Backrooms

Backrooms


Backrooms is a psychological horror game that traps you in endless yellow halls. Explore eerie levels, avoid entities, and fight the fear of being lost.

Lost in the endless void in Backrooms

This is a first-person horror game, set in endless corridors, empty rooms, yellow walls, and flashing fluorescent lights, all creating a feeling of not belonging to this world.

Instead of focusing on action, guns or combat, this game emphasizes: The atmosphere is stuffy, lonely, and uncertain. The feeling of always having something following you, even if you are not sure if it is real or not. And finding a way out of a space that seems to have no exit.

Backrooms

Story and setting

The idea from a famous creepypasta

This game originated from an online creepypasta: "If you accidentally no-clip out of reality, you will fall into Backrooms, a place containing more than 600 million square meters of empty yellow rooms, buzzing fluorescent lights and the smell of moldy carpets…".

The game took that idea as a base, and then developed it into:

  • A surreal space, like an endless basement of the world.
  • No clear map, no directions, no one to help you.
  • A place where there is only you, the rooms, and Something of unknown shape.

A feeling of being lost and hopeless

Without too many cutscenes or dialogues, this game still makes you feel:

  • Trapped, not knowing who you are, how you got here.
  • Every step is filled with a vague fear, like: If I go back, will there be anything there?.
  • The more you walk, the more the space repeats, but only slightly differently, making you doubt your own memory.

It’s not just about walking in yellowed rooms

Basic gameplay

Navigate through a maze of corridors and empty rooms, looking for doors, passages, ladders, holes or special objects to get to other areas, while always avoiding or running away from entities lurking somewhere in the dark.

Essentially, you just need to run, walk, look and listen. The game hardly gives you much guidance, leaving you to fumble, panic and guess your own way, the true feeling of being lost in a void where no one can help you. This can remind you of Deer Cannibal: 99 Nights In The Forest; this lost world makes you feel like a soulless person.

Controls

  • WASD to move
  • Spacebar to jump
  • Shift to run
  • F to select key