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Backrooms: Lost Tape
Give it 2 hours
Gets good by 2h almost every game dips in hours 2–3
Fully opens up by 3h rated like by long-time players
Started playing 24% of owners
Steam reviews 82% positive of 1,420
What the data shows
- In the first 2 hours almost 1 in 4 reviews are negative (23%); after 3h it's 1 in 8 (12%).
- Fully opens up by hour 3.
- Only 24% of owners have even the first achievement — the rest barely played.
When it gets good
Share of positive reviews by how many hours the reviewer had played when writing the review.
before it gets good opening up fully opened up
Based on all 1,439 Steam reviews in every language. Median playtime in a sample of 297 reviews: 4.5h for positive, 1.7h for negative. Almost every game is rated lower in the first 2–3 hours: that window includes refunds and quick first impressions. What matters is how deep the dip is and how fast the game recovers.
Where players quit
Share of players who started the game and reached each story milestone. 100% is the most common achievement (23.8% of owners), so people who bought the game and never launched it don't count.
Story milestones aren't labeled yet; all achievements are listed below.
All achievements (11)
- Tape Corrupted Died for the first time 100%
- Fake Door No, It's not an exit 95%
- Don't Lose Your Head SCP-173 was seen... It's too late now. 91%
- Outbreak Is this a virus? 59%
- Lost Note Found the note from Josh 48%
- Teamwork Found the Devs of the Game 34%
- Trauma XX.XX.1945 29%
- Bonsai Found the Bonsai from Damas 29%
- Note from a Dev Found the note from Lauer 20%
- Smile More Watch the entire Smile Tape Video 19%
- U.F.O Has Arrived Found the hidden UFO Toy 7.1%
Steam page Updated: 2026-10-20.