysterious, isolated environment.

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: Horror 20.2%, Psychological Horror 19.2%, Walking Simulator 15.8%, First-Person 10.9%, Exploration 8.9%

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 63.6%, Horror 31.9%, Indie 4.5%

Why You'll Like It: A dedicated Backrooms horror experience that focuses on the infinite, repetitive nature of the setting.

Walking simulator. Explore cozy liminal spaces that feel unsettlingly familiar and spark your imagination, like a dream you’ve been in before.

Why similar: Walking Simulator 20.6%, Psychological Horror 19.2%, Horror 12.4%, Exploration 10.9%, First-Person 10.7%

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 22.2%, Psychological Horror 16.2%, Realistic 12.8%, First-Person 11.8%, Walking Simulator 10.6%

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: Psychological Horror 19.6%, Horror 18.1%, Walking Simulator 15.1%, Multiplayer 12%, Realistic 11.9%

Why You'll Like It: A co-op focused experience that allows players to share the dread of exploring the Backrooms together.

The Backroom - Lost and Found is a story rich adventure game with some horror elements. Why is there an orphaned room hidden away in the depths of a strange liminal space? Is it "the backrooms" or something else? CYOA? SCP? Weirdcore? No clipping? And what's with the cute paintings?

Why similar: Psychological Horror 16.6%, Horror 16.3%, Realistic 10.3%, Multiplayer 10%, First-Person 9.8%

Seybul Tech is a walking simulator. Navigate as an office employee, confronting peculiar encounters while in search of an exit from this enigmatic abyss.

Why similar: Psychological Horror 19.5%, Walking Simulator 18.3%, Horror 14.3%, 1990's 8.9%, Exploration 7.6%

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 28.8%, Horror 24.9%, Walking Simulator 23.3%, First-Person 12.3%, Adventure 4.3%

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 32.2%, Psychological Horror 25.1%, Multiplayer 8.8%, First-Person 7%, Walking Simulator 6.7%

wandering into the uncanny concept of liminality, captured in DV tape format you explore what seems to be another dimension, lost in an endless space that looks human-made but isn't.

Why similar: Walking Simulator 47.7%, First-Person 25.9%, Atmospheric 12.8%, Exploration 10%, Adventure 2.1%

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 20.2%, Psychological Horror 17.6%, Horror 17.1%, First-Person 10.5%, Realistic 9.4%

A short horror experience rendered with a real-time VHS filter (grain, scan lines). Freely explore the spaces of a strange yellow maze. Independently created by a 12-year-old developer using UE5, it immerses you in a purely liminal space atmosphere.

Why similar: Horror 26.4%, 1990's 24.1%, First-Person 18.9%, Psychological Horror 12%, Adventure 6.4%

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: Psychological Horror 21.5%, Walking Simulator 19.9%, Horror 15.4%, Realistic 12%, First-Person 8.7%

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 21%, Horror 17.8%, Psychological Horror 15.4%, Multiplayer 14.1%, Realistic 10.8%

This is an indie horror from the first person, in which you find yourself in an area called Kowloon in search of cheap housing. The inhabitants of this place only at first glance seem to be ordinary people, but if we dig deeper, we will see their real faces.

Why similar: Horror 21.7%, Psychological Horror 18.1%, Walking Simulator 14.5%, Realistic 8.5%, First-Person 8.2%

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 23.7%, Horror 17.9%, Psychological Horror 15.6%, Exploration 13%, First-Person 12.6%

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: Horror 18.7%, Psychological Horror 18.5%, Walking Simulator 16.6%, Mystery 8.8%, First-Person 7.4%

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: Psychological Horror 18.8%, Horror 18.5%, Walking Simulator 17.9%, Realistic 11.4%, Mystery 8.2%

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

Why similar: Realistic 16.9%, Exploration 16.6%, First-Person 15.6%, Psychological Horror 13.5%, Horror 10.5%

Abandoned Souls is a horror game, shown through a GoPro lens. You play as a vlogger who specializes in urban exploration.

Why similar: Walking Simulator 17.3%, Psychological Horror 16.4%, Horror 16.1%, Realistic 10.3%, First-Person 8%

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: Horror 21.5%, Psychological Horror 20.4%, Mystery 10.9%, Realistic 9.7%, Exploration 9.6%

The Last Letter is a short VHS-style horror game about a film student who receives mysterious letters containing coordinates that lead to a house deep in the forest, where the truth about his past awaits.

Why similar: Horror 20.6%, Psychological Horror 19.1%, Walking Simulator 16.6%, Realistic 8.2%, Exploration 6.7%

A psychological horror game set in a Korean apartment building. Explore eerie occurrences throughout the complex and uncover the truth behind them.

Why similar: Psychological Horror 24.5%, Horror 20.5%, Walking Simulator 17.1%, First-Person 10.8%, Atmospheric 6%

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: Horror 17.9%, Psychological Horror 17.8%, Walking Simulator 16.5%, First-Person 8.8%, Mystery 7.8%

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 23.8%, Multiplayer 20.2%, Psychological Horror 18.6%, First-Person 11.1%, Realistic 10.5%

Find a way out.

Why similar: Psychological Horror 17.9%, Walking Simulator 17.3%, Horror 16.7%, Realistic 10.1%, First-Person 9.6%

Armed with nothing but your camera, investigate the abandoned Gretlow House in this short, atmospheric horror game. Uncover a chilling mystery through a realistic found-footage lens.

Why similar: Psychological Horror 19.1%, Horror 19%, Walking Simulator 15.8%, Realistic 12.2%, Mystery 7.5%

Welcome to a world where you are lost between consciousness and dreams. As you wander the dark corridors of an old hotel, face the games your mind plays on you. Your memories linger like a shadow following you. But there's nowhere to escape... Are you ready to confront your darkest fears?

Why similar: Psychological Horror 27.2%, Walking Simulator 16.1%, Horror 11%, Exploration 10.3%, Realistic 9.8%

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 28.8%, Psychological Horror 17.3%, Realistic 15.7%, First-Person 14.3%, Multiplayer 7.4%

On a task to find your sister, you find yourself exploring an old abandoned house. But you soon find out that things are not as they seem.

Why similar: Horror 25.6%, Walking Simulator 21%, Psychological Horror 10.3%, Exploration 8.1%, First-Person 7.9%

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 29.2%, First-Person 26%, 1990's 15.8%, Atmospheric 9.1%, Multiple Endings 7.4%

Dare to explore the most haunted vicinity in all of England? You will leave no stone unturned as you walk along the eerie grounds of the Black Waters Station and uncover the horror that lies within.

Why similar: Horror 19.3%, Psychological Horror 16.5%, Multiplayer 13.3%, Walking Simulator 12.5%, First-Person 10.7%

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 19.1%, Horror 18.8%, Walking Simulator 13.7%, First-Person 9.6%, Mystery 7.4%