Inside the Backrooms
Skip · Multiplayer · 2022 · Early Access
Steam Deck PlayableThe verdict
SKIP IT.
It scores 41, under the fair line, at $6.99.
- Cost per hour
- $1.40/hr
- Reviews▼
- 80% of 46,921
- Genre rank
- Top 27% Multiplayer
Holding it back: Early access, AI content
Why
Recent reviews trending down: 47% over the last 30 days against 80% all-time.
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Time and effort
- Typical playtime
- 5h
- To 100%
- 17.4h 3.5x the story
- Achievements
- 30
Price and sales
- Sales
- 20 on record
- Typical cut
- 15% off
- Steam low
- $3.84 June 2024
- Sale every
- 84d last October 2026
Players and genre
- Online
- 582 now
- Recent reviews
- 47% 30 days
- Cheaper than
- 55% of its genre
- Better reviewed
- 79% of its genre
Price and player charts
The drop-off
89% start to <1% rarestA game like this has no single ending, so its score does not use the finish rate. The curve shows where players stop. Steam global achievements
The value story
The value story
It has been discounted 20 times in the 4 years tracked here. The median cut across all of them is 15 percent, about 12 weeks apart. Today it is at full price, and its last discount ended 4 days ago.
Its score puts it in the top 27 percent of the games it competes with. It is better reviewed than 79 percent of its genre. Among the games that feel like it, Backrooms: Escape Together ($9.99, scores 64) beats it on value, while it beats Occult ($4.99, scores 25).
More about Inside the Backrooms
Players rate it 80 percent positive over its lifetime, but the last 30 days run 47 percent. Something recent has soured the room. Of the 800 Steam-purchase reviews this site sampled, 13 come from buyers who refunded the game, sampled from reviews written April 2026 to October 2026. Inside the two-hour refund window, 65 percent of the 4,740 reviews written there were positive, against 80 percent overall, and those are 12 percent of everything written about it.
HowLongToBeat players log 5 hours as a typical playtime, and completionists log 17, 3.5 times as much.
Buy now or wait
Buy now or wait
Discounted in 5 of its last 8 seasonal sales. Last discount ended 4 days ago.
- 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
I used to like the game because of the complexity and amount of puzzles that were on each map, now I see that most of the puzzles have been removed and I don't understand why or what has been the reason. I wish I could go back to previous versions of the game.
2 more reviews, 1 not recommended
This game was so much fun to play with my backrooms buddy! I loved the fun little addition of adding - sometimes cheesy - entity mods. Its a lot faster of a playthrough than ETB. I did also like the levels having independent timers. Something I really enjoyed how puzzle heavy this game was in comparison to some other backrooms games. It was a struggle to orient myself at first in levels like the Dark Rooms or The...
If you want to get drunk with your buddies while playing this and have a fun time this game is not for you. When you want to just get chased by monsters untill the saferoom this is not for you. If you want to solve puzzles in non randomized levels while being chased by 2-3 monsters /depending on difficulty) this game is for you. Second level Dark Rooms has too many items that requires the next item and so on and so...
Steam reviews, mixed to its ratio and rotated daily. Opinions are theirs.
About the game
Inside the Backrooms is a horror multiplayer game mixed with different mechanics that will make you spend an intense night with friends. Explore, think, interact, but be careful, it is rumored that there are several entities wishing to find you...
Minimum specs
Minimum on the Steam store: 8 GB of memory, Nvidia GeForce GTX 760, (2 GB VRAM) | AMD Radeon HD 7870, (2 GB VRAM), 20 GB of storage. Windows only.
No data upstream: critic score (Metacritic).
Cite this score
Inside the Backrooms scores 41/100 on the BANG Score (a skip) as of Nov 8, 2026. The developer disclosed AI-generated content on Steam, so the score is docked. The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/1987080/inside-the-backroomsReviews set the ceiling, and the size of the player base moves the BANG Score inside it. How it works, and where it is weak → Steam reviews as of Nov 8, price as of Nov 8. A number here look wrong? Tell me and I will check the inputs.