2025 · Horror · Online Co-Op · Psychological Horror
How long isEscape the Backrooms?
by Fancy Games & Blackbird Interactive
10 hours
for the typical playerhalf of them between 5 hours and 18 hours
Escape the Backrooms among the 177 survival horror games here
The whole tier list#16
of 177
ranked by owners here who played past two hours
- 67%
- got past 2 hours
- +20 on the kind's 47%
- 12%
- past 20 hours
- about the kind's 13%
- 87%
- launched it
- +24 on the kind's 63%
- 288
- libraries own it
- 1 in 9 of the 2,483 read here
Next to it in the ranking
A bargain: $1.00 an hour, cheaper than 260 of 274 survival horror games here.
61% recommend it at 0 to 2 hours
87% recommend it at 2 to 5 hours
91% recommend it at 5 to 10 hours
94% recommend it at 10 to 20 hours
95% recommend it at 20 to 50 hours
95% recommend it at 50 to 100 hours
91% recommend it at 100 to 200 hours
89% recommend it at 200 to 500 hours
80% recommend it past 500 hours
Does Escape the Backrooms hold up?
Wears thin
Do the first two hours of Escape the Backrooms tell you?
In the first two hours61%recommend it
After that92%recommend it
10 in 100 said no: 7 after the window had closed, 3 while a refund was still possible.
How this is counted
Half of its Steam reviewers had played 10 hours or less when they gave their verdict. The middle half sat between 5 hours and 18 hours.
One token is 1% of its Steam reviews, standing at the hours its author had played. Counted from about 169,000 Steam reviews, by the hours each author had played when they wrote theirs. It is not a time to beat.
It is recommended most by players at 20–50 hours: 95% of them. Among players past 500 hours that falls to 80%.
8% of its reviews were written inside Steam's two-hour refund window, and 61% of those recommend it. After the window, 92% do. Of the players who gave it a thumbs-down, 71% were already past the window; the typical thumbs-down came 4.5 hours in.
When would you get there?
10days
At an hour a night, you’d pass the typical player’s 10 hours on Tuesday, November 24.
Half of its reviewers had played between 5 and 18 hours: Nov 19 to Dec 2 at this pace.
How this is counted
The typical player's hours are the hours Steam reviewers had played when they wrote their review, not a time to beat. The days count from today, playing the hours the pace says on each day.
Where do players get filtered in Escape the Backrooms?
The filter
Escape the Habitable Zone
10 of every 100 players got to this one and no further.
They hold Escape Level 0 and never earned it.
How this is counted
60% of the players who launched Escape the Backrooms hold Escape Level 0, its first story achievement on Steam, and 9.5% hold Escaped!, its last. The steepest drop comes between Escape Level 0 (60%) and Escape the Habitable Zone (50%).
Steam's global achievement stats count everyone who ever launched the game, people still playing included. They are not a finish rate. The filter is the steepest drop between two story achievements; the players who never reached the first one barely started, and are never the filter.
Is Escape the Backrooms worth it?
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One hour, at list price
Escape the Backrooms
- Steam list price, US
- $9.99
- Typical player
- ÷ 10 h
- survival horror game rate
- $2.75/h
- 10 h at that rate
- $28
List price. Not a sale price,
not what anyone paid.
Is Escape the Backrooms worth it? Mostly.
A steal
2.8× the hours of a typical survival horror game, for the same money
Loved
92% recommend it after the refund windowmost survival horror games: 90%
Gets played
87% of owners here have played itmost survival horror games: 63%
How this is counted
At Steam's US list price of $9.99, the typical player's 10 hours come to $1.00 an hour. Past the two-hour refund window, 92% of its Steam reviewers recommend it. At $1.00 an hour, Escape the Backrooms is cheaper per hour than 260 of 274 survival horror games here: the typical one of 274 survival horror games here charges $2.75, so the same $9.99 buys 2.8× the hours.
The price is Steam's US list price for the game by itself: not a sale price, a bundle or what anyone paid. The hours are the ones its reviewers had played, not a time to beat. Its kind (survival horror games) is what the game is first, as a model that knows games named it once from a list of Steam's kinds (for a game it did not know, its strongest Steam tags name it), among the kinds with at least 20 priced games here; failing that, by its Steam genre. The going rate is the middle hourly cost of those games, and the receipt prices its typical hours at it. The words beside it compare it with its kind: loved is 90% recommending it or more, liked 80%, mixed 65%; it gets played when a quarter fewer of the owners read here never launched it than of its kind's typical game. Whether it holds up is drawn on the hours road above, and counts toward the one-word answer.
Where can I play Escape the Backrooms today?
Almost anywhere
PC, PS5, Xbox Series, Switch 2 and 1 more.
- todayPC2022
- todaySwitch2025in SCP / Backrooms / Exit Bundle 6 in 1
- todayXbox Series2026
- todaySwitch 22026
- todayPS52026
How this is counted
From IGDB, found by its Steam app: the machines Escape the Backrooms came out on and the year it first reached each, and the collections, ports, remasters and remakes that carry it. A machine counts for today while it, or the one after it, still plays its games and its store sells them: Switch, PlayStation 4 and 5, Xbox One and Series, PC and phones. A PC release from before 2005 counts as gone, unless Steam sells it. IGDB does not say when a store stopped selling a release, so a delisted one can still show here.
Would you like Escape the Backrooms?
Give the ball your Steam profile link or name. It reads the games you own most like Escape the Backrooms, how long each held you against the typical player, and how long Escape the Backrooms would take you. Public profiles only. No account needed, and no library is saved.
How this is counted
It reads how long you tend to stay: across every game you've played whose typical hours it knows (free games left out), how often you went past the typical player and how often you left before half their hours. It glows when you often stay past them, dims when you often leave early, and needs five played games to read at all. Then it shows the games you own most like this one, by the same measure as the shelf of games like it, each with your hours against the typical player's.
Why not a forecast for this game: on 36,766 Steam libraries, how a player did on games like one told little beyond how long they stay in games at all, so those games are shown as evidence and never scored. Nothing of the library is kept.
@brainflame holds this page
- 1st
@brainflame70 h - 2nd
@apfelsaft18 h - 3rd
@thenobody66614 h - 4th
@nervoser-owo13 h - 5th
@astro12 h - 6th
@eric-g7.1 h - 7th
@squirt6.6 h - 8th
@amuka5.6 h
Public pages here, by the hours Steam has on this game. From two hours up, the most hours holds the page.
What did people here do with Escape the Backrooms?
- B
The middle pick of 11 players on the Steam tier list
1 in 54
Name 100 runs say its name: players asked to name 100 games from memory
In @brainflame's Top 4
How this is counted
Counted from the Steam libraries read here and the pages kept here, not from all of Steam's players. A case is one owner, or one in twenty of them when there are more. The tier is the middle player's on the Steam tier list, shown once ten players have ranked it.
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How this is counted
Its own series apart, where it plays alike; then the games sharing the most of its strongest Steam tags, genres and themes, the better known ahead among the about as alike. A model that knows games read the list once: the ones it said do not play like this game are left out, the closest come first. Under each name, what sets it apart from Escape the Backrooms: a kind of game it is that Escape the Backrooms is not, a feature its tags carry that Escape the Backrooms's barely do, how many hours people play it, how its reviewers feel. Each case wears the hours its own page leads with.