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Games like Lost Hope: Backrooms

If Lost Hope: Backrooms is your kind of game, the closest matches are Haze Together, Train 404 and The Forest — 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.

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About Lost Hope: Backrooms: Explore 20+ handcrafted levels filled with puzzles, secrets, and hidden lore. Collect, trade, and upgrade your tools as you uncover the story behind a realistic world full of danger and discovery.

2026StrategyIndieAdventure6.99 USDWindowsby mdvd
Lost Hope: Backrooms — Steam game cover

Players who liked Lost Hope: Backrooms also play

Steam players who put hours into Lost Hope: 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.

  1. Haze Together

    WHY THIS

    Top pick for Lost Hope: Backrooms fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with Lost Hope: Backrooms.

    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.

    ActionIndieAdventureSteam ↗
  2. Train 404

    WHY THIS

    Second-strongest match for Lost Hope: Backrooms fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with Lost Hope: Backrooms.

    A first-person co-op horror game where you collect coins, find the Golden Ticket, and race back to the train while monsters close in.

    ActionIndieAdventureSteam ↗
  3. The Forest

    WHY THIS

    Third-strongest match for Lost Hope: Backrooms fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with Lost Hope: Backrooms.

    As the lone survivor of a passenger jet crash, you find yourself in a mysterious forest battling to stay alive against a society of cannibalistic mutants. Build, explore, survive in this terrifying first person survival horror simulator.

    2018ActionIndieAdventure19.99 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  4. Backrooms Media

    WHY THIS

    Ranked #4 for Lost Hope: Backrooms fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Lost Hope: Backrooms.

    Backrooms Media is a 1-4 player co-op horror that plunges you into unsettling, hyper-realistic liminal spaces. Navigate eerie environments filled with lurking horrors. Group up with your friends to face the terror of the endless backrooms together and... try to escape.

    2025ActionStrategyIndie7.99 USDSteam ↗
  5. Emissary Zero

    WHY THIS

    Ranked #5 for Lost Hope: Backrooms fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with Lost Hope: Backrooms.

    Co-op horror (1-4 players). You are sent to explore a mysterious building at night. Find the Moon and try to return alive.

    2025IndieAdventureMassively Multiplayer8.99 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  6. The Backrooms Project

    WHY THIS

    Ranked #6 for Lost Hope: Backrooms fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Lost Hope: 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?

    2022ActionStrategyIndie9.99 USDSteam ↗
  7. White Noise 2

    WHY THIS

    Ranked #7 for Lost Hope: Backrooms fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Lost Hope: Backrooms.

    Enjoy a 4vs1 asymmetric horror experience like no other. Be a part of the investigator team, or take control of the creature and devour them!

    2017ActionStrategyIndie9.99 USDSteam ↗
  8. Contagion

    WHY THIS

    Ranked #8 for Lost Hope: Backrooms fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with Lost Hope: Backrooms.

    Contagion isn't your average Zombie Shooter but instead takes a more realistic and different approach to the popular genre with unique characters, environments, weapons, items, and a built in system that makes every round completely unpredictable with resources, objectives, and paths ever changing.

    2013ActionIndieAdventure3.99 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗

Cheaper alternatives

Games in the same vein priced at least 40% below Lost Hope: Backrooms at current Steam store prices.

  1. POSTAL 2

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~86% under Lost Hope: Backrooms on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Adventure with Lost Hope: 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?

    2012ActionIndieAdventure0.99 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  2. Buckshot Roulette

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~57% under Lost Hope: Backrooms on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Lost Hope: Backrooms.

    Play Russian roulette with a 12-gauge shotgun. Four enter. One leaves. Roll the dice with your life. Good luck!

    2024ActionIndieSimulation2.99 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  3. GRIS

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~46% under Lost Hope: Backrooms on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Adventure with Lost Hope: Backrooms.

    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.

    2018IndieAdventure3.74 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  4. The Test

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~72% under Lost Hope: Backrooms on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Adventure with Lost Hope: 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?

    2020IndieAdventureSimulation1.99 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  5. Milk inside a bag of milk inside a bag of milk

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~79% under Lost Hope: Backrooms on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Adventure with Lost Hope: 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.

    2020IndieAdventure1.49 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  6. Blood and Bacon

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~86% under Lost Hope: Backrooms on Steam right now. Shares Adventure with Lost Hope: 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.

    2016ActionAdventureCasual0.99 USDSteam ↗
  7. Crypt of the NecroDancer

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~57% under Lost Hope: Backrooms on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Lost Hope: Backrooms.

    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!

    2015ActionIndieRPG2.99 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  8. A Short Hike

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~43% under Lost Hope: Backrooms on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Adventure with Lost Hope: Backrooms.

    Hike, climb, and soar through the peaceful mountainside landscapes of Hawk Peak Provincial Park as you make your way to the summit.

    2019IndieAdventure3.99 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗

Free alternatives

Free-to-play games that recommended players of this title also tend to enjoy.

  1. Doki Doki Literature Club!

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Lost Hope: 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.

    2017IndieFree To PlayCasualFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  2. Life is Strange - Episode 1

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Adventure with Lost Hope: 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.

    2015ActionAdventureFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  3. Ultimate Custom Night

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Lost Hope: Backrooms.

    Welcome to the ultimate FNAF mashup, featuring 50 selectable characters and custom difficulties!

    2018ActionIndieFree To PlayFreeSteam ↗
  4. ENA: Dream BBQ

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Adventure with Lost Hope: Backrooms.

    Experience surreal environments and inexplicable characters as ENA in a new wild world.

    2025IndieAdventureFreeDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  5. 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 Lost Hope: 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.

    2024ActionIndieAdventureFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  6. STRAFTAT

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it.

    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.

    2024ActionFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  7. The Looker

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Lost Hope: Backrooms.

    You wake up, alone, on a strangely familiar island full of puzzles that will frustrate and annoy you.

    2022IndieFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  8. Sheepy: A Short Adventure

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Adventure with Lost Hope: 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.

    2024IndieAdventureFree To PlayFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗

Frequently asked about Lost Hope: Backrooms

Does Lost Hope: Backrooms work on Steam Deck?
Lost Hope: Backrooms is currently rated Unsupported on Steam Deck. It may not launch or may have significant issues that block normal play.
How much does Lost Hope: Backrooms cost?
Lost Hope: Backrooms is listed on Steam at 6.99 USD (current store price; Steam sales may reduce this temporarily).
Does Lost Hope: Backrooms have multiplayer or co-op?
Yes — Lost Hope: Backrooms supports multi-player play according to its Steam store listing (Multi-player, Online Co-op, LAN Co-op).
What games are most similar to Lost Hope: Backrooms?
Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Lost Hope: Backrooms are Haze Together, Train 404, The Forest.
Who developed Lost Hope: Backrooms?
Lost Hope: Backrooms was developed by mdvd and published by Lost Hope games.

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 Lost Hope: Backrooms.

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