The Backrooms

**"I prefer to stay here at home, strange things happen outside..."** -Turtle
This page contains spoilers which may ruin the experience for users who aren't done with the game. Proceed with caution!

## The Backrooms

* Ingame
* Typical Depiction

### Boss

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Added on 10.1.0 version of the game, it's an Easter egg referencing a trending internet creepypasta with the same name, The Backrooms.

Following the original purpose, it's a floor maze of 90's styled corridors looping, with buzzing lights and musty yellow carpet on the floor and walls, with also an entity to scare the player trying to escape. And also the same "how to", trespassing some physical place to enter on it. The camera also follows a style of an old camcorder as well with the current date and time, and the time of how long you stayed in the Backrooms.

## How to find

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lf6ouihP1yo - PaldeanBeats Maybe This

### MAJOR SPOILERS!

The player must fall, no-clipping / trespassing the terrain on The Hub, reaching a certain down point to get teleported to enter in the Backrooms. There are current 2 known places to make it work; the most intended one is reaching a trigger at the tower above the Tutorial, where the player needs to realize the Stomp Boost hint shown and a double jump to get extra height (using a block can also help), activating a noclip condition. Then just fall on the lower terrains (no specific location, except the ground holding the tower itself), the player should trespass it and be teleported to the Backrooms. Another possible way is a no-collision entrance at the path to The Hive level, where climbing on a high honeycomb at the wall (and with the help of many blocks), the player can manage to reach the top and trespass a terrain right next to it.

\*the chance of getting there is not one hundred percent

## In the backrooms

The Backrooms is basically an endless room of corridors. When walking through the player can find a pitch black bear with red glowing eyes, called "Shadow Bear" on game files ("ghost bear" in audio files). After about a second the bear will teleport away and a short scare noise starts, and the "Shadow Bear" or "Ghost Bear" will teleport to the closest spawn point or also known as the "Ghost Bear Spawn Point". Although the Backrooms are infinite, they are not infinitely generated, as the level will just keep repeating / looping itself.

## Walltexts and Sketches

In the Backrooms, there are texts in a creepy font to be found on the walls. Some of the texts are:

* Made by the kernel?
* Capitalus' fault?
* Scientist responsible?
* He is here
* He is watching
* I'm not the first
* Behind you
* Bing bong backrooms
* No escape

And also several drawing of bear faces each showing different emotions such as neutral and angry, an a bear paw and a hidden room with green light with a upside down bear face, not reachable normally except with noclip mods to the game.

Next to the 'Bing bong backrooms' message is a hole in the ground as exit, teleporting the player back to The Hub falling from a big height.

## Foreshadowing

The level foreshadows possible lore, but still unknown if it's canonical to the game.

* Although it's probably not true, the place is shown to be possibly made by The Kernel, Capitalus or the scientist bear.
* The walltext saying "I'm not the first" may show that someone has entered the Backrooms first before the player, which also shows that they created the sketches on the walls for the future visitors.
* The shadow bear might be the ghost of the first visitor, which means they were deceased. It is unknown how they were killed, possibly from lack of resources or self-murder.
* The walltext saying "He is here" and "He is watching" may show that some possessed spirit is watching the player wandering around the level. It couldn't be the shadow bear, since they are the first visitor. But it is likely that they are aware of the possessed spirit while they were scribbling the walltexts.
* The three possible suspects of the creation of the place might show that:
	+ The Backrooms might be made before 8 years ago, and the likely result of the creation could be either a failed experiment or a glitch.
	+ Capitalus existed before the creation of the Backrooms.
	+ The Kernel may wield a vulnerable power that may have resulted in the creation of the Backrooms.

## Trivia

* The dev almost cancelled this idea because it was pretty late to join the trend.
* in the 10.2.0 update, when motion blur is activated, it gives post processing effects in the backrooms.

## External Sources

* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The\_Backrooms