I liked the atmosphere of this one, and there was one little scare that REALLY got me! (it was the kid in the playhouse... I don't think I reacted very loud on stream but my blood did run cold for a second.)
I'm not super familiar with the "anomoly" subgenre, so forgive me if I just don't understand the genre conventions, but I feel like the environment was almost too detailed to be able to spot what's different or out of place. It's not so much the layout, but the fidelity of some of the textures around the environment. I think I mentioned it on stream a little bit, but there's a small calendar with a date on it, and a bulletin board covered in text, and a children's rug covered in letters and numbers - This might just be a personal gripe, but filling the environment with text makes the game more frustrating than I think it means to be. I felt like I should memorize the layout of each letter on the rug, and the specific pictures on the wall, and all that jazz. If you're going to include an anomoly where the rug changes letters, then I guess it's good that I was thinking about that kind of stuff, but if you don't plan on making anomolies that subtle, it might be beneficial to make some of the textures simpler. It seems like as a genre, every item should be placed and styled very intentionally, and being unsure as to if I should memorize the layout of a rug texture doesn't seem to be what was intended. I dunno, just a couple of thoughts!
I will also say, as someone who is pretty unfamiliar with the genre, I think some kind of tutorial or direction would be nice. It took a bit of trial and error to figure out what exactly I was supposed to be doing.
Ok wait I just read the other comment on this page and saw them talk about a settings bug that set their master volume to 0. Reviewing footage, sure enough! I had the same thing happen to me. So if there was a tutorial through that narrator, I definitely missed it! I kinda wanna go back now and hear the narrator, bummed I missed out on that!
Anyway, there are countless backrooms games now, so I respect you for doing something different with it! And like I said earlier, some of the scares really got me :P
I played the game on stream around 2:57:00