Backrooms Media

First-person co-op survival horror with puzzles and entity hunts

NPK Games · Released Dec 16, 2025

Action Adventure Casual Indie RPG Strategy

Reviews: Mixed; 40% of 648
Recent reviews: Not enough recent
Playing now: 0; peak 24h 2
Steam Deck: Unsupported
Last update: 9 months ago; Dec 16, 2025

Free demo available, 0 playing it now: get the demo.

What is Backrooms Media?

Backrooms Media is a first-person survival horror game set across surreal, non-linear levels, playable alone or cooperatively. Explore, solve puzzles, survive environmental hazards, and evade hostile entities while collecting notes about a previous expedition. A separate hunt mode uses changing layouts and gadgets to track and capture entities.

For you if...

+you like exploring unusual horror levels with friends
+you enjoy coordinating through voice chat under pressure
+you want gadget-based hunts alongside survival and puzzles

Not for you if...

−you want horror without enemy encounters or survival hazards
−you prefer a strictly linear path through a game

What players say

40% of 648 reviews are positive

Players praise the varied levels and cooperative play, but frequently report crashes, lag, and bugs. Some also describe the levels as empty or bland.

Screenshots and trailer

Backrooms Media system requirements

As published by the developer.

Minimum

OS: Windows 10 or higher 64bit
Processor: Intel Core i3 3 GHz or AMD equivalent
Graphics: NVIDIA GeForce 1050ti or higher with 2GB Memory
Memory: 8 GB RAM
Storage: 10 GB available space

PC version details

DRM, required accounts, controller support and Steam features.

DRM: None declared on Steam
Controller: Keyboard and mouse
Platforms: Windows
Achievements: 15
Steam features: Workshop, Family Sharing, HDR

Steam Deck: Unsupported

Graphics settings cannot be configured to run well on Steam Deck

Multiplayer and co-op

Languages

Full audio: English. Text only: French, German, Japanese, Korean, Russian, Simplified Chinese, Spanish - Latin America, Turkish, Ukrainian, Portuguese - Brazil, Traditional Chinese.