Games Like True Backrooms

In this observation horror game you find yourself stuck in an endlessly looping candy town. Spot the anomalies to break out of the loop… or stay trapped forever… And don't let the candy people bite!

Why similar: Walking Simulator 21.2%, Horror 18.5%, Psychological Horror 16%, Surreal 15.2%, First-Person 8.7%

A very difficult bridge crossing simulator

Why similar: Horror 26.5%, Walking Simulator 26.3%, Retro 22.4%, Simulation 7.5%, First-Person 7.3%

Hollow Floor is a psychological horror walking simulator set in a looping, scorched apartment. Stalked by a restless corpse, you must unravel the truth before you're consumed by it.

Why similar: Walking Simulator 21.4%, Horror 21.2%, Surreal 17.8%, Psychological Horror 12.3%, Retro 10.3%

Darkness Inside is a first-person atmospheric horror game. The game takes place in an old house. You will be playing the game as James, who is a paranormal investigator.

Why similar: Horror 24.2%, Walking Simulator 19.8%, Psychological Horror 15.1%, Dark 13.5%, Atmospheric 11.7%

Pizza Portale!! is a first person horror game where you work as a portal delivery guy, delivering pizzas through portals. Your job is to keep delivering freshly baked pizzas via portals to destinations all across the country.

Why similar: Walking Simulator 23.2%, Horror 20.6%, Retro 15.9%, Psychological Horror 13.1%, First-Person 10.6%

Quiet House Massacre is a psychological horror game in which you try to find your missing cat. You come across an abandoned house and run in after it. Can you reveal the dark secrets hidden in a familiar old, quiet house? The truth awaits revelation!

Why similar: Horror 15.8%, Psychological Horror 12.9%, Retro 12.1%, Surreal 11.2%, Walking Simulator 10.1%

A first-person liminal horror exploration game where you walk endless halls, open doors, encounter 13 anomalies, sink through darker layers, reach Terminal, and wake again—because there is no true exit.

Why similar: Horror 22.1%, Walking Simulator 15.7%, Psychological Horror 15.3%, Surreal 11.5%, Atmospheric 9.2%

You've been hired by a real estate agency to photograph their listings at night, giving them a unique look online. Grab your camera, explore dark, quiet homes, and capture every required shot before the property notices you. Uncover the truth: why do these listings need to be photographed at night?

Why similar: Horror 19.8%, Retro 18.2%, Walking Simulator 14.9%, Psychological Horror 11.4%, Atmospheric 8.9%

Next Station: A surreal Survival Horror/Walking Simulator. Trapped in mysterious, lonely rooms, you must solve puzzles, survive monsters, and avoid traps to find the exit. Experience a dark, immersive atmosphere with unique NPCs and creatures reflecting the void. Can you find your way out?

Why similar: Walking Simulator 23.5%, Horror 21.3%, Surreal 12.4%, First-Person 10%, Psychological Horror 9.4%

The Vending Machine is a survival stealth horror where you must sneak, run, and escape from an anomalous vending machine.

Why similar: Walking Simulator 23.8%, Horror 18%, Psychological Horror 16.8%, Stealth 11.8%, Surreal 9.7%

A horror game where you manage a taco stand. Make tacos, serve customers, and get through each night.

Why similar: Horror 20.2%, Walking Simulator 19.9%, Psychological Horror 17.4%, First-Person 11.1%, Atmospheric 9.2%

Withered Haven is a first-person psychological horror game. After the tragic loss of his wife and daughter, a broken man struggles to endure a collapsing reality. Familiar apparitions drift closer, echoing memories that mask a darkness beyond comprehension.

Why similar: Horror 19.5%, Walking Simulator 15.4%, Psychological Horror 14.1%, Dark 11.6%, Surreal 11.2%

Before the Backrooms ... before analog horror ... there were the tapes

Why similar: Surreal 15.8%, Walking Simulator 15.7%, Retro 15.7%, Horror 15.1%, Psychological Horror 13.2%

This is a short, first-person psychological horror game with VHS effects. Be careful, you are facing a terrifying being.

Why similar: Walking Simulator 27.1%, Horror 25.1%, Psychological Horror 17.6%, Retro 10.2%, First-Person 6.6%

A dark/sad/weird/funny first person exploration game. You play a man on his last night alive as he obsesses over a mysterious painting. More of a story game in that it emphasizes mood and character over gameplay. Takes ten minutes to play and has "next-gen" features like a shrimp tank.

