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Backrooms Media cover art

Backrooms Media

NPK Games · 2025-12-16

Steam

ActionAdventureCasualIndieRPGStrategy

Modes: Single player, Multiplayer, Co-operative · Perspectives: First person

Releases: Dec 16, 2025 (PC (Microsoft Windows))

Backrooms Media is a 1-4 player co-op horror that plunges you into unsettling, hyper-realistic liminal spaces. Navigate eerie environments filled with lurking horrors. Group up with your friends to face the terror of the endless backrooms together and... try to escape.

Backrooms Media is a $7.99 Action Adventure Casual Indie game released in 2025, with an estimated 100,000 to 200,000 owners and a Mostly Negative review sentiment (40% of 647 reviews).

4
playing now
40%
positive of 648 reviews
Mixed
steam's rating (official)
100,000–200,000
owners (SteamSpy est.)
Unsupported
Steam Deck (Valve)
SteamOS: Playable
$7.99
steam price (US)

4 players in-game as of 2026-10-14 15:00 UTC (census sample)

Health check

Quiet
  • · 4 players in-game at the last census sample.
  • · 9 reviews in the last 8 weeks (~1/week).
  • · Review velocity down 36% vs the prior 8 weeks.
  • · Current weekly pace is under 5% of the all-time peak week (270 reviews).
  • · Top 18% of 27,667 Action games in the census by review count.

Health tier since 2026-08-31

Estimated sales: 13k–29k copies

Review-multiple estimate from 648 total reviews — how this is computed.

All-time low: $3.19 at IndieGala Store (2026-03-17)via IsThereAnyDeal

12-month high $7.99 · on sale 68 of 97 observed days (census price snapshots)

Review momentum

PositiveNegative
16316320242026Week of 2024-09-10: 107 positiveWeek of 2024-09-10: 163 negativeWeek of 2024-09-17: 15 positiveWeek of 2024-09-17: 29 negativeWeek of 2024-09-24: 1 positiveWeek of 2024-09-24: 6 negativeWeek of 2024-10-01: 9 positiveWeek of 2024-10-01: 5 negativeWeek of 2024-10-08: 3 positiveWeek of 2024-10-08: 4 negativeWeek of 2024-10-15: 4 positiveWeek of 2024-10-15: 2 negativeWeek of 2024-10-22: 7 positiveWeek of 2024-10-22: 1 negativeWeek of 2024-10-29: 3 positiveWeek of 2024-10-29: 4 negativeWeek of 2024-11-05: 2 positiveWeek of 2024-11-05: 4 negativeWeek of 2024-11-12: 2 negativeWeek of 2024-11-19: 1 positiveWeek of 2024-11-19: 2 negativeWeek of 2024-11-26: 13 positiveWeek of 2024-11-26: 2 negativeWeek of 2024-12-03: 2 negativeWeek of 2024-12-10: 1 positiveWeek of 2024-12-10: 2 negativeWeek of 2024-12-17: 1 negativeWeek of 2024-12-24: 4 positiveWeek of 2024-12-24: 2 negativeWeek of 2024-12-31: 3 positiveWeek of 2024-12-31: 5 negativeWeek of 2025-01-07: 2 positiveWeek of 2025-01-07: 4 negativeWeek of 2025-01-14: 5 positiveWeek of 2025-01-14: 2 negativeWeek of 2025-01-21: 4 positiveWeek of 2025-01-21: 4 negativeWeek of 2025-01-28: 3 positiveWeek of 2025-01-28: 3 negativeWeek of 2025-02-04: 4 positiveWeek of 2025-02-04: 6 negativeWeek of 2025-02-11: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-02-11: 1 negativeWeek of 2025-02-18: 1 negativeWeek of 2025-02-25: 1 negativeWeek of 2025-03-04: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-03-11: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-03-11: 1 negativeWeek of 2025-03-18: 3 negativeWeek of 2025-03-25: 3 positiveWeek of 2025-03-25: 2 negativeWeek of 2025-04-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2025-04-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2025-04-22: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-04-22: 1 negativeWeek of 2025-04-29: 2 negativeWeek of 2025-05-06: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-05-06: 3 negativeWeek of 2025-05-13: 2 negativeWeek of 2025-06-10: 1 negativeWeek of 2025-06-17: 3 negativeWeek of 2025-06-24: 2 negativeWeek of 2025-07-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2025-07-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2025-07-22: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-07-22: 2 negativeWeek of 2025-08-05: 2 negativeWeek of 2025-08-12: 1 negativeWeek of 2025-08-26: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-09-02: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-09-02: 1 negativeWeek of 2025-09-16: 2 positiveWeek of 2025-09-16: 1 negativeWeek of 2025-09-30: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-09-30: 1 negativeWeek of 2025-10-07: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-10-14: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-10-21: 2 positiveWeek of 2025-11-04: 1 negativeWeek of 2025-11-18: 2 negativeWeek of 2025-11-25: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-12-02: 2 positiveWeek of 2025-12-09: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-12-16: 4 negativeWeek of 2025-12-23: 2 negativeWeek of 2025-12-30: 2 positiveWeek of 2025-12-30: 2 negativeWeek of 2026-01-06: 1 negativeWeek of 2026-01-20: 4 negativeWeek of 2026-01-27: 3 negativeWeek of 2026-02-03: 2 negativeWeek of 2026-02-10: 2 positiveWeek of 2026-02-17: 1 negativeWeek of 2026-03-03: 1 positiveWeek of 2026-03-03: 1 negativeWeek of 2026-03-10: 3 negativeWeek of 2026-03-17: 1 negativeWeek of 2026-03-24: 1 negativeWeek of 2026-03-31: 3 negativeWeek of 2026-04-14: 5 negativeWeek of 2026-04-21: 4 negativeWeek of 2026-04-28: 1 positiveWeek of 2026-04-28: 2 negativeWeek of 2026-05-05: 1 negativeWeek of 2026-05-19: 1 negativeWeek of 2026-05-26: 1 positiveWeek of 2026-06-02: 3 negativeWeek of 2026-06-09: 1 negativeWeek of 2026-06-23: 1 positiveWeek of 2026-06-30: 1 positiveWeek of 2026-07-07: 1 negativeWeek of 2026-07-14: 2 negativeWeek of 2026-07-28: 1 positiveWeek of 2026-08-04: 1 positiveWeek of 2026-08-04: 1 negativeWeek of 2026-08-11: 1 negativeWeek of 2026-08-25: 2 positive
Weekly review counts (Steam review histogram). Positive above the line, negative below.

