This game is a liminal space nightmare | Escape the Backrooms 

I always love Arin’s “trying to pretend I don’t know this is a scary game in order to scare Dan” voice.

Dude the guitar just peacefully coming back after the first scare fucking killed me

"Wow I guess crouching really does help with stealth" - Arin, gamer of like 30 years

The timing on Dan saying "oh come on, is this what the whole game is?" and an immediate jumpscare death scene right after.

That is clearly a steel string guitar backing track, Dan asked for nylon string. These editors need to get their act together.

Dan needs to find a spooky experience Arin has never seen and show him it this Halloween. We'll finally get to see what it's like on the other side of P.T.

Arin calling the fans out was uncalled for. Now, if you'll excuse me, I'm gonna have a JO session at the 4:16 mark.

Finding out that Dan can't read music might be the second most encouraging thing I've ever experienced in my life. Maybe I'll write a song about it.

I always love dans dread sounds followed by Arin’s knowing bad things are coming

I totally screamed with Dan and Arin at the first jump scare. 😂

At 3:15 Dan coincidentally harmonized with my microwave. That was an experience

Jumpscare timestamps for those who need it! 4:18 Loud noise and tall figure 7:51 Just a little dark spook 8:03 Lights go out and smiles appear 8:19 Lights go out and smiles appear again 16:22 A quick little pipe burst 17:12 Not necessarily scary, more just creepy From 20:26 to 23:50 Party goers rush towards them pretty often 25:41 Drawn out yelling and party goers rushing them 26:43 All party goers in room rushing them 30:41 Very sudden, party goers rush them 33:24 Both yell loudly and suddenly before immediately getting rushed by party goers

I love how Danny always apologizes for screaming when that's exactly why we all watched this.

4:16 Once again, their comedic timing was AMAZING!

I’ve never found the backrooms particularly scary but I have to say, seeing versions of it that contain monsters and other spooks make it significantly less scary to me. A big empty place with nothing in it is infinitely scarier.

“Most replayed” -Arin, right after I replayed the first jump scare.

In the technology bereft times of 1991, the most enlightening thing about working with Dan in a relatively empty office space was listening to him hum in harmony with the sound made by the fluorescent lights.

Dan's comedic timing never ceases to amaze me 4:10

To be fair, I only rewind the scary screams because I miss the scary parts cause they happen so fast. I'm either distracted or looking away when they happen so I have to rewind it to see what scared them 😂

For Ghouls this year, you should have Danny play the Mortuary Assistant

The backrooms both fascinate and scare me. Imagine one day you just kinda blink and there your are. An endless maze of poorly lit rooms and the longer you're there, the fear that you're completely alone is replaced by the fear that you aren't

I feel bad for Dan. On tour for a month on a cursed bus, comes home just in time to record ghoul grumps, then back on tour for another month, hopefully on a different bus.

I will always adore Arin's terrified "AWHOOOHOOOHOO" scream

4:15 Danny's luck and comedic irony combined is amazing.

Danny's comedic timing, even when he doesn't intend it, is just amazing. Wondering if the game is nothing but wandering around aimlessly followed immediately by a panic scream.

Arin be like "did you see something?" just to freak out Dan

4:18 Honest to god, this moment is the first time in years that a jumpscare has genuinely gotten me to scream out loud. The guitar made me put my guard down!!! 😭

26:41 whoever is making a compilation of Arin's moments of instant regret

Love when Dan gets worked up because it turns out the game is scary and not just creepy Yomawari is still the funniest example

This was essentially a 34 minute long version of that part in silent hill shattered memories where danny frantically screams the walk-through to arin to get him through that part where he has to run through all the doors while the monsters jump on him

I don't know why but I have the exact opposite reaction to liminal spaces. Being in a place like this seems like so much fun because it's like an endless labyrinth and I love trying to solve mazes lol. If this is what purgatory is like then I'd be fine with that.

i love how after the first jumpscare the guitar comes back

Yall gotta do complex: found footage now. Its the quintessential backrooms experience, cause it just gets what the whole idea of the backrooms is. Pure liminality, and all the scares are manufactured by your own mind

‘Look around… this seems safe’ as a demon comes from one of the holes in the floor lol

Dan being an amazing and talented musician and saying “i don’t know, I can’t read music” is so heartening. It gives me hope that I too can make rad sounds and be loved for my creativity. ❤

17:45 Arin's song about his dad not loving him is both untrue and hilarious. Danny adding to it with his talent is incredible, both incredible.

