Experience multiple levels of The Backrooms lore through an immersive survival horror experience brought to life in Unreal Engine 5. This game has a regular play mode and a VR play mode, and features over 10 levels to explore with multiple districts for each level.
All Reviews:
Mixed (64) - 54% of the 64 user reviews for this game are positive.
Release Date:
Feb 8, 2025
Developer:
Publisher:

Sign in to add this item to your wishlist, follow it, or mark it as ignored

Buy The Backrooms: Mass Extinction

 

About This Game

If you're not careful and you noclip out of reality in the wrong areas, you'll end up in the Backrooms. The old moist carpet, the mono-yellow rooms and the hum-buzz of the fluorescent lights will be your only comfort in the endless purgatory you have found yourself in. Don't bother crying out for help. Nobody is coming. Nobody is left.

(Some VR headsets might have compatibility issues. I don't own all of the headsets yet to test with.)
Currently Tested Headsets:
• Oculus Rift
• Meta Quest 2

////If you are using the Quest you should go into your Oculus app and change your OpenXR settings to the Oculus one. Unreal Engine did a bug in the new game engine update and now you have to change that setting or it glitches the headset display.////

The Backrooms: Mass Extinction is a game created by Mitchell Hepburn using Unreal Engine 5. The game is in development and will receive updates with new content, fixes and improvements. The Beta version of the game released recently. In the current build, you can:
• Explore a massive Level 0, a maze of non-Euclidean rooms stretching infinitely in all directions.
• Explore Level 0.2, a sub-level called 'Remodeled Mess'.
• Explore Level A, the Poolrooms!
• Explore Level 0.3, Level Fun, home to the Partygoers!
• Explore Negative Levels
• Explore various Sub Levels of The Backrooms!
• Use vending machines to avoid dying of hunger or thirst.
• Collect items such as Almond Water.
• Use your trusty torch to light areas shrouded in darkness, but make sure you have enough batteries!
• Search for the Manila room, which can be found behind a wall you can noclip through.
• Discover books documenting the levels.
• Play on Desktop or VR; seamlessly switch between regular and VR play modes!
• Interact with the Poolrooms water in VR and regular play modes!
• Splash the water with your VR controller!
• Collect items in your inventory system.
• Find hidden weapons to use against entities.
• Three current entity types: Partygoers, Smilers and Hazmat entity
• Options to disable entities if you'd rather play without them.
• Options to play with guns to defend yourself.
• Difficulty options.

This game uses Unreal Engine 5; avoid running on outdated hardware.

Mature Content Description

The developers describe the content like this:

In future builds, there will be occasional bodies and the use of guns.

System Requirements

    Minimum:
    • Requires a 64-bit processor and operating system
    • OS: Windows 11
    • Processor: 12th Gen Intel I9-12900KF
    • Memory: 16 GB RAM
    • Graphics: 12GB Nvidia GeForce RTX 2060 (VR ready)
    • Storage: 22 GB available space
    • VR Support: OpenXR
    • Additional Notes: 16GB of RAM, This game uses Unreal Engine 5 and VR, avoid outdated hardware.
    Recommended:
    • Requires a 64-bit processor and operating system
    • OS: Windows 11
    • Processor: 12th Gen Intel I9-12900KF
    • Memory: 16 GB RAM
    • Graphics: 12GB Nvidia GeForce RTX 2060 (VR ready)
    • Storage: 25 GB available space
    • Additional Notes: 16GB of RAM, This game uses Unreal Engine 5 and VR, avoid outdated hardware.

Customer reviews for The Backrooms: Mass Extinction

Review Type


Purchase Type


Language


Date Range
To view reviews within a date range, please click and drag a selection on a graph above or click on a specific bar.

Show graph



Playtime
Filter reviews by the user's playtime when the review was written:


No minimum to No maximum

Display
Show reviews in selected display order





Learn More
Show graph
 
Hide graph
 
Filters
Excluding Off-topic Review Activity
Playtime:
Played Mostly on Steam Deck
There are no more reviews that match the filters set above
Adjust the filters above to see other reviews
Loading reviews...