The Complex: Backrooms Found Footage

so if it wasn't obvious there's a lot of backroom games out there and this is one of them this is the complex a backroom experience or something like that now i i know that there's been a lot of backroom games but to be perfectly honest i still don't really know what the backrooms is all about other than being a series of rooms in the back i know that it has to do with falling through clipping through reality there's a difference i don't know what the difference is but that doesn't mean that i don't recognize that there's a difference and then you find yourself in the background and there's no escaping the back room not the back room september 22nd 1986 the spookiest year of all well this looks nice i mean it's i'm not [ __ ] on the back rooms that's not what i'm doing i like the back rooms in essence the essence of the back backgrounds is good i like it it's really something special it reminds me of the scp games from way back when especially scp-087b given that it's an endless series of repeating rooms that are inherently liminal in a way i don't know what the hell is happening here the only difference being you were going down a stairwell in that one and then you were going into some mundane looking rooms filled with horrors beyond your comprehension in the other one very different the same what was my point i don't even know i don't even remember oh and there you go that is how it happens one thing first one thing you know first thing you know first thing you know you're taking a coffee break by your tv next thing you know you clip through the floor and find yourself in the back rooms and here i am wow well this one actually really nails the feel i really feel like in 1986 and i feel like i'm in the back rooms that's a little more rumbly than it needs to be also why is the game smaller i get why the game's square but the game seems to be smaller for some reason one second oh god never mind it doesn't like it it doesn't like me i'm just gonna leave it also why is my camera darker in obs do i have a filter on this colors look way up what is wrong with you god when i don't put you on night vision because i didn't feel like putting the hold on everybody this is very very important now we got it now we're dialed in now we're going into the back rooms lexi and you'll just have to deal with the sizing issue it's not my fault not my problem that's an editing problem and you're an editor a good editor a great editor a fantastic editor i never questioned anything about your editing you're doing great don't kill me okay thank you i'll make the content now all right what am i doing what um the back rooms are a series of rooms well they're not even really a series of rooms i think a room is defined by an enclosed space usually separated by walls and a door or maybe even it doesn't have to have a door on it but it needs to be kind of an enclosed space okay don't like that area i'm slow why am i slow i run out of breath am i a weak baby am i a little baby i can't run for [ __ ] apparently i'm actually very impressed with the feel of this it really does feel like i'm alone in the back rooms freshly divorced trying to get by on my day job and yet the boss keeps asking me to do more and more and i have to sleep in the break room just to be able to get by and then i fall through the floor and then i find myself stumbling and hobbling is that different over there i'm detecting a slightly different oh it is a slightly different hue i don't like the darkness i don't know i don't like the darkness i don't like the darkness over there but this is a different hue and also the pillar shape seems to be a little bit different what are you what what are you what is someone with you what hello is this important is that just a way to run away from a monster when it's chasing me when something's trying to crawl up my ass i'm gonna crawl at that speed through a hole to try to escape or is that just a gap oh i don't like the darkness i'm gonna go ahead and say it i don't like the i don't like the darkness i don't like none of the darkness darkness ain't something i like did i hear something could have sworn that i heard something but i might have been mistaken oh i say oh but it like i get it looks a lot similar here but this is fundamentally different from what i was seeing before right listen i think people are getting bored hit him with a jump scare and then hit him with a fun fact but don't tell him what order you're going to hit him with a man okay all right okay green [Music] no yes no i don't know i don't know what i'm doing is there's something following me there better not be something following me can i zoom can my eyes zoom yes they can i can zoom with my eyeballs that's really incredible oh god um i don't know if i'm so what was that all about why the light kick on that's not something that usually happens here as far as i know but i don't know really what happens here because of my first time here i don't know how much longer i can wander aimlessly in the back rooms without finding anything interesting kind of conceptually malevolent it's leaving me with the yearning desire to scream what are you what are you what are you what oh i thought it was a it was like an among us character i was about to say leaving me with a distinct urge to scream at the top of my lungs you you telling me you wouldn't get in the back rooms and start screaming i'm not saying for help i'm not no baby i ain't no baby but i'll i'll be screaming just because i want to feel the emptiness with the song of my soul hello who's there anybody i feel like they'll just call attention to all the monsters trying to sneak up on me you know i turned a corner and i don't know what i was expecting i thought it was eyeballs it was not eyeballs no i feel like i've been going pretty much to a different area for a very long time i don't but i feel like i might have been skirting the outskirts of it i'm gonna go in this dark corridor you can't stop me lixie and pump up the ambience make him real spooky real spooky get whales of the