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Scavenge shifting Backrooms levels for supplies, manage hunger, thirst and sanity, and evade threats alone or with friends.
Released 15 Sep 2023
Manage Hunger, Thirst, Sanity
Craft Weapons and Tools
Mine Backrooms Ore
Survival horror with roguelike elements. Explore randomized levels with different items and entities while trying to maintain your thirst, hunger, and sanity, ensuring a new experience every time. Play alone or with up to TEN friends online! Cross-platform multiplayer with Nintendo Switch.
Developed by RE:CODE · Published by RE:CODE









You are trapped in a maze of Backrooms corridors and must search for a way onward while avoiding hostile entities. Each level contains different hazards, items and events.
Search rooms for food, water and materials while keeping hunger, thirst and sanity in check. Limited inventory space makes you choose what to carry; gathered or dismantled materials can be used to craft tools, weapons and other supplies. You can also trade, mine ore in some levels and fight threats with weapons.
Layouts, items and events are randomized between runs. Choose a profession with its own bonuses and play in permadeath, adventure, sandbox or peaceful explore mode. Play alone or online with up to ten players, and try to reach further levels; in permadeath, dying ends the run.
Some players enjoy the tense atmosphere, survival loop and playing cooperatively with friends. Others describe the experience as repetitive and report bugs or multiplayer synchronization problems; several also criticize the level design and loud entity sounds.
| Platforms | Windows |
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| Achievements | 72 |
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| Controller support | PlayStation, Xbox |
| Controller required | No |
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| Website | Official website |
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