- #1 The Backrooms: Found Footage
97% matchMostly Positive71% of 62 reviews2022
Dev: BaddWeatherPub: Euclid Games
Windows
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: Lore-Rich 18.2%, Nonlinear 13.9%, Dungeon Crawler 12.6%, Procedural Generation 11.1%, Horror 9.3%
- #2 Enter The Backrooms
96% matchVery Positive87% of 1,057 reviews2021
Dev: Justin KrohPub: Cosmic Crow Creations
Windows
Median: 1.6 hrsMean: 5.7 hrs≥1hr: 62%
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: Procedural Generation 31.6%, Horror 21.1%, Psychological Horror 18.7%, First-Person 11.2%, Nonlinear 9.9%
- #3 Noclipped
95% matchVery Positive80% of 60 reviews2022
Dev: MateussDev
Windows
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: Procedural Generation 18%, Open World 16.1%, PvE 15.3%, Realistic 13.8%, Horror 11.9%
- #4 Backrooms Society
94% matchMostly Positive80% of 694 reviews2023
Dev: Mikael Bihl
Windows
Median: 3.5 hrsMean: 9.1 hrs≥1hr: 90%
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: Procedural Generation 16.6%, Dungeon Crawler 13%, Nonlinear 13%, Horror 12.8%, Realistic 12.5%
- #5 Transliminal: Beyond The Backrooms
94% matchVery Positive91% of 141 reviews2022
Dev: Corey JeffriesPub: Spatial Quotient
Windows
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: Procedural Generation 22.3%, Horror 17.7%, Open World 16.8%, Psychological Horror 13.8%, Exploration 12.2%
- #6 Backrooms: Found Footage
93% matchVery Positive83% of 344 reviews2024
Dev: HNStudios
Windows
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 22.1%, Horror 17.4%, Exploration 15.1%, First-Person 12.3%, Psychological Horror 9.6%
- #7 BrVR Backrooms Virtual Reality
92% matchVery Positive90% of 146 reviews2023
Dev: Paul WallacePub: LakesideCentral LLC
Windows
Explore 120+ Backrooms levels in a massive single‑player survival adventure. Build, craft, fight, or just wander endless liminal spaces shaped by the community.
Why similar: Lore-Rich 21.8%, Nonlinear 14.7%, Horror 14.1%, Dungeon Crawler 13.4%, Open World 11.4%
- #8 Shifting To The Backrooms
91% matchVery Positive86% of 70 reviews2026
Dev: Oopsome Games
Windows
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 32.3%, Psychological Horror 23.7%, First-Person 18.8%, Exploration 18.6%, Realistic 6.7%
- #9 The Backrooms
91% matchMixed62% of 126 reviews2022
Dev: Ionized Games
Windows
Median: 2.0 hrsMean: 4.1 hrs≥1hr: 73%
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: Action Roguelike 26.3%, Dungeon Crawler 20.4%, Realistic 17.4%, Horror 11.8%, First-Person 10.1%
- #10 Subliminal
89% matchMostly Positive73% of 3,437 reviews2026
Dev: Accidental StudiosPub: Gone Shootin
Windows
Median: 2.8 hrsMean: 4.3 hrs≥1hr: 81%
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: Realistic 17.9%, Dungeon Crawler 16.7%, Horror 14.2%, Psychological Horror 11.7%, Multiple Endings 9.5%
- #11 Backrooms Rec.
89% matchMixed69% of 2,004 reviews2024
Dev: Liminal Logic
Windows
Median: 2.5 hrsMean: 3.8 hrs≥1hr: 78%
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: Nonlinear 23.2%, Horror 23%, Realistic 17.6%, Psychological Horror 13.8%, First-Person 11.5%
- #12 Backrooms: Realm of Shadows
90% matchMixed41% of 190 reviews2023
Dev: Cyprus Games
Windows
Backrooms: Realm of Shadows is a horror game that takes place in a seemingly endless maze of interconnected rooms and hallways, known as the Backrooms.
