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Single-player games like Backrooms: The Game

Below are 8 single-player Steam games similar to Backrooms: The Game, 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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    Snow Survival — Steam game cover

    Snow Survival

    Single-player alternative to Backrooms: The Game — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Backrooms: The Game.

    As a result of a heavy snowfall, the passenger plane crashes on a deserted and cold island. You are the only survivor of the plane and get ready to explore this cold forest.

    2021ActionIndieAdventure11.99 USDSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    5番線おじさん救出編 Platform 5 Dungeons — Steam game cover

    5番線おじさん救出編 Platform 5 Dungeons

    Single-player alternative to Backrooms: The Game — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Backrooms: The Game.

    The long-awaited sequel to Japan’s hit “Nibansen” is here! This new rescue-horror in the “Bansen Series” goes beyond anomaly hunting. Enter massive Senjuku Station (千宿), full of oddities, and save the stranded old man. Now the truth of “Nibansen,” “Sanbansen,” and “Platform 4” is revealed…

    2025ActionIndieAdventure4.99 USDSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    In The Backrooms — Steam game cover

    In The Backrooms

    Single-player alternative to Backrooms: The Game — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Backrooms: The Game.

    "God save you if you hear something wandering around nearby, because it sure as hell has heard you.."

    2022ActionIndieAdventure0.99 USDSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    Outbreak Island — Steam game cover

    Outbreak Island

    Single-player alternative to Backrooms: The Game — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Backrooms: The Game.

    Survive on a remote Island, where a mysterious Outbreak awakens bloodthirsty monsters at night. Craft, build and defend your base in the brutal world of Outbreak Island, an open-world sandbox survival horror game.

    2025ActionIndieAdventure14.99 USDDeck PlayableSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    Hold Your Own — Steam game cover

    Hold Your Own

    Single-player alternative to Backrooms: The Game — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Backrooms: The Game.

    A single player open world sandbox, crafting and survival FPS game set in a multi-island land where you'll fight to survive. Build your base, hunt and craft to defend yourself from aggressive wildlife, enemies or friends. Do you have what it takes to Hold Your Own?

    2017ActionIndieAdventure14.99 USDSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    The Forest — Steam game cover

    The Forest

    Single-player alternative to Backrooms: The Game — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Backrooms: The Game.

    As the lone survivor of a passenger jet crash, you find yourself in a mysterious forest battling to stay alive against a society of cannibalistic mutants. Build, explore, survive in this terrifying first person survival horror simulator.

    2018ActionIndieAdventure19.99 USDDeck PlayableSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    Boiling Steel — Steam game cover

    Boiling Steel

    Single-player alternative to Backrooms: The Game — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Backrooms: The Game.

    "Boiling Steel" - is a sci-fi story-based FPS VR shooter. You are one of many who set off in search of a better life in the distant bastion of scientific progress. Immerse yourself in the thick of events and witness the inexplicable global cataclysm.

    2020ActionIndieAdventure14.99 USDSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    Shadows of Kurgansk — Steam game cover

    Shadows of Kurgansk

    Single-player alternative to Backrooms: The Game — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Backrooms: The Game.

    “Shadows of Kurgansk” is an adventure game, where you need to survive in an area full of danger and mystery. Your goal is to stay alive and find the way out, fighting monsters and completing story driven missions. Fight zombies, build asylums, find your way back home!

    2016ActionIndieAdventure4.99 USDDeck PlayableSingle-playerSimilar games →