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Games like Backrooms Cleanup Crew

If Backrooms Cleanup Crew is your kind of game, the closest matches are MIMESIS, Backrooms: Escape Together and Backrooms: Extractions — picked from the ranked list below. Reviewers single out its atmospheric, cozy and funny. 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 Backrooms Cleanup Crew: You and your crew are tasked with cleaning up after the last exploration team's ill-fated journey into the Backrooms. Dodge deadly incursions, scrub every surface, and leave no trace.

2025ActionIndieAdventureSimulationCasualEarly Access9.99 USDDeck PlayableWindowsby On The Bridge Games
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Atmospheric backrooms lore and environmental storytellingBlends cleaning with survival tensionCo op multiplayer with friendsAtmosphericCozyFunny

Players who liked Backrooms Cleanup Crew also play

Steam players who put hours into Backrooms Cleanup Crew 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. MIMESIS

    WHY THIS

    Shares atmospheric with Backrooms Cleanup Crew.

    Top pick for Backrooms Cleanup Crew fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Backrooms Cleanup Crew.

    4 Player co-op survival horror game. When the cursed rain falls, 'Mimesis' appear, perfectly imitating your teammates, bringing a new level of tension you've never experienced before.

    2025ActionIndieAdventure9.99 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  2. Backrooms: Escape Together

    WHY THIS

    Shares an atmospheric mood with Backrooms Cleanup Crew.

    Second-strongest match for Backrooms Cleanup Crew fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Backrooms Cleanup Crew.

    A visually lifelike co-op horror for 1-6 people. Journey through 10 procedurally generated levels, using what's available to survive and progress deeper into the Backrooms.

    2022ActionIndieAdventure9.99 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  3. Backrooms: Extractions

    WHY THIS

    Shares wave based survival, resource gathering and atmospheric with Backrooms Cleanup Crew.

    Third-strongest match for Backrooms Cleanup Crew fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Backrooms Cleanup Crew.

    Cooperate with up to 6 players to explore, search, and extract lost agents within the Backrooms. Solve puzzles, unlock tools, survive against entities, and progress through increasingly dangerous levels.

    2025ActionIndieCasual6.99 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  4. CashGrab: Refunded

    WHY THIS

    Shares resource gathering, comedic and a funny mood with Backrooms Cleanup Crew.

    Ranked #4 for Backrooms Cleanup Crew fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Adventure with Backrooms Cleanup Crew.

    An online co-op horror game with up to 6 players. Use fully physics-based objects and fluid movement to grab some cash and escape The Grind. Use cash to buy items and equipment and fund community goals. Create your Grabba and get rich or die trying.

    2025ActionAdventureRPG6.99 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  5. Backrooms Rec.

    WHY THIS

    Shares atmospheric with Backrooms Cleanup Crew.

    Ranked #5 for Backrooms Cleanup Crew fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Backrooms Cleanup Crew.

    Dive into the mysteries of the Backrooms with a solo-developed survival game. Explore eerie hallways, uncover secrets alone or in multiplayer (up to 6 players), and take on unique challenges.

    2024ActionIndieAdventure6.99 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  6. Paranormal Cleanup

    WHY THIS

    Shares an atmospheric mood with Backrooms Cleanup Crew.

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

    Clock in for the worst cleaning shift of your life: Unclog nasty toilets and scrub ectoplasm in this 1-4 player online co-op survival horror game. Get the job done and don't get caught by the entities hunting you!

    2025ActionIndieAdventure9.99 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  7. Zort

    WHY THIS

    Shares atmospheric with Backrooms Cleanup Crew.

    Ranked #7 for Backrooms Cleanup Crew fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Backrooms Cleanup Crew.

    Zort is an action, adventure, and horror game that can be played with up to 4 people. Explore maps with your friends and have fun while escaping from various creatures. Experience a realistic horror experience with in-game voice chat with your friends!

    2024ActionIndieAdventure4.00 USDSteam ↗
  8. Subterror

    WHY THIS

    Shares wave based survival, resource gathering and atmospheric with Backrooms Cleanup Crew.

