On Steam, you’ll find numerous Backrooms games, all sharing a similar setting but varying in subtle ways, solidifying their place as a significant part of the horror genre. Steelkrill’s The Backrooms 1998 debuted last week with a strong reception, taking a more story-focused approach and following the story of a young teen who accidentally falls into the depths of The Backrooms in 1998.
Everything went smoothly: with the help of Steelkrill’s publisher, The Backrooms 1998 was released on PlayStation, Xbox, and Nintendo Switch. The solo developer was thrilled until someone pointed out that the game was already there under the name Backrooms Horror Escape. “Long story short,” the developer wrote in their detailed Reddit post, “this company called ‘COOL DEVS S.R.L’ stole my whole game, ripped it, pasted some bad AI crap on it as a cover, literally made a BAD version of it and just published it on consoles and sold it to trick players into buying it”.
Steelkrill believes The Backrooms 1998 was stolen using a program that then decompiled all the assets, including the voice lines from the hired voice actor:
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