Escape the Backrooms Suggestions & Bug Reporting

What is this?

We're trialling a new way for all ETB players to report issues and offer up their suggestions. This space is a hub to report issues you are coming across and ideas you'd like to suggest, you can also go through and upvote posts by the rest of the ETB community. You'll be able to see which issues and suggestions are under consideration and are being worked on. We're hoping that this will provide a better insight into development for everyone the community.

Posting Rules

  1. Please post in English only. Posts and comments in other languages will be removed.
  2. Only one suggestion or issue per post.
  3. Check to see if your suggestion or issue has already been posted before posting.

Links

Escape the Backrooms on Steam

Escape the Backrooms Discord

Make the lock on the hotel 2nd floor random so people can't go on the wiki and put it in instantly

Suggested by: Dingus (14 Nov, '25) Upvoted: yesterday Comments: 7
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Level 33: "Dead Mall" Level 18: "Nostalgic Memories"

Level 33: "Dead Mall" Level 18: "Nostalgic Memories" yo these levels would be fire just saying only down side is they are safe levels but yk the aesthetic is cool
Suggested by: nelson (24 Nov, '25) Upvoted: yesterday Comments: 3
Suggestion under consideration Suggestion

Re-implement VR

Self-explanatory. VR is the best way to escape the backrooms, let’s get it officially supported again!
Suggested by: GRAMAZ (14 Nov, '25) Upvoted: 04 Jul Comments: 16
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Add Level 43 "Water World"

I suggest adding Level 43 as a secret level. Objective: The exit from Level 43 is blocked by a gate. To open it, you need to feed nine fish tanks. After this, the ...
Suggested by: Kostyan (16 Nov, '25) Upvoted: yesterday Comments: 1
Suggestion under consideration Suggestion

Add Voice Chat between dead players

When two players have died, the only option to communicate with eachother is the ingame text chat, which can ruin/spoil the experience for alive players.
Suggested by: myceliumstew (08 Dec, '25) Upvoted: 06 Jul Comments: 3
Suggestion under consideration Suggestion

Add an option to choose which microphone to use

The game is picking up audio from my camera's microphone, and if I change the default microphone in Steam, I can't hear anything at all. There's no in-game option to ...
Suggested by: Nacho (16 Nov, '25) Upvoted: 06 Jul Comments: 2
Suggestion under consideration Suggestion

Cool level suggestion!

I recommend adding Level 69 (It's not what you think) Level 69 is the 70th Level of the Backrooms: A deserted, infinite highway shrouded in thick fog and pitch ...
Suggested by: Nameless Entity (16 Nov, '25) Upvoted: 01 Jul Comments: 0
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Wretch On Sanity Death

In the Backrooms lore, Wretches are a result of people dying due to sanity, hunger, or thirst. When a player dies by sanity perhaps a Wretch should spawn, although I ...
Suggested by: FishStrats (13 Nov, '25) Upvoted: 04 Jul Comments: 2
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The trucks on level 94 are very buggy and basically unusable... so why not make them drivable?

Currently, even more so after the recent truck collision changes, the trucks on Level 94 have become borderline useless, especially if you aren't the host. They make ...
Suggested by: koshkamatew (07 Dec, '25) Upvoted: 06 Jul Comments: 1
Suggestion under consideration Suggestion

Item Leniency

Various Items in the game aren't lenient enough, some particular examples being Almond Water, Energy Bars, and Juice. The first issue is that all of their use ...
Suggested by: FishStrats (15 Nov, '25) Upvoted: 22 Jun Comments: 2
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Make the guide cutscene on Abandoned Outpost skippable (Suggestion)

Most cutscenes are skippable, the elevator guide in 3999 is skippable, so why do we have to sit for one minute and listen to the same explanation about almond ...
Suggested by: koshkamatew (10 Nov, '25) Upvoted: 06 Jul Comments: 1
Suggestion under consideration Suggestion

Lobby friend code system

Saves the need to make public lobbies to let people join and kick randoms out
Suggested by: R3flectForward (05 Dec, '25) Upvoted: 05 May Comments: 1
Suggestion under consideration Suggestion

Xbox M&K Issue.

On my Xbox when playing the game with mouse and keyboard It works but the cursor for the mouse doesn’t pop up makeing It where you can’t use the mouse In menus or ...
Suggested by: Jay. (04 Jun) Upvoted: 24 Jun Comments: 2
Suggestion under consideration Bug Report Suggestion

Confusion with Hub mode

One of the most common "bug reports" on the discord is from players unable to progress because they confuse story mode and hub mode. There should either be a ...
Suggested by: Pyro (28 Jun) Upvoted: 06 Jul Comments: 0
Suggestion under consideration Suggestion

Full keyboard key bindings

I have used arrow keys for movement in all my PC gaming years for more than 30 years. Can we please get the option to rebind movement to the arrow keys?
Suggested by: TTUVAPOR (02 Apr) Upvoted: 07 May Comments: 0
Suggestion under consideration Suggestion

Custom Difficulty

I'd love to see a modular difficulty system where you could adjust sanity settings, multiplayer exit settings, entity settings, and maybe other mechanics as well when ...
Suggested by: abrahammond (03 Jul) Upvoted: 03 Jul Comments: 0
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Raising the Max Sensitivity for Console players and fixing mouse and keyboard for Console

The current max sensitivity on console feels way too slow. Also there are alot of issues with mouse and keyboard on console rn, such as: Bugged menu highlighting when ...
Suggested by: 2Fast (27 Jun) Upvoted: 27 Jun Comments: 1
Suggestion under consideration Suggestion

ADD CONTENT FROM THE KANE PIXELS SERIES

I know that this game is mostly inspired by the expanded lore of the original creepypasta made by the wider community rather than the Kane Pixels web series, but with ...
Suggested by: Evan Bell (02 Jul) Upvoted: 02 Jul Comments: 0
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