Experience Will's complicated story, find a way out of the nightmare of liminal spaces by solving challenging puzzles and avoiding dangerous entities — all this awaits you in "Shifting To The Backrooms".
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Unlike most Backrooms co-op adventures, our game focuses on a single-player story campaign.
We understand that multiplayer is fun. but we aim to deliver something fresh:
A deep plot with actual characters.
No clichéd "yellow corridors" — we’ve reimagined Backrooms.
"Shifting To The Backrooms" is a mix of psychological horror and drama game where the protagonist, Will, grappling with family tragedies, discovers the method of "shifting" enabling him to enter dream liminal worlds and escape from his grim reality. However, the dream turns into a nightmare from which Will cannot wake up.
The game will feature:
More than 15 liminal spaces
Unique and abstract levels never seen before in Backrooms games
Complex puzzles, Non-Euclidean spaces
An intriguing story about shifting and parallel universes
A walking simulator with exploration of liminal spaces and puzzle-solving:
Travel through non-Euclidean spaces
Solve abstract and engaging puzzles
Find your way out — avoid and hide from entity monsters
The core of the game is Will’s personal journey, not the "spaces." Liminality and Backrooms are just the stage.
Will, a 15-year-old, battles family turmoil tied to his father, mother, sister, and mother's new friend (all revealed in-game). He seeks peace by "shifting" to safe levels, but dreams morph into an inescapable nightmare. Your task: guide Will to wakefulness. Through dreams, you’ll uncover ways to alter reality and secrets that reshape his family’s fate.
Themes explored:
Shifting, astral projections, transcendental travel
Oneirokinesis (Can thought influence reality through dreams?)
Fear of being trapped in the astral plane, a dream, or an alternate reality
The thin line between sleep and reality
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Stats
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Languages: English*, Russian*, Simplified Chinese*, Belarusian**languages with full audio support
Engagement
Hours played at review time, across 40 reviews with recorded playtime.
Reviews
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Reviews
В целом очень даже неплохо!
I enjoyed this game very much. The devs put a unique twist on the backrooms idea and it fits very well here. Its rare we get a backrooms game with a narrative and I hope for more. The enviroments are beautiful with the exception of clipping through walls/textures enough to see the skybox(i hope this can be fixed?). The puzzles were satisfying to solve although the a bit tedious at times running across large spaces to get the solution. This game has some great scares and the atmosphere so perfectly fits that backrooms eerie horror. That sound effect that kicks in when a monster spots you is terrifying although its seems to need some work. Overall with some patience I complete the game in 2.5-3hrs and I think this is a must buy for fans of the backrooms.
I almost did not buy this game because of the quicktime event (only one of these, thank you very much) at the beginning of the game. But my love for backroom games made me buy it anyway. Glad I did. Not use to having a story line with a backrooms style game, made me even more determined to complete the game. I did have to hit up a walkthrough for one puzzle, as I missed a comment, so pay attention. I died many times, and the restart points were reasonable. Graphics were great, storyline good.
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Лучшая игра за последнюю неделю
want to enjoy it but its kind of a hard game!!!
just finished the whole game in a couple hours, i played countless backrooms games and i can tell this is miles different from any of them, i absolutely loved the story although i kinda got confused at the end, as said these levels have never been seen in games, very well made and really good graphics, my best regards to the devs who worked hard for this game, its amazing and i hope the next updates give us more story and brand new levels to go through, loved it. (with my pc specs i ran everything on ultra high and fsr on quality 240fps, no stutters.)
不好玩
Terrible writing, borish equally bad puzzles, the human models look cursed (not in a good way) and the sound design is jarring. Definitely not worth paying for. This is 100% made by a teen child.
not my cup of tea
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