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Action indie game Backrooms: Code Yellow launched in 2026, developed and self-published by gamemechanic. Its $9.99 initial price puts it in the budget range; Steam lists 325 reviews, with 0% positive despite a mixed label.
Overview
Backrooms: Code Yellow is a 2026 Action game developed by GameMechanic and published by GameMechanic. On Steam it has gathered 478 player reviews, 49% of them positive, which counts as a mixed reception among indie titles in the Action category. The game is available on windows, and launched at $10. The pairing of developer GameMechanic with publisher GameMechanic 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 7,000 to 17,000 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: Code Yellow can be compared against similar Action titles and benchmarked on review counts and estimated sales.
Reviews
478
Positive
49%
Steam appid
4694270
Engine
Unknown
Players (snapshot)
Unavailable
Sales estimate
v1.07K to 17K
units (median: 12K)
≈ $41K to $95K modeled net revenue (fixed store-cut, refund, and regional-price assumptions applied)
+ - How is this calculated?
| Factor | Adjustment |
|---|---|
| base | +50 |
| year_2026 | -10 |
| price_$10 | -5 |
| positive_49% | -10 |
| final NB | 25 |
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: Code Yellow at roughly 7,000 to 17,000 copies, with a median around 12,000, derived from its 478 Steam reviews using a multi-factor Boxleiter method (version v1.0). That median maps to approximately $68K 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
4 observed days · window low $7.99Across 4 observed UTC days from 2026-10-01 to 2026-10-22, the daily lowest tracked USD price across stores ranged from $7.99 to $9.99. The tracked-window low was $7.99 on 2026-10-01.
Real store observations · daily lowest tracked USD price across stores · missing days are not filled.
Where to buy
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- Green Man Gaming
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- Humble Store
- GOG.com
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Platforms
windows
Frequently asked questions
- How many copies has Backrooms: Code Yellow sold?
- indielist estimates Backrooms: Code Yellow has sold between 7,170 and 16,730 units (median 11,950), derived from its 478 Steam reviews with the white-box Boxleiter v1.0 method. The full breakdown is shown on the page.
- Who developed Backrooms: Code Yellow?
- Backrooms: Code Yellow was developed by GameMechanic and published by GameMechanic.
- Who published Backrooms: Code Yellow?
- Backrooms: Code Yellow was published by GameMechanic, developed by GameMechanic. See GameMechanic's full catalogue and submission status on indielist.
- When was Backrooms: Code Yellow released?
- Backrooms: Code Yellow was released in 2026.
- How many reviews does Backrooms: Code Yellow have on Steam?
- Backrooms: Code Yellow has 478 Steam reviews, of which 49% are positive.
- Is Backrooms: Code Yellow worth playing?
- Steam players rate Backrooms: Code Yellow 49% positive across 478 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: Code Yellow can compare it on indielist against semantically similar Action titles such as Terraria, Rust, Phasmophobia, Geometry Dash, ranked by shared tags and genre rather than by ad spend. On the developer side, GameMechanic's other releases and GameMechanic's wider catalog are one click away, letting developers benchmark where Backrooms: Code Yellow 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: Code Yellow 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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