Games like Inside the Backrooms
If Inside the Backrooms is your kind of game, the closest matches are Mirror Spirits, Blood Red and Backrooms: The Phobolore — picked from the ranked list below. Reviewers single out its funny, intense 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 →Inside the Backrooms is a 2022 indie horror adventure developed by MrFatcat, currently in Early Access at $6.99. The game tasks players with navigating procedurally generated environments inspired by the internet creepypasta, where door-card-management and item-drop-rarity create unpredictable progression paths. Multiplayer co-op allows teams to cooperate while avoiding monsters, and players describe the experience as both tense and funny, with chaos emerging naturally from the mechanics. Procedural generation ensures each run feels fresh, and the game is marked as playable on Steam Deck. According to 10,150 Steam reviews, the game holds a 79% positive reception.
About Inside 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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Mirror Spirits
WHY THIS
Top pick for Inside the Backrooms fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with Inside the Backrooms.
MIRROR SPIRITS., is a co-op story-based thriller game that can be played with 2-4 people. Do your best to clean the house connecting to the parallel universe. Escape. Attack. Clean the house before you die.
Blood Red
WHY THIS
Second-strongest match for Inside the Backrooms fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with Inside the Backrooms.
Blood Red is a co-op survival horror game that can be played with 1-4 players. Figure out the demon and banish it using your special demon hunting kit!
Backrooms: The Phobolore
WHY THIS
Third-strongest match for Inside the Backrooms fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with Inside the Backrooms.
Backrooms: The Phobolore is a cooperative multiplayer online horror game for 1-4 players. In this game you will take control of a character who woke up in an unknown place and does not remember anything, your task will be to pass the game levels trying to remember who you are...
Deepscape Inc
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Ranked #4 for Inside the Backrooms fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with Inside the Backrooms.
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.
Return the Backrooms
WHY THIS
Shares an unsettling mood with Inside the Backrooms.
Ranked #5 for Inside the Backrooms fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with Inside the Backrooms.
Return the Backrooms is a Co-op horror game for 1-4 players where you can have a great time with your friends. Think, Explore, Wander, find the key items and try to escape. but be careful because something is lurking in the dark...
Pacify
WHY THIS
Shares a funny mood with Inside the Backrooms.
Ranked #6 for Inside the Backrooms fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with Inside the Backrooms.
An online co-op horror game where you pacify, weaken and capture supernatural creatures for PAH Inc. Each level has a different story, unique monsters, and multiple endings. Play single player or together with up to 6 friends. Includes proximity voice chat with fun effects.
DEVOUR
WHY THIS
Shares a funny mood with Inside the Backrooms.
Ranked #7 for Inside the Backrooms fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie with Inside the Backrooms.
DEVOUR is a co-op horror survival game for 1-4 players. Stop possessed cultists before they drag you to hell. Run. Scream. Hide. Just don't get caught.
Phasmophobia
WHY THIS
Ranked #8 for Inside the Backrooms fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Early Access with Inside the Backrooms.
Phasmophobia is a 4 player online co-op psychological horror. Paranormal activity is on the rise and it’s up to you and your team to use all the ghost-hunting equipment at your disposal in order to gather as much evidence as you can.
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FOREWARNED
WHY THIS
Shares an intense mood with Inside the Backrooms.
Reviewers of Inside the Backrooms cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Indie and Adventure with Inside the Backrooms.
FOREWARNED is a 1-4 player co-op survival horror. Delve deep into ancient Egyptian ruins with your team of fellow archaeologists. Investigate phenomena, collect treasure, discover lore, survive danger, and banish the evil that lurks within.
Phantasmagoria
WHY THIS
Shares a tense mood with Inside the Backrooms.
Reviewers of Inside the Backrooms cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Adventure with Inside the Backrooms.
Master storyteller Roberta Williams challenges you to experience the ultimate interactive nightmare.
The Mortuary Assistant
WHY THIS
Shares a tense mood with Inside the Backrooms.
Reviewers of Inside the Backrooms cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Indie and Adventure with Inside the Backrooms.
Alone with the dead... Embalm corpses, banish demons, save your soul.
Minecraft: Story Mode - A Telltale Games Series
WHY THIS
Reviewers of Inside the Backrooms cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Adventure with Inside the Backrooms.
Episode 1 is now FREE - for a limited time! In Minecraft: Story Mode, playing as either a male or female hero named 'Jesse,' you’ll embark on a perilous adventure across the Overworld, through the Nether, to the End, and beyond.
BACKROOMS
WHY THIS
Reviewers of Inside the Backrooms cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Indie and Adventure with Inside 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.
