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ActionIndieHorrorMultiplayerOnline Co-OpPsychological HorrorCo-op

Escape the Backrooms

Escape the Backrooms is a 1-4 player co-op horror exploration game. Traverse 30+ eerie backrooms levels while avoiding entities and other dangers. Try to escape but be warned: survival isn't guaranteed.

Developer
Fancy Games, Blackbird Interactive
Publisher
Secret Mode
Franchise
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Release date
Oct 23, 2025
Store page updated
Sep 14, 2026
Price
−20% $9.99 $7.99 · Steam store ↗

Review Analysis Score

78.5/ 100

Based on 407 reviews from the past 1 year

Steam User Rating
Recent 😄 Very Positive 86% of 3,851
All time 😄 Very Positive 90% of 165,877
“fun, sleep schedule disrupted shows addictive enjoyment”

How it holds up

−50+5
Gameplay
-0.13
Difficulty +1.03

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Story & World
+2.06
World +3.07
“scary yet interesting atmosphere” (50)

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Content Volume
+0.81
Volume +1.87
“tons of content for fair price, great solo and multiplayer experience” (20)

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Visuals & Sound
+1.08
Visuals +1.12
“max graphics playable on potato PC” (13)

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Multiplayer
+0.25
Playing together +3.43
“played with a helpful stranger and speedran the game together in 6 hours” (163)
第一次玩，本来准备一个人的，结果进去遇到一个，是我没有设置密码，我本来很怕怪，但是在这位好人的引导下6个小时速通了后室，什么飞蛾，窃皮，病毒都慢慢不怕了，但是为什么没有加好友的选项啊，我以为还有历史记录，结果退出来发现好人不见了，还准备加着认识一下的....雨中的她，我就只能把你当做一个后室里的好实体吧😭😭

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Fairness
-1.10

Not enough data — only 9% of reviews mention this.

Monetization +2.14

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Tech & Ops
-1.83
Stability -2.65
“numerous bugs - enemies stuck in doors, walking into walls, pixel breaking, broken sound positioning” (48)
Хайп на популярном жанре, очень слабая игра, предыдущие версии намного интереснее. Из положительных вещей, которые ещё можно назвать таковыми. 1. Простота прохождения, по наитию и логике можно пройти практически все уровни (Практически всегда догадываешься сразу что делать), 2. Мне понравилось, как объясняют историю игры, выставляя всё за научный эксперимент. А теперь о грустном. 1. Простота прохождения, не есть слабость, однако в игре популярного жанра фактически такие же уровни, как и в версиях ранее с формальным незначительным изменением, задания меняются формально, многие монстры просто ко

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Scores are the average of reviews that mention each category (−5 to +5). Fainter bars were mentioned by fewer reviews; grey means too few to trust. Tap a category ▾ to see what drives it.

Steam review activity

% positive over time
since launch, by month · major update
70%80%90%100%
Aug 2022Sep 2026
Reviews
per day · 3,798 reviews, peak 332/day
0250500
Aug 19Sep 16

Steam only gives daily counts for the last 30 days; longer ranges are by month. Months with fewer than 10 reviews are left out of % positive. "Show updates" marks major updates and DLC the developer posted on Steam (since about 2020) — hover a column to see % positive the month before and after.

Review languages

Languages of the 407 reviews we analyzed from the past year — not all Steam reviews.

  • English26%
  • Chinese22%
  • Russian17%
  • Spanish8%
  • Turkish6%
  • Portuguese5%
  • Other15%

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