Super Backrooms Ball

You are hunted

A few seconds after you roll out of a course's entry tube, a bigger black ball comes down the same tube and rolls after you, finding its own way round the course. It is slower than you flat out, but it does not stop, and it follows you down the goal tube onto the next course.

If it touches you it takes you down with it, through the floor and out of sight. The last tube opens onto the endless Backrooms, where the chaser gets faster the longer the hunt lasts, and every run ends in a catch.

Oil Spill: the chaser's black ball rolls close behind the player's sheep on an oily black floor

Twenty worlds

Three courses each, joined by enclosed tube slides like pool flumes. Every fifth world starts with a checkpoint.

World 1, Backrooms: the sheep's ball on the first course — 1 **Backrooms**Yellow carpet, cream walls, fluorescent panels, an endless hall.

World 2, Pool: the sheep's ball on the first course — 2 **Pool**Pool tiling, water below, sky above.

World 3, Oculus: the sheep's ball on the first course — 3 **Oculus**The white ribbed transit hall, shops and kiosks far below.

World 4, Bunker: the sheep's ball on the first course — 4 **Bunker**An underground chamber dressed as a garden, with a painted sky.

World 5, Centre Mall: the sheep's ball on the first course — 5 **Centre Mall**An oval atrium of escalators that spiral upward.

World 6, Campus: the sheep's ball on the first course — 6 **Campus**One very long office hall, with ramps up to mezzanines and down to dead ends.

World 7, Cafe: the sheep's ball on the first course — 7 **Cafe**A cramped cafe after closing, with floors that slope sideways.

World 8, Celebration Day: the sheep's ball on the first course — 8 **Celebration Day**A hall lit deep red over lit trees. The gentlest courses.

World 9, Slop Rooms: the sheep's ball on the first course — 9 **Slop Rooms**The Backrooms gone to seed, with heaps of laundry to steer around.

World 10, Kingdom: the sheep's ball on the first course — 10 **Kingdom**Skinny bridges over pale hills under an open sky.

World 11, The Fountain: the sheep's ball on the first course — 11 **The Fountain**Dark granite over black water, in a pit walled with falling water.

World 12, The Heap: the sheep's ball on the first course — 12 **The Heap**Ash floors and leaning ruins. Every course goes down.

World 13, The Stack: the sheep's ball on the first course — 13 **The Stack**A tower of sandstone tiers. Every course climbs.

World 14, Oil Spill: the sheep's ball on the first course — 14 **Oil Spill**An oily black floor that leans to the right, all the time.

World 15, Data Center: the sheep's ball on the first course — 15 **Data Center**A server hall lit blue, with long branching decks.

World 16, Template Suburb: the sheep's ball on the first course — 16 **Template Suburb**A suburb from the air, with banked bends and real dead ends.

World 17, JV Football Field: the sheep's ball on the first course — 17 **JV Football Field**A worn pitch sloping toward the goal, with sleds and mud in the way.

World 18, Apollo 18: the sheep's ball on the first course — 18 **Apollo 18**The Moon, with round pads, craters and a lander. Nothing is straight.

World 19, Inner Alien: the sheep's ball on the first course — 19 **Inner Alien**Inside something alive. Crests, pits and a spiral down into a stomach.

World 20: a dark hallway, the chaser's ball close behind — 20 ********A dark hallway at home, and a fog that ends a few metres out.

Controls

←↑↓→: Roll. Direction is relative to the camera, which trails the ball and turns with it, so holding left or right carves an arc.
P: Pause.
Esc: Quit prompt (desktop builds).
Y: Retry after a catch.

Platforms

Browser — plays on itch.io at 1280×720, with a fullscreen button.
Windows — 64-bit. Unzip and run the .exe.
macOS — Apple Silicon. Signed and notarized; unzip and open.

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