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The Backrooms: Liminal Space

A short horror experience rendered with a real-time VHS filter (grain, scan lines). Freely explore the spaces of a strange yellow maze. Independently created by a 12-year-old developer using UE5, it immerses…

28 January 2026

The Backrooms: Liminal Space is an adventure, released 28 January 2026 on PC (Microsoft Windows).

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What The Backrooms: Liminal Space is

The Backrooms: Liminal Space was released in 2026. It is available on PC (Microsoft Windows) only.

The premise, in the publisher's words

A short horror experience rendered with a real-time VHS filter (grain, scan lines). Freely explore the spaces of a strange yellow maze. Independently created by a 12-year-old developer using UE5, it immerses you in a purely liminal space atmosphere.
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How it plays

It is a single-player game with no multiplayer component.

What it launched against

The Backrooms: Liminal Space launched on 28 January 2026, within three weeks of Reanimal, Hytale, Cairn and Mewgenics.

Released around the same time: Reanimal, Hytale, Cairn, Mewgenics.

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When did The Backrooms: Liminal Space come out?
The Backrooms: Liminal Space was released on 28 January 2026 for PC (Microsoft Windows).

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