Backrooms: Extractions

Released: Apr 30, 2025
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Last updated: 14 Sep 2026, 10:10 GMT

Updates & announcements

20 posts

08 Aug 2026Developer post
Photograph the Unexplained • Pin It to the LAB Case Wall
You have all had that moment. The Smiler holding perfectly still at the end of a corridor, just far enough away that nobody believes you afterwards. A teammate caught mid-fall through a hole that was not there a second earlier. A Partygoer standing in a doorway like it had been i
You have all had that moment. The Smiler holding perfectly still at the end of a corridor, just far enough away that nobody believes you afterwards. A teammate caught mid-fall through a hole that was not there a second earlier. A Partygoer standing in a doorway like it had been invited. Until now the only things that came home with you were the loot and the story, and nobody ever quite believes the story.
Capture those moments with your bodycam and pin them in the LAB.
The Wall of Unexplained Cases
The Field records wall is down on the LAB floor, and it belongs to the crew now. Bring the shot back through extraction and put it up. Everyone walking past sees it. Every M.E.G. operative in your group can pin theirs next to yours, and the board fills up run after run with the things you barely got out of. Horrifying, ridiculous, or just a friend doing something unwise. It all counts.

Take the Shot • Your bodycam takes a photo whenever you want one, mid-chase or mid-disaster. It flashes so you know it landed, and shows you when the next one is ready.
Everyone Pins, Not Just the Host • Any M.E.G. member can put a photo forward now, not only the one running the operation, and the host waves it through. The wall used to be a decoration. It is the group's record now.
You Know When Yours Goes Up • Your visor tells you the moment your photo makes the wall, and warns the host when a teammate is waiting. Nobody has to camp in front of the board.
The Wall Remembers • What goes up stays up between runs. Come back from a bad night and everything the crew brought back before is still hanging there.
Nicer to Live With • What you already shared is marked so you do not offer it twice, and anything that cannot go up tells you why instead of a flat refusal.
Inventory and Storage

LAB Storage Stacks • Dropping off the same item one at a time used to burn a fresh slot every time. Identical items now merge into one stack, in Endless and Classic alike.
Your PDA Stops Ending Up on the Floor • Dying no longer scatters the items you can never throw away yourself.
Downed Players

Down Means Down • Crawling on the floor no longer lets you open doors, loot, and pull a tool back out. Reviving a teammate and using the self-revive kit are untouched.
Everything else in this job is something you found. This is the first thing that is yours. Fill the wall, and show me what the Backrooms did to you.
Mat
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05 Aug 2026Developer post
Voice Chat Overhaul • Suburbs Exit Gate Fixes
The voice chat mode setting finally does what it says. Off is really off, Push To Talk really waits for the key, and the volume slider on each player works across its whole range instead of just muting. The Suburbs got their exit gates back too, and the biggest crash of the last
The voice chat mode setting finally does what it says. Off is really off, Push To Talk really waits for the key, and the volume slider on each player works across its whole range instead of just muting. The Suburbs got their exit gates back too, and the biggest crash of the last update is gone.
Voice Chat

Input Mode • Off, Open Mic and Push To Talk had no effect once the game was running. Whatever mode was loaded at startup stayed in place and the mic behaved like Open Mic no matter what you picked. The setting now applies the moment you change it.
Staying Quiet Actually Works • On Off your voice was not transmitted but still made noise in the world, so a creature could track you through a sentence nobody could hear. It no longer does.
Per-Player Volume • The slider had two states, muted at the bottom and full volume everywhere else. It now applies across its whole range.
Helmet Voice Meter • The meter could stay lit when you released the key mid-sentence, and it ignored your input mode entirely. Both fixed.
Settings Label • The third input mode reused the wrong label. Corrected in every language.
The Suburbs

Exit Gate Keypads • Pressing keys on a pad often did nothing at all: no sound, no digit, no validation. The grid door standing in front of every pad was swallowing the input. Keys register again.
Pads Locked For The Rest Of The Run • If the player using a pad died, disconnected or left the level, that pad stayed taken forever, and anyone walking past could kick out the person actually using it. The whole take-and-release logic was rebuilt.
The Television Under The Map • Two stray televisions were placed far below the level. One of them took the place of the real one often enough that the VHS puzzle could not be finished and the gate never opened. Both are gone.
Crash Fixes

End-Of-Run Screen • The screen that hands out your promotion and your loot could crash while it was building the unlock cards. This was by far the most reported crash of the last update.
Co-op Sessions • A crash could hit whenever a network connection closed at the wrong moment, at any point in a session.
Graphics Driver Warning • The warning about an outdated NVIDIA driver only ever showed up on laptops, while most of the players who cannot launch the game are on desktop cards. It reaches them now.
Scanner

Shadow Men Show Up • The Shadow Men in the Suburbs never appeared on a thermal scan, even standing right in front of you. A filter written for a different puzzle was quietly hiding them.
More Objects To Scan • Scannable objects are now tagged one by one instead of coming from a single fixed internal list, and a few puzzle objects that were never scannable before now are.
Paradise

Performance • Paradise is by a clear margin the worst performing level in the game. This is a first pass on what its vegetation costs to render in shadow, and the work on it continues.
Burning The Sigils • Burning a sigil played out with your character standing there empty-handed. The candlestick is now equipped and raised for the whole hold.
The Suburbs keypads and the voice modes both needed a rewrite rather than a patch, so if you ran into either of them before, give them another go and tell me how it holds up.
Mat
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27 Jul 2026Developer post
Performance Overhaul • Startup Fix
This build is mostly about performance. A large optimisation pass gave back around 4 ms per frame on the main thread, and our test runs come out about a third faster on the same hardware. Startup failures are fixed as well: a graphics component shipped with the game had drifted o
This build is mostly about performance. A large optimisation pass gave back around 4 ms per frame on the main thread, and our test runs come out about a third faster on the same hardware. Startup failures are fixed as well: a graphics component shipped with the game had drifted out of sync with the engine after its last upgrade, and on some machines it stopped the game from ever reaching the menu.
Performance

Frame Rate • A large optimisation pass gave back around 4 ms per frame on the main thread, roughly half of what it was spending there. Average frame rate is up about a third across our test runs.
Stutter • The hitches that came with it are down by about half. Being chased was one of the heaviest cases, so that is where the difference should show the most.
Startup & Stability

Startup Failures • The game could close during the intro sequence, or fail to open at all, on machines where a shipped graphics component no longer matched what the engine expects. It is realigned, so the game starts normally again. If you were stuck on this, it is worth another try.
Driver Warning • The warning about an out-of-date graphics driver had never actually reached a single player: the window failed to open, and the game recorded it as seen anyway. It now displays for real, and its text, which was mistranslated in most languages, has been redone.
Run-Breaking Fixes

Keypads Refusing Input • On Suburbs, the exit gate keypads could stop accepting anything at all, on mouse and on controller alike, with no way left to finish the run.
Loot Dropped On Death • A body could come to rest on top of the items it had just dropped and make them impossible to pick up, which soft-locked runs when a progression item was involved. Bodies no longer block what you are aiming at, and death drops are now placed somewhere you can actually reach.
Joining A Run In Progress • Joining a team that was already mid-round left you in the lobby with a character you could not use and no spectator view. The round state is now read from the level itself, so late joiners get the spectator view they were supposed to have.
Spectating

