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New Life Studios · Published by New Life Studios
Content notice: Contains limited indie violence.
Last updated 27 Sept 2026
A Horror Survival Game where you enter a backroom-style area trying to fight off entities and escape the many many levels. Will you dare to play?
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Action, Adventure, Indie, Strategy, Massively Multiplayer, Casual · More free games
Navigate treacherous corridors and outmaneuver lurking threats in Under The Map, an action-packed survival experience where every turn could be your last. Dive into the depths of this indie, massively multiplayer adventure crafted by New Life Studios.
About this game
Under the Map is a multiplayer Horror Survival game based on the backroom-style lore featured among the popular YouTube trend. Featuring lore with multiple levels of the backrooms and minigames.
What makes us stand out?
- Immersive experience (This game uses the latest Unreal Engine 5.4 technology with top level graphical and lighting software such as lumen, almost never seen before in other horror games!)
- Good for our budget we spent (The team working on this have years of experience and have used the latest and up do date technology in Unreal Engine 5 to get what we have to offer!)
- The backrooms style (This isn't just another backroom game with 1 level and minimal development, we have multiple levels and minigames added with hundreds of hours spent on the development and have done everything efficiently. We are not in this for the sole purpose of profit.
- Various updates (We are working on ensuring that over months there will be frequent level updates and new minigames for people to explore and enjoy)
- 2 Game modes on release:
- Entity VS Human (unseen in any backrooms game this allows you to play as the entities with your friends using the levels created and different maps you will have the opportunity to use your ability to attack the humans and they will also have the ability to counter, maps for this include the original backrooms layout with endless halls and our supermarket level which let's you hide in the freezers and other places and much more. What are you waiting for give us a try!)
- Open world level (Also unseen in any backrooms game have you ever wanted to explore the levels with your friends without having to load between levels? Well with this game mode you are given the opportunity to explore endlessly and feel immersive like you are actually there similar to how some open world short animations of the backrooms look on youtube.)
Introduction:
You glitch into the very reality of life and wake up in a mysterious-thrilling looking area, you have no idea where or how you got here but you take the elevator to another level which then things go from bad to worse. An entity with this creepy smile appears, you run for your life and run through a door hoping this "thing" doesn't attack you. In going through the door you enter this mono-yellow area with endless objects around you. But that entity is there too, should you make it through the level you will find it is almost endless with levels upon levels. Will you explore it alone or with your friends? Is the Government involved? Will you ever get out? Play through the levels and find out!
Features
- Immersive Experience (We have jump scares for each individual entity along with the best and latest detail to fit a horror game)
- Minigames
- Inventory system with workable objects
- Horror-style environment
- Multiple levels
- hours of gameplay
- Repetitive levels (procedural levels may be coming in the future)
- Multiplayer!
- THIS IS NOT A WALKING SIMULATOR! We want people to know we are committed and will do our best to ensure ultimate gameplay rather then continuous walking
What makes us stand out?
- Immersive experience (This game uses the latest Unreal Engine 5.4 technology with top level graphical and lighting software such as lumen, almost never seen before in other horror games!)
- Good for our budget we spent (The team working on this have years of experience and have used the latest and up do date technology in Unreal Engine 5 to get what we have to offer!)
- The backrooms style (This isn't just another backroom game with 1 level and minimal development, we have multiple levels and minigames added with hundreds of hours spent on the development and have done everything efficiently. We are not in this for the sole purpose of profit.
- Various updates (We are working on ensuring that over months there will be frequent level updates and new minigames for people to explore and enjoy)
- 2 Game modes on release:
- Entity VS Human (unseen in any backrooms game this allows you to play as the entities with your friends using the levels created and different maps you will have the opportunity to use your ability to attack the humans and they will also have the ability to counter, maps for this include the original backrooms layout with endless halls and our supermarket level which let's you hide in the freezers and other places and much more. What are you waiting for give us a try!)
- Open world level (Also unseen in any backrooms game have you ever wanted to explore the levels with your friends without having to load between levels? Well with this game mode you are given the opportunity to explore endlessly and feel immersive like you are actually there similar to how some open world short animations of the backrooms look on youtube.)
Introduction:
You glitch into the very reality of life and wake up in a mysterious-thrilling looking area, you have no idea where or how you got here but you take the elevator to another level which then things go from bad to worse. An entity with this creepy smile appears, you run for your life and run through a door hoping this "thing" doesn't attack you. In going through the door you enter this mono-yellow area with endless objects around you. But that entity is there too, should you make it through the level you will find it is almost endless with levels upon levels. Will you explore it alone or with your friends? Is the Government involved? Will you ever get out? Play through the levels and find out!
Features
- Immersive Experience (We have jump scares for each individual entity along with the best and latest detail to fit a horror game)
- Minigames
- Inventory system with workable objects
- Horror-style environment
- Multiple levels
- hours of gameplay
- Repetitive levels (procedural levels may be coming in the future)
- Multiplayer!
- THIS IS NOT A WALKING SIMULATOR! We want people to know we are committed and will do our best to ensure ultimate gameplay rather then continuous walking
System Requirements
Will my PC run this? →Minimum
Minimum:
- Requires a 64-bit processor and operating system
- OS: 10
- Processor: Ryzen 3 2200g
- Memory: 8 GB RAM
- Graphics: GTX 970
- Storage: 10 GB available space
- Sound Card: Any
- VR Support: Any
- Additional Notes: Any
Recommended
Recommended:
- Requires a 64-bit processor and operating system
- OS: 10
- Processor: Ryzen 5 2600
- Memory: 8 GB RAM
- Graphics: GTX 1050 TI
- Storage: 20 GB available space
- Sound Card: Any
- VR Support: Any
- Additional Notes: Any
Supported Languages
English*
*languages with full audio support
*languages with full audio support
Latest news
AnnouncementsOfficial
Upcoming Release & Features and information
Hello everyone from the New Life Studios team!We are delighted to announce our upcoming release of Under The Map and have much to talk about! We have been making progress on our game over the last few months and believe it is time to consider releasing the game, we are aiming for an October Friday the 13th release date however we will confirm this roughly 7 days prior to confirm the time and date according to time zones.We are further going to be running a series of Alpha testing 1 week prior to release on the weekend (6th October) to join this please ensure you're in our new Discord server. Yes a new Discord server, we unfortunately do not have access to the old one and is working on having it removed, to join our new one please do so here: DISCORD and you can find teammates to play with and get exclusive access. Please also note that terms and conditions apply to this testing and only individuals part of the Discord server will be allowed to Alpha test.So what is expected on release?LevelsAs part of the games release we will be featuring two main levels to begin with on the release, the original level (0) yellow wall backrooms areas as well as the Supermarket level for which players will be able to do a hide and seek style gameplay hiding inside of objects avoiding the entity.All of our levels are peer-to-peer (P2P) hosted meaning you will be able to host them with your friends and join them with a maximum of 20 people at the moment to begin with. We will explore changing the player limit depending on performance and testing through release however we want to be a game that lets people push the limits if they wish.With only two levels being released on the official release date in October we aim to add a new level maps every 4-6 weeks featuring iconic backroom maps such as the Pool Rooms & Hotel & Pipe Dreams. The good news is we expect pipe dreams to be released 14-30 days after the original release date subject to any changes and priority development work we nee...Read full article on Community Announcements (Bin Chillin)
