Underplayed Gems

The Backrooms: Unseen Tapes (2024)

The Backrooms: Unseen Tapes cover
Developer
Mayuns Games
Platforms
Windows
Genres
Indie
Rating
3.2 of 5, 20 player ratings
Typical playtime
about 35 minutes
Where to get it
Steam
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How it feels

A disorienting, tense crawl through a procedurally generated office maze where stealth and quick thinking are your only tools against lurking creatures.

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What players say

Players are split on The Backrooms: Unseen Tapes. Some praise its tense atmosphere and replayability, while others say it is an hour of walking through empty, repetitive corridors with little guidance and no real payoff. The game has multiple endings and a procedural generation system, but detractors find the content thin and the monster often fails to appear.

Screenshots

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