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Backrooms: Exploration
Backrooms: Exploration is a single-player horror game, which takes place in 2020. Two friends have lost their jobs due to COVID-19, but they still have to bring food to the table. After a failed heist, one of them ends up in the Backrooms. Now your only mission is to survive.
What players say
Steam review score and the most-helpful voices, which may include critical ones. Score via Steam as of 2026-09-26.
“decent short backrooms walking simulator the character walks like 2x more steps than a human does(too many foot steps noises given how slow you are moving which makes atmopshere worse), the walking speed is too slow and stamina system makes no sense as theres no gameplay or…”
— a player, Steam review · 2 hrs played“Too short but good.”
— a player, Steam review · 1 hrs played“Two things. One. The lobby has these annoyingly convenient arrows that lead nowhere. They removed the note at the start. This, the insane change in graphics I needed to do, and the fact that half of the interesting stuff in the game was removed in the "remake" update. Seriously,…”
— a player, Steam review · 1 hrs playedAchievement stats
Global completion rates across all Steam players — a data view of how far people actually get. Source: Steam official stats · as of 2026-09-26.
Latest official news
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Remake Update
Backrooms: Exploration Remake update is finally here, just in time before the movie! The game is a bit different from the last version, and I'll list all the changes below: New main menu Better settin
Remake Announcement
Hey, I'm glad to announce that Backrooms: Exploration is getting a remake. I'm not very satisfied with the current state of the game and it feels very outdated to me. Right now I'm focusing on Eclipse
2026
Hey, First of all, thank you all for playing my games; it means a lot to me. As I've said before Backrooms: Reminiscence was my last Backrooms title, and that promise holds. I've been working on somet
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Screenshots
Official Steam store screenshots — click any shot to enlarge.
Facts & details
From the Steam store record, snapshot 2026-09-26.
| Genres | Adventure |
| Player tags | Horror · Adventure · First-Person · Realistic · Story Rich · Psychological Horror · Dark · Singleplayer · Walking Simulator · Atmospheric · Investigation · Multiple Endings (SteamSpy community voting) |
| Features | Steam Achievements · Family Sharing |
| Languages | English * * |
| Achievements | 5 |
Minimum system requirements (PC)
Minimum: Requires a 64-bit processor and operating system OS: Windows 10 / 11 - 64 bit Processor: Intel Core i5-9400f Memory: 8 GB RAM Graphics: NVIDIA® GeForce® GTX 1660ti