Key Prompts • The spectate bar showed two unreadable diamonds where the keys you press should be. It now draws real key art, matching your keyboard or the pad you are holding, and the arrow keys replace a binding that assumed a QWERTY layout.
Late Join • Arriving as a spectator left you watching nobody until you pressed a cycle key. A target is picked for you as soon as one is available, and the player counter no longer goes stale when someone else dies.
Frame Generation

Frame Rate Limit Conflict • A frame rate cap throttles the base frame rate that Frame Generation multiplies, so running a cap together with the higher multipliers cost performance and added latency instead of saving it. The cap is now lifted automatically while Frame Generation is on, and your saved value comes back the moment you turn it off. The Steam Deck cap is left alone.
Unsupported Modes • The higher multipliers were listed on hardware whose driver refuses them. The menu now only offers what your GPU actually supports.
Latency Settings • Reflex and VSync are now handled the way NVIDIA's guidelines require while Frame Generation is running, instead of being left in combinations that quietly added latency.
Options Menu • The Frame Generation row showed as a blank line, with no label and no description. It is labelled now, and the Framerate Limit row is greyed out while Frame Generation is active.
Creature Behaviour

Creatures Sinking Into The Floor • The recovery move that unsticks a creature was dropping it into the ground, where it walked on the spot instead of coming back. Reported on several levels and on several creatures. The safety net that was supposed to remove a creature stuck like that never fired either, and now does.
Partygoers Stuck Crouched • Partygoers could spend a whole level crouched, and crouching was not slowing them down at all, so they closed distance far faster than they should have. Both sides of that are fixed.
Hounds Losing Their Speed • A Hound that caught your eye while searching stayed at its slowed-down speed for the rest of the search instead of picking its pace back up.
Interface & Quality Of Life

Bestiary Count • The bestiary counted an entity that cannot be encountered yet, so the list read as incomplete with a slot nobody could fill. It now lists only what is live, and a separate full-dossier count spells out what the filming achievement actually asks for.
Fog Horn Recordings • Recording your voice did not switch the horn over to it, so pressing the toggle turned your own recording back off and the whole thing read as broken. Recording now arms it directly. The toggle key also had a press window that counted as neither a tap nor a hold and did nothing at all.
Survey Card • Pressing Start on a controller while the end-of-run survey was on screen opened the pause menu on top of it, and the two then fought over your input.
Quit Button • The pause menu Quit button sat right next to Leave Session, with no way to tell which one closed the game. It reads Quit Game now, in every language.
Training Is Solo • Leaving for training as a squad sent everyone into a mode that only works solo, with no equipment and no inventory. The card is now marked solo only, and joins are refused while a training run is active.
LAB Storage • Rounded the storage panel so it sits properly inside the screen frame.
If startup was the thing keeping you out, this is the build to try again on. Most of what is above came straight from reports sent through the in-game form this week.
Mat
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25 Jul 2026Developer post
Co-op, Network & Controller Improvements • Update 0.3.503
This one is all stability. The engine upgrade landed, and everything after it went into what was actually cutting sessions short: co-op loading, signal zones, how much data the game sends between players, and gamepad input on the in-world screens. Multiplayer Co-op loading screen
This one is all stability. The engine upgrade landed, and everything after it went into what was actually cutting sessions short: co-op loading, signal zones, how much data the game sends between players, and gamepad input on the in-world screens.
Multiplayer

Co-op loading screen • Starting a session with other players left everyone stuck on the loading screen long after the level was ready. The host now confirms readiness as each player arrives, so loading ends when loading is done.
Signal zones • Transmitting could be refused from a spot that looked perfectly valid, most often in The Suburbs. Signal zones now line up with what you see, and the Suburbs spots were re-placed where you can actually reach them.
Network footprint • Character data and FogHorn recordings sent between players were reworked to put far less on the wire. Sessions hold together better on weaker connections.
Controller

Terminal screens on gamepad • Confirming on the deployment terminal and the other in-world screens often needed a second press, and D-pad navigation could lock up until it landed. Gamepad confirm now stays a proper key press while a screen is engaged, so the first press always registers and navigation never freezes.
PlayStation prompts in Settings • The Settings menu asked PlayStation players to press an Xbox button to apply their changes, so pressing what the screen showed did nothing. Prompts now match the controller in your hands.
Interface & Audio

Screen open and close sounds • Every in-world screen now has audible open and close feedback, including the ones you leave by walking away or backing out.
Softer interface foley • The synthesized terminal beeps that briefly went out across every menu read far too harsh. Interface sounds are back on the softer set the game shipped with, and the constant ping while sweeping the mouse across cards is gone.
Skin shop readability • Under the Terminal theme every card fill collapsed to the same black, leaving almost nothing to show which suit or tool skin you were on. Unselected cards now carry a faint glow so the selection reads clearly.
Visual

Floating elevator light • A lit ceiling panel from the elevator cab appeared stranded in mid-air in the lab atrium and around level elevators. It stays attached to the cab now.
Emotes • Your equipped tool stayed glued to your hand through emote animations. It is hidden for the duration now, for you and for everyone watching.
Steam Deck

Loading tips • Longer loading tips overlapped the title or ran off the bottom of the screen. The tip block is now anchored from its bottom edge and grows upward as the text wraps.
Pause menu • The Discord link is hidden on Deck, where opening an external page is not useful.
Under the Hood

Engine upgrade • The game now runs on Unreal Engine 5.8, along with updated versions of the components it relies on.
Dynamic Vibrance removed • NVIDIA dropped this feature from their toolkit, so the Dynamic Vibrance section no longer appears in the video settings.
Build cleanup • Several unused components were stripped out of the build.
The co-op loading hang and the gamepad terminal double-press were the two most reported issues of the last few days. If either one pushed you out of a session, this is the build to come back on.
Mat
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23 Jul 2026Developer post
New Deployment Terminal • Endless Protocol Rework • Steam Deck Improvements
Hey everyone. The last update put a controller in your hands; this one rebuilds the places you use it most. The deployment terminal in the LAB was redesigned from scratch and now handles everything in one place, multiplayer included. The Endless Protocol got a proper identity, fr
Hey everyone.

The last update put a controller in your hands; this one rebuilds the places you use it most. The deployment terminal in the LAB was redesigned from scratch and now handles everything in one place, multiplayer included. The Endless Protocol got a proper identity, from the way it introduces itself down to what happens if the game crashes mid-run. LAB storage was rebuilt to match the tool shop. And nearly every one of these screens was tuned for the Steam Deck: we are working toward full Steam Deck validation, and that work makes the game better on every platform.

Your reports keep steering the priorities: the hole in the middle of Level 0, the Partygoer crowds cornering players on Level Fun and the missing jump on gamepad are all fixed below. Keep them coming.

