Single-player games like The Backrooms
Below are 10 single-player Steam games similar to The Backrooms, ranked by player overlap. Every pick carries Steam's Single-player category, so multiplayer-only titles or always-online games don't sneak in. imho.run pulls the category data from Steam directly — Single-player here matches what the store labels.
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Ranked picks
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Evil's Den: Forsaken Dungeon
Single-player alternative to The Backrooms — playable solo, no multiplayer required. 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.
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Lost In Ferry VR
Single-player alternative to The Backrooms — playable solo, no multiplayer required. 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.
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Risk the Dark
Single-player alternative to The Backrooms — playable solo, no multiplayer required. 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.
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Heavy Bullets
Single-player alternative to The Backrooms — playable solo, no multiplayer required. 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.
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Zombie Soup
Single-player alternative to The Backrooms — playable solo, no multiplayer required. 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!
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Overture
Single-player alternative to The Backrooms — playable solo, no multiplayer required. 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!
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Wizard of Legend
Single-player alternative to The Backrooms — playable solo, no multiplayer required. 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!
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Gunfire Reborn
Single-player alternative to The Backrooms — playable solo, no multiplayer required. 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.
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CAT Interstellar
Single-player alternative to The Backrooms — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with The Backrooms.
A short story inspired by Robert Heinlein's:The Moon Is a Harsh Mistress
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CAT Interstellar: Recast
Single-player alternative to The Backrooms — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with The Backrooms.
A short story inspired by Robert Heinlein's:The Moon Is a Harsh Mistress. The first iteration in a fight for Android freedom.