Backrooms gonna terrorize Dan's fragile psyche

So since the mentioned it, first person horror Pacman is just Dark Deception, they should 100% play that

Now I want to see them attempt to play Vanish, and Arin's inevitable rage as the game continuously changes around him.

Arin: "It's like, a liminal space." Dan: "What's a liminal space?" Arin: *oh shit he called my bluff*

The pipe area around 15:00 reminds me of a museum i interned in, the entire basement was a maze of poorly lit cement walls and pipes. Museum was over 150 years old so everything was patchwork of expansions with little to no thought in how they connected. An entire area of the structural department was dedicated to making sure they found every inch of the building because recorded plans were very few. I would gopher between departments and being alone in certain areas felt like there would be no help for me if i had a problem.

that florescent hum is in the key of B. i will keep looping 2:58 because it's adorable

1:00 I’m surprised Arin didn’t freak out from the slowly rising sound that seems to get a little louder the longer it goes on for.

"is this really all the game is?! *is immediately proven wrong* AMAZING timing for that first scare

i believe Liminal spaces are spaces that, like arin said are inherently transitional, but specifically bereft of the typical amounts of people, most usually become liminal at night like truck stops, airports, even hospitals (mostly the hallways). The backrooms are essentially an apex concept due to the office-like aesthetic making it seem like things should be clustered with cubicals, furniture and objects and signs of people but since there are none it messes with the expectations and pattern recognition of our minds and it sets us on edge. ^^

17:47 - My dad always said to do those necessary things you like least first, after you wake up. That way you get it over with and can get on with your day. Since then, I've noticed he only calls me at around 6am.

Danny screaming always startles me far more than the thing he was screaming at haha

That stringy creature scared the shit out of me and then Dans scream made it so much worse 😂

Liminal spaces make me feel more uneasy than scared, which is pretty cool for a creepypasta.

I love Dan catching up horror trends such as FNAF and the backrooms. Arin should show him some analog stuff.

love that arin thought the crouching mechanism was just cause

I'll never get tired of Arin's MC voice

6:51 If you guys want to see a horror first person pac-man you should play Dark Deception!!! I'd love to see your guys' reactions to it!

Little did Dan know that it's Ghoul Grumps time.

I like to think Dan finds walkthroughs to hide from video horror..... And he never avoids it.

That was kind of fun, the first jump scare, all 3 of us screamed like little baby mans in unison.

Dan playing all these games with Arin makes me want a jolly style holiday song for Halloween in the style of "The Holiday Season" where Arin enjoys a lot of spooky halloween stuff, and Dan's just continuously crying and getting terrified with each thing. Bonus points if they both have to sing along and Arin's all cheerful and happy, and Dan's sobbing through words and manic.

I have to imagine this is a game for a very specific kind of phobia. I've worked in goverment buildings that had similar lighting issues and blank endless hallways, its more numbing than anything.

arin perfectly predicting the "most replayed" is awesome XD

4:19 missed opportunity for the smooth guitar to turn into a jojo to be continued joke

Hope Dan mentions House of Leaves again because liminal space is inextricably linked with it in my mind.

That first one actually scared the crap out of me. It was just such a long time without anything happening, I don't blame you for screaming Dan. I almost fell out if my chair lmao

26:42 That's the hardest I've laughed in a while 🤣

Dan's amazing musical ability despite his apparent lack of being able to read music is nothing short of incredible

Day 13 since the death of the giraffe town playthrough. With this streak of tittles I can’t even tell what the episode is going to be anymore.

well, now I absolutely need a video of Dan and Arin watching those recent KanePixel Backrooms videos.

