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Escape the Backrooms

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App ID 1943950
App Type Game
Developer
Publisher Secret Mode
Franchise Secret Mode
Supported Systems Windows
Technologies Unreal Engine
Last Changenumber 31676339
Last Record Update 15 October 2025 – 04:10:03 UTC ()
Release Date 11 August 2022 – 17:00:00 UTC ()
😎 89.53%
110k reviews
3,555
In-Game
😱 Horror 👥 Online Co-Op 🕴 Psychological Horror 🤝 Co-op 🎒 Survival Horror

Escape the Backrooms is a 1-4 player co-op horror exploration game. Traverse through eerie backrooms levels while avoiding entities and other dangers to try and escape. Free content updates with new levels and game modes keep the community rewarded.

Additional Information

Developer Fancy Games
community_visible_stats Yes
ReleaseState released
Publisher Secret Mode
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version4
Store Release Date 11 August 2022 – 17:00:25 UTC ()
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community_hub_visible Yes
vrheadsetstreaming Yes
openvr_action_manifest_path EscapeTheBackrooms/Config/SteamVRBindings/steamvr_manifest.json
Social Media https://discord.gg/fancygames
https://x.com/FancyTheDev
https://www.youtube.com/fancydev/
Primary Genre Indie (23)
Store Genres Indie (23), Early Access (70)
Steam Release Date 11 August 2022 – 17:00:00 UTC ()
Store Asset Modification Time 18 September 2025 – 11:41:07 UTC () (1758195667)
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Detected Technologies (?) Unreal Engine, Intel_OID SDK, Intel_oneTBB SDK, NVIDIA_APEX SDK, NVIDIA_GeForce_Now SDK, NVIDIA_Nsight_Aftermath SDK, NVIDIA_PhysX SDK, NvCloth SDK, Ogg SDK, OpenVR SDK, OpenXR SDK, Vorbis SDK, XAudio2 SDK
Steam Deck Compatibility
  • Steam Deck:
  • Some functionality is not accessible when using the default controller configuration, requiring use of the touchscreen or virtual keyboard, or a community configuration
  • Entering some text requires manually invoking the on-screen keyboard
  • This game supports Steam Deck's native display resolution but does not set it by default and may require you to configure the display resolution manually
  • In-game interface text is legible on Steam Deck
  • This game's default graphics configuration performs well on Steam Deck
  •  
  • SteamOS:
  • This game runs successfully on SteamOS
  • Note: Entering some text requires manually invoking the on-screen keyboard
  • Note: Some functionality is not accessible when using the default controller configuration, requiring use of the touchscreen or virtual keyboard, or a community configuration
  •  
  • category: Playable
  • steamos_compatibility: Compatible
  • test_timestamp: 4 October 2022 – 00:00:00 UTC
  • tested_build_id: 9309810
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controllertagwizard Yes
Early Access Release Date 11 August 2022 – 00:00:00 UTC ()
First seen on SteamDB 20 March 2022 – 22:48:29 UTC (), in changelist #14280690

Supported Languages

9 Languages Interface Full Audio Subtitles Achievements
English Yes Yes Yes
French Yes Yes
German Yes Yes
Spanish - Spain Yes Yes
Russian Yes Yes
Simplified Chinese Yes Yes
Japanese Yes
Korean Yes
Turkish Yes

Tags

😱 Horror 🕹️ Multiplayer 👥 Online Co-Op 🕴 Psychological Horror 🤝 Co-op 🎒 Survival Horror 🙌 First-Person 🗝️ Escape Room 🗺 Exploration 🗺️ Adventure 🧊 3D 👤 Singleplayer 💥 Action 🌱 Indie 🐤 Early Access 🌄 Action-Adventure 😌 Casual 🥷 Stealth 🏰 Dungeon Crawler 🔞 Sexual Content

Categories

Single-player Online Co-op Steam Achievements Steam Cloud Family Sharing Early Access Multi-player Co-op Cloud Gaming Cloud Gaming (NVIDIA)

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