Character and Game Modes

Use the MEG Sign-Up Form at the start of the game to customize your experience. Toggle Gore (exploding heads, blood particles, decals, etc.), Enable/Disable Entities, and turn off Firearms for a Backrooms-only items experience. You can enable Hard Mode in gameplay settings for an awesome challenge! Access Hard Mode in the Settings Menu under Gameplay.|

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You can change Character skins in your Frontrooms Apartment Closet. Options include: Female skin: Faster movement but less health, Male skin: Standard option, Hazmat suit skin: Slower movement, but immune to gases and some toxins, Hands-only mode: Play with just hands visible. (Skins are a Beta feature use only hands for better performance)

Always carry Almond Water! It's the lifeblood of the Backrooms and will keep you from going insane.

Use the Balloon Gun and Brass Knuckles in your Frontrooms Apartment. These are free and very effective weapons. No-Clip into Level 0 using the stairs in the back of the basement area by the Achievements. More info on Balloon Guns below.

There are several Firearm Stores (if you choose to play with Firearms on) including one in the Frontrooms City.
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For a more relaxed experience or for those with low-end PCs, you can turn off all entities, allowing you to enjoy exploring the Backrooms as a walking simulator. This mode has enabled players with less powerful hardware to experience the game comfortably. 

Settings and Customization

Familiarize yourself with the extensive Settings Menu. You can turn off things like Sanity, Hunger, Health and Thirst depletion. If you can think of it our Discord probably has too. Most of those things end up in the Settings Menu.

You can keep Entities on and just turn off Jump Scares, Arachnids and Dullers.

You can change the style of No-Clip-O-Matic doors in the settings. The doors can be changed to various other things like gas or electrical particles for variation. You can also change the "Door Picture" to be a glitchy texture or an interior cube map. They won't change in the Hub for Performance reasons due to so many doors; 100+. Lower your Graphics settings if you are having Stuttering. We also recommend a Link Cable and a hardwired PC.

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Inventory and Equipment

You have an inventory system that holds items like craftables you find. There is a secondary inventory for Ammo and other reloadables like batteries where when holding an item like a flashlight or weapon, the batteries or ammo will appear on your chest. There are also slots for storing items directly on your person including two hip slots/pockets, two back slots and a head slot which is great for the flashlight. You also have a Backpack you can fill up with items and carry from level to level. Use the screwdriver to open regular boxes, pop balloons, and attach optics on your firearms. Firearm shops can be found in the Frontrooms with other shops just outside your Apartment; take the elevator. There is a screwdriver attached to your backpack. Put items in your inventory by picking them up and pushing trigger button. Batteries can be taken out of flashlights and then stored in your inventory. Sell your items in inventory or use them to craft and upgrade at the respective benches.
 

When you find an item, you can put it into the Vault in your Frontrooms Apartment or Vaults found in other locations throughout the Backrooms. Vaults, Upgrade Benches, Crafting Benches and Almond Brewers can be found at most MEG bases. You can customize the Vault with your Favorites. Once you do that, you will then be able to spawn that item at any place where there is a vault. (In Hard Mode, you will only have one item and not multiple items stored there so one item in, one item out.)

 

Watch and Navigation

Your watch displays time spent in level, number of exits, killed by, Backrooms Bucks amount, and name of level. The watch can be toggled on left wrist, right wrist, both or off. The MEG approved No-Clip-O-Matic doors are the main portals to Levels. However, there are numerous other ways to no-clip in and out of levels. Stairs, walls, holes, elevators, places with shimmering particles, can all be no-clips.  The Exit Radar can be found on Level 15 and 41 and can be used to find both door exits and other No-Clip areas. You can do this by holding down A or X button depending on which hand the device is in.

 

Balloon Guns and Related Items

Balloon guns are a great Backrooms-only weapon. You can upgrade the balloon gun to a triple shot or find the Balloonderbuss for some serious Balloon action to make entities float. Balloons can be popped by multiple items, but can also be popped by holding the Balloon gun in the left or right hand and then pressing the bottom button (A button for left controller and X button for right controller to pop the first balloon then multiple presses will pop the rest of the balloons in order from last to first). You can attach balloons to yourself to float and even upgrade to a version with a propeller to slowly propel you as you float. Be careful not to get stuck especially under doorways. Balloon guns have little to no effect on Clumps.

