Backrooms Cats and Lava
2D puzzle platformer with movable boxes above a deadly lava floor
Galactic Geckon · Released Jun 17, 2024
- Reviews
- Mostly Positive
- 79% of 121
- Recent reviews
- Not enough recent
- Players
- 0
- daily peak, Oct 28, 2026
- Steam Deck
- Untested
- Last update on Steam
- 10 months ago
- Dec 15, 2025
What is Backrooms Cats and Lava?
This single-player action-platformer follows a small cave dweller trying to escape rising lava. You move boxes to create safe routes, jump past obstacles, and reach the exit in increasingly difficult levels.
For you if...
- +you enjoy combining careful route planning with precise jumps
Not for you if...
- −you prefer forgiving platforming without lethal floor hazards
What players say
79% of 121 reviews are positive
Players praise the cat character and simple platforming concept. Complaints focus on persistent achievement bugs, while recent reviews also criticize the increased asking price as poor value.
Screenshots and trailer
Backrooms Cats and Lava system requirements
Minimum: Integrated (512MB), 2 GB RAM, 0.2 GB of disk space.
As published by the developer.
Can my PC run Backrooms Cats and Lava?
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Set up my PC →Minimum
- OS
- Windows 8 (64 Bit)
- Processor
- 2.0 GHz Dual Core Processor
- Graphics
- Integrated Graphics (512MB)
- Memory
- 2 GB RAM
- Storage
- 210 MB available space
- Notes
- Additional Notes: Requires a system running DirectX 11 as a minimum. Graphics cards over 10 years old may find some graphics display issues. Unsupported video chipsets: Intel HD Graphics 3000, Intel GMA X3100, Intel GMA 950.
Recommended
- OS
- Windows 10 (64 Bit)
- Processor
- 3.0GHz i5 Dual Core or equivalent
- Graphics
- Nvidia GeForce GTX 650 Radeon HD 3600 (1GB)
- Memory
- 4 GB RAM
- Storage
- 210 MB available space
- Notes
- Additional Notes: Requires a system running DirectX 11 as a minimum. Graphics cards over 10 years old may find some graphics display issues. Unsupported video chipsets: Intel HD Graphics 3000, Intel GMA X3100, Intel GMA 950.
Does Backrooms Cats and Lava have co-op or multiplayer?
No: single-player only, no multiplayer modes declared.
Does Backrooms Cats and Lava run on Steam Deck?
Untested Not yet tested by Valve on Steam Deck.
PC version details
- DRM
- None declared on Steam
- Controller
- Keyboard and mouse
- Platforms
- Windows
- Achievements
- 6
- Steam features
- Family Sharing
- Languages
- Full audio: English, French, Italian, German, Spanish - Spain, Arabic, Bulgarian, Portuguese - Brazil, Hungarian, Vietnamese, Greek, Danish, Indonesian, Spanish - Latin America, Traditional Chinese, Simplified Chinese, Korean, Dutch, Norwegian, Polish, Portuguese - Portugal, Romanian, Russian, Thai, Turkish, Ukrainian, Finnish, Czech, Swedish, Japanese, Azerbaijani, Albanian, Amharic, Armenian, Assamese, Afrikaans, Basque, Belarusian, Bangla, Bosnian, Valencian, Welsh, Wolof, Galician, Georgian, Gujarati, Dari, Zulu, Hebrew, Igbo, Irish, Icelandic, Yoruba, Kazakh, Kannada, Catalan, Quechua, Kinyarwanda, K'iche', Konkani, Xhosa, Khmer, Kyrgyz, Latvian, Lithuanian, Luxembourgish, Macedonian, Malay, Malayalam, Maltese, Maori, Marathi, Mongolian, Nepali, Odia, Punjabi (Gurmukhi), Punjabi (Shahmukhi), Persian, Serbian, Sotho, Sinhala, Sindhi, Slovak, Slovenian, Sorani, Swahili, Tajik, Tamil, Tatar, Telugu, Tigrinya, Tswana, Turkmen, Uzbek, Uyghur, Urdu, Filipino, Hausa, Hindi, Croatian, Cherokee, Scots, Estonian.
Does Backrooms Cats and Lava use AI-generated content?
No AI-generated content is disclosed on the game's Steam page.
Self-reported by the developer under Steam rules: it covers AI content that ships in the game, not tools used to make it. Steam page checked on Oct 27, 2026. How to filter AI games on Steam
