Backrooms: Lost Tape
Skip · Action · 2022
Steam Deck PlayableThe verdict
SKIP IT.
It scores 42, under the fair line, at $15.99. Fair at $8.43, lower than any Steam price we have tracked since Jun 2026 (lowest $15.99, Jun 2026).
- Length
- 1.9h
- Value
- $8.42/hr
- Reviews
- 82% positive
Buy now or wait
The Autumn Sale is on until Oct 8. It is at full price today.
- Autumn Sale cooldown
- None on record
Sources: IsThereAnyDeal, Valve.
Watch this gameOne alert when it is worth buying.
Minimum on the Steam store: 8 GB of memory, GTX 1050 2GB or RX 560 2GB, 8 GB of storage. Windows only.
You work in the cinema as an usher and accidentally fell into the Backrooms, now being trapped, needing to unravel the mysteries of the yellow rooms in order to get out of this place, but be careful, there are entities that will be in your way.
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
The value story
June 2026 is where it bottomed out, at $15.99. In 3 months of price history it has never once been discounted.
On value it sits in the top 23 percent of its genre. It is pricier than 87 percent of its genre, and better reviewed than 83 percent. Among the games that feel like it, Garten of Banban 6 ($4.99, scores 46) beats it on value, while it beats Garten of Banban 3 ($2.49, scores 37).
This site sampled 550 of its Steam-purchase reviews; 16 were written by buyers who refunded it, sampled from reviews written December 2022 to August 2026. That is more refunded reviewers than 8 in 10 paid games this site has sampled to the same depth, and among the 2,814 games in its genre sampled this deeply, 523 have a larger share. Inside the two-hour refund window, 77 percent of the 682 reviews written there were positive, against 82 percent overall, and those are 51 percent of everything written about it.
The main story runs 1.9 hours. Doing everything runs 7, 3.7 times as long.
The drop-off
24% start to 2% rarestNo achievement in this game marks the ending, so there is no finish rate. The curve runs from the most-unlocked achievement to the rarest, and its shape is where players stop. Steam global achievements
Players
2 players online when we last checked, on Oct 1, 21:51 UTC.
Player counts from the Steam Web API.
What players say
I don't know what happened, but this game got downgraded to hell. A Roblox game could compete better. I purchased this game 2 years ago, and replayed it recently, was very disappointed. This game is considered a scam unless they give an option to restore the old game version. Please do not support only until they give an option to revert the changes. This was a unique backrooms game with an impressive ambiance, but...
Steam reviews, mixed to match its Steam ratio and rotated daily. Opinions are theirs.
No data upstream: critic score (Metacritic).
Cite this score
Backrooms: Lost Tape scores 42/100 on the BANG Score (a skip) as of Oct 2, 2026. The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/1926620/backrooms-lost-tapeReviews 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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