Backrooms: Exploration

HNStudios / May 2, 2025 / Adventure

windows

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Backrooms: Exploration is a single-player horror game, which takes place in 2020. Two friends have lost their jobs due to COVID-19, but they still have to bring food to the table. After a failed heist, one of them ends up in the Backrooms. Now your only mission is to survive.

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What's new

Remake Update

2026-05-24

Backrooms: Exploration Remake update is finally here, just in time before the movie! The game is a bit different from the last version, and I'll list all the changes below: • New main menu • Better settings • New areas • Better optimization • The game is a bit shorter, since I removed some of the levels. I removed them because they didn't fit properly in the game. • Better graphics, visuals • New ending, replacing the 2 older ones • Longer stamina • Better textures and materials on pretty much everything • Better sound quality • New achievements have been added, and I have removed some of the previous ones.

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What players say

Mostly Positive

71% positive, 77 reviews

Recommended2 hrs played

If you turn off the enemies in the options, you can comfortably explore the individual levels. The game is quite atmospheric and offers two different endings and corresponding level branches.

7 found this helpful, 2025-11-01

Recommended6 hrs played

great game mostly... needs a bit of work, as in better cam quality, its very blurry and hard to see the details, need to make the stamina longer and and refill faster and not run out in 5 seconds, like who has that much stamina jeez. also make it so the crouch is not taking a minute enable or disable, its really annoying, and finally put more hum buzz and a little cross hair in the middle of the screen so you...

2 found this helpful, 2026-05-24

Recommended2 hrs played

decent short backrooms walking simulator the character walks like 2x more steps than a human does(too many foot steps noises given how slow you are moving which makes atmopshere worse), the walking speed is too slow and stamina system makes no sense as theres no gameplay or nothing its just a walking simulator, the "running" is just almost fast walking, while walking is very slow the game is very linear and each...

2 found this helpful, 2026-07-07

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