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The Backrooms: Survival
Survival horror with roguelike elements. Explore randomized levels with different items and entities while trying to maintain your thirst, hunger, and sanity, ensuring a new experience every time. Play alone or with up to TEN friends online! Cross-platform multiplayer with Nintendo Switch.
What players say
Steam review score and the most-helpful voices, which may include critical ones. Data as of 2026-05-20.
“i got this for free about 2.5 years ago and havent played it much but a pretty fun game. it gives a spooky feeling that something is always curling up behind you. definitely worth a shot.”
— a player, Steam review · 1 hrs played“This game was very fun to play and especially playing multiplayer so much to do in the game”
— a player, Steam review · 3 hrs played“Fun game but the levels get repetitive”
— a player, Steam review · 3 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 2026-07-25.
Price tracking
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Latest official news
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Big Patch Update + Nintendo Switch Release
Hello, A new update fixing many reported bugs, and announcing our Nintendo Switch release for The Backrooms: Survival that supports cross-platform multiplayer with Steam! You can now play on Steam wit
Patch Update
Changes: -Updated obituary and statistics GUI layouts and look -Fixed a bug where if you interact with vendors while moving you will keep moving -Fixed a bug with settings scrollbars not scrolling cor
Update
Changes: -Chance of "giant entities". A small chance that an entity can be much more bigger, aggressive, and stronger, but drops more items. You will know when you see them by the size. -Weakened enti
Patch Update
Update: -Ability to select specific connected microphones for voice chat instead of being auto selected -Fixed gamepad bug where if an action (i.e jump) and menu confirm are binded the same button (i.
Update
-Vendor stock is now synced between all players -When you buy new items from vendors the new items appear on "your items" in the sell menu without having to reopen -Fixed vending machine not spawning
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Screenshots
Official Steam store screenshots — click any shot to enlarge.
Facts & details
From the Steam store record, snapshot 2026-05-20.
| Genres | Action, Adventure, Indie, Massively Multiplayer, Simulation |
| Player tags | Horror · Multiplayer · Survival Horror · Online Co-Op · Psychological Horror · Co-op · Rogue-like · Dark · Dungeon Crawler · Rogue-lite · Adventure · Mystery Dungeon (SteamSpy community voting) |
| Features | Single-player · Multi-player · PvP · Online PvP · Co-op · Online Co-op · Cross-Platform Multiplayer · Steam Achievements |
| Languages | English * * |
| Controller | Full support |
| Achievements | 72 |
| Estimated owners | 20,000 – 50,000 (SteamSpy) |
| Official site | https://www.recode.games |
Minimum system requirements (PC)
Minimum: OS *: Windows 7, 8, or 10 Processor: 2GHZ Memory: 4 GB RAM Graphics: 2GB Nvidia/AMD GPU Storage: 1 GB available space Sound Card: Any Additional Notes: Best played in the dark with headphones