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Backrooms Society

PC (Microsoft Windows) • 2023

Should you play it?

Backrooms Society is a 1-8 player co-op horror game. Make your way through unique levels of the backrooms while trying to survive and avoid mysterious entities. Scavenge each level for gear and resources, bring it back to The Hub where you can sell valuables and buy/craft new gear.

What works

  • Strong cooperative multiplayer experience
  • Engaging crafting and progression systems
  • Immersive horror atmosphere and sound design
  • Large, complex maps with exploration and procedural elements
  • Good value for price with ongoing updates

Things to keep in mind

  • Repetitive and sometimes tedious maze navigation
  • Performance issues and occasional bugs/crashes
  • Limited narrative depth and story content
  • Multiplayer lobbies can be difficult to join or sparse
  • Some balance issues with enemy difficulty and item durability

What to play next

Top picks

Games that feels the closest overall

  • Zort

  • Sketchy's Contract

  • PILGRIM

  • Subterror

  • Ghost Exile

  • Valheim

More intense

Games that feels like Backrooms Society but with a more intense feel

  • UNDERWARD

  • GTFO

  • Ghost Janitors

  • CRYO

  • Lethal Company

  • PIT OF GOBLIN

Less expressive

Games that feels like Backrooms Society but with less self-expression and customization

  • Emissary Zero

  • Backrooms: Escape Together

  • The Escape: Together

  • Ghost Exorcism INC.

  • Backrooms: Extractions

  • The Devourer: Hunted Souls

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Backrooms Society: 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 Exploration, Fellowship, Cooperation.

Last update: 03/08/2026