Escape the Backrooms
Search for exits through unsettling rooms while learning how to avoid their inhabitants. In cooperative play, everyone must escape alive, and proximity voice chat can alert nearby entities.
- AI score · out of 10
- 7.7 / 10
About this game
Escape the Backrooms takes you through yellow corridors, echoing pool rooms and other strange spaces in search of a way out. Run or hide from hostile entities, learn their different behaviors and work out how to escape each level. The route to safety changes between levels, so recognizing a threat and finding the exit are both part of progressing. Play alone or cooperate online with a group. Escape requires every teammate to reach the exit alive, while proximity voice chat creates a practical complication: the entities can hear you too. Nightmare Mode adds a separate, stricter condition, sending the run back to the beginning after a single death.
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AI review
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A fit for groups who enjoy making communication itself part of surviving a horror game.
The shared escape condition makes keeping track of teammates potentially as important as finding the route. Audible voice chat adds a useful tension between coordinating the group and staying quiet near danger.
Strengths
- Distinct entity behaviors give observant players different threats to learn.
- Voice chat can turn an ordinary conversation into a consequential group decision.
Weaknesses
- Requiring everyone to escape may frustrate players who prefer to advance independently.
Who it is for: Players who enjoy learning hostile behavior and coordinating an escape with friends.
Play notes: Online play requires internet access and Nintendo Switch Online; Nightmare Mode restarts the entire run after one death.
View scoring basis
| Dimension | Review state | Score | Weight |
|---|---|---|---|
| Dimension Nightmare Mode's full restart makes each attempt a larger commitment for players who choose that rule. | Reviewed | 7.8 / 10 | Not provided |
| Dimension Having to communicate without attracting entities could reward a group that knows when to speak and when to stop. | Reviewed | 7.9 / 10 | Not provided |
| Dimension Familiar corridors and pool rooms provide a recognizable backdrop that may make the threats feel more intrusive. | Reviewed | 8.0 / 10 | Not provided |
| Dimension The minimal interface may appeal to players who prefer fewer visible interface elements during exploration. | Reviewed | 6.8 / 10 | Not provided |
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Core information
- Developer
- Scaretech Studios
- Publisher
- Secret Mode
- Release date
- Jul 7, 2026
- Platforms
- Nintendo Switch 2
- Content kind
- Game
- Release state
- Released
- Region
- Worldwide
- Official website
- www.nintendo.com
- Offline minimum players
- 1
- Offline maximum players
- 1
- Online minimum players
- Not provided
- Online maximum players
- Not provided
- Categories
- Action · Primary genre
- Tags
- Main Story 20–50 HoursReplayableEquipment-driven ProgressionExploration3D GraphicsFirst PersonSurvivalReal-time CombatHorrorSolo-friendlyFast-pacedStory-driven
- Supported game languages
- Not provided
- Requires base game
- Not provided
- Standalone
- Not provided
- Age ratings
- PEGI: 16
- Play modes
- MultiplayerCo-opSingle player
- Perspectives
- First person
Release editions
- Nintendo Switch 2WorldwideJul 7, 2026
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Sources
- wearesecretmode.comSource revision: 1
- wearesecretmode.com