Players online

402026-09-15 01:00 — 0 players2026-09-16 09:00 — 0 players2026-09-17 16:00 — 0 players2026-09-19 00:00 — 0 players2026-09-20 07:00 — 0 players2026-09-21 15:00 — 0 players2026-09-22 23:00 — 2 players2026-09-24 06:00 — 0 players2026-09-25 14:00 — 0 players2026-09-26 21:00 — 0 players2026-09-28 05:00 — 0 players2026-09-29 12:00 — 0 players2026-09-30 20:00 — 0 players2026-10-02 03:00 — 0 players2026-10-03 11:00 — 0 players2026-10-04 19:00 — 3 players2026-10-06 02:00 — 0 players2026-10-07 10:00 — 0 players2026-10-08 17:00 — 1 players2026-10-10 01:00 — 0 players2026-10-11 08:00 — 3 players2026-10-12 16:00 — 0 players2026-10-14 00:00 — 0 players2026-10-14 15:00 — 4 players
Concurrent players, hourly average, last 30 days (census samples).

Price history

$7.99$2.892024-09-102026-08-202024-09-10 — best price $6.392024-11-27 — best price $6.392025-01-17 — best price $5.992025-04-07 — best price $3.682025-05-03 — best price $5.592025-06-03 — best price $3.992025-07-02 — best price $4.792025-07-14 — best price $4.072025-07-28 — best price $7.992025-08-05 — best price $3.532025-08-26 — best price $7.992025-09-11 — best price $4.752025-09-16 — best price $4.792025-09-29 — best price $5.592025-10-09 — best price $4.792025-10-26 — best price $7.992025-11-11 — best price $4.792025-11-20 — best price $4.752025-12-04 — best price $7.992025-12-17 — best price $7.992025-12-25 — best price $7.992026-01-15 — best price $4.072026-03-05 — best price $3.992026-03-12 — best price $4.002026-03-18 — best price $4.002026-03-26 — best price $7.992026-04-10 — best price $2.892026-04-18 — best price $3.992026-04-30 — best price $7.992026-05-07 — best price $4.002026-05-18 — best price $3.192026-05-26 — best price $7.992026-06-10 — best price $3.472026-06-25 — best price $3.992026-07-13 — best price $2.892026-07-24 — best price $7.992026-07-29 — best price $6.282026-08-10 — best price $6.022026-08-17 — best price $3.282026-08-20 — best price $6.41
Lowest recorded price across tracked stores, per day (census snapshots).

Completion

15
achievements tracked
81.7%
earned "END OF TAPE"
41%
median achievement earned by

Global achievement rates from Steam.

Details

WindowsSingle-playerMulti-playerCo-opOnline Co-opLAN Co-opSteam AchievementsSteam WorkshopIncludes level editorHDR availableFamily Sharing

11 supported languages: English, French, German, Japanese, Korean, Russian, Simplified Chinese, Spanish - Latin America, Turkish, Ukrainian, Portuguese - Brazil

Console footprint

PlatformPlayers trackedCompletionTrophies/achievements
Steam (Steam)9316%15

Players tracked by Exophase (achievement/trophy trackers) — a sample of the player base, not total sales.

Player tags

Co-opCasualHorrorSurvivalRealisticEscape RoomExplorationMultiplayerEarly AccessFirst-Person

Census log

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

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