BACKROOMS: APPREHENSION
Fair · Multiplayer · 2025
Steam Deck PlayableThe verdict
NO RUSH.
Fair at $2.99. Buy it if you want it.
- Reviews
- 83% positive
Buy now or wait
The Autumn Sale is on until Oct 8. It is at full price today.
Discounted in each of its last 4 seasonal sales on record.
- Autumn Sale cooldown
- None on record
- Typical seasonal cut
- 50% ($1.49)
- Last discount ended
- 24 days ago
Watch it for a saleSources: IsThereAnyDeal, Valve.
Watch this gameOne alert when it is worth buying.
Minimum on the Steam store: 4 GB of memory, Dedicated GPU with at least 2GB VRAM and DirectX 11 support, 5 GB of storage. Windows only.
A terrifying multiplayer horror experience with social deduction elements. Trapped in the Backrooms, up to 12 players must try to work together to survive and expose the shapeshifting Skin Stealer hiding among them before it’s too late. Who will you trust?
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
The value story
It has never been cheaper than $1.19. That was May 2026. It has been discounted 38 times in the 4 years tracked here, typically at 35 percent off, with about 5 weeks between sales. Today it is at full price, and its last discount ended about 3 weeks ago.
On value it sits in the top 12 percent of its genre. It is cheaper than 87 percent of its genre, and better reviewed than 87 percent. Among the games that feel like it, Unfortunate Spacemen (free, scores 65) beats it on value, while it beats BIGFOOT ($19.99, scores 43).
This site sampled 527 of its Steam-purchase reviews; 16 were written by buyers who refunded it, sampled from reviews written February 2023 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 651 games in its genre sampled this deeply, 197 have a larger share. Inside the two-hour refund window, 63 percent of the 374 reviews written there were positive, against 83 percent overall, and those are 28 percent of everything written about it.
The drop-off
46% start to <1% rarestNo achievement in this game marks the ending, so there is no finish rate. The curve runs from the most-unlocked achievement to the rarest, and its shape is where players stop. Steam global achievements
Players
46 players online when we last checked, on Oct 1, 16:49 UTC.
Player counts from the Steam Web API.
No data upstream: critic score (Metacritic).
Cite this score
BACKROOMS: APPREHENSION scores 56/100 on the BANG Score (fair value) as of Oct 2, 2026. The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/2234150/backrooms-apprehensionReviews 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 Sep 26, price as of Oct 1.
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