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The Empty Halls

The Empty Halls is a VHS analog horror exploration game inspired by the idea of liminal spaces. Explore eerie Backrooms-style environments, record strange anomalies with your VHS camera, and complete missions…

20 January 2026

The Empty Halls is an adventure, released 20 January 2026 on PC (Microsoft Windows).

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What The Empty Halls is

The Empty Halls was released in 2026. It is available on PC (Microsoft Windows) only. It runs on Godot.

The premise, in the publisher's words

The Empty Halls is a VHS analog horror exploration game inspired by the idea of liminal spaces. Explore eerie Backrooms-style environments, record strange anomalies with your VHS camera, and complete missions assigned by the anonymous higher ups.
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How it plays

It is played from a first person perspective. Its themes are action and horror. It is a single-player game with no multiplayer component. Available modes: Co-operative, Multiplayer and Single player.

What it launched against

The Empty Halls launched on 20 January 2026, within three weeks of Hytale, Cairn, Mewgenics and Nioh 3.

Released around the same time: Hytale, Cairn, Mewgenics, Nioh 3.

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When did The Empty Halls come out?
The Empty Halls was released on 20 January 2026 for PC (Microsoft Windows).

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