A24's Backrooms leads to a surge in players for two co-op horror games inspired by the viral creepypasta

Screenshot from Backrooms: Escape Together, showing three characters in yellow hazmat suits walking through an empty, all-yellow building.

A24's Backrooms is such a monstrous hit at the box office that it's giving two co-op horror games, also set in the Backrooms, a massive bump in player numbers.

In what's proving to be an already historic year for horror movies, Backrooms recently set box office records with a worldwide opening-weekend haul of $118 million. The liminal-space horror put up A24's largest debut weekend of all time and made YouTube native Kane Parsons (AKA Kane Pixels) the youngest director ever to top the box office.