Games like The Backrooms
If The Backrooms is your kind of game, the closest matches are Evil's Den: Forsaken Dungeon, Lost In Ferry VR and Risk the Dark — picked from the ranked list below. Each pick is ranked by what players of this game also play, shared genres and tags, and review-mined similarity — not a generic popularity list.
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Players who liked The Backrooms also play
Steam players who put hours into The Backrooms also tend to own these titles — a signal called collaborative filtering. imho.run cross-references millions of library ownership patterns to surface games whose real audiences overlap, regardless of whether their genre tags match.
Evil's Den: Forsaken Dungeon
WHY THIS
Top pick for The Backrooms fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with The Backrooms.
Evil's Den: Forsaken Dungeon is a rogue-lite dungeon crawler featuring procedurally generated levels where you will battle through hordes of monsters to close portal to Hell, opened in the villages church.
Lost In Ferry VR
WHY THIS
Second-strongest match for The Backrooms fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with The Backrooms.
"Lost In Ferry VR" is a VR secret room escape horror game. Players need to use their keen observation and strict logical judgment to solve the mysteries hidden in the memory room.
Risk the Dark
WHY THIS
Third-strongest match for The Backrooms fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with The Backrooms.
Risk the Dark is an action-filled top-down roguelite set in harrowing darkness. Struggle to escape a shadowy, monster-infested cave while battling threat after threat. Using a variety of weapons, melee, as well as interactions with NPCs and items, light your way and Risk the Dark.
Heavy Bullets
WHY THIS
Ranked #4 for The Backrooms fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with The Backrooms.
Heavy Bullets is a randomized FPS dungeon crawler where players make their way through a colorful maze, while protecting themselves from aggressive creatures and malfunctioning security devices. The goal lies at the end of the 8th level, where they must reset the security mainframe to restore order and reap the rewards.
Zombie Soup
WHY THIS
Ranked #5 for The Backrooms fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with The Backrooms.
Zombie Soup is a top-down shooter combined with hack and slash action that follows Ricky, a backpacker who is thrown into an unexpected adventure in an unfamiliar town as he shoots and dodges his way through hordes of bizarre creatures and challenging bosses to save a kidnapped girl!
Overture
WHY THIS
Ranked #6 for The Backrooms fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with The Backrooms.
Overture is an action-adventure roguelike which draws heavy inspiration from hits such as Diablo, Realm of The Mad God, Zelda, and The Binding of Isaac. Explore vast randomly generated dungeons and slay hordes of cunning enemies!
Wizard of Legend
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Ranked #7 for The Backrooms fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with The Backrooms.
Wizard of Legend is a no-nonsense, action-packed take on wizardry that emphasizes precise movements and smart comboing of spells in a rogue-like dungeon crawler that features over a hundred unique spells and relics!
Gunfire Reborn
WHY THIS
Ranked #8 for The Backrooms fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with The Backrooms.
Gunfire Reborn is a level-based adventure game featuring FPS, Roguelite and RPG. Players can control heroes with various abilities to experience diverse Build gameplay, use various weapons to explore procedurally-generated levels. You can play the game alone, or join 4-player coop.
Cheaper alternatives
Games in the same vein priced at least 40% below The Backrooms at current Steam store prices.
Garry's Mod
WHY THIS
Priced ~50% under The Backrooms on Steam right now. Shares Indie with The Backrooms.
Garry's Mod is a physics sandbox. There aren't any predefined aims or goals. We give you the tools and leave you to play.
Vampire Survivors
WHY THIS
Priced ~50% under The Backrooms on Steam right now. Shares Action and Indie with The Backrooms.
Mow down thousands of night creatures and survive until dawn! Vampire Survivors is a gothic horror casual game with rogue-lite elements, where your choices can allow you to quickly snowball against the hundreds of monsters that get thrown at you. Be the bullet hell!
Titanfall® 2
WHY THIS
Priced ~55% under The Backrooms on Steam right now. Shares Action with The Backrooms.
