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Backrooms: Liminal Tether

Explore the seemingly endless shifting expanse of the Backrooms in this isometric pixel-style liminal horror game. Discover and research anomalies, and upgrade your tether to delve deeper into the unknown.

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A Darker Forestry
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A Darker Forestry
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About the Game

The T.E.T.H.E.R. Institute welcomes you to The Backrooms.

In this isometric pixel-style exploration game, you are a researcher for the shadowy T.E.T.H.E.R. Institute, tasked with exploring the eerie, expansive liminal space known only as the Backrooms.

Your Tether Is Your Lifeline

things will not stay as you left them for long in this dark and ever-shifting labyrinth, and there may always be something lurking just out of sight.

Use your Tether to light your path, retain your memories, and hold off the corruption of the void as you push further into the unknown.

Explore The Backrooms

Survey vast interconnected maps based on 10+ iconic Backrooms Levels and other liminal spaces.

Take notes, document your findings, and name your discoveries.

Research Anomalies

Discover and research dozens of artifacts, anomalies, and entities.

Use your findings to research and purchase upgrades.

Upgrade Your Tether

  • Extend your Tether's Length to travel further

  • Increase Vision to see more

  • Improve Recall to stabilize areas you've explored and keep them the way you remember them

  • Choose from a 7+ augmentations to further alter your abilities

Hand-Crafted And Procedurally-Generated

Featuring a mix of hand-crafted and procedural-generation to ensure every playthrough is different.

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