Games like Back
If Back is your kind of game, the closest matches are Back：Fade, 规则怪谈：盛崖小区 and Superscout — picked from the ranked list below. Reviewers single out its atmospheric, chill and eerie. 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 Back: 《Back》 is a full-motion audio live horror game. Special Note 1: This game is very supernatural and scary, timid or heart disease players do not buy ！！！！ The game will reveal different ending plots step by step through various searches and choices for your character.
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Back：Fade
WHY THIS
Shares visual novel style, multiple endings and atmospheric with Back.
Top pick for Back fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with Back.
《Back：Fade》 is a full-motion audio live horror game. Special Note 1: This game is very supernatural and scary, timid or heart disease players do not buy ！！！！ The game will reveal different ending plots step by step through various searches and choices for your character.
规则怪谈：盛崖小区
WHY THIS
Shares multiple endings and atmospheric with Back.
Second-strongest match for Back fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with Back.
这是一款怪谈类剧情游戏。在宏大的原创世界观下你需要一步步探索盛崖小区的“全貌”，你能做到仅仅是依靠“规则”在这里觅得一线生机。你可以假装无事发生，安然度日；也可以想尽办法，逃出生天；或许你也可以直面它，成为它的一部分……但无论如何，请你记住，保持理智，遵守规则。
Superscout
WHY THIS
Shares visual novel style, multiple endings, supernatural and an atmospheric mood with Back.
Third-strongest match for Back fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with Back.
"Superscout" is a live-action interactive movie game where you will unravel the secrets of the girls you meet. The love beyond lifetimes, never let it go; the kindness in this life, engraved in your soul. Your choices will change your loved ones’ fate; those who love you will change yours...
Game of Fate: Chasing Through Time
WHY THIS
Shares visual novel style, multiple endings and an atmospheric mood with Back.
Ranked #4 for Back fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with Back.
Immerse yourself in the first-person perspective, cross time and space, solve bizarre cases, save innocent victims, and catch a mysterious killer! You will solve murders, uphold justice, and also gain love. Are you ready? Play the "Game of Fate" that crosses time and space, life and death!
Road to Empress I
WHY THIS
Shares choice driven narrative, visual novel style and atmospheric with Back.
Ranked #5 for Back fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with Back.
You've never played a game like this before. Road to Empress I is a cinematic palace adventure where your choices decide everyone's fate. Tackle multiple story branches and a high mortality rate with charm, wisdom and courage? First...survive.
Blood Money: Lethal Eden
WHY THIS
Shares multiple endings, atmospheric and an unsettling mood with Back.
Ranked #6 for Back fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Simulation and RPG with Back.
Lured by an online lover, you're trapped in a scam compound—a true hell where compassion kills and greed consumes. Will you burn this abyss down or be its guiding light? Rule with beauty or betray for life? Your choices decide all: between life and death, heaven and hell.
下一个就是你
WHY THIS
Shares multiple endings, psychological and an atmospheric mood with Back.
Ranked #7 for Back fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Adventure and RPG with Back.
你跟随秦苏言调查一起十年前的学生跳楼事件时，突然收到了两封神秘的邮件。一封邀请你参加高中毕业十周年聚会，另一封则警告你如果继续调查“下一个就是你”。察觉异样的你决定赴会，试图找到更多的线索，却被卷入了一场“密室狼人杀”的局中。面对生死，是善念的互助，还是释放人性中的恶意？
天呐！找不到真爱就扑街！
WHY THIS
Shares quicktime events, visual novel style, indie and an atmospheric mood with Back.
Ranked #8 for Back fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Simulation with Back.
First-person perspective through role-playing When getting along with the "Destined Heroine", they constantly make choices to deepen mutual understanding, and strive to exchange sincerity for true love. These choices determine the final emotional outcome. In the end, who will Huang Di's true love be
Reviewers mention these as similar to Back
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Until Dawn™
WHY THIS
Shares choice driven narrative and an atmospheric mood with Back.
Reviewers of Back cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Adventure with Back.
Rebuilt and enhanced for PC – Until Dawn invites you to relive the nightmare, and immerse yourself in a gripping slasher horror where every decision can make the difference between life and death.
Erica
WHY THIS
Shares multiple endings and an atmospheric mood with Back.
Reviewers of Back cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Indie with Back.
Erica is a live-action, FMV thriller that puts you directly at the heart of the mystery. Your choices, your consequences.
美女，请别影响我成仙
WHY THIS
Shares choice driven narrative, multiple endings and an atmospheric mood with Back.
Reviewers of Back cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Indie and Adventure with Back.
You, Lin Fan, the only male cultivator of the Crane Illusion Sect, were supposed to be the chosen son of the cultivation world, until you realized that the real "crossing tribulation" was not thunder punishment, but a thousand tribulation with the sect's young ladies and sisters.
Cheaper alternatives
Games in the same vein priced at least 40% below Back at current Steam store prices.
