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Games like Backrooms Game Creator

If Backrooms Game Creator is your kind of game, the closest matches are PHANTOM, SHADOW DETECTIVE and Ritual Tides — 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 Game Creator: Backrooms Game Creator lets you build and explore your own liminal horror worlds. Design levels, customize enemies, lighting, and items, and create unique experiences—from quiet, eerie spaces to intense survival scenarios.

2026ActionIndieAdventureEarly Access9.99 USDWindowsby Outlaw Games
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Steam players who put hours into Backrooms Game Creator 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. PHANTOM

    WHY THIS

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

    A Single Player Ghost Hunting Game. Unlockable & Upgradeable Equipment, and multiple Unique Locations to investigate.

    2026IndieAdventureEarly Access5.99 USDSteam ↗
  2. SHADOW DETECTIVE

    WHY THIS

    Second-strongest match for Backrooms Game Creator fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Backrooms Game Creator.

    The school where Shadow Detective takes place is a vast and meticulously designed seamlessly world. Players can freely explore classrooms, corridors, and even areas that are normally off-limits. As you explore, you'll find traces of the incident, hidden items, and new horrors.

    2025ActionIndieAdventure4.49 USDSteam ↗
  3. Ritual Tides

    WHY THIS

    Third-strongest match for Backrooms Game Creator fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Backrooms Game Creator.

    Ritual Tides is a story rich, psychological horror game set on the dark, atmospheric, isolated British island of Hortus. Explore the island, uncover its dark past, loot food, ammunition and supplies, evade the cult of the Fallow Parish, as you fight for survival against Lovecraftian horrors.

    ActionIndieAdventureSteam ↗
  4. Clown House: Lunacy

    WHY THIS

    Ranked #4 for Backrooms Game Creator fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Backrooms Game Creator.

    A narrative horror experience where violence is a trap. Unravel the secrets of a derelict mansion and its uncanny clown residents. Solve puzzles. Observe the clowns, deduct their needs and what angers them to survive. And never harm the residents of the Clown House. It has eyes.

    ActionIndieAdventureSteam ↗
  5. Them

    WHY THIS

    Ranked #5 for Backrooms Game Creator fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Backrooms Game Creator.

    You just want to play a video game in an old game club, but time passes quickly, and strange noises draw you into a dark nightmare! A nightmare that begins with an old video game... Are you ready to experience a 2D platformer game within the heart of a 3D first person psychological horror game?

    2025ActionIndieAdventure6.99 USDSteam ↗
  6. Deepscape Inc

    WHY THIS

    Ranked #6 for Backrooms Game Creator fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Backrooms Game Creator.

    A 2 to 4 player co-op horror game. You wake up marked with an ID number you can't see on your own back. Only your fellow inmates can read it. Find each other, share your numbers, reach your validation rooms, and get out before whatever roams the halls finds you first.

    ActionIndieAdventureSteam ↗
  7. The Unrested

    WHY THIS

    Ranked #7 for Backrooms Game Creator fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Backrooms Game Creator.

    The Unrested is a story-driven first-person horror game. A spirit from your past traps you in an abandoned boarding school. A shadow watching your every step will test you with puzzles while forcing you to confront your fears.

    2025ActionIndieAdventure2.99 USDSteam ↗
  8. Phasmophobia

    WHY THIS

    Ranked #8 for Backrooms Game Creator fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Backrooms Game Creator.

    Phasmophobia is a 4 player online co-op psychological horror. Paranormal activity is on the rise and it’s up to you and your team to use all the ghost-hunting equipment at your disposal in order to gather as much evidence as you can.

    2020ActionIndieEarly Access19.99 USDSteam ↗

Cheaper alternatives

Games in the same vein priced at least 40% below Backrooms Game Creator at current Steam store prices.

  1. Garry's Mod

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~50% under Backrooms Game Creator on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Backrooms Game Creator.

    Garry's Mod is a physics sandbox. There aren't any predefined aims or goals. We give you the tools and leave you to play.

