Ok, it's time to break the news everyone!

I need to be honest with you all first. This is a decision that I’ve been thinking about for a while, and it was due to come eventually. I never really announced this until now (because I had no idea how to lol). I wanna keep this short, so let’s just say:

Backrooms: Escape From Reality (B:EFR) is no longer a sequel to my older game Backrooms: The Darkside Of Reality (B:TDOR). And it’s something which I should’ve done a long time ago. I may have mentioned a few times that B:EFR was a sequel to B:TDOR (at least in my Discord server lol), and while this was a concept I had for a while, it never really turned out the way I wanted it to.

One thing that has been slowing down this game for quite a while is trying to make it the perfect sequel to B:TDOR, since lore in horror games is a huge factor. However, I came to realise eventually that… making B:EFR a sequel to an older game was basically impossible. B:TDOR is literally just a bugged game that I made when I was 13, and a game that I quickly lost motivation in and didn’t even finish.

And to be honest, trying to tie these two games together kinda just ruined the overall vibe I aimed to give this game. I mean, B:TDOR practically had no lore, and trying to force lore into that game just to make it a shitty prequel to B:EFR just never worked no matter what I tried. Although I did have some pretty good ideas, trying to fit them in while keeping B:EFR a game I always wanted just made things WAY HARDER than they should have been.

So, what’s next? Well, here’s the simplest and most accurate answer I can give right now: B:EFR is now its own game, while my older game B:TDOR is no longer considered canon at all. What I’m saying is that Backrooms: Escape From Reality is no longer a sequel or continuation of anything.

Personally, I believe that making this change will take a lot of stress off not only me but also everyone else helping me make this game (please thank all the other developers, they’re amazing!). So, in conclusion, you can forget ALMOST everything I said about this game’s lore.

With that being said, I can finally make this game something I’ve always wanted it to be, without worrying about giving it shitty lore due to a shitty older game.

BasicallyBackstage, signing off with an update! (I need to write better dev logs lol)