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Players navigate claustrophobic environments in this indie horror experience. Since its 2025 release, the title has accumulated 36,709 reviews on Steam. The current user consensus stands at an 89% positive rating, categorizing the project as very positive among the player base.
Overview
Escape the Backrooms is a 2025 Action game developed by Fancy Games and published by Secret Mode. On Steam it has gathered 117,078 player reviews, 90% of them positive, which counts as a very positive reception among indie titles in the Action category. The game is available on windows, and launched at $10. The pairing of developer Fancy Games with publisher Secret Mode 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 model estimates its lifetime sales at roughly 3.2 million to 7.4 million 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, Escape the Backrooms can be compared against similar Action titles and benchmarked on review counts and estimated sales.
Reviews
117,078
Positive
90%
Steam appid
1943950
Engine
n/a
Sales estimate
vv1.03.2M to 7.4M
units (median: 5.3M)
≈ $18.0M to $42.1M net revenue (Steam cut + refunds + regional discount applied)
indielist estimates lifetime unit sales for Escape the Backrooms at roughly 3.2 million to 7.4 million copies, with a median around 5.3 million, derived from its 117,078 Steam reviews using a multi-factor Boxleiter model (version v1.0). That median maps to approximately $30.1M 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
90d · low $6.45Over the last 90 days the price ranged from $6.45 to $9.99, averaging $9.40 across 3 discount windows, with a historical low of $6.45 on 2026-05-08.
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Where to buy
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- Fanatical -25%$8.24 Buy
- Green Man Gaming$9.99 Buy
- Humble Store
- GOG.com
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Platforms
windows
Tags
HorrorMultiplayerOnline Co-OpPsychological HorrorCo-opSurvival HorrorFirst-PersonEscape RoomExplorationVRAdventure3DSingleplayerActionIndieEarly AccessAction-AdventureCasualStealthDungeon Crawler
Frequently asked questions
- How many copies has Escape the Backrooms sold?
- indielist estimates Escape the Backrooms has sold between 3,161,106 and 7,375,914 units (median 5,268,510), derived from its 117,078 Steam reviews with the white-box Boxleiter vv1.0 method. The full breakdown is shown on the page.
- Who developed Escape the Backrooms?
- Escape the Backrooms was developed by Fancy Games and published by Secret Mode.
- When was Escape the Backrooms released?
- Escape the Backrooms was released in 2025.
- How many reviews does Escape the Backrooms have on Steam?
- Escape the Backrooms has 117,078 Steam reviews, of which 90% are positive.
Frequently asked questions
- How many copies has Escape the Backrooms sold?
- indielist estimates Escape the Backrooms has sold between 3,161,106 and 7,375,914 units (median 5,268,510), derived from its 117,078 Steam reviews with the white-box Boxleiter vv1.0 method. The full breakdown is shown on the page.
- Who developed Escape the Backrooms?
- Escape the Backrooms was developed by Fancy Games and published by Secret Mode.
- When was Escape the Backrooms released?
- Escape the Backrooms was released in 2025.
- How many reviews does Escape the Backrooms have on Steam?
- Escape the Backrooms has 117,078 Steam reviews, of which 90% are positive.
Ecosystem
Players looking for games like Escape the Backrooms can compare it on indielist against semantically similar Action titles such as The Past Within, A Way Out, ranked by shared tags and genre rather than by ad spend. On the developer side, Fancy Games's other releases and Secret Mode's wider catalog are one click away, letting developers benchmark where Escape the Backrooms 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 Escape the Backrooms 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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