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Backstage

"Hell isn't a place, but a state of mind. Hell lives within us all." Tom Keller is lost. He has gone astray, and become trapped in a nightmare world that is a twisted mirror image of our own, tormented by…

12 November 2008

Backstage is an indie, released 12 November 2008 on PC (Microsoft Windows).

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What Backstage is

Backstage was released in 2008. It is available on PC (Microsoft Windows) only.

The premise, in the publisher's words

"Hell isn't a place, but a state of mind. Hell lives within us all." Tom Keller is lost. He has gone astray, and become trapped in a nightmare world that is a twisted mirror image of our own, tormented by horrific abberations, haunted by shattered memories. He is alone behind the world, and to escape, he must come to terms with all of his sins. Backstage is a "classic" rm2k3 psychological horror adventure game made in one month, in the early spring of 2005, for the first ever Release Something.
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How it plays

It is played from a bird view / isometric perspective. Its themes are horror. It is a single-player game with no multiplayer component.

What it launched against

Backstage launched on 12 November 2008, within three weeks of Fallout 3, World of Warcraft: Wrath of the Lich King, Gears of War 2 and Left 4 Dead.

Released around the same time: Fallout 3, World of Warcraft: Wrath of the Lich King, Gears of War 2, Left 4 Dead.

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When did Backstage come out?
Backstage was released on 12 November 2008 for PC (Microsoft Windows).

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