Why similar: Horror 38.7%, Psychological Horror 24.8%, Action 20.9%, 3D 15.5%
- #13 The Complex: Found Footage
88% matchVery Positive93% of 9,790 reviews2022
Dev: pgWave
Windows
Median: 36 minMean: 1.5 hrs≥1hr: 22%
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: Horror 22.8%, Realistic 16.1%, Psychological Horror 14.9%, Open World 13.1%, Exploration 11.2%
- #14 Escape the Backrooms
85% matchVery Positive90% of 148,533 reviews2025
Dev: Fancy GamesPub: Secret Mode
Windows
Median: 6.9 hrsMean: 12.7 hrs≥1hr: 90%
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 42.6%, Psychological Horror 17.4%, Dungeon Crawler 12%, First-Person 10.4%, Exploration 9.1%
- #15 The Backrooms: Survival
86% matchVery Positive82% of 1,124 reviews2023
Dev: RE:CODE
Windows
Median: 1.7 hrsMean: 8.7 hrs≥1hr: 64%
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: Horror 31.7%, Dungeon Crawler 31.6%, Psychological Horror 23.3%, First-Person 13.4%
- #16 Inside the Backrooms
86% matchVery Positive80% of 46,225 reviews2022
Dev: MrFatcat
Windows
Median: 4.7 hrsMean: 15.0 hrs≥1hr: 87%
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 44.3%, Psychological Horror 19.2%, Exploration 11.5%, First-Person 10.7%, PvE 8.7%
- #17 Backrooms Descent: Multiplayer Horror
87% matchMixed47% of 110 reviews2023
Dev: Sushi Studio
Windows
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: PvE 18.5%, Realistic 17.8%, Horror 16.6%, Psychological Horror 12.7%, Exploration 12.1%
- #18 The Backrooms 1998 - Found Footage Survival Horror Game
84% matchVery Positive85% of 817 reviews2025
Dev: Steelkrill Studio
Windows
Median: 1.2 hrsMean: 2.1 hrs≥1hr: 54%
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 39.7%, Realistic 38.6%, Action 13.3%, 3D 8.4%
- #19 Backrooms Doors
84% matchMixed69% of 85 reviews2023
Dev: Performance Artist
Windows
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: Horror 25.8%, Realistic 24.2%, First-Person 15.4%, Psychological Horror 15%, 3D 10.2%
- #20 The Backrooms: Unbounded
83% matchMostly Positive76% of 691 reviews2023
Dev: BluSkie
Windows
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 23.7%, Realistic 22.6%, Psychological Horror 18.1%, First-Person 14.1%, Exploration 13.1%
- #21 Backrooms: Escape Together
81% matchVery Positive89% of 43,060 reviews2022
Dev: Triiodide Studios
Windows
Median: 4.1 hrsMean: 5.8 hrs≥1hr: 91%
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: Horror 26.1%, Procedural Generation 16.7%, Psychological Horror 16.4%, Realistic 16%, First-Person 8.6%
- #22 The Backrooms Regret
82% matchMixed61% of 153 reviews2024
Dev: Noirware
Windows
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 28.2%, Exploration 20.6%, Psychological Horror 18.2%, First-Person 15.2%, 3D 12.6%
- #23 Backrooms Media
81% matchMostly Negative40% of 636 reviews2025
Dev: NPK Games
Windows
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: Realistic 17%, Open World 15.9%, Horror 15.3%, PvE 14.5%, Psychological Horror 12.4%
- #24 THE_ABYSS_HAS_WALLS
82% matchMixed60% of 57 reviews2022
Dev: James Madsen Digital Enterprises
Windows
THE_ABYSS_HAS_WALLS takes you into Ad Infinitum (also known as "The Backrooms") like never seen before. Review footage. Document fate.
Why similar: Horror 34.5%, Procedural Generation 31.1%, Action 14%, Exploration 13.9%, 3D 6.4%
- #25 EXPEDITION TO THE BACKROOMS
80% matchMixed66% of 170 reviews2025
Dev: 1_Cutter_1
Windows
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: Realistic 24.8%, Horror 23.7%, Exploration 16.5%, Psychological Horror 15.5%, First-Person 13.8%
- #26 Lost Hope: Backrooms
78% matchMixed68% of 106 reviews2026
Dev: mdvdPub: Lost Hope games
Windows
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: Horror 29.4%, Psychological Horror 17.6%, First-Person 17.3%, Exploration 11.6%, 3D 9%
- #27 Backrooms: Exit from Supermarket
78% matchMixed65% of 60 reviews2025
Dev: CGI LAB GAMES
Windows
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: Horror 29.5%, Psychological Horror 23.1%, First-Person 16.2%, Exploration 10.8%, Realistic 9.5%
- #28 Behind The Backrooms
79% matchMixed47% of 62 reviews2024
Dev: SupKai
Windows
Behind the Backrooms is a 1-4 player co-op horror exploration game
Why similar: Horror 42.1%, Exploration 24.5%, First-Person 20.8%, 3D 12.5%
- #29 CantEscapeTheBackrooms
77% matchMixed60% of 247 reviews2023
Dev: BlackArtStudios
Windows
CantEscapeTheBackrooms is a single player horror game. Explore numerous treacherous and dangerous levels, avoid contact with evil entities, and do whatever it takes to find your way out!
