The Backrooms

Puppet Combo

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1 player
PS5 cloud streaming supported only with Premium subscription
PS5 Version
Vibration function supported (DualSense wireless controller)
PS4 Version
DUALSHOCK 4 vibration

Blood, Strong Language, Violence

1 player
PS5 cloud streaming supported only with Premium subscription
PS5 Version
Vibration function supported (DualSense wireless controller)
PS4 Version
DUALSHOCK 4 vibration

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michael_ryan1999

Rated 5/26/2026

A very overlooked and underappreciated game from Puppet Combo

The Backrooms (or Day Seven as it's called on pc) is nowhere near as bad as a lot of people claim. I've played several other backrooms games and I've seen gameplay of even more on Youtube, and to tell you the truth, this is the creepiest game out of all of them, with the exception of Backrooms: Lost Tape. Whereas most backrooms games rely exclusively on the eerie dream-like quality of liminal spaces, Day Seven is an actual horror game that builds tension and suspense on top of already having the eerie liminal environment that you would expect. What makes this game so unsettling is the music, sound design, pacing, atmosphere and how it's all meshed together. I was definitely feeling afraid after only a few minutes of roaming around in the backrooms, and that was before I even found out that there's an actual threat in the game. Backrooms: Lost Tape is the only other game of this type that's comparable to Day Seven in regards to atmospheric dread and suspense. One thing to keep in mind is that Day Seven was originally released on pc in 2019, which makes it one of the first backrooms games. This game went through development hell and Puppet Combo even said themselves that they weren't really able to make the game they wanted to make because of the difficulties of trying to combine the slasher genre with liminal horror (I'm paraphrasing, but that's basically what they said). Even though the final product isn't necessarily what the developer wanted, I still think Day Seven is a solid experience, especially for a backrooms game that came out when the creepypasta its based on was still just a bunch of pictures online. That leads me into my final point; Day Seven is the most visually accurate game to the original backrooms image. The specific shade of yellow, the wallpaper designs, the thickness of the cubical walls and even the damp spots on the carpet in certain sections. Puppet Combo paid attention to a lot of small details from the creepypasta that every other backrooms game has missed. By the way, the reason why in-game npcs appear as 2D images is because Day Seven was made to mimic the style of Hell Night, a Japanese survival horror game released in 1998. You might enjoy Day Seven more than others if you go into it with an open mind

The Backrooms

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After having a normal day at the office, Terrence while traveling home inexplicably falls down to The Backrooms. A journey chronicling 7 days... Can Terrence escape this liminar horror phenomenon? Or will he be trapped within this place forever?

Backrooms is a horror adventure game where you explore the liminal space of the Backrooms while you interact with strange and creepy characters. Explore the Backrooms, find the unexpected as you go into impossible spaces and see things you shouldn't have seen.

Backrooms brings the liminal horror phenomenon from obscure corners of the internet to console players looking for exploration based atmospheric horror from Puppet Combo.

Features:

-Encounter strange and creepy characters with nefarious motives
-Low poly retro graphics
-Inspired by Japanese 1990s visual novels
-A big liminal space to explore.

Platform:: PS4, PS5
Release:: 5/14/2026
Publisher:: Puppet Combo
Genres:: Horror
Screen Languages:: English, French (France), Japanese, Portuguese (Brazil), Russian, Spanish (Mexico)

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