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Shifting To The Backrooms

Oopsome Games · 2026-03-13

Steam

Indie

Modes: Single player · Perspectives: First person

Releases: Mar 13, 2026 (PC (Microsoft Windows))

Experience Will's complicated story, find a way out of the nightmare of liminal spaces by solving challenging puzzles and avoiding dangerous entities — all this awaits you in "Shifting To The Backrooms".

Shifting To The Backrooms is an $8.99 Indie game released in 2026, with a Very Positive review sentiment (87% of 75 reviews).

87%
positive of 75 reviews
Very Positive
steam's rating (official)
pending
deck/linux tier (ProtonDB)
Unsupported
Steam Deck (Valve)
SteamOS: Playable
$8.99
steam price (US)

Health check

Quiet
  • · 7 reviews in the last 8 weeks (~1/week).
  • · Review velocity down 84% vs the prior 8 weeks.
  • · Top 41% of 51,663 Indie games in the census by review count.

Health tier since 2026-09-02

Estimated sales: 1.5k–3.4k copies

Review-multiple estimate from 75 total reviews — how this is computed.

All-time low: $5.21 at Steam (2026-08-10)via IsThereAnyDeal

12-month high $8.99 · on sale 4 of 8 observed days (census price snapshots)

Review momentum

PositiveNegative
171720262026Week of 2026-03-13: 17 positiveWeek of 2026-03-13: 2 negativeWeek of 2026-03-20: 10 positiveWeek of 2026-03-20: 3 negativeWeek of 2026-03-27: 5 positiveWeek of 2026-03-27: 1 negativeWeek of 2026-04-10: 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 2026-05-15: 1 positiveWeek of 2026-06-05: 1 positiveWeek of 2026-06-26: 1 positiveWeek of 2026-07-10: 1 positiveWeek of 2026-07-24: 1 positiveWeek of 2026-08-07: 1 positiveWeek of 2026-08-14: 1 positive
Weekly review counts (Steam review histogram). Positive above the line, negative below.

Price history

$8.99$5.212026-03-132026-08-172026-03-13 — best price $7.642026-03-27 — best price $8.992026-06-01 — best price $7.192026-06-08 — best price $8.992026-06-25 — best price $5.842026-07-09 — best price $8.992026-08-10 — best price $5.212026-08-17 — best price $8.99
Lowest recorded price across tracked stores, per day (census snapshots).

Details

WindowsSingle-playerSteam AchievementsFamily Sharing

3 supported languages: English, Russian, Simplified Chinese

Census log

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

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