Levels
This level is the classic “yellow wallpaper, damp carpet, buzzing fluorescent lights” space most people picture when they hear “The Backrooms.”
What is Level 0
These humanoid entities are usually recognized by what they lack: a normal face. Adults are often less immediately dangerous than their child variants in many versions.
What are Facelings
This Object is one of the most famous survival supplies in the Backrooms and is commonly used as a reliable source of nutrition or hydration, depending on the canon.
What is Almond Water
This faction is usually treated as the main exploration-and-survival organization, maintaining teams, bases, and records to help wanderers stay alive.
The Backrooms originated from this imageboard website, specifically through its paranormal board, /x/.
What is 4Chan
This level is commonly associated with long, industrial maintenance tunnels, pipes, heat, and a much more hostile environment than the starting level.
What is Level 2
This entity can mimic human speech and wear the skin of victims as a disguise, making trust one of its most dangerous weapons.
What is a Skin-Stealer
This term describes accidentally slipping out of normal reality and entering the Backrooms, usually through an impossible collision with space itself.
What is No-Clipping
This faction’s power comes less from military control and more from trade, markets, supplies, bases, and economic influence across the Backrooms.
What is B.N.T.G.
This gaming/glitch term became central to Backrooms lore, describing how someone accidentally exits normal reality and enters the Backrooms.
What is No-Clipping
On the Wikidot version, this level is officially titled “Threshold” and is notable because confirmed entity encounters are uncertain or unverified there.
What is Level 0
This common predator is associated with crawling or animal-like movement and is often listed as Entity 8 in Wikidot-style lore.
What is a Hound
This rating system is used to summarize how dangerous a level is based on factors like safety, security, and entity presence.
What is Survival Class
This group turns one of the Backrooms’ strangest entities into the center of a religion, worshipping a blue macaw-like figure as something divine.
This internet horror/aesthetic term describes unsettling transitional places that feel familiar but wrong, like empty malls, hallways, offices, or schools.
What are Liminal Spaces
This early “habitable” level is often treated as a major stepping stone for wanderers because it is less empty than Level 0 and more likely to contain supplies or outposts.
What is Level 1
This entity is usually identified less by a full body and more by a glowing smile in darkness, making light management and eye contact a major survival concern in many game/wiki versions.
What is a Smiler
This is the survival mistake of assuming that a humanoid figure is safe just because it looks, speaks, or behaves almost human.
What is failure to identify
This ancient collective is made up of old Backrooms cultures and societies, predating the M.E.G. and many other modern wanderer groups by centuries.
What are The Lost
In 2024, the original Backrooms image was traced to a real renovation photo from this U.S. state.
What is Wisconsin
This infamous level is known by the phrase “RUN FOR YOUR LIFE” and centers around fleeing down a long hallway from a massive entity chase.
What is Level ?!
This entity is tied to “fun” spaces and party imagery, with its danger coming from cheerful presentation hiding a hostile or assimilating nature in many versions of the lore.
What is a Partygoer
This is the dangerous assumption that a level with no confirmed hostile entities is automatically safe, even though environmental hazards, starvation, disorientation, or unstable exits can still kill wanderers.
What is mistaking “low entity count” for “safe”
This faction conflict is not just about survival; the M.E.G. is described as being at war with this opposing group over territory, including places like Level 3.
What is The Insurrection
This creator helped push the Backrooms into mainstream analog horror with the 2022 short film The Backrooms (Found Footage).
Who is Kane Pixels