Why similar: Horror 24%, Psychological Horror 21.4%, Walking Simulator 19.7%, Dark 14.1%, First-Person 9%

Escape the never-ending hallway of the Hudson: A hotel that doesn’t want its guests to leave. Spot anomalies, explore hidden spaces, collect narrative clues, and uncover the stories of the previous guests.

Why similar: Walking Simulator 22.5%, Psychological Horror 16.6%, Horror 13.6%, Surreal 12.2%, Retro 11.7%

A short first-person horror game where you wander through an eerie forest using the dials of a microwave.

Why similar: Horror 18.2%, Surreal 16.5%, Walking Simulator 12.7%, Psychological Horror 12.3%, Retro 11.3%

A lightweight psychological horror and a walking simulator, where the player needs to carefully observe the surroundings to succesfully flee from this wretched place.

Why similar: Walking Simulator 23.8%, Horror 18.2%, Psychological Horror 16.5%, Surreal 11.6%, First-Person 10.1%

Your father needs a beer, and it's your job to get it. He doesn't care what it takes, so do what you must. Be quick though - it's not so safe in the dark.

Why similar: Walking Simulator 26.2%, Horror 24%, Dark 11.8%, Atmospheric 10.2%, Psychological Horror 10%

You must discover the differences between what you see through the camera and with your own eyes to distinguish real floors from fake ones and escape. It is said that ghosts behave the opposite of humans, and taking the elevator is no exception.

Why similar: Walking Simulator 29.7%, Horror 15.7%, First-Person 12.3%, Surreal 10.7%, Psychological Horror 10.3%

An atmospheric horror journey between reality and madness. Three paths lie ahead only one is free of anomalies. Observe closely. Choose wisely. Save the lost souls.

Why similar: Walking Simulator 25.8%, Horror 21.7%, Psychological Horror 18.5%, Dark 9.4%, Atmospheric 9.3%

Cave Crawler is a short horror game where you pilot a drone into a cave and discover something horrible.

Why similar: Horror 26%, Walking Simulator 25.4%, Psychological Horror 12.6%, First-Person 11%, Retro 8.4%

You wake up to find yourself standing before an old house. The painful memories buried deep within your heart suddenly return. You don’t remember it well, but you used to live here. This is where it happened.

Why similar: Walking Simulator 25.4%, Horror 25%, Psychological Horror 16.9%, First-Person 11.4%, Dark 8.5%

Unfound Footage is a short, atmospheric psychological horror game where you must survive inside a mysterious mansion after a strange disappearance.

Why similar: Horror 22.2%, Retro 18.6%, Psychological Horror 15.8%, Walking Simulator 13.7%, Atmospheric 8.4%

Every floor looks normal… until it isn't. Go up if everything is fine, down if something is wrong. One mistake sends you back. The deeper you go, the less the corridor obeys its own rules.

Why similar: Horror 18.3%, Walking Simulator 17.8%, Psychological Horror 14.6%, Surreal 11.8%, First-Person 10%

A minimalist psychological horror game where you operate a hotel elevator and follow strict regulations while strange and disturbing events unfold around you.

Why similar: Walking Simulator 17.2%, Horror 16.6%, Psychological Horror 14.7%, Atmospheric 9.5%, First-Person 7.9%

The family lives in isolation, following the strict rules of the father. But the attempt to escape evil turns into a horror that grows from within.

Why similar: Walking Simulator 16.8%, Horror 16.7%, Retro 15.3%, Psychological Horror 13.4%, Surreal 11.7%

Trapped within shifting liminal spaces, you must rely on keen observation to survive. Inspect your surroundings, detect subtle anomalies, and make the right elevator decisions to break the loop and escape.

Why similar: Walking Simulator 20.4%, Horror 20.1%, Psychological Horror 17.1%, Surreal 10.5%, Atmospheric 9.3%

Uncover the mystery of an arctic cargo outpost's lost crew in this horror game. Take in the frozen sea and delve into the depths of the facility, finding items and uncovering new paths with each one to learn what really happened here. But be careful, because something else might be here with you.

Why similar: Horror 23.4%, Walking Simulator 18.2%, Psychological Horror 15%, First-Person 10.2%, Atmospheric 9.7%

You are trapped on the 13th floor of a hotel. Pay close attention to your surroundings as you navigate each floor to reach the next elevator and make your escape in Escape Floor 13.

Why similar: Walking Simulator 27.4%, Horror 21.3%, Psychological Horror 19.4%, First-Person 12%, Atmospheric 9.2%

A late-90s retro 3D horror where you feed the Biomass Core to escape. No keys. No doors.

