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Games like The Backrooms: Forsaken

If The Backrooms: Forsaken is your kind of game, the closest matches are CONTORTED, 8/8/88 Needle AL and 6年1組 — 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 The Backrooms: Forsaken: What would you do if you were trapped in a dimension of seemingly endless rooms that went on for eternity?

2025ActionStrategyIndieAdventureCasual4.99 USDWindowsby Fred Grant Studios
The Backrooms: Forsaken — Steam game cover

Players who liked The Backrooms: Forsaken also play

Steam players who put hours into The Backrooms: Forsaken 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. CONTORTED

    WHY THIS

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

    CONTORTED is a camera-based horror game where you descend into a seemingly endless series of mysterious wells, encountering strange, contorted creatures. Use your camera to create objects in the world and to defend yourself! Now featuring a new endless minigame—how many points can you score?

    2024IndieAdventure5.99 USDSteam ↗
  2. 8/8/88 Needle AL

    WHY THIS

    Second-strongest match for The Backrooms: Forsaken fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Adventure with The Backrooms: Forsaken.

    On the ominous date of 8/8/1888, the entire population of Needle, Alabama seemingly vanished, leaving behind only a haunting silence and an eerie sense of dread. A first-person psychological-horror drama.

    2023AdventureSimulationFree To PlayFreeSteam ↗
  3. 6年1組

    WHY THIS

    Third-strongest match for The Backrooms: Forsaken fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Strategy with The Backrooms: Forsaken.

    I went to school that night to pick up something I forgot... Aim for class 1 of 6th grade, and if there are no abnormalities, go up the stairs, and if there are any abnormalities, go down the stairs.

    2024ActionStrategyIndie1.99 USDSteam ↗
  4. Unmourned

    WHY THIS

    Ranked #4 for The Backrooms: Forsaken fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with The Backrooms: Forsaken.

    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?

    2025ActionIndieAdventure24.99 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  5. Witch's Doll

    WHY THIS

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

    Witch's Doll is a first-person psychological horror game with realistic graphics. Beware, something is lurking in the dark. Get ready for intense jumpscares.

    2024IndieAdventure6.99 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  6. ROUTINE

    WHY THIS

    Ranked #6 for The Backrooms: Forsaken fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with The Backrooms: Forsaken.

    ROUTINE is a First Person Sci-Fi Horror set on an abandoned lunar base designed around an 80s vision of the future. Explore and investigate your surroundings as you survive against unknown threats.

    2025ActionIndieAdventure24.99 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  7. LOST ZION

    WHY THIS

    Ranked #7 for The Backrooms: Forsaken fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Strategy with The Backrooms: Forsaken.

    Lost Zion is an atmospheric cyberpunk horror game. Awakened by a faint signal as a service bot, explore the forsaken megacity of Lost Zion. Uncover the Emperor's horrific secrets. Obey your sole command: Activate the Gravity Core.

    ActionStrategyIndieSteam ↗
  8. Platform 8

    WHY THIS

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

    You are trapped on a train that runs forever. Keep an eye out for anomalies and find a way out.

    2024IndieAdventureSimulation3.99 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗

Cheaper alternatives

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

  1. POSTAL 2

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~80% under The Backrooms: Forsaken on Steam right now. Shares Action and Indie with The Backrooms: Forsaken.

    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. The Test

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~60% under The Backrooms: Forsaken on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Adventure with The Backrooms: Forsaken.

    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 ↗
  3. Milk inside a bag of milk inside a bag of milk

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~70% under The Backrooms: Forsaken on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Adventure with The Backrooms: Forsaken.

    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 ↗
  4. Blood and Bacon

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~80% under The Backrooms: Forsaken on Steam right now. Shares Action and Adventure with The Backrooms: Forsaken.

    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 ↗
  5. Placid Plastic Duck Simulator

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~60% under The Backrooms: Forsaken on Steam right now. Shares Casual with The Backrooms: Forsaken.

    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.

    2022SimulationCasual1.99 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  6. Peggle Deluxe

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~80% under The Backrooms: Forsaken on Steam right now. Shares Casual with The Backrooms: Forsaken.

    Take your best shot with energizing arcade fun! Aim, shoot, clear the orange pegs, then sit back and cheer as 10 whimsical teachers guide you to Peggle greatness.

    2007Casual0.99 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  7. STAR WARS™ Republic Commando™

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~50% under The Backrooms: Forsaken on Steam right now. Shares Action with The Backrooms: Forsaken.

    You are the leader of an elite squad of Republic Commandos, your mission is to infiltrate, dominate, and ultimately, annihilate the enemy. Your squad will follow your orders and your lead, working together as a team - instinctively, intelligently, instantly. You are their leader. They are your weapon.

    2009Action2.49 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  8. shapez

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~80% under The Backrooms: Forsaken on Steam right now. Shares Strategy and Indie with The Backrooms: Forsaken.

    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!

    2020StrategyIndieSimulation0.99 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗

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 and Casual with The Backrooms: Forsaken.

    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 Action and Adventure with The Backrooms: Forsaken.

    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 Action and Indie with The Backrooms: Forsaken.

    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 The Backrooms: Forsaken.

    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 Action and Indie with The Backrooms: Forsaken.

    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. Shares Action with The Backrooms: Forsaken.

    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 The Backrooms: Forsaken.

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

    2022IndieFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  8. missed messages.

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Casual with The Backrooms: Forsaken.

    ‘goth gf’s iPhone’ airdrops you - accept or decline? A love/horror story about life, death, & memes.

    2019IndieSimulationFree To PlayFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗

Frequently asked about The Backrooms: Forsaken

How much does The Backrooms: Forsaken cost?
The Backrooms: Forsaken 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: Forsaken?
Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside The Backrooms: Forsaken are CONTORTED, 8/8/88 Needle AL, 6年1組.
Who developed The Backrooms: Forsaken?
The Backrooms: Forsaken was developed by Fred Grant 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 Backrooms: Forsaken.

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