Co-op games like Return the Backrooms
Below are 9 cooperative Steam games similar to Return the Backrooms, ranked by player overlap and content similarity. Every pick supports cooperative play — online co-op, LAN co-op, or shared/split-screen — so you can play with friends right out of the box. imho.run pulls from the same Steam category data Valve uses internally, so "Co-op" here matches what the store labels.
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Ranked picks
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Backrooms: The Last Observer
Online Co-op alternative to Return the Backrooms — playable with friends. Shares Indie and Adventure with Return the Backrooms.
Backrooms: The Last Observer is a cooperative horror game. Descend into something that resists understanding, where perception itself begins to fracture. You are here not to fight, but to witness — and sometimes, witnessing is the worst thing you can do.
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Backrooms: Into the Hole
Online Co-op alternative to Return the Backrooms — playable with friends. Shares Indie and Adventure with Return the Backrooms.
Discover an in-between space inspired by the Backrooms series. Make your way forward by jumping into holes, find alternative paths, and survive in this labyrinthine dimension. Play solo or in co-op mode and choose your path to the exit… if there is one.
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Backrooms: The Deep Dark
Online Co-op alternative to Return the Backrooms — playable with friends. Shares Indie and Adventure with Return the Backrooms.
Backrooms: The Deep Dark is a 4-player cooperative horror game where you will survive in a mysterious scary atmospheric world, wander through unknown dark corners and get scared of every nook and cranny!
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Backrooms: The Silence
Online Co-op alternative to Return the Backrooms — playable with friends. Shares Indie and Adventure with Return the Backrooms.
Backrooms: The Silence is a cooperative horror game for 1-4 players, where you have to explore and fight the game master on your own, use your own abilities to survive in this complex world, play with your friends to get the full range of emotions!
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Backrooms: Forgotten Floors
Online Co-op alternative to Return the Backrooms — playable with friends. Shares Indie and Adventure with Return the Backrooms.
Backrooms: Forgotten Floors is a cooperative horror game for 1–4 players. Descend into levels no one remembers, through spaces that shouldn't exist. You're here now — and the only thing worse than being lost is being noticed.
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Backrooms: Final Exam
Online Co-op alternative to Return the Backrooms — playable with friends. Shares Indie and Adventure with Return the Backrooms.
Backrooms: Final Exam is a cooperative horror game for 1-4 players, Where you will explore this complex and intricate dimension with your friends or alone, trying to figure out what to do, wandering around and being scared by every sound, you will need to pass your final exam!
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Echoes Afterfall
Online Co-op alternative to Return the Backrooms — playable with friends. Shares Adventure and Early Access with Return the Backrooms.
Team up in a chilling co-op experience, delving into procedurally generated backroom style buildings. Survive together or succumb into the Echoes.
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Inside the Backrooms
Online Co-op alternative to Return the Backrooms — playable with friends. Shares Indie and Adventure with Return 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...
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BACKROOMS
Online Co-op alternative to Return the Backrooms — playable with friends. Shares Indie and Adventure with Return the Backrooms.
Escape the backrooms levels as reality warps with every step; listen, for the whispers behind the walls may guide you out. Enjoy an unbelievable co-op Backrooms experience.