POSTAL 2
WHY THIS
Priced ~86% under Back on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Adventure with Back.
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
WHY THIS
Priced ~57% under Back on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Simulation with Back.
Play Russian roulette with a 12-gauge shotgun. Four enter. One leaves. Roll the dice with your life. Good luck!
GRIS
WHY THIS
Priced ~46% under Back on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Adventure with Back.
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
WHY THIS
Priced ~72% under Back on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Adventure with Back.
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 ~79% under Back on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Adventure with Back.
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 ~86% under Back on Steam right now. Shares Adventure with Back.
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
WHY THIS
Priced ~57% under Back on Steam right now. Shares Indie and RPG with Back.
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
WHY THIS
Priced ~43% under Back on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Adventure with Back.
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 Back.
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
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Adventure with Back.
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
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Back.
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 and Adventure with Back.
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 Back.
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 and Adventure with Back.
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.
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More from MYSTERY CROWN
Other recommendable Steam games by MYSTERY CROWN, ranked by review count so the studio's hits land first.
女神的贴身男仆
WHY THIS
Shares choice driven narrative, visual novel style and an atmospheric mood with Back.
Another title from MYSTERY CROWN, the studio behind Back. Shares Indie and Simulation with Back.
"Service of Five Graces" is a romance FMV. You play as Lin Ye. One day, you wake up to find you've become the personal butler to the five ladies!? To repay your father's debts, you have no choice but to step into this mansion, beginning a strange life of being "ordered around" by five young women.
Pact Between Us
WHY THIS
Shares multiple endings with Back.
Another title from MYSTERY CROWN, the studio behind Back. Shares Indie and Simulation with Back.
"Pact between us" is a FMV. After the loss parents, you and your younger sister become siblings who only have each other. You must tenderly care for her daily life.What kind of woman will your sister grow into? Every arrangement you implement during her upbringing carries profound weight.
TryAndLove
WHY THIS
Shares visual novel style, multiple endings, indie and a mysterious mood with Back.
Another title from MYSTERY CROWN, the studio behind Back. Shares Indie and Simulation with Back.
A man's life is a life of pursuing love. The childish love of childhood sweethearts? White Moonlight's pure love? Ignorant of the astringent love of forbidden fruit? Blind love like a moth flying into a flame? True love that transcends the world? Act Ren Xing and make a willful choice.
Back：Fade
WHY THIS
Shares visual novel style, multiple endings and atmospheric with Back.
Another title from MYSTERY CROWN, the studio behind Back. Shares Indie and Adventure with Back.
《Back：Fade》 is a full-motion audio live horror game. Special Note 1: This game is very supernatural and scary, timid or heart disease players do not buy ！！！！ The game will reveal different ending plots step by step through various searches and choices for your character.
Survivor's Notes
WHY THIS
Another title from MYSTERY CROWN, the studio behind Back. Shares Indie and Adventure with Back.
"Survivor's Notes" is an FMV . Players control two protagonists, using choices and QTEs to unlock diverse story branches and endings. When a doomsday-dreaming civilian meets an apocalypse survivor, time, memory and fate intertwine. They seek truth in a crumbling city, closing in on a buried answer.
天平游戏1:抉择
WHY THIS
Another title from MYSTERY CROWN, the studio behind Back. Shares Indie and Adventure with Back.
《Inner Scales 1:Choice》is a first-person FMV. Set in a sealed cage. It pushes survival, humanity, emotion and moral dilemmas to the extreme. You will face surveillance, cages, and the fates of eight trapped women—every choice you make decides life and death for others and yourself.
Lord Return
WHY THIS
Another title from MYSTERY CROWN, the studio behind Back. Shares Indie and Simulation with Back.
《Lord Return》is an interactive fiction game about rebirth and revenge. Play as a twice‑betrayed Demon Lord’s soul bound to the Beauty Destiny System. Unmask impostors, stop world‑ending schemes, battle at Fallen Demon Cliff, protect your loved ones, and face the ultimate high‑dimensional trial.
Force Purge
WHY THIS
Another title from MYSTERY CROWN, the studio behind Back. Shares Indie and Simulation with Back.
《Force Purge》is a visual novel investigation, and branching storytelling. Play as Wang Taqing, team up with psychic cop Lin Mengzhu. Investigate haunted cases, uncover the Sword Lenders’ conspiracy to open the ghost gate and fight the underworld invasion to decide the fate of the mortal world.
Frequently asked about Back
- Does Back run on Steam Deck?
- Back is rated Playable on Steam Deck — it runs, but expect some manual adjustments (control remapping, text size, or graphics settings) for the best experience.
- How much does Back cost?
- Back is listed on Steam at 6.99 USD (current store price; Steam sales may reduce this temporarily).
- What games are most similar to Back?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Back are Back：Fade, 规则怪谈：盛崖小区, Superscout.
- Who developed Back?
- Back was developed by MYSTERY CROWN.
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