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The Complex: Expedition

pgWave · 2025-07-18

Steam

ActionAdventureSimulation

Franchise: The Complex · Modes: Single player · Perspectives: First person

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?

The Complex: Expedition is an Action, Adventure and Simulation game released in 2025, priced at $14.99, with an estimated 50,000 to 100,000 owners and a Very Positive review sentiment (90% of 2757 reviews).

8
playing now
90%
positive of 2.8k reviews
Very Positive
steam's rating (official)
50,000–100,000
owners (SteamSpy est.)
61/100
IGDB user rating (5 ratings)
gold
deck/linux tier (ProtonDB)
Unsupported
Steam Deck (Valve)
SteamOS: Unsupported
$14.99
steam price (US)

8 players in-game as of 2026-10-14 17:00 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 9% of 27,808 Action games in the census by review count.

Health tier since 2026-08-30

Estimated sales: 55k–124k copies

Review-multiple estimate from 2,757 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

2132026-09-15 18:00 — 7 players2026-09-17 02:00 — 7 players2026-09-18 10:00 — 5 players2026-09-19 17:00 — 21 players2026-09-21 01:00 — 16 players2026-09-22 08:00 — 7 players2026-09-23 16:00 — 7 players2026-09-24 23:00 — 13 players2026-09-26 07:00 — 11 players2026-09-27 14:00 — 10 players2026-09-28 22:00 — 14 players2026-09-30 05:00 — 9 players2026-10-01 13:00 — 4 players2026-10-02 20:00 — 7 players2026-10-04 04:00 — 12 players2026-10-05 12:00 — 9 players2026-10-06 20:00 — 5 players2026-10-08 03:00 — 6 players2026-10-09 11:00 — 7 players2026-10-10 18:00 — 7 players2026-10-12 02:00 — 11 players2026-10-13 09:00 — 4 players2026-10-14 17:00 — 8 players
Concurrent players, hourly average, last 30 days (census samples).
452Jul 2023Aug 2026Jul 2023 — avg 45 · peak 98Aug 2023 — avg 17 · peak 40Sep 2023 — avg 11 · peak 37Oct 2023 — avg 8 · peak 23Nov 2023 — avg 5 · peak 15Dec 2023 — avg 4 · peak 18Jan 2024 — avg 5 · peak 14Feb 2024 — avg 5 · peak 14Mar 2024 — avg 4 · peak 10Apr 2024 — avg 3 · peak 11May 2024 — avg 4 · peak 12Jun 2024 — avg 3 · peak 9Jul 2024 — avg 3 · peak 8Aug 2024 — avg 3 · peak 8Sep 2024 — avg 3 · peak 15Oct 2024 — avg 2 · peak 8Nov 2024 — avg 2 · peak 8Dec 2024 — avg 2 · peak 9Jan 2025 — avg 2 · peak 7Mar 2025 — avg 2 · peak 8May 2025 — avg 3 · peak 7Jul 2025 — avg 45 · peak 231Aug 2025 — avg 20 · peak 52Sep 2025 — avg 8 · peak 26Oct 2025 — avg 6 · peak 17Nov 2025 — avg 7 · peak 17Dec 2025 — avg 5 · peak 18Jan 2026 — avg 6 · peak 18Feb 2026 — avg 5 · peak 13Mar 2026 — avg 6 · peak 17Apr 2026 — avg 13 · peak 31May 2026 — avg 13 · peak 75Jun 2026 — avg 36 · peak 96Jul 2026 — avg 18 · peak 45Aug 2026 — avg 11 · peak 26
Monthly average players (source: steamcharts.com) — history via steamcharts.com; live census sampling since Aug 2026.

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.

Where its players are

Share of Steam reviews by language (top languages measured) — a proxy for where the player base lives.

Player tags

3D1990'sActionHorrorMysteryAdventureCinematicRealisticSimulationStory Rich

Census log

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

Recent updates

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