Games like The Backrooms 1998 - Found Footage Survival Horror Game
If The Backrooms 1998 - Found Footage Survival Horror Game is your kind of game, the closest matches are Psycho Fear, The Backrooms Project and Deepscape Inc — picked from the ranked list below. Reviewers single out its atmospheric, immersive and tense. 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 The Backrooms 1998 - Found Footage Survival Horror Game: 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.
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Psycho Fear
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Psycho Fear is a heart-pounding escape room puzzle where players must escape to survive. Solve challenging puzzles, overcome deadly obstacles in an intense atmosphere, nerve-wracking and dark environment will keep players on edge.
The Backrooms Project
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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?
Deepscape Inc
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Third-strongest match for The Backrooms 1998 - Found Footage Survival Horror Game fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with The Backrooms 1998 - Found Footage Survival Horror Game.
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.
MADiSON
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Ranked #4 for The Backrooms 1998 - Found Footage Survival Horror Game fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with The Backrooms 1998 - Found Footage Survival Horror Game.
MADiSON is a first person psychological horror game that delivers an immersive and terrifying experience. With the help of an instant camera, connect the human world with the beyond, take pictures and develop them by yourself. Solve puzzles, explore your surroundings and most importantly, survive.
Poppy Playtime
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Ranked #5 for The Backrooms 1998 - Found Footage Survival Horror Game fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with The Backrooms 1998 - Found Footage Survival Horror Game.
You must stay alive in this horror/puzzle adventure. Try to survive the vengeful toys waiting for you in the abandoned toy factory. Use your GrabPack to hack electrical circuits or nab anything from afar. Explore the mysterious facility... and don't get caught.
THE MADHOUSE | Infected Mansion
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Ranked #6 for The Backrooms 1998 - Found Footage Survival Horror Game fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with The Backrooms 1998 - Found Footage Survival Horror Game.
THE MADHOUSE | Infected Mansion is a survival horror game. Contains Fear, Stealth, Exploration/Puzzle solving, Item management. Moreover "Multiple First-Person Views" provides a new level of fear, immersion, strategy. Steal the vision of "something" lurking in the abandoned house and try to survive.
Anomaly Core: Hospital
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Ranked #7 for The Backrooms 1998 - Found Footage Survival Horror Game fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with The Backrooms 1998 - Found Footage Survival Horror Game.
You are a patient. You should avoid treatment at the old hospital. The crazy doctor's strange methods raise doubts. The treatment may not go as you imagine.
Little Devil
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Little Devil is a survival horror game for up to 5 players. You set out to look for your friend, but will you survive?
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Visage
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Visage is a first-person psychological horror game. Explore a mysterious ever-changing house in a slow-paced, atmospheric world that combines both uncannily comforting and horrifyingly realistic environments, and enjoy a genuinely terrifying experience.
The Mortuary Assistant
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Alone with the dead... Embalm corpses, banish demons, save your soul.
SILENT HILL 2
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Investigating a letter from his late wife, James returns to where they made so many memories - Silent Hill. What he finds is a ghost town, prowled by disturbing monsters and cloaked in deep fog. Confront the monsters, solve puzzles, and search for traces of your wife in this remake of SILENT HILL 2.
CAPTURED
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Trapped in what appears to be an endless hallway in your home, rooms begin to feel unfamiliar. Capture anomalies on camera and stay away from any sinister entities.
Cheaper alternatives
Games in the same vein priced at least 40% below The Backrooms 1998 - Found Footage Survival Horror Game at current Steam store prices.
Garry's Mod
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Priced ~50% under The Backrooms 1998 - Found Footage Survival Horror Game on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Simulation with The Backrooms 1998 - Found Footage Survival Horror Game.
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 ~50% under The Backrooms 1998 - Found Footage Survival Horror Game on Steam right now. Shares Action and Indie with The Backrooms 1998 - Found Footage Survival Horror Game.
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
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Priced ~55% under The Backrooms 1998 - Found Footage Survival Horror Game on Steam right now. Shares Action with The Backrooms 1998 - Found Footage Survival Horror Game.
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
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Priced ~50% under The Backrooms 1998 - Found Footage Survival Horror Game on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Simulation with The Backrooms 1998 - Found Footage Survival Horror Game.
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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WEBFISHING a multiplayer chatroom-focused fishing game! Relax and fish (on the web!)
POSTAL 2
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Priced ~90% under The Backrooms 1998 - Found Footage Survival Horror Game on Steam right now. Shares Action and Indie with The Backrooms 1998 - Found Footage Survival Horror Game.
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 ~70% under The Backrooms 1998 - Found Footage Survival Horror Game on Steam right now. Shares Action and Indie with The Backrooms 1998 - Found Footage Survival Horror Game.
Play Russian roulette with a 12-gauge shotgun. Four enter. One leaves. Roll the dice with your life. Good luck!
Brotato
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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.
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Doki Doki Literature Club!
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with The Backrooms 1998 - Found Footage Survival Horror Game.
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 The Backrooms 1998 - Found Footage Survival Horror Game.
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 The Backrooms 1998 - Found Footage Survival Horror Game.
Welcome to the ultimate FNAF mashup, featuring 50 selectable characters and custom difficulties!
ENA: Dream BBQ
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Adventure with The Backrooms 1998 - Found Footage Survival Horror Game.
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 1998 - Found Footage Survival Horror Game.
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.
STRAFTAT
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action with The Backrooms 1998 - Found Footage Survival Horror Game.
