The Backrooms: Survival

The Backrooms: Survival is a horror game with roguelike elements. You explore seemingly endless, narrow corridors, searching for a way out while managing your sanity, finding food and water, and avoiding hostile entities. Levels, items and events are randomized, so each playthrough has a different layout and encounters.

Explore and survive

You ascend through different levels of the Backrooms, each with its own items, objects, events and inhabitants. The game includes original levels and entities alongside ones familiar from Backrooms internet lore. Scavenge for food and water, including water from ceiling leaks, and you can resort to cannibalizing the dead. Limited inventory space means you must choose which supplies and tools to keep.

You can find materials throughout the Backrooms, dismantle items for resources, and craft equipment, tools and weapons. Some levels have ore deposits you can mine. Weapons range from makeshift axes to abandoned firearms, and you can customize them further as you fight hostile entities.

Game modes

The game has four modes: Permadeath, adventure, sandbox and peaceful Explore. Sandbox includes console commands. In Permadeath, death is permanent; the mode has one quick-save slot, which is automatically deleted when you die.

Multiplayer

Cross-platform multiplayer supports up to 10 players, including play with Nintendo Switch players. You can join existing online games through the public lobby, and proximity voice chat can be turned on or off in the settings.

Customize your run

Before entering the Backrooms, you can choose a random player or create a character by selecting a name, avatar and real-world profession. Each profession provides unique bonuses. Graphics can be set to styles such as retro PSX or VHS. Randomized equipment stats, items, events, dungeons and level layouts add further variation between runs.

Records of your attempts

A global leaderboard tracks who reaches the highest, deepest levels of the Backrooms. The Obituary System records deaths, including the character’s name, age, profession and cause of death.