Games like The Backrooms: Liminal Space
If The Backrooms: Liminal Space is your kind of game, the closest matches are Travel the Backrooms, Barbotine and I MUST FIND HER — 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 Backrooms: Liminal Space: A short horror experience rendered with a real-time VHS filter (grain, scan lines). Freely explore the spaces of a strange yellow maze. Independently created by a 12-year-old developer using UE5, it immerses you in a purely liminal space atmosphere.
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Travel the Backrooms
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Top pick for The Backrooms: Liminal Space fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with The Backrooms: Liminal Space.
"Travel the Backrooms" is a horror puzzle game that supports 1-4 players! Explore a variety of levels, solve the unique puzzles of each level, and be careful not to get caught by the "Entities"...
Barbotine
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Second-strongest match for The Backrooms: Liminal Space fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with The Backrooms: Liminal Space.
An atmospheric horror micro-game that touches on topics of anxiety, isolation, body image and obsessive habits with a surreal PSX aesthetic.
I MUST FIND HER
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Third-strongest match for The Backrooms: Liminal Space fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with The Backrooms: Liminal Space.
April 27, 1986 — during the mass evacuation of the city of Pripyat, a bus convoy with residents of the city disappears. Oleg Suvorov goes in search of the missing convoy to FIND his little daughter, who was on one of the missing buses
GET OUT! – A Very Bad Dreams Story
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Ranked #4 for The Backrooms: Liminal Space fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with The Backrooms: Liminal Space.
LET'S BE HONEST. You're in deep shit. Straitjacket locked tight. Hood over your head. And the atmosphere? Definitely not a dream vacation. But hey… it happened. You did what you did. And now you're here...
Laser Tag Massacre
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Ranked #5 for The Backrooms: Liminal Space fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with The Backrooms: Liminal Space.
"Laser Tag Massacre" is a narrative-driven horror game inspired by 80s slasher movies, with a PS1-style aesthetic. On Halloween night, five friends throw a party in an abandoned arcade deep in rural Campinas, Brazil. What begins as a fun game of laser tag quickly spirals into their worst nightmare.
April '86
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Ranked #6 for The Backrooms: Liminal Space fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with The Backrooms: Liminal Space.
April ’86 is an atmospheric first-person psychological horror about returning to Pripyat, where the past never truly died. Explore the abandoned city, uncover the mystery behind the disappearance of children, and confront what was hidden behind the Chernobyl disaster.
Beachside Bloodbath
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Ranked #7 for The Backrooms: Liminal Space fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with The Backrooms: Liminal Space.
You arrive at a quaint beach house in a small New Jersey town for an idyllic weekend getaway with friends, but little do you know what horrors await... First person survival horror experience in a stylized PS1 / VHS-era aesthetic.
VERY BAD DREAMS
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Ranked #8 for The Backrooms: Liminal Space fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with The Backrooms: Liminal Space.
Very Bad Dreams is an intense and demanding experience that will test your nerves. Forget everything you thought you knew about horror games, because Very Bad Dreams transcends the boundaries of the gaming experience. Developed by an independent French studio,
Cheaper alternatives
Games in the same vein priced at least 40% below The Backrooms: Liminal Space at current Steam store prices.
QUICKERFLAK
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Priced ~51% under The Backrooms: Liminal Space on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Adventure with The Backrooms: Liminal Space.
QUICKERFLAK is an experimental fast-paced time-attack top-down combat retro-hardcore minigame, that can be finished in a minute.
Save Jesus
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Priced ~51% under The Backrooms: Liminal Space on Steam right now. Shares Indie with The Backrooms: Liminal Space.
Someone is trying to murder Jesus. Disguised as Caesar with the Roman Empire by his side, an evil impostor from the future has set hundreds of deadly traps. Redirect the traps, kill the Romans and protect Jesus!
Gachi Heroes
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Priced ~51% under The Backrooms: Liminal Space on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Adventure with The Backrooms: Liminal Space.
Gachi Heroes is a game about the dark fantasies. That's amazing an endlass journey in which you will know yourself with your favorite gachimuchi characters. How deep would you go?
Trip to Vinelands
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Priced ~51% under The Backrooms: Liminal Space on Steam right now. Shares Indie with The Backrooms: Liminal Space.
Trip to Vinelands is an arcade retro hardcore maze wanderer minigame.
Shotgun Legend
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Priced ~51% under The Backrooms: Liminal Space on Steam right now. Shares Indie with The Backrooms: Liminal Space.
Eugene must battle aliens and the undead in search of a truck rim, as it seems to be his ticket home.
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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 Backrooms: Liminal Space.
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 Adventure with The Backrooms: Liminal Space.
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 Indie with The Backrooms: Liminal Space.
Welcome to the ultimate FNAF mashup, featuring 50 selectable characters and custom difficulties!
ENA: Dream BBQ
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Adventure with The Backrooms: Liminal Space.
Experience surreal environments and inexplicable characters as ENA in a new wild world.
Indigo Park: Chapter 1
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Adventure with The Backrooms: Liminal Space.
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 Backrooms: Liminal Space.
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 Backrooms: Liminal Space.
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 Backrooms: Liminal Space
- How much does The Backrooms: Liminal Space cost?
- The Backrooms: Liminal Space is listed on Steam at 0.99 USD (current store price; Steam sales may reduce this temporarily).
- What games are most similar to The Backrooms: Liminal Space?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside The Backrooms: Liminal Space are Travel the Backrooms, Barbotine, I MUST FIND HER.
- Who developed The Backrooms: Liminal Space?
- The Backrooms: Liminal Space was developed by 117PS.
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