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Backrooms: Code Yellow
An online 1-6 player co-op game about investigating and collecting data in the infinitely massive Backrooms with your fellow employees. Explore. Do your job. Return alive.
What players say
Steam review score and the most-helpful voices, which may include critical ones. Score via Steam as of 2026-09-26.
“I'm gonna write a detailed-ish review for this game so please read this dev. First off, this game is great, and I have full faith that it can be even better, i'm gonna give a short rundown of how the game works, if you don't want spoilers, don't read this first paragraph. You…”
— a player, Steam review · 2 hrs played“This game has been hyped up quite a bit on TikTok and Instagram, so I convinced my friend group of four, who all love playing Backrooms-style games together, to give it a try. At €8.20, I thought the price would be completely justified if it turned out to be a solid Backrooms…”
— a player, Steam review · 1 hrs played“The trailer for Backrooms: Code Yellow looked incredibly promising, and my friends and I were very excited to play this 1-6 player co-op experience. Unfortunately, the launch was immediately frustrating due to a 3-day delay. When we finally got into the game, the disappointment…”
— a player, Steam review · 0 hrs playedLatest official news
Developer announcements via the Steam news API — links go to the original posts. More across all games on the news hub.
Patch #9 Removed Joining in-Session
-Removed joining games already in session as this causes problems with multiplayer replication If you want to invite a new player you'll need to save the game, exit to menu, create lobby, load from sa
Patch #8 Tape Interaction bug
-Fixed "Remove Tape" getting stuck on screen stopping player from interacting with other objects Note: Tape not showing up for other players occasionally is actively being looked at
Patch #7 Tripod Camera
-Fixed tripod camera not getting destroyed on pick-up -Better optimized tripod camera model
Launch Day Patch #6
Fixed Lost employee task initialization Fixed Entities camping the spawn through the door
PATCH PUNCH 'EM UP
You can now punch entities to soft stun and eventually hard stun them for a short time
Screenshots
Official Steam store screenshots — click any shot to enlarge.
Facts & details
From the Steam store record, snapshot 2026-09-26.
| Genres | Action, Adventure, Indie, Early Access |
| Player tags | Action · Adventure · Multiplayer · Psychological Horror · Online Co-Op · Action RPG · Horror · Exploration · 3D · First-Person · Early Access · Indie (Steam store community voting) |
| Features | Single-player · Multi-player · Co-op · Online Co-op · Family Sharing |
| Languages | English * * |
Minimum system requirements (PC)
Minimum: OS *: Windows 7 or higher (64-bit) Processor: 2.4 Ghz Dual Core CPU Memory: 8 GB RAM Graphics: 2 GB Dedicated Memory DirectX: Version 11 Storage: 8 GB available space