Escape the Backrooms
Worth it · Action · 2025
Steam Deck PlayableThe verdict
BUY IT.
Worth it at $7.99.
- Cost per hourS
- $0.89/hr
- ReviewsA
- 90% of 169,898
- Genre rank
- Top 1% Action
Why
Score at full price
Score today
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Time and effort
- Main story
- 9h
- To 100%
- 15.2h 1.7x the story
- Finish
- 27% reach the ending
- Achievements
- 34
Price and sales
- Sales
- 41 on record
- Typical cut
- 20% off
- Steam low
- $6.99 November 2022
- Sale every
- 36d last October 2026
Players and genre
- Online
- 5,086 now
- Recent reviews
- 83% 30 days
- Cheaper than
- 24% of its genre
- Better reviewed
- 96% of its genre
Price and player charts
The drop-off
61% start to 27% finishSteam counts a larger share of its players at the ending achievement than it does for most games this site can measure. Steam global achievements
The value story
The value story
The lowest price on record is $6.99, set in November 2022. It has been discounted 41 times in the 4 years tracked here. The median cut across all of them is 20 percent, about 5 weeks apart.
Its score puts it in the top 1 percent of the games it competes with. It is pricier than 76 percent of its genre, and better reviewed than 96 percent. Among the games that feel like it, FOREWARNED ($12.99, scores 82) beats it on value, while it beats Backrooms: Escape Together ($9.99, scores 64).
More about Escape the Backrooms
Steam's global achievement data puts 27 percent of players at this game's ending achievement. The median game this site can measure sits at 18. This site sampled 800 of its Steam-purchase reviews; 23 were written by buyers who refunded it, sampled from reviews written September 2026 to October 2026. That is more refunded reviewers than 7 in 10 paid games this site has sampled to the same depth, and among the 2,368 games in its genre sampled this deeply, 609 have a larger share. Inside the two-hour refund window, 62 percent of the 10,195 reviews written there were positive, against 90 percent overall, and those are 7 percent of everything written about it.
The rating rests on 169,898 reviews, so it is not going to move much from here.
Buy now or wait
Buy now or wait
Discounted in each of its last 4 seasonal sales.
- Next sale
- Winter Sale, Dec 17 to Jan 4
Sources: IsThereAnyDeal, Valve.
What drives the score
Grades: S best, D weakest
S is the best grade and D the weakest, judged as a buyer. ▲ raises the score, ▼ lowers it, ? is an input we do not have, • is a fact this genre's score does not use. How the grades work
What players say
Great co-op horror game with lots of levels. It's really fun to play with friends.
2 more reviews, 1 not recommended
Fun with my friends, some of the blevels were kinda brainless and it felt like we had to drag ourselves to beat it, but the game was really fun. Money well spent.
In 2023, I found this game, played it, and I saw its potential. I saw an indie developer creating a backrooms type of game (which wasn't very common back then,) and it was decent for what it was, so I stayed tuned in. But over the course of three years, it went downhill, and I'm really disappointed. I'm so exasperated with how this game turned out, in fact, that I decided to write this review in the style of "In the...
Steam reviews, mixed to its ratio and rotated daily. Opinions are theirs.
About the game
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.
Minimum specs
Minimum on the Steam store: 8 GB of memory, Any DirectX 11 or 12 compatible card, 25 GB of storage. Windows only.
No data upstream: critic score (Metacritic).
Cite this score
Escape the Backrooms scores 81/100 on the BANG Score (worth it) as of Nov 8, 2026. The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/1943950/escape-the-backroomsReviews 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 Nov 5, price as of Nov 8. A number here look wrong? Tell me and I will check the inputs.