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Backrooms Exploration

Traverse your way through this Atmospheric Psychological Horror! Explore the 9 eerie levels of The Backrooms, a place where everything seems familiar, with a constant feeling of something or someone watching you. Why were you chosen to enter The Backrooms?

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Mistcloud Games
Publisher
Mistcloud Games
Release
March 22, 2023
3 years and 134 days ago
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Backrooms Exploration

Backrooms Exploration is a 3D Retro Atmospheric Psychological Horror with Adventure elements that combines a Retro VHS style, with atmospheric audio, and scenery to create a mysterious and wondrous universe

Mistcloud's Backrooms Unique Features! -


· Explore 10 main Backrooms levels

· Adventure through the backrooms solo

· Complete Puzzles to progress through the backrooms in Horror Mode


Horror mode / Story Mode

- Complete puzzles
- Traverse through 10 Backrooms Levels
- Traditional Horror Playstyle
- VHS Filter
- Uncover the lore behind the Backrooms

Our reality... your reality has disintegrated right before your eyes. James Karagiannis, creator of the Backrooms Exploration, invites you to explore the multiple eerie backrooms levels that sit right outside of our reality. Discover what or who the Backrooms are, and try to escape the Backrooms if you are allowed to...

Backrooms Exploration is a Retro Style Atmospheric Psychological Horror, where you play as someone who has been banished to the backrooms and must use the limited resources provided, to escape 9 eerie levels, With the help of a mysterious pen pal, you must traverse your way through the levels and uncover the information laid within the riddles. From the musty carpets of Level 0 to the expansive oceans of Level 7, it’s up to you to uncover the secret of why you ended up here in the Backrooms, riddle by riddle, and puzzle by puzzle
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