With Backrooms having cleaned up at the box office this past weekend, it’s understandable that liminal horror games of all types will be gaining attention. One such title is Flicker Point Studio’s Zangyou, which recently dropped its announcement trailer. Rather than having you walk through a mass of empty rooms, Zangyou aims to tap into something that we’ve all experienced one time or another: an empty office complex.
Zangyou is described as a first-person psychological horror game built around tense exploration, environmental puzzles, and surviving a building that does not want to let you leave.
You wake up alone on Floor 32 of a deserted Tokyo skyscraper. The exits are sealed, and the elevators are dead. That doesn’t seem too scary until you remember that every light, lock, and corridor is controlled by MirAI, the building’s hostile central intelligence. And guess who sees you as an intruder?
To reach the street, you’ll search abandoned offices, restore power, unlock sealed routes, and solve environmental puzzles while the tower turns against you. Things get really weird when corridors begin to shift, and the MirAI machines patrol the halls.
Some spaces don’t belong in the building at all. Step through the wrong gap and the office falls away, replaced by concrete, fluorescent hum, and the feeling that you’ve dropped outside the architecture entirely.
Currently, the team is conducting an ongoing playtest, which you can sign up for from the game’s Steam page.