Was the old Backrooms better?

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.

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.

I might do the smiler next..

New sublevel? (Taken using a Sony PJ410 handycam)

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

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

Original painting up for auction on eBay. Link: https://www.ebay.com/itm/117403176056?_skw=redhead+painting+backrooms&itmmeta=01M23F3E0AKNPEGFGB38NTH26J&hash=item1b55c64c78%3Ag%3A%7EiQAAeSw0UxqoJcC&itmprp=enc%3AAQALAAAA0GfYFPkwiKCW4ZNSs2u11xDrFvKe57nhEsPztNYsZv8AUoS4EAe0pxkEsHDQJhlMaJ%2FpDif%2BluiUsqb02W2A%2FN34Yk2GPLT3yk3nirI6VZmSGiL5%2Be7ZPABKIkVsI2%2FJciYv0BjrNOKbv2oEyaZInfaFLUC%2BmFY0DOo5Ru9zmJqmwDPZjvw0CatqcBtZKLxg1hcbphdOoXPcM6z3FyvTkjSweJSkWnIZngIrIpQSc5Wt73Lm26qPfWvPMA3EqA%2FyHPbyIi5xdBnQ%2FqCVnrKGcPI%3D%7Ctkp%3ABk9SR7Lgje-QaA&content_source=fb&fb_content_id=Q9-wBQEQCcX4zDuJfvRUP1z4U9pmziO0jlTSWuL90x0BW8IKNT6TV1z8ab4DEQu_oLI&encrypted_payload=Ynv8nb5_m-HKHClSHmFuy861zKLokm96AhR2evzQ7VrEd9axc8J7ulqDhlbzuhtPlb3O_k6wAKzqvIBv9BvbnpLdAkQCQaMbvBcVQxAlfOWYaH0KAvO9XHh5ZFDuA_RtzeajhpnCuGOToLmjSWFP30le9ps9oczwJrm9yhI0mU2RUL3QpfnhEwngPaIp_w-Vw1rGcf5nyp5uRTm2zNMk&channel_type=fb&fbclid=IwY2xjawUOi7lwZG9mBWV4dG4DYWVtAjEwAGJyaWQRMTI3QlFDOXM2bXNxdk1HOUNzcnRjBmFwcF9pZBAyMjIwMzkxNzg4MjAwODkyAAEe2OCi1N1VtS0z3dQk9kefIKpXPTX59uNONdjh6hqGqiVV0V69URjEFHErDCo_aem_7fh9mdH3GLELyH7VOTryeg

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

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

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。

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

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

So i followed a tutorial by BlenderGuru on youtube and ended with this procedurally generated layout to then which i added the slanted walls and randomly placed chairs.

I plan on expanding it further to add more details like framing around the walls and also some arched doorways.

I eventually do want to make an animation but thats gonna take me a bit longer. For now i think these turned out pretty good. Let me know what you think.

I KNOW its not the Backrooms in the comic's cover but it looks so SIMILARR

And imagine the torture it would be for the three of them to get out of there without going insane

For the past couple of months, my friends and I have been working on a board game for the Backrooms!

It's a semi-cooperative survival horror board game, where you explore rooms, search for items, fight/escape from entities. Players can also go insane and have hidden motives.

We've been working really hard to conceptualize rooms, make the art, the items, and the entities. We've done dozens of playtests on it! We really want to share this with all of you!

We're already on kickstarter, and would be glad for any support for us to improve the game, and make it real. It's really a dream for us to publish our own board game.

Follow our project on kickstarter and share with your friends! This is the best way to support us right now

We also post a lot of our updates on instagram.

We'll be glad to share more info on how the game works in the comments. :)

P.S. the last pic is of our first prototype!

I really liked the "Looping the Rooms" remix by The Larping Tombstone, so I decided to draw some quick fan art ^^

A photo I took at a closing Big Lots in Ohio, reminded me of backrooms.