Escape the Backrooms
Give it 3 hours
What the data shows
- In the first 2 hours 1 in 3 reviews are negative (39%); after 10h it's 1 in 17 (6%).
- Fully opens up by hour 7.
- The game has no story achievements, so drop-off points can't be measured.
- Only 61% 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 169,918 Steam reviews in every language. Median playtime in a sample of 296 reviews: 13.2h for positive, 4.2h 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 (60.7% of owners), so people who bought the game and never launched it don't count.
This game has no story achievements, so we can't tell where players quit.
All achievements (34)
story milestone ending side
- Escape Level 0 Find the exit in Level 0. 100%
- Escape the Habitable Zone Find the exit in the Habitable Zone. 84%
- Escape The Hub Enter the hub and activate the outpost power. 83%
- Escape Pipe Dreams Find the exit door in Pipe Dreams. 76%
- Escape Level 3 Find the exit in the Electrical Station. 66%
- Escape Level 4 Find the exit in the Abandoned Office 64%
- Escape Level 5 Find the exit in the Terror Hotel. 51%
- Escape the Poolrooms Find the exit in the Poolrooms. 46%
- Escape Level Fun Find the exit in Level Fun. 46%
- Escape Level ! Find the exit in Level Run For Your Life! 45%
- Escape The End Find the exit in The End. 45%
- Escape Level 94 Find the exit in Level 94. 44%
- Escape Level 6 Find the exit in Lights Out. 44%
- Squad Beat the game in Multiplayer with Normal difficulty. 42%
- Escape Level 7 Find the exit in Thalassophobia. 42%
- Escape Level 8 Find the exit in the Cave System. 40%
- Escape Level 188 Find the exit in Level 188. 37%
- Escape Level 9 Find the exit in Level 9. 36%
- Escape Level 3999 Find the exit in Level 3999. 36%
- Escape Level 10 Find the exit in Level 10. 34%
- Escape the Snackrooms Find the exit in the Snackrooms. 33%
- Escape Level !~! Find the exit in Level !~!. 33%
- Escape Level 0.2 Find the exit in Level 0.2. 33%
- Escape Level 52 Find the exit in Level 52. 30%
- Escape Level 55.1 Find the exit in Level 55.1. 29%
- Escape the Death Slides Find the exit in the Death Slides 26%
- Escape the Grassrooms Find the exit in the Grassrooms. 25%
- Escape Level 9223372036854775807 Find the exit in Level 922. 23%
- Escape Level 974 Find the exit in Level 974. 18%
- Escaped! Complete the final ending in any difficulty 16%
- Participation Trophy Beat the game in Easy difficulty. 14%
- Survivalist Survive in Level 0 for 15 minutes. 13%
- Group Effort Beat the game in Multiplayer with Hard difficulty. 6.6%
- Nightmare Beat the game with 4 players in Nightmare difficulty. 1.2%