Games like Backrooms: Research
If Backrooms: Research is your kind of game, the closest matches are Haze Together, Backrooms: Infinite and Calling in the Shadows — 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 Backrooms: Research: A multiplayer backrooms extraction game up to 4 players where you manage your own base and enter open, non-linear levels to complete objectives, explore unknown environments, and gather resources and items needed to survive.
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Haze Together
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Top pick for Backrooms: Research fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with Backrooms: Research.
HAZE TOGETHER is a 1-4 player psychological survival horror game set in claustrophobic mines. Team up with friends, explore dangerous industrial facilities, and escape the darkness trying to consume you. Remember: the haze thickens every second, and you are not alone.
Backrooms: Infinite
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Second-strongest match for Backrooms: Research fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with Backrooms: Research.
Backrooms: Infinite is a first-person survival exploration game. Explore endlessly expanding Backrooms, scavenge supplies, document anomalies, face threats, and return to outposts to prepare for your next expedition. Go alone or with friends — escape is not the only answer.
Calling in the Shadows
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Third-strongest match for Backrooms: Research fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with Backrooms: Research.
A multiplayer horror game. Work together to escape the island. Hunt by sound to murder your friends.
Survive
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Ranked #4 for Backrooms: Research fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with Backrooms: Research.
SURVIVE is a 6 player multiplayer horror game. Survive a killer in different environments, accomplish objectives and call the police to escape.
This Side (Early Access Game)
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Ranked #5 for Backrooms: Research fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with Backrooms: Research.
Fight your natural fears and help your friend to find a way to escape this forgotten place. Set on an abandoned mine. This Side is a roguelike survival horror game that you will have a terrifying experience with a friend to find the way to freedom.
Red Tide
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Ranked #6 for Backrooms: Research fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with Backrooms: Research.
Radioactive fish? Heavily armed Game Wardens? Exploring a vast open world with a rod in one hand and a rifle in the other? Red Tide is an extraction fisher set in the irradiated wastelands. Scavenge what's left of the former nuclear site among the Calem Islands, alone or with friends.
Clifton
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Ranked #7 for Backrooms: Research fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with Backrooms: Research.
Clifton is an open-world survival game set on a remote tropical island. Explore, survive its dangers, and find a way to escape before the island’s unsolved mysteries find you. Play alone or in online co-op with up to 4 players.
Starnded: Gardens of the Rubellite
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Ranked #8 for Backrooms: Research fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Adventure with Backrooms: Research.
A sci-fi multiplayer survival RPG with no guns - fight with weapons and magic instead. Explore an alien world, gather resources, craft gear, and build your base. Trade, form alliances, raid, or betray other players to survive.
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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 Backrooms: Research.
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.
Ultimate Custom Night
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Backrooms: Research.
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 Backrooms: Research.
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 Backrooms: Research.
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 Backrooms: Research.
You wake up, alone, on a strangely familiar island full of puzzles that will frustrate and annoy you.
The Expendabros
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Adventure with Backrooms: Research.
The Expendabros have assembled and set their sights on the forces of ruthless arms dealer Conrad Stonebanks in the forests of Eastern Europe.
UNBEATABLE [white label]
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Adventure with Backrooms: Research.
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
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Adventure with Backrooms: Research.
Face unspeakable horrors. Succumb to madness. Welcome to a free daemonic narrative experience inspired by H. P. Lovecraft.
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Frequently asked about Backrooms: Research
- Does Backrooms: Research have multiplayer or co-op?
- Yes — Backrooms: Research supports multi-player play according to its Steam store listing (Multi-player, Online Co-op, Co-op).
- What games are most similar to Backrooms: Research?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Backrooms: Research are Haze Together, Backrooms: Infinite, Calling in the Shadows.
- Who developed Backrooms: Research?
- Backrooms: Research was developed by PixelPath.
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