How many copies has The Backrooms: Survival sold?

indielist estimates The Backrooms: Survival has sold between 23,760 and 55,440 units (median 39,600), derived from its 880 Steam reviews with the white-box Boxleiter v1.0 method. The full breakdown is shown on the page.

Who developed The Backrooms: Survival?

The Backrooms: Survival was developed by RE:CODE and published by RE:CODE.

Who published The Backrooms: Survival?

The Backrooms: Survival was published by RE:CODE, developed by RE:CODE. See RE:CODE's full catalogue and submission status on indielist.

When was The Backrooms: Survival released?

The Backrooms: Survival was released in 2023.

How many reviews does The Backrooms: Survival have on Steam?

The Backrooms: Survival has 880 Steam reviews, of which 82% are positive.

Is The Backrooms: Survival worth playing?

Steam players rate The Backrooms: Survival 82% positive across 880 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.

The Backrooms: Survival

Sep 15, 2023 Action $9.99

Developer RE:CODE Publisher RE:CODE

Profile updated Jun 2026

Action indie game The Backrooms: Survival launched in 2023 from developer and publisher re-code. It has 882 Steam reviews marked mixed, and its $9.99 initial price positions it as a budget Backrooms survival option.

The Backrooms: Survival is a 2023 Action game developed by RE:CODE and published by RE:CODE. On Steam it has gathered 880 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 $10. The pairing of developer RE:CODE with publisher RE:CODE 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 24,000 to 55,000 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, The Backrooms: Survival can be compared against similar Action titles and benchmarked on review counts and estimated sales.

Reviews

880

Positive

82%

Steam appid

1889640

Engine

Unknown

Players (snapshot)

Unavailable

Sales estimate

v1.0

24K to 55K

units (median: 40K)

≈ $136K to $316K modeled net revenue (fixed store-cut, refund, and regional-price assumptions applied)

24K median 55K

+ How is this calculated?

880 reviews × NB(45) = 39,600 median units

Factor	Adjustment
base	+50
year_2023	0
price_$10	-5
positive_82%	0
final NB	45

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 The Backrooms: Survival at roughly 24,000 to 55,000 copies, with a median around 40,000, derived from its 880 Steam reviews using a multi-factor Boxleiter method (version v1.0). That median maps to approximately $226K 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

8 observed days · window low $9.99

Across 8 observed UTC days from 2026-07-15 to 2026-07-22, the daily lowest tracked USD price across stores ranged from $9.99 to $9.99. The tracked-window low was $9.99 on 2026-07-15.

Real store observations · daily lowest tracked USD price across stores · missing days are not filled.

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Platforms

windows

Genres

Action AdventureIndieMassively MultiplayerSimulation

Frequently asked questions

How many copies has The Backrooms: Survival sold?: indielist estimates The Backrooms: Survival has sold between 23,760 and 55,440 units (median 39,600), derived from its 880 Steam reviews with the white-box Boxleiter v1.0 method. The full breakdown is shown on the page.
Who developed The Backrooms: Survival?: The Backrooms: Survival was developed by RE:CODE and published by RE:CODE.
Who published The Backrooms: Survival?: The Backrooms: Survival was published by RE:CODE, developed by RE:CODE. See RE:CODE's full catalogue and submission status on indielist.
When was The Backrooms: Survival released?: The Backrooms: Survival was released in 2023.
How many reviews does The Backrooms: Survival have on Steam?: The Backrooms: Survival has 880 Steam reviews, of which 82% are positive.
Is The Backrooms: Survival worth playing?: Steam players rate The Backrooms: Survival 82% positive across 880 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.

Players looking for games like The Backrooms: Survival 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, RE:CODE's other releases and RE:CODE's wider catalog are one click away, letting developers benchmark where The Backrooms: Survival 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 The Backrooms: Survival 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.

Matched from shared Steam tags and primary genre. Review count breaks ties; it is not a personal recommendation score.