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The Backroom - Lost and Found

PC (Microsoft Windows) • 2022

Should you play it?

The Backroom - Lost and Found is a story rich adventure game with some horror elements. Why is there an orphaned room hidden away in the depths of a strange liminal space? Is it "the backrooms" or something else? CYOA? SCP? Weirdcore? No clipping? And what's with the cute paintings?

What works

  • Free to play
  • Unique and creative mechanics
  • Great atmosphere and sound design
  • Multiple endings and replayability
  • Well polished for an indie title

Things to keep in mind

  • Short length
  • Some bugs and optimization issues
  • Repetitive level design in second chapter
  • Lack of key rebinding and manual save
  • Some players found puzzles confusing or tedious

What to play next

Top picks

Games that feels the closest overall

  • Born Into Fear

  • Left Alone

  • Lucid Dream

  • Backrooms: Lost Tape

  • High Entropy: Challenges

  • The Walking Fish 2: Final Frontier

Less survival-focused

Games that feels like The Backroom - Lost and Found but with less survival pressure

  • The Complex: Found Footage

  • A Place, Forbidden

  • Anemoiapolis: Chapter 1

  • Title_Pending

  • Twisted Gallery 异馆

  • Kairo

More violent

Games that feels like The Backroom - Lost and Found but with more combat and destruction

  • Fingerbones

  • The Designer's Curse

  • AfterHours

  • The Night of the Scissors

  • Organ Quarter

  • Shadows 2: Perfidia

More intense

Games that feels like The Backroom - Lost and Found but with a more intense feel

  • Granny 3

  • Infliction

  • Lost in Vivo

  • Suite 776

  • [Nightmare Files] Clap Clap

  • Spooky's Jump Scare Mansion

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The Backroom - Lost and Found: A very typical example of its motivational profile. Motivations that often define this kind of title include Expression, Fellowship, Cooperation, Competition. Here, the score leans higher than usual among comparable games on Exploration, Value. It leans lower than usual among comparable games on Violence.

Last update: 21/08/2026