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Team up in a first-person Backrooms horror maze, gathering supplies and solving changing puzzles while evading entities.
Released 20 Jun 2022
Crack Changing Puzzles
Coordinate Co-op Escapes
Manage Anxiety and Stamina
Inside the Backrooms is a horror multiplayer game mixed with different mechanics that will make you spend an intense night with friends. Explore, think, interact, but be careful, it is rumored that there are several entities wishing to find you...
Developed by MrFatcat · Published by MrFatcat, Dropsiick
Inside the Backrooms is a first-person online co-op horror game for up to four players. You and your teammates explore strange levels and try to escape while dangerous entities roam the area.
Search rooms for useful items and clues, then solve puzzles to open routes and reach new areas. Each level has its own mechanics, and puzzle solutions can change between runs; challenges are designed for solo or cooperative play.
Survival depends on managing limited inventory and stamina, learning how entities behave, and avoiding them. Seeing an entity raises anxiety and can impair visibility, while proximity voice chat lets teammates communicate at a distance—with the risk that entities may hear them.
Some supplied reviews praise playing with friends, tense exploration, and puzzles that reward cooperation and problem-solving. Many others criticize bugs and recent level changes, with long or confusing sections—especially the caves—often described as frustrating. Opinions also differ on difficulty: some players enjoy a demanding challenge, while others find it excessive or poorly balanced.
Inside the Backrooms is a Co-op online horror game up to 4 players, where you and your friends will fight to escape from the different levels of the backrooms, solving different puzzles with different mechanics in each one.
This game is based on the famous creepypasta with many real references implemented such as iconic entities and important elements. You will have to explore each room, look for elements that help you to continue advancing throughout the game and unlock new areas, but the further you go, more dangerous it will be, you must pay close attention in the area, identify each entity and know how to avoid them if you want to survive.
Look for supplies, store them in your inventory, explore all the rooms, solve puzzles, unlock areas of the map, interact, try to collect everything you find.
The main objective of Inside the Backrooms is to engage players with its gameplay, difficulty and atmosphere. There are countless identical rooms with an old, dirty carpet and pale yellowish walls, where at first glance it gives you a gloomy and bad feeling where you realize that it is not a safe place.
The game currently has 5 levels, each level is huge and is designed to be more difficult than the previous one and each one with different puzzles and mechanics.
There are also 2 secret mini levels that will lead you to a secret ending..
In this game you will find several entities, currently 6 entities, all based on the original creepypasta, each entity will have different ways of attacking and manifesting, so it will be important to know it's behavior of each of these and avoid at all costs that several entities finds you at the same time, if this happens, you will have a bad time.
Inside the Backrooms has a lot of diverse, interesting and entertaining puzzles, from simple ones to the complex and laborious, they are carefully elaborated with the purpouse of being solved both individually and cooperatively, in addition to this, to make the puzzles more dynamic and attractive, in each new game the solution of all of them changes, which means that it wont be always the same answer! so test your puzzle resolution skills and try to escape from this terrifying place full of mysteries.
If you want to survive in the backrooms you will need to look for essential items and manage them properly, because if you get short of any of them, it could mean your death.
These are some of the items you can find on your journey through the backrooms:
Almond Water: Regenerate part of life.
Pills: Eliminate Anxiety
Radios: Allows communication at a distance with your team
Flashlight: Allows you to see in dark areas.
Protection Suit: Allows you to prevent getting radiation on some areas.
Documents and Notes: Provides relevant information.
Here are some of the current features of the game:
Proximity Voice Chat: Talk to the nearest people using the voice chat, but be careful, some entities could hear you...
Stamina: The player will have limited stamina that you will need to manage correctly, if an entity is close to you, it will be your best ally to escape.
Inventory: You will be able to take various items and store them in your inventory, however, space is limited.
Anxiety: When you see an entity, your state of anxiety will increase, going through a disorder of fear and poor visibility.
Entities: Each entity has its own attack modes, learn their techniques to evade them.
Respawn: The game incorpore a creative and dynamic way to respawn, you will able to respawn up to 3 times.
We want to keep improving the game, to the point where it becomes one of the best games that represent backroom creepypasta. For this reason we will continue to polishing and adding new content to the game, these are some features that are planned to be added throughout the final development of the game:
New Entities
More Levels
New Puzzles and Mechanics
Procedural Levels
New Items
Improve Gameplay
Language Localization
| Platforms | Windows |
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| Achievements | 30 |
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| Players | 1–4 |
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| Multiplayer | The game supports online co-op. The long description states online co-op for up to 4 players. Store features also list single-player and online co-op. Reviews consistently describe playing solo, with one friend, with 2-4 players, and with friends using proximity voice chat. |
| Multiplayer & mods | Steam Workshop is listed. Reviews mention workshop maps and community-created enemies, and modded maps/new monsters. The provided information does not state whether Workshop content is usable in multiplayer, but reviews describe multiplayer use of workshop or modded content. |
| Controller required | No |
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| AI disclosure | Some of the images used on decoration paintings in some of the levels are AI generated images |
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