damned ah not cut him kind of i thought it was gonna be a lot spookier than that i can't i do i definitely i definitely heard something there was definitely something else there you guys heard that right i ain't crazy i ain't crazy okay well i seem to have reached a corner so i'm assuming there must be corners to this ah no no it's not this goes on forever am i supposed to go towards like the center that's a different color i'll feel a little more warm and vibrant and welcoming that definitely points me towards something that i know that it's gonna be good for me what oh [Applause] i don't know i tried to say a word there but it didn't come out what was that were you waving at me giving me those come hither flaps oh you dick oh you big spooky dick what was that supposed to be are you kidding me oh you're kidding me aren't you oh you're giving me the reach around the run around whatever expression is correct that's the one you're doing something just click not like click like aha click like sounded like there was again you heard that right oh red red i like the red room red red wait a minute red dead red dead i really don't know what the come hither like thing was and it really disturbs me that uh i followed it and it didn't jump out at me that bothers me what did i just see did i just see legs did i just see a leg was that crazy i don't know i was kind of turning my head i'm not sure if i saw it or if it was just in my imagination it's weird you kind of see the same space for a very long period of time and it just like all blurs together but your mind starts to fill in the gaps of things it's really just like showcasing that our perception of reality is based on a bunch of things we assume to be what they are but doesn't necessarily mean that they are what they are and so we just are left to fill in the gaps ourselves and we don't even realize it most of the time it's like when we look at something you know after moving your eyes real quick your brain backfills the data in that's why when you look at a clock the second that you look at it seems a lot longer than the other ones because your brain is literally going back and filling in the gaps in between when your vision was completely blurred in the motion of your eyes backfills data you don't realize it i'm not making that up most of the stuff that i say in these videos is [ __ ] but that one actually is true i may not be explaining in the right technical terms but it is in a sense what the frick is going on there upgrade we got an upgrade oh ah back rooms two oh [ __ ] oh man i can't wait huh hey oh wahoo hey yeppy wait a minute wait wait whoa wait a minute something's changing table over there riding over there some kind of vent hole sign is that hole meant for me is that my hole oh i had a flashlight this whole time not that it's a texture on the wall okay okay freshly frozen foods you lied to me how could you do that all right whatever fine ah more back rooms back to backrooms [Applause] the original is best for me anyway that's weird ah rail oh it's it's kind of one of those things where you look at ai generated images and you kind of look at and you're like oh my brain initially thinks that the thing but then you look deeper at it and it's like your your recognition senses go all haywire and it's not the thing you thought it was it's not the thing at all it's actually a big spooky face look see up there in the crack bossy whoa you didn't notice that did you anyway did i just did i actually just see a big spooky face i hallucinate something i probably did but whatever now i'm starting to clue in that like this isn't a thing where i cannot make progress i think it's just like no matter what i'm always going to be able to move forward and do something i just don't always know if it's going to be valuable to do it so i think if i just keep going towards what appears to be relatively different things it's always going to offer me up something different that is until something comes out and kills me what is with this i'm getting vibes of circus i'm getting circus vibes what weird it is amazing how captivating this is for me playing this even though there is absolutely nothing happening like this is a lot of nothing and yet i'm enthralled i'm really into it and i'm what is that the same area that i was in before this the same might be the same i can't tell i'm channeling every ounce of gamer instinct i have accumulated over my many years of being a professional gamer of which i am and you cannot dispute that it's proven i get paid to do this that makes me a professional and yet there i keep hearing thumps thuds thunks thwomps funkuses i keep hearing them and i don't think it's just the noise of the wind it really seems like there's something here oh [ __ ] is that the same red room is it really a loop ah man i must be not going the right way then there's gotta be another way then god if i go all if if i somehow manage to go all the way back to the beginning i'm gonna be extremely pissed first ghost that pops out of me i'm going to punch in the dick and if it doesn't have a dick i'm going to punch it in the closest approximation of a dick noise noise noisiness is that good or bad should i be afraid of that i'm more just excited to hear anything don't be gone are you serious are you serious you're serious right now oh did i somehow make it back here oh that's the same where am i going how does that connect back here wait that doesn't make any sense how did it connect back here theoretically that shouldn't have god my sense of direction is all jumbled up i might be completely wrong about that but it doesn't seem like that should hello ah no it's a light on a wall i thought it was a there's a lot of things in the distance here that really look like a shadowy figure of some kind standing in the distance but apparently not well one can only hope that i don't spend an eternity here slowly losing my mind succumbing to the madness that was not exterior of my own self but was within me all along one can only hope that that does not occur i hear i hear i hear i hear where