The Backworld

Slip between the cracks of reality into a broken world where danger awaits at every turn. Explore endless dimensions to defy beings born out of pure chaos. Use your hoverboard to fly across gaps of darkness, hack into cyberspace with an alien engineer, and absorb the soul of a dead god.

Forge your own path—and bend this shattered reality to your will.

Nonlinear Exploration

The universe is nonlinear, offering countless paths to choose from. While the depths of The Backworld include surreal horror, you’ll also explore traditional JRPG-inspired fantasy and sci-fi worlds, including your hometown.

Choose Your Approach

Survival goes beyond combat. Use strategy to overcome challenges—fight when necessary, sneak past threats, or find alternative solutions like diplomacy. Every encounter requires careful thought and can shape your journey.

Abilities & Items

Unlock turn-based combat abilities as well as action abilities for exploring, like a hoverboard, dodge-roll, and sprinting. Equipping items also grants you further abilities in combat. For example, a knife allows you to apply a bleeding effect.

Recruit Companions & Pets

Meet a diverse group of companions, including non-human characters, each with their own abilities, personalities, and stories. Each companion has a unique battle resource, like mana for a wizard or energy for a robot, altering how they play in combat. You can also recruit extra pets!

A Cosmic Horror Journey

A cosmic war ripples through dimensions, reaching your hometown. With reality crumbling, you and your friends must face The Backworld to stop the chaos before it consumes everything.

Customize Survival Horror & RPG Difficulty

You can adjust the survival horror and general RPG difficulties separately to match your own preferences.

Higher RPG difficulties will grant enemies new abilities, passives, and greater statistics.

Higher survival horror difficulties will add mechanics like hunger, sanity, and permadeath on top of normal playthroughs. But you can opt out of these features if you are looking for a more traditional RPG experience.

You can also adjust everything to low if you're just looking for some "chill" exploration with a creepy story!