a messy digital oil painting of a wolf with an outline of a stylized wolf around it. the wolf is looking towards faint a shadow, the shadow is looking back

i cant stop speaking in your voice

ummmm arararrrr ruhh rooruh arar

screenshot of an eerie apartment building, it's all dark except for the rooms you can see into

screenshot of a liminal living room with no furniture, stairs, and a dark open doorway

screenshot of a poolrooms hallway with one dark corridor and one light

screenshot of a dreamcore-like suburban outdoor area with nonsensical columns and pillars

ROBLOX: BACKROOMS REDACTED

THE most expansive backrooms game with 100+ areas and its own wiki

its roblox, so there are other players, cheesy NPCS, and some areas with annoying entities. some levels are meh and others are SUPER impressive. if you find the right places, you can spend HOURS exploring

screenshot of a pink poolroom with palm trees and floaties, very cozy

screenshot of a dark dark room with a bounce castle in it

screenshot of an endless wall of apartment windows. the floor is entirely water with partially submerged suburban houses sticking out

screenshot of a bright liminal space with rainbows on the wall and a balcony

LIMINALSHIFT

currently playing this one, its VERY good. very tense without explicit monster chases (so far at least! i'm sorry if i'm wrong). some rooms genuinely freaked me the fuck out

will be finishing this one on the big TV at my gf's house, which means it got my stamp of approval B)

screenshot of very realistic slides in a playground

screenshot of a dark playground tunnel with a TV with static on the screen

screenshot of a dark play room with foam platforms

SUBLIMINAL

i wanted to love this game like i loved the demo. was hesitant about the dialogue, but the graphics are STUNNING and the waterpark is eerie

unfortunately after the waterpark it becomes 100% nonsensical puzzles and 0% exploration, too many monster chases. i'd love to see it improve :<

screenshot of a freaky liminal parking garage

screenshot of a dim liminal mall with escalators and closed own shops

screenshot of a liminal apartment complex with a nonsensical office roof above all the rooms

BACKROOMS: LIMINAL ESCAPE

i LOVE the VHS vibe of this game. it does have some buggy areas and ineffective monsters, but i like some of the mechanics they involve in theory! this game would be easy to fix

god the parking garage areas creep me out so bad

screenshot of an endless ocean with a blocky structure sticking out of it and wind turbines emerging from the water

screenshot of a bright poolroom with colorful slides and clouds

a screenshot of a scary dark children's playground inside a room with yellow carpet

a screenshot of a poolrooms with windows with clouds and rectangular overlapping pools

BACKROOMS: LOST TAPE

unfinished, i like it for what it is! has varied areas!!

i personally dislike mannequins/human sculptures in the backrooms. i dont find them scary. IMO they distract from the backrooms' purpose as an absurd mimicry of human architecture, but i know this is an unpopular opinion

screenshot taken from the bottom of a tower-like megastructure

screenshot of a warm yellow-orange arch structure that fades into the horizon

NaissanceE

not really a backrooms game, but this is a free megastructure exploration game that you should absolutely play if you enjoy liminal spaces

a total vibe, i wouldnt class this one as a horror game at all. its just beautiful and took my breath away once i realized how HUGE some areas are

screenshot of a dark, destroyed-looking room with a streetlight

a liminal bookstore devoid of books, with 'store closing' signs hanging from the ceiling

a weird liminal room with an outdoor streetlamp, office ceiling lights, and the front end of a suburban house. the wallpaper is realistic clouds

BACKROOMS REMINISCENCE

some people didn't like this game due to the presence of some monster scares as well as dialogue, but the liminal spaces are VERY eerie. tension is built well, so its not a jumpscare fest!

worth playing despite a few things i would change! the areas that work REALLY work

screenshot of a dark backroom with lamps and a checkered blue floor, the back is entirely cast in shadow

screenshot of a pink vaporwave style poolroom with ferns and palm trees

screenshot of an abandoned mall with an intense vhs effect

BACK*SPACE

free demo, game is unfinished. well-made, no monsters, i recommend checking this one out, if the dev keeps taking it in the direction it's going i think it will turn out really well!

the VHS effect is actually a bit too intense, works for screenshots but you can turn it off to play!

screenshot of liminal city skyscrapers with a blank white sky

screenshot of a dark parking garage with cars

screenshot from the top of an incredibly tall building with a pit in the middle that goes down as far as the eye can see. iron beams go across it

screenshot of a dark red foreboding city

LIMINAL CITY

this game IS VERY MUCH worth playing, despite the presence of some monsters and scares that didnt work for me

not many backrooms games use city areas, and there are multiple other areas as well that look just as good, including grocery stores, malls, pools. preys on a fear of heights

screenshot of a unique backrooms room with nonsense stairs and balconies, and multiple darkened exits

screenshot of a dark liminal room with many stop signs sticking out of the floor and a balcony with no railing

the RC car, used to enter small areas and unlock doors. this is one of the best interactive mechanics ive seen in any backrooms game