Here is everything that changed:
Deployment Terminal Overhaul
One board for everything • The LAB deployment terminal was redesigned from scratch: a mission board with your target zone, threat assessment, squad and training in dedicated cards, and your stats in a shop-style header. The old splash screen is gone; you land straight on the board.
Multiplayer built in • Browsing, creating and joining squads now happens directly on the terminal: session browser, squad lobby and a short join code you can share, with a streamer-safe mask so it never leaks on stream. The squad roster no longer shows duplicate entries.
No accidental disbands • Destroying a session is now hold-to-confirm, with a clear warning of what it does.
Smarter navigation • The board remembers where you were: leaving a sub-view returns focus to the card that opened it, and the zone and threat selectors start on your current pick instead of the first card.
Squadmate view • On squad members' machines, the terminal now shows a proper M.E.G. standby screen instead of a dead board while the host drives.
Endless Protocol Rework
A proper introduction • Endless now opens on a hazard gate that spells out the rules before you commit, followed by a briefing walking you through deployment, resupply and escalation. Threat readouts across these screens use qualitative wording and badges instead of raw numbers.
Terminal-style tiers • Threat tiers are now full terminal cards showing your starter kit up front; locked tiers show a padlock with the rank they require.
Circuits escalate • Runs now rotate through different levels as a circuit progresses, and the threat surges every time you complete one, so long runs keep climbing instead of flattening out.
Crash insurance • If the game shuts down uncleanly mid-run, your Endless run is restored to its last archive point on the next boot. No more losing an entire run to a crash.
Mode transfer • Switching between Classic and Endless now plays an analog interference sequence with status lines decoding as the transfer completes, and the screen ignores stray inputs while it happens.
LAB Storage Redesign
Shop-style cards • LAB storage now matches the tool shop: clear item cards, two distinct zones for what is secured in the LAB versus on you, and every slot drawn explicitly, including empty ones and rank-locked ones with the rank they need.
Faster transfers • On controller, one button moves a single item, another moves a whole side, and closing is one press; with the mouse, Shift+click moves a full stack.
Nothing disappears • If your save ever holds more than your slot count, stored items are never hidden or lost.
Steam Deck & Controller
Jump on A • Jump was missing from the gamepad layout entirely; it now sits on A, crouch moved to X and holstering to the D-pad.
Bodycam zoom • Zoom moved to D-pad Up/Down; on the old layout, zooming out also holstered the camera. While filming, the D-pad drives the camera instead of stow and emotes.
Everything on the stick • The new terminal, its multiplayer screens, join-code entry, LAB storage and every Endless screen are fully navigable on controller, with the Steam floating keyboard opening on text fields.
Prompts behave • Button prompts no longer flip between keyboard and controller when the gyro or trackpad twitches, and you can hot-swap between an external pad and the Deck's built-in controls both ways.
Deck readability • Training cards are much bigger on the small screen, the settings menu got a compact Deck layout, and stray decorative symbols that could render as blank squares were removed everywhere.
Bug reports • The in-game bug report screen was redesigned, works fully on controller, opens fullscreen on Deck and now confirms when your report is sent.
End-of-Run Screens
Asset Recovery • A dedicated screen now details what happened to your relics and bags at the end of a run, including exactly what was lost when you abandon.
Film XP counts • XP earned from filming now feeds the results screen properly: it fills the rank bar, adds into the total and triggers rank-ups and unlocks right there.
Creatures & Levels
Missing creatures after training • Finishing the first-boot training silently disabled creature spawns for the rest of the session; every level launched afterwards was empty. Fixed.
Level Fun crowd control • Partygoers spawn at a much calmer pace on Level Fun; crowds were cornering players with no way out. Pacing is now tuned per level, so other levels are untouched.
Level 0 holes • Structural walls were being removed by the hiding-spot cleanup, leaving holes in the map. They stay put now.
Level 19 attic • The thermal scanner now marks only the real exit hatch instead of every decoy position.
Fixes & Localization
Typing in settings • The mouse cursor no longer disappears while typing in a settings text field.
FogHorn • Its record overlay and sound-switch toast now follow your interface theme, and its two tool hints are properly translated; they were French for everyone.
Recovery room screens • The wall screens in the recovery room between missions are now fully translated in all 25 supported languages.
Training prompt • The start-training prompt no longer overflows in some languages, and the D-pad moves cleanly between its buttons.
Localization • All the new terminal, storage, Endless and training strings ship translated in the 25 supported languages.
The terminal rework closes the biggest gap on the road to full Steam Deck validation. Take the new board for a spin, push an Endless circuit as far as it goes, and tell me what you think.
Mat
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20 Jul 2026Developer post
Xbox & PlayStation Controller Support • New Training Program • CRT Overhaul
PATCH NOTES • 0.3.461 Hey everyone. Since launch, the idea behind every update has been the same: keep improving the game's foundations to prepare for the full release and the major content updates that will follow, with new levels and new entities. This time, the effort went int
PATCH NOTES • 0.3.461
Hey everyone.
Since launch, the idea behind every update has been the same: keep improving the game's foundations to prepare for the full release and the major content updates that will follow, with new levels and new entities. This time, the effort went into controllers, the Steam Deck, a rebuilt training program, a new CRT interface theme, and a better experience with the PDA and the camera. Onboarding got special care: a quick three-step setup wizard puts you in the best conditions to play, and the new training program properly introduces the field tools, so you head out with most of them already in hand. Full controller support also lays the groundwork for bringing the game to PlayStation in the future. And keep an eye on that camera: something very cool is coming for it soon.
Thank you for all the feedback on yesterday's update. Based on it, the CRT look now stays on the end-of-run screens, where it belongs, and the settings and pause menu are back to their clean standard look. Your feedback keeps shaping this game into one of the best Backrooms experiences out there, so keep it coming.
Here is everything that changed:
Controller Support

Xbox & PlayStation • The game is now fully playable on controller, from first boot to extraction. PlayStation pads get their native button glyphs, and the interface follows whichever controller you used last.
Reworked layout • Triggers use and aim your tools, tool cycling moved to the shoulder buttons, flashlight to the stick click, push-to-talk to the D-pad. Interacting no longer holsters your tool at the same time.
Every screen on the stick • Shop, SkinShop, Operation Board, keypads, bug reports, surveys and the first-boot setup are all fully navigable on controller, with proper button hints everywhere and the Steam keyboard popping up where you need to type.
Focus and binding fixes • The LAB control panel no longer captures your controller when you spawn, the deployment terminal no longer traps navigation, and a binding issue that could wire movement onto a face button (or show a stray LEFT STICK glyph on prompts) is gone.
Rumble tuning • The Smiler's proximity rumble now behaves consistently on Xbox pads and DualSense.
New Training Program

Rebuilt from the ground up • M.E.G. training is now a full guided course: every field tool has its own room (scanners, trackers, paint gun, SOS beacon, revive kit, camera, hiding spots), with objective cards that fold away once read and drills that adapt if you rush ahead.
First-boot setup • A new setup wizard covers language, movement keys, brightness and microphone on first launch, fully controller-friendly. Training is recommended to new recruits, never forced.
Your gear is safe • Finishing, replaying or abandoning training can no longer touch your real inventory, and completion rewards were significantly increased.
Interface Overhaul

