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Welcome To The Backrooms

Welcome To The Backrooms

Welcome to the Backrooms is a indie horror game developed by Brickmade Productions. This game will bring you the ultimate Backrooms survival experience, crafting, lore, entities, and a very in-depth health system which will keep you checking your watch non-stop.

Released Oct 27, 2022 Developer Brickmade Productions Publisher Brickmade Productions Platforms Windows · Mac Lore-RichRealisticHorrorAction RoguelikeExploration
View on Steam ↗ Free (US · as of 2026-05-15)

What players say

Steam review score and the most-helpful voices, which may include critical ones. Score via Steam as of 2026-09-27.

47.7%positive151 reviews
Recommended · 1 found this helpful

“Well, pretty good game, but it's kinda boring”

— a player, Steam review · 2 hrs played
Recommended · 0 found this helpful

“Welcome To The Backrooms is a strange survival horror game that I found more interesting once I stopped thinking of it as a traditional horror adventure and started treating it as a survival sandbox. I wake up inside the Backrooms and have to explore an enormous maze while…”

— a player, Steam review · 3 hrs played
Not recommended · 1 found this helpful

“i really dont know how to find a flashlight and when it gets dark the only thing i could see was my watch. the first time it went dark i thought my game glitched.”

— 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 2026-09-27.

25achievements
5.0%median completion
4.0%rarest: Shock Therapy
99.6% of players 84.2% of players 44.9% of players 43.8% of players 21.2% of players 19.3% of players 14.6% of players 12.2% of players 7.4% of players 7.0% of players 5.3% of players 5.1% of players 5.0% of players 4.9% of players 4.8% of players 4.4% of players 4.2% of players 4.2% of players 4.1% of players 4.0% of players 4.0% of players 4.0% of players 4.0% of players 4.0% of players 4.0% of players 99.6% 0% most earned rarest
Almost everyone has
99.6%Wanderer — Venture 20000 meters into the Backrooms.
84.2%First Steps — Take your first step into the Backrooms.
44.9%Brave — Hidden achievement
Rarest badges of honor
4.0%Shock Therapy — Hidden achievement
4.0%Supply Box — Open a Supply Crate with a Box Cutter.
4.0%Claustrophile — Stay in Level 2 for thirty minutes.

Latest official news

Developer announcements via the Steam news API — links go to the original posts. More across all games on the news hub.

Jul 25, 2024
Welcome To The Backrooms Is Officially Dead.... We're Sorry..

As I am sure you are aware. Welcome to the backrooms is officially dead. We don't have any plans for development any further at this time. We sincerely apologize for not achieving what we had promised

Jan 22, 2023
Unstable Test Build v1.0.0 (And how to access them)

The password for the unstable test builds will be in our discord server! https://discord.gg/8F4nKtnWqq you can enter the password here on steam, just right click the game in your library and select pr

Nov 08, 2022
Early Access v1.0.29.7

Changelog: Bug fixes related to random spawning Bug fixes related to crafting Added 10+ achievements

Nov 07, 2022
Early Access v1.0.29.5

Changelog: Reduced knife damage from 15 to 10 Made level 0 exit tile 10x more rare (anomalies are faster)

Nov 05, 2022
Early Access v1.0.29

Changelog: Added a new way to enter level 1 Decreased environmental buzz in level 0 (I know it was annoying) Added more wall art to level 0 to guide new players Removed sanity indicator (now just visu

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Screenshots

Official Steam store screenshots — click any shot to enlarge.

Facts & details

From the Steam store record, snapshot 2026-09-27.

GenresAction, Adventure, Indie, RPG, Strategy, Free To Play
Player tagsLore-Rich · Realistic · Horror · Action Roguelike · Exploration · Open World · PvE · Hack and Slash · Action · Procedural Generation · Strategy · First-Person (SteamSpy community voting)
FeaturesSingle-player · Steam Achievements · Steam Workshop · Stats · Family Sharing
LanguagesEnglish * *
Achievements25
Official sitehttps://sites.google.com/view/brickmade-productions/home?authuser=1&read_current=1
Minimum system requirements (PC)

Minimum: Requires a 64-bit processor and operating system OS *: Windows 7 or later Processor: Intel® Core™ i5-4460 or better Memory: 8 GB RAM Graphics: Nvidia GeForce 1660 TI Storage: 2 GB available space