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BACKROOMS: APPREHENSION

PC (Microsoft Windows) • 2025

Should you play it?

A terrifying multiplayer horror experience with social deduction elements. Trapped in the Backrooms, up to 12 players must try to work together to survive and expose the shapeshifting Skin Stealer hiding among them before it’s too late. Who will you trust?

What works

  • Fun social deduction gameplay
  • Great with friends
  • Active and responsive developer
  • Low price
  • Immersive voice chat

Things to keep in mind

  • Limited content and maps
  • Balance issues favor survivors
  • Bugs and technical issues
  • Low player base and matchmaking problems
  • Lack of tutorials and customization

What to play next

Top picks

Games that feels the closest overall

  • Dark Hours: Prologue

  • Sniper Elite: Nazi Zombie Army 2

  • F.E.A.R. 3

  • The Bonerooms

  • SCP: Nine-Tailed Fox

  • Left 4 Dead

More exploratory

Games that feels like BACKROOMS: APPREHENSION but with more exploration of areas and secrets

  • Escape the Backrooms

  • SKIBIDI GYATROOMS

  • Backrooms: Extractions

  • The Backrooms: Survival

  • KLETKA

  • SCP: Labrat

Less competitive

Games that feels like BACKROOMS: APPREHENSION but with less competition against others

  • Backroom Company

  • Nuclear Nightmare

  • Backrooms: Escape Together

  • Obscure II (Obscure: The Aftermath)

  • FURRY BACKROOMS

  • UNDERWARD

More expressive

Games that feels like BACKROOMS: APPREHENSION but with more self-expression and customization

  • Unfortunate Spacemen

  • The Outlast Trials

  • Dark Deception: Monsters & Mortals

  • Puppet Master: The Game

  • Deceit

  • Secret Neighbor: Hello Neighbor Multiplayer

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BACKROOMS: APPREHENSION: Less representative of its motivational profile, with noticeable differences. Motivations that often define this kind of title include Competition, Status, Fellowship, Domination. It leans lower than usual among comparable games on Expression, Creativity, Status.

Last update: 21/08/2026