Games Like Transliminal: Beyond The Backrooms

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: Mystery Dungeon 19.2%, Surreal 12.7%, 1980s 12.6%, Procedural Generation 11.3%, Survival Horror 11.1%

Why You'll Like It: It offers a highly polished procedural experience that mirrors the shifting, infinite nature of the Backrooms.

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 28.8%, Survival Horror 25.2%, Psychological Horror 19%, Exploration 7.9%, First-Person 6.1%

Why You'll Like It: A well-regarded survival horror game that combines puzzle-solving with the classic Backrooms lore and entity encounters.

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 22.6%, Psychological Horror 22.3%, Surreal 22%, Atmospheric 10.3%, Exploration 9.8%

Why You'll Like It: It provides a pure, atmospheric exploration experience centered on the iconic liminal aesthetic of empty aquatic facilities.

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 34.7%, Survival Horror 23.4%, Psychological Horror 21.4%, Exploration 7.8%, First-Person 7.5%

Why You'll Like It: One of the most comprehensive Backrooms experiences available, featuring diverse levels and intense co-op survival gameplay.

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: Surreal 13.6%, Psychological Horror 13%, 1980s 12.5%, Procedural Generation 12.2%, Walking Simulator 11%

Why You'll Like It: This game is a masterclass in liminal space horror, focusing on the unsettling beauty of empty, surreal environments.

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 22%, Walking Simulator 17.9%, Psychological Horror 17%, Horror 12.7%, Exploration 10.2%

Why You'll Like It: Focuses heavily on the liminal aesthetic, offering a surreal exploration experience that feels like wandering through a fever dream.

Perception is reality. In this mind-bending first-person puzzler, you escape a surreal dream world through solving impossible puzzles using the ambiguity of depth and perspective.

Why similar: Surreal 26.2%, Psychological 23.6%, Psychological Horror 13.5%, First-Person 9%, Horror 7.6%

Why You'll Like It: A surreal, perspective-based puzzle game that masterfully plays with reality and the uncanny nature of dream-like spaces.

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 36.8%, Psychological Horror 31.2%, Walking Simulator 16.9%, Adventure 7.9%, Atmospheric 7.1%

Why You'll Like It: It leans heavily into the found-footage aesthetic to create a grounded and terrifying Backrooms experience.

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 26.1%, Psychological Horror 23.7%, Surreal 19.8%, Exploration 12.5%, Atmospheric 10.8%

Why You'll Like It: Dedicated to the liminal space genre, this title focuses on the quiet, unsettling nature of empty, familiar-yet-wrong locations.

A classic survival horror experience set in a dystopian future where humanity has uncovered a dark secret. Unravel a cosmic mystery, escape terrifying creatures, and scavenge an off-world government facility as Elster, a technician Replika searching for her lost dreams.

Why similar: Survival Horror 44.8%, Psychological Horror 33.3%, Atmospheric 13.9%, Adventure 4.8%, Singleplayer 3.2%

Why You'll Like It: A top-tier psychological survival horror game that uses surreal imagery and oppressive atmosphere to create a lingering sense of dread.

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 22.6%, Psychological Horror 16%, Horror 15.2%, Open World 9.9%, Exploration 9.2%

Why You'll Like It: Its semi-procedural design and persistent threat create a claustrophobic survival experience that feels constantly unpredictable.

A co-op horror about scavenging at abandoned moons to sell scrap to the Company.

Why similar: Survival Horror 22.5%, Horror 22.2%, Psychological Horror 15.5%, Procedural Generation 12.9%, Exploration 9.5%

Why You'll Like It: It blends procedural exploration with survival horror, forcing players to navigate hostile, uncanny environments to collect resources.

Darkwood - a new perspective on survival horror. Scavenge and explore a rich, ever-changing free-roam world by day, then hunker down in your hideout and pray for the morning light.

Why similar: Survival Horror 19.2%, Psychological Horror 15.4%, Horror 13.9%, Open World 12.6%, Multiple Endings 10%

Why You'll Like It: This top-down survival horror game features a procedurally generated world and a deeply unsettling, surreal atmosphere.

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 30.2%, Open World 15.5%, Exploration 14.1%, Multiple Endings 12.1%, Atmospheric 11.4%

Why You'll Like It: A solid, retro-inspired adventure that captures the classic exploration feel of the Backrooms mythos.

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: Survival Horror 16.3%, Procedural Generation 15.3%, Loot 14.7%, Open World 11.5%, Horror 9.8%

Why You'll Like It: Focuses on the survival and exploration aspects of the Backrooms with a first-person perspective.

