Escape the Backrooms
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As of Oct 6, 2026, Escape the Backrooms is rated 90% positive on Steam (167,538 reviews).
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Is Escape the Backrooms worth it in 2026?
With a 90% positive rating across more than 167,000 Steam reviews, Escape the Backrooms clearly resonates as a casual co-op hangout, drawing players in with its creepy atmosphere and a wide variety of levels. However, multiple sampled reviewers report that the initial novelty quickly wears thin, pointing to repetitive objectives, frustrating level design, and puzzles that are tedious to execute. Critical players also caution that the experience is rarely scary, weighed down by uninspired monsters, technical bugs, and jarring audio issues. It serves as an entertaining social distraction for groups of friends, but anyone seeking a polished, deeply terrifying horror campaign will likely find the later sections an aggravating slog.
Groups of friends looking for a casual, atmospheric co-op game with numerous levels to explore together.
Expect repetitive gameplay, tedious puzzles, uninspired monsters, technical bugs, and loud audio issues that can make later levels drag.
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Pros
- playing with friends10
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- Great co-op horror game with lots of levels. It’s really fun to play with friends.
- I enjoyed probably 80% of Escape the Backrooms, but by the end I was definitely forcing myself through the remaining 20%. I do appreciate that this feels like a game made by peopl...
- After recently playing through this game a second time (first time in 2023) I must say, Escape the Backrooms is a creepy but highly enjoyable experience. The graphics are great and...
- numerous levels6
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- Great co-op horror game with lots of levels. It’s really fun to play with friends.
- I enjoyed probably 80% of Escape the Backrooms, but by the end I was definitely forcing myself through the remaining 20%. I do appreciate that this feels like a game made by peopl...
- After recently playing through this game a second time (first time in 2023) I must say, Escape the Backrooms is a creepy but highly enjoyable experience. The graphics are great and...
- creepy atmosphere3
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- After recently playing through this game a second time (first time in 2023) I must say, Escape the Backrooms is a creepy but highly enjoyable experience. The graphics are great and...
- 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 a...
- its really spoopy and scawwy and cool and uhhh, backshots CAN REALLY RECOMMEND THIS GAME PLEAS BUY IT
Cons
- repetitive gameplay5
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- It's enjoyable with friends for about 4 hours, but becomes a slog after that. Repetitive levels, reused assets, bugs, puzzles that are easy to solve but aggravating to execute, b...
- This game does not provide a long term eerie and hardly any horror at all. It is more of a puzzle game masked with backroom aspects with levels that are slightly repetitive. I am s...
- The game is SUPER linear. There are several bugs that make the game either unplayable or extremely poor looking. The levels are super repetitive and super sloppy made. The multipla...
- technical bugs5
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- I enjoyed probably 80% of Escape the Backrooms, but by the end I was definitely forcing myself through the remaining 20%. I do appreciate that this feels like a game made by peopl...
- It's enjoyable with friends for about 4 hours, but becomes a slog after that. Repetitive levels, reused assets, bugs, puzzles that are easy to solve but aggravating to execute, b...
- The game is SUPER linear. There are several bugs that make the game either unplayable or extremely poor looking. The levels are super repetitive and super sloppy made. The multipla...
- not scary5
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- This game does not provide a long term eerie and hardly any horror at all. It is more of a puzzle game masked with backroom aspects with levels that are slightly repetitive. I am s...
- One of the least fun games i have ever sat through, poorly designed levels, obnoxious and not scary monsters, and puzzles that make me feel like driving my head through a wall. The...
- This game is really bad. I don't understand the score. It doesn't even manage to be scary!
- poor level design4
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- I enjoyed probably 80% of Escape the Backrooms, but by the end I was definitely forcing myself through the remaining 20%. I do appreciate that this feels like a game made by peopl...
- One of the least fun games i have ever sat through, poorly designed levels, obnoxious and not scary monsters, and puzzles that make me feel like driving my head through a wall. The...
- The game is SUPER linear. There are several bugs that make the game either unplayable or extremely poor looking. The levels are super repetitive and super sloppy made. The multipla...
- uninspired monsters4
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- One of the least fun games i have ever sat through, poorly designed levels, obnoxious and not scary monsters, and puzzles that make me feel like driving my head through a wall. The...
- The game is SUPER linear. There are several bugs that make the game either unplayable or extremely poor looking. The levels are super repetitive and super sloppy made. The multipla...
- Me and my friends are huge fans of the backrooms and the atmosphere, and the 90s asthetic of the Kane Parsons universe, we've been looking for a good backrooms game for a bit and I...
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