With this week's theatrical release of A24'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'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 "coming soon" and at a guess, probably won't release at all, but if I sort by user reviews—because a game needs to be released to have a review—there's still 225 results. Excluding false positives, I'd estimate that at least 150 of those are actual playable Backrooms games.
And of course, this isn't counting Roblox Backrooms games, smartphone Backrooms games, and Itch Backrooms games, though naturally there would be some crossover with Steam's library.
It's a mess out there. One Steam publisher has 12 Backrooms games, with five more on...
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