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The Backrooms Project

3AM Studios · 2022-05-15

SteamEpic Games Store

ActionAdventureCasualIndieRPGSimulationStrategyEarly Access

Modes: Single player, Multiplayer, Co-operative

Releases: May 15, 2022 (Linux), May 15, 2022 (PC (Microsoft Windows))

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The Backrooms Project is an Action, Adventure, Casual and Indie game released in 2022, priced at $9.99, with an estimated 0 to 20,000 owners and a Mixed review sentiment (70% of 143 reviews).— census verdict as of 2026-10-11

70%
positive of 143 reviews
Mixed
steam's rating (official)
0–20,000
owners (SteamSpy est.)
Unknown
Steam Deck (Valve)
SteamOS: 0
$9.99
steam price (US)

Health check

Quiet
  • · 9 reviews in the last 8 weeks (~1/week).
  • · Review velocity down 59% vs the prior 8 weeks.
  • · Current weekly pace is under 5% of the all-time peak week (29 reviews).
  • · Top 35% of 26,162 Action games in the census by review count.
Estimated sales: 2.9k–6.4k copies

Review-multiple estimate from 143 total reviews — how this is computed.

Review momentum

PositiveNegative
202020222026Week of 2022-05-01: 20 positiveWeek of 2022-05-01: 9 negativeWeek of 2022-06-01: 16 positiveWeek of 2022-06-01: 5 negativeWeek of 2022-07-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2022-07-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2022-08-01: 7 positiveWeek of 2022-08-01: 4 negativeWeek of 2022-09-01: 6 positiveWeek of 2022-09-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2022-10-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2022-11-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2022-11-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2022-12-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2022-12-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2023-01-01: 8 positiveWeek of 2023-01-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2023-03-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2023-03-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2023-05-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2023-06-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2023-07-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2023-07-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2023-08-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2023-09-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2023-09-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2024-01-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2024-03-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2024-05-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2024-09-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2024-11-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2024-12-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-02-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2025-03-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2025-04-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2026-05-01: 1 negative
Weekly review counts (Steam review histogram). Positive above the line, negative below.

Completion

19
achievements tracked
83.9%
earned "Lab Rat"
26.3%
median achievement earned by

Global achievement rates from Steam.

Details

WindowsLinuxSingle-playerMulti-playerPvPCo-opSteam AchievementsCaptions availableSteam WorkshopPartial Controller SupportSteam CloudStats

29 supported languages: English, Hungarian, German, Italian, Simplified Chinese, French, Spanish - Spain, Ukrainian, Arabic, Bulgarian, Czech, Danish…

Player tags

DarkGoreCrimeActionHorrorRealisticAtmosphericExplorationPerma DeathEarly Access

Census log

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

Players also track

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Similarity via IGDB.

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