The Backrooms Game FREE Edition

You can easily criticize the game as well as crap on it honestly. It's got the charm of being absolutely true to the OG creepypasta, I mean, size and all. But the bummer is that there's NO different rooms, biomes, levels, or any creative liberties. Don't expect Kane Pixels level of detail, and, don't expect anything more than what you see. It's exactly what you get lol. 600 MILLION square feet of plain yellow halls and buzzing lights, with the only gimmick of having to check your watch every 30 to 60 seconds... Which is more annoying than challenging in my opinion. But you have to take into account that this game came out like, within a few months of the OG creepypasta being posted? That's ALL they had to work with, and for being among the very first few games to even touch the subject, I'd say they kinda nailed it. Just comparing to modern day's library of games is not very fair.

Well, it's a game based on the Backrooms lore...and that's it. Exactly what it sounds like and available for free. It is a mildly interesting experience within the genre and will hold your interest for perhaps one or two complete journeys through this peculiar liminal space. There are horror elements but it's not a credible enough construction to be decently scary. The devs have been putting out media updates sometimes for the last few years, but I'm fairly sure the project is functionally abandoned. For no price, I will offer my tepid approval.

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Backrooms pro

Honestly for it being the first backrooms game it's quite solid as it nails down the premise perfectly with a bit of a unique gimmick that I'm not sure I enjoyed but nonetheless it's good. Starting with positives, they perfectly captured the size of the backrooms and the annoying buzz in the background, as well as the yellow wallpaper. The feeling you get while walking around makes you a bit anxious which I appreciated. Now my only “big” complaint would be the gimmick this game has which is having to check your watch every 30 seconds which became really annoying and repetitive the longer I traversed. Another minor issue would be the entity that was included since it doesn't really do anything compared to the entities in newer games, but for it being the first game I cut it some slack and I would at least recommend to try it out for yourself to see how much the Backrooms has evolved since this games release.