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Climb The Backrooms

PC (Microsoft Windows) • 2025

Should you play it?

Ascend through the twisted levels of the Backrooms using physics-based object manipulation to overcome obstacles, solve mind-bending puzzles, and uncover unsettling secrets. Play solo or team up in online co-op with up to 4 players as you climb higher, think smarter, and survive the unknown.

What works

  • Fun and creative puzzles
  • Strong cooperative multiplayer
  • Developer interaction and trolling
  • Good value for price
  • Varied and inventive level design

Things to keep in mind

  • Some bugs and optimization issues
  • Short game length
  • Some repetitive or easy puzzles
  • Voice chat and achievement bugs
  • Lack of deeper horror atmosphere

What to play next

Top picks

Games that feels the closest overall

  • Embr

  • Zort

  • The Anomaly Project

  • POPUCOM

  • From the Shadows

  • School 666

More violent

Games that feels like Climb The Backrooms but with more combat and destruction

  • Nuclear Nightmare

  • System Shock 2: 25th Anniversary Remaster

  • Backrooms: Escape Together

  • Emissary Zero

  • SKIBIDI GYATROOMS

  • Backrooms Rec.

Less expressive

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

  • KunKun dream Startles the Soul

  • Somewhere in the Shadow

  • We Escaped a Twisted Game

  • Shipwrecked 64

  • In Sink: A Co-op Escape Adventure

  • Together: Moon Escape

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Climb The Backrooms: A very typical example of its motivational profile. Motivations that often define this kind of title include Cooperation, Fellowship, Intimacy, Leadership. Here, the score leans higher than usual among comparable games on Intimacy. It leans lower than usual among comparable games on Violence, Fantasy.

Last update: 03/08/2026