Single-player games like C.I.E.B The Backrooms
Below are 8 single-player Steam games similar to C.I.E.B 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 Hallowed Echo
Single-player alternative to C.I.E.B The Backrooms — playable solo, no multiplayer required. 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.
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PinDrop: Escape The Room
Single-player alternative to C.I.E.B The Backrooms — playable solo, no multiplayer required. 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.
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Death Lease
Single-player alternative to C.I.E.B The Backrooms — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Simulation with C.I.E.B The Backrooms.
You will die.
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Backrooms - Surreality
Single-player alternative to C.I.E.B The Backrooms — playable solo, no multiplayer required. 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.
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The Backrooms Project
Single-player alternative to C.I.E.B The Backrooms — playable solo, no multiplayer required. 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?
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Time Break Chronicles
Single-player alternative to C.I.E.B The Backrooms — playable solo, no multiplayer required. 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!
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SOMA
Single-player alternative to C.I.E.B The Backrooms — playable solo, no multiplayer required. 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.
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Don't Play This
Single-player alternative to C.I.E.B The Backrooms — playable solo, no multiplayer required. 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.