    Ranked #8 for Backrooms Cleanup Crew fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Backrooms Cleanup Crew.

    Explore abandoned biospheres at the bottom of the ocean, alone or with up to 4 friends.

    2025ActionIndieAdventure7.99 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗

Cheaper alternatives

Games in the same vein priced at least 40% below Backrooms Cleanup Crew at current Steam store prices.

  1. Garry's Mod

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~50% under Backrooms Cleanup Crew on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Simulation with Backrooms Cleanup Crew.

    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.

    2006IndieSimulationCasual4.99 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  2. Vampire Survivors

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~50% under Backrooms Cleanup Crew on Steam right now. Shares Action and Indie with Backrooms Cleanup Crew.

    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!

    2022ActionIndieRPG4.99 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  3. Titanfall® 2

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~55% under Backrooms Cleanup Crew on Steam right now. Shares Action with Backrooms Cleanup Crew.

    Respawn Entertainment gives you the most advanced titan technology in its new, single player campaign & multiplayer experience. Combine & conquer with new titans & pilots, deadlier weapons, & customization and progression systems that help you and your titan flow as one unstoppable killing force.

    2020Action4.49 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  4. Cookie Clicker

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~50% under Backrooms Cleanup Crew on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Simulation with Backrooms Cleanup Crew.

    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.

    2021StrategyIndieSimulation4.99 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  5. WEBFISHING

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~50% under Backrooms Cleanup Crew on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Casual with Backrooms Cleanup Crew.

    WEBFISHING a multiplayer chatroom-focused fishing game! Relax and fish (on the web!)

    2024IndieMassively MultiplayerCasual4.99 USDSteam ↗
  6. POSTAL 2

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~90% under Backrooms Cleanup Crew on Steam right now. Shares Action and Indie with Backrooms Cleanup Crew.

    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 ↗
  7. Buckshot Roulette

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~70% under Backrooms Cleanup Crew on Steam right now. Shares Action and Indie with Backrooms Cleanup Crew.

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

    2024ActionIndieSimulation2.99 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  8. Brotato

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~50% under Backrooms Cleanup Crew on Steam right now. Shares Action and Indie with Backrooms Cleanup Crew.

    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.

    2023ActionIndieRPG4.99 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗

Free alternatives

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

  1. Ultimate Custom Night

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action and Indie with Backrooms Cleanup Crew.

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

    2018ActionIndieFree To PlayFreeSteam ↗
  2. Bongo Cat

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Simulation with Backrooms Cleanup Crew.

    Bongo cat needs your help. Bongo cat needz more hatz!!! Every time you press a key, Bongo cat will punch your taskbar. Type, click, play, work to collect more points. Which hats will you find?

    2025IndieSimulationMassively MultiplayerFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  3. ENA: Dream BBQ

    WHY THIS

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

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

    2025IndieAdventureFreeDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  4. 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 Backrooms Cleanup Crew.

    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 ↗
  5. STRAFTAT

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action with Backrooms Cleanup Crew.

    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 ↗
  6. The Looker

    WHY THIS

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

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

    2022IndieFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  7. Counter-Strike:Global Offensive

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action with Backrooms Cleanup Crew.

    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.).

    2012ActionFree To PlayFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  8. missed messages.

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Simulation with Backrooms Cleanup Crew.

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

    2019IndieSimulationFree To PlayFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗

Frequently asked about Backrooms Cleanup Crew

Does Backrooms Cleanup Crew run on Steam Deck?
Backrooms Cleanup Crew 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 Backrooms Cleanup Crew cost?
Backrooms Cleanup Crew is listed on Steam at 9.99 USD (current store price; Steam sales may reduce this temporarily).
Does Backrooms Cleanup Crew have multiplayer or co-op?
Yes — Backrooms Cleanup Crew supports multi-player play according to its Steam store listing (Multi-player, Online Co-op, Co-op).
What games are most similar to Backrooms Cleanup Crew?
Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Backrooms Cleanup Crew are MIMESIS, Backrooms: Escape Together, Backrooms: Extractions.
Who developed Backrooms Cleanup Crew?
Backrooms Cleanup Crew was developed by On The Bridge Games.

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