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- 01 General Survival Strategies
- 02 Understanding Consumables and Controls
- 03 Level-Specific Tips and Tricks
- 04 Dealing with Entities
Comprehensive Survival Guide for Backrooms: The Wrong Level
Welcome, wanderer, to the unsettling depths of the Backrooms. This guide will equip you with essential tips and strategies to navigate the labyrinthine levels, evade terrifying entities, and ultimately, survive the wrong level. While often referred to as 'Escape the Backrooms,' the core gameplay, levels, and entities described here are crucial for understanding your journey.
General Survival Strategies
Survival in the Backrooms hinges on awareness, careful movement, and resourcefulness:
Movement is Key: B-hopping, a technique involving pressing sprint, then jumping, letting go of sprint in the air, and repeating upon landing, can be very useful for faster traversal in some levels. When not actively escaping, walk quietly in one direction to maintain orientation and avoid attracting unwanted attention from entities.
Maintain Orientation: Use environmental cues like the ceiling and count 90-degree corners to keep track of your path.
Resource Management: Keep an eye out for vital items. Almond water is crucial for restoring your sanity, which decreases over time and rapidly when in danger. Energy bars provide a stamina boost, while juice offers a speed boost. Flashlights are essential for visibility in dark areas.
Stealth and Hiding: If you encounter an entity, your primary goal should be to hide and remain silent. Peek around corners before advancing to avoid direct encounters. Shut doors behind you to prevent entities from following, but also consider keeping explored doors open to create potential hiding spots.
Teamwork (if applicable): If you encounter other human Wanderers, slowly approach them and consider teaming up. Finding others can help with sanity and overall survival.
Environmental Awareness: Avoid sources of sound, graffiti, balloons, cakes, windows, dark spots, and areas with missing ceiling tiles, as these can indicate danger.
Understanding Consumables and Controls
Knowing your tools and how to use them is vital:
Consumables:
* Almond Water: Restores sanity.
* Energy Bars: Provide a stamina boost.
* Juice: Grants a speed boost.
* Liquid Pain: Causes pain.
Controls:
* C: Shows your badge, which can help in identifying Skin-Stealers.
* I: Opens your inventory.
* F: Interacts with items and doors.
* Your sanity bar is typically located on the right side of the screen.
Level-Specific Tips and Tricks
Each level of the Backrooms presents unique challenges and entities. Here's how to tackle some of the most infamous ones:
Level 0: The Lobby
This is often your starting point, a maze of yellow, buzzing walls.
Objective: Find a broken ladder, collect four scattered pieces to repair it, climb to grab a key, and use it to unlock a wooden door to the next section.
Exits: Look for two main exits: Pitfalls (often a chessboard-like area) and the Big Room/Normal Room.
The Howler: This tall, slender black creature spawns after three minutes and matches your running speed. If you hear knocking or breathing, it's nearby. A common strategy to evade it is to find a locker and hide until it moves away, then quickly take a photo with your camera.
Tips: Stick to the walls to locate doors or exits faster. Surviving for 15 minutes in Level 0 can unlock an achievement. For pitfalls, hugging the wall can help you traverse them. Turning your graphics quality down to the lowest setting might allow you to see through walls.
Level 1: The Habitable Zone
This concrete warehouse is patrolled by a deceptive entity.
Objective: Navigate through five sections, find codes for an elevator, locate four keys to unlock a door, traverse a maze to another elevator, and survive a section with flickering lights.
Exits: Multiple exits exist, including top left, top right, and bottom left.
Skin-Stealer: This entity mimics players and will chase you on sight. In multiplayer, clear communication is crucial to avoid being tricked by its mimicry. Hiding is generally the best defense during a chase. Skin-Stealers cannot reach you on the top floor of certain areas.
Survival Tips: Always stay in the light and sprint to the next lit room as soon as the lights turn on. Stay close to walls and utilize B-hopping between light rooms. Avoid asking players running towards you for ID cards, do not leave doors open, and refrain from spam-interacting with doors during a chase.
Level 2: Pipe Dreams
Objective: Turn right and continue walking until you see rainbow lights.
Level 3: Electrical Station
The Hound: Hounds can be stunned by flashing them with your flashlight. The best strategy is to let them chase you, step out of the room until they walk away, then quickly move past. Running back to a previous room and closing the door can sometimes cause them to despawn.
Hazards: Be wary of electric puddles.
Level 5: Terror Hotel & The Moth Level
This level is broken into multiple floors with distinct objectives.
Floor 1 (The Main Halls): Solve a painting puzzle to open the main doors. Collect Bug Spray to eliminate Male Death Moths, which drop Moth Jelly. Trade the Moth Jelly at a dumbwaiter for three keys to unlock the elevator.
Floor 2 (The Hotel): Search hotel rooms for seven sheets of paper. Place them in mailboxes to spell "Look Up," which reveals a five-digit code on the ceiling to unlock the next door. Be aware that two Skin-Stealers patrol these halls.
Floor 3 (The Boiler Room/Moth Level): This area is home to larger, more aggressive Female Death Moths. Rely on thermometers on the walls to detect nearby moths and hives. Community-made maps for this level can be incredibly helpful.
Level Fun
Partygoers: These entities will only attack if they see you, so prioritize avoiding their line of sight.
Stuck Glitch: In the second room, one partygoer might not be facing the correct direction. Position yourself behind it and slightly to the left until other partygoers begin to chase you. If done correctly, they will get stuck on the unmoving partygoer, making progression easier.
The Poolrooms (Level 37)
Navigation: Avoid blue tile or dark, glitchy rooms. Wander until you find a room with squares with rounded edges on the ceiling and floor. From there, turn right into a room with large archways. Proceed diagonally across to another room, pass one more normal room, and you should find a large blue slide.
Level ! (Run For Your Life!)
This level is known for its pure adrenaline and fast-paced escape sequences.
Level 9223372036854775807 (The End/Endless Ending)
Objective: Ascend the stairs until a middle hole opens. If playing solo for the first time, continue until you reach the floor marked with "∞," then drop down.
Level 55.1 (The Tunnel)
Objective: Take six photos, with two on each sub-level. Your camera also functions as a torch.
Entities: Expect to encounter all previously faced entities in this final obstacle before potentially escaping.
Dealing with Entities
Understanding and reacting correctly to the various entities is paramount for survival:
General Entity Encounter: If an entity is present, hide immediately and avoid making any sound. If direct confrontation is unavoidable, short-distance, efficient weapons like axes, knives, or baseball bats are your best bet.
The Howler (Level 0): Hide in lockers and wait for it to pass.
Skin-Stealer (Levels 1, 5): These mimics are dangerous on sight. Hiding is crucial during a chase. In multiplayer, ensure clear communication to identify genuine teammates.
Hound (Level 3, 8): Flash your flashlight to stun them. For Level 8, running back to the start or exit and turning a valve is your only hiding option.
Smiler (Level 6): Smilers attack in the dark, so always stay in the light.
Partygoers (Level Fun): Avoid direct line of sight to prevent attacks.
Window Entities (Level 4): Be aware of these entities in the Abandoned Office.
The Grin: If a grin reflects at you from the darkness, do not look away.
Remember, the Backrooms are unpredictable and constantly shifting. Stay alert, adapt your strategies, and good luck, wanderer.