Backrooms: The Project starts in empty corporate offices before descending through level structures rendered in UE5. The photorealistic fluorescent corridors are the highest production value entry in the Backrooms genre. GPA scores it high on Horror and Graphics.
Game Characteristics
Dystopian Setting
85%
Horror
80%
Dark
70%
Graphics
65%
Existential Themes
60%
Puzzle
55%
Player profile fit
Recommended for: Intermediate to Advanced players (A score of 50 or higher indicates a good fit.)
Beginner
45
Intermediate
65 ✓
Advanced
55 ✓
Keywords
旧式オフィス探索Severance的演出手持ちカメラ表現複数階層構成UE5映像
Gameplay Profile Chart
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Dystopian Setting
85%
Horror
80%
Dark
70%
Graphics
65%
Existential Themes
60%
Puzzle
55%
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Backrooms: The Project（バックルームズ・ザ・プロジェクト） leads with its ファウンドフッテージホラー identity, anchored by the core feel of "Backrooms: The Project starts in empty corporate offices before descending through level structures rendered in UE5." The headline profile reads Dystopian Setting 85% / Horror 80% / Dark 70%, making it a strong pick for fans of Dystopian Setting and Horror. Balanced to appeal to a broad range of players.
▸Characteristics & Analysis
Our editorial team scored "Backrooms: The Project（バックルームズ・ザ・プロジェクト）" by using its feel of 旧式オフィス探索, Severance的演出, and 手持ちカメラ表現 as the primary lens, weighting Dystopian Setting and Horror most heavily. Top similar titles include "スコーン（Scorn）", "レイヤーズ・オブ・フィアー（Layers of Fear）", "アムネジア：ザ・ダーク・ディセント（Amnesia: The Dark Descent）".
Backrooms: The Project Analysis — When Empty Offices Become the Horror
Overview
“Backrooms: The Project” is a first-person horror adventure built around one of the defining ideas of liminal-space horror: familiar places become unsettling when the people and purpose normally associated with them disappear.
Rather than focusing solely on monsters and jump scares, the game places the player inside abandoned offices, endless corridors, empty halls, and other seemingly functional spaces that have somehow been stripped of human presence.
The result is a particular kind of unease. Nothing necessarily looks impossible at first glance. It simply feels wrong.
The Horror of the Empty Workplace
GPA gives the game an 85% score for its Decadent World, making it the strongest element of its profile.
That makes sense because “Backrooms: The Project” is less interested in conventional haunted-house imagery than in transforming ordinary architecture into something unsettling.
An office normally exists for a clear purpose. Desks, lights, corridors, and rooms all imply human activity. Remove the people, however, and the same environment becomes strangely meaningless.
That contrast is at the heart of the game's atmosphere.
The player isn't simply exploring a ruined building. They are exploring a place that looks as though it should still be functioning, yet has no obvious reason to exist anymore.
This gives the game a distinctly “business liminal” identity.
Found-Footage Presentation
The game's visual presentation is another major part of its horror.
“Backrooms: The Project” uses a found-footage aesthetic inspired by handheld camcorders from the 1980s and 1990s. Camera movement, depth of field, exposure, and other visual effects are designed to make the player feel as though they are recording the environment rather than simply controlling a character inside it. (Steam Store)
That approach is particularly effective for a game built around empty spaces.
Perfectly clean modern visuals can make an environment feel artificial. The imperfections of a camcorder image, on the other hand, leave room for uncertainty.
Is that movement in the distance?
Was that something in the corner of the frame?
Did the room actually look like that a moment ago?
The less information the image gives the player, the more their imagination fills in the gaps.
Exploration as a Horror Mechanic
The game also incorporates exploration and puzzle elements. Players search the environment for items and clues that can help them find a way out. (Steam Store)
GPA gives the game a 55% Puzzle score, placing this aspect somewhere in the middle of its overall profile.
That balance is important.
Exploration forces the player to pay attention to the environment. Instead of simply running toward the next objective, the player has to look around and question the space itself.
Where is the item I need?
Did I miss something in the previous room?
Was that corridor always there?
The act of searching therefore becomes part of the horror.
The environment isn't just the backdrop for the gameplay. It becomes the thing the player is constantly trying to understand.
Liminal Space and Existential Unease
GPA rates the game's Existential Theme at 60%.
That score reflects another important aspect of the Backrooms concept.
The fear doesn't necessarily come from knowing exactly what is happening. It comes from being unable to establish where you are, why the place exists, or whether there is even a meaningful destination ahead.
An office without workers.
A corridor without a destination.
A facility without a clear function.
These contradictions create an unsettling sense of purposelessness.
The Backrooms concept works particularly well because it removes the familiar relationship between a place and its purpose. A hallway should lead somewhere. An office should contain people. A building should have a reason to exist.
Once those assumptions disappear, even an ordinary room can become threatening.
GPA Analysis
Title tendency chart (Backrooms: The Project)
Decadent Worldview ◀
85%
Horror ◀
80%
Dark ◀
70%
Graphics
65%
Existential Themes
60%
Puzzle
55%
* Based on GPA sub-tag scores. Empty offices and found-footage presentation define the run.
The combination of 85% Decadent World and 80% Horror is probably the clearest way to understand the game's identity.
Its strongest weapon isn't necessarily the creature hiding around the next corner. It's the environment itself.
The empty office.
The fluorescent lights.
The endless corridors.
The feeling that something should be here, but isn't.
For players who enjoy liminal horror and the uneasy feeling of being trapped somewhere that looks familiar but fundamentally isn't, “Backrooms: The Project” offers a particularly focused take on the Backrooms formula.
