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The Backrooms
The Backrooms is a first person survival horror game set in one of the most terrifying environments of the human psyche. Explore an ever evolving nightmare while running from terrifying creatures to stay alive.
What players say
Steam review score and the most-helpful voices, which may include critical ones. Score via Steam as of 2026-09-28.
“Very cool opening chapters to a story-driven, single-player Backrooms game. Currently there’s roughly 30 minutes to an hour of content and exploration (at least from what I experienced—there may be more), but what’s here is executed marvelously. If Ionized Game can turn this…”
— a player, Steam review · 1 hrs playedPlayer activity
Monthly average concurrent players. History through 2023-10 via SteamCharts; self-collected from the Steam API since Aug 2026.
Achievement stats
Global completion rates across all Steam players — a data view of how far people actually get. Source: Steam official stats · as of 2026-09-28.
Latest official news
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V2.0 Beta access
I'd like to update you on the current state of the game. Over the last 2 years I have been working on a total overhaul of the game. This is a complete rebuild from the ground up that was necessary to
Update 7.5
This update makes improvements to the entity AI as well as some quality-of-life improvements like passages to the other parts of the map being exposed in the start area. We've also refined the door me
Central Update 7: The Hallway and Quality fixes
Dear Employees, This is a small patch addressing bugs and quality of life improvements. I figured I'd also unlock the current state of The Hallways for testing. In this patch: Intro to The Hallways. T
Central Update 6: Expanded Areas and Bug fixes
Major Update Dear Employees, We Apologize for the delay in communications. Please be aware: The area you're tasked with may have drastically increased in size. New rooms have been reported to us by nu
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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 | Action, Adventure, Indie, Early Access |
| Player tags | Early Access · Action · Adventure · Action Roguelike · Puzzle · Visual Novel · Dungeon Crawler · Rogue-lite · First-Person · Psychedelic · Realistic · Artificial Intelligence (SteamSpy community voting) |
| Features | Single-player · Steam Achievements · Full controller support · Steam Cloud · Family Sharing |
| Languages | English * * |
| Controller | Full support |
| Achievements | 7 |
| Official site | https://ionizedgames.com/ |
Minimum system requirements (PC)
Minimum: Requires a 64-bit processor and operating system OS: Windows 10 (64-bit) Processor: 3.5 GHz Quad-Core Memory: 4 GB RAM Graphics: Nvidia GTX 1660 DirectX: Version 12 Storage: 8 GB available space Sound Card: NA