Becoming the BEST at the HARDEST BACKROOMS SPEEDRUN

The first big speedrun I've gotten into this year was the backrooms, and I went further than I thought I would.
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Music used in this video:
Cigarette Boat - Marc Torch
Back to business - William Benckert
Racing Heartbeats - The Big Let Down
Game On - Tricycle Riot
You Know You Know - Forever Sunset
Astrophage - Lupus Nocte
0:00 Learning
27:28 Trying Nightmare
37:22 Day 4
46:40 Big Return

[@Najemniczkas]

14:12 Loaf demands pets 16:32 Loaf pets 💙 47:50 Loaf cam 1:08:34 Oh hi Loaf 1:18:13 Hungry kitty demands food with paw

[@theflyingcup4738]

the time stamps we needed

[@TommyCattyYt]

YAS

[@Foxy-fun]

Chicken fingers

[@mylilbeauty2577]

i have another, 20:01

[@Najemniczkas]

​@@mylilbeauty2577 I don't see her in that part 😅

[@justarandomalt255]

Spiff gets married, gets a beefy PC, his own house, and learns taxes Congrats bro you doing well for yourself

[@Ac3ofHeartsRR]

More importantly, He did backrooms runs

[@birne_]

And backrooms wr!

[@CowKirbo]

He's got life down. Honestly the only thing he needs to do is PB the life speedrun.

[@leobamabaconator]

and even with that he still practices a game for a group of random internet people

[@leobamabaconator]

@@CowKirbo my record is pretty good honestly, i got really good rng I was born with birth asphyxia and suffocated with a near world record time of around 4:43

[@jamiejon1136]

The beginning was the closest most detailed spifface I’ve ever seen had to pause and stare like how you see quagmire front facing, you never see spiff front facing. Mixed emotions

[@mayorkoopbob]

cue the brief clip of phineas front-facing

[@honeycomb937]

i love how good-natured he is about speedrunning/getting records. if someone beats his time he takes it as a good thing; it's both an inspiration for him to improve his own run, as well as encouragement for the broader gaming community. he's very community-oriented and humble and it's refreshing to see such a down-to-earth and genuine content creator on the platform

[@meowlotow]

ok props to spiff for actually making an affordable merch store. Maybe it's just because he's still a growing (rapidly!) creator, but those are some of the most fairly priced, if not cheap, merch I have ever seen. will definitely buy.

[@Lunar_Angel7]

And the good thing is nothing will be limited

[@Blue_910]

Maybe this is a shot in the dark, but I think most peoples Merch is really expensive because they use smaller businesses, and businesses that have ethical buying, better quality fabrics, etc. it’s okay if spiff doesn’t want to do all that, but just a thought

[@Lunar_Angel7]

@@Blue_910 or they are literally just wanna make money o-o Edit: since yea shippings costs are also a thing and it get's more expensive (my shipping costs are never under 15$ no matter what streamer I buy merch from)

[@arandomcommenter412]

@@Blue_910 get out of here with jokes such as “ethics”

[@bitbot9834]

@@Blue_910 you have a much kinder mindset than most of us

[@vectorfarr]

Spiff going from getting kicked out of a pizzeria to escaping another realm of reality, damn, GO SPIFF!!

[@hamburger7243]

Didn’t these happen in the same game?

[@silva_jay1424]

despite the amount of rage-inducing moments he’s experienced, i’ve never seen spiff get mad. like he’ll get comically irritated, but you can tell he’s having fun and understands that failure is part of the experience, but not to the point that he loses his confidence in himself. ik i would’ve lost my mind doing some of these challenges, but even watching him do it feels relaxing bc of how chill he is about it. props to you man

[@LairdUSA]

Actually super cute how spiff came back to streaming super humble about all the cool shit that he worked hard for and how excited chat was for him. Made my day :)

[@popculturedata]

Spiff is doing more and more insane stuff as time goes on

[@stivhen]

Great minds think alike while writing comments.

[@GurkenbauerTim]

Next he‘s gonna do it blindfolded sound cues only

[@giztin]

He is also going more and more insane lmao

[@davinpaz1871]

Like getting engaged

[@ultimatecultchaos]

​@@stivhen the hivemind

[@Chorutowo]

Finally Spiff merch is real. That way, I can spend my real life money on something of true value and not just waste it on pointless stuff like "Food" & "Housing"

[@feddysballs]

fuck yeah bro we finally can pay for something of value instead of things like "taxes" or dumb "bills"

[@duncanaskildson3618]

Oh hey, the giant moth you see in that giant killer moth level is actually a Death's Head Hawk Moth, one of (if not the) only moth(s) that squeak or make any other kind of vocal noise! Their squeaks are very cute, in my opinion.

