Backrooms: Reminiscence

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Backrooms: Reminiscence is a single player simulation game with a horror theme. It was developed by HNStudios and was released on October 31, 2025. It received positive reviews from players.

Backrooms: Reminiscence is a single-player horror game where you experience something unexpected, and now you're left all alone in the cold world of The Backrooms.

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83%Audience ScoreBased on 23 reviews

graphics7 positive mentions

grinding2 negative mentions

Well-optimized graphics with realistic and atmospheric environments, including unique liminal spaces like airports and malls.
Immersive sound design and voice acting that enhance the tense and unsettling atmosphere.
Clear and cohesive storyline with multiple deliberate endings, providing replayability beyond typical backrooms walking sims.

Movement is slow and cumbersome due to the stamina system, making exploration tedious and sometimes frustrating.
The game is relatively short and sometimes feels padded, with limited interactivity and mostly linear level design.
Save system issues, including saves being wiped after completion and inconvenient save points, which hinder replayability.

graphics
13 mentions Positive Neutral Negative
54% positive mentions, 23% neutral mentions, 23% negative mentions
The game's graphics are generally praised for being well-optimized, realistic, and visually appealing, often enhancing the atmosphere and immersion. However, some users find the visuals generic or copy-pasted, lacking originality despite being decent or beautiful. Overall, the graphics are considered a strong aspect, complementing the sound design and level design effectively.
- “For such a low price you get a game with good optimized graphics, good voice acting, and a few cinematics.”
- “Graphically the game is great which ties into the atmosphere the game puts you in which is great as well.”
- “The graphics are very realistic and the ambient sound effects had me locked in the whole way through.”
- “My issue with this game secondarily is the fact that the graphics are not very good and just kind of look like generic assets and not immersive.”
- “But this just has copy-pasted graphics with nothing else to it.”
- “I agree that graphics are good but it's quite boring.”
gameplay
6 mentions Positive Neutral Negative
50% positive mentions, 0% neutral mentions, 50% negative mentions
Gameplay is generally well-paced and enjoyable, though some levels feel too short and lack a distinctive visual or mechanical twist compared to the rest of the game. Movement can feel slow and tedious, especially with forced walking sections, and the save system is frustrating, often resetting progress unexpectedly. Overall, gameplay is functional but occasionally feels like filler, with a generic and uninspired core experience.
- “Gameplay feels well paced even if some levels feel short, and look too good to leave them so early.”
- “It’s effective, but compared to the rest of the game’s creativity, it could have used a stronger visual or mechanical twist to make it stand apart.”
- “The game is good but feels almost like it’s geared to pad out gameplay time in some places; however, I did enjoy exploring this game, especially in my first run through.”
- “First of all, the running, which is also present in backrooms exploration, has movement that is too slow, especially walking (which you are occasionally forced into doing both in the starting and ending areas and the pool rooms). It makes gameplay painfully slow and replays tedious.”
- “There is also the save mechanic which is borderline useless. All of your saves get wiped at a game end and even when not wiped, send you back to the start of the level you saved on instead of the actual point you saved at (at least in my experience).”
- “Gameplay is effective, but compared to the rest of the game's creativity, it could have used a stronger visual or mechanical twist to make it stand apart.”
atmosphere
5 mentions Positive Neutral Negative
60% positive mentions, 40% neutral mentions, 0% negative mentions
The game's atmosphere is praised for its relaxing yet immersive quality, enhanced by a gradual visual decay and strong graphical presentation. It effectively builds tension through subtle, sparse monster encounters rather than relying on jump scares, creating a compelling liminal horror experience. Overall, the ambient setting and storytelling work together to deliver a memorable and balanced atmospheric experience.
- “That gradual visual decay does so much heavy lifting for the atmosphere.”
- “Graphically the game is great which ties into the atmosphere the game puts you in which is great as well.”
