Games like Light the Backrooms
If Light the Backrooms is your kind of game, the closest matches are THE MADHOUSE | Infected Mansion, Umbra and Hidden Shelter — 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 Light the Backrooms: It's a first-person horror game where you survive for a few minutes by continuously illuminating the backrooms. You have free access to convenient ghost hunting equipment such as ghost-specific bear traps and sensors. Notes detailing how to deal with each ghost will be helpful.
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Steam players who put hours into Light the Backrooms also tend to own these titles — a signal called collaborative filtering. imho.run cross-references millions of library ownership patterns to surface games whose real audiences overlap, regardless of whether their genre tags match.
THE MADHOUSE | Infected Mansion
WHY THIS
Top pick for Light the Backrooms fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Light the Backrooms.
THE MADHOUSE | Infected Mansion is a survival horror game. Contains Fear, Stealth, Exploration/Puzzle solving, Item management. Moreover "Multiple First-Person Views" provides a new level of fear, immersion, strategy. Steal the vision of "something" lurking in the abandoned house and try to survive.
Umbra
WHY THIS
Second-strongest match for Light the Backrooms fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Light the Backrooms.
Being hopeless is the feeling you will encounter when you see the dreadful horrors that you will have to face in Umbra, an abyss where the worst horrors that a human can imagine reside, do you dare to face them?
Hidden Shelter
WHY THIS
Third-strongest match for Light the Backrooms fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Light the Backrooms.
Death lurks in every corner of this journey filled with tension and despair. The brave may not be the smartest here and those who know the time to retreat are more likely to make it out alive in the end ... Find your lost friend in a house that holds unimaginable secrets.
The Jurassic Labyrinth
WHY THIS
Ranked #4 for Light the Backrooms fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Light the Backrooms.
A psychological horror puzzle game set in a living labyrinth that adapts to your choices. Solve shifting mechanisms, navigate ever-changing corridors, and evade a relentless presence that learns your behavior as you try to escape.
The Lost Gallery
WHY THIS
Ranked #5 for Light the Backrooms fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Light the Backrooms.
Works of art are attacking people, turning an exhibition into a bloodbath in a single night. At the same time, you – a phantom thief – happen to be there to steal a valuable masterpiece.
SANRI
WHY THIS
Ranked #6 for Light the Backrooms fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Light the Backrooms.
SANRI is a first-person psychological horror game where you play a schizophrenic character whose wife disappeared during camp. Face the delusions, solve the mystery and try to find her despite your constantly distorted perception of time-space.
MadMan
WHY THIS
Ranked #7 for Light the Backrooms fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Light the Backrooms.
Trapped inside an abandoned mental asylum with a psychopathic killer lurking about, you are forced to explore the facility armed with only your wits to survive. With a blood hungry madman on your trail, every move could be your last. Will you escape to tell the tale or fall victim to the madness
Granny Remake
WHY THIS
Ranked #8 for Light the Backrooms fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Light the Backrooms.
Granny Remake is a gripping horror game where you must escape from a sinister house chased by a cunning and relentless Granny. Choose from multiple escape routes: drive away in a car, call the police, or unlock the main door
Cheaper alternatives
Games in the same vein priced at least 40% below Light the Backrooms at current Steam store prices.
POSTAL 2
WHY THIS
Priced ~80% under Light the Backrooms on Steam right now. Shares Action and Indie with Light 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?
The Test
WHY THIS
Priced ~60% under Light the Backrooms on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Light the Backrooms.
You will answer a series of questions that will reveal truths from deep within. These questions may make you uncomfortable, but with great knowledge comes great sacrifice. Can you make it all the way through The Test, and if you do, are you sure you want the answers you seek?
Milk inside a bag of milk inside a bag of milk
WHY THIS
Priced ~70% under Light the Backrooms on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Light the Backrooms.
A short story about what sort of challenges everyday little things can be. Help the girl buy milk, be the first not to disappoint her.
Blood and Bacon
WHY THIS
Priced ~80% under Light the Backrooms on Steam right now. Shares Action with Light the Backrooms.
This Co-op Shooter , has Day and Night levels, multiple maps, players will take on 25 enemy types and numerous bosses, like Gargantuan Monsters and Minibosses every 10 days as you explore, shoot and run for your life against the onslaught of porcine monstrosities.
STAR WARS™ Republic Commando™
WHY THIS
Priced ~50% under Light the Backrooms on Steam right now. Shares Action with Light the Backrooms.
You are the leader of an elite squad of Republic Commandos, your mission is to infiltrate, dominate, and ultimately, annihilate the enemy. Your squad will follow your orders and your lead, working together as a team - instinctively, intelligently, instantly. You are their leader. They are your weapon.
shapez
WHY THIS
Priced ~80% under Light the Backrooms on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Light the Backrooms.
shapez is an easy-going, minimalistic factory building game about the automation of shapes through extraction and satisfying production lines. Adapt to increasingly complex shapes and grow your factory across an infinitely expanding map. Your only limitation is your creativity!
STAR WARS™ Jedi Knight - Jedi Academy™
WHY THIS
Priced ~50% under Light the Backrooms on Steam right now. Shares Action with Light the Backrooms.
Forge your weapon and follow the path of the Jedi Jedi Knight: Jedi Academy is the latest installment of the highly acclaimed Jedi Knight series. Take on the role of a new student eager to learn the ways of the Force from Jedi Master Luke Skywalker.
The Test: Hypothesis Rising
WHY THIS
Priced ~60% under Light the Backrooms on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Light the Backrooms.
The second chapter in The Test trilogy. Answer a series of in-depth questions to reveal hidden truths about yourself and unlock secrets to discover how your life can change drastically with just a few, slight modifications. ...But are you sure you want the answers you seek?
Free alternatives
Free-to-play games that recommended players of this title also tend to enjoy.
Doki Doki Literature Club!
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Light 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.
Ultimate Custom Night
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action and Indie with Light the Backrooms.
Welcome to the ultimate FNAF mashup, featuring 50 selectable characters and custom difficulties!
ENA: Dream BBQ
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Light the Backrooms.
Experience surreal environments and inexplicable characters as ENA in a new wild world.
Indigo Park: Chapter 1
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action and Indie with Light 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.
STRAFTAT
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action with Light the Backrooms.
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
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Light the Backrooms.
You wake up, alone, on a strangely familiar island full of puzzles that will frustrate and annoy you.
Counter-Strike:Global Offensive
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action with Light the Backrooms.
Counter-Strike:Global Offensive (CS:GO) expands upon the team-based action gameplay that it pioneered when it was launched over 2 decades ago. CS:GO features new maps, characters, weapons, and game modes, and delivers updated versions of the classic CS content (de_dust2, etc.).
missed messages.
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Light the Backrooms.
‘goth gf’s iPhone’ airdrops you - accept or decline? A love/horror story about life, death, & memes.
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Frequently asked about Light the Backrooms
- How much does Light the Backrooms cost?
- Light the Backrooms is listed on Steam at 4.99 USD (current store price; Steam sales may reduce this temporarily).
- What games are most similar to Light the Backrooms?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Light the Backrooms are THE MADHOUSE | Infected Mansion, Umbra, Hidden Shelter.
- Who developed Light the Backrooms?
- Light the Backrooms was developed by Nekoromorph.
imho.run ranks Steam game alternatives using a mix of collaborative filtering (ALS / iALS / EASE / LightGCN), content scoring over genres, categories, Steam tags, developers, and publishers, plus AI-extracted vibes mined from review text. The page above is generated in seed mode anchored on Light the Backrooms.
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