Best Backrooms Games

Anyone looking to no-clip out of this reality and explore a never-ending labyrinth of corporate offices, industrial walkways, and eerily familiar hallways is welcome to play the best backrooms games.

From survival horror to walking sims and more, backrooms games come in all shapes and sizes but are typically set in gloomy offices with moldy yellow wallpaper and peculiar creatures roaming about.

In this list, we’ll highlight the premier backrooms games on Steam and other platforms that let you break free from the shackles of this world and venture into the enigmatic.

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First up is one of the most common backrooms inspired games, Enter The Backrooms, an indie psychological horror experience by Justin Kroh and Cosmic Crow Creations.

In this survival horror game, players are tasked with exploring an endless maze of rooms that will gradually erode their sanity, resulting in inexplicable sights and sounds.

To keep from going mad, you’ll have to meditate until your sanity returns to normal before carrying on wandering through an endless expanse of levels with secret locations.

Enter the Backrooms currently features 23 main levels, 70 sub-levels, and over a dozen entities that become more antagonistic and aggressive the deeper you go.

For a backrooms game you can play with friends, we invite you to check out Inside the Backrooms, a co-op-driven terrifying game for up to 4 players.

The goal of this game is to escape from various levels of the backrooms by looking for hints, solving puzzles, and avoiding malicious entities.

There are currently only 4 levels in the game, but each one is enormous and designed to be more difficult than the previous in terms of puzzles, mechanics, and enemies.

Lastly, Inside the Backrooms runs in both conventional Windows and VR versions, allowing you to completely immerse yourself in the backrooms experience.

Our next suggestion to those intrigued with seeing everything the backrooms have to offer is The Complex: Found Footage, a first-person terrifying game by IsarL.

In it, players are invited to pick up a VHS camera and immerse themselves in a mysterious story involving unfathomable, bizarre structures.

The gameplay is best described as that of a walking sim, with most of the frights coming from The Complex’s eerie atmosphere.

A full playthrough won’t take more than about an hour but the feeling of dread that comes from exploring the backrooms’ eerie halls will stick with you eternally.

Escape the Backrooms is a different co-op fright game for 1-4 individuals that involves you and your pals exploring spooky stages watched over by mysterious beings.

Like most titles on this list, the goal is to escape each level and venture deeper into the facility either by normal means or by no-clipping into other areas of the map.

At some point, you and your crew may become separated or lost and will have to communicate to get out alive while being vigilant so as to not alert nearby adversaries.

The game currently offers 8 distinct levels to explore based on existing backrooms lore with plans to add more in the future via periodic content updates.

Presented as a discovered footage experience, The Backrooms 1998 is a first-person psychological survival horror game about a young teen that accidentally falls into the depths of the backrooms.

Now separated from his friends, he’ll have to roam the uncanny halls of an infinite house, marking familiar areas, collecting objects, and avoiding otherworldly perils.

Unlike many backrooms games, this one actually has a narrative with interwoven backrooms lore that helps add to the atmosphere and overall immersion.

It also has a lot more mechanics than your typical backrooms game, including a stamina meter and stealth system which sees you hiding in lockers and under tables.

Next up is The Backrooms: Survival, a frightening game that injects roguelike elements into the backrooms formula wherein players must navigate randomly generated levels.

Each playthrough is varied and introduces unique items to track down, creatures to avoid, and challenges to overcome while maintaining your character’s hunger, thirst, and sanity.

As you ascend to higher levels, you’ll encounter new threats based on existing backrooms lore as well as original creations designed to instill terror into players’ hearts.

Lastly, The Backrooms: Survival can be played solo or with up to six friends online where you’ll have to work together to escape the horrifying ordeal.

Another backrooms survival horror game with roguelite elements worth checking out is The Backrooms: Found Footage by BaddWeather and Euclid Games.

In it, players are welcome to explore a whopping 600 million miles of randomly generated office space complete with that signature yellow wallpaper and grimy carpeting.

The further you go, the more probable your chances of having to contend with shapeshifting entities as you try and collect notes that lead you to the exit.

On top of all this, you’ll have to monitor your character’s hunger, thirst, stamina, and insanity meters by consuming drinks and snacks such as chips and the occasional almond water.

The Backroom Project is a frightening exploration game that goes a bit more in detail about the science of backrooms lore while still rolling out scare after scare.

You take on the role of a scientific observer sent into the backrooms by researchers for the purpose of documenting anything you witness, starting at Level 0.