    2006IndieSimulationCasual4.99 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  2. Vampire Survivors

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~50% under Backrooms Game Creator on Steam right now. Shares Action and Indie with Backrooms Game Creator.

    Mow down thousands of night creatures and survive until dawn! Vampire Survivors is a gothic horror casual game with rogue-lite elements, where your choices can allow you to quickly snowball against the hundreds of monsters that get thrown at you. Be the bullet hell!

    2022ActionIndieRPG4.99 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  3. Titanfall® 2

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~55% under Backrooms Game Creator on Steam right now. Shares Action with Backrooms Game Creator.

    Respawn Entertainment gives you the most advanced titan technology in its new, single player campaign & multiplayer experience. Combine & conquer with new titans & pilots, deadlier weapons, & customization and progression systems that help you and your titan flow as one unstoppable killing force.

    2020Action4.49 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  4. Cookie Clicker

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~50% under Backrooms Game Creator on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Backrooms Game Creator.

    An idle game about making cookies! Originally released in 2013 on the web, and actively developed since then. This is the official version for Steam.

    2021StrategyIndieSimulation4.99 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  5. WEBFISHING

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~50% under Backrooms Game Creator on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Backrooms Game Creator.

    WEBFISHING a multiplayer chatroom-focused fishing game! Relax and fish (on the web!)

    2024IndieMassively MultiplayerCasual4.99 USDSteam ↗
  6. POSTAL 2

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~90% under Backrooms Game Creator on Steam right now. Shares Action and Indie with Backrooms Game Creator.

    Live a week in the life of "The POSTAL Dude"; a hapless everyman just trying to check off some chores. Buying milk, returning an overdue library book, getting Gary Coleman's autograph, what could possibly go wrong?

    2012ActionIndieAdventure0.99 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  7. Buckshot Roulette

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~70% under Backrooms Game Creator on Steam right now. Shares Action and Indie with Backrooms Game Creator.

    Play Russian roulette with a 12-gauge shotgun. Four enter. One leaves. Roll the dice with your life. Good luck!

    2024ActionIndieSimulation2.99 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  8. Brotato

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~50% under Backrooms Game Creator on Steam right now. Shares Action and Indie with Backrooms Game Creator.

    Brotato is a top-down arena shooter roguelite where you play a potato wielding up to 6 weapons at a time to fight off hordes of aliens. Choose from a variety of traits and items to create unique builds and survive until help arrives.

    2023ActionIndieRPG4.99 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗

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 Backrooms Game Creator.

    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. Life is Strange - Episode 1

    WHY THIS

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

    Episode 1 now FREE! Life is Strange is an award-winning and critically acclaimed episodic adventure game that allows the player to rewind time and affect the past, present and future.

    2015ActionAdventureFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  3. Ultimate Custom Night

    WHY THIS

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

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

    2018ActionIndieFree To PlayFreeSteam ↗
  4. ENA: Dream BBQ

    WHY THIS

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

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

    2025IndieAdventureFreeDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  5. Indigo Park: Chapter 1

    WHY THIS

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

    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 ↗
  6. STRAFTAT

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action with Backrooms Game Creator.

    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 ↗
  7. The Looker

    WHY THIS

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

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

    2022IndieFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  8. Counter-Strike:Global Offensive

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action with Backrooms Game Creator.

    Counter-Strike:Global Offensive (CS:GO) expands upon the team-based action gameplay that it pioneered when it was launched over 2 decades ago. CS:GO features new maps, characters, weapons, and game modes, and delivers updated versions of the classic CS content (de_dust2, etc.).

    2012ActionFree To PlayFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗

Frequently asked about Backrooms Game Creator

How much does Backrooms Game Creator cost?
Backrooms Game Creator is listed on Steam at 9.99 USD (current store price; Steam sales may reduce this temporarily).
What games are most similar to Backrooms Game Creator?
Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Backrooms Game Creator are PHANTOM, SHADOW DETECTIVE, Ritual Tides.
Who developed Backrooms Game Creator?
Backrooms Game Creator was developed by Outlaw Games and published by Pixel Games.

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