The Backrooms 1998 - Found Footage Survival Horror Game — Who recommends this game?

Lifetime gross spend

$141Kest

grossAtFullPrice $149K · promo blend

Net to developer

$91Kest

after Valve / VAT / refunds

Lifetime units

14,869▲ 24.8%

24 / day median · launch

Launch window · 30d

$5K4% of LTD

707 units · $7.19 ASP

Confidence

medium±18%

Based on 589 reviews collected over 1.6 years; balanced multi-language audience; Early-Access.

01 Revenue · monthly

Gross consumer spend USD

Gross

01 Like Score

qualityScore = Σ inbound · log₁₀(reviews+1) · positive% · rank-bonus

Tier D · ▲ 1 7d

D ●CBAS

Inbound

Σ log₁₀(R+1)

Avg pos%

88%

→ 2

Score history · 30d retention

0 (30d ago)2 (now)

02 Biggest games linking to you

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Review score

8/ 9

Very Positive

% positive

82.3%cohort 71%

494 pos · 106 neg

Total reviews

600tracked

600 crawled

Velocity · all-time

0 / dayest

600 all-time

Steam-purchase rate

53.0%flat

47.0% free / EA / key

01 Language distribution

Reviewer interface language · count, share of total, share positive

19 languages · top 12 shown

ENEnglish

54.7%32880%

TRTurkish

14.3%8691%

RURussian

7.7%4667%

ESSpanish

4.5%27100%

KOKorean

3.8%2383%

FRFrench

3.2%1974%

PTBrazilian Portuguese

2.7%1694%

DEGerman

2.3%1486%

ESLatin American Spanish

2.0%1292%

ZHSimplified Chinese

1.7%1080%

ITItalian

0.8%5100%

JAJapanese

0.7%4100%

02 Reviews by playtime

Hours played at time of review · positive% per bucket

0-1h 265

82%positive

44.2% of reviewsrefund window

1-10h 325

82%positive

54.2% of reviews

10-100h 10

100%positive

1.7% of reviews

03 Monthly timeline

Reviews per month · positive vs negative stacked · since launch

Positive 494Negative 106

1088154270

22·0723·0223·0924·0424·1125·0626·0126·0826·09

04 Breakdowns

Reviews segmented · count, % of total, % positive

600 reviews

Free product

72/ 600

12.0% of total92% positive

Early access

456/ 600

76.0% of total87% positive

Key activation

210/ 600

35.0% of total90% positive

Steam Deck

2/ 600

0.3% of total100% positive

Steam purchase

318/ 600

53.0% of total82% positive

Recommended

494/ 600

82.3% of total— votedUp

Not recommended

106/ 600

17.7% of total— votedDown

Reviews crawled

600/ 600

100.0% of total82% positive