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Backroom Company

PC (Microsoft Windows) • 2025

Should you play it?

Backroom Company (aka Axiom Corporation) is a mysterious group exploring “Noclip.” No one knows who created it. Follow the missing explorers' traces and find strange items deep in the Backrooms.

What works

  • Engaging cooperative multiplayer for up to 8 players
  • Procedurally generated levels increase replayability
  • Interesting blend of backrooms lore and lethal company style gameplay
  • Regular updates and developer communication
  • Good value for price

Things to keep in mind

  • Short story mode and limited number of levels
  • Bugs and optimization issues reported
  • Enemy ai sometimes easy to trick
  • Some repetitive gameplay elements and loot placement
  • Voice chat bugs and occasional connectivity problems

What to play next

Top picks

Games that feels the closest overall

  • Backrooms: Extractions

  • SAHUR: Escape Together

  • Escape the Backrooms

  • Inside the Backrooms

  • Backrooms: Escape Together

  • Paranoia Place: Escape Together

More expressive

Games that feels like Backroom Company but with more self-expression and customization

  • Sven Co-op

  • Sketchy's Contract

  • Backrooms Rec.

  • Labyrinthine

  • School 666

  • PIT OF GOBLIN

More competitive

Games that feels like Backroom Company but with more competition against others

  • Skeleton Hell

  • BACKROOMS: APPREHENSION

  • Handy Harry's Haunted House Services

  • Blood Typers

  • SCP: Nine-Tailed Fox

  • Final Exam

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Backroom Company: 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: 17/08/2026