Within the Backrooms
Fair · Narrative · 2023
The verdict
NO RUSH.
Fair at $7.99. Buy it if you want it.
- Length
- 0.8h 4.8h to 100%
- Value
- $9.99/hr
- Reviews
- 94% of 236 positive
Watch this gameOne alert at $3.75 or less.
Buy now or wait
Discounted in each of its last 8 seasonal sales. Last cut ended 10 days ago.
- Next sale
- Winter Sale, Dec 17 to Jan 4
Sources: IsThereAnyDeal, Valve.
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
About the game
You don't know how you got here, and you don't know how you'll leave. Wander the depths of the Backrooms in hopes of finding something more.
Minimum specs
Minimum on the Steam store: 4 GB of memory, 2010 or later probably, 2 GB of storage. Windows only.
The value story
26 discounts in the 4 years on record, a median of 40 percent off across all of them, roughly 6 weeks apart. Today it is at full price, and its last discount ended 10 days ago.
Value puts it in the top 15 percent of the games it competes with. It is better reviewed than 91 percent of its genre. Among the games that feel like it, Bad Parenting 1: Mr. Red Face ($1.99, scores 57) beats it on value, while it beats THRESHOLD ($9.99, scores 50).
More about Within the Backrooms
Steam's global achievement data puts 44 percent of players at this game's ending achievement. The median game this site can measure sits at 15. Inside the two-hour refund window, 91 percent of the 101 reviews written there were positive, against 94 percent overall, and those are 48 percent of everything written about it.
Finishing takes 0.8 hours; clearing it takes 5, which is 6.0 times the campaign.
The drop-off
98% start to 44% 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
What players say
Charming. There's really something special here. Legitimately feels like I'm playing back in 1999. Short and sweet, a positive, balanced experience. I really wish it wasn't so brief. 8/10
2 more reviews
Within the Backrooms is an atmospheric first-person adventure developed and published by Shattered Display that draws inspiration from the internet's famous Backrooms phenomenon while placing a stronger emphasis on exploration than outright survival horror. Instead of relying on constant scares or fast-paced action, the game immerses players in an unsettling labyrinth of seemingly endless environments where every...
Been awhile since I've played this, and I came here after finally watching the backrooms movie. I can easily say that this is the definitive backrooms experience, just if there was VR support…
Steam reviews, mixed to its ratio and rotated daily. Opinions are theirs.
No data upstream: critic score (Metacritic).
Cite this score
Within the Backrooms scores 56/100 on the BANG Score (fair value) as of Oct 19, 2026. The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/2158740/within-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 Sep 30, price as of Oct 18. A number here look wrong? Tell me and I will check the inputs.