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Backrooms

The Backrooms is a special hidden area of the game, playing off the 2019 Backrooms meme. It is a drab, yellow-tinted office-like environment where the screen takes on a lower-resolution, aliased, sharpened filter.

Notes

The player must assemble the Kart here in order to leave the Backrooms.

Access

  • Accessible at the California Motel, in the second room from the left (the one with the red light)
  • Using the Geiger counter causes the door to open or fall off
  • Walk into the room, then into the bathroom, to be transported to the backrooms

Objectives

  • Within a certain amount of time: build the kart while hiding from the monster
  • Ram the monster with the completed kart to kill it
  • Escape the backrooms through a hole

The entity

  • A monster made up of props found at other points of interest:
  • HeadHornhub 3000
  • ShouldersMusgoat hood
  • Torsogas pump with a teddy bear inside the top enclosure
  • Armlarge barrel
  • Wristboat wheel
  • Handplunger
  • Legsspinner racks
  • Usually spawns after 5 minutes in the exit room, in the corner to the right of the hole in the wall
  • Game seed appears not to affect when or where it spawns
  • The only way to evade it is to hide in a hole in the walls

Shadow monster

  • Spawns during at least one of the three alarm events that happen every few minutes
  • Chases the player as long as the player is moving
  • Best ways to evade it: run from it, stand still, or drive the kart

Start room

  • Where the player starts their escape
  • Contains four hazmat suits lined up on a wall, a table with a projector, a kart frame, some kart parts, liquid containers, and consumables
  • A second kart frame can be found just outside the starting room

Notable rooms

  • These rooms are not guaranteed to spawn every time:
  • Officefour rooms connected via a single white hallway lit with bright white lights; repeating rows of cubicle desks with office chairs, with one room having desks on both the floor and ceiling
  • Mini-golfalways spawns near the office; four holes with golf balls, golf clubs, and golf flags; contains ice cream freezers found nowhere else in the game (they spawn empty)
  • Pool roomsflooded tiled corridors leading to a locker/changing room; contains vehicle parts, liquid containers, consumables, a bee suit, and rubber ducks
  • Play roomsconnect to the main backrooms via three colored pipes; foam-tile floors in eerie greenish light, with toys (tricycle, scooter), a sandbox, a spewing ball pit, and a jungle gym; a bumgun 2000 is on the other side
  • Firepit rooma firepit with a hidden landmine, a vending machine on wheels, and a fire-extinguisher wall mount; one of only two room types (with the offices) to have a smoke detector
  • Hotel courtyarda phone booth in the center surrounded by windows and a fake skylight; interacting with the phone booth plays music in the courtyard
  • Bowling rooma small room with three bowling balls and three sets of 10 bowling pins
  • Red tunnela window with an unsettling image on the other side and a toy traffic signal

Exit room

  • Made up of a 4x4 grid of square holes in the floor
  • Jumping into one teleports the player back to the California Motel
  • If all objectives were completed, the "Beat the Backrooms" achievement is awarded

See also