Enter The Backrooms

Enter The Backrooms

Steam Deck · unrated

Justin Kroh · Adventure · Feb 12, 2021

Likely worth it. Reviews lean strongly positive.

At $9.99. It has been as low as $6.99.

87%
Very Positive
1k player reviews
Medium confidence
Buy it if you like
  • Story and characters: 12 reviews raised it, mostly praise
  • Interface: 10 reviews raised it, mostly praise
  • Multiplayer: 10 reviews raised it, mostly praise
Think twice if you dislike
  • Crashes: 16 reviews raised it, mostly criticism
  • Performance: 14 reviews raised it, mostly criticism
  • Bugs: 8 reviews raised it, mostly criticism

Based on 1k player reviews · updated 3 days ago

What players think

The recurring themes across 300 analysed reviews: what players praise, what divides them, and what to know.

Why players love itThings to know
40% of themes are praise20% are divided40% are caveats
Story and characters
Players who bring up Story and characters mostly praise it.
The player can find a multitude of things that help them in their quest to escape The Backrooms.
12 of 300 sampled reviews raised it
Interface
Players who bring up Interface mostly praise it.
Okay I do like this game however there are some things I don't like that to be fixed immediately or fixed a while agoSo my first complained there are 4 entities come on there's a little more that you should add inFirst howns things to be easy to deal with just look at them and they'll stop moving However if you look at them for too long start running at you so you should look away and run my second entity is a face wave yes there's actually by 2 versions adult and child reading the forums if you don't know what each of them do third insanities also read the forums if you don't know what they are or what they do 4 death moths let's just do female ones because they can be easy to implement so bees entities have a range acid attack know they also have a Bailey attack by I don't know I forgotten finally skin Steelers I don't know if I can actually explain this good just look at the forums please one of my biggest issues is that to spawn in an entity in sandbox mode to get them as a special item there should be a spawner thing where you can select the entity I didn't press the spawn button to spawn them in another bigger issue are about the levels there are only level 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 and yeah I get it there nice and more well-known than other levels but come on you can just make a secret level or sublevel or a negative level or maybe even level 12 however do not do a color testing thing that doesn't have color that is only if you use technology to take a picture of this level and this level is pretty simple it's white it should have new tables and let's and thieves will spawn in it another good one level fun we already got partygoers so why not add in their main level level fun I would also like to add in the hive as an Easter egg level meeting and the Hub as the setting of the main menu instead of level 0the end is also a good one and one thing also improve the graphics okay bye
10 of 300 sampled reviews raised it
Multiplayer
Players who bring up Multiplayer mostly praise it.
I saw the dev talking about the price raise for this game, and one of the things I read there was the claim that other Backrooms games on Steam are sold for a higher price and offer less content; And unless he was talking about some more underground games out there, the other games I watched or played were much better in many aspects, ranging from being a multiplayer fun game to play with your friends, to games that really nailed the fear aspect you would expect.
10 of 300 sampled reviews raised it
Optimization
Players who bring up Optimization mostly praise it.
Updates after updates and the game just gets more "content" and no optimization or love shown to what already was there before.
7 of 300 sampled reviews raised it

Theme by theme

Every theme is scored by what reviewers actually said about it, not just whether they recommended the game.

LovedMixedComplained about
Players love4 themes
Story and characters12 reviews
Interface10 reviews
Multiplayer10 reviews
Optimization7 reviews
Divided opinion% still recommend
Graphics51 reviews
86%
Gameplay26 reviews
73%
Players complain% still recommend
Crashes16 reviews
63%
Performance14 reviews
57%
Bugs8 reviews
75%
Difficulty6 reviews
83%

Ranked by how many sampled reviews mention each topic. A topic sits in a column by what reviewers said about that topic; the percentage beside it is how many of them recommended the game anyway. One more theme was raised by fewer than 6 sampled reviews and is not shown.

Should you buy it now?

Crit’s read on the price, from Steam price history.

Prices have been lower

Currently $9.99. The lowest we've tracked is $6.99.

4 points recordedtoday · $9.99

The data behind the verdict

For the players who want the receipts.

Player review score
87%
Very Positive
Playing right now
Achievements
0
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Average playtime
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