CRT terminal look • Surveys and all end-of-run screens now render as a M.E.G. phosphor terminal: scanlines, glow and period-correct chrome. The new Terminal interface theme is applied once with this update; you can switch themes anytime in the shop, and two of them are free. Following your feedback, the pause menu and settings keep their clean standard look.
Endless Protocol screen • The Endless terminal was reorganized into clear tabs: launch a new protocol on one side, browse your archived runs on the other. No more overflowing lists.
Shop polish • Denied purchases now give instant feedback instead of failing silently, locked cards show a padlock, and your stats moved up into the header.
Steam Deck

Playability pass • Interactive LAB screens open fullscreen on Deck, the HUD, menus and radial wheel were rescaled for the small screen, and a tuned graphics preset targets smooth performance out of the box.
PDA & Signal

Reworked signal screen • The PDA got a new integrated signal instrument with a crew biomonitor, cleaner overlays and proper controller tab switching.
Signal history • The PDA now keeps a trail of your last 30 seconds: your position in the world and the signal strength along the way, so you can tell at a glance whether you are getting closer.
Upload fixes • The agent-data upload now starts the moment you lock the signal (the silent delay made players think they were outside the zone), and the upload overlay no longer fails to appear for non-host players.
Multiplayer & Operation Board

Real session info • The session browser now shows each session's actual target zone and threat level, lists private squads as anonymized entries, and displays the host's region. Sessions hosted on older versions show a neutral STANDBY badge instead of wrong info.
Endless loot loss • Non-host players no longer lose their items after extracting during the Endless Protocol.
Microphone fix • Your selected capture device no longer resets to the system default when changing levels.
Fixes & Localization

Helmet HUD • Fixed the HUD staying hidden after switching from Endless back to Classic.
Initiation Complete • The achievement is now correctly granted when you finish training.
Level Fun • The jukeboxes now play original tracks that are safe for your streams and videos, and the ambient volume slider finally affects every music zone.
Dropped items • Items can no longer land in unreachable spots when dropped.
Localization • Over a hundred interface strings that were stuck in English are now properly translated across all 25 supported languages, with many quality fixes on top.
This is one of the biggest updates since launch. Grab a controller, run the new training program, and tell me what you think.
Mat
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13 Jul 2026Developer post
Performance & Co-op Improvements • Update 0.3.419
Performance Wretch chase freezes • Being chased by a Wretch no longer freezes the game. The chase logic was doing heavy work at a steady rhythm, on the host and on clients alike; it now runs in the background. This was the "constant freezing when chased" many of you reported. Cre
Performance

Wretch chase freezes • Being chased by a Wretch no longer freezes the game. The chase logic was doing heavy work at a steady rhythm, on the host and on clients alike; it now runs in the background. This was the "constant freezing when chased" many of you reported.
Creature Behavior

Wretch light interference • Lights near a Wretch now flicker reliably, including through walls. That interference is your early warning: previously most ceiling lights ignored the effect entirely, and when it did trigger it was often too faint to notice. The Wretch also disturbs lights while searching an area, not only mid-chase.
Multiplayer

Revive countdown • Your death timer now pauses while a teammate is actively reviving you. Dying at the last second with a rescuer already holding the revive is fixed.
Achievements

"Caught on tape" • The entity-filming achievements were not unlocking when you caught a creature on camera. They now unlock as intended.
If chases were freezing your game, give this build a try and tell us how it feels. Thanks for all the reports.
• Mat
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12 Jul 2026Developer post
The Found Footage Update
Your bodycam just became the most important tool in the Backrooms. Film the entities to fill their dossiers, fire the new instability scanner to reveal what the maze is hiding, and watch it all through a brand-new analog lens. A hefty batch of fixes ships alongside • full list be
Your bodycam just became the most important tool in the Backrooms. Film the entities to fill their dossiers, fire the new instability scanner to reveal what the maze is hiding, and watch it all through a brand-new analog lens. A hefty batch of fixes ships alongside • full list below.
The Bodycam, Rebuilt

Full camcorder interface • The bodycam display has been rebuilt: real key prompts that follow your input device, a proper zoom track, a live clock, boot flicker and analog screen quirks. M.E.G transmissions now print directly on the camera display, typewriter style.
Analog film look • A new image treatment inspired by analog found footage now applies to every view: gameplay, kill cameras, spectator and interactive screens. Distracting artifacts fade out automatically while you read a screen, so nothing hurts usability.
Cleaner frame • The camcorder border no longer spits stretched pixel tails and dying lines across the image.
New camera sounds • Power clicks, zoom, scan pulses and a data-recording loop • all analog, fitting the gear.
Hiding spots • The camera now stays aligned with your eyes in hiding spots that bury your chest (ball pit, car) • no more filming the inside of the props.
NEW • The Field Bestiary

Film the entities • Point your bodycam at an entity to identify and document it. Each entity has a dossier that fills up in tiers the longer you film it, unlocking data and field captures.
Instant rewards • Completing a dossier tier grants XP, money and MEG on the spot.
Field Research recap • A new end-of-run screen recaps the entities you identified, with your own polaroid captures and the rewards you earned.
Beware of imitations • A disguised SkinStealer reads as a regular player on camera • the dossier only reacts once it reveals itself.
Fully localized • Dossiers and registry labels are translated in all supported languages.
NEW • The Instability Scanner

Thermal pulse • The bodycam can now fire a scanning pulse that sweeps out around you and returns, highlighting mission and puzzle objects through the environment • water machines, VHS tapes, cakes, planks and more.
Tuned for readability • The scan view suppresses glare and light bloom so highlighted targets stay readable even in bright rooms.
Recharge feedback • The scanner key fills up as it recharges and turns amber when armed; firing too early gives a clear denied response.
Creatures

Smiler • Can no longer attack through thin walls, no longer clips through corners, and no longer freezes in place or walks on the spot. Its whispers are spatialized with a soft fade-in, and getting too close now triggers an escalating interference warning instead of an unreadable instant death.
Partygoers are back • A configuration bug prevented Partygoers from spawning in The Fun. They now drop from the pipe mouths exactly as intended, telegraphed by a falling cloud of dust.
Wraith • Fixed the Wraith never spawning in The Fun. The buildup ghost now appears and departs through its floor portal for everyone and no longer lingers at stale positions for clients; the kill camera stays properly locked during the grab.
SkinStealer • Now vanishes into its smoke instead of blinking out, and the vanish effect plays out fully for everyone.
Balloons • Pops behind closed doors no longer stress or shake you from a distance, and movement is smoother for clients.
Multiplayer

Achievements for everyone • Players who are not the host now correctly receive end-of-level Steam achievements (Express Extraction and friends).
Purchases no longer vanish • Fixed shop purchases silently disappearing for client players who had previously touched Endless mode, while the money stayed spent.
Mission items survive disconnects • When a teammate disconnects while carrying mission items, those items now drop on the ground instead of vanishing • no more unfinishable missions.
Ritual sigils • Clients holding the torch can now burn sigils in Paradise, and the MK1 detector tracks undiscovered sigils properly.
Blackouts jam radios • During a blackout, all radios are forced off and jammed, with a signal-lost warning on the helmet HUD.
Interface & Progression

