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The Backrooms Footage

Untold Backrooms Stories · 2022-09-02

Steam

ActionAdventureCasualIndieSimulationEarly Access

Modes: Single player, Multiplayer, Co-operative

Releases: Sep 02, 2022 (Linux), Sep 02, 2022 (PC (Microsoft Windows))

You have found a camera with a footage in it. For some reason you can't rewind the video, and as soon as you try winding it forward you find yourself in the Backrooms. Figure out whats in the footage and try to ESCAPE AS FAST AS POSSIBLE!

67%
positive of 75 reviews
Mixed
steam's rating (official)
0–20,000
owners (SteamSpy est.)
$7.99
steam price (US)

Health check

Quiet
  • · 10 reviews in the last 8 weeks (~1/week).
  • · Review velocity down 57% vs the prior 8 weeks.
  • · Current weekly pace is under 5% of the all-time peak week (37 reviews).
  • · Top 59% of 16,607 Action games in the census by review count.
Estimated sales: 1.5k–3.4k copies

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

All-time low: $3.99 at Steam (2025-06-26)via IsThereAnyDeal

Review momentum

PositiveNegative
272720222025Week of 2022-09-01: 27 positiveWeek of 2022-09-01: 10 negativeWeek of 2022-10-01: 6 positiveWeek of 2022-10-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2022-11-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2022-11-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2023-01-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2023-03-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2023-03-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2023-04-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2023-06-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2023-08-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2023-09-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2023-12-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2024-01-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2024-05-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2024-05-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2024-08-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2024-10-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2024-11-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2025-01-01: 1 negative
Weekly review counts (Steam review histogram). Positive above the line, negative below.

Details

WindowsLinuxSingle-playerMulti-playerPvPCo-opSteam AchievementsCaptions availablePartial Controller SupportSteam CloudStatsSteam Leaderboards

29 supported languages: English, Japanese, French, Italian, German, Spanish - Spain, Arabic, Bulgarian, Czech, Danish, Dutch, Finnish…

Player tags

Co-opHorrorSandboxCinematicAtmosphericExplorationMultiplayerEarly AccessFirst-PersonOutbreak Sim

Census log

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

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