Backrooms: Lost Tape
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Action indie game Backrooms: Lost Tape comes from Cortez Productions, which is listed as both developer and publisher. Released in 2022, it has 1,297 Steam reviews marked mixed and launched at an initial price of $15.99.
Overview
Backrooms: Lost Tape is a 2022 Action game developed by Cortez Productions and published by Cortez Productions. On Steam it has gathered 1,316 player reviews, 82% of them positive, which counts as a mostly positive reception among indie titles in the Action category. The game is available on windows, and launched at $16. The pairing of developer Cortez Productions with publisher Cortez Productions is one of the studio-publisher relationships indielist tracks, letting players find comparable games and letting developers and investors study how Action projects reach the market. indielist's white-box method estimates its lifetime sales at roughly 39,000 to 92,000 units, with the full Boxleiter factor breakdown shown on this page rather than a single black-box figure. Within indielist's catalog of indie games mapped to their studios, publishers, and funding, Backrooms: Lost Tape can be compared against similar Action titles and benchmarked on review counts and estimated sales.
Reviews
1,316
Positive
82%
Steam appid
1926620
Engine
Unknown
Players (snapshot)
Unavailable
Sales estimate
v1.039K to 92K
units (median: 66K)
≈ $361K to $841K modeled net revenue (fixed store-cut, refund, and regional-price assumptions applied)
+ - How is this calculated?
| Factor | Adjustment |
|---|---|
| base | +50 |
| year_2022 | 0 |
| price_$16 | 0 |
| positive_82% | 0 |
| final NB | 50 |
Heuristic display range: median × [0.6, 1.4]. Boundary protection: NB ∈ [15, 150].
Methodology & limitations
Sales estimates use an additive Boxleiter-derived heuristic against public Steam review
counts. They are not authoritative sales data, and the fixed display range
is not a statistically validated confidence interval. Actual results may fall outside it,
especially for deeply discounted or bundle-heavy titles. Algorithm version
v1.0. Read the exact method and validation status.
indielist estimates lifetime unit sales for Backrooms: Lost Tape at roughly 39,000 to 92,000 copies, with a median around 66,000, derived from its 1,316 Steam reviews using a multi-factor Boxleiter method (version v1.0). That median maps to approximately $601K in net revenue after Steam's 30% cut, regional pricing, and refunds. Unlike black-box trackers, the full calculation is shown on this page: a base review-to-sales multiplier is adjusted for release year, launch price, review sentiment, studio size, and genre, and every adjustment is listed so developers, publishers, and investors can audit exactly how the figure was reached. The range itself reflects genuine uncertainty — review-to-sales ratios vary widely between games — so indielist publishes a low, median, and high band rather than a false-precision single number, and treats free-to-play, heavily discounted, and bundle-distributed titles as having wider error margins still.
Price history
No tracked store price observations are available for this game in the last 90 days.
Where to buy
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- Humble Store
- GOG.com
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Platforms
windows
Frequently asked questions
- How many copies has Backrooms: Lost Tape sold?
- indielist estimates Backrooms: Lost Tape has sold between 39,480 and 92,120 units (median 65,800), derived from its 1,316 Steam reviews with the white-box Boxleiter v1.0 method. The full breakdown is shown on the page.
- Who developed Backrooms: Lost Tape?
- Backrooms: Lost Tape was developed by Cortez Productions and published by Cortez Productions.
- Who published Backrooms: Lost Tape?
- Backrooms: Lost Tape was published by Cortez Productions, developed by Cortez Productions. See Cortez Productions's full catalogue and submission status on indielist.
- When was Backrooms: Lost Tape released?
- Backrooms: Lost Tape was released in 2022.
- How many reviews does Backrooms: Lost Tape have on Steam?
- Backrooms: Lost Tape has 1,316 Steam reviews, of which 82% are positive.
- Is Backrooms: Lost Tape worth playing?
- Steam players rate Backrooms: Lost Tape 82% positive across 1,316 reviews. indielist doesn't score games editorially; it surfaces public review sentiment and a white-box sales estimate so you can judge reception and reach yourself.
Ecosystem
Players looking for games like Backrooms: Lost Tape can compare it on indielist against semantically similar Action titles such as Rust, Terraria, Phasmophobia, ARK: Survival Evolved, ranked by shared tags and genre rather than by ad spend. On the developer side, Cortez Productions's other releases and Cortez Productions's wider catalog are one click away, letting developers benchmark where Backrooms: Lost Tape sits among a studio's body of work and how its publisher's portfolio performs. Because indielist maps studios, publishers, games, and funding into one connected graph, the same Backrooms: Lost Tape page serves three audiences at once: players hunting their next Action game, developers studying how comparable projects were positioned and what they sold, and investors tracing which teams and labels are active in the space. A machine-readable markdown mirror of this page is published at the same path with a .md suffix for AI assistants, and its review, price, and sales-estimate figures are refreshed on a schedule rather than frozen at launch.
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