Why similar: Horror 22%, Walking Simulator 21%, Retro 13.6%, First-Person 11%, Atmospheric 10.3%

Marbled Memories is a psychological horror game based on true events. Play as Derek, a young man severely mistreated and neglected by his mother. This game contains a story, puzzles, dark humor, many objects to interact with, collectibles, along with a few startling moments.

Why similar: Horror 21.8%, Walking Simulator 21.5%, Psychological Horror 18.9%, Dark 13.3%, First-Person 8%

A psychological horror where reality fractures around musician John Hale. Explore a non‑linear story, haunting memories, and immersive sound as you slip between truth, delusion, and the darkness of your own mind.

Why similar: Horror 18.1%, Psychological Horror 16.8%, Surreal 16.3%, Walking Simulator 14.6%, First-Person 11.9%

You're playing a platformer on an old CRT TV. At first, it's just a game. Then what happens on-screen no longer stays on-screen. You can't get up. You can't leave the room. All you can do is keep playing.

Why similar: Walking Simulator 17.2%, Horror 16.4%, Psychological Horror 13.3%, Surreal 12.1%, Retro 11.4%

K17 ARACHNE is a dark survival horror game in which you delve into the dark secrets of Project K17. As a journalist, you set out in search of answers, but you’ll find much more than that...

Why similar: Horror 21.2%, Walking Simulator 20.4%, Psychological Horror 14.4%, Stealth 11.9%, Atmospheric 9.3%

Enter the depths of a silent facility as a D-Class subject. Test the limits of SCP-294, a machine that can produce any liquid imaginable. But remember: in this low-poly PS1-style nightmare, every cup has a price. A short, narrative-driven psychological horror experience.

Why similar: Walking Simulator 19.6%, Horror 19%, Retro 17.5%, Psychological Horror 16.1%, Atmospheric 8.9%

Trapped in a dark mansion, you must solve cryptic puzzles, evade mind-warping horrors, and descend into a PSX-inspired nightmare. Will you escape, or will you spiral into oblivion in SOMNIFUGE?

Why similar: Horror 22.4%, Retro 17.9%, First-Person 12.4%, Surreal 10.5%, Dark 10.1%

A first-person psychological horror game set in a looping hospital, where each cycle changes reality, escalates tension, and brings you closer to something that should not be there.

Why similar: Horror 23.4%, Walking Simulator 22.3%, Psychological Horror 15.9%, Atmospheric 10.2%, First-Person 9.9%

You take over as the new ranger overseeing the infamous Timber Trail, a trail known for mysterious disappearances and the Timber Trail Murders.

Why similar: Walking Simulator 22.7%, Horror 21.5%, Psychological Horror 15.5%, Retro 15.2%, First-Person 11.5%

“SHE WAS 98” - you play as a grandson who returns to his elderly grandmother's home to care for her.....

Why similar: Horror 25.1%, Walking Simulator 22.5%, Psychological Horror 16.2%, Atmospheric 11.3%, First-Person 10.3%

A retro themed psychological horror-mystery game that hopes to challenge your expectations. After you come into contact via walkie-talkie with a mysterious woman, you must search an abandoned industrial site to find her.

Why similar: Retro 19.2%, Psychological Horror 16.7%, Walking Simulator 14.8%, Surreal 12.9%, First-Person 10.4%

It is a psychological horror game and walking simulator. Only half of the rooms are safe. When you enter an unsafe room, you must leave immediately. Ghosts can be dispelled with a flute or a guitar.

Why similar: Horror 24.9%, Psychological Horror 21.8%, Walking Simulator 16.1%, Dark 15%, Atmospheric 11.1%

You are trapped inside your new home, where doors open up to various liminal spaces and anomalies appear around every corner. Will you manage to find your way out?

Why similar: Walking Simulator 20.8%, Horror 19.5%, Surreal 12.6%, Psychological Horror 11.1%, First-Person 8.3%

Superstore Survival is a first-person psychological survival horror game set inside an endless abandoned supermarket. Explore dark, liminal aisles, manage scarce food and ammo, and survive mannequins that awaken in light while an unseen creature hunts by sound.

Why similar: Horror 23.5%, Psychological Horror 15.8%, Surreal 13.4%, Dark 10.9%, Atmospheric 9.4%

Something is standing in the wheat. Each time you see it, it's closer — and it isn't human. Your grandmother says you shouldn't have looked at it.