[@mutedknght]

I REALLY appreciate you showing the fumbling and learning process of you referencing maps and stuff. I feel like a lot of new speed runners see the slickly edited videos and get discouraged because they're doing so much worse and have a slow first few runs.

[@ins0mic]

I'm the sound & music guy for this game!! I've been avidly watching your stuff since WAYY before I worked with Fancy on the audio. It's absolutely surreal seeing my favorite speedrunner play the game, let alone enjoy it! Just you wait until the Part 3 update. >:D But genuinely tho, thank you for going above and beyond with this and making my week. Always looking forward to future uploads from you. Now, to binge the rest of this video alongside some candy!

[@PointsofData]

Yo wait, there's gonna be more? Nice

[@RDUFFAL]

​@PointsofData Hell yeah there is! That's why the game is still 'early access'

[@bubbadoo10]

Increse the gasp sound's volume so the exploit to skip over the gaps is worse :^)

[@hopelessly.lavenderly]

you did a great job! first time I watched a video of this game I was particularly impressed by the sound design!

[@TheMarshmallowMushroom]

great job bro. this game is amazing

[@PixelatedLeo]

Great to see Desinc’s tilt break helped

[@defaultprofilepictureguy2526]

it’s a wonderful glitch

[@luigiboi5156]

About the Doors update, there is actually a secret room you can get to after door 50 which, if entered, transports you to a secret mode. The mode is 1000 doors long and has different enemies + it’s styled after the game that Doors is inspired by. It’s pretty easy to find guides on how to get to it on KZbin, and I think it would be a neat challenge!

[@BoldTint]

What doors was inspired by? Spooky's jumpscare mansion?

[@totallynotarobot8607]

@@BoldTint doors is inspired by another roblox game called rooms you go through a bunch of rooms and there are a few monsters which will try to get you and you have to do specific things to not have them attack you much like doors tbf that game was probably inspired by spooky's itself but if you look at rooms gameplay youll see that it and doors are VERY similar, just with different settings and monsters

[@meribarecentes6255]

​@@totallynotarobot8607 and spooky's jumpscare mansion aswell

[@totallynotarobot8607]

@@meribarecentes6255 well idk if its that doors is inspired by spooky's as much as it its just that rooms was very heavily inspired by spookys

[@laserfoxpro]

@@totallynotarobot8607i mean in the description of doors says its inspired by rooms and spookys jumpscare mansion

[@galactic-hamster7043]

LETS GO WE FINALLY GOT THE ENGAGEMENT ANNOUNCEMENT AMD STORY I was there for it live and I felt SO proud of Spigg amd all he got done, he deserved that break fr

[@fjded]

Spigg showing us the reverse skill issue in these videos always feels good.

[@the_Dos__]

I think the cup makes the bit donations much more entertaining, plus it gives our ADHD asses something to distract us from the clown in the corner

[@vi8468]

foot punch fo effyone

[@theguythatasked6400]

lemon adde for eveyone

[@adriashep]

tel any un about dis and i cut yor thoat

[@loggingout1632]

Illuminati for everyone

[@livekazumareaction]

koolaid for evy one

[@jstar3382]

ok the engagement story is really cute. love seeing how he got everyone involved. Felt like the spigg season 1 finale

[@thatcloveplant]

its quite sweet hearing spiff talk about his proposal to paige, as well as how she has her own setup so they can play games together and stuff

[@signetofhelix]

There are a lot of myths surrounding sleepwalkers, since people have been afraid of them for centuries. You can wake them, though they may be disoriented and potentially have a fight or flight response and lash out. It is best to gently guide them to a safe place or back to bed.

[@thinefaithfulcrusader2829]

I originally read that as skinwalker lol

[@laserfoxpro]

@@thinefaithfulcrusader2829yeah same

[@georgerobins4110]

Wasn’t there literally a case where a man murdered his in-laws because they tried to wake him while sleep walking? It’s not unfounded lol

[@leorraptor3243]

Doing skips in the backrooms should be a main mechanic of the game

[@lgonzal9]

So happy I found this channel as early as I did. The progression of the editing, the story telling, the funny quips…it’s amazing to see the well deserved growth that you deserve spigg. Excited to see what the future holds ❤️

[@armstise]

I love it when Spiff slowly goes insane and edits it into an hour long video.