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 19.6%, Horror 19.5%, Walking Simulator 14.9%, Exploration 10.2%, Open World 9.7%

Why You'll Like It: Provides an immersive, first-person psychological horror experience set within a sprawling, uncanny complex.

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

Why similar: Psychological Horror 23.9%, Horror 23.6%, Walking Simulator 12.5%, Atmospheric 11.7%, Surreal 8.5%

Why You'll Like It: A masterclass in claustrophobic, atmospheric horror where the environment itself is the primary source of terror.

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 33.9%, Horror 21.1%, Psychological Horror 14.7%, Walking Simulator 10.4%, Atmospheric 9.5%

Why You'll Like It: A short, surreal, and low-poly horror experience that excels at creating a dream-like, disjointed narrative.

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: Loot 19.9%, Survival Horror 17.3%, Procedural Generation 15.4%, Psychological Horror 12.4%, Horror 11.9%

Why You'll Like It: Adds a multiplayer procedural survival layer that makes navigating the Backrooms a communal, high-stakes experience.

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 18.4%, Surreal 15.9%, Psychological Horror 14.8%, Horror 13.2%, 1980s 12.8%

Why You'll Like It: Uses a dark, found-footage style to enhance the psychological horror of exploring the Backrooms.

Descend into the depths of an alien underwater world filled with wonder and peril. Craft equipment, pilot submarines and out-smart wildlife to explore lush coral reefs, volcanoes, cave systems, and more - all while trying to survive.

Why similar: Horror 23.8%, Open World 22.5%, Survival Horror 15.7%, Exploration 15.2%, First-Person 8.3%

Why You'll Like It: While underwater, it shares the core loop of exploration, resource management, and terrifying encounters in an alien, isolated 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 33.2%, Horror 21.8%, Psychological Horror 20.1%, First-Person 9.7%, Atmospheric 8.5%

Why You'll Like It: A multiplayer-focused survival horror game that emphasizes cooperation and choose-your-own-adventure elements.

Barotrauma is a 2D co-op submarine simulator – in space, with survival horror and RPG elements. Steer your submarine, complete missions, fight monsters, fix leaks, operate machinery, man the guns and craft items, and stay alert: danger in Barotrauma doesn’t announce itself!

Why similar: Survival Horror 52.7%, Horror 34.3%, Psychological Horror 10.4%, Singleplayer 2.6%

Why You'll Like It: A procedurally generated survival horror game that emphasizes the psychological toll of being trapped in a hostile, shifting environment.

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%, Walking Simulator 15.5%, Horror 14.7%, 1980s 11.2%, Exploration 10.7%

Why You'll Like It: An atmospheric exploration game that leans into the surreal and psychological aspects of dream-like spaces.

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: Survival Horror 24.9%, Psychological Horror 19.2%, Horror 17.3%, Multiple Endings 10.7%, Exploration 10.6%

Why You'll Like It: A standard first-person survival horror experience that captures the classic aesthetic of the Backrooms.

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 21%, Psychological Horror 17.1%, Horror 13.5%, Multiple Endings 10.9%, Exploration 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 22%, Psychological Horror 19%, Walking Simulator 13.1%, First-Person 11.1%, Story Rich 8.4%

Why You'll Like It: Focuses on realistic, story-rich exploration within the confines of the Backrooms.

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: Procedural Generation 22%, Horror 17.8%, Open World 17%, Psychological Horror 13.8%, Exploration 12.2%

Why You'll Like It: Combines lore-rich environments with action-roguelike elements for a more aggressive take on the Backrooms.

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 28.2%, Horror 19.7%, Psychological Horror 17.6%, First-Person 10.4%, Surreal 9.5%

Why You'll Like It: An action-oriented survival horror game that emphasizes navigating through endless, shifting doors and rooms.

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 23.3%, Horror 20.6%, Psychological Horror 19.5%, Procedural Generation 13.1%, Exploration 6.7%

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 17.2%, Procedural Generation 16.2%, Psychological Horror 14.3%, Walking Simulator 12.2%, Psychological 10.8%

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: Psychological Horror 17.5%, Surreal 16.5%, Horror 15.5%, Walking Simulator 15.1%, Exploration 9.5%

Scientists made a new discovery about the Backrooms. Noclipping out of bounds in normal reality was a myth for long, but now it can be real! Now they are looking for subjects to test it on civil people. There are already scientists inside, so you have nothing to worry about, they say. Or do you?

