Game Spark Picks Five Backrooms Games to Try After the Film
The Backrooms, an urban legend with no single original author, now spans a major film and a steady run of Steam games, and Game Spark's picks show the genre stretching beyond pure horror.
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Game Spark, timed to the September 4 release of the A24-produced film 'The Backrooms,' picked five upcoming Backrooms games on Steam. The list runs from BACKROOMS 0, which returns to the original 2019 photo experience with no entities or UI, to Backrooms: The M.E.G., Backrooms: Echo, Backrooms: Imposter, and an AI-dialogue game where a player directs a streamer. The film grossed $81 million in its first three days in the US.
The Backrooms began in 2019 as an internet urban legend, when an anonymous user posted a single photo of an empty yellow office. Kane Parsons built his own version of the myth in a short film series he started posting in 2022, and his major directorial debut, produced by A24, opened September 4. Game Spark's picks show the games moving past straight horror, with entries that strip out entities and UI, lean on procedural generation, or put an AI-generated streamer at the center.
- BACKROOMS 0: returns to the original 2019 photo experience, with no entities, puzzles, or UI
- Backrooms: The M.E.G.: exploration action focused on the Major Explorer Group, with parkour and puzzles but no entities
- Backrooms: Echo: procedurally generated escape game with multiplayer for up to four, including giant entities
- Backrooms: Imposter: online PvP werewolf-style game where imposters hide among teammates
- Risuna-san, Acchi ni Ikimashou ka?: player is a viewer sending chat instructions to streamer Shia, whose dialogue is AI-generated
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