[@Emeowy]

Spiff on his way to become the backrooms itself

[@goobo6969]

Spiff can basically do anything now, I have a feeling he could beat any game blindfolded, with his feet, no volume, no running, no jumping.

[@oliviatilleman8055]

on nightmare mode

[@Annihilation_Studios]

He has reached god gamer status

[@neskiblox]

How I beat THE WORLD'S LONGEST GAME in UNDER 30 minutes

[@mellow_mallow]

​@@neskiblox beating the longing with quantum physics (I don't know if The Longing is actually the longest game ever, but it's 400 hrs at minimum so it felt like a safe bet lol)

[@sasson10]

I'm pretty sure you're the only youtuber that got me consistently watching 40m - 2+ hour videos (also congrats on the engagement and getting a house)

[@tricky1383]

Congrats on getting engaged, starting up a merch store, and getting a new PC, and thanks for making all the awesome content!

[@grandmagertrude7676]

Imagine spiff during his wedding sees chat going “spiff pog” and “that’s my streamer!” During the reception

[@jstar3382]

Given the Philza clip at the start, there is a distinct chance he has seen slimecicles video on backrooms and that's how he was introduced to it. And that means he knows the insanity

[@hachi8284]

Highly unlikely

[@MaisBarks]

The scariest part of this game is the rapid gasping that’s just louder than everything else

[@whiskas7078]

42:26 I CANNOT believe i actually got jumpscared by that bruuuuh. I was so sure Spiff would get away i got spooked when the moth got him 😭😭

[@iceboi9550]

I really enjoyed this

[@JagerRust]

It uploaded 2m ago

[@GuffisGod]

@@JagerRust they probably watched the stream

[@karelsimek5871]

🫸

[@Connor_Top_Lad]

I edited this comment so people can come up with actually good comments instead of copying previous top comments.

[@juixcex]

ikr

[@pixality1]

FPS chess, TF2

[@pinkflametheepic]

fear and hunger but that game is not stream friendly

[@PrisonPlaysFNAF]

My Little Pony: The Game. ;)

[@Yoob-yh5gb]

@@PrisonPlaysFNAF he played my little pony

[@-Masterklutz-]

I usually play Spiff vids in the background while I'm playing a game myself or doing some work. That goddamn jump skip at the start of the runs managed to jumpscare me everytime it happened and made me stop what I was doing and look at what he was even doing lol.

[@HadesJG]

I’ve been watching spiff for a long while now and never looked at his sub count and was genuinely surprised that he hasn’t hit 1 million yet with how fun his videos are to watch I can watch a 2 hr spiff video without even realizing I’ve been watching for that long

[@aforgottenevent504]

The security terminal puzzle at 3:17 uses Zilog Z80 assembly code. I've been messing with one of those recently, saw it on the screen, and thought I was going crazy.

[@Up_Reidon]

Hey Spiff I just wanted to let you know that I love having your longer videos on in the background while I doodle so I can look over at them, but mainly I love how you add the stories into your videos too. It's one of the main reasons I watch you and not a lot of other stream content reposted go KZbin. You're just so entertaining. Keep up the good work ❤❤❤

[@CreatorProductionsOriginal]

“Oh wow, I wonder what’s the merch” **Goes off full screen mode and scroll down a bit** “Why is there a hot Monty”

[@jackthemagiccat4571]

My whole family are sleep walkers and have some pretty hilarious situations and story's, though my niece seems to scare the shit out of me most times she does sleep walk. She makes no sound, looks like she's possessed and no shit in my ancient ass house when she stays round having a 4ft 6 stare at you from a long ass hallway only to sprint at full force at you gets me 70% of the time and I get knocked over because I'm disabled af. Got labeled as a weird uncle who lays on the floor at night until it was later explained by my brother on why I was on the floor looking scared lmao she's never looked so guilty before gave me a laugh.

