Games like Backrooms: Lost Tape
If Backrooms: Lost Tape is your kind of game, the closest matches are Deepscape Inc, Backrooms Level X and Grinnel — picked from the ranked list below. Reviewers single out its minimalist storytelling heightens immersion, atmospheric and contemplative. 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.
Get personalized picks →About Backrooms: Lost Tape: You work in the cinema as an usher and accidentally fell into the Backrooms, now being trapped, needing to unravel the mysteries of the yellow rooms in order to get out of this place, but be careful, there are entities that will be in your way.
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Deepscape Inc
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Top pick for Backrooms: Lost Tape fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Backrooms: Lost Tape.
A 2 to 4 player co-op horror game. You wake up marked with an ID number you can't see on your own back. Only your fellow inmates can read it. Find each other, share your numbers, reach your validation rooms, and get out before whatever roams the halls finds you first.
Backrooms Level X
WHY THIS
Second-strongest match for Backrooms: Lost Tape fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with Backrooms: Lost Tape.
Enter the disturbing world of Backrooms Level X, a first-person narrative survival horror game that immerses you in an endless labyrinth of desolate and liminal spaces. 13 levels and giant enemies await you in this unique experience.
Grinnel
WHY THIS
Third-strongest match for Backrooms: Lost Tape fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Backrooms: Lost Tape.
If you stop, the light dies. If you turn, darkness takes over. As a patient trapped in Grinnel, escape this psychological horror nightmare with Dr. Esin. Use your visor in the atmospheric labyrinth and never look back; in this surreal thriller, your gaze is your worst enemy.
HERADÔNIA Director's cut
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Ranked #4 for Backrooms: Lost Tape fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Backrooms: Lost Tape.
REPENTANCE IS THE ONLY WAY TO OVERCOME THE EVILS OF YOUR CORRUPT HEART, THOSE YOU TRIED TO BURY.
Moved mind
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Ranked #5 for Backrooms: Lost Tape fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Backrooms: Lost Tape.
Moved mind is a first person narrative psychological horror game, where you will be the subject of a psychological experiment where you will have to face your fears and differentiate reality from the symptoms of your illness.
Abduction
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Ranked #6 for Backrooms: Lost Tape fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie with Backrooms: Lost Tape.
Abduction is a singleplayer psychological horror experience. When unexpected visitors arrive in the middle of the night, you must defend your farm in order to take back your land.
SleepWalk
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Ranked #7 for Backrooms: Lost Tape fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Backrooms: Lost Tape.
Sleepwalk is an indie survival horror game, the story begins with the player waking up in an unknown and dark place, trying to escape and discover hidden secrets with no memory of their arrival.
MITE - Terror in the forest
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Ranked #8 for Backrooms: Lost Tape fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Backrooms: Lost Tape.
MITE is a horror game, with some difficulty, in which you play a hiker who has lost his family in a cursed forest... find your family and escape, while strange creatures from Japanese folklore chase you, orient yourself .
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The Backrooms
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Reviewers of Backrooms: Lost Tape cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Action and Indie with Backrooms: Lost Tape.
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.
Subliminal
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Shares an atmospheric mood with Backrooms: Lost Tape.
Reviewers of Backrooms: Lost Tape cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Indie and Adventure with Backrooms: Lost Tape.
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.
BACKROOMS
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Reviewers of Backrooms: Lost Tape cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Action and Indie with Backrooms: Lost Tape.
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.
Cheaper alternatives
Games in the same vein priced at least 40% below Backrooms: Lost Tape at current Steam store prices.
Garry's Mod
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Priced ~55% under Backrooms: Lost Tape on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Backrooms: Lost Tape.
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
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Priced ~55% under Backrooms: Lost Tape on Steam right now. Shares Action and Indie with Backrooms: Lost Tape.
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 ~59% under Backrooms: Lost Tape on Steam right now. Shares Action with Backrooms: Lost Tape.
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.
Slay the Spire
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Priced ~43% under Backrooms: Lost Tape on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Backrooms: Lost Tape.
We fused card games and roguelikes together to make the best single player deckbuilder we could. Craft a unique deck, encounter bizarre creatures, discover relics of immense power, and Slay the Spire!
Cookie Clicker
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Priced ~55% under Backrooms: Lost Tape on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Backrooms: Lost Tape.
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
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Priced ~55% under Backrooms: Lost Tape on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Backrooms: Lost Tape.
WEBFISHING a multiplayer chatroom-focused fishing game! Relax and fish (on the web!)
POSTAL 2
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Priced ~91% under Backrooms: Lost Tape on Steam right now. Shares Action and Indie with Backrooms: Lost Tape.
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
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Priced ~73% under Backrooms: Lost Tape on Steam right now. Shares Action and Indie with Backrooms: Lost Tape.
Play Russian roulette with a 12-gauge shotgun. Four enter. One leaves. Roll the dice with your life. Good luck!
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 Backrooms: Lost Tape.
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.
Life is Strange - Episode 1
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action and Adventure with Backrooms: Lost Tape.
Episode 1 now FREE! Life is Strange is an award-winning and critically acclaimed episodic adventure game that allows the player to rewind time and affect the past, present and future.
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 Backrooms: Lost Tape.
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 Backrooms: Lost Tape.
Experience surreal environments and inexplicable characters as ENA in a new wild world.
The Murder of Sonic the Hedgehog
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Backrooms: Lost Tape.
Sonic the Hedgehog...was murdered!? Get to the bottom of the mystery in this brand-new adventure!
Indigo Park: Chapter 1
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action and Indie with Backrooms: Lost Tape.
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 Backrooms: Lost Tape.
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 Backrooms: Lost Tape.
‘goth gf’s iPhone’ airdrops you - accept or decline? A love/horror story about life, death, & memes.
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Frequently asked about Backrooms: Lost Tape
- Does Backrooms: Lost Tape run on Steam Deck?
- Backrooms: Lost Tape 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 Backrooms: Lost Tape cost?
- Backrooms: Lost Tape is listed on Steam at 10.99 USD (current store price; Steam sales may reduce this temporarily).
- What games are most similar to Backrooms: Lost Tape?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Backrooms: Lost Tape are Deepscape Inc, Backrooms Level X, Grinnel.
- Who developed Backrooms: Lost Tape?
- Backrooms: Lost Tape was developed by Cortez Productions.
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