Return the Backrooms
Short description
Return the Backrooms is a Co-op horror game for 1-4 players where you can have a great time with your friends. Think, Explore, Wander, find the key items and try to escape. but be careful because something is lurking in the dark...
- Developer
- Skmaestro
- Publisher
- Skmaestro
- Release
- Thu, Nov 10, 2022
- Price
- $3.99
- Reviews
- 109
- Positive
- 63%
- Followers
- n/a
- Owners (estimated)
- 50K – 100K
- Concurrent players
- n/a
- Genres
- Adventure, Indie, Early Access
- Features
- Multi-player, Co-op, Online Co-op
- Tags
Review count and SteamSpy's owner range disagree, so the band is widened to cover both rather than picking a favourite. Multiplied by the $3.99 launch price — there is not enough price history for this game to weight the copies by what they actually sold for. Before Steam's cut, VAT and refunds. How these numbers are calculated.
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History
2 data points since Aug 12, 2026. Gaps mean nothing changed — the value carries forward.
The blurred area is the rest of the history. 102 further data points reach back to Nov 1, 2022 — your plan shows the last 90 days of it. How far each series in particular reaches is written on its own chart; not every one of them goes back that far. The shape in the blurred area is decoration, not data: the figures are not in this page at all. Plus unlocks the complete series.
Lowest recorded price: $1.19 on Jun 25, 2026.
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