Lost Direction

is the game dead?

Hello, I'm a french Backrooms YouTuber and I play this game from time to time. A question always haunted me, is there actually something ? Whenever I want to conclude this game is empty and possess no entity a strange event happens. I concluded at random times some events can occur but what are they ?

never actually got further than 4 but is there like level 1000?

it would be great

also got scared at hell when touching the red light cube

Pretty wild and crazy game! I loved the  backrooms vibe and oddly enough the movement in this game was very smooth. Much love and thanks for the work put into this 

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I reached Level 50, now a countdown is running down from 2,147,475,... Can I end the game finally ?! PLEASE answer...I am waiting!

Amazing games. Played it til floor 26 but saw something would happen in 25 so I dropped back. However I was locked in the "thing" that would appear and had to close the game. But damn the atmosphere is amazing the small little secrets and the way horror is generated without any hostile entity or finding pages. Just exploring with a scary VHS filter. I love this game and will probably play it again because I saw people talking about things I have not witnessed yet. A big kiss from me to the Developer <3<3<3

Is there a  "Win State" to this game? I've enjoyed wandering around and seeing the sights for a few hours now, but it's starting to feel like I've seen all to be seen.

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ok, i have been playing this or about  a week and it seems that there are 2 ways to beat the game. unrelated to that i have a tendancy to stick to one floor, meaning that i found the blackbox several times and drowned almost as many times. I finally got to the blackbox and found enough  info to enter a code, then got to a screen. it counted down and then the game closed with a loud roar. not sure what happened there but i will beat this game!!!!

thank you for making such a kickass game and putting so much effort into it. 

ps i was just playing and was doubting if there was an entity or not, but i heard someone get murdered and am not sure what to make of it. the depth to this game is next level. : )

So got to level 24, and touched a "plant" and the "floor" counter went to +2,000,000,000. Not sure if it's intended or not a bit confused but love the game over all. Thumbs up.

I think this game looks very cool, but unfortunately it is unplayable for me. Maxes out my graphics card (which is not a potato) and the mouse sensitivity is way too high. 

From the couple minutes I played before I had to shut it down, it looked pretty fun!

I would greatly appreciate the addition of an options menu that included graphics settings, mouse sensitivity options, and a way to switch between windowed/borderless/fullscreen modes. 

Hey, so, first of all:  Excellent game.  This held my attention for quite awhile, I really only stopped after my arm started to hurt too much (tendon problems, cant use mouse for long, gonna have to rig up a controller scheme, will try that later).

The different "biomes" are really well done, and the exploration never stopped being tense and exciting, even though I tended not to move very fast.

Seriously I think you're onto a real winning formula here.  This is a game I'll probably be coming back to a lot... exactly my sort of thing.  I'm a huge fan of the Backrooms concept (particularly after Kane's excellent new series) and this captures it well.  I'm really hoping that you'll keep expanding it, there's so many cool concepts that could appear here.

There are a couple of frustrations that I ran into though:

The biggest one is the flashlight... I quickly developed a loathing for that thing.  I also learned to never touch the A or D keys, because that made the wobbly thing go all over the place.  

But also, the dark areas:  There's just too much of that.  I dont know how many would agree with me, but I find that the freaky/uncanny factor drops quite a bit when in dark areas, because I cant see the stuff that normally would be generating that atmosphere.  When in that type of area, it often just felt like exploring a mundane hallway... definitely something lost there.

That, I guess, would be my biggest suggestion:  Way more lit up areas, way less dark areas.  The dark zones would probably be that much more freaky if they were only encountered every now and then.  Particularly if the player had been in a lit up area for a good while, and then POP, the lights flicker and go out.

Also the glass walls:  I got stuck on those OFTEN.  Dont get me wrong, they absolutely work in terms of atmosphere and such, but combined with too many dark areas and... yeah, I spent A LOT of time smacking into things on floor 3.

There seemed to be a couple of bugs, typically textures acting odd or doors that seemed to get eaten by the walls after a moment, but nothing that actually interfered with the gameplay or experience.  

Oh, and the fuzzy video effect is really well done.  Seriously, that's impressive.  Excellent job on that.  The sound design is also excellent.

The one thing I couldnt quite grasp though was the rising water event that would happen every now and then... did I do something to trigger that?  Is there a way to stop it?  

As it is, I got to about floor 9 before I had to stop for the day.  It was great the whole way through.  Oh, and is there a proper way to exit the game?  I couldnt find one, had to alt-tab and close it that way.

One last thing, I know the idea of having some hostile things in the game has probably been brought up, and I do think it could certainly be done well, though if it were up to me, the player would only encounter said creatures every now and then... too many encounters and the game loses that empty aspect.  Besides, monsters are going to be so much more effective when you just arent expecting them at all because you havent been seeing any for awhile.  Not that the game NEEDS monsters, of course.  But I bet you could do it quite well if you should decide to.

Anyway, so that's everything I wanted to say!  Very much enjoying it so far!  Cant wait to see what else you might do with it.

