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Escape the Backrooms
Developer Fancy Games, Blackbird Interactive
Escape the Backrooms is a cooperative horror video game developed by Fancy Games and Blackbird Interactive and published by Secret Mode. It was officially released on 23 October 2025, for Windows, after an early access version released on 11 August 2022. The game was released for PlayStation 5 and Xbox Series on 28 May 2026, and on 7 July 2026 for Nintendo Switch 2. From Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0)
658 reactions from 4 sources (Steam reviews, Bluesky, Mastodon, Lemmy) · newest Nov 5, 2026 · last updated Nov 5, 2026 · How this works
Audience score
76
LovedLoved
433 positive · 139 negative
95% range 72–79%
| Source | + | − | = |
|---|---|---|---|
| Steam reviews | 433 | 139 | 0 |
| Bluesky * | 19 | 2 | 45 |
| Mastodon * | 1 | 0 | 10 |
| Lemmy * | 0 | 0 | 9 |
* shown, not counted in the score (label accuracy below our 85% bar or not yet audited).
Steam's own rating
Very Positive
50,772 of 57,696 reviews positive (all languages, per Valve)
What players are saying
74% recommend · 228 yes, 81 no
Counted from the reviewers’ own thumbs up/down on the 309 English Steam reviews we collected, not by the AI. Valve’s all-language rating: Very Positive (150,601 of 167,895 positive).
Some reviewers criticize the removal of content and VR support. [1][2][3] Several players note limited replayability due to non-procedural maps. [4][5][6]
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Representative posts
- [2]
NOT RECOMMENDED All the Hype for a Content Downgrade If you were a fan of this game during its Early Access period, prepare to be disappointed. The full 1.0 release of Escape the Backrooms is the definition of a low-effort content drop, and it feels like the developers’ main focus was packaging up the existing concept rather than actually developing it further. The main issue is that the launch feels incredibly …
- [11]
Honestly I don't know why people are complaining. I have beaten this game before solo and in multiplayer while it was still developed only by Fancy and it is still hands down the best backrooms game. Every level, every monster is very unique and you do not get bored while playing at all. I have only scratched the surface of the game in 1.0 and I am already having a ton of fun discovering all the new things in old …
- [14]
After playing Escape the Backrooms, I can confidently say that I 100% recommend this game. Even after completing it, I found myself wishing there was more to play because I genuinely enjoyed every moment of the experience. This game delivered exactly what I was hoping for and created so many great memories with my friends. There were plenty of genuinely scary moments that made me jump out of my seat or scream down …
- [1]
Extremely disappointed that VR was just removed without any warning or anything. Will still recommend bc it is a fun game.
- [4]
The game is really fun itself, many levels and features to explore. Only problem i might have, and Im being real picky here, is the replayability. Maps aren't procedural, repetetive once you've played it once. Overall the game is entertaining and a good way to spend time with friends
Summarised from 34 of the 387 public posts collected about this game; every point cites the posts behind it ([n] opens the post) and the split is counted from the posts’ own ratings. Updated Oct 11, 2026. How summaries are made
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Escape the Backrooms sits at 76% positive across 572 opinionated reactions from 4 sources. Fresh or rotten — where do you land?
Critics, per Wikipedia
The game received a largely positive reception from players, with it being praised for its amount of content, sound design and enjoyable multiplayer experience. It was described as one of the six best horror games that may have been missed by players in 2022 by Luiz H. C. of Bloody Disgusting. After the full Windows release, the game surpassed 30,000 concurrent players in under two days. Mark Delaney of GameSpot rated the game a 6/10. He described the gameplay loop as "sparse," though enjoyed the appearance and experience of finding new levels.
From the “Reception” section of Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0. Critic context only — not part of the audience score.
Reactions
60 of 658 · most liked firstThe game was great until they took away freedom of speech in the last update. Why would you blur swear words in an adult rated game!!! At the very least the team could have added a profanity filter in the menu that can be turned on and off!!!
