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The Complex: Expedition

pgWave · 2025-07-18

Steam

ActionAdventureSimulation

Franchise: The Complex · Modes: Single player

Releases: Jul 17, 2023 (PC (Microsoft Windows))

When a routine expedition into The Complex goes horribly wrong, you're left alone and lost, wandering the seemingly infinite maze of hallways, otherwise known as the Backrooms. Might there be something following you?

8
playing now
90%
positive of 2.7k reviews
Very Positive
steam rating
50,000–100,000
owners (SteamSpy est.)
61/100
IGDB user rating (5 ratings)
gold
deck/linux tier (ProtonDB)
$14.99
steam price (US)

8 players in-game as of 2026-08-30 07:00 UTC (census sample)

Health check

Healthy
  • · 8 players in-game at the last census sample.
  • · 597 reviews in the last 8 weeks (~75/week).
  • · Review velocity down 7% vs the prior 8 weeks.
  • · Top 22% of 10,862 Action games in the census by review count.

Health tier since 2026-08-30

Estimated sales: 55k–123k copies

Review-multiple estimate from 2,733 total reviews — how this is computed.

All-time low: $9.99 at Steam (2023-07-18)via IsThereAnyDeal

12-month high $14.99 · on sale 0 of 8 observed days (census price snapshots)

Review momentum

PositiveNegative
41641620232026Week of 2023-07-01: 416 positiveWeek of 2023-07-01: 26 negativeWeek of 2023-08-01: 169 positiveWeek of 2023-08-01: 21 negativeWeek of 2023-09-01: 107 positiveWeek of 2023-09-01: 8 negativeWeek of 2023-10-01: 79 positiveWeek of 2023-10-01: 9 negativeWeek of 2023-11-01: 89 positiveWeek of 2023-11-01: 4 negativeWeek of 2023-12-01: 39 positiveWeek of 2023-12-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2024-01-01: 58 positiveWeek of 2024-01-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2024-02-01: 49 positiveWeek of 2024-02-01: 4 negativeWeek of 2024-03-01: 25 positiveWeek of 2024-03-01: 5 negativeWeek of 2024-04-01: 44 positiveWeek of 2024-04-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2024-05-01: 28 positiveWeek of 2024-05-01: 4 negativeWeek of 2024-06-01: 39 positiveWeek of 2024-06-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2024-07-01: 21 positiveWeek of 2024-07-01: 4 negativeWeek of 2024-08-01: 20 positiveWeek of 2024-08-01: 5 negativeWeek of 2024-09-01: 22 positiveWeek of 2024-09-01: 4 negativeWeek of 2024-10-01: 19 positiveWeek of 2024-10-01: 5 negativeWeek of 2024-11-01: 20 positiveWeek of 2024-12-01: 17 positiveWeek of 2024-12-01: 4 negativeWeek of 2025-01-01: 17 positiveWeek of 2025-02-01: 18 positiveWeek of 2025-02-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2025-03-01: 15 positiveWeek of 2025-03-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2025-04-01: 12 positiveWeek of 2025-04-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2025-05-01: 16 positiveWeek of 2025-06-01: 19 positiveWeek of 2025-07-01: 218 positiveWeek of 2025-07-01: 44 negativeWeek of 2025-08-01: 128 positiveWeek of 2025-08-01: 29 negativeWeek of 2025-09-01: 42 positiveWeek of 2025-09-01: 8 negativeWeek of 2025-10-01: 48 positiveWeek of 2025-10-01: 9 negativeWeek of 2025-11-01: 68 positiveWeek of 2025-11-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2025-12-01: 30 positiveWeek of 2025-12-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2026-01-01: 33 positiveWeek of 2026-01-01: 5 negativeWeek of 2026-02-01: 32 positiveWeek of 2026-02-01: 5 negativeWeek of 2026-03-01: 41 positiveWeek of 2026-03-01: 4 negativeWeek of 2026-04-01: 65 positiveWeek of 2026-04-01: 8 negativeWeek of 2026-05-01: 56 positiveWeek of 2026-05-01: 4 negativeWeek of 2026-06-01: 183 positiveWeek of 2026-06-01: 19 negativeWeek of 2026-07-01: 103 positiveWeek of 2026-07-01: 7 negativeWeek of 2026-08-01: 54 positiveWeek of 2026-08-01: 11 negative
Weekly review counts (Steam review histogram). Positive above the line, negative below.

Players online

2032026-08-11 23:00 — 19 players2026-08-12 15:00 — 8 players2026-08-13 07:00 — 6 players2026-08-13 22:00 — 8 players2026-08-14 14:00 — 15 players2026-08-15 06:00 — 15 players2026-08-15 22:00 — 17 players2026-08-16 14:00 — 18 players2026-08-17 06:00 — 5 players2026-08-17 22:00 — 17 players2026-08-18 13:00 — 3 players2026-08-19 05:00 — 7 players2026-08-19 21:00 — 14 players2026-08-20 13:00 — 8 players2026-08-21 04:00 — 11 players2026-08-21 20:00 — 12 players2026-08-22 12:00 — 10 players2026-08-23 04:00 — 8 players2026-08-23 19:00 — 20 players2026-08-24 11:00 — 6 players2026-08-25 03:00 — 8 players2026-08-25 19:00 — 12 players2026-08-26 11:00 — 7 players2026-08-27 03:00 — 10 players2026-08-27 16:00 — 8 players2026-08-28 07:00 — 9 players2026-08-28 23:00 — 11 players2026-08-29 15:00 — 8 players2026-08-30 07:00 — 8 players
Concurrent players, hourly average, last 30 days (census samples).

Price history

$14.99$9.992023-07-182026-07-092023-07-18 — best price $9.992025-07-18 — best price $14.992025-10-26 — best price $13.492025-11-09 — best price $14.992025-12-18 — best price $13.492026-01-05 — best price $14.992026-03-19 — best price $13.492026-03-26 — best price $14.992026-06-25 — best price $13.492026-07-09 — best price $14.99
Lowest recorded price across tracked stores, per day (census snapshots).

Completion

3
achievements tracked
14.2%
earned "Mortem"
8.1%
median achievement earned by

Global achievement rates from Steam.

Details

WindowsSingle-playerSteam AchievementsFamily Sharing

Console footprint

PlatformPlayers trackedCompletionTrophies/achievements
Steam (Steam)12518%3

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

Player tags

3D1990'sActionHorrorMysteryAdventureCinematicRealisticSimulationStory Rich

Census log

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

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