{"id":1593991,"date":"2026-06-01T01:25:27","date_gmt":"2026-06-01T01:25:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/9q6RojrgKcsYriVz9qhi8Q"},"modified":"2026-06-01T01:25:27","modified_gmt":"2026-06-01T01:25:27","slug":"steam-week-in-review-4-backrooms-games-released-on-steam-last-week-joining-a-list-of-over-500-cash-ins-parodies-and-legitimate-contenders","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/arcader.org\/news\/steam-week-in-review-4-backrooms-games-released-on-steam-last-week-joining-a-list-of-over-500-cash-ins-parodies-and-legitimate-contenders\/","title":{"rendered":"Steam Week in Review: 4 Backrooms games released on Steam last week, joining a list of over 500 cash-ins, parodies and legitimate contenders"},"content":{"rendered":"<article>\n<p>With this week&#8217;s theatrical release of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.pcgamer.com\/movies-tv\/backrooms-and-exit-8-make-the-perfect-double-feature-for-videogame-adjacent-horror-movies\">A24&#8217;s The Backrooms<\/a> adaptation, I was expecting an avalanche of new Backrooms-themed videogames to appear on Steam. Surprisingly, the number is quite modest: a mere four!<\/p>\n<p>Surely you&#8217;ve noticed that Backrooms games have been releasing at a steady clip on Steam for years now. When I search Backrooms on Steam more than 500 results appear. A lot of them are &#8220;coming soon&#8221; and at a guess, probably won&#8217;t release at all, but if I sort by user reviews\u2014because a game needs to be released to have a review\u2014there&#8217;s still 225 results. Excluding false positives, I&#8217;d estimate that <em>at least<\/em> 150 of those are actual playable Backrooms games.<\/p>\n<p>And of course, this isn&#8217;t counting <a href=\"https:\/\/www.roblox.com\/discover?Keyword=backrooms\">Roblox Backrooms games<\/a>, smartphone Backrooms games, and <a href=\"https:\/\/itch.io\/search?q=backrooms\">Itch Backrooms games<\/a>, though naturally there would be some crossover with Steam&#8217;s library.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s a mess out there. One Steam publisher has 12 Backrooms games, with five more on the way (the most popular of these, Backrooms: What&#8217;s Next, has only achieved an all-time concurrent players peak of 9). Others take great liberties with the core premise, for example: <\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/store.steampowered.com\/app\/3015110\/Backrooms_Cats_and_Lava\/\">Backrooms Cats and Lava<\/a> \u2013 the Backrooms except it&#8217;s a 2D puzzler starring a cat and the floor is lava for some reason<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/store.steampowered.com\/app\/2246350\/Backroom_Warfare_II\/\">Backroom Warfare II<\/a> \u2013 the Backrooms except as a military shooter (and no there&#8217;s not a Backroom Warfare I)<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/store.steampowered.com\/app\/3060170\/Chained_in_the_Backrooms\/\">Chained in the Backrooms<\/a> \u2013 the Backrooms except you and three friends are teddy bears who are chained together<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/store.steampowered.com\/app\/4242080\/Backrooms_Santa\/\">Backrooms Santa<\/a> \u2013 the Backrooms except an evil Santa Claus roams the hallways<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/store.steampowered.com\/app\/3288600\/SKIBIDI_GYATROOMS\/\">Skibidi Gyatrooms<\/a> \u2013 the Backrooms except strewn with brainrot and first-person cigarette smoking<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Given the abundance of these adaptations it&#8217;s hard to tell which are actually worth playing and which are just opportunistic cash grabs. Since most fall into the latter category, one must spare a thought for more casual players who aren&#8217;t Steam power users: most of these games look very alike, so it&#8217;d be super easy to pick something extremely low-effort.