Best Backrooms games: no-clipping has never been more fun – or terrifying

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The best Backrooms games are what happens when you set Franz Kafka loose into a modern American office park and ask him to report back on the culture of corporate drudgery.

For the uninitiated, the Backrooms is a viral sensation of online storytelling, videos, and PC games based on the concept of accidentally no-clipping through the walls of our reality and into an infinite, labyrinthian hellscape of deserted, corporate-styled office rooms. Adorned with dated, moldy yellow wallpaper, an incessant buzzing of fluorescent lighting, and uncomfortably damp carpeting, the Backrooms has metastasized its way into the collective consciousness of a growing number of masochistic internet denizens.

Not all Backrooms games are the same, and there is debate online about what is canon and what is not. Are you being stalked by some entity? Are you entirely alone with your feelings of isolation projected onto the maze in which you find yourself trapped? Is there only one true Backrooms aesthetic?

Who can say, but there is every manner of Backrooms game that explores and innovates on the Backrooms’ essential premise to create some truly compelling, and even unsettling, experiences. They are easily some of thebest free games you can get right now and are quickly rising up the ranks of thebest Steam games as well.

The Backrooms are approaching mainstream appeal right now for reasons best left to sociologists and psychologists to explain. All I know is that the idea of walking alone through endless, vacant, windowless office rooms and hallways looking for a way out (that may or may not exist) is just the type of existential dread that I crave, despite my therapist’s protests.

So I’ve wandered the halls of five of the best Backrooms games you can