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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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90%Audience ScoreBased on 40 reviews
graphics3 positive mentions
atmosphere3 negative mentions

  • 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 Negative
    20% positive mentions, 20% neutral mentions, 60% negative mentions

    The 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.”
  • gameplay

    3 mentions Positive Neutral Negative
    33% positive mentions, 0% neutral mentions, 67% negative mentions

    The gameplay is criticized for lacking a compelling story and unique moments, resulting in a soulless experience. However, the smooth mechanics, colors, and sound effects provide some compensation, though the lack of ambiance in this walking simulator diminishes overall engagement.

    • “The colors, sound effects, and game mechanics were all so smooth.”
    • “No story, no unique gameplay moments, no soul.”
    • “Lack of ambiance since this is a walking simulator; what you lack in gameplay should be compensated for by its environment.”
  • graphics

    3 mentions Positive Neutral Negative
    100% positive mentions, 0% neutral mentions, 0% negative mentions

    The game features visually impressive graphics with diverse and interesting environments, such as fake outdoor areas and bottomless pits, which enhance the overall experience.

    • “The game looks amazing graphically with many interesting spaces, including fake outdoors areas and bottomless pits.”
    • “The visuals are nice and add to the overall experience.”
    • “The graphics are really nice.”
  • monetization

    1 mentions Positive Neutral Negative
    0% positive mentions, 0% neutral mentions, 100% negative mentions

    The monetization is seen as unoriginal and exploitative, relying on repetitive "backrooms"-themed walking simulator assets to quickly generate profit.

  • story

    1 mentions Positive Neutral Negative
    0% positive mentions, 0% neutral mentions, 100% negative mentions

    The story is widely criticized for being nonexistent and lacking originality, resulting in an uninspired and soulless experience.

    • “No story, no unique gameplay moments, no soul.”
  • optimization

    1 mentions Positive Neutral Negative
    0% positive mentions, 100% neutral mentions, 0% negative mentions

    The game's optimization is somewhat lacking, with performance issues attributed to the limitations of Unreal Engine 5.

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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, Dreamcore, The Complex: Found Footage, POOLS, Disminal and others.