Mission tracker rework • The helmet HUD mission display has been rebuilt: animated objectives, per-step progress, completion feedback • and it finally updates correctly for clients.
Rank-up unlocks • Leveling up now shows exactly what you unlocked, with NEW badges in the shop and level select and a reminder back at the lab.
Results screen • The end-of-run recap no longer overflows on busy runs: content scales to fit, long loot lists switch to a compact grid, and defeat screens are clearer.
Crash Fixes & Performance

GPU crash at launch • Fixed a GPU crash that could trigger at boot or on resolution changes with FidelityFX upscaling enabled.
Smoother chases • Creature pursuit no longer recalculates its path far too often • fixes the heavy frame drops during Wretch chases.
Bestiary stability • Fixed a crash when completing a dossier tier, and black field captures when HDR or Frame Generation is enabled.
Various Fixes

Fair play • Removed leftover debug keys that could silently alter currency and XP.
No looting from beyond • Dead players can no longer interact with the world, and a tool being unequipped can no longer be looted straight from your hands to duplicate it.
MEG chest • Loot can no longer spawn wedged inside geometry; if the chest is completely boxed in, rewards go straight to inventories.
Executions • Jumping is blocked during entity executions and carries, the erratic execution camera shake is gone, and abandoning a run now shows your death before the end screen.
Odds and ends • The "disrespectful" achievement can now actually be unlocked, and the helmet flashlight glows properly when toggled.
The Backrooms won't document themselves. Grab your camera, film, scan, report back • and thank you for every report you send, they shape these updates.
Mat
Original post
04 Jul 2026Developer post
Patch Notes 0.3.389
Crash Fixes Startup crash on newer Intel processors • Machines with recent Intel processors could crash instantly at launch, locking those players out of the game entirely. The faulty engine component has been disabled and the game now boots normally. Shop crash • Fixed a crash t
Crash Fixes

Startup crash on newer Intel processors • Machines with recent Intel processors could crash instantly at launch, locking those players out of the game entirely. The faulty engine component has been disabled and the game now boots normally.
Shop crash • Fixed a crash tied to interacting with the shop, caused by an audio engine race condition that could also silently corrupt the game until exit.
Paint gun GPU crash • Painting no longer crashes on ray-tracing graphics cards, and paint marks are far lighter on low-end graphics chips.
Multiplayer & Co-op

"Can't join my friend's lobby" • A stale session left over from a previous run could silently block every future join attempt. Lobbies now heal themselves, and when a connection is refused you finally see the actual reason (kick, version mismatch, network) instead of bouncing back with no explanation.
Pitch-black lobby • Leaving a session while in Endless mode could dump everyone into a completely dark, empty facility. Fixed.
End-of-run screens for clients • Non-host players now see their real rewards and the detailed objective results at the end of a run, instead of an empty rewards screen or a generic failure message.
Crew notifications • A "has joined the crew" message now appears when someone joins your run in progress, matching the existing leave notice.
Creature grab fixes in co-op • Players grabbed by a creature are now properly downed on every machine: no more endless grab loops, bodies lying in the wrong spot or facing the wrong way, and the victim now sees the down camera on their own screen too.
Host screen cleanup • The host no longer sees other players' interaction prompts floating on their own screen.
Creatures

Smiler rework • The Smiler now stares directly at each player on their own screen, and its dark cloud no longer spins erratically. It downs its victim the moment it makes contact, vanishes on impact instead of freezing mid-air, and respects safe zones. Its dash and ambient sounds were silently missing from public builds and are now audible. You will hear it coming. That may not help.
SkinStealer reliability • A catch interrupted mid-carry now resolves properly, and a disguised SkinStealer standing still no longer despawns right in front of you.
Post-revive grace • After a revive, creatures briefly lose interest in the freshly revived player instead of instantly downing them again.
No more dogpiles • Creatures of the same type now cap how many of them chase a single player at once, so you can't get corner-pinned by a whole crowd.
Safer revives • A creature leaving after a kill no longer re-aggros on teammates approaching the downed body to revive.
Wretch tuning • Adjusted the Wretch's movement speed.
Hiding Spots

Stuck behind furniture • Hiding in a wardrobe or locker could pin you between the back panel and the doors, sometimes ejecting you through walls. Entering, staying, and leaving are now handled cleanly, which also removes a related crash.
Easier doors • You no longer need to stare at one exact magic spot to close a locker or wardrobe door, especially from inside. Look anywhere on the panel.
Missions & Inventory

Endless inventory loss • Archiving an Endless run no longer wipes the inventory you had in that run.
Purchases lost in co-op • Fixed several cases where items bought by non-host players never made it into their save, including after coming back from Endless mode.
Shared pickups • Relic chests you already collected no longer linger on screen as unusable props.
Level 0 walls • Destroying a wall section no longer takes neighboring walls with it on other players' machines. No more mysterious holes and missing walls.
Interface & Controls

Stuck after the survey • Fixed for good the bug where you couldn't move or look around after the end-of-run survey. The survey also closes itself if left unanswered and can be skipped with Escape or the gamepad back button.
ESC exits screens • Escape now backs you out of keypads and interactive screens instead of doing nothing.
Terminal lock-ups • Interactive screens could occasionally stay claimed forever in co-op, locking the player in place. Exiting is now reliable.
Loot notifications • Picking up items now shows a clean notification with the item's icon, name, and quantity.
Interaction feedback • Holding an interaction now has much stronger feedback: the prompt visibly charges up, with mechanical press, cancel, and completion sounds.
Various fixes • Interaction prompts no longer show through walls and elevator doors; the gear-station info card no longer blocks buying; money bags got their missing icons; doors no longer swing into side walls; player colors no longer reset to orange after each level.
Audio & Voice

Voice chat reliability • Microphone setup no longer depends on a timing race, which should eliminate the scattered "my mic doesn't work" cases. The per-player voice volume slider now actually works.
Mic gain & level meter • New microphone gain slider in the audio settings, with a live level meter and target zone so you can calibrate how loud you are for your teammates. The creatures are listening too.
Phantom balloon pops • No more level-wide balloon pop barrages when there isn't a single balloon in sight.
Fog horn • The fog horn no longer blasts at full volume from across the map.
Revive charge • Reviving a teammate now has a proper analog charge-up sound, heard by both the rescuer and the downed player.
Localization

Italian fix • Selecting Italian now actually applies Italian. Sorry for the wait.
More translated UI • Detector and helmet HUD labels, pickup prompts, disconnect notices, relic lore descriptions, and the new audio settings are now translated in all supported languages, with proper Asian and Cyrillic font support on the tool displays.
This build focuses on the issues you reported the most: lobbies you couldn't join, controls locking up after the survey, purchases disappearing in co-op, and machines that crashed at launch. Thank you for the reports • keep them coming.
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08 Jun 2026Developer post
Patch Notes 0.3.359
PATCH NOTES • 0.3.359 Interface Endless Protocol terminal redesign • The Endless deployment screen has been rebuilt. Difficulty selection is now front and center, and a highlighted panel makes it clear your Classic loadout stays safe in storage while you deploy with starting gear
PATCH NOTES • 0.3.359
Interface

