Games like Backroom Company
If Backroom Company is your kind of game, the closest matches are Deborg Desolation Pre-Born, Alchemists and Journey Into Darkness — picked from the ranked list below. Reviewers single out its backrooms lore authenticity, atmospheric and dark. 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 Backroom Company: Backroom Company (aka Async Corporation) is a mysterious group exploring “Noclip.” No one knows who created it. Follow the missing explorers' traces and find strange items deep in the Backrooms.
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Deborg Desolation Pre-Born
WHY THIS
Top pick for Backroom Company fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Adventure with Backroom Company.
Deborg Desolation is a first-person indie game intended for the survival of mankind. Train to be a soldier capable of containing any injurious entity to achieve the survival of your own race, seek to plan strategies that allow your advancement without stopping.
Alchemists
WHY THIS
Second-strongest match for Backroom Company fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with Backroom Company.
Alchemists is a Co-Op horror game that can be played with at least a minimum of 1 and a maximum of 4 players. Your goal is to expel the evil spirit from cursed places by completing the 4 Element ritual. Destroy the monster alone or with your team using your tools.
Journey Into Darkness
WHY THIS
Third-strongest match for Backroom Company fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with Backroom Company.
In an unknown environment, only this light can bring a little warmth, but the continuous decline of the battery is stripping away my sense of security, I have to escape! A zombie game for 1-4 players. In darkness, players use flashlights to affect zombie behavior, explore, escape and reach the end.
The Adventures of Mr. Willickers the Rotting Mule
WHY THIS
Ranked #4 for Backroom Company fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with Backroom Company.
Mr. Willickers can never, ever die. He'll chase you until the very ends of the earth.
Survive The Hill
WHY THIS
Ranked #5 for Backroom Company fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with Backroom Company.
Survive the Hill is an asymmetrical multiplayer/co-op survival experience that supports Solo and 4/8-player options and AI versus scenarios. Blow up the exit areas with your aim to escape. Look for ways to defeat the killer, build your strategy, never wander alone.
Cursed Deal
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Ranked #6 for Backroom Company fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie with Backroom Company.
Forget all those other cooperative horror games. You never know who's going to win in this 4v1 game where teams and roles can change. The hunter can be the prey, and the prey can be the hunter. Complete the ritual and become a vampire or die as prey to cursed creatures.
Enemy Remains
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Ranked #7 for Backroom Company fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Adventure with Backroom Company.
Atmospheric horror shooter, offering a blend of intense action and survival horror.
Nightmariners
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Ranked #8 for Backroom Company fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with Backroom Company.
NightMariners is a co-op horror adventure game where you sail across dark seas, explore cursed islands, and enter dangerous caves.
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The Backrooms
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Reviewers of Backroom Company cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Indie and Adventure with Backroom Company.
You find yourself in a strange world with no idea how you got there. As you explore more, the world gets increasingly convoluted and unstable. You are now in... The Backrooms.
Escape the Backrooms
WHY THIS
Shares puzzle solving and an atmospheric mood with Backroom Company.
Reviewers of Backroom Company cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Indie with Backroom Company.
Escape the Backrooms is a 1-4 player co-op horror exploration game. Traverse 30+ eerie backrooms levels while avoiding entities and other dangers. Try to escape but be warned: survival isn't guaranteed.
Lethal Company
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Backroom Company.
Reviewers of Backroom Company cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Indie and Adventure with Backroom Company.
A co-op horror about scavenging at abandoned moons to sell scrap to the Company.
R.E.P.O.
WHY THIS
Shares wave based survival, co op multiplayer, horror and a stressful mood with Backroom Company.
Reviewers of Backroom Company cross-mention this title as a similar play.
An online co-op horror game with up to 6 players. Locate valuable, fully physics-based objects and handle them with care as you retrieve and extract to satisfy your creator's desires.
Cheaper alternatives
Games in the same vein priced at least 40% below Backroom Company at current Steam store prices.
Garry's Mod
WHY THIS
Priced ~44% under Backroom Company on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Backroom Company.
Garry's Mod is a physics sandbox. There aren't any predefined aims or goals. We give you the tools and leave you to play.
Vampire Survivors
WHY THIS
Priced ~44% under Backroom Company on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Backroom Company.
Mow down thousands of night creatures and survive until dawn! Vampire Survivors is a gothic horror casual game with rogue-lite elements, where your choices can allow you to quickly snowball against the hundreds of monsters that get thrown at you. Be the bullet hell!
Cookie Clicker
WHY THIS
Priced ~44% under Backroom Company on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Backroom Company.
An idle game about making cookies! Originally released in 2013 on the web, and actively developed since then. This is the official version for Steam.
WEBFISHING
WHY THIS
Priced ~44% under Backroom Company on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Backroom Company.
WEBFISHING a multiplayer chatroom-focused fishing game! Relax and fish (on the web!)
POSTAL 2
WHY THIS
Priced ~89% under Backroom Company on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Adventure with Backroom Company.
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 ~67% under Backroom Company on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Backroom Company.
Play Russian roulette with a 12-gauge shotgun. Four enter. One leaves. Roll the dice with your life. Good luck!
Brotato
WHY THIS
Priced ~44% under Backroom Company on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Backroom Company.
Brotato is a top-down arena shooter roguelite where you play a potato wielding up to 6 weapons at a time to fight off hordes of aliens. Choose from a variety of traits and items to create unique builds and survive until help arrives.
Your Only Move Is HUSTLE
WHY THIS
Priced ~44% under Backroom Company on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Backroom Company.
Master your technique, execute flashy combos, and outsmart opponents across the world, frame-by-frame. Slow down the clock to fine-tune your fighting style in this innovative, turn-based combat simulator. Pulverize your friends and choreograph spectacular fight scenes. No training mode required.
Free alternatives
Free-to-play games that recommended players of this title also tend to enjoy.
Ultimate Custom Night
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Backroom Company.
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 Backroom Company.
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 Backroom Company.
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 Backroom Company.
You wake up, alone, on a strangely familiar island full of puzzles that will frustrate and annoy you.
Counter-Strike:Global Offensive
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it.
Counter-Strike:Global Offensive (CS:GO) expands upon the team-based action gameplay that it pioneered when it was launched over 2 decades ago. CS:GO features new maps, characters, weapons, and game modes, and delivers updated versions of the classic CS content (de_dust2, etc.).
UNBEATABLE [white label]
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Adventure with Backroom Company.
A young girl learns a song. An exclusive side-story set in the world of D-CELL GAMES' upcoming rhythm-adventure.
Dagon: by H. P. Lovecraft
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Adventure with Backroom Company.
Face unspeakable horrors. Succumb to madness. Welcome to a free daemonic narrative experience inspired by H. P. Lovecraft.
Paper Lily - Chapter 1
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Adventure with Backroom Company.
Paper Lily is an RPG horror game in which you can solve puzzles in different ways. Explore a hidden world, meet strange characters, and guide Lacie as she attempts to find answers about her unusual condition.
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Frequently asked about Backroom Company
- Does Backroom Company run on Steam Deck?
- Backroom Company 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 Backroom Company cost?
- Backroom Company is listed on Steam at 8.99 USD (current store price; Steam sales may reduce this temporarily).
- Does Backroom Company have multiplayer or co-op?
- Yes — Backroom Company supports multi-player play according to its Steam store listing (Multi-player, Online Co-op, LAN Co-op).
- What games are most similar to Backroom Company?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Backroom Company are Deborg Desolation Pre-Born, Alchemists, Journey Into Darkness.
- Who developed Backroom Company?
- Backroom Company was developed by Hypercent Inc..
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