Games like The Classrooms
If The Classrooms is your kind of game, the closest matches are DEADCAM | ANALOG • SURVIVAL • HORROR, 工廈 Warehouse and Transliminal: Beyond The Backrooms — picked from the ranked list below. Reviewers single out its tactical positioning matters, writing quality is exceptional and atmospheric. 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 →The Classrooms is a first-person survival horror game released in 2022 by Xefier Games and Hillcrest Games Inc., currently available in Early Access for $11.99. Players explore a surreal, liminal environment filled with anomalies and hostile entities, navigating procedurally generated layouts that change with each playthrough. Reviewers highlight its tense ambience and puzzle-solving elements, noting that tactical positioning matters when facing the creatures that inhabit these unsettling spaces. The game draws on 1980s and 1990s aesthetics to create an atmospheric experience, and survival depends on careful resource management and observation. Players describe the encounters as atmospheric and challenging, with audio logs and environmental storytelling adding to the unsettling mood. It runs as Playable on Steam Deck, and holds a 91% positive rating from 1559 Steam reviews.
About The Classrooms: The Classrooms is a procedural, liminal-space, found-footage, survival horror game. Explore The Classrooms and discover the various anomalies it contains; from malicious entities, to harmless oddities. And remember, it's different every time you play, so your found footage is uniquely yours.
Players who liked The Classrooms also play
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DEADCAM | ANALOG • SURVIVAL • HORROR
WHY THIS
Top pick for The Classrooms fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Early Access with The Classrooms.
Survive the horror of found-footage recordings in this analog survival game. Play through multiple 80s & 90s-inspired short stories, each with unique locations and terrifying encounters.
工廈 Warehouse
WHY THIS
Second-strongest match for The Classrooms fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries.
工廈 Warehouse is a short action psychological horror game, developed by a solo developer, set in a decaying Hong Kong industrial building. Armed with a VHS camcorder and a handgun, uncover buried guilt and survive the horrors that lurk in the dark as past sins claw their way into the present.
Transliminal: Beyond The Backrooms
WHY THIS
Shares procedural generation and an atmospheric mood with The Classrooms.
Third-strongest match for The Classrooms fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action with The Classrooms.
An unsettling rogue-lite survival horror adventure. Iconic levels reshape around you. Classic and original entities lurk as greater beings bid for your favor. Collect relics and strange items. Grow stronger. Survive, escape, or claim more uncertain fates. Fall in. Get lost. Go beyond The Backrooms.
CONTORTED
WHY THIS
Ranked #4 for The Classrooms fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries.
CONTORTED is a camera-based horror game where you descend into a seemingly endless series of mysterious wells, encountering strange, contorted creatures. Use your camera to create objects in the world and to defend yourself! Now featuring a new endless minigame—how many points can you score?
I MUST FIND HER
WHY THIS
Ranked #5 for The Classrooms fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action with The Classrooms.
April 27, 1986 — during the mass evacuation of the city of Pripyat, a bus convoy with residents of the city disappears. Oleg Suvorov goes in search of the missing convoy to FIND his little daughter, who was on one of the missing buses
THE ILLUSION: NIGHTMARE
WHY THIS
Ranked #6 for The Classrooms fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries.
THE ILLUSION NIGHTMARE Is a horror game made by professional crew In the art of horror. You will have the opportunity to experience one of the most powerful types of psychological horror Based on an environment designed in every detail to be a real hell that makes you terrified.
Backrooms Level X
WHY THIS
Ranked #7 for The Classrooms fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries.
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.
GET OUT! – A Very Bad Dreams Story
WHY THIS
Ranked #8 for The Classrooms fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action with The Classrooms.
LET'S BE HONEST. You're in deep shit. Straitjacket locked tight. Hood over your head. And the atmosphere? Definitely not a dream vacation. But hey… it happened. You did what you did. And now you're here...
Cheaper alternatives
Games in the same vein priced at least 40% below The Classrooms at current Steam store prices.
Vampire Survivors
WHY THIS
Priced ~58% under The Classrooms on Steam right now. Shares Action with The Classrooms.
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!
R.E.P.O.
WHY THIS
Priced ~42% under The Classrooms on Steam right now. Shares Action and Early Access with The Classrooms.
An online co-op horror game with up to 6 players. Locate valuable, fully physics-based objects and handle them with care as you retrieve and extract to satisfy your creator's desires.
Titanfall® 2
WHY THIS
Priced ~63% under The Classrooms on Steam right now. Shares Action with The Classrooms.
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.
POSTAL 2
WHY THIS
Priced ~92% under The Classrooms on Steam right now. Shares Action with The Classrooms.
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 ~75% under The Classrooms on Steam right now. Shares Action with The Classrooms.
Play Russian roulette with a 12-gauge shotgun. Four enter. One leaves. Roll the dice with your life. Good luck!
Brotato
WHY THIS
Priced ~58% under The Classrooms on Steam right now. Shares Action with The Classrooms.
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.
Your Only Move Is HUSTLE
WHY THIS
Priced ~58% under The Classrooms on Steam right now. Shares Action with The Classrooms.
Master your technique, execute flashy combos, and outsmart opponents across the world, frame-by-frame. Slow down the clock to fine-tune your fighting style in this innovative, turn-based combat simulator. Pulverize your friends and choreograph spectacular fight scenes. No training mode required.
ROUNDS
WHY THIS
Priced ~50% under The Classrooms on Steam right now. Shares Action with The Classrooms.
Rounds is a 1v1 rogue-lite shooter where each round gets more intense. The losing player of each round unlocks clever upgrades to create a better build to counter their opponent.
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.
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 Action with The Classrooms.
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 Action with The Classrooms.
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.
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 Action with The Classrooms.
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
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action with The Classrooms.
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
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it.
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. Shares Action with The Classrooms.
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 The Classrooms
- Does The Classrooms run on Steam Deck?
- The Classrooms 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 Classrooms cost?
- The Classrooms is listed on Steam at 11.99 USD (current store price; Steam sales may reduce this temporarily).
- What games are most similar to The Classrooms?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside The Classrooms are DEADCAM | ANALOG • SURVIVAL • HORROR, 工廈 Warehouse, Transliminal: Beyond The Backrooms.
- Who developed The Classrooms?
- The Classrooms was developed by Xefier Games, Hillcrest Games Inc. and published by Xefier Games.
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