Endless Protocol terminal redesign • The Endless deployment screen has been rebuilt. Difficulty selection is now front and center, and a highlighted panel makes it clear your Classic loadout stays safe in storage while you deploy with starting gear scaled to the threat level you pick. The saved-runs list is cleaner, and the whole screen is fully translated.
Fixes

No longer stuck inside furniture • Players hiding in the Attic wardrobe could get wedged in place and be unable to move once the door closed • a regression from the previous patch. You are now repositioned cleanly inside, so closing the door no longer traps you.
Tool action label corrected • One tool action was mislabeled in a way that implied it made a sound. It is actually the extend-arm aiming action, and it is now labeled accordingly on every tool and in all languages.
A small follow-up pass after yesterday's run of fixes. More on the way.
Mat
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07 Jun 2026Developer post
Hotfix Level Paradise
Hotfix Level Paradise (post process after exit fixed)
07 Jun 2026Developer post
M.E.G HQ Transmissions Are Live • 0.3.352
M.E.G HQ TRANSMISSIONS • 0.3.352 M.E.G Transmissions New: live HQ transmissions • M.E.G HQ now breaks into your helmet display with short glitched transmissions as you reach mission milestones, for extra atmosphere and guidance. Fully localized. Hiding Spots Killed through closed
M.E.G HQ TRANSMISSIONS • 0.3.352
M.E.G Transmissions

New: live HQ transmissions • M.E.G HQ now breaks into your helmet display with short glitched transmissions as you reach mission milestones, for extra atmosphere and guidance. Fully localized.
Hiding Spots

Killed through closed wardrobes • Creatures could kill players hiding inside a closed wardrobe (most often in the Attic and Suburbs) when the hide failed to register. Hiding inside now reliably protects you, including when several players pile into the same spot or join a moment late.
Creatures stuck on cars • Cars are now solid obstacles to creatures, so a creature can no longer try to walk through a car to reach you and wedge against it. It paths around instead.
Creature AI

Crouch is now real stealth • Crouching makes you near-silent and far harder to sense by presence alone. After you hide and a creature wanders off, you can crouch back out and slip away • as long as it doesn't actually see you. Standing, jogging and sprinting are as loud as before.
Sharper creature audio • The Wretch can be heard from noticeably farther, the Hound's growls now react to how aggressive and fast it is, and Partygoers murmur as they wander.
Co-op

Tool skins show for everyone • The skin on a held tool now appears correctly to all players in co-op, not just to its owner.
Revive prompt restored • The "Revive" prompt is back on downed teammates, so you can clearly see when and how to pick someone up.
View & UI

View no longer stuck looking up or down • After using the body camera and then dying, respawning or finishing a level, your look range could stay narrowed. It is now restored properly.
Clearer Lab storage • The L.A.B. storage screen now spells out the core rule • stored gear stays in the Lab and never follows you into the levels • with clearer safety labels.
Localization

More languages, fewer missing characters • Interaction prompts, tool and wheel menus and more UI text are now translated across our supported languages. Fixed missing-character boxes for Chinese, Korean and others on the bug-report form and the tool wheel.
Big one this update • hiding spots finally behave, and crouch actually keeps you hidden. Thanks for all the reports that made these fixable.
Mat
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05 Jun 2026Developer post
The "Fog Horn Voice" is here!
New Feature • Fog Horn Voice Record your own voice • The Fog Horn can now capture your voice and play it back as the horn itself. Hold the record key, wait for the short countdown, speak, and your clip is saved to your profile and shared with everyone in the session • including p
New Feature • Fog Horn Voice

Record your own voice • The Fog Horn can now capture your voice and play it back as the horn itself. Hold the record key, wait for the short countdown, speak, and your clip is saved to your profile and shared with everyone in the session • including players who join partway through.
Default or custom, your call • Tap the toggle key to switch between the classic horn blast and your recorded voice, with a quick on-screen prompt showing the current mode.
Megaphone character • Recorded voices run through a gritty megaphone-style effect so they carry with real foghorn punch.
Fully localized • The recorder interface is available in 25 languages.
Loop fix • Switching back to the classic horn while still holding a recorded honk no longer leaves the recorded sound looping after you release.
Multiplayer

More reliable create & join • Fixed several cases where creating or joining a co-op session could fail or double up, especially after someone left and the host recreated the room.
Lobby roster • The host now reappears correctly in the player list after disbanding and recreating a room, and the lobby updates properly as players come and go.
Thank you!
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03 Jun 2026Developer post
The backrooms now speak your language!
Update 0.3.316 The headline of this update: we rebuilt the game's localization from the ground up. Every screen has been re-translated for accuracy and tone, and we added full support for non-Latin scripts • so Japanese, Chinese, Korean and Cyrillic now display with proper fonts
Update 0.3.316
The headline of this update: we rebuilt the game's localization from the ground up. Every screen has been re-translated for accuracy and tone, and we added full support for non-Latin scripts • so Japanese, Chinese, Korean and Cyrillic now display with proper fonts everywhere in the game.
7 new languages join the roster, bringing the total to 25: Japanese, Traditional Chinese, Turkish, Ukrainian, Hungarian, Czech, and Indonesian. Interaction prompts, missions, and end-of-level objectives are all fully translated.
Alongside the language overhaul, here's a big wave of fixes • almost all of them straight from your reports.
Crash Fixes

Launch crash on ray-tracing GPUs • Fixed a startup crash that stopped the game from launching on some RTX graphics cards. This was one of our most-reported crashes.
Crash when closing the game • Fixed an access-violation crash that could happen when closing the window or during startup.
Creature AI

No more detours to smash side doors • Creatures chasing you no longer peel off to break open doors you never used. They follow open routes and only breach when there's no real alternative.
Creatures freezing at doorways • Fixed creatures getting stuck in front of doors, which also caused frame-rate drops while they kept retrying. They now path around and breach reliably.
The Hound in the attic • Fixed the Hound freezing or failing to fit through low attic doorways; it now squeezes through and keeps tracking you.
The SkinStealer

Moves like a real player now • The disguised SkinStealer's movement got a full overhaul: no more foot-sliding, no follow stutter, and natural turning. It blends in far better while shadowing your group.
Post-kill freeze fixed • Fixed the SkinStealer locking up or replaying its transform after catching someone.
Hiding Spots

A hiding spot is a real refuge again • Hiding spots now fully protect you from the Smiler and the Balloon, and using your flashlight inside no longer gives you away.
No more camped-to-death • A creature lingering in front of your hiding spot can no longer slowly drain you while you stay hidden. Reported by players who "had to just die" in a closet.
Puzzles & Interaction

