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Games like Backrooms Anomaly: Pools

If Backrooms Anomaly: Pools is your kind of game, the closest matches are BACKROOMS ANOMALY, Mind Loop and Escape Floor Zero — 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 Backrooms Anomaly: Pools: Spot anomalies in a looping complex of empty poolrooms. Choose the correct exit and find the way out.

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Backrooms Anomaly: Pools — Steam game cover

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Steam players who put hours into Backrooms Anomaly: Pools 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. BACKROOMS ANOMALY

    WHY THIS

    Top pick for Backrooms Anomaly: Pools fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Adventure and Simulation with Backrooms Anomaly: Pools.

    Explore a looping corridor filled with anomalies. Walk through the fluorescent-lit backrooms environment, examine your surroundings, and spot subtle changes in reality.

    2026AdventureSimulation4.89 USDSteam ↗
  2. Mind Loop

    WHY THIS

    Second-strongest match for Backrooms Anomaly: Pools fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Adventure and Simulation with Backrooms Anomaly: Pools.

    Enter the endless hall where reality distorts. Spot anomalies, correct them, and uncover the dark truth—miss one, and you may be lost forever.

    2024IndieAdventureSimulation2.99 USDSteam ↗
  3. Escape Floor Zero

    WHY THIS

    Third-strongest match for Backrooms Anomaly: Pools fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Adventure and Simulation with Backrooms Anomaly: Pools.

    Trapped in an infinite parking lot, your only escape is through Floor Zero. Detect subtle anomalies and make crucial decisions in this mind-bending, psychological horror experience. Dare to escape the unescapable? If you see an anomaly... turn back.

    2024AdventureSimulation3.99 USDSteam ↗
  4. Hotel The Memory

    WHY THIS

    Ranked #4 for Backrooms Anomaly: Pools fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Adventure and Simulation with Backrooms Anomaly: Pools.

    “If you find an anomaly, remember it.” Welcome to Hotel The Memory, an anomaly-hunting x memory-matching escape game. Match pairs of rooms with the exact same anomaly to escape from this strange hotel.

    2026IndieAdventureSimulationSteam ↗
  5. My Last Appointment

    WHY THIS

    Ranked #5 for Backrooms Anomaly: Pools fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Adventure and Simulation with Backrooms Anomaly: Pools.

    The doctor said today was my last appointment, I'm healthy. Time to go home, what could go wrong?

    2024AdventureSimulation1.99 USDSteam ↗
  6. The Exit 8

    WHY THIS

    Ranked #6 for Backrooms Anomaly: Pools fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Adventure and Simulation with Backrooms Anomaly: Pools.

    You are trapped in an endless underground passageway. Observe your surroundings carefully to reach "The Exit 8".

    2023IndieAdventureSimulation3.99 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  7. PAGER

    WHY THIS

    Ranked #7 for Backrooms Anomaly: Pools fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Adventure and Simulation with Backrooms Anomaly: Pools.

    You are wetware, working a mysterious job.

    2025IndieAdventureSimulation6.99 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  8. DEVIL'S WAY

    WHY THIS

    Ranked #8 for Backrooms Anomaly: Pools fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Simulation with Backrooms Anomaly: Pools.

    A horror game that tests your wits, courage and dark sense of humor. Solve puzzles to survive in a world full of dark secrets, but beware - there could be something waiting around every corner!

    2024IndieSimulation4.99 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗

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    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it.

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  2. Life is Strange - Episode 1

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Adventure with Backrooms Anomaly: Pools.

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  4. ENA: Dream BBQ

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Adventure with Backrooms Anomaly: Pools.

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  5. The Murder of Sonic the Hedgehog

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Simulation with Backrooms Anomaly: Pools.

    Sonic the Hedgehog...was murdered!? Get to the bottom of the mystery in this brand-new adventure!

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  6. Indigo Park: Chapter 1

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Adventure with Backrooms Anomaly: Pools.

    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.

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More from liminal_games

Other recommendable Steam games by liminal_games, ranked by review count so the studio's hits land first.

  1. BACKROOMS STORIES

    WHY THIS

    Another title from liminal_games, the studio behind Backrooms Anomaly: Pools.

    Read five horror stories set in the Backrooms. Experience existential horror and terrifying encounters while making choices that will alter your fate. Will you escape or be lost forever?

    2026Indie6.99 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  2. BACKROOMS ANOMALY

    WHY THIS

    Another title from liminal_games, the studio behind Backrooms Anomaly: Pools. Shares Adventure and Simulation with Backrooms Anomaly: Pools.

    Explore a looping corridor filled with anomalies. Walk through the fluorescent-lit backrooms environment, examine your surroundings, and spot subtle changes in reality.

    2026AdventureSimulation4.89 USDSteam ↗
  3. Backrooms Fishing

    WHY THIS

    Another title from liminal_games, the studio behind Backrooms Anomaly: Pools.

    Idle and catch mysterious creatures lurking in the Poolrooms. Upgrade your fishing equipment, research bizarre specimens, and build your collection as you uncover the secrets of the Backrooms. Every catch will bring you closer to understanding this strange realm.

Frequently asked about Backrooms Anomaly: Pools

What games are most similar to Backrooms Anomaly: Pools?
Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Backrooms Anomaly: Pools are BACKROOMS ANOMALY, Mind Loop, Escape Floor Zero.
Who developed Backrooms Anomaly: Pools?
Backrooms Anomaly: Pools was developed by liminal_games.

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