Games like THE BACKWORLDS
If THE BACKWORLDS is your kind of game, the closest matches are Fech The Ferret, Finding Frankie 2 and 飢界 — 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 BACKWORLDS: RUN, JUMP, ESCAPE. Endlessly high buildings of dead ruins are towering over a giant chasm of green mist. But the reality of our world is seeping in, and some familiar places are now stuck there. This is how you are invited there - against your will. Enter the hostile realm of the BACKWORLDS.
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Fech The Ferret
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Top pick for THE BACKWORLDS fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with THE BACKWORLDS.
Fast and loud parkour platformer where the faster you go the better music gets. Exploration with rhythmic subtones inside of a colorful open world. You play as a cute pink ferret.
Finding Frankie 2
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Second-strongest match for THE BACKWORLDS fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with THE BACKWORLDS.
Trapped inside a deadly televised game show, you must parkour through a massive obstacle complex. Wall run, rail grind, and vault past twisted traps in the final season. Win the $10 million prize, or die trying. Frankie is waiting for you and he’s not holding back.
Sublimity
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Ranked #4 for THE BACKWORLDS fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with THE BACKWORLDS.
As field researcher Liam, you wake up dazed in an abandoned building complex. While searching for your team, you discover the dark experiments your employer has been conducting. Hide from creatures, piece together the truth, and try to find a way out.
Skyborne Terrors
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Ranked #5 for THE BACKWORLDS fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with THE BACKWORLDS.
"Skyborne Terrors" is a unique horror game where you navigate dangerous, dense skies using a mechanical aircraft. But the skies are far from empty! Demonic balloons haunt the skies, hunting for fresh victims!
Acanthoceras
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Ranked #6 for THE BACKWORLDS fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with THE BACKWORLDS.
A short game based on a Horror and Parkour mixup. Find Keys, escape monsters, Make your way in the ruins and fight back
Lorn's Lure
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Ranked #7 for THE BACKWORLDS fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with THE BACKWORLDS.
An android is led through a vast structure by a glitch in his visual system. Lorn's Lure is an atmospheric narrative first-person platformer with novel climb-anything mechanics and modernized retro 3D graphics.
Hatch
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Ranked #8 for THE BACKWORLDS fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with THE BACKWORLDS.
"Hatch is a single-player, first-person horror game. You find a hatch in your room and strange things start to happen to you. You are the target of psycho killers. You have to find the truth behind the hatch and escape from the crazy world.
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Free-to-play games that recommended players of this title also tend to enjoy.
Doki Doki Literature Club!
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with THE BACKWORLDS.
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 Action and Adventure with THE BACKWORLDS.
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 Action and Indie with THE BACKWORLDS.
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 THE BACKWORLDS.
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 with THE BACKWORLDS.
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 Action and Indie with THE BACKWORLDS.
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
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with THE BACKWORLDS.
You wake up, alone, on a strangely familiar island full of puzzles that will frustrate and annoy you.
Sheepy: A Short Adventure
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Adventure with THE BACKWORLDS.
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.
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Frequently asked about THE BACKWORLDS
- What games are most similar to THE BACKWORLDS?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside THE BACKWORLDS are Fech The Ferret, Finding Frankie 2, 飢界.
- Who developed THE BACKWORLDS?
- THE BACKWORLDS was developed by The Otherworldly Studios.
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 BACKWORLDS.
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