Backrooms 32X: New Homebrew Game for Sega 32X Brings Procedural Horror to Retro Hardware

Developer PaisleyBoxers has released Backrooms 32X, a first-person horror game for the Sega 32X console, inspired by the internet Backrooms phenomenon. The game features a custom raycasting engine written in C and SH-2 assembly, with procedural level generation, dual-CPU rendering, and support for crawling and crouching. It includes buzzing fluorescents, damp carpet aesthetics, and endless yellow rooms. The game is open source, available on GitHub and itch.io as a 1.5MB ROM, and works on original hardware, MiSTer FPGA, and emulators like RetroArch and BlastEm. A six-button controller is recommended. The release highlights a technical tour de force for the 1994-era platform.