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Games like Travel the Backrooms

If Travel the Backrooms is your kind of game, the closest matches are The Backrooms: Liminal Space, PROPHECY OF THE NUN and Backrooms Lost Runners — 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 Travel the Backrooms: "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"...

2026IndieAdventureEarly AccessWindowsby 117PS
Travel the Backrooms — Steam game cover

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Steam players who put hours into Travel the Backrooms 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. The Backrooms: Liminal Space

    WHY THIS

    Top pick for Travel the Backrooms fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with Travel the Backrooms.

    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.

    2026IndieAdventure0.99 USDSteam ↗
  2. PROPHECY OF THE NUN

    WHY THIS

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

    The path of a group of friends falls on a mysterious mansion, and the extraordinary events that take place in the mansion are told.

    2021ActionIndieAdventure6.99 USDSteam ↗
  3. Backrooms Lost Runners

    WHY THIS

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

    Backrooms Lost Runners is a co-op survival horror with team play, voice-reactive AI, and immersive puzzles. This isn’t a “walking simulator”: explore liminal spaces, outsmart entities, and remember—even a whisper can give you away.

    2026ActionIndieAdventure12.59 USDSteam ↗
  4. The Hidden Ones

    WHY THIS

    Ranked #4 for Travel the Backrooms fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Adventure with Travel the Backrooms.

    The Hidden Ones is a cooperative horror puzzle game that supports four-player online multiplayer. An seemingly ordinary fire incident unravels the prologue to a cold case that has been buried in a small town , binding the fates of four protagonists into an eerie and intricate maze of mystery.

    StrategyAdventureRPGSteam ↗
  5. NOROI KAGO: the Grudged Domain

    WHY THIS

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

    NOROI KAGO: the Grudged Domain is a four-player co-op survival horror game based on "Yokai", supernatural beings from Japanese folklore. Trapped in a cursed domain, you and your companions must work together to endure the curse and find a way to escape, all the while hiding from the roaming yokai.

    2025ActionIndieAdventure9.99 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  6. SILENT BREATH

    WHY THIS

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

    Unpredictable horrors lurk around every corner, forcing you to find the missing people while desperately clinging to survival. In this experience even your own mind can become your enemy. Stay vigilant and keep your voice hushed, or risk becoming another victim of the forest's darkness

    2024IndieAdventureSimulation9.99 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  7. THE 4 SINS

    WHY THIS

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

    THE 4 SINS is a multiplayer puzzle game in horror atmosphere. It is adapted from a local offline escape room which has gained public recognition for its story. There are 4 players in the game to find cooperative solution by exploring the ghost town. Try to escape the strange place!!

    2024StrategyIndieAdventure9.99 USDSteam ↗
  8. Trash Horror Collection 4

    WHY THIS

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

    This collection includes 7 games that will bring you 80s trash movie vibes. Plus a story mode including all games in a unique, bizarre and bloody story!

    2024ActionIndieAdventure2.99 USDSteam ↗

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 Travel the Backrooms.

    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. Helltaker

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Adventure with Travel the Backrooms.

    Helltaker is a short game about sharply dressed demon girls.

    2020IndieAdventureFree To PlayFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  3. Ultimate Custom Night

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Travel the Backrooms.

    Welcome to the ultimate FNAF mashup, featuring 50 selectable characters and custom difficulties!

    2018ActionIndieFree To PlayFreeSteam ↗
  4. Bongo Cat

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Travel the Backrooms.

    Bongo cat needs your help. Bongo cat needz more hatz!!! Every time you press a key, Bongo cat will punch your taskbar. Type, click, play, work to collect more points. Which hats will you find?

    2025IndieSimulationMassively MultiplayerFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  5. ENA: Dream BBQ

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Adventure with Travel the Backrooms.

    Experience surreal environments and inexplicable characters as ENA in a new wild world.

    2025IndieAdventureFreeDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  6. 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 Travel the Backrooms.

    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 ↗
  7. 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 ↗
  8. The Looker

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Travel the Backrooms.

    You wake up, alone, on a strangely familiar island full of puzzles that will frustrate and annoy you.

    2022IndieFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗

Frequently asked about Travel the Backrooms

Does Travel the Backrooms have multiplayer or co-op?
Yes — Travel the Backrooms supports multi-player play according to its Steam store listing (Multi-player, Online Co-op, Co-op).
What games are most similar to Travel the Backrooms?
Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Travel the Backrooms are The Backrooms: Liminal Space, PROPHECY OF THE NUN, Backrooms Lost Runners.
Who developed Travel the Backrooms?
Travel the Backrooms was developed by 117PS.

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 Travel the Backrooms.

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