where go on what is that all about i feel like oh that's the same oh i saw this then i have been going in a big circle what's with the thing that waved at me you guys saw it i'm just gonna slowly lose my mind maybe there was something up else in like the uh backrooms two area that might have led to somewhere else if all these kind of interconnect then there might just be something else there why is that shorter than the other areas i don't know okay that's the yeah that's that oh hey i saw that what are you doing what are you doing what do you think you're doing huh what do you think you're doing you think you're messing with me huh no oh god are we how mysterious mischievous you think you can pull that on me huh not today i saw that and i don't like that okay so if i backtrack through here there might be another area um past the frozen area into the tall section that does contain some other way to get somewhere else but i'm also starting to think that this is just a big uh static map and therefore nothing is really all that different oh why is that so dark was that always that dark is that always that dark why are you so dark what's going on what's over there oh i don't like it i turn my back on it because i don't like it okay i'm gonna go this way now because i don't think i've been i went that route what hi hello how are you good to see you okay interesting very strange peculiar even and it doesn't help me at all i'm going in the darkness and nobody can stop me please stop me somebody stop me he's somebody stop me where am i oh i saw something hello what was that urge from groaning you know you give me anything i'll just slowly lose my mind even if there was nothing you know someone could just make a game and they could program absolutely nothing in it it's just a level and you're running around you tell me it's something spooky and i will make up all the spooks myself i will scare myself every time i don't need anything that actually jumps out at me i like my my as soon as my mouth opens and i start pouring out my own insanity that's when i start losing it and i am currently losing it because there's nothing else happening here and if i have if there has been something and you saw it and i didn't please let me know down in the comments below because i can't even imagine i can't handle that knowledge right now that there was something that occurred and i did not see i'm guy can't what is this did i did i make it back to is this the beginning because that would be something that would that would be really really sad if that happened you know the from what i know about the back rooms and i will read up on a lot of what it is because i know what no i keep thinking that there's something there something's peering around i don't know if that's by design or if it's just a sheer coincidence but i think there's something there but i will look up into what the back rooms is and i'm gonna like really get some understanding of it because there's like there's clearly there's yeah maybe if i read the story or watch the videos from that one person that makes videos about it regularly then maybe i might know a little more about it but i don't i don't know anything about it other than that it's a bunch of rooms i thought that i was on to something when i found that you know back rooms too oh i didn't actually go back there and i meant to go see if there was like another part of that that actually had something in it i bet there was huh okay i have to go to the bathroom i'll be back you stay here watch over everything and don't let anything get you okay if something comes you write in the comments a command and it'll move this is a live stream after all or something like that huh [Music] anything anywho i gotta find that tall area hmm have i been there before or is that i think that might still be the same as it was that might have been a red herring because that's where the frozen food is when in reality there's a little smoky in here a fire and a fire in the back rooms would be real bad oh hey wait a minute what no what was that hello hi elevator what huh oh did i win did i really just lose my mind for like 30 minutes where all i was supposed to do was find oh all i was supposed to do is find that ah i see now this is exploring the topic of liminality and i know very well about liminality i don't actually that's false confidence but i say everything as if i know what i'm talking about and then everything will fall right into place just as i planned but also i never understood why people thought this was creepy i get it now i suddenly understand this is awful oh i hate it i hate it i hate it a lot turns out i hate it oh what is that i see i'm zooming what is that over there i really hope this is in the dead end because i'll be i'll not only be disturbed i will be angry i don't know why i chose to go this way this is probably not the best way i think i think like the developer of this game is probably or the developer of the background is probably just like why is he choosing the stupidest place to go and i'm just like that's just what i do i can't help myself i always do it i go the path that you didn't expect anybody to go and i either break the game or i have a terrible experience and everyone yells at me and i'm just like i'm just trying to be me oh god i hate it oh that was a big waste of time all right great but i'm just trying to be me i'm trying to do what i do which apparently is i win i knew it i knew it i knew it my genius intellect was 10 moves ahead of yours that's that underwater shortcut took me right to where i needed to go no one would have thought to go there except for me and my huge brain god you can't even fathom the magnanimity of my my mindfulness is this supposed to be ah well there's the thing all right if either my genius is oh you i know the truth when i see it this is the path that's going to lead me into the truth oh oh ew i hope that's not what i think it is oh hey freeze that's interesting hello may i come in are we going into the liminality of a giant mall huh well that's peculiar i don't