WARNING: This game may be disturbing to some audience as this game contains real disturbing footage, sounds, fear nature, jump scares, gore, extreme violence and intense horror that may not be for the faint of heart. Play this game at your own risk.
The Backrooms: 1998 is a is a first-person found footage psychological survival horror game where it tells the story of a young teen after accidentally falling into the depths of The Backrooms in 1998. Roam freely, mark, explore and try unravel the story - however you are not alone. Don't scream or it will hear you. Mind your footsteps, if you step on glass it will hear you. If you knock over objects, it might hear you. Everything comes at a consequences.
Here is a list of updated things in the last couple of days:
- Added: New 'NO JUMPSCARE MODE' that will decrease the amount of triggers by more then half. This will still contain some jumpscares, mostly scripted ones but the random ones will be removed.
- Added: New sounds and effects have been made.
- Added: Some jumpscares were arranged and worked on.
- Fixed: Added the ambient occlusion in the graphics settings.
- Fixed: Bug that when the game ends, some triggers were still spawning (like jumpscares)
- Fixed: Bug where sometimes the loading did not appear.
- Fixed: Additional bug fixes related to spraying on walls.
- Fixed: Additional bug fixes related to the game.
- Fixed: Some objects that were flickering in the game scene.
- Fixed: Bug that some players had the game lagging a lot and huge frame drops.
- Others: Some heavy optimizations was done to the game, and now runs much better!
- Others: Some more bug fixes were done related to the spray gun, items, etc.
- Others: Some jump-scares from the original version were adjusted.
- Fixed: Bug where the enemy was getting stuck on a couple of places.
- Fixed: Bug where a black screen was appearing at the start of the game.
- Fixed: Bug that had an impact on optimization related to loading models.
- Fixed: Some jump-scares that were being missed, so all was left were sounds only.
- Fixed: Some glass footstep sounds were playing, even though there was no glass.
- Added: Changed FOV for the camera's zoom effect and can now zoom further.
- Added: Breathing sound when the player gets too tired from running.
- Added: Made the enemy footsteps can be heard when closer (still in progress).
- Others: Some optimizations was done to the game once again.
- Others: Some text and typos were corrected.
- Others: Some more bug fixes were done related to main menu.
- Fixed: Bug where some objects were not appearing on the totem.
- Fixed: Bug where the flashlight sometimes was stuck and does not drain battery.
- Fixed: Bug where you cannot load your flashlight.
- Fixed: Bug related to saving and loading where it mixed up objects. Now it should be fine.
- Fixed: Bug where spray gun disappear after you load the game.
- Fixed: Bug that when you played the game over an hour, the timer goes wild.
- Fixed: Removed the 'video footage' that played and annoyed players for almost 2 minutes after
- Added: Spray paint gun now stay with you even after loading.
- Added: New feature in the main menu to disable the microphone as was suggested by users.
- Added: You can now save the game, and continue normally to where you left off without trouble.
- Others: Some optimizations was done to the game, and also decreased the size by over 15%.
- Others: A script was added to help out with players that were not seeing the mouse cursor.
- Others: Some more bug fixes were done related to the spray gun, items, etc.
Please note: The Backrooms: 1998 is a survival horror game being worked on by one developer, the premise of the game is an "escape room" type of game - where you have to collect clues, find supplies to help you in The Backrooms and try to escape them. It is currently in Early Access and I will try my best to update the game frequently to give you the best enjoyable experience. Please do submit your feedbacks and suggestions as it really helps out with the development!
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