The Backrooms 1998 - Found Footage Survival Horror Game on Steam - User reviews, Price & Information

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 gore game developed and published by Steelkrill Studio.
Released on February 20th 2025 is available in English only on Windows.

It has received 745 reviews of which 640 were positive and 105 were negative resulting in a rating of 8.1 out of 10. 😎

The game is currently priced at 6.55€ on Steam with a 20% discount.


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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

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March 2025
Awesome game. I can't remember having such tension while playing a game. The monster looked insane. I loved to be able to spray on walls. Wow, great work.
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Feb. 2025
Great game! Here are my points I would like to mention: * Dreadful atmosphere, I love it! * It's actually scary. * I love the fact that it's not another Pixel's or Wiki lore based Backrooms. It took the concept of the Backrooms and made something on its own! And that's the magic of the Backrooms: Everyone has his own interpretation of the Backrooms. This one definitely is influenced by Silent Hill. * Nice game-play. The marker as a tool to keep tracking of the maze is amazing. * Interesting story, and the actual camera footage are every well done! The only thing that I would change is probably decrease the amount of jump-scares. They work pretty well in most cases, but after some point they are unreasonably heavily used. Great game overall.
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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.
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July 2024
Finally a backrooms game that really has good jump scares even though it was too much
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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
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The Backrooms 1998 - Found Footage Survival Horror Game
8.1
640
105
Online players
2
Developer
Steelkrill Studio
Publisher
Steelkrill Studio
Release 20 Feb 2025
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