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Games like Backrooms: New Gate

If Backrooms: New Gate is your kind of game, the closest matches are Camp Hollow, Mortal Meal and Welcome To Lakewood — 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 Backrooms: New Gate: An immersive wandering simulator through the endless Backrooms. Explore empty corridors, listen to their whisper, and lose yourself in the depths of dark spaces. A subtly oppressive atmosphere, meditative strangeness, and the feeling of an alien, silent world.

2025IndieAdventure6.99 USDWindowsby Torna Games
Backrooms: New Gate — Steam game cover

Players who liked Backrooms: New Gate also play

Steam players who put hours into Backrooms: New Gate 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. Camp Hollow

    WHY THIS

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

    A first-person survival horror game where you play as Riley, a night guard trapped in an abandoned summer camp. Explore, solve puzzles, and uncover the mystery while escaping a relentless creature that hunts you in the dark.

    2026ActionIndieAdventureSteam ↗
  2. Mortal Meal

    WHY THIS

    Second-strongest match for Backrooms: New Gate fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with Backrooms: New Gate.

    Play as an untethered spirit, collecting fragments of your past while fleeing a cryptic force looking to consume your soul. Explore and survive an increasingly nightmarish world. Who are you? How will you avoid the harvest of your soul? What will you uncover with the time you have left?

    2023IndieAdventure8.99 USDSteam ↗
  3. Welcome To Lakewood

    WHY THIS

    Third-strongest match for Backrooms: New Gate fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with Backrooms: New Gate.

    Investigate the sleepy town of Lakewood as you follow the trail of numerous missing person cases and the mysterious cause of the disappearances. Unravel the secret of Lakewood and try to survive its tightening grip.

    2021IndieAdventure0.99 USDSteam ↗
  4. Graveyard Report

    WHY THIS

    Ranked #4 for Backrooms: New Gate fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with Backrooms: New Gate.

    Collect evidence by capturing photos of anomalies. Monitor security footage for areas inhabiting strange activity, objects, or entities. Meet your hourly evidence quota and fulfill requests or you'll be fired! Solve puzzles, find answers, and uncover the truth, all while trying to survive the night.

    IndieAdventureSteam ↗
  5. Mundaun

    WHY THIS

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

    Mundaun is a lovingly hand-penciled horror tale set in a dark, secluded valley of The Alps. Explore various areas full of secrets to discover, survive hostile encounters, drive vehicles, fill your inventory, and solve a variety of handcrafted puzzles.

    2021ActionIndieAdventure19.99 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  6. Poppy Playtime

    WHY THIS

    Ranked #6 for Backrooms: New Gate fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with Backrooms: New Gate.

    You must stay alive in this horror/puzzle adventure. Try to survive the vengeful toys waiting for you in the abandoned toy factory. Use your GrabPack to hack electrical circuits or nab anything from afar. Explore the mysterious facility... and don't get caught.

    2021ActionIndieAdventureFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  7. Backrooms: Lost Tape

    WHY THIS

    Ranked #7 for Backrooms: New Gate fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with Backrooms: New Gate.

    You work in the cinema as an usher and accidentally fell into the Backrooms, now being trapped, needing to unravel the mysteries of the yellow rooms in order to get out of this place, but be careful, there are entities that will be in your way.

    2022ActionIndieAdventure10.99 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  8. iBLiS

    WHY THIS

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

    Demon is a first-person psychological horror game. How much can a game affect your real life? Enjoy a realistic home environment and terrifying moments of being immersed in a real-life story.

    2021ActionIndieAdventure9.99 USDSteam ↗

Cheaper alternatives

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

  1. POSTAL 2

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~86% under Backrooms: New Gate on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Adventure with Backrooms: New Gate.

    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. Buckshot Roulette

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~57% under Backrooms: New Gate on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Backrooms: New Gate.

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

    2024ActionIndieSimulation2.99 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  3. GRIS

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~46% under Backrooms: New Gate on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Adventure with Backrooms: New Gate.

    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.

    2018IndieAdventure3.74 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  4. The Test

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~72% under Backrooms: New Gate on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Adventure with Backrooms: New Gate.

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

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~79% under Backrooms: New Gate on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Adventure with Backrooms: New Gate.

    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 ↗
  6. Blood and Bacon

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~86% under Backrooms: New Gate on Steam right now. Shares Adventure with Backrooms: New Gate.

    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 ↗
  7. Crypt of the NecroDancer

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~57% under Backrooms: New Gate on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Backrooms: New Gate.

    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!

    2015ActionIndieRPG2.99 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  8. A Short Hike

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~43% under Backrooms: New Gate on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Adventure with Backrooms: New Gate.

    Hike, climb, and soar through the peaceful mountainside landscapes of Hawk Peak Provincial Park as you make your way to the summit.

    2019IndieAdventure3.99 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗

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 with Backrooms: New Gate.

    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 Adventure with Backrooms: New Gate.

    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 Indie with Backrooms: New Gate.

    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 Backrooms: New Gate.

    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 Indie and Adventure with Backrooms: New Gate.

    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.

    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 Backrooms: New Gate.

    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 with Backrooms: New Gate.

    ‘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: New Gate

How much does Backrooms: New Gate cost?
Backrooms: New Gate is listed on Steam at 6.99 USD (current store price; Steam sales may reduce this temporarily).
What games are most similar to Backrooms: New Gate?
Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Backrooms: New Gate are Camp Hollow, Mortal Meal, Welcome To Lakewood.
Who developed Backrooms: New Gate?
Backrooms: New Gate was developed by Torna Games and published by AzaFoxy Software.

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 Backrooms: New Gate.

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