<\/p>\n<p>So what&#8217;s worth trying? <a href=\"https:\/\/store.steampowered.com\/app\/1943950\/Escape_the_Backrooms\/\">Escape the Backrooms<\/a> is among the most popular: like countless Backrooms games it&#8217;s a first-person, co-op focused outing about navigating and ultimately escaping from an interminable hellscape of yellow hallways. It also features levels based on other popular &#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.pcgamer.com\/gaming-industry\/steam-week-in-review-steam-is-flooded-with-liminal-spaces-games-and-i-approve-but-i-think-ive-found-the-best-to-start-with\/\">liminal spaces<\/a>&#8221; like endless suburbia and pools. Another co-op outing is <a href=\"https:\/\/store.steampowered.com\/app\/1987080\/Inside_the_Backrooms\/\">Inside the Backrooms<\/a> which takes a more puzzle-centric approach, though it does use AI for some of its in-game paintings.<\/p>\n<p>The most highly regarded single-player Backrooms game, and the one I actually quite like and can recommend if you <em>must <\/em>play a Backrooms game, is <a href=\"https:\/\/store.steampowered.com\/app\/2172260\/The_Complex_Expedition\/\">The Complex: Expedition<\/a>. It plays a bit fast and loose with the better known Backrooms lore, but is absolutely worth playing if you&#8217;re drawn to the atmosphere of the film. I&#8217;ve also heard good things about <a href=\"https:\/\/store.steampowered.com\/app\/2158740\/Within_the_Backrooms\/\" target=\"_blank\">Within the Backrooms<\/a>, which applies a period appropriate PS1 veneer to the setting.<\/p>\n<p>Usually when people criticise Steam for its lack of curation it annoys me: Steam is good <em>because<\/em> it&#8217;s full of random, weird stuff! That&#8217;s what makes it fun! If the price we pay is loads of garbage, I think it&#8217;s a worthwhile trade off. <\/p>\n<p>But I will concede: finding a good Backrooms game on Steam at the moment is a risky business. One silver lining is that publisher Secret Mode is currently hosting a <a href=\"https:\/\/store.steampowered.com\/curator\/46064278-Backrooms-Banquet\/sale\/backroomsbanquet\" target=\"_blank\">Backrooms-themed Steam event<\/a> which handily filters out most of the garbage. That said, the games I listed above should suffice.<\/p>\n<p>At least there&#8217;s this: Backrooms games tend to be slightly higher effort than most Italian Brainrot-themed games.<\/p>\n<h2 id=\"top-steam-games-by-revenue-may-19-26\">Top Steam games by revenue (May 19 &#8211; 26)<\/h2>\n<p>Steam releases its top sellers charts on Wednesdays, so the below chart doesn&#8217;t factor in some late week releases that might have been big, including 007 First Light and Mina the Hollower, though the former was avialble for pre-order.<\/p>\n<div >\n<table>\n<thead>\n<tr>\n<th class=\"firstcol \" >\n<p><strong>Rank<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/th>\n<th >\n<p><strong>Game<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/th>\n<\/tr>\n<\/thead>\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td class=\"firstcol \" >\n<p>1<\/p>\n<\/td>\n<td >\n<p>Forza Horizon 6<\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td class=\"firstcol \" >\n<p>2<\/p>\n<\/td>\n<td >\n<p>Counter-Strike 2<\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td class=\"firstcol \" >\n<p>3<\/p>\n<\/td>\n<td >\n<p>Subnautica 2<\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td class=\"firstcol \" >\n<p>4<\/p>\n<\/td>\n<td >\n<p>LEGO Batman: Legacy of the Dark Night<\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td class=\"firstcol \" >\n<p>5<\/p>\n<\/td>\n<td >\n<p>Paralives<\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td class=\"firstcol \" >\n<p>6<\/p>\n<\/td>\n<td >\n<p>Deep Rock Galactic: Rogue Core<\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td class=\"firstcol \" >\n<p>7<\/p>\n<\/td>\n<td >\n<p>007 First Light<\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td class=\"firstcol \" >\n<p>8<\/p>\n<\/td>\n<td >\n<p>Marvel Rivals<\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td class=\"firstcol \" >\n<p>9 <\/p>\n<\/td>\n<td >\n<p>Warhammer 40,000: Space Marine 2<\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td class=\"firstcol \" >\n<p>10<\/p>\n<\/td>\n<td >\n<p>Apex Legends<\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<\/div>\n<p>Paralives proves yet again that the hunger for a life sim that isn&#8217;t The Sims 4 is real. PC Gamer&#8217;s Lauren Morton is <a href=\"https:\/\/www.pcgamer.com\/games\/life-sim\/paralives-has-done-the-one-exact-thing-i-was-begging-life-sims-for\/\">digging the early access build<\/a> so far, and it&#8217;s reviewing really well on Steam. Could this prove to be everything that Inzoi wasn&#8217;t? <\/p>\n<p>Warhammer 40,000: Space Marine 2 is there because it&#8217;s currently 70% off and a new update just released. Otherwise, nothing very surprising here. Will Mina the Hollower factor into next week&#8217;s list? I hope so: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.pcgamer.com\/gaming-industry\/shovel-knight-developer-yacht-club-games-will-be-in-serious-trouble-if-its-next-release-isnt-a-hit-its-make-or-break-for-sure\/\">the studio needs it to be a hit<\/a>.<\/p>\n<h2 id=\"last-week-s-steam-deep-cuts\">Last week&#8217;s Steam deep cuts<\/h2>\n<figure class=\"van-image-figure inline-layout\" data-bordeaux-image-check >\n<div class='image-full-width-wrapper'>\n<div class='image-widthsetter' style=\"max-width:1024px;\">\n<p class=\"vanilla-image-block\" style=\"padding-top:56.25%;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" id=\"jgGXbUwwUWsf9XgkoaxyEM\" name=\"emuuroom\" alt=\"A small figure stands in a snowy landscape\" src=\"https:\/\/arcader.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/steam-week-in-review-4-backrooms-games-released-on-steam-last-week-joining-a-list-of-over-500-cash-ins-parodies-and-legitimate-contenders.jpg\" mos=\"\" align=\"middle\" fullscreen=\"\" width=\"1024\" height=\"576\" attribution=\"\" endorsement=\"\" class=\"inline\"><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div><figcaption itemprop=\"caption description\" class=\" inline-layout\"><span class=\"credit\" itemprop=\"copyrightHolder\">(Image credit: borbware)<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<div class=\"product\"><a data-dimension112=\"00ec8188-771a-4a3c-a906-0a1cd306796f\" data-action=\"Deal Block\" data-label=\"Emuurom\" data-dimension48=\"Emuurom\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"><\/p>\n<figure class=\"van-image-figure \" >\n<div class='image-full-width-wrapper'>\n<div class='image-widthsetter' style=\"max-width:1024px;\">\n<p class=\"vanilla-image-block\" style=\"padding-top:56.25%;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" id=\"o9kGZybHkFy2xZPEAf8XdU\" name=\"emu2\" caption=\"\" alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/arcader.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/steam-week-in-review-4-backrooms-games-released-on-steam-last-week-joining-a-list-of-over-500-cash-ins-parodies-and-legitimate-contenders-1.jpg\" mos=\"\" align=\"middle\" fullscreen=\"\" width=\"1024\" height=\"576\" attribution=\"\" endorsement=\"\" credit=\"\" class=\"\"><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/figure>\n<p><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/store.steampowered.com\/app\/1634360\/EMUUROM\/\" target=\"_blank\" data-dimension112=\"00ec8188-771a-4a3c-a906-0a1cd306796f\" data-action=\"Deal Block\" data-label=\"Emuurom\" data-dimension48=\"Emuurom\" data-dimension25=\"\"><strong>Emuurom<\/strong><\/a><strong> | May 26<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve been looking forward to this 2D puzzler for a while and hope to write something more on it soon, but in the meantime: it&#8217;s a &#8220;creature-scanning&#8221; metroidvania with a huge focus on unguided exploration and puzzle solving. If you loved Animal Well or, more recently, Derelict Star, this is probably a no-brainer. It was built for the <a href=\"https:\/\/tic80.