STRAFTAT is a 1v1/2v2 ONLINE first person SHOOTER with quick rounds in over 350 MAPS ; Including all WEAPONS, proximity chat and 4 players FFA.
The Looker
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with The Backrooms 1998 - Found Footage Survival Horror Game.
You wake up, alone, on a strangely familiar island full of puzzles that will frustrate and annoy you.
UNBEATABLE [white label]
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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 1998 - Found Footage Survival Horror Game.
A young girl learns a song. An exclusive side-story set in the world of D-CELL GAMES' upcoming rhythm-adventure.
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The Voidness - Lidar Horror Survival Game
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Another title from Steelkrill Studio, the studio behind The Backrooms 1998 - Found Footage Survival Horror Game. Shares Action and Indie with The Backrooms 1998 - Found Footage Survival Horror Game.
The Voidness is a SCI-FI psychological horror game where it takes place inside the void where it's filled with just gloom - the only way to see is by scanning the environment with your range finder device, however you are not alone. Don't breathe ... as they are listening.. and watching.
Trenches - World War 1 Horror Survival Game
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Another title from Steelkrill Studio, the studio behind The Backrooms 1998 - Found Footage Survival Horror Game. Shares Action and Indie with The Backrooms 1998 - Found Footage Survival Horror Game.
Trenches is a First-Person World War l Survival Horror Game where you have to escape the claustrophobic environment and experience the war from the eyes of a soldier caught behind enemy lines in this surreal nightmare as you fight for your life and sanity to get back home to your family.
Rotten Flesh - Cosmic Horror Survival Game
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Another title from Steelkrill Studio, the studio behind The Backrooms 1998 - Found Footage Survival Horror Game. Shares Action and Indie with The Backrooms 1998 - Found Footage Survival Horror Game.
Rotten Flesh is a cosmic horror survival game where you have just lost your dog named Roy and you have to find him by shouting for "ROY" on your microphone. Venture deep into the sewers where your dog was lost - however, something else can also hear your screams in the tunnels.
Baby Blues Nightmares - Toddler Horror Game
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Another title from Steelkrill Studio, the studio behind The Backrooms 1998 - Found Footage Survival Horror Game. Shares Action and Indie with The Backrooms 1998 - Found Footage Survival Horror Game.
Baby Blues Nightmares is a survival horror stealth game where you play as a toddler going into a little adventure with your tricycle which you can fix, maintain and customize. Paddle, hide and survive but remember; try not to cry when you are scared.. or the monsters will hear you and get you.
The Stairway 7 - Anomaly Hunt Loop Horror Game
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Another title from Steelkrill Studio, the studio behind The Backrooms 1998 - Found Footage Survival Horror Game. Shares Action and Indie with The Backrooms 1998 - Found Footage Survival Horror Game.
The Stairway 7 is an endless loop anomaly hunt and observation "spot the difference" game where you are stuck in a endless loop of stairways with a cat and you have to observe your surroundings carefully to reach the exit. Anomalies are watching, and ready to hunt you down. Don't take them with you.
The 18th Attic - Paranormal Anomaly Hunting Game
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Another title from Steelkrill Studio, the studio behind The Backrooms 1998 - Found Footage Survival Horror Game. Shares Action and Indie with The Backrooms 1998 - Found Footage Survival Horror Game.
The 18th Attic is a psychological horror game where you play as a man trapped in the attic with your cat companion, armed only with a camera. Hunt down paranormal anomalies by taking their pictures and detecting their presence to unravel secrets of your past. Each photo unlocks a new memory.
Medievaly: Battle Simulator
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Another title from Steelkrill Studio, the studio behind The Backrooms 1998 - Found Footage Survival Horror Game. Shares Action and Indie with The Backrooms 1998 - Found Footage Survival Horror Game.
Feeling Medievaly? Travel to the most vibrant version of the Dark Ages yet to defend your kingdom from encroaching enemies! Devise creative strategies, manage resources, and enjoy a dynamic simulated medieval battlefield where every decision matters and the unexpected will always happen!
Where Dolls Hang
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Another title from Steelkrill Studio, the studio behind The Backrooms 1998 - Found Footage Survival Horror Game. Shares Action and Indie with The Backrooms 1998 - Found Footage Survival Horror Game.
Where Dolls Hang is a survival psychological horror game where you investigate a place plagued by strange and unsettling events filled with hanging dolls. Explore dangerous locations, gather evidence, uncover hidden secrets, and use your boat to confront the unknown as you search for answers.
Frequently asked about The Backrooms 1998 - Found Footage Survival Horror Game
- Does The Backrooms 1998 - Found Footage Survival Horror Game run on Steam Deck?
- The Backrooms 1998 - Found Footage Survival Horror Game 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 1998 - Found Footage Survival Horror Game cost?
- The Backrooms 1998 - Found Footage Survival Horror Game is listed on Steam at 9.99 USD (current store price; Steam sales may reduce this temporarily).
- Does The Backrooms 1998 - Found Footage Survival Horror Game have multiplayer or co-op?
- Yes — The Backrooms 1998 - Found Footage Survival Horror Game supports multi-player play according to its Steam store listing (Multi-player, Co-op).
- What games are most similar to The Backrooms 1998 - Found Footage Survival Horror Game?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside The Backrooms 1998 - Found Footage Survival Horror Game are Psycho Fear, The Backrooms Project, Deepscape Inc.
- Who developed The Backrooms 1998 - Found Footage Survival Horror Game?
- The Backrooms 1998 - Found Footage Survival Horror Game was developed by Steelkrill Studio.
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