The Pool Rooms, Backrooms Level 37

An endless indoor swimming complex becomes a surprisingly oppressive nightmare in this first-person Backrooms horror maze. The Pool Rooms, Backrooms Level 37 trades jump-scare overload for the uneasy feeling of being lost somewhere that looks familiar but clearly should not exist: tiled corridors, echoing water, empty chambers, and cavernous public spaces with no obvious exit. Its mood is lonely, strange, and deliberately disorienting, making every distant sound feel like a possible threat. The premise is simple—find a route out—but the scale and repetition of the environment turn that task into a nerve-racking endurance test.

Armed with a flashlight and little else, players search through five distinct sections: The Sewerage, The Maze, The Mall, The Rooms, and the final escape route. Navigation drives the experience, requiring attention to corridors, intersections, landmarks, and the possibility that a safe-looking path leads deeper into danger. Monsters appear across the different areas with varying levels of threat, forcing quick decisions between fleeing, keeping distance, or trying to defend yourself with an unglamorous bare-fist attack. Combat is not the fantasy-power answer to danger; it is a risky last resort, so tension comes from managing visibility, space, and panic while trying not to lose your bearings.

What stands out is the way the game pushes the liminal-space appeal of the Backrooms concept beyond a single set of yellow hallways. Each location changes the texture of the journey, from grimy underground passages to an abandoned mall, while preserving the central fear of isolation inside an oversized, impossible structure. The sparse equipment also keeps the focus on atmosphere rather than crafting, gunplay, or elaborate survival systems. Fans of indie walking horrors and maze-based escape games, especially players who enjoy the unsettling ambience of titles such as The Backrooms 1998 or the quieter stretches of Layers of Fear, should find plenty to like; newcomers should expect confusion and vulnerability to be part of the intended challenge.