Backroom Beyond
White Vortex Games · 2022-07-08
Modes: Single player · Perspectives: First person
Releases: Jul 08, 2022 (PC (Microsoft Windows))
Backroom Beyond is a first-person game that mixes puzzles with platforms in a dark, harrowing environment that makes the player question the protagonist's sanity. Based on the internet myth, Backroom Beyond makes the player wonder if that journey is about something more personal.
0 players in-game as of 2026-09-12 19:00 UTC (census sample)
The narrative has two main points. Drawings tell part of the game's story on the walls. The drawings have no defined authorship, which gives them an extra degree of strangeness. The second point is the existence of The Guide, a being that instigates the players to think about their actions in real life. The game basically has one objective throughout its 40-level journey: place the red box over the red button and open the door to the next level. It seems simple at first, but it's not. Each environment has its own logic. If the players feel frustrated because something went wrong in their stra(Storyline via IGDB)
Health check
- · 0 players in-game at the last census sample.
- · 9 reviews in the last 8 weeks (~1/week).
- · Review velocity down 10% vs the prior 8 weeks.
- · Top 76% of 14,333 Action games in the census by review count.
All-time low: $0.79 at Steam (2026-04-06)via IsThereAnyDeal
Review momentum
Completion
- · 19.8% of players earned Not Welcome
- · 1.7% of players earned Are you lost yet?
- · 0.8% of players earned The secret room
Global achievement rates from Steam.
Details
12 supported languages: English, Portuguese - Brazil, French, Italian, German, Spanish - Spain, Simplified Chinese, Korean, Japanese, Russian, Turkish, Indonesian
Player tags
DramaActionCasualPuzzleRunnerSci-fiMysteryAdventureStory RichAtmospheric
Census log
- 2022-07-01First review activity on record (week of 2022-07-01).
- 2026-09-12Highest concurrent player count the census has recorded: 0 (2026-09-12).
Computed from census-recorded observations only — dates are observation dates.
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