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">TIC-80 fantasy computer<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"product\"><a data-dimension112=\"ac36bdaf-5eaf-46cd-b57f-470c87dcb457\" data-action=\"Deal Block\" data-label=\"Dread Fields\" data-dimension48=\"Dread Fields\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"><\/p>\n<figure class=\"van-image-figure \" >\n<div class='image-full-width-wrapper'>\n<div class='image-widthsetter' style=\"max-width:1920px;\">\n<p class=\"vanilla-image-block\" style=\"padding-top:56.25%;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" id=\"ua75KDXB7TT8rY5qofiAF\" name=\"dreadfields\" caption=\"\" alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/arcader.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/steam-week-in-review-4-backrooms-games-released-on-steam-last-week-joining-a-list-of-over-500-cash-ins-parodies-and-legitimate-contenders-2.jpg\" mos=\"\" align=\"middle\" fullscreen=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1080\" attribution=\"\" endorsement=\"\" credit=\"\" class=\"\"><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/figure>\n<p><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/store.steampowered.com\/app\/4258770\/Dread_Fields\/\" target=\"_blank\" data-dimension112=\"ac36bdaf-5eaf-46cd-b57f-470c87dcb457\" data-action=\"Deal Block\" data-label=\"Dread Fields\" data-dimension48=\"Dread Fields\" data-dimension25=\"\"><strong>Dread Fields<\/strong><\/a><strong> | May 29<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Another low-poly horror game, but this one melds farming sim elements\u2014cow milking, plant growing, fishing\u2014with a gnawing sense of unease. Set in rural Ukraine, it&#8217;s your job to resuscitate a farm that the surrounding community holds some pretty hectic superstitions about. Turns out they are not unfounded.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"product\"><a data-dimension112=\"ef6c4032-7739-43e8-8c63-ae2a55d311a4\" data-action=\"Deal Block\" data-label=\"Cheap Car Repair\" data-dimension48=\"Cheap Car Repair\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"><\/p>\n<figure class=\"van-image-figure \" >\n<div class='image-full-width-wrapper'>\n<div class='image-widthsetter' style=\"max-width:1920px;\">\n<p class=\"vanilla-image-block\" style=\"padding-top:56.25%;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" id=\"6ugkXzExUy9JjApEjjg9N5\" name=\"cheapcarrepair\" caption=\"\" alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/arcader.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/steam-week-in-review-4-backrooms-games-released-on-steam-last-week-joining-a-list-of-over-500-cash-ins-parodies-and-legitimate-contenders-3.jpg\" mos=\"\" align=\"middle\" fullscreen=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1080\" attribution=\"\" endorsement=\"\" credit=\"\" class=\"\"><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/figure>\n<p><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/store.steampowered.com\/app\/2904040\/Cheap_Car_Repair\/\" target=\"_blank\" data-dimension112=\"ef6c4032-7739-43e8-8c63-ae2a55d311a4\" data-action=\"Deal Block\" data-label=\"Cheap Car Repair\" data-dimension48=\"Cheap Car Repair\" data-dimension25=\"\"><strong>Cheap Car Repair<\/strong><\/a><strong> | May 29<\/strong><br \/><strong><\/strong><br \/>Clearly inspired by Jalopy, Cheap Car Repair is about fixing antiquated shit boxes in 1990s Poland. Alas, repairing cars the right way is expensive, which is why it&#8217;s your job in Cheap Car Repair to fix things as inexpensively as possible. So for example, you can use a pantyhose instead of a fan belt. Sounds like a rollicking good time.