[@apocopus]

I’ve watched every vod and am so ready to watch an hour of it again

[@1000dumplings]

Yo AstralSpiff! I'm the creator of those yellow Partygoer entities you saw in Level Fun! I'm a big fan of your channel and it so cool to see them in your videos!! Hope you had FUN facing against them =)

[@georgerobins4110]

Yo, really? Nice! They look spooky af lol

[@matthewbrooks5470]

Holy hell, I've been watching this mad lad for a year, I wasn't expecting to witness a wedding arc. Congrats, Spigg

[@Lucy-zv4xc]

Congrats on your engagement! Excited to see your marriage% run!

[@RiskyIsAwesome]

This man SLOWWWWWLY makes his way to insane:speedruns,no running and jumping Also cool merch 🙂

[@NoortPool]

No one's gonna believe me when I say that I've played this with Spiff before.

[@AstralSpiff]

True

[@lolucorn1]

​@@AstralSpiffthis government drone is very convincing

[@TheGlitchedMoon]

I’m so thankful you posted this now, I’m on a field trip and on the bus for several hours and I’m very bored. Thanks spiff!!!

[@SlinkySmith59]

Actually there is no reason not to wake someone up while sleepwalking. Although most of the time it is best to just lead the sleepwalker to bed (due to potential grogginess making it harder to walk to bed) there are some cases where you might not have a choice, in which case you should just wake them up as nothing bad will happen to the person if you do.

[@AbsorbedFren]

Congratulations on everything going on in your life today spiff, and congrats on the world record (even though it was for just a few hours)

[@nekofrisk1005]

Congrats on the engagement spiff and good luck with your future endeavors! Thanks for bringing us enjoyable content

[@foxglove1826]

Some backrooms things that no one cares about: the stuff you drink isn't coconut water, its actually almond water, something extremely important as it helps with sanity and is the only drinkable liquid in the backrooms (most things like random water is questionable at best, and will probably kill you). Almond water stops the wretched cycle, where someone stops being human and becomes a backrooms entity themselves. Another thing is that the big moths are actually female death moths, and the smaller ones are probably the male death moths, and the females are massive and can kill you, where the males are basically harmless. Also, the "end" of the game isn't actually you escaping the backrooms, it's another level, i think level 7 but not sure :)

[@haydes1285]

I miss when the back rooms was just a creepy liminal space and not filled with mspaint monsters

[@NukaCorgi]

Wake up babe, new AstralSpiff video just dropped.

[@oCloudy]

I enjoyed all of the vods of these streams. This game is so eerie with the spooks but you are very calming to listen to lol. Hope it was fun ❤

[@papaswanson]

Congratulations on your engagement Spiff! I wish the absolute best for you and Paige!

[@amarine1472]

CONGRATS SPIFF!!!! On the WR and the engagement!! Good luck with all your future endeavours SPIFF!!!!

[@wheezeardjack]

Spiff’s mental is stronger than anything I’ve ever seen

[@kingdragon1c42]

spiff love ya content man keep it up, honestly my favorite youtuber

[@zeezenfrozen]

ngl that engagement story was super cute congrats man

[@koshkamatew]

never expected spiff to speedrun the indie coop horror game of all time, but here we are. you should definitely look into speedrunning the game again after the next update releases!

[@blanana_m]

I wonder how long Spiff could survive in the Backrooms from the knowledge he has gained through these runs

[@Hellknight101]

Depends on which version of the backrooms. He'd be dead in the (superior imo) Kane pixels version.

[@bruhdude6074]

the monsters wouldnt kill him out of respect

[@masterpiece1817]

Multiplayer speedruns of this game will be insane because of the new mounting mechanic that can fling people

[@RealMim]

Amazing video spiff! It was awesome to see you speedrun this game 👍

[@styx64]

A merch store, a new pc, a house and ENGAGEMENT!! Congratulations spiff! I have been watching you for the past year or so, and while i might not be a long time og, i really enjoy your content! I'm happy to see you doing well

[@matthewbrooks5470]

This game is a hell of a lot longer than I thought it was

[@theghosttm8245]

It’ll be even longer as more updates roll out with more levels and sub levels.

[@LordMoku]

I'm proud to say I was there. And by "I was there", I mean I watched the VODs, so I was literally not there; but I commend you for how long this video must have taken to edit.

[@hendog2208]

Hey spiff have you heard of the fangame titled Ultra Custom Night? Its a version of Ultimate Custom Night with over 700 animatronics, a fully fledged campaign mode loosely based on FNaF World, and a bunch of dumb easter eggs and secrets to find. It seems like a game you’d quite like given how much you enjoy torturing yourself with brutally hard challenges.

