The Backrooms 1998 - Found Footage Survival Horror Game
Skip · Shooter · 2025
Steam Deck PlayableThe verdict
SKIP IT.
It scores 44, under the fair line, at $9.99. Fair at $6.17, lower than any Steam price we have tracked since May 2022 (lowest $6.99, Jun 2024).
- Length
- 1.1h 2h to 100%
- Value
- $9.08/hr
- Reviews
- 84% of 838 positive
Watch this gameOne alert at $6.17 or less.
Buy now or wait
Discounted in each of its last 6 seasonal sales. Last cut ended 11 days ago.
- Next sale
- Winter Sale, Dec 17 to Jan 4
Sources: IsThereAnyDeal, Valve.
What drives the score
How to read this
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About the game
The Backrooms: 1998 is a first-person found footage psychological horror survival game where it tells the story of a young teen after accidentally falling into the depths of The Backrooms in 1998. Roam freely, mark, explore and try unravel the story - however you are not alone. Don't scream.
Minimum specs
Minimum on the Steam store: 4 GB of memory, NVIDIA GeForce GTX 660 2 GB or AMD equivalent, 4 GB of storage. Windows only.
The value story
Across all 40 discounts in the 4 years tracked, the median cut is 20 percent, about 6 weeks apart. Today it is at full price, and its last discount ended 11 days ago.
Value puts it in the top 48 percent of the games it competes with. It is cheaper than 61 percent of its genre, and better reviewed than 61 percent. Don't Be Afraid ($9.99, scores 54) outscores it, and so does MADiSON ($34.99, scores 47). Both sit among its closest neighbours.
More about The Backrooms 1998 - Found Footage Survival Horror Game
This site sampled 408 of its Steam-purchase reviews; 9 were written by buyers who refunded it, sampled from reviews written May 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 1,422 games in its genre sampled this deeply, 215 have a larger share. Inside the two-hour refund window, 78 percent of the 364 reviews written there were positive, against 84 percent overall, and those are 62 percent of everything written about it.
Players
- Players online
- 2 when we last checked, on Oct 4, 14:54 UTC
Player counts from the Steam Web API.
What players say
A great cat-and-mouse horror game in the style of the backrooms. The whole production is very well packaged, with a VHS-coated lens and a deliberately documentary-style presentation. You don't press "start game" from the menu; you "play tape". What follows is an interactive recounting of some poor soul lost in an impossible labyrinth of interconnected hallways, equal parts dread and disbelief. The fluorescent lights...
2 more reviews, 1 not recommended
Not bad. It can be difficult to reach the map and checkpoints but I think it's good compared to other backroom games out there...
the game is glitchy to the point of being almost unplayable because it will randomly stop detecting inputs, gives instructions on keybaord use - then forces you to use the controller, there's no way to toggle between the two, controls are convoluted, like just going 5 minutes is unpleasant
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No data upstream: critic score (Metacritic), achievement curve (Steam global achievements).
Cite this score
The Backrooms 1998 - Found Footage Survival Horror Game scores 44/100 on the BANG Score (a skip) as of Oct 19, 2026. The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/1985930/the-backrooms-1998-found-footage-survival-horror-gameReviews 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 28, price as of Oct 18. A number here look wrong? Tell me and I will check the inputs.