Games like C.I.E.B The Backrooms
If C.I.E.B The Backrooms is your kind of game, the closest matches are The Hallowed Echo, PinDrop: Escape The Room and Death Lease — picked from the ranked list below. 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 →About C.I.E.B The Backrooms: You were abducted by a organization lead by the C.I.A. They have your son and see you as a mule to explore a world beyond ours. The Backrooms. Now you must explore, collect and build up your LAB to collect a profit. They promised you freedom if you help them. Can you trust them?
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The Hallowed Echo
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Top pick for C.I.E.B The Backrooms fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with C.I.E.B The Backrooms.
Cooperative survival horror. Four friends find themselves in a forest where an ancient ritual has awakened something terrifying. Your goal is to destroy the root of evil by burning a cursed tree and survive until morning. Explore, hunt, hide. Alone is scary. Together is even worse.
PinDrop: Escape The Room
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Second-strongest match for C.I.E.B The Backrooms fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Simulation with C.I.E.B The Backrooms.
PinDrop: Escape The Room is a brutal, one-sitting survival horror game where silence is your only weapon. Navigate dark, procedurally generated environments, outwit sound sensitive zombies, and find the true door to escape, if you can survive.
Death Lease
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Third-strongest match for C.I.E.B The Backrooms fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Simulation with C.I.E.B The Backrooms.
You will die.
Backrooms - Surreality
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Ranked #4 for C.I.E.B The Backrooms fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with C.I.E.B The Backrooms.
Noclip into the backrooms and never get out =) Explore several infinite levels of the backrooms and survive in an environment inherently hostile to any human. God save you if you hear something wandering around nearby, because it sure as hell has heard you.
The Backrooms Project
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Ranked #5 for C.I.E.B The Backrooms fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with C.I.E.B The Backrooms.
Scientists made a new discovery about the Backrooms. Noclipping out of bounds in normal reality was a myth for long, but now it can be real! Now they are looking for subjects to test it on civil people. There are already scientists inside, so you have nothing to worry about, they say. Or do you?
Time Break Chronicles
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Ranked #6 for C.I.E.B The Backrooms fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Early Access with C.I.E.B The Backrooms.
Time Break Chronicles is a fusion of classic JRPGs and modern Roguelites, with a cast of 100 playable classes to find and unlock. Build your team, customize their abilities, and venture into a procedurally generated adventure through space-time and beyond!
SOMA
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Ranked #7 for C.I.E.B The Backrooms fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with C.I.E.B The Backrooms.
From the creators of Amnesia: The Dark Descent comes SOMA, a sci-fi horror game set below the waves of the Atlantic ocean. Struggle to survive a hostile world that will make you question your very existence.
Don't Play This
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Ranked #8 for C.I.E.B The Backrooms fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with C.I.E.B The Backrooms.
Five scary stories, but they all have the same ending. Can you play it? A psychological horror game from the first person, which few will pass.
Cheaper alternatives
Games in the same vein priced at least 40% below C.I.E.B The Backrooms at current Steam store prices.
Garry's Mod
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Priced ~50% under C.I.E.B The Backrooms on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Simulation with C.I.E.B The Backrooms.
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 ~50% under C.I.E.B The Backrooms on Steam right now. Shares Indie with C.I.E.B The Backrooms.
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!
How to Fish
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Priced ~50% under C.I.E.B The Backrooms on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Simulation with C.I.E.B The Backrooms.
A 1-4 player physics based fishing simulator. While drinking and boating you suddenly crash into a small island. To work your way back home you have to learn How to Fish.
Cookie Clicker
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Priced ~50% under C.I.E.B The Backrooms on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Simulation with C.I.E.B The Backrooms.
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.
WEBFISHING
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Priced ~50% under C.I.E.B The Backrooms on Steam right now. Shares Indie with C.I.E.B The Backrooms.
WEBFISHING a multiplayer chatroom-focused fishing game! Relax and fish (on the web!)
POSTAL 2
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Priced ~90% under C.I.E.B The Backrooms on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Adventure with C.I.E.B 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
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Priced ~70% under C.I.E.B The Backrooms on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Simulation with C.I.E.B The Backrooms.
Play Russian roulette with a 12-gauge shotgun. Four enter. One leaves. Roll the dice with your life. Good luck!
Brotato
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Priced ~50% under C.I.E.B The Backrooms on Steam right now. Shares Indie with C.I.E.B The Backrooms.
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.
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. Shares Indie with C.I.E.B 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
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Adventure with C.I.E.B 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
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with C.I.E.B The Backrooms.
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 Indie and Adventure with C.I.E.B The Backrooms.
Experience surreal environments and inexplicable characters as ENA in a new wild world.
Indigo Park: Chapter 1
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Adventure with C.I.E.B 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
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with C.I.E.B The Backrooms.
You wake up, alone, on a strangely familiar island full of puzzles that will frustrate and annoy you.
Sheepy: A Short Adventure
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Adventure with C.I.E.B The Backrooms.
A Short Handcrafted Pixel Art Platformer that follows Sheepy, an abandoned plushy brought to life. Sheepy: A Short Adventure is the first short game from MrSuicideSheep.
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Frequently asked about C.I.E.B The Backrooms
- How much does C.I.E.B The Backrooms cost?
- C.I.E.B The Backrooms is listed on Steam at 9.99 USD (current store price; Steam sales may reduce this temporarily).
- What games are most similar to C.I.E.B The Backrooms?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside C.I.E.B The Backrooms are The Hallowed Echo, PinDrop: Escape The Room, Death Lease.
- Who developed C.I.E.B The Backrooms?
- C.I.E.B The Backrooms was developed by Omar Macle-Soto.
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