Escape the Backrooms quietly added to Xbox Game Pass

Escape the Backrooms quietly landed on Xbox Game Pass this weekend, coinciding with Fancy Games finally launching the hit horror game on console and with the release of A24's new film. The game first entered early access on Steam roughly four years ago and quickly built a devoted audience.

In spirit it resembles Phasmophobia but is more active and leans on jumpscares: you and friends must escape the back rooms before the creatures called "entities" catch you, gathering items and managing sanity and other vitals along the way. The back rooms themselves are mazelike and strange rather than mundane, spanning office cubicles, daycare cafeterias, sewers, ritzy hotel lounges, underground rooms stuffed with fuse boxes and other bizarre locations.

After a little more than three years in early access, Escape the Backrooms launched in its 1.0 state in October 2025 with major updates that added new endings and entities to address complaints about repetition.

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