[@charliekatchat6488]

Doors has 100 more doors in development via “floor 2” which will have different designs and spooky guys but they wanted to get out an update (doors+) maybe for player retention maybe because they weren’t happy with floor 1 as it was. Anyway, there will be Mordor

[@kurulover]

this is the game that convinced me to take the plunge and join/sub on twitch, because watching Spigg perfect it was just so insane. Great job and great vid :)

[@1987nightrap]

Its always fun to set aside time to watch astralspiff play a horror game casually

[@theheartbreaker830]

I loved listening to the engagement story. To think we've come this far spiff. I hope someday I can actually make it to a stream

[@k303]

Congrats Spiff!! Been watching your videos for quite a while now and I want to say thank you!!

[@AHungryTit]

This is one of my personal favourite horror games, I'm so hyped to see a video of it from you :)

[@cloudykid7278]

This is something I didn't expect to see Spiff play but I'm glad he's choosing to torture himself with a wide variety of games.

[@rajtac-tts7015]

just wanna say i've been going through every souls boss in a boss-rush style to help other people as summons, and these streams/edits are perfect background vids B) thanks spiff

[@wolffishy]

Congrats on getting engaged spigg! 🎉 I wish you the best!

[@AstroGaming-lg8pg]

Nice to see you're getting tips from somebody like Mim when you were learning the run. I used to run this game a while back before the huge update. It was fun but I never could beat Displict.

[@repaired_spring8837]

Using Philza as the nightmare explanation was great

[@Skepy_139]

Happy Birthday Spigg.

[@Dakota__69]

Listening to Spiff's proposal story Just felt Happy and comfy Congratulations on that, btw

[@enniog6197]

Congrats on your engagement Spigg! So happy for you, even if we can't spell your name right.

[@TheGlitchedMoon]

I’ve now finished the video, great as always. I ordered the Spiffbot Merch a few days ago, I’m so excited for it to be delivered!!!! I’ve been waiting for the Merch to release and I love it!!!! Spiff you are AMAZING I love everything you do!!! I’ve never appreciated what someone does as much as I do you spiff. Congratulations on the engagement, and have a great day spiff (if you ever see this)

[@jayfether167]

Thank you for making the add part so short! I want a loaf poster now

[@johnsmith4567]

Amazing video as always. Also congrats on getting engaged!

[@kaisairion]

Favourite speedrunner + favourite game to watch this is gonna be a good video

[@gnomeski6561]

the editing on library is really nice and the step up in editing is really noticable spigg

[@your_local_ginger9931]

I love seeing that after a WR is accomplished, it spurs the community and brings in new people to the scene. Adore seeing the community grow.

[@zemufinman1639]

CONGRATS SPIGG! I'm so happy you finally did it and got a new computer!

[@Wibbit]

Ty for putting your stream videos here on KZbin for us that don't have twitch! 💜

[@Diamond_Doodles]

a spiff video that's over an hour? that's a good start off of the day :D

[@camrina8225]

I love astrals videos i think he is one of the best long form video creator ive ever watched and i mean like over 30 minute videos there actually interesting and i love watching

[@skully.5]

I absolutely love your streams and content so much Spiff!

[@sawyerpotts70]

I like how that guy talked about the doors sequel floors even though thats already a doors fan game that is pretty underated (also spiff, please do a video on doors)

[@Toby-Draven]

Never thought that i would be so interested in a backrooms speedrun, let alone spiff speedrunning it

[@NoahK216]

Every video you make is so rewatchable. Interesting commentary and great personality!

[@Pixel.1003]

watching this video while high off my rocker was my greatest achievement yet. I plan to rewatch it sober rn and see how different it may be.

[@Pixel.1003]

not as fun i will admit but I enjoyed it regardless

[@Fspoke_]

id love to see spiff attempt doors super hard mode, im genuinely curious as to how far he can make it

[@nicodianime]

I'm v glad the GASPing isn't a donor noise anymore, it actually scared the pith outta me, it scared me in the video when it naturally occurred ☠️

[@tot116]

dude as soon as i saw the believer hoodie i fell in love with it. your merch is so awesome!!! purchasing the goods asap

[@stivhen]

This man is slowly becoming more and more insane and we are just observing his journey.