Two Games Share The Title Tidy Up The Backrooms On Steam
The Backrooms tidying formula has become common enough that two developers built separate games around it and published under the same name, an overlap that one developer's dated SteamDB records suggest could have been avoided.
Reporting from 1 source: Automaton.
Two Steam games are listed under the exact title "Tidy Up The Backrooms." Lowkey GameDev's version, announced for PC on October 27, has players sort and archive VHS tapes recovered from the Backrooms. DreadVault's version, published by Malum Games and set for December 2, has players return vanished department store merchandise to its floors, with a Calm Mode that disables the horror elements.
SteamDB records show the Lowkey GameDev listing carried the name "Let's Tidy Up! Backrooms" until September 23, when it changed to "Tidy Up The Backrooms." The DreadVault listing, published by Malum Games, can be traced back to September 24. Both games put players in the Backrooms to organize objects, but the DreadVault version swaps VHS tapes for department store merchandise taken from a yellow labyrinth, and adds stalkers, traps, cameras, hazard tape, and a Calm Mode.
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