The Game Census
Within the Backrooms cover art

Within the Backrooms

Shattered Display · 2023-01-12

Steam

AdventureCasualIndie

Modes: Single player

Releases: Jan 13, 2023 (PC (Microsoft Windows))

You don't know how you got here, and you don't know how you'll leave. Wander the depths of the Backrooms in hopes of finding something more.

94%
positive of 231 reviews
Very Positive
steam rating
0–20,000
owners (SteamSpy est.)
pending
deck/linux tier (ProtonDB)
$7.99
steam price (US)

Health check

Quietly active
  • · 44 reviews in the last 8 weeks (~6/week).
  • · Review velocity up 110% vs the prior 8 weeks.
  • · Top 53% of 11,312 Adventure games in the census by review count.
Estimated sales: 4.6k–10k copies

Review-multiple estimate from 231 total reviews — how this is computed.

All-time low: $3.84 at Steam (2024-12-19) · bundled 1×via IsThereAnyDeal

12-month high $7.99 · on sale 7 of 14 observed days (census price snapshots)

Review momentum

PositiveNegative
232320232026Week of 2023-01-01: 23 positiveWeek of 2023-02-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2023-03-01: 6 positiveWeek of 2023-04-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2023-04-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2023-05-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2023-06-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2023-07-01: 10 positiveWeek of 2023-08-01: 23 positiveWeek of 2023-09-01: 5 positiveWeek of 2023-10-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2023-10-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2023-11-01: 12 positiveWeek of 2023-12-01: 8 positiveWeek of 2024-01-01: 7 positiveWeek of 2024-01-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2024-02-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2024-03-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2024-03-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2024-04-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2024-04-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2024-05-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2024-06-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2024-07-01: 8 positiveWeek of 2024-08-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2024-08-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2024-09-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2024-09-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2024-10-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2024-11-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2024-12-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2024-12-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2025-01-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-02-01: 6 positiveWeek of 2025-03-01: 5 positiveWeek of 2025-04-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-05-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2025-06-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2025-07-01: 7 positiveWeek of 2025-08-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-08-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2025-09-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2025-10-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2025-11-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2025-12-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2026-01-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2026-01-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2026-02-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2026-03-01: 6 positiveWeek of 2026-04-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2026-04-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2026-05-01: 5 positiveWeek of 2026-05-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2026-06-01: 11 positiveWeek of 2026-06-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2026-07-01: 6 positiveWeek of 2026-08-01: 2 positive
Weekly review counts (Steam review histogram). Positive above the line, negative below.

Price history

$14.99$3.842023-01-132026-07-092023-01-13 — best price $12.742023-03-16 — best price $7.492023-06-29 — best price $7.492023-08-08 — best price $11.992023-11-21 — best price $7.492023-12-21 — best price $7.492024-03-14 — best price $10.992024-05-27 — best price $10.992024-07-11 — best price $10.992024-08-19 — best price $10.992024-09-30 — best price $10.992024-12-04 — best price $10.992025-01-02 — best price $10.992025-02-03 — best price $10.992025-03-20 — best price $10.992025-04-13 — best price $10.992025-07-10 — best price $10.992025-08-09 — best price $6.392025-09-29 — best price $5.192025-10-19 — best price $6.392025-12-18 — best price $3.992026-01-18 — best price $6.392026-03-19 — best price $4.792026-05-27 — best price $4.792026-06-25 — best price $4.792026-07-09 — best price $7.99
Lowest recorded price across tracked stores, per day (census snapshots).

Completion

23
achievements tracked
98.1%
earned "Within the Lobby"
19.4%
median achievement earned by

Global achievement rates from Steam.

Details

WindowsSingle-playerSteam AchievementsFamily Sharing

1 supported languages: English

Console footprint

PlatformPlayers trackedCompletionTrophies/achievements
Steam (Steam)15111%23

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

Player tags

3DIndieRetro1990'sSurrealStylizedAdventureLore-RichNonlinearNostalgia

Census log

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

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Similarity via IGDB.

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