Welcome to The Backrooms VHS, a linear survival horror game based on the famous creepypasta with many real references implemented such as iconic entities and important elements. You will have to explore each room and attempt to progress forward and reach new areas. The game is experienced through the found footage of an old VHS camera. You find yourself ensnared in a seemingly infinite maze of office spaces and a total of 14 levels of the backrooms. Your mission is to escape by following the narrative and linear world building and survive several encounters of dangerous creatures called entities. As you traverse the backrooms, it will eventually lead you towards the exit, or not.

The game now supports a co-op online horror up to 4 players, where you and your friends will fight to escape from the different levels of the backrooms, solving different puzzles with different mechanics in each one. You can host a server or join one with a room code (e.g. 1F F3 36 A3). Through the server browser you can also join public lobbies.

The walk and run animation are keyframed from real-life footage and layered to provide the most realistic effect and deepen the immersion of the player into the game. Several layers of filters were also added to achieve the best VHS look and tape noise possible. You can walk and sprint with limited stamina and a recovery time. At certain areas your playable character (PC) turns on a flashlight to lighten up the dark areas of the game. The PC can crawl into narrow spaces like vents and holes and interact with certain elements in the scene by giving a comment or by using the lift for example. When you get chased or get scared the PC makes a scared noise or starts to breath heavily, which he also does when the players sprints for too long and the PC has no stamina. You can lean over edges and get a better look at the area without getting in the vision of entities. The entities can chase you through the given area and you have to run away.

The player has the ability to take screenshots with the middle mouse button, which gets stored in the documentation folder.

The game currently has 16 levels, 14 of which are of the backrooms. Each level builds upon the others and follows the rules set in the fandom of the backrooms wiki - fandom.

• Level 0: "The Lobby"
• Level 4: "Abandoned Office"
• Level 6: "Lights Out"
• Level 7: "Thalassophobia"
• Level 8: "Cave System"
• Level 9: "Darkened Suburbs"
• Level 37: "Sublimity"
• Level 94: "Reality?"
• Level 95: "Lesser Heaven"
• Level 188: "The Windows"
• Level 231 Level !: "Run For Your Life!"
• The End
• Level 9223372036854775807

Entities you may encounter include Bacteria, Smilier, Skin-Stealers, and Kitty.

If you’re not careful and noclip out of reality in the wrong areas, you’ll end up in the Backrooms, where it’s nothing but the stink of old moist carpet, the madness of mono-yellow, the endless background noise of fluorescent lights at maximum hum-buzz, and approximately six hundred million square miles of randomly segmented empty rooms to be trapped in. God save you if you hear something wandering around nearby, because it sure as hell has heard you.

• Requires a 64-bit processor and operating system
  
• OS: Windows 7
  
• Processor: Intel® Core™ i5-4460, 2.70GHz or AMD FX™-6300 or better
  
• Memory: 6 GB RAM
  
• Graphics: NVIDIA® GeForce® GTX 760 or AMD Radeon™ R7 260x with 2GB Video RAM
  
• DirectX: Version 12
  
• Storage: 4 GB available space

• Requires a 64-bit processor and operating system
  
• OS: Windows 11
  
• Processor: Intel® Core™ i7 3770 3.4GHz or AMD equivalent or better
  
• Memory: 8 GB RAM
  
• Graphics: NVIDIA® GeForce® GTX 1060 with 3GB VRAM
  
• DirectX: Version 12
  
• Storage: 4 GB available space