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Backrooms Games: Lost in the Endless Yellow Rooms

The Backrooms began as an internet legend: no-clip out of reality and you land in endless, damp yellow office rooms humming with fluorescent light, with something else out there. These games take you there, with friends or alone, and a few go to the empty pools and liminal places the legend grew into.

The games

  1. Escape the Backrooms screenshot: the empty yellow-wallpapered rooms and fluorescent lights of the first level Co-opEscape the BackroomsThe best-known Backrooms game: more than thirty levels of yellow halls, pools and warehouses for up to four friends, with entities that each hunt by their own rules.
  2. Two players in yellow hazmat suits face a tall, thin black entity in the yellow halls of Level 0, with a grinning face glowing in a dark doorway Co-opBackrooms: Escape TogetherUp to six players in Backrooms levels that change every attempt, learning how each entity hunts.
  3. Inside the Backrooms key art: a dim yellow room with buzzing ceiling lights and pillars scrawled with warnings such as It sees you and Left no exit Co-opInside the BackroomsUp to four friends solve puzzles to find the exit while entities hunt anyone they notice.
  4. The Backrooms 1998 key art: a dark, empty tiled pool room with a pink inflatable ring floating in the gloom ShortThe Backrooms 1998Alone, through a 1998 camcorder, with a failing flashlight and something that hears your footsteps and even your microphone.
  5. The Classrooms key art: a grinning furry creature peers around a cinder block wall in a dark school corridor SurvivalThe ClassroomsA camcorder in a condemned school whose halls never end and change each time you play.
  6. Backrooms: Extractions key art: three agents in white and orange suits and helmets hold glowsticks, a grinning face reflected in the front visor Co-opBackrooms: ExtractionsA found-footage rescue for up to six, back into the Backrooms after agents who never returned.
  7. POOLS key art: a long rectangular pool of dark water with a metal rail, in a hall of pale tiles stretching into the distance AnalogPOOLSNo monsters at all: endless white-tiled pool rooms and still water, the liminal fear without a chase.
  8. Anemoiapolis key art: a lone green tree on a grassy field under a blue sky that looks like crumpled paper ShortAnemoiapolis: Chapter 1An empty underground neighbourhood of malls, halls and indoor pools where doors change behind you.

Escape the Backrooms is the one most players start with: up to four friends no-clip into more than thirty levels, from the yellow office to flooded pools and dark warehouses, solving puzzles to find each exit while entities hunt by sight or sound. Backrooms: Escape Together takes up to six and rebuilds its levels every attempt, so you learn the entities rather than the maps, and Inside the Backrooms gives up to four friends changing puzzles to solve before something notices them. Backrooms: Extractions sends a found-footage crew of up to six back in to rescue agents who never returned, with entities that hear what you say on voice chat.

For the Backrooms alone, The Backrooms 1998 is seen through a teenager's 1998 camcorder, with a failing flashlight and something that hunts by sound, including your microphone. The Classrooms is its school-shaped cousin: a camcorder, a condemned school and halls that never end, different every time you play.

If what draws you is the emptiness rather than the monsters, POOLS has no enemies at all, just endless white-tiled pool rooms, still water and nobody else, and Anemoiapolis: Chapter 1 wakes you in a vast underground neighbourhood of closed malls and indoor pools where doors change behind you.

If you only try one, play Escape the Backrooms with friends, or The Backrooms 1998 for a night there alone.

Questions

What is the best Backrooms game?

Escape the Backrooms is the best known and the most reviewed on Steam; it is built for up to four friends. For playing alone, try The Backrooms 1998.

Are there Backrooms games on console?

Yes: Escape the Backrooms and The Backrooms 1998 are on PlayStation, Xbox and Switch, and Backrooms: Escape Together is on PlayStation and Xbox.

Is there a Backrooms game without monsters?

POOLS has no enemies at all; its unease comes from endless empty pool rooms.

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