Why similar: Horror 36.9%, First-Person 21.6%, Strategy 20.1%, 3D 13%, Action 8.4%
- #30 The Backrooms Deluxe 2
76% matchMixed46% of 592 reviews2025
Dev: Lory Games
Windows
A roguelite multiplayer Backrooms game that bases itself on The Backrooms Deluxe's levels and expands on the mechanics, levels, networking and enemy AI.
Why similar: Exploration 33.8%, First-Person 33.2%, Horror 33%
- #31 Dreamcore
74% matchVery Positive89% of 1,779 reviews2025
Dev: MontraluzPub: Tlön Industries
Windows
Median: 2.1 hrsMean: 4.2 hrs≥1hr: 71%
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: Nonlinear 25.9%, Realistic 17%, Horror 15.4%, Psychological Horror 13.4%, Exploration 11.6%
- #32 Backrooms: Extractions
75% matchMostly Positive73% of 711 reviews2025
Dev: Headlight Studio
Windows
Median: 3.4 hrsMean: 4.2 hrs≥1hr: 91%
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: Horror 18%, Realistic 15.8%, PvE 15.3%, Dungeon Crawler 14.1%, Psychological Horror 13.4%
- #33 The Backrooms Project
77% matchMixed70% of 143 reviews2022
Dev: 3AM Studios
Windows · Linux
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: Realistic 24.9%, Horror 21.8%, Psychological Horror 17.1%, Exploration 13%, First-Person 10.8%
- #34 Backrooms - 2005
74% matchVery Positive84% of 54 reviews2025
Dev: Rendern Studios
Windows
Backrooms - 2005 is a chapter-based Backrooms exploration game.
Why similar: Realistic 26.9%, Exploration 17.4%, Open World 17%, First-Person 15.5%, Strategy 12.3%
- #35 Within the Backrooms
73% matchVery Positive95% of 213 reviews2023
Dev: Shattered Display
Windows
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: Lore-Rich 33.6%, Open World 18.4%, Nonlinear 16.2%, Exploration 13.7%, Multiple Endings 10.3%
- #36 Backrooms: Last Room - Infinite Depths
73% matchMixed68% of 100 reviews2024
Dev: KInTstudio
Windows
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 60.5%, Horror 39.5%
- #37 Backrooms Lost Runners
70% matchVery Positive80% of 355 reviews2026
Dev: ShimStudioGames
Windows
Median: 2.3 hrsMean: 2.3 hrs≥1hr: 83%
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: PvE 26.6%, Horror 24.5%, Psychological Horror 19.3%, Exploration 13.8%, 3D 9.2%
- #38 Backrooms: Hide Together
72% matchMixed47% of 93 reviews2025
Dev: ICON GAME STUDIO
Windows
A visually realistic 1-7 player co-op survival horror game. Explore 5 levels filled with confined environments, puzzles, and entities with new levels and content added regularly. Beware of terrifying moments and ruthless monsters. Do whatever it takes to escape, even if it means hiding.
Why similar: Realistic 25.3%, Horror 21.4%, Psychological Horror 15.5%, Exploration 15.4%, First-Person 10.6%
- #39 BACKROOMS NO RETURN: Prologue
73% matchMostly Negative33% of 1,221 reviews2024
Dev: FriedGPU
Windows
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: Horror 32%, Psychological Horror 25%, First-Person 20.7%, 3D 13.6%, Action 8.7%
- #40 The Backrooms
75% matchMostly Negative24% of 58 reviews2019
Dev: WASABAE Studios
Windows
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: Horror 19.3%, Exploration 18.4%, Multiple Endings 16.7%, First-Person 14.5%, Psychological Horror 12.9%
- #41 Backrooms: What's Next
71% matchMixed64% of 66 reviews2025
Dev: SUDT Games
Windows
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: PvE 30.1%, Horror 23%, Exploration 21.1%, First-Person 16.6%, 3D 9.3%
- #42 Return the Backrooms
72% matchMixed63% of 139 reviews2022
Dev: Skmaestro
Windows
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: PvE 23.5%, Horror 21%, Psychological Horror 16.6%, Exploration 16.1%, First-Person 14.1%
- #43 Backrooms Break
70% matchMostly Positive71% of 388 reviews2024
Dev: Jan Jileček
Windows
Explore and break the environments of the Backrooms and Poolrooms! Utilize Thor's demolition hammer, firearms, and explosives to carve your way through the walls and entities. This isn't just another mundane walking simulator game. Now the entities are the victims. Overcome your fears with violence.
