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

Lifetime gross spend

$131Kest

grossAtFullPrice $106K · promo blend

Net to developer

$84Kest

after Valve / VAT / refunds

Lifetime units

14,213▼ 100.0%

24 / day median · launch

Launch window · 30d

$4K3% of LTD

707 units · $5.39 ASP

Confidence

medium±18%

Based on 563 reviews collected over 1.3 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%

59%

→ 3

Score history · 30d retention

2 (27d ago)3 (now)

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Review score

8/ 9

Very Positive

% positive

85.0%cohort 71%

515 pos · 91 neg

Total reviews

606tracked

606 crawled

Velocity · all-time

0 / dayest

606 all-time

Steam-purchase rate

51.8%flat

48.2% free / EA / key

01 Language distribution

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

20 languages · top 12 shown

ENEnglish

55.3%33583%

TRTurkish

14.7%8990%

RURussian

6.3%3879%

ESSpanish

4.6%28100%

KOKorean

4.0%2479%

FRFrench

3.1%1974%

PTBrazilian Portuguese

2.6%1694%

DEGerman

2.6%1688%

ESLatin American Spanish

2.0%1292%

ZHSimplified Chinese

1.5%989%

ITItalian

0.8%5100%

JAJapanese

0.7%4100%

02 Reviews by playtime

Hours played at time of review · positive% per bucket

0-1h 269

87%positive

44.4% of reviewsrefund window

1-10h 327

83%positive

54.0% of reviews

10-100h 10

100%positive

1.7% of reviews

03 Monthly timeline

Reviews per month · positive vs negative stacked · since launch

Positive 515Negative 91

1219161300

22·0622·1223·0623·1224·0624·1225·0625·1226·05

04 Breakdowns

Reviews segmented · count, % of total, % positive

606 reviews

Free product

75/ 606

12.4% of total92% positive

Early access

503/ 606

83.0% of total87% positive

Key activation

217/ 606

35.8% of total91% positive

Steam Deck

2/ 606

0.3% of total100% positive

Steam purchase

314/ 606

51.8% of total85% positive

Recommended

515/ 606

85.0% of total— votedUp

Not recommended

91/ 606

15.0% of total— votedDown

Reviews crawled

606/ 606

100.0% of total85% positive