- “I tend to prefer backrooms/liminal horror games that don't hit you with excessive monsters and jump-scares, and which instead rely on atmosphere, as this one does (don't get me wrong, there are monsters in this one - but they're used quite sparingly).”
story
5 mentions Positive Neutral Negative
60% positive mentions, -20% neutral mentions, 60% negative mentions
The story is generally simple and straightforward, providing a relaxing and atmospheric experience with clear, cohesive narratives and multiple meaningful endings. While some find it engaging and well-crafted, others consider it generic and unoriginal, though the setting and level design receive praise for their uniqueness.
- “It’s also one of the rare backrooms titles that presents a clear, cohesive storyline, complete with multiple endings that both feel deliberate and well-earned.”
- “A cool short backrooms game with a simple plot where you get a job in a company where you are a backrooms researcher, but something goes wrong.”
- “Anemoiapolis: good story, every area, room, and level is handcrafted and interesting - no boring yellow mazes.”
- “Graphics are good, but the story and gameplay are generic and boring.”
- “Nothing extravagant; it is a relaxing walking simulator with a simple story and atmospheric setting.”
- “It is one of the rare backrooms titles that presents a clear, cohesive storyline, complete with multiple endings that both feel deliberate and well-earned.”
grinding
2 mentions Positive Neutral Negative
0% positive mentions, 0% neutral mentions, 100% negative mentions
Grinding in the game is hindered by an overly slow walking speed combined with a stamina bar that restricts running, making exploration and backtracking tedious and slow-paced. This design choice elongates runtime but results in a frustrating and repetitive experience for players.
- “You can't say it's a bad game, it's well made for what it is and the prize is low. For me, there's one strong objective issue and it's the stamina bar. Walking in this game is extraordinarily slow, probably as slow as a human can walk. So when you have a stamina bar, all it does is make moving around harder and tedious. It actually makes exploration something you don't want to do because if you have to circle back, you have to do it at a snail's pace for the durations that you can't run. Total screwjob doing this.”
- “First of all is the running, which was also present in Backrooms Exploration, with the movement being too slow, especially walking (which you will occasionally be forced into doing both in the starting and ending areas and the pool rooms). It makes gameplay painfully slow and replays tedious but ultimately it is what it is.”
optimization
1 mentions Positive Neutral Negative
100% positive mentions, 0% neutral mentions, 0% negative mentions
The game offers well-optimized graphics that run smoothly, especially impressive given its low price. Users appreciate the solid performance alongside good voice acting and cinematics.
- “For such a low price, you get a game with well-optimized graphics, good voice acting, and a few cinematics.”
replayability
1 mentions Positive Neutral Negative
0% positive mentions, 0% neutral mentions, 100% negative mentions
The game offers a brief experience with limited replay value, but its budget-friendly price makes it a reasonable choice for casual play.
- “Short experience with little replayability, even for a budget price.”
stability
1 mentions Positive Neutral Negative
0% positive mentions, 0% neutral mentions, 100% negative mentions
Users report occasional sound and visual glitches that affect the otherwise immersive and well-designed expedition experience, indicating some stability issues despite strong overall level design.
music
1 mentions Positive Neutral Negative
100% positive mentions, 0% neutral mentions, 0% negative mentions
The music received high praise for its excellence and significantly contributed to the game's immersive ambiance, standing out as one of its strongest elements.
- “The music and overall ambiance were excellent and a high point of the game.”

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Backrooms: Reminiscence is a simulation game with horror theme. Common tags for Backrooms: Reminiscence include first-person, indie, psychological, exploration, psychological horror and others.

Backrooms: Reminiscence is available on PC and Windows.

Backrooms: Reminiscence was released on October 31, 2025.

Backrooms: Reminiscence was developed by HNStudios.

Backrooms: Reminiscence has received positive reviews from players. Most players liked Backrooms: Reminiscence for its graphics but disliked it for its gameplay.

Backrooms: Reminiscence is a single player game.

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