Voxelumality: The Infinite Backrooms Experience

Step into the Void!

Explore an infinite liminal world where every block you break could lead to another level. Voxelumality combines the creative freedom of voxel building with the mystery of the backrooms, creating a weird little sandbox survival horror experience unlike anything else.

Your Infinite Playground Awaits!

• Infinite Dimensions: Fly thousands of blocks high or dig through the earth to find hidden secrets
• 768-Block thick Backrooms Zone: Navigate classic structures like pool rooms and game rooms in an endless maze
• 3 Rendering Modes:
  • Classic Raster (Fastest, perfect for integrated graphics)
  • Optimized Custom OpenGL 4.6 Ray Tracer (High Ok performance with great visuals)
  • Hybrid Ray-Traced (Best looking mode, Renders Both Raster and RT at the same time, RT over raster for close up RT and far view distance. Needs a decent card! I get 30ish fps with all settings on, 4 bounces, 75% resolution with FSR on an Intel ARC A770m.)

Build Your Story in Blocky Horror!

• Break and place blocks to create your own structures
• Experience the terror of falling through voids into unknown levels
• Customize graphics settings for optimal performance on any system

Hackey Voxel man made blocky engine!

• Single EXE file under 5MB (grows with future updates)
• No install, all config files local to the exe! Raytrace settings in raytrace.mode file, delete to reset RT to defaults, in case you set the setting too high and can't work the menu :)
• Still in Alpha, so lots of cool features and gameplay elements to add, lots of neat bugs to discover and be frustrated by!
  
• NEW! NID3 (NotSID V3) Retro-style sound synth as audio engine! All sounds procedurally generated! (NID3 Is my personal synth I made in the early 2000's  for music production, but I managed to cut it back enough to work as a cool audio backend for Voxelumality, basically giving it C64/Amiga style sound. Most of the porting was done, I used it as a sound backend for a few unreleased game projects of mine, but those were python, this is c++! :)
• Improved water! Refractive (simple) RT water, surface shader for raster!
• FIXED RT/FSR! Actually fully working, fixed the last "magic number" hack for speed. GI about 1/2 speed, but actually does up to 8 real bounces. Sky now illuminates geometry, no more void black shadows!
• Real-time chunk caching ensures smooth exploration!
• Full lighting and shadow systems in all rendering modes
• Unique "Baked" lighting for Backrooms in raster mode.
• Voxelception! Chunks are also voxels! Effectively infinite view distance in raster mode! (Distant chunks are rendered as individual voxels, giving a convincing distant horizon.
• EVERYTHING procedurally generated! 50+ custom algorithms to produce biomes, rifts, sky islands, backrooms levels, the Deep Lands, trees, grass, ferns, clovers, and more to come!
• See the world below from thousands of blocks in the sky!!!
• 5 years in development, "Voxel Engine" was created for a totally different game that never got made. Added raytracing and the backrooms and BAM! VOXELUMALITY
• Custom written pure c++/GLSL 2 step realtime ray tracer with accumulator! Move fast with accurate lighting, stop to smell the light propagation! (Ray Tracer is tuned for the backrooms, for better visuals above ground, switch from "gamma" to "raw" in RT settings. Hybrid is now perfect for surface with gamma, raw has been removed. Full RT still has 64 block range, and is best for cave spelunking or the backrooms levels)
• Full RT mode with GI disabled and 2 bounces is only slightly slower at 50%+FSR than raster! (On my hardware lol)
• Every single ray trace engine variable is there to tweak! Ray denoisers, temporal caching (looks worse, runs faster!) SR, internal ray scale (Render ray buffer at 25%, 50%, 75%, or 100%! With FSR on, 100% becomes 125% super sample, all other res scale to current render resolution!), GI Light culling, light activation distances, minimum number of GI lights, and more!
  
• Ray Trace reflections are not set up! Procedurally generated voxels don't have full normals yet (working on t) or reflectivity flags, so, EVERYTHING is a mirror! Use reflection setting with caution!
• Fixed 1600x900 windowed mode, Fullscreen and resolution selection to be added in a future update! Plans to support vga widescreen (800x480) up to 4k!
• AMD FSR-2.2.1 Implemented, Thanks to JuanDiegoMontoya's FSR2 OpenGL Fork! (Exe was only 500kb, 2 mb of the binary is JUST FSR!!!) Exclusively on ray traced paths (raster lacks the required buffers, and is 144fps on my 10th gen i5 and 1650 gpu, so FSR wouldn't do much there!)

Perfect for:

✅ Lego fans who want more than just building blocks

✅ Horror game enthusiasts seeking something new

✅ Backrooms aficionados that just want to explore a liminal space, with infinite freedom!

✅ Minecraft players who are bored with modern Minecraft and yearn for the MINES!

Ready to Explore (or see the backrooms in glorious janky ray traced goodness)?

Download Voxelumality today and discover what lies beyond the infinite void. Your journey into Blocky liminality begins now!

Gameplay instructions:

Game automatically starts in a New Normal world, and auto loads your saved world on launch (Will implement start menu, someday!) There is also a "janky world" setting, this was my first (failed) attempt at worldgen, but it can spawn some truly stunning things, so its kept as a world type. Jankyness effects all generation, even backrooms...

Blocks are saved as you make them, and I haven't optimized the save format yet, so watch the disk use! Block edits are saved immediately, and worse case in crashes is single chunk corruption, which will simply force a re-gen. No losing 5 minutes of building! (Haven't noticed crashes myself, but I am one man with 4 computers, a statistically significant sample size I am not.)

WASD standard movement. Space to jump/Fly up, Shift to fly down (No crouch yet!) Press f5 to toggle flight and walk mode.

In flight mode, you can clip through the roof or ground, so you can visit the backrooms right away in this build! (No-Clip fly will be removed in a future update!)

Esc to bring up menu.