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →It's like explaining a game to someone who has never played a game and asking them to describe it.
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →-buy game -forget for 4 years -find out a friend has the game -play -fun -sleep schedule distrupted
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →NOT RECOMMENDED All the Hype for a Content Downgrade If you were a fan of this game during its Early Access period, prepare to be disappointed. The full 1.0 release of Escape the Backrooms is the definition of a low-effort content drop, and it feels like the developers’ main focus was packaging up the existing concept rather than actually developing it further. The main issue is that the launch feels incredibly thin. They removed more content than they added in the transition out of Early…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Fancy has sold out. The Escape the backrooms i bought was a passion project with its flaws but atleast it had a soul. Now that Fancy has brought it on console the game has lost its spark. The new levels just feel very lifeless and he just ripped the entity from Level The end. Its just very low effort and very buggy now. The Old level are still very good tho,if i just had to rate Escape The backrooms before the buy out i would give the Game a 9/10. as of today i would give it a 4/10. wouldnt…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Honestly I don't know why people are complaining. I have beaten this game before solo and in multiplayer while it was still developed only by Fancy and it is still hands down the best backrooms game. Every level, every monster is very unique and you do not get bored while playing at all. I have only scratched the surface of the game in 1.0 and I am already having a ton of fun discovering all the new things in old levels. Keep in mind, before Secret Mode publisher joined, Escape the Backrooms…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →After 2126 hours in Escape the Backrooms I can confidently say… I still don’t know how to escape the backrooms. At this point I’m not playing the game — I live here. Rent is paid in sanity, my neighbours are screaming entities, and the fluorescent lights have become my personality. You’d think after two thousand hours I’d be a master. Nope. Still getting folded by a smiling creature that looks like it works customer service at 3am. Performance? Great. Mental stability? Gone.…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →The game is really fun itself, many levels and features to explore. Only problem i might have, and Im being real picky here, is the replayability. Maps aren't procedural, repetetive once you've played it once. Overall the game is entertaining and a good way to spend time with friends
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →It is really scary but yet really interesting it is important to NOT play alone so the person in front of you gets eaten first
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →I've put a lot of hours into this game and used to love it, so this isn't easy to write. The dev had a clear list of things the community was waiting on: promised bug fixes, VR support, new levels and mechanics. None of that happened. Instead the focus went entirely into making the game cross-platform. After that shift the game got noticeably unstable and buggy, and cross-platform certification basically killed PC modding, which was a huge part of why people played. Lobbies are full of console…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Loaded the game, Got chased around an office building, Shat myself. 10/10 Would play again
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →You should buy this game if you are up for a horror game with Backrooms stuff in it. The environment does a very good job at making you think you are in the Backrooms and figuring stuff out with friends can be fun. Do note that I said "horror game with Backrooms stuff in it" and not "Backrooms game with horror stuff in it". Important distinction. If you came here for a Backrooms game, you will be heavily disappointed. The creator missed what made the Backrooms charming in the first place and…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →After playing Escape the Backrooms, I can confidently say that I 100% recommend this game. Even after completing it, I found myself wishing there was more to play because I genuinely enjoyed every moment of the experience. This game delivered exactly what I was hoping for and created so many great memories with my friends. There were plenty of genuinely scary moments that made me jump out of my seat or scream down the microphone, but what I valued most was how it brought happiness, teamwork,…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Can´t really recomend this game, especially after playing escape together. While its a fun game with friends at first, it´s just way too repetitive, from the puzzles, to the entities, to the level designs themselves sometimes. This game is the definition of quantity over quality, so the more I play the more disapointed I get. A big problem with this game are the unbalanced levels. While I think levels SHOULD be hard, I think there´s just no excuse to call the "junkyness" and "buggyness" of the…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →This game is not very well made, there is no sprint bar displayed, The maps are boring and its more of a puzzle game than what most would expect out of backrooms. Especially the level when you first encounter the dog npc is horrible, multiple times he just walked past me. THE WORST PART OVERALL IS TO BE ABLE TO TALK THE GAME AUTO SETS YOUR INPUT LEVEL ON 0 AND IS ALL THE WAY AT THE BOTTOM OF THE SETTINGS. The cloning npc and the idea of "showing your keycard" doesn't even work because he…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →This game is so funny with friends, its really long lots of gameplay for your little munchkins to throw fireworks at you. overall 10/10
