How many copies has Backrooms: Extractions sold?

indielist estimates Backrooms: Extractions has sold between 15,624 and 36,456 units (median 26,040), derived from its 744 Steam reviews with the white-box Boxleiter v1.0 method. The full breakdown is shown on the page.

Who developed Backrooms: Extractions?

Backrooms: Extractions was developed by Headlight Studio and published by Headlight Studio.

Who published Backrooms: Extractions?

Backrooms: Extractions was published by Headlight Studio, developed by Headlight Studio. See Headlight Studio's full catalogue and submission status on indielist.

When was Backrooms: Extractions released?

Backrooms: Extractions was released in 2025.

How many reviews does Backrooms: Extractions have on Steam?

Backrooms: Extractions has 744 Steam reviews, of which 73% are positive.

Is Backrooms: Extractions worth playing?

Steam players rate Backrooms: Extractions 73% positive across 744 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.

Backrooms: Extractions

Apr 30, 2025 Action $6.99

Developer Headlight Studio Publisher Headlight Studio

Profile updated May 2026

Backrooms: Extractions is an action game launching in 2025. Currently in Early Access on Steam, it has garnered 564 reviews. The developer and publisher attribution are not yet imported.

Backrooms: Extractions is a 2025 Action game developed by Headlight Studio and published by Headlight Studio. On Steam it has gathered 744 player reviews, 73% of them positive, which counts as a mixed-to-positive reception among indie titles in the Action category. The game is available on windows, and launched at $7. The pairing of developer Headlight Studio with publisher Headlight Studio 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 16,000 to 36,000 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: Extractions can be compared against similar Action titles and benchmarked on review counts and estimated sales.

Reviews

744

Positive

73%

Steam appid

2835530

Engine

Unknown

Players (snapshot)

Historical snapshot · 2026-05-23 18:15 UTC

Sales estimate

v1.0

16K to 36K

units (median: 26K)

≈ $62K to $146K modeled net revenue (fixed store-cut, refund, and regional-price assumptions applied)

16K median 36K

+ How is this calculated?

744 reviews × NB(35) = 26,040 median units

Factor	Adjustment
base	+50
year_2025	-10
price_$7	-5
positive_73%	0
final NB	35

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: Extractions at roughly 16,000 to 36,000 copies, with a median around 26,000, derived from its 744 Steam reviews using a multi-factor Boxleiter method (version v1.0). That median maps to approximately $104K 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

17 observed days · window low $4.89

Across 17 observed UTC days from 2026-05-31 to 2026-07-24, the daily lowest tracked USD price across stores ranged from $4.89 to $6.99. The tracked-window low was $4.89 on 2026-05-31.

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

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Platforms

windows

Frequently asked questions

How many copies has Backrooms: Extractions sold?: indielist estimates Backrooms: Extractions has sold between 15,624 and 36,456 units (median 26,040), derived from its 744 Steam reviews with the white-box Boxleiter v1.0 method. The full breakdown is shown on the page.
Who developed Backrooms: Extractions?: Backrooms: Extractions was developed by Headlight Studio and published by Headlight Studio.
Who published Backrooms: Extractions?: Backrooms: Extractions was published by Headlight Studio, developed by Headlight Studio. See Headlight Studio's full catalogue and submission status on indielist.
When was Backrooms: Extractions released?: Backrooms: Extractions was released in 2025.
How many reviews does Backrooms: Extractions have on Steam?: Backrooms: Extractions has 744 Steam reviews, of which 73% are positive.
Is Backrooms: Extractions worth playing?: Steam players rate Backrooms: Extractions 73% positive across 744 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 Backrooms: Extractions can compare it on indielist against semantically similar Action titles such as Escape the Backrooms, Lethal Company, PANICORE, No More Room in Hell 2, ranked by shared tags and genre rather than by ad spend. On the developer side, Headlight Studio's other releases and Headlight Studio's wider catalog are one click away, letting developers benchmark where Backrooms: Extractions 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: Extractions 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.