Enter The Backrooms Review Summary
Last updated: 2026-07-03
- Immersive lore and atmosphere
- Engaging exploration and variety
- Excellent scary atmosphere overall
- Repetitive gameplay and bugs
- Poor optimization and crashes
- Display and resolution issues
Emotions
Archetypes
Snapshot History
Positive
Negative
103
85%
15%
93
67%
33%
- Sample precision
- Helpful reviews
- 72%
- Unhelpful reviews
- 28%
- Protest reviews
- 0%
- 67%Helpful reviews with positive sentiment
- 33%Helpful reviews with negative sentiment
- Positive points
- 133
- Negative points
- 105
- Gameplay points
- 98
- Perf. points
- 15
- Rec. points
- 26
- Misc points
- 0
| Point | Description | Importance |
|---|---|---|
Best backrooms immersion and lore
| Players frequently describe this as the most faithful and immersive Backrooms experience, praising its lore accuracy and near-VR quality immersion. | 96% |
Highly praised overall quality
| Many call it a great, solid, or very fun game, often rating it 10/10 or calling it the best horror game. | 87% |
Excellent scary atmosphere
| The atmosphere is consistently highlighted as well-crafted, scary, and psychologically unsettling, with feelings of paranoia and unease. | 81% |
Engaging exploration and variety
| Exploration is compelling, with unique gimmicks in each level, a free mode full of secrets, and a variety that prevents boredom. | 72% |
Abundant content and secrets
| There is plenty of content, with many levels including sub-levels, secrets, tricks like the Level Fun trapdoor, and fun key trading. | 66% |
Well-designed sanity and items
| The sanity mechanic adds tension, and the note and items systems enhance lore and gameplay depth, with well-designed mechanics. | 55% |
Varied procedural generation
| Procedural generation is praised for its variety and number of levels, creating unique environments despite the hallway setting. | 50% |
Rewarding campaign progression
| The main campaign is heartracing and rewarding, with fun progression especially after level 8, and satisfying level advancement. | 49% |
Lore accuracy and engagement
| The game is lore-accurate, lets players experience Backrooms lore directly, and even gets new players into the lore. | 45% |
Good performance and mechanics
| The game runs well on lower-end PCs, scales effectively, and has well-thought-out mechanics that function even in unusual situations. | 39% |
Creative enemy design
| Enemies are creatively designed with pathing that hides AI limitations, and entities serve their purpose well, adding terror. | 33% |
Active developer support
| The developer is highly responsive, actively updating with new levels, entities, and features, showing commitment to improvement. | 23% |
Great value for money
| Players feel the game is worth the price and even underpriced for its quality and content. | 22% |
Good audio and sound
| Audio and sound design are good, contributing to the immersive atmosphere. | 22% |
Desire for co-op mode
| A notable request is for a co-op mode, though it is a single suggestion. | 9% |