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Not only did I find this game enjoyable solo, but even more so with friends. For the middle-aged gamers out there who reminisce about those late nights that stretch well into the early hours of the morning, spent with friends, having a good chuckle while running for your life, this title absolutely delivers. Replayability is somewhat limited once you've played through the game a handful of times. While I may not return to it anytime soon, the memories made and the laughs shared were absolutely…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →I completed every ending (no spoilers) and spent around 13 hours in Escape the Backrooms. While the atmosphere and level design are excellent, a surprising number of technical issues kept it from being an easy recommendation. This will also be split into three sections: my final thoughts, the things I enjoyed about this game and the things I didn't. Most of what follows is my personal opinion, though some of it comes from objective observations during my playthrough. This is a Mixed review even…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Trash. This game was alright when it came out, one of the first backrooms games and it was enjoyable (in the context of it being early access and the expectation of future content). Now there are better backrooms games meanwhile this one has takes ages to update only to release bland buggy short levels, the most recent update released a level that took about 10 minutes to finish, spent more time looking through the patch thinking "that can't be it." then playing it. At this current pace, by…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Escape the Backrooms! Just a compilation video of me being a scaredy cat in this game 😅🙀🔊
positive · AI labelView post →Unnerving alone, and chaotic with friends.
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →10/10 Mauled to death by a moth I didn't even see, perfect game, I have a potato pc and I was still able to play max graphics, that's a plus
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →me and my friend after playing the game it made friendship into war its cool and it made me gay but still its cool and tramatizd
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Finished the game with friends, and oh, I’ve got some complaints. I want to start with a few nice things. For starters, the game uses the Backrooms concept well — the whole adaptation is alright and the levels are generally on point. The graphics are very nice, and the environments are genuinely enjoyable to look at — some levels, like the Poolrooms, were incredibly immersive. The overall control and perceiving the game were executed comfortably, and one last good thing worth mentioning is…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →This is one of the greatest games ive ever laid my fingers on. This game is truly a masterpiece and words cannot describe the feeling of finishing this. I feel like i've been born again found my highschool sweetheart, gotten married, bought a big house out in the country, had 3 kids with two dogs and grown old with my wife and then died peacefully. Honestly, i could make out with the first person i see, because thats how i felt when i did the final ending. beautiful game. wow. I will be…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Extremely disappointed that VR was just removed without any warning or anything. Will still recommend bc it is a fun game.
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →I have mixed feelings First off, i want to say that i played this solo. It feels like it was intended to be played with others so my opinion might be different in that aspect. Now that i have finally beaten the game i want to leave a review. I have to say, they nailed the backrooms vibes perfectly (in some levels at least). Levels such as lvl 3999, lvl 4, lvl 10, just to name a few really had that liminal vibe to them. The puzzles also weren't too bad. But there is one big thing that really…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Great game with a bunch of levels its really really good to play with friends, its very well made and great creativity for each level. 100% reccomend
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Great co-op horror game with lots of levels. It’s really fun to play with friends.
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Very fun game with friends it is very good but the animations are a little chopped the jumpscares are goofy and it needs more levels but overall very fun game and recommend
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →10/10 got eaten by a squiggle monster, a 7 foot tall grey thing with 7 rows of teeth, but M.E.G pays a lot so the 7 foot tall thing would be great at basketball you should totally give the yellow guys a hug almond water is underrated
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Very fun and entertaining game to play with friends. If you like the story behind the Backrooms and liminal spaces, you might give this one a try, it really gives you that feeling (iykyk). One of the best Backrooms games I've played. Please, let me know if you've played similar or better ones. 🙏🏼 Note: I've only played the beta version and it was good enough for me. I might give the full release a try and update my review.
