Backrooms-inspired Doom mod
The portals, liminal backrooms of death is a free-to-use utility created by Pega6us for the hit FPS video game Doom II. This mod takes inspiration from urban legend and creepypasta, the Backrooms, and liminal spaces. It allows players to go through portals and explore different dimensions filled with mysterious creatures both friendly and hostile.
The portals, liminal backrooms of death adds content that lets longtime players of Doom II experience the game in a different way. It adds a variety of maps based on the Backrooms lore. It’s compatible with other mods like Brutal Doom.
Vast room for improvement
The Doom games are among the most widely known video game titles worldwide. It’s one of the pioneers of FPS video games, inspiring many other shooters such as Quake, Duke Nukem, and Half-Life. With a passionate fanbase behind it, the Doom games have always had a thriving modding community that remains active to the present. The portals, liminal backrooms of death, is just one of these mods.
This mod is heavily inspired by the aesthetic of liminal spaces and mythos of the Backrooms creepypasta. Players can enter portals that bring them to eerie locations filled with bizarre creatures that can either help or harm them. These locations also hold various items, weapons, and treasures that players can acquire as they explore. Among these is the mysterious Chaos Device, an object players will need to learn more about.
The mod is a unique take on enriching the Doom II experience. It takes modern topics in internet culture and injects it into an old game. What it does is not as ambitious as other mods like Doom II: Solace Dreams Mod and Doom II: Iron Assault Mod, but it does something no mod has ever done before. Unfortunately, the implementation still needs a lot of improvement.
Should you install it?
You can expect your gameplay experience with the mod The portals, liminal backrooms of death to be a bit rough. The mod works, but there are plenty of optimization and tweaks to implementation that can help smoothen out the experience. Regardless, players who are interested in the Backrooms mythos and aesthetic of liminal spaces can appreciate what this mod tries to deliver.
