Inside the Backrooms

***Inside the Backrooms*** is an multiplayer adventure puzzle/horror game developed and published MrFatcat and Dropsiick. It was released on Steam for Microsoft Windows on June 20, 2022.

## Premise

***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...*

## Gameplay

***Inside the Backrooms*** is a game where players are trapped in a surreal alternate dimension known as the Backrooms. The objective is to solve puzzles and avoid dangerous entities in order to escape. The game includes several mechanics that make for an intense experience, and it is recommended to play with friends for added support.

The game features a first-person perspective, and players must navigate through the maze-like environment of the Backrooms to find a way out. The Backrooms consist of several levels, each with their own unique design and challenges. Players must search for clues, solve puzzles, and avoid hostile entities such as the Hounds, Smilers, and Skin-Stealers.

***Inside the Backrooms*** also includes multiplayer functionality, allowing players to work together to escape. Players can communicate through voice chat and share resources such as Almond Water and Moth Jelly.

## External links

* Inside the Backrooms on Steam
* Inside the Backrooms Official Discord
* Inside the Backrooms Official Speedrunning Discord

## Steam Description

### ABOUT THIS GAME

#### DESCRIPTION

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.

#### LEVELS

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..

#### VIRTUAL REALITY

The game is compatible with VR for those who want to live the most terrifying experience in the backrooms, If you have an Oculus Quest device you can't miss the experience of being trapped in the backrooms in virtual reality.

IMPORTANT: At the moment, VR support is still very poor and you will likely run into issues regarding controls, comfort and compatability. Please do not buy the game for the VR-only experience. We are working hard on improving this and fully include VR support!

#### ENTITIES

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.

#### PUZZLES

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.

#### ITEMS

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.

#### FEATURES

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.

#### DEVELOPMENT ROADMAP

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

#### SYSTEM REQUIREMENTS

MINIMUM:

Requires a 64-bit processor and operating system

OS: Windows 7 64-bit or higher

Processor: Intel Core i5-2300 2.8 GHz / AMD FX-6300, 3.5 GHz

Memory: 8 GB RAM

Graphics: Nvidia GeForce GTX 760, (2 GB VRAM) | AMD Radeon HD 7870, (2 GB VRAM)

DirectX: Version 11

Storage: 5 GB available space

Sound Card: DirectX Compatible

VR Support: SteamVR or OpenXR

RECOMMENDED:

Requires a 64-bit processor and operating system

OS: Windows 7 64-bit or higher

Processor: Intel Core i7-3770 | AMD FX-8350

Memory: 8 GB RAM

Graphics: AMD Radeon RX 560 with (4GB VRAM) | NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1050 Ti (4GB VRAM )

DirectX: Version 11

Storage: 5 GB available space

Sound Card: DirectX Compatible