- October 20, 2025
- {CRYTIME}
The Backrooms: Rescue Expedition
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About The Backrooms: Rescue Expedition
The Backrooms: Rescue Expedition is a single player and multiplayer survival shooter game with horror and thriller themes. It was developed by {CRYTIME} and was released on October 20, 2025. It received neutral reviews from players.
Discord channel PLOTThe Backrooms: Rescue Expedition is a new game about liminal spaces. You and your team are tasked with saving the lives of the missing expedition unit, Echo-7 North. Ruthless entities and the madness of infinite halls create an atmosphere of relentless terror. Nevertheless, bringing the equipment and rescuing the lost research group is your main objective. RESCUE THE GROU…








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Reviews
- Engaging puzzles such as the parking lot license plate and hotel picture rotation add variety to gameplay.
- Co-op gameplay offers a fun and immersive experience with friends.
- Developer responsiveness and timely patching of critical bugs show strong support for the community.
- Numerous bugs including softlocks, stuck enemies, collision glitches, and inconsistent enemy behavior severely affect playability.
- Poor optimization causes unstable frame rates and performance issues even on high-end systems.
- Lack of clear objectives, confusing mechanics, missing game ending or credits, and audio inconsistencies detract from the overall experience.
optimization
3 mentions Positive Neutral NegativeThe game suffers from poor optimization, resulting in demanding performance even on high-end rigs, which significantly hampers playability. This issue is a major drawback alongside its lack of originality.
“Bad performance even on good rigs, no originality (same levels as every other piece of backrooms media, one original feeling level and nothing else).”
“It’s also quite demanding performance-wise because it’s poorly optimized, but honestly, that’s the least of its problems.”
“Wasn't able to play it really because it's so poorly optimized.”
Frequently Asked Questions
The Backrooms: Rescue Expedition is a survival shooter game with horror and thriller themes. Common tags for The Backrooms: Rescue Expedition include first-person, 3D, demons, realistic, indie and others.
The Backrooms: Rescue Expedition is available on PC and Windows.
The Backrooms: Rescue Expedition was released on October 20, 2025.
The Backrooms: Rescue Expedition was developed by {CRYTIME}.
The Backrooms: Rescue Expedition has received neutral reviews from players. Most players liked The Backrooms: Rescue Expedition for its humor but disliked it for its optimization.
The Backrooms: Rescue Expedition is a single player game with multiplayer and local co-op support.
Similar games include Backrooms: Extractions, Backrooms: Escape Together, Inside the Backrooms, Sign of Silence, Escape the Backrooms and others.









