Games like The Complex: Expedition
If The Complex: Expedition is your kind of game, the closest matches are Anemoiapolis: Chapter 1, In The Backrooms and Backrooms: Eight Levels — picked from the ranked list below. Reviewers single out its high quality graphics, no chase sequences and realistic sound design. 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 Complex: Expedition is a first-person horror exploration game set in the Backrooms, an endless liminal space of corridors and rooms. Developed and published by pgWave, it emphasizes environmental interaction, exploration, and atmospheric sound design rather than combat or chase sequences. Players review the high-quality graphics and realistic audio as creating an immersive and unsettling atmosphere. The game is solo-only, designed for a sit-down chill session, and runs a short length. It released in 2025 and is available for $14.99. As of this writing, it holds an 88% positive rating from 1386 Steam reviews and is not supported on Steam Deck.
About The Complex: Expedition: When a routine expedition into The Complex goes horribly wrong, you're left alone and lost, wandering the seemingly infinite maze of hallways, otherwise known as the Backrooms. Might there be something following you?
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Anemoiapolis: Chapter 1
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with The Complex: Expedition.
Top pick for The Complex: Expedition fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Adventure with The Complex: Expedition.
The most relaxing horror game you'll ever play. Anemoiapolis exists in the uncanny valley of American architecture -- endless carpeted floors and lonely malls. Escape for your life, and enjoy the scenery.
In The Backrooms
WHY THIS
Second-strongest match for The Complex: Expedition fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Adventure with The Complex: Expedition.
"God save you if you hear something wandering around nearby, because it sure as hell has heard you.."
Backrooms: Eight Levels
WHY THIS
Third-strongest match for The Complex: Expedition fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Adventure with The Complex: Expedition.
"God save you if you hear something wandering around nearby, because it sure as hell has heard you..."
Where the Walls Breathe
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Ranked #4 for The Complex: Expedition fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Adventure with The Complex: Expedition.
Where the Walls Breathe is a first-person psychological horror experience with a strong focus on atmosphere and environmental storytelling.
BACKROOMS LIMINAL ESCAPE
WHY THIS
Ranked #5 for The Complex: Expedition fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Adventure with The Complex: Expedition.
BACKROOMS: LIMINAL ESCAPE is a VHS-style horror game where you explore eerie liminal spaces through a camcorder. BACKROOMS: LIMINAL ESCAPE is More than just a walking sim, it features intense levels that require you to hide, run, stay quite, and survive in a creepy, analog nightmare.
Shhh!
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Ranked #6 for The Complex: Expedition fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Adventure with The Complex: Expedition.
Explore haunted locations with your VHS camera—but stay silent! Any noise could be your last. (Microphone required)
Ways
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Ranked #7 for The Complex: Expedition fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Adventure and Simulation with The Complex: Expedition.
A lone urbex in an abandoned hotel - what could go wrong? Explore the surroundings and find the mysteries of this place. Don't forget to be quiet - urbex is an illegal adventure, and you don't want to be found...
The Transference
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Ranked #8 for The Complex: Expedition fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Adventure with The Complex: Expedition.
Escape from your own house, in which you have been locked up. But be careful, you will not be alone in your captivity. Immerse yourself in this first-person horror adventure, full of family secrets and betrayals. And find out who and why they locked you up.
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Backrooms: The Game
WHY THIS
Reviewers of The Complex: Expedition cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Action and Adventure with The Complex: Expedition.
Backrooms is a creepypasta that contains randomly generated office rooms that seem endless. The walls are mono yellow in color. It is also an eternal paradox.
The Complex: Found Footage
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Reviewers of The Complex: Expedition cross-mention this title as a similar play.
2022Steam ↗POOLS
WHY THIS
Shares sound design, exploration and an atmospheric mood with The Complex: Expedition.
Reviewers of The Complex: Expedition cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Adventure with The Complex: Expedition.
Walking simulator. Explore, admire and listen. Uncanny. Relaxing. Unnerving. Eerie. Immersive. No monsters chasing you or jumping at your screen, but can feel oppressive at times by invoking fears of getting lost, the dark, tight spaces and liminal space architecture. Inspired by backrooms.
Cheaper alternatives
Games in the same vein priced at least 40% below The Complex: Expedition at current Steam store prices.
Garry's Mod
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Priced ~67% under The Complex: Expedition on Steam right now. Shares Simulation with The Complex: Expedition.
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 ~67% under The Complex: Expedition on Steam right now. Shares Action with The Complex: Expedition.
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.
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Priced ~53% under The Complex: Expedition on Steam right now. Shares Action with The Complex: Expedition.
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.
PEAK
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Priced ~47% under The Complex: Expedition on Steam right now. Shares Action and Adventure with The Complex: Expedition.
PEAK is a co-op climbing game where the slightest mistake can spell your doom. Either solo or as a group of lost nature scouts, your only hope of rescue from a mysterious island is to scale the mountain at its center. Do you have what it takes to reach the PEAK?
Titanfall® 2
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Priced ~70% under The Complex: Expedition on Steam right now. Shares Action with The Complex: Expedition.
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.
Inscryption
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Priced ~47% under The Complex: Expedition on Steam right now. Shares Adventure with The Complex: Expedition.
Inscryption is an inky black card-based odyssey that blends the deckbuilding roguelike, escape-room style puzzles, and psychological horror into a blood-laced smoothie. Darker still are the secrets inscrybed upon the cards...
Cookie Clicker
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Priced ~67% under The Complex: Expedition on Steam right now. Shares Simulation with The Complex: Expedition.
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.
Noita
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Priced ~47% under The Complex: Expedition on Steam right now. Shares Action and Adventure with The Complex: Expedition.
Noita is a magical action roguelite set in a world where every pixel is physically simulated. Fight, explore, melt, burn, freeze and evaporate your way through the procedurally generated world using spells you've created yourself.
Free alternatives
Free-to-play games that recommended players of this title also tend to enjoy.
Doki Doki Literature Club!
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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
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action and Adventure with The Complex: Expedition.
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 with The Complex: Expedition.
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 Adventure with The Complex: Expedition.
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 Simulation with The Complex: Expedition.
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 Adventure with The Complex: Expedition.
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 Complex: Expedition.
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.
You wake up, alone, on a strangely familiar island full of puzzles that will frustrate and annoy you.
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Frequently asked about The Complex: Expedition
- Does The Complex: Expedition work on Steam Deck?
- The Complex: Expedition is currently rated Unsupported on Steam Deck. It may not launch or may have significant issues that block normal play.
- How much does The Complex: Expedition cost?
- The Complex: Expedition is listed on Steam at 14.99 USD (current store price; Steam sales may reduce this temporarily).
- What games are most similar to The Complex: Expedition?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside The Complex: Expedition are Anemoiapolis: Chapter 1, In The Backrooms, Backrooms: Eight Levels.
- Who developed The Complex: Expedition?
- The Complex: Expedition was developed by pgWave.
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