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Backrooms: Exploration

HNStudios · 2025-05-02

Steam

Adventure

0

Releases: Apr 04, 2025 (PC (Microsoft Windows))

Backrooms: Exploration is a single-player horror game, which takes place in 2020. Two friends have lost their jobs due to COVID-19, but they still have to bring food to the table. After a failed heist, one of them ends up in the Backrooms. Now your only mission is to survive.

Backrooms: Exploration is a 2025 Adventure game priced at $0.99, estimated to have 0 .. 20,000 owners, with a Mostly Positive review sentiment (73% of 108 reviews).

75%
positive of 107 reviews
Mostly Positive
steam's rating (official)
0–20,000
owners (SteamSpy est.)
pending
deck/linux tier (ProtonDB)
Unknown
Steam Deck (Valve)
SteamOS: 0
$0.99
steam price (US)

Health check

Quietly active
  • · 29 reviews in the last 8 weeks (~4/week).
  • · Review velocity up 222% vs the prior 8 weeks.
  • · Top 39% of 29,175 Adventure games in the census by review count.

Health tier since 2026-09-01

Estimated sales: 2.1k–4.8k copies

Review-multiple estimate from 107 total reviews — how this is computed.

All-time low: $0.59 at Steam (2026-05-25)via IsThereAnyDeal

12-month high $4.99 · on sale 21 of 22 observed days (census price snapshots)

Review momentum

PositiveNegative
151520252026Week of 2025-04-04: 15 positiveWeek of 2025-04-04: 1 negativeWeek of 2025-04-11: 3 positiveWeek of 2025-04-11: 1 negativeWeek of 2025-04-18: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-05-02: 6 positiveWeek of 2025-05-02: 1 negativeWeek of 2025-05-09: 2 positiveWeek of 2025-05-09: 2 negativeWeek of 2025-05-16: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-05-23: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-05-23: 2 negativeWeek of 2025-06-06: 2 negativeWeek of 2025-06-13: 2 positiveWeek of 2025-06-20: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-06-20: 3 negativeWeek of 2025-06-27: 1 negativeWeek of 2025-07-04: 1 negativeWeek of 2025-07-11: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-07-25: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-08-08: 1 negativeWeek of 2025-08-15: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-08-29: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-09-12: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-09-19: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-10-17: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-10-31: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-10-31: 2 negativeWeek of 2025-11-21: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-12-05: 1 negativeWeek of 2025-12-26: 1 positiveWeek of 2026-01-02: 1 positiveWeek of 2026-01-16: 1 positiveWeek of 2026-01-23: 2 positiveWeek of 2026-01-30: 1 positiveWeek of 2026-02-13: 1 negativeWeek of 2026-03-06: 1 negativeWeek of 2026-03-13: 2 positiveWeek of 2026-04-03: 1 positiveWeek of 2026-04-17: 1 positiveWeek of 2026-04-17: 1 negativeWeek of 2026-04-24: 1 positiveWeek of 2026-05-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2026-05-08: 1 positiveWeek of 2026-05-22: 6 positiveWeek of 2026-05-22: 2 negativeWeek of 2026-05-29: 8 positiveWeek of 2026-05-29: 3 negativeWeek of 2026-06-05: 2 positiveWeek of 2026-06-19: 2 positiveWeek of 2026-06-26: 1 negativeWeek of 2026-07-03: 1 positiveWeek of 2026-07-03: 2 negativeWeek of 2026-07-17: 1 positiveWeek of 2026-08-07: 1 positiveWeek of 2026-08-28: 1 positive
Weekly review counts (Steam review histogram). Positive above the line, negative below.

Price history

$4.99$0.592025-04-042026-08-242025-04-04 — best price $4.992025-06-27 — best price $2.992025-07-10 — best price $4.992025-09-29 — best price $2.992025-10-06 — best price $4.992025-10-27 — best price $2.492025-11-03 — best price $4.992025-11-20 — best price $1.992025-12-08 — best price $0.992025-12-15 — best price $1.992025-12-18 — best price $0.992026-01-05 — best price $1.992026-01-19 — best price $0.992026-01-26 — best price $1.992026-03-02 — best price $0.992026-03-09 — best price $1.992026-03-19 — best price $0.992026-03-26 — best price $1.992026-04-13 — best price $0.992026-04-20 — best price $1.992026-05-25 — best price $0.592026-06-01 — best price $1.992026-06-25 — best price $0.992026-07-09 — best price $1.992026-07-13 — best price $0.992026-07-20 — best price $1.992026-08-24 — best price $0.99
Lowest recorded price across tracked stores, per day (census snapshots).

Completion

5
achievements tracked
30%
earned "Who's that?"
13.7%
median achievement earned by

Global achievement rates from Steam.

Details

WindowsSteam AchievementsFamily Sharing1 DLC

Post-launch support: 1 DLC released, first 2025-04-04 (Steam store data)

Player tags

3DDarkHorrorAdventureRealisticStory RichAtmosphericExplorationEarly AccessFirst-Person

Census log

Computed from census-recorded observations only — dates are observation dates.

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