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Backrooms: Exploration
HNStudios · released May 2, 2025 · Early Access from Apr 4, 2025 · data updated Oct 24, 2026
by HNStudios
Backrooms: Exploration is a single-player horror game, which takes place in 2020. Two friends have lost their jobs due to COVID-19, but they still have to bring food to the table. After a failed heist, one of them ends u
Released May 2, 2025 · Early Access from Apr 4, 2025
Steam figures
| Value | As of | |
|---|---|---|
| Steam reviews | Mostly Positive · 72% positive of 102 Steam reviews | Oct 23, 2026 |
| Followers on Steam | No followers data for this game yet | |
| Regular US price | $1.99 | Oct 21, 2026 |
| Twitch peak viewers | 20 | Oct 8, 2026 |
New Steam reviews per week
| Week | New positive | New negative |
|---|---|---|
| Week of Oct 31, 2025 | 1 | 2 |
| Week of Nov 21, 2025 | 1 | 0 |
| Week of Dec 5, 2025 | 0 | 1 |
| Week of Dec 26, 2025 | 1 | 0 |
| Week of Jan 2, 2026 | 1 | 0 |
| Week of Jan 16, 2026 | 1 | 0 |
| Week of Jan 23, 2026 | 2 | 0 |
| Week of Jan 30, 2026 | 1 | 0 |
| Week of Feb 13, 2026 | 0 | 1 |
| Week of Mar 6, 2026 | 0 | 1 |
| Week of Mar 13, 2026 | 2 | 0 |
| Week of Apr 3, 2026 | 1 | 0 |
| Week of Apr 17, 2026 | 1 | 1 |
| Week of Apr 24, 2026 | 1 | 0 |
| Week of May 1, 2026 | 1 | 0 |
| Week of May 8, 2026 | 1 | 0 |
| Week of May 15, 2026 | 0 | 0 |
| Week of May 22, 2026 | 6 | 2 |
| Week of May 29, 2026 | 8 | 3 |
| Week of Jun 5, 2026 | 2 | 0 |
| Week of Jun 19, 2026 | 2 | 0 |
| Week of Jun 26, 2026 | 0 | 1 |
| Week of Jul 3, 2026 | 1 | 2 |
| Week of Jul 17, 2026 | 1 | 0 |
| Week of Aug 7, 2026 | 1 | 0 |
| Week of Aug 28, 2026 | 1 | 0 |
| Week of Oct 2, 2026 | 2 | 0 |
Sales estimate
| Copies sold on Steam | 1.6k – 9.4k | |
|---|---|---|
| Gross revenue on Steam | $3.2k – $11k before refunds, tax and Steam’s cut | |
| Steam reviews by buyers | 102 | Oct 23, 2026 |
| Copies per review | 16–91 |
Estimates are based on an aggregation of industry-accepted conversion formulas. How this is estimated
Tag DNA
| Tag | Share of Steam games |
|---|---|
| Investigation | 1 in 31 games |
| Walking Simulator | 1 in 24 games |
| Realistic | 1 in 12 games |
| Psychological Horror | 1 in 12 games |
| Dark | 1 in 12 games |
| Multiple Endings | 1 in 12 games |
| Horror | 1 in 9 games |
| First-Person | 1 in 6 games |
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| Blair Witch | Bloober Team SA | 85% | Mostly Positive · 6,581 |
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| Within Skerry | Stanislaw Truchowski | 92% | Mostly Positive · 228 |
| The Death | Thần Trùng | DUT Studio | 84% | Very Positive · 2,800 |
| Welcome to Kowloon | a1esska, Notex | 85% | Very Positive · 1,805 |
| Subliminal | Accidental Studios | 82% | Mostly Positive · 3,602 |
| Backrooms: Found Footage | HNStudios | 88% | Very Positive · 404 |
| Ikai | Endflame | 81% | Mostly Positive · 220 |