However, as you delve deeper you’ll notice rooms start to transform, your surroundings shift, and creatures from other realms now wander about openly.

Armed with just a camera and pedometer, you’ll have to remain vigilant while being stalked by enemies and no-clipping into novel environments that defy the laws of physics.

Available for free on Steam with an optional supporter DLC, The Backrooms Game is an independent psychological terror title by Pie On A Plate Productions.

Drawing inspiration from backrooms lore, the game sees you no-clipping out of reality into infinite, randomly generated levels spanning 600 square miles.

Of course, you’re not alone as an otherworldly being is there to stalk you as you try and navigate a sea of mono-yellow offices with ancient damp carpeting.

Like several entries on this list, The Backrooms Game features a madness system in which the player’s lunacy increases during prolonged exposure to the unexplainable.

For a less scary take on the backrooms, we welcome you to check out Superliminal, a puzzle platformer developed and published by Pillow Castle.

In it, players take on the role of a test subject tasked with manipulating objects using compelled perspective to alter their size, distance, and alignment.

Doing so enables you to solve puzzles and explore new areas with increasingly intricate environments that, in many instances, defy the laws of physics entirely.

Many of them touch on familiar backrooms tropes without being too explicit or disturbing but, at the same time, have an uncanny quality due to their emptiness.

What do you get when you mash together M.C. Escher paintings with physically-implausible backrooms architecture? The answer is Manifold Garden.

Created by William Chyr Studio, this first-person puzzle game has you exploring architectural marvels with surreal and abstract visuals.

Most of the gameplay revolves around locating and dropping various colored boxes onto their corresponding switches to reveal a new doorway or area.

There’s a fair amount of gravity manipulation, teleporting, and other sci-fi magic that will see you traveling between different dimensions with visually-stunning environments.

Another relatively lighthearted game that incorporates some backrooms elements is The Stanley Parable, a critically acclaimed walking sim by Crows Crows Crows.

In it, you play as a mute protagonist and office drone named Stanley who one day realizes his coworkers have all vanished and decides to investigate at the behest of a mysterious disembodied voice.

What ensues is a captivating open-ended adventure with an exhaustive number of paths and decisions to pick from, each leading to different yet equally peculiar endings.

Many of the environments in this game are evocative of the backrooms, particularly the initial office area complete with buzzing fluorescent lights devoid of any indications of life.

Anyone who’s dived into backrooms lore will know just how trippy things start to get the higher you ascend its maze-like structure.

For a visual reference of what these higher levels would likely look like to the human eye, we recommend checking out the innovative 0°N 0°W by Colorfiction.

Best described as a walking sim, it sees you embarking on an unusual vacation spanning multiple open worlds with psychedelic imagery and mesmerizing audio.

Each setting is designed to evoke particular feelings from the player and includes elements you would expect to find tucked away somewhere in the backrooms.

Following in the footsteps of survival horror games like Silent Hill is Lost in Vivo, psychological horror at its finest with a touch of backrooms-inspired exploration.

In it, your character ends up having to navigate a series of subterranean tunnels after a storm causes their dog to fall down a broken sewer drain.

As you explore the sewer’s labyrinth-like tunnels, you’ll meet other characters that have succumbed to unusual and mental fears.

While there’s an element of combat, the real focus in Lost in Vivo is the unsettling atmosphere and feelings of isolation and hopelessness established by the game.

Getting back to more traditional backrooms-themed games, Noclipped is an open-world survival horror game that comes courtesy of indie developer MateussDev.

In this game, you take on the role of Fred, an ordinary guy who ends up no-clipped out of reality and into the backrooms where he must try and escape.

Players will have to explore levels while gathering resources, crafting weapons/gear, and trusting their fight or flight instincts when face to face with dangerous entities.

Due to the game’s procedural generation, there’s no limit on the number of levels you can investigate, and in turn, the number of potential ways to meet your end.

To finish off our list, we’re highlighting Vini Cortez’s uncanny psychological horror game The Backrooms Lost Tape, which casts you as a cinema usher who ends up falling into the backrooms.

Now trapped, it’s up to the player to unravel the mysteries of this multilayered world by navigating its eerily recognizable yellow rooms and avoiding peril.

As we’ve touched on several times in this list, creatures in the backrooms aren’t all too amicable to humans and will give chase as soon as they hear you advance.

To stay alive, players will have to keep an eye out for messages from other survivors as well as consume almond water to stay rational and collect flashlight batteries to illuminate the way.