Why similar: Survival Horror 23%, Psychological Horror 18.9%, Walking Simulator 17.2%, Horror 15.7%, Exploration 9.9%

Why You'll Like It: An early-access survival horror title that focuses on the gritty, gore-filled side of the Backrooms mythos.

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 19.6%, Psychological Horror 17.7%, Horror 14.7%, Walking Simulator 13.4%, Atmospheric 8.4%

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 17.6%, Walking Simulator 14.8%, Procedural Generation 13.3%, Psychological Horror 13.1%, Roguelite 11%

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 27.2%, Survival Horror 17.2%, Psychological 13.8%, Psychological Horror 13.4%, Horror 11.8%

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: Roguelite 24.2%, Psychological Horror 19.4%, Horror 18.8%, First-Person 14.2%, Atmospheric 12.2%

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 17.5%, Surreal 16.8%, Psychological Horror 14.4%, Psychological 14.1%, Horror 11.9%

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

Why similar: Adventure 23.6%, Exploration 22.8%, Psychological Horror 15.7%, First-Person 14.5%, Atmospheric 12.3%

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 23.7%, Psychological Horror 23.4%, Exploration 15.1%, Story Rich 8.9%, First-Person 7%

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 21.5%, Survival Horror 17.7%, Psychological Horror 17.6%, Horror 13.7%, Walking Simulator 11.4%

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

Why similar: Walking Simulator 18.2%, Psychological Horror 14.8%, Psychological 12.9%, Horror 12.4%, Exploration 10.6%

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 21.6%, Walking Simulator 21.5%, Horror 13%, Exploration 11.5%, Surreal 9.8%

Explore, build, and survive in a cryptic expanse oozing with dreamlike oddities and esoteric critters.

Why similar: Surreal 25.4%, Psychological Horror 15.4%, Open World 12.7%, Procedural Generation 12.5%, Horror 11.3%

Explore a looping corridor filled with anomalies. Walk through the fluorescent-lit backrooms environment, examine your surroundings, and spot subtle changes in reality.

Why similar: Surreal 19%, Psychological 17.2%, Walking Simulator 15.6%, Psychological Horror 14.4%, Horror 12.1%

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: Psychological 15.5%, Surreal 15.2%, Walking Simulator 13.7%, Psychological Horror 11.4%, Horror 10.1%

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 29.4%, Psychological Horror 23.1%, Horror 19.2%, Exploration 11.4%, Story Rich 9.9%

backrooms horror game

Why similar: 1980s 26%, Walking Simulator 24.1%, Exploration 12.9%, Psychological Horror 12.5%, First-Person 9.1%

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 24.6%, Psychological Horror 17%, Psychological 16.9%, Horror 16.8%, Exploration 12.5%

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 17.4%, Exploration 16.1%, Psychological Horror 15.4%, Adventure 11.7%, First-Person 10.9%

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 17.7%, Surreal 16.8%, Survival Horror 16.5%, Horror 15.6%, Exploration 9.4%

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 25%, Psychological Horror 20.5%, Horror 18.5%, Exploration 10.8%, Atmospheric 9.1%

You're trapped in an endless loop within a liminal dimension, where each loop leads to increasingly unsettling places. Will you find the way out of this psychological horror? The game offers a unique déjà vu experience that blurs the lines between reality and illusion.

Why similar: Walking Simulator 27.6%, Psychological Horror 25.3%, Surreal 19.4%, Horror 17.1%, Adventure 9%

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 21.3%, Multiple Endings 13.5%, Psychological Horror 13.2%, Exploration 13.1%, Horror 12.9%

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 22.9%, Psychological Horror 22.7%, Exploration 17.8%, Adventure 16.6%, First-Person 10.9%

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 31.8%, Horror 20.3%, Psychological Horror 16.8%, Exploration 13.5%, First-Person 9.4%

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 32.5%, Multiple Endings 22.9%, First-Person 19.7%, Atmospheric 13.8%, Adventure 9.1%

Explore, Listen and Observe. LIMINAL WATERS is a liminal space exploration game. Discover a large facility with diverse rooms and themes and be enchanted by the radiant beauty of Unreal Engine 5.6. Relaxation, anxiety, confusion or familiarity? The mysterious Poolrooms are waiting for you.

Why similar: Surreal 27.9%, Walking Simulator 25.6%, Horror 17.4%, Atmospheric 8.7%, Psychological Horror 7.3%