Inside the Backrooms

Inside the Backrooms

Early access since Jun 2022

Inside the Backrooms is a horror multiplayer game mixed with different mechanics that will make you spend an intense night with friends. Explore, think, interact, but be careful, it is rumored that there are several entities wishing to find you...

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In early access, still in active development
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Evaluation

Inside the Backrooms launched into Early Access on June 20, 2022, and remains in that state — the Steam Early Access flag is still active, indicating the developer considers it an unfinished work in progress. Since launch, the game has received a consistent stream of major updates. Six major content releases have shipped: Version 0.2.0 in October 2022 (new Sewer level), Version 0.3.0 in April 2023 (Hotel level), Version 0.4 in September 2023 (Steam Workshop/modding support and a new level), Version 0.5 in November 2024 (large multi-level rework), Version 0.6 on November 29, 2025 (The Caves — a major new underground level), and a Christmas seasonal event in December 2025. The most significant update yet — Version 0.7, released June 28, 2026 — added two brand-new levels (Poolrooms and Trainstation), reworked multiple existing levels, and introduced a range of new systems and improvements. A feature patch (0.7.3) followed on July 17, 2026, just three weeks later, adding further content and fixes. The developer is clearly in an active phase of development. The most recent communication was on July 17, 2026, just one month before today's date. The game currently has 5 main levels plus hidden exits leading to additional areas, and the version numbering (still at 0.7.x) signals that a 1.0 release remains ahead. No announcement of completion or end of development has been made.
Evidence
Patch 0.7.3 released, adding a colorblind filter, a new puzzle to the Sewers level, a new progress saving system, gameplay adjustments, and bug fixes. Most recent developer communication.
news post · Jul 17, 2026 source development ongoing
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Major Update 0.7 released, adding two entirely new levels (Poolrooms and Trainstation), reworking six existing levels, and introducing new systems including spectator mode, suit color customization, and an improved voice chat system.
news post · Jun 28, 2026 source content shipped
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Details

Developer
Publisher
MrFatcat
Achievements
30
Platform
Windows
Controller
—
Steam Deck
Playable
Players
Single-player · Multiplayer · Co-op

About this game

DESCRIPTION

Inside the Backrooms is a Co-op online horror game up to 4 players, where you and your friends will fight to escape from the different levels of the backrooms, solving different puzzles with different mechanics in each one.

This game is based on the famous creepypasta with many real references implemented such as iconic entities and important elements. You will have to explore each room, look for elements that help you to continue advancing throughout the game and unlock new areas, but the further you go, more dangerous it will be, you must pay close attention in the area, identify each entity and know how to avoid them if you want to survive.

Look for supplies, store them in your inventory, explore all the rooms, solve puzzles, unlock areas of the map, interact, try to collect everything you find.

The main objective of Inside the Backrooms is to engage players with its gameplay, difficulty and atmosphere. There are countless identical rooms with an old, dirty carpet and pale yellowish walls, where at first glance it gives you a gloomy and bad feeling where you realize that it is not a safe place.

LEVELS

The game currently has 5 levels, each level is huge and is designed to be more difficult than the previous one and each one with different puzzles and mechanics.

There are also 2 secret mini levels that will lead you to a secret ending..

ENTITIES

In this game you will find several entities, currently 6 entities, all based on the original creepypasta, each entity will have different ways of attacking and manifesting, so it will be important to know it's behavior of each of these and avoid at all costs that several entities finds you at the same time, if this happens, you will have a bad time.

PUZZLES

Inside the Backrooms has a lot of diverse, interesting and entertaining puzzles, from simple ones to the complex and laborious, they are carefully elaborated with the purpouse of being solved both individually and cooperatively, in addition to this, to make the puzzles more dynamic and attractive, in each new game the solution of all of them changes, which means that it wont be always the same answer! so test your puzzle resolution skills and try to escape from this terrifying place full of mysteries.

ITEMS

If you want to survive in the backrooms you will need to look for essential items and manage them properly, because if you get short of any of them, it could mean your death.

These are some of the items you can find on your journey through the backrooms:

  • Almond Water: Regenerate part of life.

  • Pills: Eliminate Anxiety

  • Radios: Allows communication at a distance with your team

  • Flashlight: Allows you to see in dark areas.

  • Protection Suit: Allows you to prevent getting radiation on some areas.

  • Documents and Notes: Provides relevant information.

FEATURES

Here are some of the current features of the game:

  • Proximity Voice Chat: Talk to the nearest people using the voice chat, but be careful, some entities could hear you...

  • Stamina: The player will have limited stamina that you will need to manage correctly, if an entity is close to you, it will be your best ally to escape.

  • Inventory: You will be able to take various items and store them in your inventory, however, space is limited.

  • Anxiety: When you see an entity, your state of anxiety will increase, going through a disorder of fear and poor visibility.

  • Entities: Each entity has its own attack modes, learn their techniques to evade them.

  • Respawn: The game incorpore a creative and dynamic way to respawn, you will able to respawn up to 3 times.

DEVELOPMENT ROADMAP

We want to keep improving the game, to the point where it becomes one of the best games that represent backroom creepypasta. For this reason we will continue to polishing and adding new content to the game, these are some features that are planned to be added throughout the final development of the game:

  • New Entities

  • More Levels

  • New Puzzles and Mechanics

  • Procedural Levels

  • New Items

  • Improve Gameplay

  • Language Localization

Last evaluated Aug 19, 2026
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