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Climb The Backrooms

PC (Microsoft Windows) • 2025

Should you play it?

Ascend through the twisted levels of the Backrooms using physics-based object manipulation to overcome obstacles, solve mind-bending puzzles, and uncover unsettling secrets. Play solo or team up in online co-op with up to 4 players as you climb higher, think smarter, and survive the unknown.

What works

  • Fun and creative puzzles
  • Strong cooperative multiplayer
  • Developer interaction and trolling
  • Good value for price
  • Varied and inventive level design

Things to keep in mind

  • Some bugs and optimization issues
  • Short game length
  • Some repetitive or easy puzzles
  • Voice chat and achievement bugs
  • Lack of deeper horror atmosphere

What to play next

Top picks

Games that feels the closest overall

  • Embr

  • Zort

  • The Anomaly Project

  • POPUCOM

  • From the Shadows

  • School 666

More violent

Games that feels like Climb The Backrooms but with more combat and destruction

  • Nuclear Nightmare

  • System Shock 2: 25th Anniversary Remaster

  • Backrooms: Escape Together

  • Emissary Zero

  • SKIBIDI GYATROOMS

  • Backrooms Rec.

Less expressive

Games that feels like Climb The Backrooms but with less self-expression and customization

  • KunKun dream Startles the Soul

  • Somewhere in the Shadow

  • We Escaped a Twisted Game

  • Shipwrecked 64

  • In Sink: A Co-op Escape Adventure

  • Together: Moon Escape

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Last update: 21/08/2026