Inside the Backrooms
Moderate overall intensityWhat's in it
The game actively frightens through entities that hunt the player, sudden encounters and jump scares, and stretches where the player must hide or flee because they cannot fight back.
Hostile entities catch and kill the player, ending the run with a startle rather than depicted injury; no blood, wounds or gore are shown.
The premise of being trapped and hunted alone in endless empty spaces carries a bleak, distressing tone, but no on-screen atrocity or named death drives it.
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What it is
Inside the Backrooms is a first-person cooperative horror game for up to four players, set in the 'Backrooms' internet-legend world of endless, dreary, off-kilter rooms. Players explore themed levels — a hotel, an office, a parking structure, grassy 'grassrooms' and more — solving environmental puzzles and searching for keys and codes to progress while monstrous entities roam the halls. There is no real combat: when an entity finds you it grabs and kills you, shown without blood or gore, so play centers on hiding, fleeing and coordinating with teammates. The chief content is fear — dark corridors, unsettling sound design, pursuit and startle moments — rather than graphic imagery. It is played online with others using voice and text chat.
How it's framed
The game frames its content as atmospheric survival horror: the tension comes from vulnerability and being hunted in an oppressive, disorienting space rather than from graphic violence, and success is measured by escaping and solving puzzles alongside friends rather than by harming anything.
Details
- Developer
- MrFatcat
- Publisher
- MrFatcat
- Released
- Jun 20, 2022
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