Games like The Backrooms Experiment
If The Backrooms Experiment is your kind of game, the closest matches are Lastbane, Death From The Darkness and Haze Together — 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 The Backrooms Experiment: The Backrooms Experiment is a co-op walking simulator with horror and thriller elements. Find your way in Backrooms, avoid the entities, cheese entities with voices, explore the levels, cooperate with your friends, and most importantly, do not die.
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Steam players who put hours into The Backrooms Experiment 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.
Lastbane
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Top pick for The Backrooms Experiment fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with The Backrooms Experiment.
Lastbane is a CO-OP asymmetric horror game. Together with your friends, you must try to escape the map silently without being caught by sound-sensitive creatures that react to microphones and in-game voice chat.
Death From The Darkness
WHY THIS
Second-strongest match for The Backrooms Experiment fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with The Backrooms Experiment.
"Death From The Darkness" is a hardcore horror game in which you have to survive in harsh conditions in a fight with an ancient vampire. Hints are minimal; you have to be alert and use your wits to survive.
Haze Together
WHY THIS
Third-strongest match for The Backrooms Experiment fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with The Backrooms Experiment.
HAZE TOGETHER is a 1-4 player psychological survival horror game set in claustrophobic mines. Team up with friends, explore dangerous industrial facilities, and escape the darkness trying to consume you. Remember: the haze thickens every second, and you are not alone.
The Backrooms Project
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Ranked #4 for The Backrooms Experiment fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with The Backrooms Experiment.
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?
Together After Dark
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Ranked #5 for The Backrooms Experiment fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Adventure with The Backrooms Experiment.
Together After Dark is a co-op horror psychological game with a survival touch for 1-4 players. 4 Teens are stuck in the forest and need to find a way out but they are not alone
Hell of a Birthday
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Ranked #6 for The Backrooms Experiment fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with The Backrooms Experiment.
IT’S YOUR BIRTHDAY!!! and nobody came to celebrate with you… Hell of a Birthday is a First-Person comedic horror game where you play as the Birthday Boy trying to survive your special day. From the maker of Bite Night and Invasion of the Halloween Fiends comes another unique adventure.
Kidnapped
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Ranked #7 for The Backrooms Experiment fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with The Backrooms Experiment.
Kidnapping, The most vicious crime against children. If your family member was kidnapped, would you be able to rescue your child from the event, or even survive it from a demonic clown? Good luck, and make sure you survive. Kill to not die, that's the most important thing you have to do.
Urbex Night Security
WHY THIS
Ranked #8 for The Backrooms Experiment fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Early Access with The Backrooms Experiment.
Atmospheric slow-burn indie horror game. Walking simulator interspersed with various events, sometimes simple puzzles and a bit of running away.Student starts working as a security guard in the old abandoned factory that hides a dark secret.
Cheaper alternatives
Games in the same vein priced at least 40% below The Backrooms Experiment at current Steam store prices.
POSTAL 2
WHY THIS
Priced ~88% under The Backrooms Experiment on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Adventure with The Backrooms Experiment.
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 ~63% under The Backrooms Experiment on Steam right now. Shares Indie with The Backrooms Experiment.
Play Russian roulette with a 12-gauge shotgun. Four enter. One leaves. Roll the dice with your life. Good luck!
GRIS
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Priced ~53% under The Backrooms Experiment on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Adventure with The Backrooms Experiment.
Gris is a hopeful young girl lost in her own world, dealing with a painful experience in her life. Her journey through sorrow is manifested in her dress, which grants new abilities to better navigate her faded reality.
The Test
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Priced ~75% under The Backrooms Experiment on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Adventure with The Backrooms Experiment.
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
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Priced ~81% under The Backrooms Experiment on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Adventure with The Backrooms Experiment.
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
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Priced ~88% under The Backrooms Experiment on Steam right now. Shares Adventure with The Backrooms Experiment.
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.
Crypt of the NecroDancer
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Priced ~63% under The Backrooms Experiment on Steam right now. Shares Indie with The Backrooms Experiment.
Crypt of the NecroDancer is an award winning hardcore roguelike rhythm game. Move to the music and deliver beatdowns to the beat! Groove to the epic Danny Baranowsky soundtrack, or select songs from your own MP3 collection!
A Short Hike
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Priced ~50% under The Backrooms Experiment on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Adventure with The Backrooms Experiment.
Hike, climb, and soar through the peaceful mountainside landscapes of Hawk Peak Provincial Park as you make your way to the summit.
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 The Backrooms Experiment.
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 The Backrooms Experiment.
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 The Backrooms Experiment.
Welcome to the ultimate FNAF mashup, featuring 50 selectable characters and custom difficulties!
Bongo Cat
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with The Backrooms Experiment.
Bongo cat needs your help. Bongo cat needz more hatz!!! Every time you press a key, Bongo cat will punch your taskbar. Type, click, play, work to collect more points. Which hats will you find?
ENA: Dream BBQ
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Adventure with The Backrooms Experiment.
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 Indie and Adventure with The Backrooms Experiment.
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
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with The Backrooms Experiment.
You wake up, alone, on a strangely familiar island full of puzzles that will frustrate and annoy you.
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Frequently asked about The Backrooms Experiment
- How much does The Backrooms Experiment cost?
- The Backrooms Experiment is listed on Steam at 7.99 USD (current store price; Steam sales may reduce this temporarily).
- Does The Backrooms Experiment have multiplayer or co-op?
- Yes — The Backrooms Experiment supports multi-player play according to its Steam store listing (Multi-player, Online Co-op, LAN Co-op).
- What games are most similar to The Backrooms Experiment?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside The Backrooms Experiment are Lastbane, Death From The Darkness, Haze Together.
- Who developed The Backrooms Experiment?
- The Backrooms Experiment was developed by Efe Mert.
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