Backrooms Fishing
Posted October 5, 2025. Updated October 6, 2025. Played 1889 times for a total of 1325 hours.
description
You are lost in the Poolrooms.
- Fish to survive
- Complete quests.
- Upgrade your gear.
Only then you can hope to escape.
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A whole new main menu for the game! v0.32 October 12, 2025
Backrooms Fishing v0.32
A whole new main menu for the game!
What's New
- Added a main menu for the game — as we begin gearing up for the new demo's release, I decided to make a new menu for Backrooms Fishing. I hope you enjoy it, and make sure to check out my other games on itch and Steam!
Happy Fishing!
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Referring to the dev's response to a comment made by AniPad: The developer did not deny the accusations that this game was made by (or at least assisted by) AI. We know he is using AI, we just can't prove it yet...
The text seems AI, but the actual mechanics aren't so bad.
i got the completionist achievement, just pressed the wishlist button that's not in the quest
I'm 95% certain this game is generated at least partially by AI, at minimum the text throughout the game. "I started naming corners. The long window became “Morning Window,” even though no window showed anything but more pools. The drain near the deep end became “The Listener” because it seemed to breathe with me. Pretending I could read the room made it easier to stay." What? This doesn't make any sense? The icons don't really match (the "Puddle Puppeteer" for some reason is marked with a pen?) and the mechanics are incredibly basic but also clunky. For me, the thing that gives it away is interpreting the poolrooms smelling like cyanide as "almond water". I can't imagine a human making that mistake. If you used AI, just disclose that you did, otherwise it's super manipulative to put out a game made with AI, not list it, and make a step required wishlisting the game on Steam.
developer response: Hi, Almond Water is extremely common in Backrooms lore and also present in other games
https://backrooms.fandom.com/wiki/Object_1
https://backrooms-wiki.wikidot.com/object-1 https://www.reddit.com/r/backrooms/comments/s9kscr/whats_with_the_backrooms_and_almond_water/
if you google you will also see a lot more results, it's most definitely not an AI mistake :P
this game is fun but the pain in my fingers isn't
developer response: I promise it's fixed in the newer version, thanks for playing!
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It seems that Journal 31 is the end of the demo. Not even clicking the button to wishlist the game will let you go past it.
I feel like this should be communicated better, because without that context it just seems like the game is forcing you to do this in order to continue.
Incredibly interesting idea, lowkey terrible execution. The game design feels half assed rather than built around the idea it seems very arbitrary and honestly I wouldn't be surprised if partially ai-made. Trying to elaborate more on it, some gameplay features seem to exist just for the sake of it rather than to provide a properly curated and specific gameplay experience
"almond water" girl the almond scent is cyanide
I quit the game as soon as Journal 31 asked me to force add it to my Steam wishlist.
its nice demo i guess, hope future areas add something new to the game though atleast and change the journal 31 wishlist to like you have finished the demo now you can go wishlist it or something.