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The Backrooms Game
from https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Backrooms
The Backrooms is an urban legend, Internet meme, and creepypasta that tells the tale of an endless maze of randomly generated office rooms. It is characterized by the smell of wet carpet, walls with a monochromatic tone of yellow, and buzzing fluorescent lights. Although Internet users have expanded upon this concept by creating different "levels" of the Backrooms, the original version came from a two-paragraph 4chan comment on a post asking for "unsettling images", where an anonymous user invented a story based on one of the photos. The Backrooms drew comparisons to various other horror trends and media, including Minecraft's Herobrine and the concept of liminal spaces. The location is also characterized by "entities", hostile beings created by Internet users.
Since its original creation, The Backrooms has been expanded into various other forms of media and Internet culture, including video games and YouTube videos.
The Backrooms originated from a 4chan board posted on 12 May 2019, in which an anonymous user asked for others to "post disquieting images that just feel 'off'." There, the first photo depicting the Backrooms was uploaded, presenting a slightly tilted image of a yellow-colored hallway. Another anonymous user commented on the photo with the first story about the Backrooms, claiming that one enters the Backrooms when they "noclip out of reality in the wrong areas," which is a video game-related term for when a player passes through a physical boundary that would otherwise block their way.[1][2]
After the 4chan post gained fame, several Internet users wrote horror stories relating to The Backrooms. In addition, many memes were created and shared across social media, further popularizing the creepypasta.[2] Some have also stated they had seen that image somewhere before; in the opinion of Manning Patston from Happy Mag, these comments were "existential, hollow, and terrified."[2] Patston also commented on the use of the term "noclip", interpreting it as "glitches in which the walls of reality are torn down", such as the existence of doppelgängers.[2] Comparing the location to the level design of the Resident Evil franchise, Kaitlyn Kubrick of Somag News called the Backrooms "the terrifying creepypasta of cursed dreams."[3]
The location of the original Backrooms photo is unknown; although a number of locations have been proposed, it is also possible that the image is a procedurally generated digital composition.[4] The creepypasta has also been associated with the concept of kenopsia, first coined in The Dictionary of Obscure Sorrows: "the eerie, forlorn atmosphere of a place that's usually bustling with people but is now abandoned and quiet".
On 12 February 2022, a Reddit user showcased a Minecraft map based on the Backrooms' concept. As of 19 March 2022, the mod is still under development, with Screen Rant's Thomas McNulty claiming that "entities" will also be present on the map.[28]
The Backrooms has also been the basis for a horror game of the same name, released in 2020 by indie game studio Pie on a Plate Productions.[29] It was praised for its form of horror, with Bloody Disgusting writer Michael L Sandal comparing it to the works of writer Charlotte Perkins Gilman.[30] Author Sigma Klim of Guru Gamer felt the game is something unique amidst what he called the "cliché and overused motifs" of most horror content, comparing it to 2004's Yume Nikki,[31] while PCMag listed it as a "honorable mention" among a ranking of the "best free Steam games" due to its "unnerving" and "maddening" atmosphere "despite being an incredibly short title."