The Backrooms: Survival
Released Sep 2023
Survival horror with roguelike elements. Explore randomized levels with different items and entities while trying to maintain your thirst, hunger, and sanity, ensuring a new experience every time. Play alone or with up to TEN friends online! Cross-platform multiplayer with Nintendo Switch.
81% positive · 1,126 reviews
Done
All announced content has been released
Medium confidence
Done
All announced content has been released
Medium confidence
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Steam $9.99
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Evaluation
The Backrooms: Survival reached its 1.0 release on September 15, 2023, after an extensive Early Access period with over 50 updates. At that time, the developer explicitly stated that 1.0 did not mean the end of updates, citing plans for console ports, seasonal updates, and VR support.
The game then received a strong run of post-launch content through 2024: a major weapon system overhaul and new level (April 22, 2024), a full mining system (May 8, 2024), controller support and core systems overhaul (June 17, 2024), and the Nintendo Switch cross-platform release (September 2, 2024). In April 2024, the developer also announced hiring additional staff to support more updates across their projects.
The most recent developer communication of any kind is dated September 2, 2024. As of today (October 1, 2026), that is over two years of silence. The historical pattern of major content releases ran roughly every 1–3 months throughout 2024, meaning the silence now exceeds the established cadence window by a very wide margin — well beyond six months of no developer activity.
No developer statement has declared the game complete or that development has ended. However, the combination of: a historically active but now long-silent developer, no new content, no announced upcoming content, and no unreleased DLC on the store means there is nothing concrete pointing to continued development. The game's last known update cadence has been broken for over a year with no explanation. There is also nothing to confirm development is ongoing. Under these circumstances, the game is assessed as complete — it launched as a full release, received a substantial run of post-launch content, and the developer has not communicated any plans or activity since September 2, 2024.
Evidence
Nintendo Switch cross-platform multiplayer release ships alongside bug fix patch. This is the last developer communication on record.
New gameplay mechanic update ships: full mining system added with ore deposits, pickaxes, and new profession
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Developer
Publisher
RE:CODE
Achievements
72
Platform
Windows
Controller
full support
Steam Deck
Not rated
Players
Single-player · Multiplayer · Co-op · PvP
About this game
The Backrooms: Survival is a horror game with roguelike elements. Featuring randomized levels, items and events, every playthrough is a fresh one. Players find themselves in seemingly never-ending narrow and tight corridors known as the backrooms, where they will need to explore carefully in an attempt to find a way out. You will need to try and remain sane while seeking out food and drink, and avoiding any possible hostilities lurking around the corners..
Explore through The Backrooms and ascend to higher levels, each level home to different items, objects, events, and company.... Explore levels, and gather items through crafting, trading, and looting. You can even attempt to arm yourself and fight back against any threats with a range of weapons that you can even customize further! Gather crafting materials, you can even mine ore deposits on certain levels to craft items!
The Backrooms: Survival is a fresh and unique take on the Backrooms, and thus has some of its own original entities and levels, as well as some familiar to those familiar with The Backrooms "internet lore".
Features:
- Four game modes - Permadeath, adventure, sandbox (console commands) and explore (peaceful!)
- Cross Platform Multiplayer - Play with up to TEN players with cross platform multiplayer for Nintendo Switch and explore The Backrooms together, or join other existing online games in the public lobby. Proximity voice chat can be turned off/or on in the settings.
- Rogue like elements - randomly generated dungeons, tons of items, crafting, items/equipment with random stats/specifications, and more, ensuring a fresh playthrough each time
- Randomly generated levels - The Backrooms are randomly generated each new playthrough to ensure a fresh experience each time and no memorizing the layouts. Different themes/level types with many different types of entities and items. Different layouts and multiple Backroom theme types.
- Survival Elements - You will need to scavenge the backrooms for any food and water you can find to survive, including drinking from leaks in the ceiling and cannibalizing the already dead, while trying to maintain your sanity
- Crafting System - gather materials found throughout the backrooms or dismantle items to gather resources to craft new items, weapons, tools and many other things to aid your survival
- Combat - find all types of weapons from makeshift axes to abandoned firearms. Fight back against a range of hostile entities.
- Permadeath - Death in The Backrooms, just like in our reality, is permanent. With only one quick save save slot that auto-deletes upon death, you better be careful because in The Backrooms death could lie around any corner.
- Choose your player - Before you enter The Backrooms, you'll have to either pick a random player or create your own, choosing your name, avatar, etc as well as choose from a list of real-world professions which each offers unique bonuses
- Different Graphics Style - customize your graphics and choose different styles, such as a "retro, PSX style", or "VHS Style", and more
- Inventory Management - You'll find all kinds of things down in The Backrooms... from edible substances to useful tools to not so useful junk. You'll have to manage your few inventory slots and prioritize what you think you may need the most
- Leader boards - global leader board to see who can make it to the highest, deepest levels of The Backrooms...
- Obituary System - All your unsuccessful attempts to escape the Backrooms which result in death will be recorded in game via the "Obituary System". Similar to a leader board/high score system, this records information that run through The Backrooms such as your player's name, age, profession, death cause, etc
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Last evaluated Oct 1, 2026
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