The Backrooms 1998 - Found Footage Survival Horror Game

The Backrooms: 1998 is a first-person found footage psychological horror survival game where it tells the story of a young teen after accidentally falling into the depths of The Backrooms in 1998. Roam freely, mark, explore and try unravel the story - however you are not alone. Don't scream.

The Backrooms 1998 - Found Footage Survival Horror Game is a psychological horror, survival horror and early access game developed and published by Steelkrill Studio.
Released on May 25th 2022 is available in English only on Windows.

It has received 705 reviews of which 606 were positive and 99 were negative resulting in a rating of 8.1 out of 10. 😎

The game is currently priced at 8.19€ on Steam.

The Steam community has classified The Backrooms 1998 - Found Footage Survival Horror Game into these genres:

Psychological Horror Survival Horror Early Access Gore Survival Thriller Action Adventure Simulation Dark Escape Room Realistic Action-Adventure Puzzle Sandbox Walking Simulator FPS Atmospheric 3D Choose Your Own Adventure

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Requirements

These are the minimum specifications needed to play the game. For the best experience, we recommend that you verify them.

Windows

OS *: Windows 7 64-Bit or later
Processor: Intel Core i5 2500K or AMD equivalent
Memory: 4 GB RAM
Graphics: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 660 2 GB or AMD equivalent
Storage: 4 GB available space

Reviews

Explore reviews from Steam users sharing their experiences and what they love about the game.

Oct. 2024

Grim, sinister and sombre atmosphere. Overall, disgusting feeling to be involved in what's happening in the storyline. It leaves a sour aftertaste in your mouth upon completion. This game has barely any connection to The Backrooms concept, other than the title and the idea of no-clipping into a different place, which in this case is a purgatory , that protagonist is going through for what he did.

Sept. 2024

This game gave me some chills especially when I completed it, reading the end screen was an experience alone. Amazing short game, amazing work and im not thrilled easily, that's a really good short horror experience. Highly recommend it. Amazing work from a single developer. Keep it up man.

July 2024

Finally a backrooms game that really has good jump scares even though it was too much

June 2024

i played this game with my laptop and had fun, but its better to a good pc to play this game but its fun

April 2024

scariest backrooms on the steam store and by far the only one that is very tense. Do not play with headphones in the dark really does get to you, but fantastic game especially the random jump scares that some actually change every time you play sop you never know what to expect

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The Backrooms 1998 - Found Footage Survival Horror Game

8.19€

8.1

606

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Developer

Steelkrill Studio

Publisher

Steelkrill Studio

Release 25 May 2022

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