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...but what's really missing from Steam is a "Backrooms" or "Roomslike" or some similar tag, so that I can just blanket Ignore that entire genre and (hopefully) prevent all those shitty games from showing up in every other Discovery Queue I go through. Because, unlike with the "Roguelike" and "Soulslike" tags, only once have I seen a "Backrooms" game that I had any interest at all in actually trying. Admittedly, I did try the first one I ever saw, because it happened to be available for free, and that was, in fact, the first time I ever heard of the "Backrooms" at all. The game wasn't anything to write home about. Hell if I could tell you which one of the dozens in that list there it was, though. (With that list sorted by release date, I'd guess that it was probably this one.) Then I saw a second one and was like "Huh, they made another one?" And then I saw a third one and was like "Huh, this again?" Fast forward to now and multiple dozens of games later...
Honestly, I'm not saying that the very concept of the "Backrooms" is innately bad. It's not. It was actually vaguely interesting, the first time I heard about it, a few years ago, even if the one game of it that I tried was rather lackluster. I'm just saying that it has since been driven into the ground to the point of utter banality, similar to other such things like the Slender Man Mythos and the SCP Foundation[1] and whatever else that came before it. (And, hell, just from looking at my "slender man" tag now, I see that this isn't even the first time, a little over a week shy of exactly one year ago now, that I've complained about this "Backrooms" shit, even making the comparison to Slender Man there, same as here.)
[1] - Seriously, there is even a goddamned SCP "dating sim" now.
Honestly, I'm not saying that the very concept of the "Backrooms" is innately bad. It's not. It was actually vaguely interesting, the first time I heard about it, a few years ago, even if the one game of it that I tried was rather lackluster. I'm just saying that it has since been driven into the ground to the point of utter banality, similar to other such things like the Slender Man Mythos and the SCP Foundation[1] and whatever else that came before it. (And, hell, just from looking at my "slender man" tag now, I see that this isn't even the first time, a little over a week shy of exactly one year ago now, that I've complained about this "Backrooms" shit, even making the comparison to Slender Man there, same as here.)
[1] - Seriously, there is even a goddamned SCP "dating sim" now.
