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The Backroom - Lost and Found

PC (Microsoft Windows) • 2022

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Quick resume

The Backroom - Lost and Found is a story rich adventure game with some horror elements. Why is there an orphaned room hidden away in the depths of a strange liminal space? Is it "the backrooms" or something else? CYOA? SCP? Weirdcore? No clipping? And what's with the cute paintings?

Global score

89/100

Genres

Adventure, Free To Play, Indie

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    Pros

    • Free to play
    • Unique and creative mechanics
    • Great atmosphere and sound design
    • Multiple endings and replayability
    • Well polished for an indie title

    Cons

    • Short length
    • Some bugs and optimization issues
    • Repetitive level design in second chapter
    • Lack of key rebinding and manual save
    • Some players found puzzles confusing or tedious

    Motivations

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    • Competence

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    • Competition

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    • Continuation

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    • Cooperation

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    • Creativity

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    • Domination

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    • Escapism

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      "Players use the game as a spooky, immersive escape with horror atmosphere and story."

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    • Expectation

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      -4

      "Players engage voluntarily out of curiosity and interest in the backrooms concept; no obligation or pressure reported."

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      "Players engage voluntarily out of interest in Backrooms and horror; no obligation or pressure reported."

    • Experimenting

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    • Exploration

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    • Expression

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    • Fantasy

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      "Strongly imaginative setting blending Backrooms and SCP lore with surreal, liminal spaces."

    • Fellowship

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    • Growth

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    • Health

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    • Idle

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    • Intimacy

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    • Leadership

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    • Progression

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    • Relaxation

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    • Sensation

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    • Status

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    • Story

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    • Strategy

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    • Thrill

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    • Value

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    • Violence

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    • Survival

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    Analysis

    A very typical example of its motivational profile. Motivations that often define this kind of title include Expression, Fellowship, Cooperation, Competition. Here, the score leans higher than usual among comparable games on Value. It leans lower than usual among comparable games on Violence, Expression.

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    • Larger dot with a light outline: the game you are viewing.
    • Colour: groups of games with comparable motivation patterns (statistical clusters).
    • Hover a dot to see the game name; click to open its page.
    • Scroll or double-click the chart to zoom out and see more games.

    Why don’t the axes read like a score? This view uses t-SNE: it only keeps who is close to whom. The scales are not “good to bad” or hours played—they separate groups on the map. Read distance between dots, not the axis numbers.

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