Games like The Backrooms Recorded
If The Backrooms Recorded is your kind of game, the closest matches are Whisper Of The Curse, Long Carnage and Red Door Ylw Door — 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 Recorded: Navigate a nightmarish labyrinth, avoid eerie entities, and uncover dark secrets in this liminality based horror game. Explore realistic levels, unravel secrets, and figure out life or death puzzles. Will you escape the madness? Brought to you by a solo 13 year old dev.
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Whisper Of The Curse
WHY THIS
Top pick for The Backrooms Recorded fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Early Access with The Backrooms Recorded.
"Whisper of the Curse" is a 4-player online co-op psychological horror game where you and your team will perform various rituals and spells to eliminate the curse and fend off cursed entities. At the same time, you'll need to avoid being hunted by these malevolent entities.
Long Carnage
WHY THIS
Second-strongest match for The Backrooms Recorded fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Early Access with The Backrooms Recorded.
Long Carnage is a first-person cooperative horror game for up to 4 players. Explore an isolated house, find resources, restore power, and survive unique killers with their own mechanics in dynamic and unpredictable matches.
Red Door Ylw Door
WHY THIS
Third-strongest match for The Backrooms Recorded fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie with The Backrooms Recorded.
Red Door Yellow Door is a first-person psychological horror game. Starting with what seems like a normal ritual but quickly revealing its sinister nature. Beware, something malevolent lurks in the shadows.
Graveyard Cabin
WHY THIS
Ranked #4 for The Backrooms Recorded fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Simulation with The Backrooms Recorded.
An FMV anomaly horror game. You are a night guard at a desolate graveyard. Monitor the cameras, spot the unnatural, and survive.
INKUBO
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Ranked #5 for The Backrooms Recorded fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie with The Backrooms Recorded.
Eve, who suffers from sleep issues and nightmares, takes pills from Dr. Isaac that put her into REM sleep. She becomes trapped in a loop inside a distorted, other-dimensional version of her own home. She must find anomalies, make the right choices, and survive deadly entities to break the cycle.
Apartment No 129
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Ranked #6 for The Backrooms Recorded fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie with The Backrooms Recorded.
Emir, who has an interest in mysterious events, steps alone into the abandoned apartment known as "Apartment No 129" to trace the trail of a paranormal event that occurred in 2009 and shook the country. However, he will find himself in an unexpected confrontation within this horror apartment.
Christmas Nightmare
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Ranked #7 for The Backrooms Recorded fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Simulation with The Backrooms Recorded.
Christmas Nightmare is an atmospheric horror game about New Year's Eve.
Unmourned
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Ranked #8 for The Backrooms Recorded fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Simulation with The Backrooms Recorded.
Unmourned is a first-person psychological horror game where Jason moves into a new house only to be haunted by escalating paranormal events. Driven by fear, he must uncover the truth behind the previous owners' disappearance. Can he solve the mystery before it's too late?
Cheaper alternatives
Games in the same vein priced at least 40% below The Backrooms Recorded at current Steam store prices.
POSTAL 2
WHY THIS
Priced ~80% under The Backrooms Recorded on Steam right now. Shares Indie with The Backrooms Recorded.
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 The Backrooms Recorded on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Simulation with The Backrooms Recorded.
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 The Backrooms Recorded on Steam right now. Shares Indie with The Backrooms Recorded.
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.
Placid Plastic Duck Simulator
WHY THIS
Priced ~60% under The Backrooms Recorded on Steam right now. Shares Simulation with The Backrooms Recorded.
The ultimate high-tech rubber duck simulation, Placid Plastic Duck brings you dangerous levels of relaxation. With chill music, dreamy 3D graphics, and many different happy ducks, your only priority is to float around. Zero Ducks given.
shapez
WHY THIS
Priced ~80% under The Backrooms Recorded on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Simulation with The Backrooms Recorded.
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!
The Test: Hypothesis Rising
WHY THIS
Priced ~60% under The Backrooms Recorded on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Simulation with The Backrooms Recorded.
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?
The Test: Final Revelation
WHY THIS
Priced ~60% under The Backrooms Recorded on Steam right now. Shares Simulation with The Backrooms Recorded.
The third chapter in The Test Trilogy. Answer a series of in-depth questions to reveal hidden truths about yourself and unlock secrets to discover who you really are as a person. The Final Revelation is upon us... but are you sure you TRULY want the answers you seek?
The NOexistenceN of you AND me
WHY THIS
Priced ~60% under The Backrooms Recorded on Steam right now. Shares Indie with The Backrooms Recorded.
Use "game" as a medium to showcase the world of "you/girl". Explore the truth of "you/girl/world" through the form of a "visual novel".
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 Recorded.
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
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with The Backrooms Recorded.
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 The Backrooms Recorded.
Experience surreal environments and inexplicable characters as ENA in a new wild world.
The Murder of Sonic the Hedgehog
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Simulation with The Backrooms Recorded.
Sonic the Hedgehog...was murdered!? Get to the bottom of the mystery in this brand-new adventure!
Indigo Park: Chapter 1
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with The Backrooms Recorded.
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 Recorded.
You wake up, alone, on a strangely familiar island full of puzzles that will frustrate and annoy you.
Sheepy: A Short Adventure
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with The Backrooms Recorded.
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.
missed messages.
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Simulation with The Backrooms Recorded.
‘goth gf’s iPhone’ airdrops you - accept or decline? A love/horror story about life, death, & memes.
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Frequently asked about The Backrooms Recorded
- How much does The Backrooms Recorded cost?
- The Backrooms Recorded is listed on Steam at 4.99 USD (current store price; Steam sales may reduce this temporarily).
- What games are most similar to The Backrooms Recorded?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside The Backrooms Recorded are Whisper Of The Curse, Long Carnage, Red Door Ylw Door.
- Who developed The Backrooms Recorded?
- The Backrooms Recorded was developed by Niux.
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 The Backrooms Recorded.
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