
You are the exploration team from company PhaseSync, you arrive to reported anomaly place and searching for anomalies, but what would you find? Prepare yourself for a gripping and heart-pounding adventure in EXPEDITION TO THE BACKROOMS, where every step could be your last.
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EXPEDITION TO THE BACKROOMS is an atmospheric exploration game focused on wandering through quiet, unsettling environments.
Inspired by the Backrooms internet horror phenomenon, the game takes players through strange and isolated spaces hidden beyond reality. Explore abandoned office areas, flooded complexes, and other unnatural environments connected by the endless maze of the Backrooms.
Explore a variety of large-scale locations with distinct visual styles, atmosphere and gameplay.
Each area offers its own sense of scale, isolation, and mystery, ranging from familiar office spaces to surreal and impossible architecture.
Built with a strong focus on lighting, materials, scale, and immersive sound design.
Experience detailed liminal environments designed to feel quiet, believable, and deeply unsettling.
You are not alone inside the Backrooms.
The game currently features 3 entities with different behaviors. Some may ignore your presence, while others react to movement, sound, or exploration.
Play as part of an PhaseSync research expedition investigating anomalous locations connected to the Backrooms.
Discover abandoned equipment, traces of previous expeditions, and evidence that something went wrong long before your arrival.
Explore the Backrooms alone or together with other players.
Work together to navigate unfamiliar spaces, search for clues, and survive encounters inside the anomaly.
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В перспективе лучшая игра про закулисье. Учитывая, что ей лишь год, и если сравнивать с Escape the backrooms, которой 4 года, потенциал отличный. Для раннего доступа это неплохо, жду фул.
sehr geil aber nur 7 FPS bei mir
The game is very beautiful, but there is a problem: the character moves clumsily and uncomfortably. There are many bugs with the camera: when you view yourself through the camera and press Esc, the game becomes a real problem for people with epilepsy. Please fix this, otherwise it's simply impossible to play.
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Languages: English*, Russian, Simplified Chinese, Japanese, German*languages with full audio support
Hours played at review time, across 44 reviews with recorded playtime.
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очень приятно, что не слизано абсолютно все с другим бэкрумсов, реально интересно играть, НО беготня по лесу 40 мин и проигрыш из-за того, что у одного вылетает и 1 игрок не может выйти... - ну такое. Еще не сохраняется прогресс при выходе, тоже треш. А так игра хороша
EXPEDITION TO THE BACKROOMS is a first-person horror adventure developed and published by 1_Cutter_1 that embraces the unsettling mystery of the Backrooms while attempting to carve out its own identity. Instead of emphasizing nonstop scares, the game leans into suspense, exploration, and the feeling of venturing into an impossible world where reality no longer follows familiar rules. Players take on the role of an expedition member working for the PhaseSync organization, entering strange dimensions to uncover secrets, document anomalies, and survive encounters with unknown entities. The narrative premise provides enough context to justify the journey while allowing environmental storytelling to remain the primary method of revealing the world's mysteries. The game's strongest feature is its commitment to atmosphere. Every environment is crafted to evoke loneliness and uncertainty, from endless office corridors to abandoned facilities and surreal locations that seem disconnected from the normal world. Rather than relying on a single visual theme, the adventure introduces multiple areas with distinct appearances and moods, preventing exploration from becoming repetitive. The oversized architecture, eerie lighting, and unsettling silence work together to create the sensation that players have wandered into places never meant to be discovered. Small environmental details and remnants left behind by previous explorers help reinforce the illusion of a living mystery that extends beyond the player's immediate objectives. Exploration is the heart of the experience, rewarding curiosity with new locations, hidden details, and fragments of lore scattered throughout the environment. The Backrooms are far from empty, however, as numerous hostile entities inhabit these forgotten spaces. Each creature behaves differently, encouraging players to pay attention instead of relying on a single strategy for every encounter. Some enemies react to movement or sound, while others present unique threats that force players to adapt as they venture deeper into the unknown. This variety helps maintain tension throughout the expedition, ensuring that every new area carries a genuine sense of uncertainty. The audiovisual presentation complements the gameplay exceptionally well. Detailed environments, realistic lighting, and carefully placed shadows create a convincing sense of realism before twisting it into something unsettling. Equally important is the sound design, which uses distant echoes, mechanical noises, ambient hums, and prolonged silence to keep players constantly on edge. The absence of constant musical accompaniment often makes the experience even more unnerving, allowing every unfamiliar noise to feel significant. The game demonstrates a solid understanding that psychological horror is often more effective when it relies on anticipation rather than excessive jump scares. Another welcome feature is the inclusion of cooperative multiplayer, allowing friends to explore the mysterious labyrinth together. Sharing discoveries, communicating during dangerous encounters, and working as a team naturally changes the pacing without diminishing the horror. Cooperative play adds replay value while making the expedition feel more dynamic, especially when players divide responsibilities or become separated inside the maze. Whether played alone or with others, the game's emphasis remains on careful observation, exploration, and surviving the unknown rather than combat-heavy action. As an Early Access title, EXPEDITION TO THE BACKROOMS already presents a promising foundation while leaving room for meaningful expansion. The current experience demonstrates clear ambition through its large environments, immersive atmosphere, varied enemy encounters, and intriguing setting. Although additional content, gameplay refinements, and further polishing will strengthen the final product, the existing package successfully captures the unsettling appeal that has made the Backrooms concept so compelling. Fans of atmospheric horror, slow-paced exploration, and mysterious environments will likely appreciate what the game currently offers, while those seeking a more action-oriented horror experience may find its deliberate pacing less exciting. Even so, its dedication to immersion and environmental storytelling makes it a memorable expedition into one of gaming's most recognizable modern horror concepts. Rating: 6/10
Müll, würde her meiner Katze die Kletz rasieren und ihr währenddessen den Nacken kraulen statt den Müll wieder zu spielen
This game is terrible. 6 dollars for some ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥, its a 2 hour game if you play it perfectly and the forest level is arguably the worst thing i've played in my life. For example the entities get stuck on the electric boxes, When you start getting chased by them you dont have infinite stamina like in level 0 and its just physically impossible to get away from them, and finnally theres 4 of them so if your trying to get away from one theres always another one.
эта еаная хйня даже не соизволила блят запустится надеюсь жена разраба во время родов будет получать те же мучения что и я от запуска и переустановки этой хйни
This game is awesome! Once I started it, I immediately felt that ambience and nostalgia. Calmness, anxiety and appeasement.. This game is an absolute masterpiece.
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