The Empty Halls

The Empty Halls is a VHS-style horror exploration game set in liminal spaces: transitional places that feel “in between,” such as empty office buildings, underground car parks, abandoned shopping centres and dark play areas. Most levels and spaces draw on descriptions and reference images from online Backrooms community wikis.

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You work for the Backrooms Exploration Company, using a custom-built VHS camera supplied by its mysterious higher-ups. You step through the threshold into the unknown to explore levels and record anomalies. The higher-ups assign missions through a custom VCR setup, which lets you play back your recordings and confirms whether you completed the task; once you do, it assigns a new mission.