- January 28, 2026
- 117PS
The Backrooms: Liminal Space
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About The Backrooms: Liminal Space
The Backrooms: Liminal Space is a single player platformer game with a horror theme. It was developed by 117PS and was released on January 28, 2026. It received positive reviews from players.
Overview A solo-developed short horror experience shot on VHS. You wake up in an endless yellow maze. No items, no fights—just a camcorder and LIMINAL SPACE！ Key Features - VHS Filters: Grain, scanlines and tape distortion The effect. - LIMINAL SPACE: Contains many LIMINAL SPACE scenarios - First-Person Immersion: Footsteps echo, lights flicker, walls never end. - Solo Dev, UE5: Created b…
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- Excellent atmospheric and liminal space design that creates a relaxing yet unsettling vibe without monsters, allowing for immersive exploration.
- Impressive level design with varied and large environments offering deep, maze-like exploration that captures the essence of backrooms.
- High praise for the developer's talent and creativity, especially given the young age, supported by affordable price and smooth gameplay on various platforms.
- Lack of variety and ambiance in some areas, with repetitive environments and minimal sound effects, reducing immersion over time.
- Control and movement issues including high mouse sensitivity, poor controller support, and slow player movement with no customization options.
- Some technical problems such as crashes on startup, occasional graphical glitches, and performance hiccups, especially on certain hardware.
atmosphere
5 mentions Positive Neutral NegativeThe atmosphere is highly praised for its immersive, dark, and mysterious qualities, effectively creating a suffocating and unsettling environment. Players appreciate the sense of empty, eerie spaces and suggest adding subtle, ambiguous elements to further enhance the experience. Overall, the atmosphere is considered exceptionally well-crafted and impactful.
“Very atmospheric, I'd love to see more of this in the future.”
“The atmosphere is suffocating — endless empty spaces that feel wrong, like they weren’t meant to exist.”
“If I were to recommend something, certain ambiguous events could be added to enhance the game's dark, mysterious atmosphere (not entities, just subtle sounds, movements, unreachable rooms, and other related elements).”
“You wander around and take in the atmosphere, and zone out.”
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The Backrooms: Liminal Space is a platformer game with horror theme. Common tags for The Backrooms: Liminal Space include first-person, 3D, indie, psychological, stylized and others.
The Backrooms: Liminal Space is available on PC and Windows.
The Backrooms: Liminal Space was released on January 28, 2026.
The Backrooms: Liminal Space was developed by 117PS.
The Backrooms: Liminal Space has received positive reviews from players. Most players liked The Backrooms: Liminal Space for its graphics but disliked it for its atmosphere.
The Backrooms: Liminal Space is a single player game.
Similar games include The Complex: Expedition, Disminal, Dreamcore, POOLS, The Complex: Found Footage and others.