Why similar: Horror 30.9%, Exploration 19.8%, Psychological Horror 17.6%, First-Person 15.1%, 3D 9.9%
- #44 Hotel 188
69% matchVery Positive88% of 78 reviews2025
Dev: Leonn CamayoPub: Andes Interactive
Windows
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: Nonlinear 29.7%, Realistic 24.6%, Psychological Horror 19.2%, First-Person 13.4%, Exploration 10.7%
- #45 In The Backrooms
71% matchMixed58% of 160 reviews2022
Dev: BLOCK 211
Windows
"God save you if you hear something wandering around nearby, because it sure as hell has heard you.."
Why similar: Horror 25.4%, Realistic 22%, Psychological Horror 19.1%, Exploration 13.5%, First-Person 12.4%
- #46 后室重生Backrooms Rebirth
71% matchMixed59% of 68 reviews2024
Dev: SJGZS
Windows
这是一款以后室题材的游戏,主要是一些恐怖元素和解谜内容组合起来的元素,这是我们的第一款游戏也是开始
Why similar: Horror 24%, Realistic 23.2%, Exploration 19.8%, First-Person 15.6%, 3D 10.4%
- #47 Welcome Home
68% matchVery Positive86% of 163 reviews2025
Dev: Stalker StudiosPub: ITU Games
Windows
Where home feels wrong, and you're anything but welcome
Why similar: Horror 26.3%, Psychological Horror 20.1%, Exploration 16%, First-Person 12.3%, Multiple Endings 11.1%
- #48 NOCLIP
70% matchMostly Positive71% of 55 reviews2024
Dev: DELIRIUM Labs
Windows
Chapter-based Backrooms experience. Embark on a chilling journey through the unknown. Visuals based on early 2000's camcorders.
Why similar: Horror 19.2%, Realistic 17.1%, Exploration 15.5%, Psychological Horror 14.9%, First-Person 13.2%
- #49 Very Scary Backrooms Game
68% matchVery Positive87% of 178 reviews2023
Dev: Wilboforce
Windows
You have no weapons. You have no means of defending yourself. Some will chase you, some will outsmart you. If you are in danger, run and hide.
Why similar: Horror 41%, Psychological Horror 25.5%, First-Person 13.1%, Action 11.3%, 3D 9.1%
- #50 The Backrooms: Liminal Space
67% matchVery Positive93% of 85 reviews2026
Dev: 117PS
Windows
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 37.4%, First-Person 28.7%, 3D 20.9%, Psychological Horror 13%
- #51 BACKROOMS: APPREHENSION
66% matchVery Positive84% of 1,395 reviews2025
Dev: DMNT Interactive
Windows
Median: 1.2 hrsMean: 2.9 hrs≥1hr: 56%
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: Horror 31.4%, Psychological Horror 21.8%, Realistic 19.6%, Exploration 14.9%, First-Person 12.3%
- #52 Budget Backrooms
67% matchVery Positive91% of 243 reviews2023
Dev: DavidJoacaRoPub: Lory Games
Windows
Free single-player Backrooms game developed on a low budget.
Why similar: Horror 70.3%, 3D 29.7%
- #53 Backrooms: The Phobolore
69% matchMixed56% of 50 reviews2024
Dev: SUDT Games
Windows
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: PvE 22.6%, Horror 21.7%, Exploration 13.6%, Psychological Horror 11.7%, First-Person 11.3%
- #54 Lucid Blocks
63% matchVery Positive94% of 4,217 reviews2026
Dev: Lucy B. Locks
Windows
Median: 2.4 hrsMean: 4.4 hrs≥1hr: 73%
Explore, build, and survive in a cryptic expanse oozing with dreamlike oddities and esoteric critters.
Why similar: Open World 22.1%, Procedural Generation 18.1%, Horror 16.9%, Psychological Horror 14.6%, First-Person 9.9%
- #55 UnderBackrooms
69% matchMostly Negative39% of 72 reviews2023
Dev: okeyplaystudio
Windows
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: Horror 57.7%, Psychological Horror 42.3%
- #56 Backrooms: Exploration
66% matchMostly Positive75% of 102 reviews2025
Dev: HNStudios
Windows
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 27.2%, Realistic 27.1%, First-Person 15.5%, Psychological Horror 15.3%, Multiple Endings 6.5%
- #57 The Backrooms Game FREE Edition
67% matchMostly Positive80% of 3,604 reviews2019
Dev: Pie On A Plate Productions
Windows · Linux
Nothing but the stink of old, moist carpets, the madness of mono-yellow, and the blinding light of fluorescent bulbs at maximum hum-buzz. Over 600 million sq. miles of randomly segmented rooms. God save you if you hear something wandering nearby, because it sure as hell has heard you.
Why similar: Horror 54.5%, Psychological Horror 28.8%, First-Person 10.6%, Procedural Generation 6.1%