FRAMEWORK: Found Footage

Experience a first-person psychological journey told entirely through recovered VHS footage.
Explore eerie liminal spaces otherwise known as the backrooms, and uncover fragments of a larger national mystery—where those who disappear are never found, and the environment itself holds the answers.

Story and Setting:

The year is 1985, and The United States of America is undergoing a national emergency of people disappearing under unusual circumstances. You have come into possession of mysterious video footage recovered from a VHS camera. The camera belonged to a person known only as "Subject 17," whose identity remains classified. The footage captures their final documented hours exploring a series of liminal environments.

Your role is to carefully review and explore the recorded footage. Within the unsettling emptiness and quiet of these distorted spaces lie subtle hints of what might have caused Subject 17's disappearance. The more you explore, the deeper the questions become. Who or what created these places? Is there a connection to other vanishings? And what exactly happened to Subject 17?

Best of Both Worlds

Whether you're here for immersive storytelling or just want to roam eerie liminal spaces, FRAMEWORK lets you choose. Skip cutscenes, disable headbob, and breeze past the narrative — or dive in fully for a grounded, realistic, story-driven experience.

Key Features:

Explore Realistic Liminal Spaces

Navigate architecture through the lense of a VHS camera rendered in photoreal quality using Unreal Engine 5.

Cold Realism & Political Undertones

Experience a grounded take on the iconic internet urban legend; The Backrooms. This time it's not a fantasy, but a national anomaly addressed by the U.S. government.

Found Footage Perspective

View the world through the last recording of a missing person. No HUD. No guidance. Just what the camera captured.

Environmental Storytelling

Discover clues, objects, and unsettling details that hint at a larger disappearance crisis across America.

NOTE: EVERYTHING YOU SEE IN THIS GAME IS PURELY A WORK OF FICTION, AND IS NOT RELATED TO ANY REAL WORLD EVENTS WHATSOEVER.