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Level Fun captures the essence of the Backrooms with its noclipping-through-walls entities and complete lack of any sense. Very faithful to the lore.
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →ESCAPE THE BACKROOMS. A month after hitting the PlayStation 5 and the Xbox Series, the video game has appeared on the Nintendo Switch 2. Wander solo or with up to three friends in online co-op, hunting for exits to help you descend further into the Backrooms.
neutral · AI labelView post →This game is very unpolished. It kind of seems like they're trying to lull you into playing past the refund time :/
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Great game with friends, but lowk wanted to kms everytime there was anything regarding sneaking, the enemies always detect your ass. Still fun fr, but ♥♥♥♥ this game.
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →it was actually really fun i enjoyed it. ♥♥♥♥ the moths., ♥♥♥♥ who made moths. and ♥♥♥♥ the guy who placed a moth at the start of the cave level. besides that though it was pretty fun and scary. i absolutely love the party room song its amazing
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →I'm thoroughly bewildered by the 90% overall positive ratings. This game is horrendous. It features phenomenal elements such as: - Copy-and-pasted AI that hardly works and kills through walls. - AI that constantly gets stuck in objects or outside of their designated locations. - Both soft-locking and game ending bugs. Level Fun+ is *terrible* for this. - Absurd, lazy puzzles that can be solved by merely guessing colours because, lo and behold, this game is chockfull of thoughtless colour…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →I will not lie. This game is 110% a friend slop game. However, there is a reason friend slop is popular. Friends turn a subpar single-player experience into a fun, memory-making adventure. I do not know how I managed to get my friends to buy this game, but I am glad we did. While some of the game’s frustrating design and mechanics did poke through from time to time and soiled the fun, it was overshadowed by company. If you have one to three other friends you can play this game with, I highly…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →its so liminal, a liminal place with liminal stuff, with so many liminal liminals, kind of liminal on a Tuesday, really liminal on a Wednesday. Not for those who ain't liminal enough. Hope this liminal review helps you grasp the liminal experience this liminal game is presented as to you. buggy but fun with friends - can't imagine playing by myself - not nearly liminal enough solo
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →GAVE ME A HEART ATTACK, if you like the backrooms and/or like horror stuff then this is the game for you.
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Game was fun before but i tried it after a few months to see the new maps. VERY choppy.. Game went downhill after crossplay.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →This game has changed the way I look at life. Before, I was a horrible person. I was a murderer and a thief. Now, after playing this game, I help people with their struggles and give back to the poor. Getting this game will change the way you view life.
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Great backrooms game for people who want to play with friends. would not reccomend playing alone
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Suddenly, i heard some horrific scream. Thought it was an entity and started screaming horrifically aswell. Turns out it was my teammate screaming his soul out while an actual entity screaming horrifically was chasing him. Next thing I knew, we’re both screaming our souls out while running for our lives. Would play again.
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →overall, this game is good i expected far less from a game made in unity but i was positively surprised. i got a bunch of laughs, got scared from time to time (though the game is almost not scary at all) and i had to search solutions for puzzles a handful of times btw this is NOT open world, there are scripted levels. Sadly, many of those levels are a bit repetetive/mazes/seemingly lazily designed, but the experience is alright in my opinion. Would recommend playing with at least one other…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Honestly one of best backrooms I've came across so far especially for multiplayer with friends/partner , might've been overwhelming on the start till the smiley face garage but after that it starts to pick up pace steadily and surely, as thrilling as it gets and the curiosity around each corner & horror awaits worth the adventure experience. might've encountered some bs moments and frustrating glitch or the mobs acting up when solving a puzzles/escaping/surviving but it was manageable mostly to…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →The definitive Backrooms game, each level is unique and has its own gimmicks so the game stays fresh all the way through, the wheat field is a bad level though, never add any bad levels again
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →I'd love to love the full release... but I just can't Me and my friends have been playing the game since day one. We have been fascinated by the atmosphere, as it was the only game at the time that was unique out of literally hundreds of other options. Every time there was an update to the game, we would gather in Discord as fast as we possibly can to play the game and discuss it, which would take us multiple days sometimes. It felt like the only game with a soul put into it, so we enjoyed…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Best backrooms game I've played. Keep coming back and replaying with each update and it is fun every time especially with the addition of the new maps that keep getting added. The puzzles are pretty easy, but not too easy. Definitely a great game to play with friends.
