Ponpoko and Peanuts-kun Release Backrooms-Style Game Until September 20
The game is part of the promotional push around the Backrooms film's Japanese release, using the two VTubers to drive players toward a limited-time merchandise store.
Reporting from 2 sources: 4Gamer.net, PANORA.
Koga-ryu Ninja Ponpoko and Peanuts-kun released a Backrooms-style game on a special site open until September 20. Clearing the game unlocks a page where limited Pokopea Backrooms goods, including a T-shirt, tote bag, and stickers, can be bought. The release lines up with the Japanese theatrical run of A24's Backrooms film, which opened in Japan this month.
The game is one of several Backrooms tie-ins timed to the film's Japan run. GEEK PICTURES is holding the immersive event Q LIMINAL at Sunshine City in Ikebukuro from September 11 to 20, and a building in Akasaka has been painted yellow as street advertising. The Backrooms phenomenon traces to a single 2019 photo posted on 4chan, later expanded by Kane Parsons' found footage series, which has run more than 25 episodes and drawn tens of millions of views, and by Fancy Games' Escape the Backrooms, which drew close to 50,000 concurrent players on Steam.
Synthesized by Yomimono from the 2 cited sources below, including Japanese-language reporting where cited, then editorially reviewed before publishing.