 

Entities and Interaction

Many Entities can be friended with a specially brewed Friendship potion. Jerry or most entities can be friended by giving them beef and Almond water at the same time. Clumps, Memory Worms and Dullers cannot be friended. You can use VasoSkin Ointment to friend a Skin-stealer. The Entities, when friended, will usually fight other entities for you, but can die doing so. Jerry is a Big Blue Bird. Stay away from Jerry unless you can befriend him. Don't join the FOJ, we implore you.

 

Almond Water and Brewing

Almond Water is essential to survival in the Backrooms. Different Almond Waters give different Stat Increases. You can brew lots of different liquids in the Brewer. Multiple types of Almond waters, Liquids for the squirt gun, friendship potions to friend entities and lots more. Marinate beef with nutrient rich almond water before cooking for best results when consuming. Don't drink items that look toxic. Hold a liquid upside down and press the trigger to see it's color. Carry a bottle of Disinfectant with you if you have one. Almond water shows percentage drank in bottle. Lots of liquids can go into the squirt gun as well as brewing better liquids. Almond water is least effective followed by Liquid Pain and Pyroil. However brewing these and other liquids can get you better concoctions for the squirt gun. You can also Brew pyroil with Almond water to get Blue Fire for your Scrap Flamethrower which only takes pyroil.

 

Casino (Level 5)

In the Casino use the big green Cleanup button to clean up all the winnings laying around. When playing the Clump Wheel in the casino, you can use beef for Clump insurance. If you hit Clump on the wheel, instead of eating you, the Clump will eat the beef you inserted in the Clump Beef Insurance Slot. No Insurance and the Clump will kill you if you land on Clumped. Sell back items like weapons and Fire Salt you win at the Clump wheel. If you try to steal Casino Chris's (SkinStealer at the Slot Machine) Chris Vektor Firearm, he will get very upset and try to kill you. Chris doesn't like when you play his Slot machine, but will allow it. Chris does however drink too much so he doesn't really notice when you take his chips. There are video poker, roulette, Clump wheel, lottery tickets, Item slots and Entity slots. Chips in the casino on level 5 show up on your chest while in the casino and you are holding nothing else. You can buy Chips from "Squidman" aka the Beast of Level 5. He may approach you with deals. Be careful.

 

Clump-Related Items

Clumps make several products including the Clump Glasses which when worn will show clumps as green dots, Clump Guns which let you Grapple and cling onto physics objects, the Clump Viewer can see through some walls. Clumps will latch onto you and drag you into them. You can shoot them or use a special Clump Knife to kill them. Balloon guns have little to no effect on them.

 

Hard Mode Features

In Hard mode, hands can get bloody and eating with bloody hands can make you sick. You can wash your hands as well as take pills to get well. Less health and less health regeneration, batteries die faster, permadeath and lose items, vault only holds a single item instead of unlimited, door lack text to show destination, entities are healthier, no access to the Hub via the Go Places Menu.

 

Radio and Audio

The Radio has Radio Ralph Episodes, Custom audio by changing the MP4 name Test Video.mp4 to the same file with your own audio in the game files, you can just play music. Use the MEG meditation channel on the radio if you're feeling unstable. There are hours of playthroughs and Episodes of Radio Ralph on our Youtube Channel.

 

Mining & Crafting

You can mine Metal, Firesalt, and Bricks from specific areas with the Electric Drill. You can chop down trees that are marked with a Red Band and put the wood in your inventory to craft items at the crafting table or build items like Log Cabins or Fires.

 

Miscellaneous Tips

The Thruster Gun is a very valuable item as it gives you the power to fly. They are rare, but look for one on the ground at a broken green tube in the Tube playground area on Level 18. Make traps using a trap grenade and then using 2 metal from your inventory to set the trap. There is a system to build structures. Pick up a Building Blueprint at Moe's Buildings Supplies in level 1.

To 100% the game and get the 100% Gloves, you have to unlock all doors, get all pictures, and get all the achievements.

 

 

The Devs are very active on Discord and ready to help in any way. Ask how to get out of a level or report a bug before leaving a bad review. This is a passion project. We are happy to work with anyone to make it better.

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