Co-op games like Backrooms: Research
Below are 8 cooperative Steam games similar to Backrooms: Research, ranked by player overlap and content similarity. Every pick supports cooperative play — online co-op, LAN co-op, or shared/split-screen — so you can play with friends right out of the box. imho.run pulls from the same Steam category data Valve uses internally, so "Co-op" here matches what the store labels.
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Ranked picks
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Haze Together
Online Co-op alternative to Backrooms: Research — playable with friends. 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.
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Backrooms: Infinite
LAN Co-op alternative to Backrooms: Research — playable with friends. 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.
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Stuck In The Backrooms
Online Co-op alternative to Backrooms: Research — playable with friends. Shares Indie and Early Access with Backrooms: Research.
Stuck In The Backrooms is a horror multiplayer (1-4) exploration game where players find themselves trapped in a different reality. Solve puzzles and investigate levels while avoiding (OR NOT...) entities. Some things were never meant to be found…
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Calling in the Shadows
Online Co-op alternative to Backrooms: Research — playable with friends. Shares Indie and Adventure with Backrooms: Research.
A multiplayer horror game. Work together to escape the island. Hunt by sound to murder your friends.
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Survive
Online Co-op alternative to Backrooms: Research — playable with friends. 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.
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This Side (Early Access Game)
Online Co-op alternative to Backrooms: Research — playable with friends. 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.
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Red Tide
Online Co-op alternative to Backrooms: Research — playable with friends. 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.
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Clifton
Online Co-op alternative to Backrooms: Research — playable with friends. 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.