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Inside the Backrooms

Nintendo Switch • 2022

Should you play it?

Inside the Backrooms is a horror multiplayer game mixed with different mechanics that will make you spend an intense night with friends. Explore, think, interact, but be careful, it is rumored that there are several entities wishing to find you...

What works

  • Engaging cooperative gameplay
  • Challenging and satisfying puzzles
  • Strong horror atmosphere and scares
  • Good value for price
  • Supports social bonding and teamwork

Things to keep in mind

  • Some bugs and technical issues
  • Motion sickness reported by some players
  • No checkpoint system causing repetition
  • Inventory management can be tedious
  • Certain levels or puzzles can be frustratingly difficult

What to play next

Top picks

Games that feels the closest overall

  • Backrooms: Extractions

  • SAHUR: Escape Together

  • Backrooms: Escape Together

  • Escape the Backrooms

  • Paranoia Place: Escape Together

  • Folklore Hunter

More expressive

Games that feels like Inside the Backrooms but with more self-expression and customization

  • Sketchy's Contract

  • Mama's Sleeping Angels

  • Backrooms Rec.

  • PIT OF GOBLIN

  • Labyrinthine

  • Zort

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How to read the map This is a polar difference map: direction = which motivation differs, and distance = how much (same units as the sidebar deltas).

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Inside the Backrooms: Broadly representative of its motivational profile, with a few distinct shifts. Motivations that often define this kind of title include Cooperation, Fellowship, Intimacy, Leadership. Here, the score leans higher than usual among comparable games on Fellowship. It leans lower than usual among comparable games on Expression, Relaxation.

Last update: 21/08/2026