Inside the Backrooms Review Summary
Last updated: 2026-05-31
- Fun multiplayer experience
- Creative and enjoyable gameplay
- Atmospheric Backrooms experience
- Game is buggy and broken
- Cave level plagued by bugs
- Lack of save points
Emotions
Archetypes
Core metrics
Core business metrics
Steam review mix, revenue model, and refund leakage.
Steam review stats
- Steam rating
- Very Positive (8/10)
- Total reviews
- 46,134
- Positive
- 37,08580.4%
- Negative
- 9,04919.6%
Sales estimations
- Estimated sales count
- 3,248,526
- Estimated revenue
- $22,707,197
- Game price
- $7
- Review → sale ratio
Refund leakage
- Refund-intent reviews
- 1246.25%
- Estimated copies lost
- 8,731
- Estimated revenue lost
- $61,030
Review pace
Statistical analysis
Sentiment vs playtime and velocity signals.
Sentiment × Playtime
review counts| Bucket | Neg | Pos |
|---|---|---|
| ≤ 2h playtime | 1246.3% Avg playtime 0.9h | 452.3% Avg playtime 1.1h |
| > 2h playtime | 85943.3% Avg playtime 23h | 95648.2% Avg playtime 32.7h |
Velocity
review pace| Avg/day | 1.4 rev/day |
| Last 30d | 4.6 rev/day |
| Quarterly | 73 rev/qtr |
| Days covered | 1,437.6 days |
Audience segments
Who is reviewing
Buyer mixes, lifecycle phase, and Steam Deck signals.
Buyer vs key activations
Share of review volume
1,984 total
Organic purchasers1,64783.0%
Voted up: 50%
Key activations33717.0%
Voted up: 53%
Honeymoon vs endgame
Based on hours played
1,984 total
First impression0-2h20410.3%
Voted up: 33%
Mid game2-10h73437.0%
Voted up: 52%
Late game10-20h47123.7%
Voted up: 57%
Endgame20h+57529.0%
Voted up: 50%
Steam Deck monitor
Deck vs global sentiment
Deck satisfaction
66.7%
Global baseline 50.5%
3 Steam Deck-tagged reviews out of 46,134 total.