Backrooms: Research

Backrooms: Research is an exploration game in which you play as a field operative for M.E.G. (Major Explorer Group). From a central base of operations, you explore the Backrooms and work to improve your chances of survival.

Your base

You can expand and improve the base over time, unlocking upgrades, new systems and purchasable equipment to support survival and exploration.

Explore the Backrooms

The game draws on established Backrooms wiki lore, adapting or reinterpreting entities, levels and concepts from documented material. Its environments are hand-designed, but layouts, encounters and conditions can shift over time, making runs unpredictable even in familiar areas.

Cooperative exploration

You can explore alone or with up to three other players. Proximity voice chat supports coordination, but can also make communication risky when players are separated or in hostile areas.

Liminality

Liminality is a solo mode focused entirely on exploration. It removes player stats, entities and multiplayer interaction, leaving you to navigate the levels without threats, objectives or external influence.

Presentation

An optional VHS-style camera system shapes the game's presentation as you explore.