Shifting To The Backrooms
Oopsome Games · 2026 · Horror, Story Rich, Puzzle, Psychological Horror, First-Person
PC
Positive85% · 46 📉 Recent reviews down 71%
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About Shifting To The Backrooms
STTB is a light horror game with a minimal amount of jump scares, focusing on story, the atmosphere of liminal spaces and puzzles.
Unlike most Backrooms co-op adventures, our game focuses on a single-player story campaign.We understand that multiplayer is fun. but we aim to deliver something fresh:
- A deep plot with actual characters.
- No clichéd "yellow corridors" — we’ve reimagined Backrooms.
Explore various atmospheric liminal spaces: from comfortable to eerie and find your way out of the nightmare.
Game Description
"Shifting To The Backrooms" is a mix of psychological horror and drama game where the protagonist, Will, grappling with family tragedies, discovers the method of "shifting" enabling him to enter dream liminal worlds and escape from his grim reality. However, the dream turns into a nightmare from which Will cannot wake up.The game will feature:- More than 15 liminal spaces
- Unique and abstract levels never seen before in Backrooms games
- Complex puzzles, Non-Euclidean spaces
- An intriguing story about shifting and parallel universes
Gameplay
A walking simulator with exploration of liminal spaces and puzzle-solving:- Travel through non-Euclidean spaces
- Solve abstract and engaging puzzles
- Find your way out — avoid and hide from entity monsters
Story
The core of the game is Will’s personal journey, not the "spaces." Liminality and Backrooms are just the stage.Will, a 15-year-old, battles family turmoil tied to his father, mother, sister, and mother's new friend (all revealed in-game). He seeks peace by "shifting" to safe levels, but dreams morph into an inescapable nightmare. Your task: guide Will to wakefulness. Through dreams, you’ll uncover ways to alter reality and secrets that reshape his family’s fate.
Explore the story, collect notes and learn different shifting methods (do not try at home)
Themes explored:- Shifting, astral projections, transcendental travel
- Oneirokinesis (Can thought influence reality through dreams?)
- Fear of being trapped in the astral plane, a dream, or an alternate reality
- The thin line between sleep and reality
Would you risk Shifting To The Backrooms?
We hope you would! See you in the Backrooms! :)
What Steam players say
Recent verbatim reviews from Steam — separate from playze.io community reviews below.
[b]First and foremost I gotta state that this game's story is about a really heavy topic, so if you're not into that, you should consider sitting this one out.[/b] On the other hand, this game not only made me ♥♥♥♥ my pants but also mentally scarred me, had its ups and downs, also I really liked how the game uses sleep and nightmares we often experience like not being able to properly run when being chased, seeing spiders everywhere etc. Its so vastly different from other backrooms games that its in a category of its own. Horror was well used, not overly saturated with chase scenes and unnecessarily hard and obscure puzzles. Would recommend if you like horror with a psychological touch to it.6 found this helpful
Not a bad game, and I found the story interesting, but one thing felt like too much. The game made me hide from enemies too often. It happened so frequently that it started to get annoying. By the time I reached the maze with plants, I was already tired of it, so I decided to step away from the game for a while2 found this helpful
It's not a complete waste of time. The concept is cool, and a lot of the levels provide some good scenery. The character models are goofy af, the voice acting is terrible, there isn't much going on for story (and it's poorly delivered), and it's short. All of those things are excusable, however, my only real complaint with the game is that barely any of the levels are intuitively designed. Almost every single level has little (if ANY) explanation/direction. You just spawn in an area and have to figure out what you're supposed to be doing. There are no hints, nothing is obvious, and even when you find a key item - you're not told what to do with it. I was only able to finish 3 or 4 levels by myself, whereas the remainder of the game (bar the final couple of scenes) required following the guide posted in discussions, as well as watching a youtube playthrough. If you're in to the backrooms, it'll be hit-or-miss - it has some classic backrooms inspirations, but it's nowhere near as disorienting as you'd expect, and the levels are a lot smaller than you'd imagine them being. That being said, I was still enthusiastic to explore each area. I would recommend this game to anybody who enj…2 found this helpful
want to enjoy it but its kind of a hard game!!!1 found this helpful
I almost did not buy this game because of the quicktime event (only one of these, thank you very much) at the beginning of the game. But my love for backroom games made me buy it anyway. Glad I did. Not use to having a story line with a backrooms style game, made me even more determined to complete the game. I did have to hit up a walkthrough for one puzzle, as I missed a comment, so pay attention. I died many times, and the restart points were reasonable. Graphics were great, storyline good.1 found this helpful
Very good game good story 671 found this helpful
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