TAPE 101: LIMINAL DESCENT

free demo is out now, but the full game isnt done yet. but i absolutely LOVE the unique RC car mechanic used to unlock areas by moving through tunnels humans cant fit in

very tense, top tier backrooms imagery, a lot of the rooms really freaked me out

screenshot of an abandoned mall interior

screenshot of a liminal movie theater hallway

screenshot of a dark poolroom with nonsense architecture and slides

ANEMOIAPOLIS

very good. interactive, has puzzles, you can go down the slide, i love that it critiques dystopian american architecture

dialogue takes me out of a backrooms game TBH, but this game is ABSOLUTELY worth playing despite the presence of dialogue. it's done well and not Too obtrusive

screenshot of a weirdcore-type endless suburbia with hills, white picket fences, and a water tower

screenshot of an illogical closed in apartment complex building

an even creepier liminal suburb with a blank pale blue sky and connected, lifeless looking gray houses.

DREAMCORE

INCREDIBLY good and LONG compared to most other liminal games. atmospheric, no monsters, lots of suburban horror which really works for me as someone who finds the suburbs horrifying

has that weird VHS effect that really puts it at the top tier for me.

a screenshot of a poolroom with greenish lighting and bright windows you can't see out of

a poolroom with a slide curling around a pillar

screenshot of a dark eerie poolroom with partially submerged suburban homes. the only lighting anomalously comes from the houses

POOLS

no jumpscares, very atmospheric, beautiful lighting. top 3 poolrooms-focused games for sure. +2 points because you can go down the slide, feels more interactive that way

it's a walking simulator but i personally really enjoy those, it's up to you whether that's for you!

screenshot of a dark dimly lit hallway with nonsensical kitchen furniture

screenshot of an empty hotel lobby

screenshot of plants in a dimly lit enclosed poolroom

THE COMPLEX: EXPEDITION

top tier, no notes. THE game to play if you enjoy liminal spaces at all. i don't want to describe this too much and instead just encourage you to buy it

it's $15 when not on sale, but steam games go on sale often

You can absolutely take the following thread as a list of recommendations:

the ideal backrooms to me has the implication of being watched. almost as if the place itself is shifting, questionably alive, but without the explicit presence of monsters

but i do love different "biomes". unpredictable, just randomly stumbling into an unfamiliar region

I'm working on reviews of as many atmospheric liminal space games as I can find

Since they're almost exclusively indie games, I will be gentle and constructive with any critique. I have a very specific taste in backrooms games but I respect a dev's choice to diverge from that if it's done well

A raccoon fursuit wearing leather harness and chain leash, his arm around a smiling convention attendee at Confurence 1993 in the artist alley. There are people behind the pair but it's too dark to make out details.

A Lola Bunny fursuit wearing black lace panty-hose and holding a crop. She is posing. A watermark for Upright Fox is in the top corner.

A seductive mustelid fursuiter holds a leather crop, his white and blue fur under leather vest, belt and low-riding jock strap pose in front of an empty convention hallway table.

A gender-bent bear fursuit with eye liner wears latex from the waist down, and a corset. A smiling con goer looks on in his white teeshirt with a busty anthro animal on it. There is a busy crowd behind them.

Furry has been kinky since the beginning as illustrated by these photos from Confurence 1993 (curated by www.instagram.com/d0gfag/) There has always been a demand for adult spaces in furry. The fandom was founded on the idea that adults can use anthro animals and cartoons to express adult interests.

everyone needs to be loved

A painting of a furry shark woman smoking a cigarette through her gills while looking slightly annoyed, a furry orca woman is standing behind her, undressing her while licking the gills.

Passivrauchen

HELL YEAHHHHH

A concept sheet of a black and neon green boar-dragon partial suit

2.0 of my personal suit Warren! Got a base from my very favorite base maker ligris cybernetics, as well as stretch fur for some ultra slim paws and digi legs :D

id love to finish head and hands at the very least, and then i can just wear my bontail. buuuuut id be fine with literally just having Warren's new head

starting to get incredibly hyped for anthrocon. even if i only manage to finish my new head that's fine

drawing of a burning warehouse “all you had to do was pay us enough to live”

people will tell you it’s complicated but it’s really not

Shiny Doggie <3

I am once again asking you to get involved with what your friends love. Even if you're not as into it as they are, the excitement and joy on their faces when they get to info dump and geek out to you is everything.

A purple sturgeon in a pink bra and undies with her back towards the camera

I've wanted to draw a sturgeon gal for awhile so I thought I would doodle one as a warm up. I think she is so cute!