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Backrooms: Extractions

PC (Microsoft Windows) • 2025

Should you play it?

Cooperate with up to 6 players to explore, search, and extract lost agents within the Backrooms. Solve puzzles, unlock tools, survive against entities, and progress through increasingly dangerous levels.

What works

  • Strong cooperative multiplayer experience
  • Immersive horror atmosphere and sound design
  • Challenging and tense gameplay
  • Active developer support and updates
  • Good value for price

Things to keep in mind

  • Repetitive objectives and limited content
  • Bugs and technical issues in early access
  • Limited character customization
  • Some pacing and level design criticisms
  • Multiplayer connectivity and lobby problems

What to play next

Top picks

Games that feels the closest overall

  • Ghost Exorcism INC.

  • Backrooms: Escape Together

  • Inside the Backrooms

  • Escape the Backrooms

  • Backroom Company

  • The Devourer: Hunted Souls

More expressive

Games that feels like Backrooms: Extractions but with more self-expression and customization

  • Sketchy's Contract

  • CashGrab: Refunded

  • Backrooms Rec.

  • Backrooms Society

  • The Outlast Trials

  • Labyrinthine

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Backrooms: Extractions: Less representative of its motivational profile, with noticeable differences. Motivations that often define this kind of title include Cooperation, Fellowship, Intimacy, Leadership. Here, the score leans higher than usual among comparable games on Survival. It leans lower than usual among comparable games on Relaxation, Expression.

Last update: 21/08/2026