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →It was hard getting a pic myself but i kinda got it :3 my friend and I got matching tattoos! It's an Escape the Backrooms tattoo! bc it's our favorite game to play together :3c (or suffer in as our recent Nightmare mode runs) #ETB #EscapeTheBackrooms
positive · AI labelView post →Boring asf, I didn't have high expectation cause its obviously a slop game like pretty much all backrooms games are, you have SUCH an interesting universe to make a game out of and they all have the same mindless boring puzzels, and one monster per floor formula. Its unclear wether a floors going to be just running around each level with a million doors or rooms until you find the one your meant to just walk into to get to the next level, or its going to be a pointless boring puzzle like…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →It's basically a low budget Roblox game but on steam and with a price tag. It's not really made as a singleplayer experience, as it's really unpolished, buggy and overall makes an impression like it was made in a week by a bored teenager with absolutely no idea what he's doing or what the backrooms are, but that's what makes it fun with friends because all the ♥♥♥♥♥♥ assets, weird monsters with 3 lines of code that just chase you on sight and nonsensical level ideas really come together as a…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →When I first played this game, I enjoyed it very much. The gameplay was scary and funny at the same time and everything worked without problems. After 2 years of not touching the game, I played it once more. I was shocked. The HUD looks like a browser game, the gameplay feels so vibe coded, so many bugs and glitches, everything looks like ass. Wouldn't recommend it to anyone. I really thought this game couldn't do anything to fall this far, but here we are.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →My favorite coop game of all time, most stupid and fun game to play with friends. This game fulfilled all my fantasies of the backrooms, well designed levels, mechanics and immersive visuals. P.S. Skinstealer making me edgy
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →The game was fun to play if you have friends, but the Level 421 update sucks and i can't enter Level Fun+, it crashed everytime you enter it, that's sucks because it's one of my favorite level, hope fancy will fix this mess, please
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →liminal, creepy, co-op, good varied level design and enemy design, good game length, and weirdly high resolution textures makes this a gem (from an almost unknown dev team too)
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →DON'T BUY NOW, WAIT!!!!!! I have been playing this game since 2023, in my first 60 hours of playing the game in early access i absolutely loved it, and when the full release came i was really excited for it. Just for me to play 6 hours to not really notice anything different in the game. The things i did notice however was major performance issues, where in some levels where i used to be on stable 200+ fps i am now at 60 and dropping. There is also way more bugs in the game, which i don't…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →If you've never played the game before, it IS a lot of fun. Unfortunately for those of us who already beat the game and some who were in the middle of playing on a harder difficulty, the new update is TRASH. I beat the new levels in 20 minutes, and my progress got messed up I had to play from an older saved file that didn't have everything unlocked. Then because I played with my friends I joined his lobby and his was completed (even though i hosted all the games) but midway when we took a break…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Weekend PC Game Deals: Unending coupons, returning bundles, and more - Neowin. Hogwarts Legacy – $35.99 on Epic Store PAYDAY 3 – $29.99 on Epic Store Forza Horizon 5 – $29.99 on Steam Remnant 2 – $29.99 on Epic Store God of War – $24.99 on Epic Store Immortals of Aveum – $23.99 on Epic Store NieR Replicant ver.1.22474487139... – $23.99 on Steam Dead Space – $23.99 on Epic Store A Plague Tale: Requiem – $22.49 on Epic Store Rust – $19.99 on Steam Marvel's Midnight Suns –…
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