Backrooms: Code Yellow PC (Early Access)

What the Game Is About

The goal is straightforward: explore the strange maze, complete your assigned work, gather useful data, and make it back alive so the next day’s work can be funded.

The basic idea works well with a group. There are endless rooms, corridors, strange layouts, and distorted architecture to explore, and working together makes the experience more interesting. Just don’t get too comfortable, because there may be something else wandering around with you.

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The World Needs More Variety

The biggest issue becomes obvious after spending some time exploring. After roughly an hour, most of the room layouts start to feel familiar. Even the doorways tend to use the same L-shaped design, which takes away some of the mystery.

Compared with Backrooms Society, the procedural generation here feels much more limited. That game created far more unusual layouts, and the randomness could genuinely make it difficult to tell where you were.

Loot variety also feels thin at Backrooms: Code Yellow. The selection mostly comes down to things such as staplers, mugs, hammers, and teddy bears. Considering how many ordinary objects exist in the real world, there seems to be plenty of room for a much larger pool of items.

There is even an interesting missed opportunity with larger objects. Bringing bigger objects back to the base doesn’t really add anything because they simply respawn at their original locations. Letting those objects stay at the base could have turned them into extra collectibles or even simple base decorations.

Repetitive Tasks and Missing Options

The objectives could use more variety as well. Tasks tend to repeat, and some can be completed in ways that make them feel unnecessarily redundant. For example, tripods can be placed in the same locations they were previously used, which doesn’t add much to the experience.

Some basic game options are missing too. Toggle sprint would be a welcome addition for a game built around long stretches of exploration. Strangely, there aren’t even proper sound options to adjust the audio experience.

And that matters because the sound quality is one of the weaker parts of Backrooms: Code Yellow. During multiplayer sessions, voice chat can sometimes produce unpleasant, high-pitched noises that resemble tinnitus. It becomes distracting very quickly, especially when friends are talking, and the overall sound quality falls noticeably short of what other Backrooms games offer.