I already know arin is gonna have a hard time with the birthday party tables lmao

30:29 - Arin flexes some knowledge of compositional technique, right there. (He's correct).

Just to let you guys know that limital spaces are basically the bridge to point a to b. So when your in school or in the mall, you usually only think about getting to point b, but not the hallways or the little details of how you get there🤙 It's a transitional space between two main points, but what makes them frightening is when the space is taken out of context. A bustling school hallway at lunchtime isn't really scary, but when the school hallway is empty, in the middle of the night and taken out of context, it suddenly becomes nerve wracking and you pay more attention to your surroundings and start to see the limital spaces that's between point a and b. The backrooms I basically when you noclipped outta reality and it can happen to anyone at anytime. Usually this will be the first level that your forced to try and survive, but there's an endless amount of levels that the poor souls noclipped into. The frontrooms is normal reality(Earth) The midrooms and sub rooms and pocket dimensions of different backrooms The backrooms is the limital spaces of purgatory, your not dead but you can still be killed by the entities of the backrooms💀 Sorry for the rambling Arin and Dan😭 This concept is just really amazing! It's very reminiscent of LSD Dream imular and this will make an amazing movie/game ideas😎🤙

Dan, "Man, this game is boring, when is something going to happen!" JUMPSCARE! That was great 🤣

My fetish is Arin talking himself down from being scared

so weird that dans usually strays from a perfect fifth chord but always the harmonic 7th when he harmonizes

Almost spilled my drink during that first scare. Just finished taking a sip and then my whole arm and hand shook with tremors. Just wasn't expecting that, lol.

Getting some ghoul grumps build up I see

dan: is this a horror game arin: who can say

I may just be misremembering my backrooms lore, but aren't the smilers supposed to be harmless?

Ah, the classic game grumps bit where Arin kisses your dad. It’s always funny.

Liminal spaces are just "uncanny valley" but for locations rather than people.

I was watching this video while i was sick and it made my day! Loved the part where you got scared … and scared … and scared again , and again

"this is what first person pac-man must feel like and its fucking terrifying!" now I wanna see them play Dark Deception just for that

classic Arin. Figures out he can lean left and right. Proceeds to NEVER use it again when he needs it.

Now I want a whole hour of Arin having Dan react to actual (good) backrooms videos made by Kane Pixels, Matt Studios, GeoNosis, etc.

I love that the pleasant music continues through their horrified screams.

Around the 27:00 mark, another perfect moment of Arin's superhuman comedic timing 😂

Yay! Danny and Arnold’s worst nightmare 🥳☺️

Okay, I screamed at the first one. lol.

When Dan started yelling “get to the table” over and over again, it sounded like that parody of Chop Suey “Table Table Table”

I hate what the backrooms has become but dang it if I’m not excited to see Dan scared let’s go

Them saying “this must be what first person Pac-Man feels like” makes me want to see them play Dark Deception!! Spooky mazes, great jumpscares, beautiful Bearce?? They definitely need to play it!

that first jumpscare got me so bad that i screamed out loud and scared my cat i am not easily startled by horror games so this means a lot i think

I love how there was nice calm music and then a jump scare happens. best thing ever.

Can’t wait to draw pleasure from Dan’s terror!

"Pacman's a closet horror game" *Dark Deception has entered the chat*

Love that the guys are playing this, I’m super into liminal spaces and the backrooms so its great to see them exploring it!

14:56 Arin: "I just hear the sounds of crunchin' and munchin" me eating popcorn in bed watching this: OvO"

Picturing Dan in an office job fried my brain

I love it when they scream

I've said it once and I'll say it a million times.. Dan and Arins comedic timing are impeccable and also that jumpscare made me scare my poor sleeping cat xD

Dan getting scared of the character model's shadow is literally me and getting scared by the steam

You know, I woke up feeling pretty grumpy this morning.. Now I feel Grumpy. Thanks Dan & Arin 😁