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The Backrooms: Mass Extinction
Experience multiple levels of The Backrooms lore through an immersive survival horror experience brought to life in Unreal Engine 5. This game has a regular play mode and a VR play mode, and features over 10 levels to explore with multiple districts for each level.
What players say
Steam review score and the most-helpful voices, which may include critical ones. Score via Steam as of 2026-09-28.
“For those who are interested in this for the VR Experience; 'Not yet' is the wording I'll use. While the locomotion is alright in terms of VR standard, there is noticeable hiccuping with loading adjacent rooms while in the headset. At one point, I even fell through the map and…”
— a player, Steam review · 0 hrs played“Experienced on the Meta Quest 3 You can view my gameplay & early impressions here: https://youtu.be/xx2g91FJ9Po I bought this game in Early Access. I wish I hadn't. It released in a completely unplayable state for VR. It's almost like it wasn't tested at all for VR release. I…”
— a player, Steam review · 0 hrs played“I am looking for a quality Backroom Game... Pros: - The Pool Rooms are nice Cons: - This is not a "walking simulator" its a "gliding through rooms with 30mph simulator" - No foot Sound or feel = no immersion there - It wont let you play in Fullscreen Mode even when you force it…”
— a player, Steam review · 0 hrs playedLatest official news
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Beta 1.3.0 Coming June 2024 (1 month delay)
I had to delay the new update by a month. For the past 8 months I've been caught up in very intense activism work, dealing with anti-corruption efforts and trying to combat genocide in Gaza and the de
Beta 1.2.0 Coming January 2024
Entities: New Entities - The Followers of Jerry and the Liquid Metal creature have been added to the game. Encounter Entities Anywhere - It is now possible to encounter entities on any level or distri
Beta 1.1.1 (Quick patch coming soon to fix some bugs)
Quick patch coming soon to fix some bugs and add some new content. Additions: Jerry's Room Level 1.2 Slightly expanded Level 0.1 (Empty Home) Reworked Alex behavior in Level 0.1 (Empty Home)
Beta 1.1.0 - Coming End of January (big update, technical issues too)
Been having technical issues to deal with that have slowed me down. Sorry for the delays. It will be soon. UPDATE: Still dealing with technical issues but working through them. Focusing on VR now and
Small update coming soon - Beta 1.0.4
I wanted to do a little update by November 3rd at the latest. This update will include: A full version of Level -1 'Glitched Halls', including a level survival guide. A full version of Level -1.1 'Inv
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Screenshots
Official Steam store screenshots — click any shot to enlarge.
Facts & details
From the Steam store record, snapshot 2026-09-28.
| Genres | Adventure, Indie |
| Player tags | Adventure · 3D · Open World · Dungeon Crawler · Abstract · Psychedelic · Surreal · Singleplayer · Strategy · Simulation · Sandbox · Early Access (SteamSpy community voting) |
| Features | Single-player · Full controller support · Tracked Controller Support · Family Sharing |
| Languages | English |
| Controller | Full support |
| Official site | https://cheropiebusiness.wixsite.com/thebackrooms |
Minimum system requirements (PC)
Minimum: Requires a 64-bit processor and operating system OS: Windows 11 Processor: 12th Gen Intel I9-12900KF Memory: 16 GB RAM Graphics: 12GB Nvidia GeForce RTX 2060 (VR ready) Storage: 22 GB available space VR Support: OpenXR Additional Notes: 16GB of RAM, This game uses Unreal Engine 5 and VR, avoid outdated hardware.