Vicero Is Coming!!!

Salt the floor. Don't look back. Vicero is coming.

A first-person VHS-horror chase through a maze that rewrites itself — a remix of Backrooms Explorer by ballisticghoul. Something wearing a familiar face is hunting you down corridor after corridor, and the longer you survive, the faster it moves, the harder it is to fool, and the closer the dark gets. Lay salt to ward it off, throw it to stun, and keep moving. When the tape glitches and the lights start to die, it means Vicero has found your trail again.

Features

• Real-time raycast 3D on a procedurally generated maze — all in PICO-8
• An escalating hunt: decoys that wear the hunter's face, flesh-web traps, and a final transformation you'll have to outlast
• Salt is your only defense — ward it off, stun it, and reroute the thing chasing you
• A soundtrack that builds from low dread to full trap/EDM panic as the chase intensifies
• Grain, glitch, and a creeping darkness that closes in the nearer Vicero gets

Controls

• Arrow keys — move and turn
• O / Z — throw salt
• X — look behind (double-tap to spin 180°)
• Plays with a gamepad, too

Credits

• A remix of Backrooms Explorer by ballisticghoul
• Built on Doughnut's PICO-8 Raycaster Template — https://doughnutthedev.itch.io/pico-8-raycaster-template
• Art created with PixelLab
• Code written with the help of Claude AI