Escape the Backrooms
Worth it · Action · 2025
Steam Deck PlayableThe verdict
BUY IT.
Worth it at $7.99.
- Length
- 9h
- Value
- $0.89/hr
- Reviews
- 90% positive
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Minimum on the Steam store: 8 GB of memory, Any DirectX 11 or 12 compatible card, 25 GB of storage. Windows only.
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.
What drives the score
How to read this
Every input gets a grade, S to D, read from the buyer's side. The score is multiplicative, so an input only counts as raising when it sits near the top of its own scale. Anything with real room left is holding the score back, because that room is the gap to 100. ▲ marks a lift, ▼ a drag or a dock, ? an input we do not have, • a fact this genre's score does not use. The exact weights stay secret.
The value story
The lowest price on record is $6.99, set in November 2022. It has been discounted 39 times in the 4 years tracked here, typically at 20 percent off, with about 5 weeks between sales. Today's $7.99 at 20 percent off still sits 14 percent above the floor, so a deeper cut exists in its history.
This sale is doing real work. 77 at list, 81 today.
Value puts it in the top 1 percent of the games it competes with. It is pricier than 67 percent of its genre, and better reviewed than 95 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).
Steam's global achievement data puts 26 percent of players at this game's ending achievement. The median game this site can measure sits at 8. This site sampled 800 of its Steam-purchase reviews; 27 were written by buyers who refunded it, sampled from reviews written August 2026 to September 2026. Inside the two-hour refund window, 62 percent of the 10,042 reviews written there were positive, against 90 percent overall, and those are 7 percent of everything written about it.
The rating rests on 165,438 reviews, so it is not going to move much from here.
The drop-off
59% start to 26% finishA normal fall-off for a game this long. Steam global achievements
Players
1,756 players at peak in the last day.
The chart appears once this game has been counted more than once.Player counts via SteamSpy.
What players say
The game itself was better when Fancy was making alone by himself and now when there is a whole ahh team new levels became worse, Solo developer was making more than this whole ahh team, yall really spent 1-2 years just to realease ending of the game which added 4 levels that you can beat in 10 minutes each, while fancy alone was making levels that was 1-2 hours long and he was making all that in year, and levels...
Well. The first levels are fun, but after a while the game gets miserable. The levels feel like someone ate them, took a ♥♥♥♥, and repeated the process about 4 times.
Level Fun captures the essence of the Backrooms with its noclipping-through-walls entities and complete lack of any sense. Very faithful to the lore.
Player reviews from Steam: the most helpful all-time, plus the newest that clear the same quality bar, with the hours each player had put in when they wrote it. The mix of Recommended and Not recommended follows the game's Steam ratio. Rotates daily. Opinions are theirs.
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Escape the Backrooms scores 81/100 on the BANG Score (worth it). The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/1943950/escape-the-backroomsThe BANG Score is one number for value, 0 to 100: price against how it reviews and how long it was built to be. It answers the money question and stops there; whether the game is for you is still your call.
Reviews set the ceiling and price moves you inside it, so a cheap game that reviews badly cannot climb. Ratings from few reviewers are shrunk toward the middle, so 100 percent from nine people does not outrank 96 percent from ninety thousand. Length comes from HowLongToBeat where it can be matched, measured against a per-genre floor so a five-hour narrative game is judged against other narrative games rather than against a sixty-hour RPG. Where no verified length exists the score says so and carries a dock, because the biggest input is then a guess. The full method, including where it is weak → Steam reviews as of Sep 12, price as of Sep 23.
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