Underplayed Gems

The Backrooms: Lost Tape (2022)

The Backrooms: Lost Tape cover
Developer
Cortez Productions
Platforms
Windows
Genres
Action, Adventure, Indie
Rating
4.1 of 5, 1,393 player ratings
Typical playtime
about 4.3 hours
Where to get it
Steam

How it feels

A tense, atmospheric walk through eerie liminal spaces, piecing together cryptic clues while evading lurking threats.

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What players say

Players are split: some praise the atmosphere and the strong depiction of liminal spaces, but a graphics update brought widespread performance problems and crashes, and many Chinese speakers complain about the lack of Chinese language support.

Trailer

Screenshots

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