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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.
PC (Microsoft Windows) · Jan 20, 2026
Worldwide · Exact date · Full release · IGDB
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48 achievements available.

Film every anomaly in Level 0
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Fit every lens to your camera
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Discover and explore every level
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Own every camera module
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Own all seven outfits
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Film all four Underground stations
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Spend your last PrismToken™
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Complete all missions given from the VCR
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Complete your first mission by using the VCR
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Purchase every single item from the shop
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Watch the credits to the end
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Drown
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Die to every entity in the halls
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Die from a fall
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Record every seconds worth of a tape
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Get every entity in the halls on tape
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Record the Duller on tape
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Record the forklift on tape
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Record the mannequin on tape
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Record the car that comes down the road
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Record the Smiler on tape
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Discover the lift
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Find what looks to be another explorer?
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Die for the first time
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Step through the Threshold into Level 0
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No-clip out of a level for the first time
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Discover five levels
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Take the lift ten times
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Film an entity using the telephoto lens from over twenty meters away
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Complete ten missions
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Complete twenty five missions
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Finish three missions with a single tape
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Ride the train from one station to the next
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Sell something back to the shop
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Complete the backrooms opening process by activating the threshold
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Have twenty physical tapes in the Threshold at once
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Discover ten levels
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Unlock the shop in the storage room
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