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Backrooms: What's Next cover art

Backrooms: What's Next

SUDT Games · 2025-01-23

Steam

AdventureIndieSimulationEarly Access

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

Releases: Jan 23, 2025 (PC (Microsoft Windows))

Backrooms: What's Next is a Co-op horror game up to 4 players, where you and your friends will explore the game, try to pass the game level using your mind, wit, remembering the places where you were

64%
positive of 66 reviews
Mixed
steam's rating (official)
0–20,000
owners (SteamSpy est.)
$2.99
steam price (US)

Health check

Quiet
  • · 9 reviews in the last 8 weeks (~1/week).
  • · Review velocity down 31% vs the prior 8 weeks.
  • · Top 66% of 14,718 Adventure games in the census by review count.
Estimated sales: 1.3k–3.0k copies

Review-multiple estimate from 66 total reviews — how this is computed.

All-time low: $0.74 at Steam (2025-01-23)via IsThereAnyDeal

12-month high $2.99 · on sale 10 of 19 observed days (census price snapshots)

Review momentum

PositiveNegative
191920252026Week of 2025-01-25: 16 positiveWeek of 2025-01-25: 3 negativeWeek of 2025-02-01: 19 positiveWeek of 2025-02-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2025-02-15: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-03-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-03-22: 2 negativeWeek of 2025-03-29: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-03-29: 1 negativeWeek of 2025-04-05: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-04-05: 1 negativeWeek of 2025-05-10: 1 negativeWeek of 2025-06-28: 1 negativeWeek of 2025-07-05: 1 negativeWeek of 2025-07-12: 4 negativeWeek of 2025-08-23: 2 negativeWeek of 2025-08-30: 1 negativeWeek of 2025-10-04: 1 negativeWeek of 2026-01-17: 1 negativeWeek of 2026-02-28: 1 negativeWeek of 2026-04-25: 1 negativeWeek of 2026-06-06: 1 positiveWeek of 2026-06-20: 1 negativeWeek of 2026-06-27: 1 negative
Weekly review counts (Steam review histogram). Positive above the line, negative below.

Price history

$2.99$0.742025-01-232026-08-152025-01-23 — best price $0.742025-02-06 — best price $0.992025-03-13 — best price $0.742025-03-20 — best price $1.992025-04-09 — best price $2.992025-05-09 — best price $1.792025-05-23 — best price $2.992025-06-27 — best price $1.012025-07-10 — best price $1.492025-07-16 — best price $2.992025-08-15 — best price $2.002025-08-29 — best price $2.992025-09-29 — best price $1.342025-10-06 — best price $2.992025-11-01 — best price $1.342025-11-15 — best price $2.992025-12-18 — best price $1.492026-01-05 — best price $1.192026-01-19 — best price $2.992026-02-22 — best price $1.192026-03-08 — best price $2.992026-03-19 — best price $1.192026-03-26 — best price $2.992026-04-15 — best price $1.192026-04-29 — best price $2.992026-05-29 — best price $1.192026-06-12 — best price $2.992026-06-25 — best price $1.042026-07-09 — best price $2.992026-08-01 — best price $1.192026-08-15 — best price $2.99
Lowest recorded price across tracked stores, per day (census snapshots).

Details

WindowsSingle-playerMulti-playerCo-opOnline Co-opLAN Co-opFamily Sharing

8 supported languages: English, Italian, German, Spanish - Spain, Polish, Portuguese - Portugal, Russian, Ukrainian

Player tags

3DFPSPvECo-opHorrorPuzzleSci-fiStealthAdventureSimulation

Census log

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

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