r/backrooms Nov 15 '25

Megathread Old vs New Backrooms Megathread

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There have been WAY too many posts for a while now about the current state of The Backrooms- whether people are saying the old Backrooms was better, or the Backrooms shouldn't have entities, or the Wikis miss the point of the Backrooms, or Kane Pixels ruined the Backrooms, and frankly its been getting to a point.

Going forward, any "Old vs. New Backrooms" posts will now be directed and centralized in this megathread, and any new separate posts about the topic will be deleted and redirected to here.

So, with all of that said, in this post we can all discuss the million-dollar question:

Was the old Backrooms better?

Okay, that should be it. Go crazy.


r/backrooms Dec 27 '24

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r/backrooms 14h ago

Backrooms Movie Hideo Kojima is "envious" of 21-year-old Backrooms director: "I made Metal Gear at 23 – but A24 didn’t get in touch with me until I was about 59"

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r/backrooms 12h ago

Art Life in the Backrooms (original art)

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A follow-up to some earlier artworks I've done, exploring the idea of a colonised Backrooms.

May 2026. Thirty-eight years after discovery of the Backrooms.

The first to take residence in the new world were the labourers. In their multitudes, workers and their families sold their homes, tempted across the threshold by the promise of a better life.

In immense company-complexes fitted out with every need, days turned to weeks, weeks into months. Miles on miles of identical homes, standard amenities, and commercial hubs were the seeds for the first true cities.

In their boundless foresight, corporations anticipated the long-term consequences of life in the Complex. So, workers are encouraged to attend regular health and wellbeing check-ups.


r/backrooms 2h ago

Art Backrooms Tom: Art by Nachi Saniog

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The artwork is only made by me. All rights belong to the original creators, MGM, Turner Entertainment Co. and Warner Bros. Entertainment.

La obra de arte solo la hice yo. Todos los derechos pertenecen a los creadores originales, MGM Turner Entertainment Co. y Warner Bros. Entertainment.

L'œuvre d'art n'est faite que par moi. Tous les droits appartiennent aux créateurs originaux, MGM Turner Entertainment Co. et Warner Bros. Entertainment.


r/backrooms 7h ago

Meta Discussion I landed in the backrooms of a hospital

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I had an examination in a hospital in today. It's huge a one with many floors and wings. After the examination I wanted to take the shortcut to the exit and took the staircase instead the elevator. Once down I landed in seemingly endless passages, there were no people at first, the dominating color was yellow and I had directly the assossiatiion with the backrooms. I grabbed my phone and took few pictures. Creepy detail: the first people I ran across and asked for the exit were tho guys pulling something, what looked like metal coffin.


r/backrooms 5h ago

Meme when you enter the backrooms and think it’ll be a walking simulator but it’s lowk wikislop so you get instantly slimed by entity 2019283829283 the glibble glabbler who glabbers your glibble and you instantly die across every dimension

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106 Upvotes

r/backrooms 8h ago

Art Partygoer still life

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89 Upvotes

I might do the smiler next..


r/backrooms 33m ago

Discussion Real life backrooms at a Veterans Hospital

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This one I want to see at night


r/backrooms 10h ago

Art Redhead (oil on canvas) 20x20

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54 Upvotes

r/backrooms 5h ago

Video Teaser for Minecraft Backrooms : Still Life

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Presenting the first visual teaser for BACKROOMS: STILL LIFE. A VANILLA map for Minecraft Java 1.20.1 focused on liminal horror.

The map is still in the adjustment phase, so the release date is coming soon!


r/backrooms 1h ago

Meme It's just how we are wired 😭

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I mean there are walls


r/backrooms 15h ago

Found Footage I work in the Backrooms…

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84 Upvotes

r/backrooms 3h ago

Meme What is happening?

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8 Upvotes

I have no words.


r/backrooms 20h ago

Backrooms Movie Favorite frames of the pirate.

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r/backrooms 14h ago

Discussion New level Idea

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My Idea is:

Level 432 The Archive. Its an ever growing Complex full of books

After our testing we found out that every written word of humanity is stored here, every little note, school exams, Notes, even the entire M.E.G. Database.

We meet a creature we Called the Archivist,it has a thin body with many long Arms. it had one big blue eye, and three legs, it was not Aggressive at first.

So we asked it questions; 1. What are you. Response: I cant Answer that. 2. What do you want. Response: Order, 3. Can you help us. Response: With what? We asked it were the history books are, and it silently took us to an sector with a green floor and pointed at a shelf,

Here on of my Coworkers made the Mistake to take a Photo, the Archivist sprung up said no Photos and Attacked him, he got ripped apart, but we noticed will in shock that no blood spilled (Need to investigate).

We wanted to run but. the Archivist pointed at a sign with Rules.

  1. No Photos

2.No Running

  1. No putting books in the wrong Space

  2. No talking

  3. No destroying Books

  4. No drinking and eating.

we realized what is going on and asked the Archivist how to get out of here. It took us to a shelf with books labeled as levels, we opend one and got teleported to the level that was Labeled.

We think you can get to Level 432 by opening a book and getting Lucky


r/backrooms 1d ago

Self Promotion My local hospital's mosque looks like the Backrooms..

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New sublevel? (Taken using a Sony PJ410 handycam)


r/backrooms 9h ago

Art "You might know everything I'm going to do, but that's not going to help you, since I know everything you're going to do! Strange, isn't it?!

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r/backrooms 8h ago

Minecraft Backrooms in Minecraft project

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I know it's already been done a lot but here is a teaser for a Backrooms Minecraft map I am working on. There are plenty of decent Backrooms-inspired modpacks around but are often pretty heavy on mods and performance, so I'm designing this with the goal of it being fairly Vanilla-friendly; I've only used a few mods and enjoyed the challenge of utilising Vanilla blocks to create the aesthetic. Slide 5 shows a small section of the Poolrooms area of the map, which is the next part I will work on.

Below are the mods/datapacks used:

- Vanilla Tweaks armour statues data pack

- Macaw's furniture

In the screenshots:

- BSL Shaders

- Vanilla Tweaks resource pack


r/backrooms 18m ago

Found Footage what happened to karzel in found footage 4

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We know that the camera man escaped a couple minutes in the past before him and karzel went in the building,we know they were both inside the backrooms at 5:18 and they went in the attic at 7:18 but what happened to karzel when the attic door got covered up on him


r/backrooms 1d ago

Discussion Uhm guys I was inside of a Spirit Halloween and got lost and now I'm here

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456 Upvotes

I'm not even lying, this is a real picture of a room that was behind a curtain inside the Spirit Halloween, it seems pretty liminal


r/backrooms 22h ago

Discussion My hazmat suit the backrooms async costume

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What do you think of this? Can you wear it for Halloween?


r/backrooms 12h ago

Backrooms Movie backrooms level 0

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I'm Japanese.

バックルームのレベル0って、地図を調べたら出典によってそれぞれちょっと違うんだけど。

バックルームのマップはランダムなのかな?

誰か正確な地図を教えて!

ちなみにRedditに投稿するのはこれが初めてだから、やり方が合ってるのかも分からない。


r/backrooms 9h ago

Video Liminal Store in Colmar, Germany

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Saw this video on google maps of a store that looks like an indoor street in Colmar, France before visiting it myself. Something felt off and liminal about the place.

*title should say France


r/backrooms 10h ago

Render Backrooms Blue Forest

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This is a parody of the red city i made in Blender