Enter The Backrooms

Enter The Backrooms

Fair · Narrative · 2021

Steam Deck Playable

The verdict

NO RUSH.

Fair at $9.99. Buy it if you want it.

Length
7.3h
Value
$1.37/hr
Reviews
87% positive
It needs 26% off ($7.40) to be worth it, though reviews keep it under BANGER.
Watch this gameOne alert when it is worth buying.
Length
7.3h
main story (HowLongToBeat)
Completionist
22.2h
100% (HowLongToBeat)
$/hr
$1.37
price ÷ main-story length
Price
$9.99
as of Oct 1
Reviews
87%
1,063 reviews, as of Sep 27
Players
75K
owners, SteamSpy estimate
Released
2021

Minimum on the Steam store: 4 GB of memory, NVIDIA GeForce 510, 604 MB of storage. Windows only.

An indie psychological horror experience about surviving infinity. Navigate an endless expanse of rooms, ascend through various levels, gather items and artifacts, avoid going insane, evade corrupted entities, and see just how deep the realm known as The Backrooms goes.
Description from the Steam store page.

What drives the score

How to read this

Grades run S to D, read from the buyer's side. ▲ marks a lift, ▼ a drag or a dock, ? an input we do not have, • a fact this genre's score does not use. How the grades work

Holding it back
Value$1.37/hr
Price per hour of game. It moves the score inside the ceiling reviews set
Reviews87% positive
Gates the score. Weak reviews cap it, and nothing reaches BANGER without strong ones Scored as 86% after the small-sample adjustment
For context
Length7.3 hours
How much game you get. Hours feed the value per dollar
Reach75K+ owners
How many own it, by SteamSpy's estimate (an old snapshot). Context here: this game's score does not use it
MonetizationNot known
No monetization record for this game, so nothing is assumed either way
Refunds4 of 423 reviews
Steam-purchase reviews sampled whose writer refunded the game. Nothing is docked
AI contentNone disclosed
From the developer's own Steam disclosure. No disclosure is not proof of none, so it does not move the score

The value story

It has never been cheaper than $2.00. That was February 2021. Its cuts run 40 percent off as a rule. There have been 25 in the 6 years tracked, about 9 weeks apart.

On value it sits in the top 8 percent of its genre. It is pricier than 63 percent of its genre, and better reviewed than 85 percent. Among the games that feel like it, Backrooms: Escape Together ($7.49, scores 67) beats it on value, while it beats Unplagued ($3.99, scores 0).

4 of the 423 Steam-purchase reviews sampled here come from buyers who refunded the game, sampled from reviews written June 2021 to September 2026. Inside the two-hour refund window, 76 percent of the 318 reviews written there were positive, against 87 percent overall, and those are 32 percent of everything written about it.

The main story runs 7.3 hours. Doing everything runs 22, 3.0 times as long.

Players

1 players online when we last checked, on Sep 26, 05:51 UTC.

Player counts from the Steam Web API.

What players say

By far the best backrooms game steam has to offer if you just want to immerse yourself and live inside of a backrooms universe. If you want to mind-numbingly walk through endless halls of insanely varied and impressively generated rooms and dozens (over 30!) infinite levels that all offer each their own quirks and certain events, constantly fearing very creatively designed monsters (for their limitations that is...
AcklordRecommendedafter 16hJun 2026Read on Steam
100%ing this game is an endurance journey that will build your character, and some people won't be able to see the vision
Devout ChristianRecommendedafter 43hJun 2026Read on Steam
I think this is the best backrooms game i ever played, it definitely was worth it. Literally first game i wanted to play when i got my brand new PC, i recommend this game if you love backrooms!
ДаняRecommendedafter 34hJun 2026Read on Steam

Steam reviews, mixed to match its Steam ratio and rotated daily. Opinions are theirs.

No data upstream: critic score (Metacritic), achievement curve (Steam global achievements).

Cite this score

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Enter The Backrooms scores 64/100 on the BANG Score (fair value) as of Oct 2, 2026. The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/1511670/enter-the-backrooms
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Reviews set the ceiling, and price against real length moves the BANG Score inside it. How it works, and where it is weak → Steam reviews as of Sep 27, price as of Oct 1.

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Tags

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Details

DeveloperJustin Kroh
PublisherCosmic Crow Creations
GenreNarrative
Released2021