Backrooms Rec.
Skip · Shooter · 2024 · Early Access
Steam Deck PlayableThe verdict
SKIP IT.
It scores 22, under the fair line, at $4.19.
- Length
- 3h
- Value
- $1.40/hr
- Reviews
- 69% of 2,129 positive
Full price
Today
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Discounted in 2 of its last 8 seasonal sales.
- 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
Dive into the mysteries of the Backrooms with a solo-developed survival game. Explore eerie hallways, uncover secrets alone or in multiplayer (up to 6 players), and take on unique challenges.
Minimum specs
Minimum on the Steam store: 4 GB of memory, NVIDIA GeForce GTX 960 2GB, 6 GB of storage. Windows only.
The value story
It has been discounted 20 times in the 3 years tracked here. The median cut across all of them is 40 percent, about 6 weeks apart. Today's $4.19 at 40 percent off still sits 20 percent above the floor, so a deeper cut exists in its history.
It is cheaper than 70 percent of its genre, and less well reviewed than 76 percent. Among the games that feel like it, BIGFOOT ($19.99, scores 43) beats it on value, while it beats Sign of Silence ($4.99, scores 0).
More about Backrooms Rec.
55 of the 800 Steam-purchase reviews sampled here come from buyers who refunded the game, sampled from reviews written June 2024 to October 2026. That is more refunded reviewers than 9 in 10 paid games this site has sampled to the same depth, and among the 1,422 games in its genre sampled this deeply, 33 have a larger share. The typical game sits near 5 in 1,000, so the score docks it. 4 of the 55 refunded reviewers were past Valve's two-hour window when they wrote the review. Inside the two-hour refund window, 53 percent of the 698 reviews written there were positive, against 69 percent overall, and those are 38 percent of everything written about it.
The drop-off
40% 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
What players say
its fun but too buggy and the game keeps crashing right when i try to start the prison level. every. single. time.
2 more reviews, 1 not recommended
Needs some more work before I would recommend picking it up. For a game made by a solo dev I think it's definitely on the right track! It just needs more time in the oven. There were a couple puzzles that I think could have been explained better in the pool rooms. Also A couple bugs when solving puzzles that seem unintented. I solved a couple puzzles, was confused as to why they were not triggering as complete, and...
A photorealistic bodycam horror game that captures the liminal space vibe better than almost any other adaptation. The bad part is the lack of content and mechanical depth. It is mostly a short walking simulator with minimal story, so replay value is virtually non existent once you finish exploring. Some jump scares can also feel predictable after a while. The good part is the visual presentation and immersion. The...
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Cite this score
Backrooms Rec. scores 22/100 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/2275020/backrooms-recReviews 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 26, price as of Oct 18. A number here look wrong? Tell me and I will check the inputs.