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Backrooms: Exploration

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.

Released May 2, 2025 Developer HNStudios Platforms Windows HorrorAdventureFirst-PersonRealisticStory Rich
View on Steam ↗ $1.99 (US · as of 2026-05-19)

What players say

Steam review score and the most-helpful voices, which may include critical ones. Score via Steam as of 2026-09-26.

73.6%positive106 reviews
Recommended · 2 found this helpful

“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
Recommended · 0 found this helpful

“Too short but good.”

— a player, Steam review · 1 hrs played
Not recommended · 1 found this helpful

“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 played
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Achievement 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.

5achievements
13.7%median completion
6.1%rarest: What is this?
30.5% of players 15.2% of players 13.7% of players 12.6% of players 6.1% of players 30.5% 0% most earned rarest
Almost everyone has
30.5%Who's that? — Hidden achievement
15.2%Escape the backrooms. — Hidden achievement
13.7%Investigator — What's here?
Rarest badges of honor
6.1%What is this? — How did this even get here?
12.6%Blue Tape — Hidden achievement
13.7%Investigator — What's here?

Latest official news

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May 26, 2026
Achievements fix

The achievements now work properly

May 24, 2026
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

May 04, 2026
Backrooms: Exploration Remake - Teaser Trailer
Apr 04, 2026
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

Jan 26, 2026
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

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Facts & details

From the Steam store record, snapshot 2026-09-26.

GenresAdventure
Player tagsHorror · Adventure · First-Person · Realistic · Story Rich · Psychological Horror · Dark · Singleplayer · Walking Simulator · Atmospheric · Investigation · Multiple Endings (SteamSpy community voting)
FeaturesSteam Achievements · Family Sharing
LanguagesEnglish * *
Achievements5
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