The Rise And Fall Of The Backrooms 

"Lost in the bathrooms" and "Toiletrooms" is by the same guy. Toiletrooms being a short prototype and LitBR being the expanded, much bigger game.

Football manager 2022 is by far the best backrooms adaptation

People messed up the Backrooms by continuesly adding more lore, more levels, and SAFE entities wich don't harm you. The Backrooms are supposed to be mysterious. Because of the lack of horror, the Backrooms almost completely died, but then Kane Pixels revived it. My point is that I am extremely disappointed in the Backrooms. I remember those old days, when the Backrooms were actually scary in 2019. Good old days.

You forgot about "The complex: found footage", its a great example of imo the right way to do a backrooms game

This sort of thing seems to occur to every horror concept made within the past decade. Ever since Slenderman, every bit of viral horror content just gets Lowest Common Denominator'd into the earth. I think it might stem from the way the internet likes to anonymize things; the person who "made" the concept tends to get reduced to a hazy, indeterminate thing, and with that, a lot of people see that as an opportunity to expand upon the original, since the concept has expanded beyond the creative control of its author. With that, everyone wants to make their take the best one, and in the process the Dunning-Kruger effect kicks into overtime, until it's been tryharded so much that it loses all value as horror and the children's RU-vid channels detect it as Trending Topic Number 419458. It's especially viscous with 4chan stuff, where the creator is _already_ anonymous as default.

why did they call it "toiletrooms" when "bathrooms" is right fucking there

0:27 Users can choose any tag to apply to any game. Publishers can ban tags that don't apply, but I bet it wasn't applied as a tag often enough to come to the attention of the publisher.

The whole SCP/Liminal/Backrooms fad has gone a bit over the top, but that's what happens on the internet - perfectly normal phenomenon. But the dev who made 'Escape the backrooms' - Fancy - does the funniest dev blogs I've ever seen. They are genuinely hilarious RU-vid content, and I'm happy to subscribe to his channel - - he has a great sense of humour.

crazy that microsoft made the backrooms way before us jokes a side fantastic video, love your stuff

The answer to all ruined internet creations is always the same: Reddit

Football Manager 2022™ is my favourite Backrooms game

This video is so scary, I'm glad offices aren't real.

Roblox picked up the Backrooms, in Roblox studio looking up Backrooms pulls up thousands of results. And there are Thousands of Roblox games on them.

Your channel should be much larger for the effort of these videos 💪🏼

this is really good quality keep up the great work

theres a reason levels 0-8 are the only canon levels. otherwise the backrooms would be a typical creepypasta if this was true

Literally my only issue is that too much shit was added and Backrooms started to make sense… and I don’t like they. I just want it to be mysterious bc it’s a goddamn other reality you cannot explain nor escape

Just discovered your channel and man your vids are a nice shot in the arm of inspiration!

TBH the Backrooms fell to the same problems as the SCP stuff did. When it's open season, Sturgeon's Law applies immediately. And all that existential horror is replaced by a bunch of teenagers who only know horror from Paranormal Activity and Slenderman trying to one-up each other in terms of "eldritch beings" that scream at you and make you suffer FOREVUR. The More Jumpscares, The Better, right?! It's sad 'cause the Backrooms does actually have some interesting lore behind it, from what I've combed from the wiki. You have some really interesting ideas beyond the first five levels all these games feature, like one that's essentially a giant, infinite kids play area with a food court somewhere inside. Giant forests, a space station, the void between levels, endless oceans. There's even Levels that are 100% habitable and monster -free, and conversely levels that do not exist in the terms of mortal perception. A AAA-tier, high-budget horror game with as many of those more interesting levels as possible, would be a fantastic time in terms of aesthetic alone. But no. We'll just trudge through the same goddamn yellow rooms, again. Someone bring me some Almond Water.

In my opinion anything before pixel canes backroom series is somewhat salvageable because pixel was really the whole reason why the back rooms got blown up into the mainstream media I can deal with the idea of memory worms the Beast of level 5 hounds the facelings all of that I love that but anything aside from that just it just sucks now if these were from different versions of the back rooms or isolated instances that's fine but the fact that they're redoing the entire back rooms again I hate it Quick edit this is in no way s******* on Cain he's an amazing visual effects artist it's just when his back room series hit mainstream that's when a lot of the normies got into the back rooms too and started fucking with things

...if you wanted to just completely riff on the concept, Backrooms seems perfect for a first-person PacMan clone xD

I think ToiletRooms was inspired by Level 189 in a way ^-^

i really liked escape the backrooms game, i also played inside the backrooms with friends but it was pretty hard and after we died we moved to zomboid so idk if we play again it

Im actually wondering, why there is no backrooms, that goes wild(like generates its assets, and changes layout) in procedural generation, and no backrooms that changes its layout, when player doesnt look at it (like that grass maze in Harry Potter). If you want make world feel hostile, let it change itself, so no maps may help you.

0:22 I had this video playing in the background while playing FM22 this felt like a glitch in the matrix

Try the Complexe Found Footage

Steam loves to recommend me football manager all the time too

That resident evil soundtrack hit hard

OK, the Backroom 1997 is actually a good game that understands the assignment. Yeah- sucks that the demo is named like shit, but this is the only interesting Backrooms game that isn't "The wiki pleaser". Long story short- it takes the idea and turns it more into a Silent Hill deal, personal hell where your guilt looks for you

whats the music you used in the "takeaways" part of your video?

I haven't thought about that screensaver in so long

The backrooms wiki is also terrible, the whole things just feels like a ripoff of the SCP wiki, except without the quality of writing or genuinely interesting ideas. The backrooms works better when its this infinite, unknowable space. It doesn't work when there's hundreds of extremely well described levels, all the monsters have a badly written description that kills any mystery and there's even supposed to be organisations and communities in it. Monsters should be few and far between. People lost in it should be even rarer, you could spend years wandering it and never find anyone else alive.

God I'm old now.. When people start talking about things that just happened like 3 years ago as the "good aul days" things are far too accelerated these days, the back rooms have barely existed can we wait until it has its life before we start reminiscing about 3 years ago.

This is what the backrooms is... just endless maze of terrible yellow wallpaper covered walls, the buzz of terrible basement fluorescent lighting, and the squish squish of damp terrible shag carpet and the slow slow descent into insanity. IMO it's much more like the shining if the shining didn't sort of outright shout this is all supernatural and more... it's just in your head and everyone remembers it slightly differently.

For me only enter the backrooms is a somewhat decent game

Second video in a row, comment for interaction Gonna like

what's the music at the end?

I like your videos

I'm a miserable bastard who hates the world - anyways, with that context in place, good video man. Keep it up. I don't say that often 👍🏼

Gate keeping is a good thing

r/okbuddychicanery moment

Kane pixels backrooms on top

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Kind of feels like you purposefully skipped the few actual good backrooms games :/

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Why do you wiggle around when speaking?

I'm loving your smug aura. Smirkmaxxing, totally smugpilled.