Return the Backrooms

Return the Backrooms

Skmaestro · 2022 · Exploration, FPS, Puzzle, PvE, First-Person

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About Return the Backrooms

✦ AI summary

Explore nightmarish Backrooms with up to 3 friends, solving puzzles and gathering items while evading terrifying entities in an intentionally confusing maze designed to disorient you. This creepypasta-inspired co-op horror demands teamwork, resource management, and strategy as you hunt for pieces of your soul to escape the endless corridors.

Return the Backrooms is a co-op horror game with support for up to 4 players, where you and your friends have to find a way out, very complex and confusing corridors that will drive you crazy, and even more so filled with various creatures.
this game contains elements of legendary creepypasta.

You will be forced to explore all the rooms and the maze itself to find the necessary items to unlock new locations and pass the game, some things like the first aid kit will help you in times of trouble, but you can't carry a lot of them.

Online Co-Op


Support for up to 4 players at the same time

Confusing game map


The game's map is designed in such a way that you wander around a lot to make it seem like you know where you're going, when in fact you don't, you're just wandering around in circles.

Entities


In the game, you can meet several types of entities and ordinary creatures.

Rooms


both simple rooms to wander and find items, and unique ones where you have to complete a mini-puzzle

Lockers


in them, you can hide from enemies, and in some of them you can find items

Difficulty


which affects most aspects of gameplay

Experience and level


for each successful or unsuccessful game, you will gain experience and increase your game level, starting with some levels you will unlock new levels of difficulty.

Chat


For communication and system messages.

Piece of soul


is a key item to get out of the backrooms, it attracts its owner and other entities

Chalk


For drawing on the ground for better orientation.
Own and other people's arrows are of different colors

Medkit


It will help in difficult cases when you or your teammate are injured.

Flashlight


Useful in the dark when there is no other light.

What Steam players say

Recent verbatim reviews from Steam — separate from playze.io community reviews below.

Not recommended Apr 1, 2023
It's called Return the Backrooms, that's what we all did. Returned this game. I expected it not to be great but it was very very VERY bad. Don't be fooled by the mostly positive reviews. The English language reviews are almost all negative and for good reason. The scream mechanic did give me a laugh at least.
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Recommended Jul 16, 2024
best backrooms game ever made. achievements dont work, walking sim 3.0, fell asleep multiple times. 10/10
2 found this helpful
Recommended Jun 24, 2026
its fun
Not recommended Jul 14, 2024
most mindnumbing and awful experience ive had thusfar
Not recommended Mar 22, 2024
bought just to request a refaund under less then twenty mins, dont waste your time
Not recommended Mar 22, 2024
first of all the game is garbage like literately pure garbage i wont recommend even to toddler

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