Why similar: Walking Simulator 23.7%, Horror 23.2%, Psychological Horror 15.7%, Retro 11.3%, First-Person 10.6%

Trapped in a nightmarish mannequin factory where reality itself is shattered, unravel the secrets of Mirrored Phantoms. Explore a deeply atmospheric world, solve the mystery of the mirror shards, and survive the terrors that await in this slow-burning, first-person horror experience.

Why similar: Horror 29.1%, Psychological Horror 18.2%, First-Person 12.9%, Dark 10.5%, Atmospheric 10%

Japan, September 12, 1999, at 8:00 p.m., Ms. Keiko Haraeda collapsed in her room and was found dead. Although the police have ruled that there is no case and closed the investigation, many puzzling points remain, and the family is still calling for information.

Why similar: Horror 24.9%, Walking Simulator 23.1%, Psychological Horror 16.6%, Dark 13.2%, Retro 9.9%

Vellar is a first-person psychological horror game where a family is dead… but the recordings they left behind slowly reveal a version of events that doesn’t match reality. Explore a shifting house filled with impossible rooms, distorted corridors, and uncover a truth that refuses to stay buried.

Why similar: Horror 21%, Psychological Horror 14.8%, Surreal 14.1%, Walking Simulator 13.7%, Dark 11.6%

Explore an mid-2000s Korean apartment complex in this short first-person psychological horror experience.

Why similar: Walking Simulator 31.1%, Horror 19%, Psychological Horror 13.3%, First-Person 12.1%, Atmospheric 6.9%

A routine spacewalk procedure traps you in an endless loop. Observe the spaceship carefully, detect anomalies, and choose the right path to reach the airlock and escape.

Why similar: Walking Simulator 23.2%, Horror 17.7%, Psychological Horror 16.1%, Surreal 10.4%, Retro 9.2%

Parasomnia Verum is an atmospheric horror game about a recurring dream.

Why similar: Horror 26%, Surreal 20.2%, Psychological Horror 13.2%, Atmospheric 11.8%, Walking Simulator 10.7%

The Daughter is a first-person narrative horror game where the line between reality, dream, and memory slowly fades. You search for your missing daughter in a forest, only to find a house and a silent child who offers to help you… on one condition.

Why similar: Horror 24.8%, Psychological Horror 16.6%, Walking Simulator 15.8%, Dark 13.3%, First-Person 10.2%

"ELEVATOR: AVICI" is a 1st-person psychological horror with a retro, HK lo-fi aesthetic. Trapped in a decaying apartment elevator, your only link to the outside is a strange voice on the intercom claiming to be a repairman. Will you follow his commands, or find your own escape from the darkness?

Why similar: Horror 20.8%, Walking Simulator 19.5%, Retro 18.3%, Psychological Horror 17.4%, First-Person 11.7%

You are trapped in a memory of your past. Observe your surrounding carefully to end your nightmare.

Why similar: Walking Simulator 20.9%, Horror 16.7%, Surreal 15.7%, Retro 14.3%, Psychological Horror 13.5%

Noah had run from his past, from his sins. But they had other plans for him. The mind always harbors its deepest dread, and when the time comes, you must face it. For Noah, that time has come.

Why similar: Horror 22.1%, Psychological Horror 18.9%, Dark 12.6%, Retro 11.4%, Atmospheric 9.4%

Putridum - Psychological dark horror in which the player will have to explore a large dark hous with only a weak flashlight, look for the right things, not be caught and find a way to escape from there.

Why similar: Horror 27.4%, Psychological Horror 20%, Walking Simulator 16.8%, Atmospheric 15%, First-Person 14.3%

The well has gone dry. It's up to you to find out why. Traverse through abandoned tunnels. Discover remnants of a ritual never meant to be seen. Power dying machinery to bring light into darkness. Dig into broken earth and crawl your way out. Down here you’re not exploring... you're trespassing.

Why similar: Horror 16.9%, Retro 14.4%, Walking Simulator 13.9%, Psychological Horror 13.4%, Surreal 10.2%

You wake up to a horrible smell, and whispering vents in your apartment. Something's wrong.

Why similar: Horror 16.8%, Walking Simulator 15.1%, Retro 14.7%, Psychological Horror 12%, First-Person 10.3%

HOLD STILL is a liminal horror game set in surreal, abandoned pool rooms. Explore safely, or let the creatures come to life in hunt mode. Versus mode pits one human explorer against up to four angels out to capture them. Rendered in real-time path tracing.

Why similar: Walking Simulator 27.1%, FPS 13.2%, Psychological Horror 11.1%, Surreal 11%, Horror 10.5%