Television VHS puzzle • Rebuilt the TV puzzle: the "can't insert the last tape" problem is fixed, inserts are reliable, and it works correctly for players who join late.
Easier door interaction • You no longer need to aim right at the handle to open a door. Looking at the door is enough.
Vehicle prompts • The interact prompt now shows in the right place on hideable vehicles.
Spectating & Multiplayer

Spectate the real view • When watching a teammate you now see exactly what they see, with the correct eye height and a smooth camera, instead of a rough approximation.
Stuck-player & spectator fixes • Fixed a cluster of issues: late-join spectating, players stuck after a kill, and a recovery for players who fell out of the world.
Pause menu while spectating • The pause menu is clickable again while you spectate.
Content

Visual touch-ups • TV screen material tweaks and updates to the lobby and attic areas.
Thank you!
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27 May 2026Developer post
Two Weeks, Twice the Loot
Kane Pixels' Backrooms film just dropped, and the whole community is gathering. Secret Mode ( Escape the Backrooms ) is hosting the Backrooms Banquet • two weeks of celebration across multiple games. They pulled out a chair for us, and we're not showing up empty-handed. Come hung
Kane Pixels' Backrooms film just dropped, and the whole community is gathering. Secret Mode (Escape the Backrooms) is hosting the Backrooms Banquet • two weeks of celebration across multiple games. They pulled out a chair for us, and we're not showing up empty-handed.
Come hungry.
Here's what's waiting

30% off on Steam • good moment to bring a friend in
Double XP, double money • every extraction pays out twice
Double relic drops • MEG chests overflowing, skins to spare
Every level unlocked from launch • no Level 0 gate, drop straight into the deep
The vibe
We tuned this one for hangout sessions, not grind sessions. Pick the floor you've never tried. Drag in the friend who keeps hesitating. Wander a place you usually sprint through.
The film is the moment. This is how we celebrate.
Until June 10. See you in the Backrooms!
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25 May 2026Developer post
PATCH NOTES • 0.3.302
Crash Fixes Crash from an upscaling integration • A wave of GPU access-violation crashes traced to an upscaling integration conflicting with frame interpolation has been mitigated by disabling that integration. We're watching telemetry to confirm the fix lands. Movement & Int
Crash Fixes

Crash from an upscaling integration • A wave of GPU access-violation crashes traced to an upscaling integration conflicting with frame interpolation has been mitigated by disabling that integration. We're watching telemetry to confirm the fix lands.
Movement & Interaction

Stuck after being grabbed by a creature • SkinStealer, Partygoer, and Hound catches were leaving the player's input locked permanently when the catch ended in death. After respawn the new character could not move, with multiple extraction-room softlocks reported. Input counters now reset on every possession and respawn.
Spectator camera frozen on target switch • Switching between teammates during spectator mode could leave the camera stuck on the first target instead of following the new one. The spectator now recovers its lock continuously and re-asserts the camera every tick.
Creature camps your hiding spot forever • The despawn watchdog was counting hidden players as still reachable, so creatures never gave up the hunt while you waited it out. Hidden players no longer count toward "still reachable", and creatures will eventually move on. Reported across monsters, attic enemies, and Partygoers.
Levels

Paradise: ritual circles softlock • Burning circles before picking up a candlestick (or after dropping it mid-progress) silently dropped the mission counter, leaving you with already-burnt circles and no way to advance. Burns now always count toward the chaine mission.
Paradise: target unreachable • The target could spawn against geometry where the interact never registered. Repositioned the spawn for cleaner reach.
Level Fun: stuck in pipes • A pipe geometry pocket could trap the character capsule during crawl. Geometry tightened so you no longer wedge in.
If you abandoned a run because of any of these softlocks, give it another go! :)
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23 May 2026Developer post
PATCH NOTES • 0.3.299
Creature AI Camping enforcement • Creatures that spend a long time around a hiding spot now retreat far away instead of lingering. So many of you reported being trapped in a cabinet or closet while a creature just refused to leave • this is the biggest fix in this update. No more
Creature AI

Camping enforcement • Creatures that spend a long time around a hiding spot now retreat far away instead of lingering. So many of you reported being trapped in a cabinet or closet while a creature just refused to leave • this is the biggest fix in this update.
No more wallhack retargeting • Creatures no longer switch targets to teammates they cannot actually see or hear. They have to detect you for real, which removes a lot of unfair ambushes through walls.
Retreat behaviour feels less deaf • Creatures that are walking away can be interrupted by close-range player noise or sight. After a failed attack or after a player hides, they alert for a short window before disengaging instead of freezing in place.
The Wretch and the Hound • Both stop camping around downed or hidden players, and properly leave the area when they lose track.
The Smiler attack now reliably knees you • Several of you reported the Smiler reaching you, fully playing its attack, but the player never going down. The kneel is now guaranteed at the moment of the attack.
Level 0 (the Lobby)

Exit door reachable for clients • The big one. Multiple reports of being unable to walk through the exit because invisible walls were still there client-side. The destruction of those walls is now replicated to every player, so the host and clients see the same opening.
Hiding spots cleared on every client • Cubbies in the lobby are now unblocked for everyone, not just the host. No more "this hiding spot is blocked by a wall I can't see."
No more falling out of the map • The wall-destruction pass was being too aggressive and could remove a structural wall next to a destroyed placeholder. Each pass now removes exactly one wall, the right one.
Exit door always at the right position • Fixed a regression where the exit door (and the quantum room portal inside it) could spawn at the world origin, leaving a hole in the wall opening to nothing.
Level 26 (Fun)

Partygoers use the plastic tubes again • The crawl tunnels were essentially being ignored by the AI, forcing creatures into long detours. Many of you reported partygoers stuck at the entrance or refusing to follow through • that is fixed.
Doors no longer block AI permanently • When a door opens, the navigation around it now updates correctly so creatures can actually walk through. A handful of "creature blocked at a doorway" reports came from this.
Partygoers can ambush from the pipes • A data error meant partygoers were silently rejected from pipe spawn points, so they never dropped from the pipes in Fun. Now they do.
Multiplayer & Co-op

Co-op pressure spreads out • When a partygoer ambush triggers, the target player rotates fairly across the team. Previously the player nearest to the spawn point caught everything; now creatures pick the least-targeted player on the team.
Hand-placed walls clear for everyone • Walls placed by hand in the level (not just spawned at runtime) now also disappear consistently on every client.
Balance & Tools

Smiler appears closer • The Smiler now spawns at a tighter range during the blackout, which gives you less time to react but makes the encounter feel intentional rather than telegraphed from across the room.
Fog horn pops balloons in front of you • The fog horn now actually pops balloons in a forward cone, and grants a small mental relief when it does. Useful when you're being mobbed.
Balloon contact pop costs mental • A balloon popping right next to you now bursts a small chunk of stress (scaled by distance and difficulty), so the trade-off between popping and dodging actually matters.
Shipping Persistence

