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The Complex: Found Footage

PC (Microsoft Windows) • 2022

Should you play it?

Experience the liminal world of the backrooms through a VHS camera, immersing into a mysterious story and wandering the dream-like structures... Might there be something following you?

What works

  • Immersive and realistic graphics
  • Strong atmospheric and psychological horror
  • Free to play
  • Seamless exploration with multiple paths
  • Authentic backrooms experience without cheap jump scares

Things to keep in mind

  • Short game length
  • Limited replayability after multiple playthroughs
  • Performance issues on some systems
  • Lack of entities or interactive threats
  • No multiplayer or social features

What to play next

Top picks

Games that feels the closest overall

  • Dreamcore

  • Cognition Method: Initiation

  • A Place, Forbidden

  • BABBDI

  • Decay: The Mare

  • Anemoiapolis: Chapter 1

More survival-focused

Games that feels like The Complex: Found Footage but with a stronger survival pressure

  • The Backrooms Game FREE Edition

  • SCP: Daybreak

  • The Backrooms 1998 - Found Footage Survival Horror Game

  • Backrooms: Found Footage

  • Shadows 2: Perfidia

  • From The Darkness

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The Complex: Found Footage: Less representative of its motivational profile, with noticeable differences. Motivations that often define this kind of title include Survival, Violence, Competition, Thrill. It leans lower than usual among comparable games on Progression, Expression, Intimacy.

Last update: 21/08/2026