Transliminal: Beyond The Backrooms
An unsettling rogue-lite survival horror adventure. Iconic levels reshape around you. Classic and original entities lurk as greater beings bid for your favor. Collect relics and strange items. Grow stronger. Survive, escape, or claim more uncertain fates. Fall in. Get lost. Go beyond The Backrooms.
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TRANSLIMINAL is a first-person survival horror adventure set in and beyond the Backrooms.
REACTIVE PROCEDURAL SPACES
Explore shifting liminal environments that change around you as you move through them. Paths re-form, rooms reconfigure, and each descent can lead through different spaces, dangers, and discoveries.
SCAVENGE, SURVIVE, AND CRAFT
Search containers, hidden spaces, and forgotten corners for supplies, collectibles, batteries, tapes, crafting materials, and tools. Manage your resources, monitor your condition, improve your odds of survival, and decide how far to push forward.
CLASSIC AND ORIGINAL ENTITIES
Survive environmental hazards and encounters with both familiar Backrooms threats and original entities unique to Transliminal. Learn how dangers behave, adapt to unfamiliar spaces, and endure a world that grows stranger and more hostile the deeper you go.
PLAY YOUR WAY
Tailor the experience to your preferences with extensive gameplay, HUD, visual, survival, and entity settings. Use multiple save files to experiment with different approaches and shape the kind of experience you want.
MULTIPLE ENDINGS
Your journey through Transliminal can lead to different outcomes. Explore further, uncover more, and pursue multiple possible endings.
A DEEPER MYSTERY
Beneath the VHS presentation is a larger mystery. The spaces are not empty, and they are not passive. They react, they remember, and they may be leading you toward very different outcomes.
The year is 1983.
After a skydiving accident, you awaken with your cheek pressed against a damp beige carpet. The tacky, off-white wallpaper looks yellow on your video camera's view screen.
The fluorescent lights, randomly placed in the drop ceiling above, buzz loudly as they bathe the place in their sickly glow. And what is that smell?
Sounds echo through the endless halls from no clear direction. And it feels as if someone, or something, is watching you.
You aren't sure where you ended up. But it's clear that you won't be safe until you find a way out of this place.
Transliminal's visual language isn't just a retro VHS recording skin. Players will quickly notice that these visual flourishes are indicators of the game character's physical and mental condition.
From the opening scene it's clear that the main player character has his own issues to work out. But as you explore the various levels, you may find the threads that weave together several tales that came before you.
The concept of procedural liminal spaces that go on forever is a rich subject matter. And gives the opportunity to explore wildly different environments that don't always follow the rules of physics. Players of Transliminal will traverse many strange structures and vistas over the course of their adventure. What's not immediately apparent is that the levels are also watching you. Reacting and changing depending on your character's condition. While exploring, players will soon find that the environment around them is non-linear and seems to form around them. When tracing back to where they came from, players will find that paths they have traveled are no longer as they were.
Players will come across various interactive containers such as drawers, cabinets, lockers, etc. Loot these to find cassette tapes, flashlight batteries, and more to increase your character's abilities, or uncover clues.
You are not always alone.
Many classic entities of internet lore are brought to life in Transliminal's world. While some previously undiscovered entities also make their debut.
Learn how to avoid or counteract the effects of these entities to prevent them from hampering your progress.
A Big part of Transliminal's design philosophy is that players should be able to play the game how they want.
Which is why game features such as entities or survival mode can be toggled off or on at any time.
The low resolution grain and bad video tracking effects increase immersion and provide a thematic experience. However, they may not be to every player's liking. Which is why all effects can also be disabled in the Settings menu.
Transliminal features a shifting, reactive level design. An engaging narrative, and plenty of scares.
If you are a fan of cerebral horror, and enjoy exploration, then this game is for you.