Custom level config sticks in Shipping • A memory-cleanup issue could cause Shipping builds to silently revert custom mission/level overrides back to baseline. Anyone hand-tuning a level for testing was hitting this.
Thanks again!
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11 May 2026Developer post
PATCH NOTES • 0.3.276
Crash Fixes Boot crash with Steam Overlay • Fixed a rare crash at game launch caused by a timing race between Steam Overlay and our Discord status integration. We now initialize Discord later in startup so Steam Overlay attaches first. Level 0 falling guy crash • Fixed a crash th
Crash Fixes

Boot crash with Steam Overlay • Fixed a rare crash at game launch caused by a timing race between Steam Overlay and our Discord status integration. We now initialize Discord later in startup so Steam Overlay attaches first.
Level 0 falling guy crash • Fixed a crash that could fire on the Lobby's falling guy during its respawn sequence.
Creature AI

Creatures only break doors on their path • Hounds and Partygoers used to attack any door near them, including ones you ran past or that weren't on their actual nav path. They now only target doors that actually block their way to you.
Hound eye contact and aggression • The Hound's "watched" slow-down now correctly fires when either the player or the Hound is looking, and its unwatched speed ramps up as it gets more aggressive instead of being a flat value.
SkinStealer engages instead of looping • Two fixes: it now follows the closest player when the group is spread out (was tracking the centroid into empty space), and its disguise no longer blocks its own line-of-sight checks (which had been causing long transform delays).
Spawn and despawn tuning • Common feedback was creatures spawning too close and despawning too fast on the larger maps. Spawn distances raised, cleanup distances raised, and the Hound's broken spawn window fixed. Creatures now also despawn properly when out-of-sight and unreachable, with a short safe period after you escape a hiding spot.
Smoother sync kill camera • The end-of-kill camera now follows the creature smoothly on the victim's screen instead of jittering from network updates.
Hiding Spots

Hound can no longer attack through a closing locker door • Fixed a race where you weren't yet considered "hidden" until the close animation finished. You're now hidden the moment the door starts closing.
Missions & Inventory

Mission tracker fixed when items are dropped or lost on death • The collected counter used to only go up. If you dropped a plank or floppy (voluntarily or by dying), the HUD still claimed you had it, leading to install failures at hatches and computers. Drops now properly decrement the counter.
Items no longer float in mid-air on death • Items dropped from a dead player's inventory now land on the floor instead of hovering at torso height.
Multiplayer

Server-authoritative player colors • Suit color assignment is now done by the server and replicated to clients, fixing cases where players saw different colors than what their teammates saw.
Operation Board auto-refreshes • The management panel now updates automatically when players join or leave the lobby instead of showing stale data.
Visual & Content

Fog Horn cosmetic skin now applies correctly • Fix for the bug reports about the Fog Horn skin not being visible when equipped. The base material was overwriting the skin at runtime; that's no longer happening.
Level 19 attic • Sofa visual replacement.
Level 26 pipe puzzle • Audio assets added.
A lot of this build is driven by your bug reports • mission tracker, Fog Horn skin, creature AI behavior, hiding spot races. Thank you for sending them in.
Original post
08 May 2026Developer post
PATCH NOTES 0.3.253
Critical Crash Fix Intel Core Ultra crash on startup (Arrow Lake / Lunar Lake) — Fixed a startup crash that was making the game completely unlaunchable on laptops with Intel Core Ultra processors. Affected nearly every player on these machines. The game now starts properly on all
Critical Crash Fix

Intel Core Ultra crash on startup (Arrow Lake / Lunar Lake) — Fixed a startup crash that was making the game completely unlaunchable on laptops with Intel Core Ultra processors. Affected nearly every player on these machines. The game now starts properly on all configurations.
Creature AI & Doors

Creatures no longer attack locked doors — Partygoers (and others) used to keep banging on locked progression doors as if they could break through. They now correctly recognize locked doors as impassable and route around them.
Creatures react to opened doors instantly — When a door opens, the AI now updates its pathing on the spot. No more creatures awkwardly stuck against a door that just swung open.
Lobby (Level 0)

Walls no longer get destroyed by mistake — Fixed a visual bug where some intact walls adjacent to the "broken walls" would get incorrectly destroyed during level generation. Lobby should look the way it's meant to now.
Difficulty Tuning

Per-level blackout duration tuning — Blackout event durations can now be tuned individually per level instead of using one global curve. This lets me fine-tune the dread level for each map specifically.
The Intel Core Ultra fix is huge — if you have a recent Intel laptop and were unable to launch the game at all, please give it another shot.
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08 May 2026Developer post
PATCH NOTES • 0.3.250
Bug Fixes Radial menu input issues after level transitions — Fixed a recurring set of bugs where the radial menu (and related inputs) would get stuck after switching levels. Several game-breaking edge cases are now properly cleaned up between transitions. Glowstick skin not apply
Bug Fixes

Radial menu input issues after level transitions — Fixed a recurring set of bugs where the radial menu (and related inputs) would get stuck after switching levels. Several game-breaking edge cases are now properly cleaned up between transitions.
Glowstick skin not applying — Tool skins now correctly apply to all tools, including the glowstick which was being skipped before.
Crash Fixes

Skin Shop crash on memory-constrained systems — The Skin Shop was crashing for some players (especially on lower-RAM setups) because it tried to load every skin icon at once. Icons now stream in asynchronously as needed, so the shop opens cleanly even on tighter hardware.
Doors & UI

Better contextual door popups — Door interaction popups now show the right info in the right context.
Helmet HUD polish — Small visual tweaks to the helmet HUD.
Behind the Scenes

Networking layer tweaks (Steam integration) for better lobby/connection reliability.
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Updates & announcements

The Wall of Unexplained Cases

Inventory and Storage

Downed Players

Voice Chat

The Suburbs

Crash Fixes

Scanner

Paradise

Performance

Startup & Stability

Run-Breaking Fixes

Spectating

Frame Generation

Creature Behaviour

Interface & Quality Of Life

Multiplayer

Controller

Interface & Audio

Visual

Steam Deck

Under the Hood

Deployment Terminal Overhaul

Endless Protocol Rework

LAB Storage Redesign

Steam Deck & Controller

End-of-Run Screens

Creatures & Levels

Fixes & Localization

PATCH NOTES • 0.3.461

Controller Support

New Training Program

Interface Overhaul

Steam Deck

PDA & Signal

Multiplayer & Operation Board

Fixes & Localization

Performance

Creature Behavior

Multiplayer

Achievements

The Bodycam, Rebuilt

NEW • The Field Bestiary

NEW • The Instability Scanner

Creatures

Multiplayer

Interface & Progression

Crash Fixes & Performance

Various Fixes

Crash Fixes

Multiplayer & Co-op

Creatures

Hiding Spots

Missions & Inventory

Interface & Controls

Audio & Voice

Localization

PATCH NOTES • 0.3.359

Interface

Fixes

M.E.G HQ TRANSMISSIONS • 0.3.352

M.E.G Transmissions

Hiding Spots

Creature AI

Co-op

View & UI

Localization

New Feature • Fog Horn Voice

Multiplayer

Update 0.3.316

Crash Fixes

Creature AI

The SkinStealer

Hiding Spots

Puzzles & Interaction

Spectating & Multiplayer

Content

Here's what's waiting

The vibe

Crash Fixes