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About Backrooms Santa
Backrooms Santa is a 2025 indie horror game from Wild Tater Games that drops you into a large, eerie maze of Christmas-themed Backrooms. You play as a delivery worker tasked with retrieving lost children’s gifts while evading grotesque holiday-themed monsters. The game blends first-person exploration with time pressure, as a ticking clock forces you to balance stealth and speed. Set in a distorted version of the real world, it leans into seasonal dread with twisted decorations and ambient holiday noises warped into something unsettling.
Gameplay
You spend most of the game sprinting, crouching, and hiding in dimly lit corridors filled with malfunctioning Christmas lights, broken toys, and shadowy figures. Each level is a procedurally generated maze where you collect gift boxes and navigate environmental puzzles like reactivating elevators or bypassing motion sensors. Enemies patrol on fixed routes, requiring you to memorize patterns and time your movements. The clock counts down, and failing to retrieve all gifts or getting caught resets the level. Controls are tight but require precise mouse aiming for stealth sections. The game’s tension comes from its claustrophobic pacing and sudden jump scares.
What Players Think
Backrooms Santa holds a 4.2/5 average from 14,200 PlayPile users, with 72% completing the main story. Average playtime is 3.5 hours, though 28% of players report 10+ hours due to repeat attempts. Community moods are split: 68% describe it as “eerie” while 32% call it “frustrating.” Critics at GameSpot and PC Gamer gave it an 84/100, praising its “hauntingly festive atmosphere” but noting “repetitive level design.” Achievement completion sits at 94%, with 12 total unlocks tied to speedruns and stealth challenges.
PlayPile's Take
This game works best for fans of tense, time-based horror who enjoy procedural mazes. While the repetitive enemy patterns and short campaign (3.5 hours average) may wear thin, the seasonal horror themes and tight stealth mechanics justify the $29.99 price tag. It’s not impressive but delivers a solid, spooky experience in under four hours. Prioritize it if you’re craving a quick, atmospheric horror fix with a holiday twist.
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