Inside the Backrooms
Give it 3 hours
What the data shows
- In the first 2 hours 1 in 3 reviews are negative (36%); after 5h it's 1 in 6 (17%).
- The game has no story achievements, so drop-off points can't be measured.
- 89% of owners got the first achievement.
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 47,340 Steam reviews in every language. Median playtime in a sample of 298 reviews: 13h for positive, 10h 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 (88.9% 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 (30)
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- INSIDE THE BACKROOMS You are inside the backrooms 100%
- ENTITY #3 VICTIM You have been killed by the entity #3 of the backrooms. 70%
- ENTITY ## VICTIM You have been killed by the unknown entity of the backrooms. 65%
- ENTITY #8 VICTIM You has been killed by the entity #8 of the backrooms. 59%
- THE DARK ROOMS You escaped from the dark rooms 55%
- THE PARKING You escaped from the parking 52%
- ENTITY #10 VICTIM You has been killed by the entity #10 of the backrooms. 47%
- ENTITY #67 VICTIM You has been killed by the entity #67 of the backrooms. 41%
- ENTITY #5 VICTIM You has been killed by the entity #5 of the backrooms. 32%
- THE OFFICE ROOMS You escaped from the office rooms 26%
- THE BACKROOMS You escaped from the backrooms. 22%
- THE SEWERAGE You escaped from the sewerage 15%
- THE OLD HOTEL You escaped from the old hotel. 11%
- FLESH CAKE Partygoers converted you into a flesh cake :) 9.6%
- THE GRASS CORRIDORS You escaped from the grass corridors. 9.2%
- SPEEDRUNNER Complete 5 levels, each one in less than 50 minutes. 9.1%
- BACKROOMS TOP SURVIVOR Unlock the Easy, Basic and Hard Escape Achievements. 5.7%
- BASIC ESCAPE Complete 5 levels in NORMAL difficulty. 3.3%
- EASY ESCAPE Complete 5 levels in EASY difficulty. 3.1%
- The Poolrooms You escaped from the poolrooms 2.4%
- Mutant Victim You have been killed by the caterpillar mutant entity. 2.1%
- The Trainstation You escaped from the trainstation 2.0%
- Run For Life Complete the "Run for life" level. 1.7%
- The Caves Escape from the caves. 1.5%
- HARDCORE ESCAPE Complete 5 levels in HARD difficulty. 0.8%
- Alternative Darkrooms Complete the Dark Rooms with at least 3 entities mods enabled. 0.4%
- Alternative Grass Rooms Complete the grass corridors level with at least 5 entities mods enabled 0.4%
- Alternative Hotel Complete the Terror Hotel level with at least 3 entities mods enabled 0.4%
- Alternative Office Complete the Office Level with at least 2 entity mod enabled 0.4%
- Alternative Sewer Complete the sewers level with at least 3 entities mods enabled 0.4%