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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Backrooms: Infinite
Online 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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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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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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Summon: Joint escape
Online Co-op alternative to Backrooms: Research — playable with friends. Shares Indie and Adventure with Backrooms: Research.
Summon: Joint Escape is a cooperative horror survival game for 1-4 players. Find a way to escape from a stalker in camouflage uniform who wants to give you a piece of paper with the inscription "Summon".
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Surrounded
Online Co-op alternative to Backrooms: Research — playable with friends. Shares Indie and Early Access with Backrooms: Research.
A 6-player open world horror game. Explore a abandoned town, filled with mysteries, be chased around with your friends and survive creatures capable of ending your life. Uncover what really happened.
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Loch Ness
Online Co-op alternative to Backrooms: Research — playable with friends. Shares Indie and Early Access with Backrooms: Research.
Loch Ness is a 1-4 Player Co-Op Horror Hunter. You and your team must navigate precarious waters, use your equipment to hunt for Nessie’s feeding ground and lay bait to lure her out. But be careful, for lurking deep beneath the lake is a creature more ancient than all mankind…
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Descending The Woods
Online Co-op alternative to Backrooms: Research — playable with friends. Shares Indie and Adventure with Backrooms: Research.
By day, tend to your farm, care for your pets, and explore the mysteries of the haunted woods. By nightfall, They will come from the woods, Beware of ghosts and demons of the haunted woods. Hide, Survive, Build, Fight and Explore in this eerie Survival Horror alone or with friends.