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The Backrooms: Survival

PC (Microsoft Windows), PlayStation 5, Nintendo Switch • 2023

Should you play it?

Survival horror with roguelike elements. Explore randomized levels with different items and entities while trying to maintain your thirst, hunger, and sanity, ensuring a new experience every time. Play alone or with up to TEN friends online! Cross-platform multiplayer with Nintendo Switch.

What works

  • Strong horror atmosphere and tension
  • Procedurally generated levels with replayability
  • Active developer with frequent updates
  • Engaging multiplayer cooperative mode
  • Good value for price

Things to keep in mind

  • Repetitive level design and enemy behavior
  • Bugs and glitches especially in multiplayer
  • Loud and repetitive jump scares
  • Limited crafting and item variety
  • Some performance and control issues

What to play next

Top picks

Games that feels the closest overall

  • Boo Men

  • CastleMiner Z

  • SURV1V3

  • SKIBIDI GYATROOMS

  • SCP: Containment Breach 2

  • Labyrinthine

More story-driven

Games that feels like The Backrooms: Survival but with deeper narrative immersion

  • Mama's Sleeping Angels

  • KLETKA

  • Barony

  • Skeleton Hell

  • Backroom Company

  • Backrooms: Extractions

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The Backrooms: Survival: Less representative of its motivational profile, with noticeable differences. Motivations that often define this kind of title include Cooperation, Fellowship, Intimacy, Leadership. Here, the score leans higher than usual among comparable games on Survival. It leans lower than usual among comparable games on Story, Relaxation.

Last update: 21/08/2026