Backrooms: Escape Together

First-person co-op survival horror in procedurally generated Backrooms levels

Triiodide Studios · Released Oct 18, 2022 · Early Access

Action Adventure Casual Indie Early Access

Reviews: Very Positive; 89% of 50K
Recent reviews: Very Positive; 88% of 1,150 in 30 days
Playing now: 322; right now
Steam Deck: Playable
Last update: 3 months ago; Jun 6, 2026

What is Backrooms: Escape Together?

A first-person survival horror game for solo play or online co-op with up to six players. You explore the Backrooms, solve puzzles, collect items, and evade entities across procedurally generated levels with changing layouts and encounters.

For you if...

+you want horror built around group play and proximity chat
+you enjoy exploring unsettling, maze-like liminal spaces
+you prefer runs with changing layouts and encounters

Not for you if...

−you dislike repeated objectives and simple puzzles
−you want a longer game with more varied content

What players say

89% of 49,624 reviews are positive · 88% of 1,150 in the last 30 days

Players praise the unsettling atmosphere, realistic-looking graphics, sound design, and co-op proximity chat. Recent players primarily object to what they describe as required voice-chat transcription and storage, while some also find the game short or repetitive.

Screenshots and trailer

Backrooms: Escape Together system requirements

As published by the developer.

Minimum

OS: Windows 10 64-bit version 1909 revision .1350
Processor: Intel Core i5-4430
Graphics: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 960 2GB / AMD Radeon R7 370 2GB
Memory: 4 GB RAM
Storage: 15 GB available space
DirectX: Version 11
Notes: Latest drivers for AMD and NVIDIA GPUs are required. If on AMD, you must be on the latest OPTIONAL drivers.

PC version details

DRM, required accounts, controller support and Steam features.

DRM: None declared on Steam
Controller: Full controller support
Platforms: Windows
Achievements: 22
Steam features: Cloud saves, Family Sharing

Steam Deck: Playable

Default controller config not fully functional
Some in-game text is small and may be hard to read
Shows Steam Deck controller icons
Default graphics settings perform well on Steam Deck
External controllers are not supported for the primary player

Multiplayer and co-op

Languages

Full audio: English, French, German, Spanish - Spain, Portuguese - Brazil, Russian, Italian, Turkish, Spanish - Latin America, Polish, Simplified Chinese, Ukrainian, Arabic, Korean, Persian, Japanese, Hungarian, Czech, Portuguese - Portugal, Swedish, Traditional Chinese, Indonesian.