The Complex: Found Footage
Moderate overall intensityWhat's in it
Sustained atmospheric fear built from buzzing fluorescent hallways, a grainy VHS camera, and the constant sense of being watched or followed, with occasional startles but no monsters, gore, or jump-scare creatures.
The experience centers on quiet dread, isolation, and the disorientation of being lost alone in an endless empty structure with no way out.
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What it is
The Complex: Found Footage is a short first-person walking-simulator horror game (roughly 30-60 minutes) inspired by the 'Backrooms' internet phenomenon. Viewed through a handheld VHS-style camera, you wander endless, mostly empty rooms and yellow fluorescent hallways trying to find a way out. There is no combat, no weapons, and no monsters chasing you; the tension comes entirely from the eerie, disorienting environment and the feeling that something might be following you. It contains no sexual content, nudity, strong language, substances, or purchases, and is played entirely solo with no online chat or multiplayer.
How it's framed
The game frames its content as pure atmospheric, liminal-space dread rather than graphic or violent horror. Fear is created through emptiness, unsettling lighting, sound design, and uncertainty, with the threat implied rather than shown, and no explicit or gory imagery.
Details
- Developer
- pgWave
- Publisher
- pgWave
- Released
- Aug 18, 2022
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