Respawn Entertainment gives you the most advanced titan technology in its new, single player campaign & multiplayer experience. Combine & conquer with new titans & pilots, deadlier weapons, & customization and progression systems that help you and your titan flow as one unstoppable killing force.
Cookie Clicker
WHY THIS
Priced ~50% under The Backrooms on Steam right now. Shares Indie with The Backrooms.
An idle game about making cookies! Originally released in 2013 on the web, and actively developed since then. This is the official version for Steam.
WEBFISHING
WHY THIS
Priced ~50% under The Backrooms on Steam right now. Shares Indie with The Backrooms.
WEBFISHING a multiplayer chatroom-focused fishing game! Relax and fish (on the web!)
POSTAL 2
WHY THIS
Priced ~90% under The Backrooms on Steam right now. Shares Action and Indie with The Backrooms.
Live a week in the life of "The POSTAL Dude"; a hapless everyman just trying to check off some chores. Buying milk, returning an overdue library book, getting Gary Coleman's autograph, what could possibly go wrong?
Buckshot Roulette
WHY THIS
Priced ~70% under The Backrooms on Steam right now. Shares Action and Indie with The Backrooms.
Play Russian roulette with a 12-gauge shotgun. Four enter. One leaves. Roll the dice with your life. Good luck!
Brotato
WHY THIS
Priced ~50% under The Backrooms on Steam right now. Shares Action and Indie with The Backrooms.
Brotato is a top-down arena shooter roguelite where you play a potato wielding up to 6 weapons at a time to fight off hordes of aliens. Choose from a variety of traits and items to create unique builds and survive until help arrives.
Free alternatives
Free-to-play games that recommended players of this title also tend to enjoy.
Doki Doki Literature Club!
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with The Backrooms.
The Literature Club is full of cute girls! Will you write the way into their heart? This game is not suitable for children or those who are easily disturbed.
Ultimate Custom Night
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action and Indie with The Backrooms.
Welcome to the ultimate FNAF mashup, featuring 50 selectable characters and custom difficulties!
ENA: Dream BBQ
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Adventure with The Backrooms.
Experience surreal environments and inexplicable characters as ENA in a new wild world.
Indigo Park: Chapter 1
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action and Indie with The Backrooms.
Explore the abandoned childhood wonder of Indigo Park! Guided by Rambley the Raccoon, help restore power to the destroyed amusement park while you run from the reason it shut down.
The Looker
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with The Backrooms.
You wake up, alone, on a strangely familiar island full of puzzles that will frustrate and annoy you.
missed messages.
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with The Backrooms.
‘goth gf’s iPhone’ airdrops you - accept or decline? A love/horror story about life, death, & memes.
Dagon: by H. P. Lovecraft
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Adventure with The Backrooms.
Face unspeakable horrors. Succumb to madness. Welcome to a free daemonic narrative experience inspired by H. P. Lovecraft.
Disfigure
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action and Indie with The Backrooms.
Disfigure is a grim-dark action rogue-like where you battle relentless hordes of monsters lurking in the shadows. Unlock powerful weapons, craft god-like builds with hundreds of upgrades, slay colossal bosses, and push your limits in intense 20–30 minute survival runs!
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Frequently asked about The Backrooms
- Does The Backrooms run on Steam Deck?
- The Backrooms is rated Playable on Steam Deck — it runs, but expect some manual adjustments (control remapping, text size, or graphics settings) for the best experience.
- How much does The Backrooms cost?
- The Backrooms is listed on Steam at 9.99 USD (current store price; Steam sales may reduce this temporarily).
- What games are most similar to The Backrooms?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside The Backrooms are Evil's Den: Forsaken Dungeon, Lost In Ferry VR, Risk the Dark.
- Who developed The Backrooms?
- The Backrooms was developed by Ionized Games.
imho.run ranks Steam game alternatives using a mix of collaborative filtering (ALS / iALS / EASE / LightGCN), content scoring over genres, categories, Steam tags, developers, and publishers, plus AI-extracted vibes mined from review text. The page above is generated in seed mode anchored on The Backrooms.
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