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Is Running Through Backrooms worth it for you?
We tell you who should skip it, too.
Play it if you…
Good fit- Solo horror players who want to explore Backrooms-inspired environments
- Action players who prefer movement systems built around sprinting, sliding, and wall-running
- Players who enjoy varied surreal environments, including flooded rooms, fields, hotels, and corrupted spaces
Skip it if you…
Saves you a refund- Players seeking combat-focused gameplay may hit a wall because the description centers on evasion, movement, and escape from entities.
- Players who prefer compact, familiar settings may find the 17-level structure and changing environments demanding to navigate.
- Players looking for multiplayer play will not find a solo format suited to group sessions.
Our take on Running Through Backrooms
The bounce point arrives when movement becomes the main defense: players who expect to fight through threats may stall at the need to stay alert, stay quiet, and use sprinting, sliding, and wall-running to escape.
What is Running Through Backrooms?
Run through 17 Backrooms levels as a solo player in a survival horror game set across shifting environments.
Movement includes sprinting, sliding, and wall-running for crossing hazardous terrain and avoiding entities. The levels range from yellow-lit hallways and industrial tunnels to flooded rooms, an abandoned hotel, overgrown fields, corrupted spaces, and neon-lit pools. Waterslides provide another way to reach areas. Each location presents its own setting, obstacles, and threats, while the overall objective is to escape the Backrooms and uncover hidden secrets. The game includes entities and unexplained phenomena that require attention and quiet movement.
How Running Through Backrooms plays
- 01Parkour movement
- Sprinting, sliding, and wall-running are used to cross terrain and evade dangers.
- 0217 distinct levels
- Locations include tunnels, an abandoned hotel, flooded rooms, infinite fields, and reality-corrupted spaces.
- 03Waterslide traversal
- Twisting water slides connect to additional areas within the Backrooms.
- 04Entity avoidance
- Unknown entities and other phenomena occupy the levels, requiring players to remain alert and quiet.
Games like Running Through Backrooms
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1_Cutter_1For:Fans of atmospheric horror who want quiet, unsettling explorationSkip if:Players seeking tightly directed levels rather than wandering through large, maze-like spaces
ActionBackrooms Society
Mikael BihlFor:Horror fans who want cooperative exploration for one to eight playersSkip if:Players who prefer a fixed route may bounce off the randomly generated levels and nonlinear areas.
ActionThe Backrooms: Found Footage
Euclid GamesFor:Survival-horror players who want to search for supplies and an exit while avoiding creaturesSkip if:Players who want a clearly bounded map may hit a wall in the randomly segmented, approximately 600 million-square-mile office maze.Picked by overlapping fit notes and genres, not an editorial comparison.
Running Through Backrooms: platforms & release
Is Running Through Backrooms worth it?
It is worth it if: solo horror players who want to explore Backrooms-inspired environments. Skip it if: players seeking combat-focused gameplay may hit a wall because the description centers on evasion, movement, and escape from entities.
Where can I download Running Through Backrooms?
Use the Download Now button on this page: it opens Running Through Backrooms's store page, where you can choose how to get it.
What platforms is Running Through Backrooms on?
Windows only.
