Deja Vu : The Backrooms

This review is mostly a reminder to myself. Feel free to ignore it. If your idea of fun is chatting with friends while aimlessly running around doing absolutely nothing, then sure, this game is for you. Otherwise do not touch it again. You will genuinely lose your mind running in circles for hours with nothing happening. No objectives. No puzzles. No meaningful progression. Just empty wandering until boredom kicks your teeth in. If you have slow or unstable internet, congratulations, you get to wait for a download just to waste your time anyway. You will install this game, boot it up, and realize you are doing nothing. That is the entire experience. It feels like a tech demo stretched way past its breaking point. I have played a ton of Backrooms games, good and bad, and this one is not worth the wait or the effort. There are far better options that actually give you something to do besides existing in yellow hallways. To be fair, it does have a few small moments where the atmosphere looks nice, and the environments can be pretty in a very limited way. The music choices are also solid. Unlike another Backrooms game I tried with audio so awful it felt like it was actively trying to give me migraines, this one is at least tolerable on the ears. Audio wise, it is fine. The intro is honestly the best part of the entire game. It sets expectations that the rest of the experience completely fails to live up to. Overall, I just wish there was more. More gameplay. More interaction. More reasons to keep moving forward. If you want to feel active, engaged, or productive in a game, this is absolutely not it. This is a walking simulator with nothing at the end of the walk.

I would rather be sucked into the actual backrooms than play this pile of excrement again. I blame TheNumberOneAce for my pain and suffering.

i genuinely think that the game has potential its just rough around the edges and the into doesn't have enough guidance. it would benefit a lot from having dedicated tasks to make game play feel like it has an end goal. crashes a lot and isnt optimised great. otherwise fun with friends

i really enjoyed this game as it's a different view of the liminal games spectrum! i also really liked the camera & photos mechanic! highly recommended!

In its current state, the game offers an interesting take on the Backrooms genre, executed quite well. I recommend it to anyone looking for a unique and immersive liminal experience.

[b] Eingabeprobleme mit der Maus! Andere Nutzer berichten ebenfalls über Probleme. [/b] Am Anfang soll man seine E-Mails am PC überprüfen, drückt man dann mehrfach auf die linke oder rechte Maustaste, fängt das Spiel sofort an rumzuspinnen (der Cursor spielt dann nicht mehr mit).[h3]Ich habe zwar ein PS4 Controllerprofil hochgeladen, es lohnt sich jedoch aufgrund der Eingabeprobleme nicht, mein PS4 Profil noch weiterhin zu verbessern. [/h3] Bei Spielen, die schon von Anfang an rumspinnen, lohnt es sich allgemein nicht, überhaupt nur darüber nachzudenken sie durchzuspielen. Thema Early Access-Spiel: Bestenfalls bekommen wir ein Updade für das Spiel, hoffentlich!

this is not a good game.

COOL IDEA FOR A GAME BUT THE GUIDANCE AT THE START IS VERY MINIMAL, THE MONSTERS ARE TOO OP WHEN THEY TELEPORT, AND WHEN YOU DIE IT HAS A CRAZY LOUD RINGING THAT YOU CANT TURN DOWN WITHOUT TURNING DOWN THE WHOLE GAME. MYSELF AND 2 FRIENDS THAT PLAYED ALL EXPERIENCED THE SAME ISSUES SO ITS NOT A MATTER OF FAULTY EQUIPMENT BY THE USERS END.