Inside the Backrooms
Games review
As of Jun 23, 2026, Inside the Backrooms is rated 80% positive on Steam (46,226 reviews).
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Is Inside the Backrooms worth it in 2026?
At 80% positive across 46,226 Steam reviews, Inside the Backrooms earned its reputation on escape-room-style puzzles, genuine backrooms atmosphere, and co-op sessions with friends, and that praise is real, but it describes a different build than what you would download today. The complaint pattern is just as strong as the praise: game-breaking bugs, broken entity AI, and audio failures introduced by recent updates appear in exactly as many sampled reviews as the puzzle praise does, and multiple players use the word 'unplayable' without qualification. That 80% score is historical goodwill carrying a current product that has regressed, and the developer's own updates are the documented source of the breakage, so 'wait for a patch' is not reassurance when patches are what broke it. Solo players should also know this game is built around co-op; the dominant praise is explicitly tied to playing with friends, and a solo horror experience is not what this delivers even in a working state.
Groups of friends who want a co-op escape-room experience with backrooms horror aesthetics, ideally after verifying on current forums that the build they are buying is not in a broken state.
Recent updates are the documented cause of game-breaking bugs, entity AI failures, and audio problems that reviewers describe as making the game unplayable, the 80% score reflects the game's past, not its present, and the update history gives no grounds for confidence that a fix is imminent.
ReviewPond's conclusion, drawn only from the verified scores and review themes below. Not a paid or editorial opinion.
Pros
- fun with friends8
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- It's alright. If you have friends to play it with, it's alright for some good fun. Nothing crazy though.
- Inside the Backrooms captures the unsettling atmosphere of the Backrooms concept remarkably well. Exploring endless hallways while solving puzzles and avoiding threats creates plen...
- its a very good game to play with my friends and ive been playing this game since 2023, its funny but also scary at the same time, gives me and my friends good laughs and good scar...
- engaging puzzles7
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- Inside the Backrooms captures the unsettling atmosphere of the Backrooms concept remarkably well. Exploring endless hallways while solving puzzles and avoiding threats creates plen...
- I have 73 hours logged in this game. Inside the Backrooms is incredibly fun to play with friends. The atmospheric tension of the liminal spaces is perfect while giving you great me...
- great game been playing since release love all the updates and perfect game to play with friends or solo. creepy noises good balance of creepy and jumpscares with deep thinking pu...
- backrooms atmosphere4
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- Inside the Backrooms captures the unsettling atmosphere of the Backrooms concept remarkably well. Exploring endless hallways while solving puzzles and avoiding threats creates plen...
- I have 73 hours logged in this game. Inside the Backrooms is incredibly fun to play with friends. The atmospheric tension of the liminal spaces is perfect while giving you great me...
- LOVE IT!!! It is a bit more complex than other multiplayer backrooms games and feels more like an intricate escape room style backrooms. The entities are a good balance of juke-abl...
- escape room style3
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- This was a really fun experience. There are tons of cool puzzles that make you go back and forth. If anyone has tried Emissary Zero it's a lot like that, in that it's a very escape...
- Okay, this game is a hit and miss for me. I genuinely think this game is a decent co-op puzzle solving game. It has somewhat deviated from a typical backrooms journey game with sca...
- LOVE IT!!! It is a bit more complex than other multiplayer backrooms games and feels more like an intricate escape room style backrooms. The entities are a good balance of juke-abl...
Cons
- game-breaking bugs7
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- This used to be a super fun Backrooms game with great puzzle / story like levels when I played a few years ago. Now, after recent updates, multiple bugs have made it practically un...
- Used to LOVE this game when it initially came out. However, it is unplayable now with a multitude of bugs. Ranging from audio issues to just game breaking bugs.
- I bought this game about 2 years ago and forgot about it until a few days ago. I noticed the game had an update and I don't know what they did but there are a lot of bugs in the ga...
- worse after updates5
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- This used to be a super fun Backrooms game with great puzzle / story like levels when I played a few years ago. Now, after recent updates, multiple bugs have made it practically un...
- It's been like 5 years of development and this is one of the roughest jankiest backrooms games. Buy the others fr. Somehow it gets worse with updates.
- Used to LOVE this game when it initially came out. However, it is unplayable now with a multitude of bugs. Ranging from audio issues to just game breaking bugs.
- entity ai problems3
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- I bought this game about 2 years ago and forgot about it until a few days ago. I noticed the game had an update and I don't know what they did but there are a lot of bugs in the ga...
- The game used to be good, but wow, it's so bad. The audio is horrible, the monster in the beginning gets stuck in place, there is a weird sneaker sounding noise randomly, and the g...
- Atmosphere and Backroom Faithfulness: 9.5/10 (The design of Level 0 and Level Fun is god-tier, with audiovisual language that is extremely oppressive) Multiplayer and Voice System...
Themes and quotes are drawn from 31 sampled reviews with text; the scores above reflect all 46.2K ratings. Counts are how many of the sampled reviews mention each point.