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Right, so, my experience within the four hours ive played it.
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Have to say Solid fucking game, captures the essence very nicely. Like the variety of room "biomes" (if you can call it that.) Learnt the mechanics quickly, up is good- down, not so much. Took the stairs to outrun the water and dodged loud noises. Took the elevators to reshuffle the floor and reset the water levels. Took the glowey shrubs to go higher. Stayed away from the gunk on the walls when I learned that you could die from it, those Geiger counter noises were not for flare. There were some bits that I avoided, long corridors because they chewed up time only for the end to be blocked most times. I avoided crop fields of cubicles because that usually got me drowned and set me back. there were these massive empty expanses with a few walls strewn through out the place, freaked me out when all the lights went out. The key was a cool idea, though it felt like a handicap, because before I had picked it up, all the doors would open. And then after, when I ran into doors I got stuck on them. guess it adds to the urgency, fumbling for a key while being pursued. I would say changing the looks of the doors if it was a locked variant, but I like the panic of running into a locked door, slows you down while you try finding the key in the dark.

Made it to about floor 112 before calling it quits.
there were some loading bugs that kind of added to the experience. doors would disappear/ load, opening new avenues to escape, some walls had glitchy texture, reminding me of the-backrooms-game on itch.io, then moved to steam. came across a zone with a floor made of glass, and ceiling that was see though, showing the rooms above. The blood water worried me a bit, guess it was a biome thing.

The Hostile that follows you (if there is one) wasn't too hostile as id' hoped. though the suspense is unsettling, but maybe as you progress higher in floors the hostility gauge is cranked a couple of notches. more noises, bumps, scratches along the walls. perhaps a chase event with music. Around floor 99 it got intense. wasn't finding any shrubs for a while, and I hadn't seen any glowey doors in a long ass while, perhaps there was an actual exit. however it was a bit anticlimactic after jumping past 100. I guess the suspense was seeing how high you could go before something grabbed you. Though I did enjoy the mellow atmosphere and the dread of something phasing though the wall, the imagination that fear creates. *chefs kiss

The BlackBox is an interesting addition, thought it was something to steer clear of once I got booted after touching it the first time. I looked around for a while, found this square thing on the ground. At first I though it was a missing button from the elevator, however on closer inspection after trying to find a good angle to look at it, (plz adjust the item holding) it was in fact a key card. I was compelled to find this special iron fire escape door with a push bar handle and a swipe scanner beside it, but then I remembered the BlackBox and "denied access". So I sought a red glow and found one, unlocking it. beeps and doots of morse code. I wrote it down, though I don't know what for. maybe that "[REDACTED]" option at the menu has a use...

but yes, dread was felt by all and pondering puzzles yet to uncover.
I r8 69 flashlights out of 100 broken TVs

iz gud.

this game looks really interesting but i literally like. cannot go into a game if i dont know if there are jumpscares or not. to be clear im only talkin abt "big thing comes at the camera with a loud scream" types im fine with other stuff. ill play it either way i just like to know beforehand

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i havent figured out yet but it seems like there is a possible end to this , i have found a bigger flashlight , a key and an access card which lets me go near the red cube(previously does acces denied and quits the game without the access card) and does what sounds like a morse code ? i went til 30 and gave up i need to know if im going the correct way and continue onwards til i find the end to this , and thanks again for this master piece i love it

I think I just witnessed the birth of a masterpiece.

This game captures the pure horror of being in an unfamiliar place absolutely perfectly. Every bit adds to the fear.

But whats best of all is how it pulls you in with the discovery of [EXPUNGED]

This game is a masterpiece.
I have never been more close to shitting my pants from absolutely nothing.
I have never jumped so high from seeing a damn chair. I think I'm deathly afraid of chairs now. I swear to god there's something in this game coming for me but there is nothing

This really proves a point on how Canadian people make furniture.

This was an interesting horror game that appears to be inspired by the Backrooms where I played the game. The static and idea of making the vision of the main character blurry, definitely made the game much scarier than it would have been. Moreover, the way the camera wobbles as the main character runs also made it more horrifying and scary as a whole. Even though the game is inspired by backrooms, the game makes use of modern office designs, bathroom tiles and other interesting additions like chairs, television and flooding into the game to make the game more interesting as the player progresses. 

My playthrough for the game ended when I fell through the world. I don't know if the game is supposed to end the way I played it or if there is even an ending to the game but I did enjoy the random events and sound effects that occurred as I ran around the world. One issue that I have with the game is the brightness and the way the torchlight moves as it is actually quite disrupting at times when the flashlight is unable to adjust to the centre of the screen or it gets too bright from time to time. However, this game was an interesting retake on the idea of the backrooms and I enjoyed playing the game.

Thank you for reading my comment and I wish you good luck in your future endeavours.

I just ran around for a while I couldn't finish it.

It's bug or just as planned?

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At certain moment i catched in fully closed space, doorway just disappear.

At flooded floor in something like abandoned bathroom with tiled walls.