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"product\"><a data-dimension112=\"3dfdf108-3a93-4f65-9c46-290cfc5b559c\" data-action=\"Deal Block\" data-label=\"Control, I'm Not Coming Back\" data-dimension48=\"Control, I'm Not Coming Back\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"><\/p>\n<figure class=\"van-image-figure \" >\n<div class='image-full-width-wrapper'>\n<div class='image-widthsetter' style=\"max-width:1920px;\">\n<p class=\"vanilla-image-block\" style=\"padding-top:56.25%;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" id=\"o2p8JdS6DP5WAsC8xvzZEh\" name=\"control\" caption=\"\" alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/arcader.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/steam-week-in-review-4-backrooms-games-released-on-steam-last-week-joining-a-list-of-over-500-cash-ins-parodies-and-legitimate-contenders-4.jpg\" mos=\"\" align=\"middle\" fullscreen=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1080\" attribution=\"\" endorsement=\"\" credit=\"\" class=\"\"><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/figure>\n<p><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/store.steampowered.com\/app\/4515660\/Control_Im_Not_Coming_Back\/\" target=\"_blank\" data-dimension112=\"3dfdf108-3a93-4f65-9c46-290cfc5b559c\" data-action=\"Deal Block\" data-label=\"Control, I'm Not Coming Back\" data-dimension48=\"Control, I'm Not Coming Back\" data-dimension25=\"\"><strong>Control, I&#8217;m Not Coming Back<\/strong><\/a><strong> | May 29<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s a short &#8216;n&#8217; sweet narrative adventure that is, according to Steam, &#8220;inspired by the Hopecore aesthetic&#8221;, which is rife on TikTok and designed to serve as an optimistic antidote to, well, everything else. It&#8217;s about an astronaut stranded in space and searching for a meaning to go on. <\/p>\n<\/div>\n<h2 id=\"steam-review-of-the-week\">Steam review of the week<\/h2>\n<p>&#8220;The fact that if the snail touches you, the game is &#8220;bricked forever&#8221; (unless you edit the files I&#8217;m assuming) and that one of the achievements is staying alive for an entire year, I&#8217;ll pass.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Vex on <a href=\"https:\/\/store.steampowered.com\/app\/4149320\/Dont_Touch_the_Snail\/\" target=\"_blank\">Don&#8217;t Touch The Snail<\/a><\/p>\n<\/article>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.pcgamer.com\/gaming-industry\/steam-week-in-review-4-backrooms-games-released-on-steam-last-week-joining-a-list-of-over-500-cash-ins-parodies-and-legitimate-contenders\/\">Source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>With this week&#8217;s theatrical release of A24&#8217;s The Backrooms adaptation, I was expecting an avalanche of new Backrooms-themed videogames to appear on Steam. Surprisingly, the number is quite modest: a mere four! Surely you&#8217;ve noticed that Backrooms games have been releasing at a steady clip on Steam for years now. When I search Backrooms on Steam more than 500 results appear. A lot of them are &#8220;coming soon&#8221; and at a guess, probably won&#8217;t release at all, but if I sort by user reviews\u2014because a game needs to be released to have a review\u2014there&#8217;s still 225 results. Excluding false positives, I&#8217;d estimate that at least 150 of those are actual playable Backrooms games. And of course, this isn&#8217;t counting Roblox Backrooms games, smartphone Backrooms games,&hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"excerpt-more\"><a class=\"blog-excerpt button\" href=\"https:\/\/arcader.org\/news\/steam-week-in-review-4-backrooms-games-released-on-steam-last-week-joining-a-list-of-over-500-cash-ins-parodies-and-legitimate-contenders\/\">Read More&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1593992,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[336],"tags":[5491],"class_list":["post-1593991","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-pc-gamer","tag-gaming-industry"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.7 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Steam Week in Review: 4 Backrooms games released on Steam last week, joining a list of over 500 cash-ins, parodies and 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