The Complex: Expedition on Steam - User reviews, Price & Information

When an expedition with your team into the complex goes horribly wrong, you're left alone and lost, wandering the seemingly infinite maze of hallways, otherwise known as the Backrooms. Might there be something following you?

The Complex: Expedition is a horror, exploration and realistic game developed and published by pgWave.
Released on July 17th 2023 is available in English only on Windows.

It has received 1,457 reviews of which 1,337 were positive and 120 were negative resulting in a rating of 8.7 out of 10. 😎

The game is currently priced at 9.75€ on Steam.

The Steam community has classified The Complex: Expedition into these genres:

Horror Exploration Realistic Singleplayer Story Rich Psychological Horror Action Mystery Adventure Cinematic Simulation Immersive Sim First-Person 3D 1990's Atmospheric Thriller Open World Early Access America

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Windows

Requires a 64-bit processor and operating system
OS: WINDOWS® 10+(64-BIT Required)
Processor: Intel® Core™ i5-4460, 2.70GHz or AMD FX™-6300 or better
Graphics: NVIDIA® GeForce® GTX 760 or AMD Radeon™ R7 260x with 2GB Video RAM
DirectX: Version 11

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March 2025

I took some shrooms and played through this game and... wow. This game is absolutely beautiful. Every inch of liminal space was just perfect. It scratches your brain in such a nice way. What I love about this game is that there really aren't any entities (other backrooms games get kind of cringe with it), so this was truly refreshing. The scariest aspect of this game is the ambience. The dead silence. The design. The radio music. The liminal spaces themselves. Everything was just so insanely put together. I will say, the tall figure that makes a few appearances was SO SCARY ON SHROOMS (so. so. so. scary) but it was still great. This is one of those games you have to play multiple times to fully experience all that it has to offer. 11/10 would play this on shrooms again

Oct. 2024

This game gets the backrooms right i.e. spooky liminal feeling which is not just about a bloody monster chasing you. It accomplishes what few games do, being scary without chasing the player. This is about the space and the feeling of being lost and alone. Unique horror experience.

Sept. 2024

the game is probably one of the best takes on the concept of backrooms, considering how the other backrooms games just throw out some stupid *ss entities to try to make the gameplay "interesting". well, there are some encounters in this game too, which I'm not going to spoil, but this game does not need entities that are constantly chasing you and trying to kill you at all times. this game has its own way of implementing thrill by just its atmosphere and setting alone. so I'd say this game is conceptually outperform the other titles of the genre with that being said, I'm in no way stating that this game is perfect. the flashlight is automatic and it turns on in dark areas but sometimes it doesn't, so you have to basically just listen to your footsteps and guess if you're actually going in a certain direction or stuck walking towards a wall - as stupid as that sounds... during some parts of the levels that you have to crouch through narrow spaces, it feels like it's impossible to get the right angle to pass through and for the character to actually squeeze out of there... so at times, you may have to press the crouch key a couple of times, walk back, take a break and then try to pass through again etc. overall though, give this a try if you like the backrooms genre. it's definitely a decent experience and there's a good amount of interesting levels to see. it's a short, 1-2 hour game that will stress you out a lot, maybe even more than you think

Aug. 2024

Ladies and Gentlemen, this is a purebred backroom. An excellent beginning, an excellent ending —in fact, an ending that is faithful to the genre yet surpasses expectations, leaving you wanting more as you unravel the mystery. Everything in between is disturbing, to say the least. There are no monstrous entities chasing us. We don’t have to run or hide in a locker. The backroom itself IS the entity—a degenerate anomaly, an apathetic labyrinth that shouldn’t exist, presenting us with things that belong neither in a hallway nor a room. The suspense and horror are perfectly achieved by the oppressive atmosphere, somewhat relieved when we find our way to the next level. Each level has its own aesthetics and originality. Special mention goes to the pool section: once again, something that should be attractive is turned on its head, devoid of any humanity or logic. It’s as if a God suddenly discovered a pool and wanted to create spaces with pools without understanding their purpose, logic, or aesthetic sense. As I say, this is what a backroom should be. Kudos. And i want more.

July 2024

This is what backroom games are meant to be. No chase sequences, no hiding in lockers, no cheap jumpscares, no survival mechanics, just a walking simulator through strange liminal rooms and hallways.

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9.75€

8.7

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Developer

pgWave

Publisher

pgWave

Release 17 Jul 2023

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