Escape the Backrooms

Escape the Backrooms

Steam Deck Playable

Fancy Games · Horror · Oct 23, 2025

Yes, worth buying.

It's at its lowest recorded price, $7.99.

90%
Very Positive
160k player reviews
High confidence
Buy it if you like
  • Graphics: 32 reviews raised it, mostly praise
  • Co-op: 19 reviews raised it, mostly praise
Think twice if you dislike
  • Bugs: 50 reviews raised it, mostly criticism
  • Optimization: 15 reviews raised it, mostly criticism
  • Crashes: 14 reviews raised it, mostly criticism

Based on 160k player reviews · updated 4 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
17% of themes are praise50% are divided33% are caveats
Graphics
Players who bring up Graphics mostly praise it.
The graphics are beautiful (albeit pretty resource heavy), we rarely encountered connection issues that seemed server-sided (except for the boat bug ig) the proximity vc for the most part was smooth and never lagged (but again, the boat level breaks ur mic until you unmount it, that level seriously needs maintenance) and most of the gameplay elements and puzzles are interesting and add challenge to the game it was really fun ^^
32 of 300 sampled reviews raised it
Co-op
Players who bring up Co-op mostly praise it.
If you're looking for a relatively short co-op horror experience to play with friends, I'd absolutely recommend giving this a try.
19 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 love2 themes
Graphics32 reviews
Co-op19 reviews
Divided opinion% still recommend
Gameplay43 reviews
53%
Multiplayer33 reviews
55%
Difficulty24 reviews
58%
Performance21 reviews
29%
Story and characters18 reviews
61%
Interface8 reviews
38%
Players complain% still recommend
Bugs50 reviews
34%
Optimization15 reviews
7%
Crashes14 reviews
7%
Audio6 reviews
33%

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.

Should you buy it now?

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

Lowest ever recorded

Currently $7.99 (−20%). That's the lowest price we've ever recorded.

4 points recordedtoday · $7.99

The data behind the verdict

For the players who want the receipts.

Player review score
90%
Very Positive
Playing right now
Achievements
34
total to unlock
Rarest-achievement stats coming soon
Average playtime
Not tracked yet

We’ll surface hours-played once playtime ingestion ships.