The Complex
WHY THIS
Reviewers of Inside the Backrooms cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Adventure with Inside the Backrooms.
After a major bio-weapon attack on London, two scientists find themselves in a locked-down laboratory with time, and air, running out. The Complex is an interactive sci-fi thriller movie where your decisions lead to one of eight suspenseful endings.
Terraria
WHY THIS
Reviewers of Inside the Backrooms cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Indie and Adventure with Inside the Backrooms.
Dig, fight, explore, build! Nothing is impossible in this action-packed adventure game. Four Pack also available!
SCP – Containment Breach
WHY THIS
Shares an unsettling mood with Inside the Backrooms.
Reviewers of Inside the Backrooms cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Indie and Adventure with Inside the Backrooms.
A procedural first-person horror adventure. You are on your own after something goes terribly wrong in this top-secret containment facility. Collect items to aid in your escape and try to uncover the truth, as horror lurks behind every door. Can you make it out alive?
Cheaper alternatives
Games in the same vein priced at least 40% below Inside the Backrooms at current Steam store prices.
POSTAL 2
WHY THIS
Priced ~86% under Inside the Backrooms on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Adventure with Inside 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 ~57% under Inside the Backrooms on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Inside the Backrooms.
Play Russian roulette with a 12-gauge shotgun. Four enter. One leaves. Roll the dice with your life. Good luck!
GRIS
WHY THIS
Priced ~46% under Inside the Backrooms on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Adventure with Inside the Backrooms.
Gris is a hopeful young girl lost in her own world, dealing with a painful experience in her life. Her journey through sorrow is manifested in her dress, which grants new abilities to better navigate her faded reality.
The Test
WHY THIS
Priced ~72% under Inside the Backrooms on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Adventure with Inside the Backrooms.
You will answer a series of questions that will reveal truths from deep within. These questions may make you uncomfortable, but with great knowledge comes great sacrifice. Can you make it all the way through The Test, and if you do, are you sure you want the answers you seek?
Milk inside a bag of milk inside a bag of milk
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Priced ~79% under Inside the Backrooms on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Adventure with Inside the Backrooms.
A short story about what sort of challenges everyday little things can be. Help the girl buy milk, be the first not to disappoint her.
Blood and Bacon
WHY THIS
Priced ~86% under Inside the Backrooms on Steam right now. Shares Adventure with Inside the Backrooms.
This Co-op Shooter , has Day and Night levels, multiple maps, players will take on 25 enemy types and numerous bosses, like Gargantuan Monsters and Minibosses every 10 days as you explore, shoot and run for your life against the onslaught of porcine monstrosities.
Crypt of the NecroDancer
WHY THIS
Priced ~57% under Inside the Backrooms on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Inside the Backrooms.
Crypt of the NecroDancer is an award winning hardcore roguelike rhythm game. Move to the music and deliver beatdowns to the beat! Groove to the epic Danny Baranowsky soundtrack, or select songs from your own MP3 collection!
A Short Hike
WHY THIS
Priced ~43% under Inside the Backrooms on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Adventure with Inside the Backrooms.
Hike, climb, and soar through the peaceful mountainside landscapes of Hawk Peak Provincial Park as you make your way to the summit.
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 Inside 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.
Life is Strange - Episode 1
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Adventure with Inside the Backrooms.
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
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Inside 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 Inside the Backrooms.
Experience surreal environments and inexplicable characters as ENA in a new wild world.
Indigo Park: Chapter 1
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Adventure with Inside 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 Inside the Backrooms.
You wake up, alone, on a strangely familiar island full of puzzles that will frustrate and annoy you.
Counter-Strike:Global Offensive
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it.
Counter-Strike:Global Offensive (CS:GO) expands upon the team-based action gameplay that it pioneered when it was launched over 2 decades ago. CS:GO features new maps, characters, weapons, and game modes, and delivers updated versions of the classic CS content (de_dust2, etc.).
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Frequently asked about Inside the Backrooms
- Does Inside the Backrooms run on Steam Deck?
- Inside 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 Inside the Backrooms cost?
- Inside the Backrooms is listed on Steam at 6.99 USD (current store price; Steam sales may reduce this temporarily).
- Does Inside the Backrooms have multiplayer or co-op?
- Yes — Inside the Backrooms supports multi-player play according to its Steam store listing (Multi-player, Online Co-op, Co-op).
- What games are most similar to Inside the Backrooms?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Inside the Backrooms are Mirror Spirits, Blood Red, Backrooms: The Phobolore.
- Who developed Inside the Backrooms?
- Inside the Backrooms was developed by MrFatcat and published by MrFatcat, Dropsiick.
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