Indie

Escape the Backrooms

90% positive of 139,178 Steam reviews

Main story: Unknown
Everything: 13 h
Released: 2025
Steam Deck: Playable
Known on: Steam, PlayStation

Made by Fancy Games, Blackbird Interactive. Published by Secret Mode.

About the game

Escape the Backrooms is a 1-4 player co-op horror exploration game. Traverse 30+ eerie backrooms levels while avoiding entities and other dangers. Try to escape but be warned: survival isn't guaranteed.

What sets it apart

Horror
Online Co-Op
Escape Room
Survival Horror
Psychological Horror
Co-op
Stealth
First-Person
Dungeon Crawler
Exploration
Action-Adventure
Adventure

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Indie

Escape the Backrooms

90% positive of 139,178 Steam reviews

See it on Steam

Main story: Unknown
Everything: 13 h
Released: 2025
Steam Deck: Playable
Known on: Steam, PlayStation

Made by Fancy Games, Blackbird Interactive. Published by Secret Mode.

About the game

What sets it apart

Horror
Online Co-Op
Escape Room
Survival Horror
Psychological Horror
Co-op
Stealth
First-Person
Dungeon Crawler
Exploration
Action-Adventure
Adventure

What players say

Recommended
Great co-op horror game with lots of levels. It’s really fun to play with friends.
7.5 h played when written. 40 found it helpful.
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Recommended
This game is basically a mental asylum with proximity chat. I never really cared about the Backrooms before, but as a co-op game the concept works surprisingly well. Some levels are genuinely creepy when nobody in the lobby knows what’s coming. That being said, I’ve rarely laughed this hard at a game. Proximity chat turns every lobby into complete chaos: distant screaming getting louder until someone runs past you…
8.1 h played when written. 6 found it helpful.
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Not recommended
In 2023, I found this game, played it, and I saw its potential. I saw an indie developer creating a backrooms type of game (which wasn't very common back then,) and it was decent for what it was, so I stayed tuned in. But over the course of three years, it went downhill, and I'm really disappointed. I'm so exasperated with how this game turned out, in fact, that I decided to write this review in the style of "In the…
345 h played when written. 41 found it helpful.
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