Steam Week in Review: Steam is flooded with liminal spaces games and I approve, but I think I've found the best to start with

Dreamcore is a collection of first-person explorable "liminal spaces". All the most obvious examples are included: There's an eerily nostalgic labyrinth of indoor pools, an endless expanse of low-poly suburbia, a maze of barren children's play areas, and—least interestingly, in my opinion—a "liminal hotel" styled on a Backrooms meme.

Liminal spaces are incredibly popular on Steam, just as they continue to be on most social media platforms. The term implies negative space and thresholds: places that are for passing through but not lingering in. They're usually bleak, empty spaces that are meant to be lively and bustling. Its most popular manifestation is the Backrooms, a creepypasta meme which continues to spawn countless games. It's probably the first 4chan-derived meme to get a major film adaptation.

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