Single-player games like Transliminal: Beyond The Backrooms
Below are 10 single-player Steam games similar to Transliminal: Beyond The Backrooms, ranked by player overlap. Every pick carries Steam's Single-player category, so multiplayer-only titles or always-online games don't sneak in. imho.run pulls the category data from Steam directly — Single-player here matches what the store labels.
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Ranked picks
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The Classrooms
Single-player alternative to Transliminal: Beyond The Backrooms — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Early Access with Transliminal: Beyond The Backrooms.
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.
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The Backrooms: Survival
Single-player alternative to Transliminal: Beyond The Backrooms — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Transliminal: Beyond The Backrooms.
Survival horror with roguelike elements. Explore randomized levels with different items and entities while trying to maintain your thirst, hunger, and sanity, ensuring a new experience every time. Play alone or with up to TEN friends online! Cross-platform multiplayer with Nintendo Switch.
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Enter The Backrooms
Single-player alternative to Transliminal: Beyond The Backrooms — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Transliminal: Beyond The Backrooms.
An indie psychological horror experience about surviving infinity. Navigate an endless expanse of rooms, ascend through various levels, gather items and artifacts, avoid going insane, evade corrupted entities, and see just how deep the realm known as The Backrooms goes.
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LIMINAL SHIFT
Single-player alternative to Transliminal: Beyond The Backrooms — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Transliminal: Beyond The Backrooms.
Liminal Shift is a unique atmospheric suspense game developed using the latest Unreal Engine 5 technologies such as Lumen and Nanite. With every step you take, Liminal Shift pushes you deeper into an eerie, unsettling experience like no other.
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Pathologic 3
Single-player alternative to Transliminal: Beyond The Backrooms — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Transliminal: Beyond The Backrooms.
In this psychological horror game, you are a doctor with only 12 days to save a town from a mysterious plague. Make ruthless decisions and diagnose with precision. Shape the town's future and rewrite the past. Hold yourself together while it all falls apart.
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Subliminal
Single-player alternative to Transliminal: Beyond The Backrooms — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Transliminal: Beyond The Backrooms.
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.
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Tormenture
Single-player alternative to Transliminal: Beyond The Backrooms — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Transliminal: Beyond The Backrooms.
Tormenture is a psychological horror game where you play as a child trapped in a cursed 8-bit game with a dark secret. To survive, you must find four relics and solve reality-blurring puzzles. But beware—some creatures may escape the game and haunt you in the real world. A game within a game.
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Dead Take
Single-player alternative to Transliminal: Beyond The Backrooms — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Transliminal: Beyond The Backrooms.
Find your missing friend. Uncover the secrets within. Brave a luxurious and haunting mansion in Dead Take, a first-person psychological horror crafted by Surgent Studios.
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The Complex: Found Footage
Single-player alternative to Transliminal: Beyond The Backrooms — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Transliminal: Beyond The Backrooms.
Experience the liminal world of the backrooms through a VHS camera, immersing into a mysterious story and wandering the dream-like structures... Might there be something following you?
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Liminalcore
Single-player alternative to Transliminal: Beyond The Backrooms — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Transliminal: Beyond The Backrooms.
Explore and admire while navigate through eerie, surreal environments inspired by the Backrooms lore. Explore this uncanny world lost in time and get lost in the otherworldly architecture in a world where reality bends and your sanity is tested.