know if there's a point to this other than being mostly museum-esque in terms of just walking around but i can't help but feel like i'm missing something i just can't shake the feeling that i'm that people are yelling at me you know whenever you're recording a video and you know you're doing something that you think is right but many other might not think and you can just feel a cacophony of maybe hundreds of thousands even millions of people that are screaming at you and your idiocy you ever get that feeling i'm feeling it right about now never mind oh you fools you have no idea how smart i am and how incredible my mind is those were cheers not screams of admonishment i am incredible hello dining hall oh no oh what the hell hello there's a hotel from the shining this is also very liminal but i want to go to the dining hall i'm very hungry [ __ ] okay over here dining hall okay good i thought for a moment i was gonna be lied to oh boy another crawl space yippee frick well that was short-lived and i feel that oh fine i'll leave now i said what was with the tentacle man waving at me from behind a pillar what was with that what was with this is that breathing out here i better not be breathing i made it what the hell wait okay i can't be this much of a genius right i can't be i can't i got lost in the back room for like 30 minutes and i'm plowing through each of these new areas in like two am i the indie am i am i the idiot oh frick you and me don't even think about it no i'm gonna shine the light in your face watch out i'm naked oh my god is this my floor this is this my floor should i should i get on this is my floor oh no it's down my floor on my floor okay still don't know any more about the back rooms still don't know how i got here still don't know who set up all these uh elevators well i'm not listening to that nonsense huh i'm going this way screw you not a good idea i should have gone the other way i'm gonna go this way now i'm gonna go the way the arrows told me because the arrows have never led me astray and i've actually never had arrows before so i don't have any bases with which not to trust them i'm starting to get that feeling that people are yelling at me again but it doesn't matter doesn't matter is that the same red room as before it can't be the same because the elevator was definitely not there oh definitely sound like breathing oh yeah something's real breathy over here what if i go back to where the elevator was you know what if i go in and again is he's just gonna loop me around i mean there it is but if i go in it again what does that even mean if it just takes me on the same loop i'm gonna be very mad i feel like i'm getting that feeling that people are yelling at me again i get that feeling in my heart it's gonna be this is gonna be the same freaking love it's gonna be the same goddamn look it's gonna be the same loop it's not fascinating where am i i can't see [ __ ] is this a city what oh what am i even looking oh whoa oh hey all right all is as it should be and uh the deep rumble is definitely not horrifying hello hi what's up oh wow oh too bad i can't focus on that or else i think i'd be worried about that happy birthday something something something oh the back rooms [Music] hello okay kind of nice actually the back rooms kind of gives off the vibe that you stepped into someone else's dream accidentally that's really what it feels like and not in a cthulu esque like we are all the dream of the eldritch gods more just like you actually just slipped into someone's dream like oopsie poopsie you are that's weird you are just a figment of someone else's imagination for a bit nothing come run at me real quick before the elevator doors close all right whatever ah well this looks nice hmm what are you what is this oh liminal very liminal whoa whoa oh it's like uh it's like the cube oh very fun but very weird plan nice i just got the feeling that i'm missing something and it's not yeah that's not nice oh my lens is spotty where's my lens splotchy my eyeballs i mean oh whoa i love it okay this is less liminal and more awesome whoa all right the appeal is quickly lost i thought it was more of like a winter wonderland but yeah less less i guess hello grandma this seems like a grandma-esque house it can't be that nothing am i missing something i mean i do what lights wait a minute i remember there were two lights above the elevator two lights above the elevator four lights on the outside of the house it's not christmas lights it's it must have something to do two four i've seen two now i see four i can't get around the back there's invisible walls there's one over there one over there four over here what does it mean and those are in the side where this elevator is so there's there's something to do with that they're red lights it's not like they're turned green so i've done nothing to like activate them which means i don't think they work like that excuse me are you alluding that i i went i turned into trash like i fell down a trash chute is that what happened to me [Music] what was going on what was with the thing the thing that bugs me the most about this is i saw a flappy arm and it beckoned to me and there was nothing else about that that was absolutely nothing it is there's nothing that probably was a deeper puzzle in there that i didn't figure out because i didn't solve any of it and i barely scratched the surface of it but i'm not going back in because i'll lose my mind more than i already have anyway that was the complex fascinating why is it what's with the three dots dot dot it's in the middle of the where the word is but either way i'm not happy i'm happy about it i i enjoyed that but i don't know what was going on there you have a mission there's there's a link to this game in the description okay you figure it out and then you get back me okay bye [Music]

Channel: Markiplier

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Keywords: the complex, the backrooms, scary games, horror games, markiplier

Id: UpV5ONU7cgc

Length: 37min 19sec (2239 seconds)

Published: Mon Sep 05 2022