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Five Nights In The Backrooms

After 12-Link Labs discovers 'The Backrooms', they also find a terrifying creature. This creature is very hostile, and no matter how hard they try... They can't contain it. So they’ve sent you, a very…

15 August 2026

Five Nights In The Backrooms is an indie developed by Kaden Deering, released 15 August 2026 on PC (Microsoft Windows).

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What Five Nights In The Backrooms is

Five Nights In The Backrooms is an indie game developed by Kaden Deering and released in 2026. It is available on PC (Microsoft Windows) only. It runs on Unreal Engine 5.

The premise, in the publisher's words

You are a prisoner in a government facility, sent to the Backrooms after the company 12-Link Labs discovers it. You are tasked with watching over a creature that lives inside the Backrooms. Can you survive the full five nights?
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How it plays

It is played from a first person perspective.

What it launched against

Five Nights In The Backrooms launched on 15 August 2026, within three weeks of The Blood of Dawnwalker, Onimusha: Way of the Sword, Resonance: A Plague Tale Legacy and Mortal Shell II.

Released around the same time: The Blood of Dawnwalker, Onimusha: Way of the Sword, Resonance: A Plague Tale Legacy, Mortal Shell II.

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When did Five Nights In The Backrooms come out?
Five Nights In The Backrooms was released on 15 August 2026 for PC (Microsoft Windows).

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