Return the Backrooms — patch notes and updates
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Dated developer announcements recorded from Steam. Open the source for the complete update.
| Update | Date | Excerpt / source |
|---|---|---|
| Unity Patched | 2025-10-10 | Unity Patched |
| 1.07 | 2023-04-12 | - added a new room where you can choose the level - minor fixes |
| tiny update 1.06 | 2023-02-12 | Replaced one entity on 0.1 level with the new entity and some minor changes |
| 1.05 Hotfix | 2023-02-08 | Level: The End - Fixed bug with using candles - Fixed entity now can kill - Added candle UI |
| Return the backrooms V1 is out now | 2023-02-06 | The long-awaited major update of the game is available to everyone The game is still in early access, if you find bugs or something that does not work correctly, please write to the Discord channel. - Added ending - New levels - New items - New entities - New puzzles - the appearance of the main characters has been replaced (now all 4 are different) - added body and hand system - added Hotbar - items in hand are now displayed to all players in the lobby. and more other |
| Christmas event was ended | 2023-01-09 | Christmas event was ended |
| Christmas in the backrooms | 2022-12-25 | Christmas has come to the Backrooms! Look for Christmas trees (x4), you can find interesting gifts near each Christmas tree! While we continue to work on a big update! |
| About the further development of the game | 2022-12-23 | Good day, dear backroom fans! We are a team of indie developers from Ukraine, we are currently in a very difficult situation due to electrical problems, but this will not stop us from continuing to develop the game. Currently, we working on a large update for a game |
| Version 0.6 - Added soul detector | 2022-11-26 | The main feature is added a new item - a soul detector this simplifies the task of finding soul pieces also - improved ceil texture - removed the limit of souls in the inventory - reworked effect when the player was wounded - small UI changing |
| Version 0.5 - New Feature | 2022-11-22 | Added new feature when a player dies completely, and there is still someone alive on the server, the deceased will now not exit the game but will appear in a new form and other small changes |
| Version 0.4 | 2022-11-18 | Version 0.4 - Disable collider for all items - Improving statues & an added hint - Changed floor & ceil textures - Improved statues world(simplified) - Changed & improved SFX in the spider location - Added control hint in the pause menu - Increased stamina regen when staying - Improve Energy Drink(UI,Icon,Sound) - Improved sound balance(reworked sound volume more for more than 30 SFX) - improving player imitator - The changed camera position - Added translation of some words - Added Disable or Enable inGame UI(press F1) - Added UI for soul piece - Changed UI for Medkit(+with count) - Added(reworked) one room - The radius of the sound emitted |
| We opened a Discord server | 2022-11-17 | We opened a Discord server. feel free to communicate, we really care about your feedback to improve the game! there you can: - tell about existing game problems - find out what is currently being developed - tell what you don't like or what you want to improve - and other... Discord Server Link |
| Regions & Steam improvements Update (W.I.P) | 2022-11-13 | Quick update of the game to select the region to create or search for the game. Region Selection & connect to friends in steam UI currently are W.I.P. - Added region selection in the Find Game menu. - Added join to a friend in steam UI overlay. - increased time of starting guide. - Fixed bug when a player can fall out off the map. - all doors in the game that cannot be interacted with have been redesigned. Please, if you see something strange or have problems with the game, write in the community! Your impressions, problems, etc. are crucial to me! |
| Hotfixes & early dev | 2022-11-12 | Dear community! unfortunately, I made a big mistake that I couldn't have foreseen so everyone was connecting to the European region and got a lot of lag, unfortunately, no one posted about a lot of lag, so I checked it randomly. I apologize for this error and thank you for your patience! with this patch, we are forced to release content that is not fully developed and tested. - Energy drink - Maximum Stamina now regenerates 3 times faster! |
| 1K wishlists on Return the Backrooms | 2022-11-12 | Thank you very much! We are currently working on the game! more information coming soon |
| Hotfix #1 | 2022-11-11 | 2 fixes with statues |
| Game improvement #1 | 2022-11-04 | Added and edited a very large number of different aspects of the gameplay however, since you couldn't test the old version, there's no point in listing all the changes! - Updated and enlarged game map - Added chalk, shout system - Added localization, to be honest, the quality of the translation is poor - Improved chat with localization support (for system messages) - Added several new rooms - In general, you can already play the game, collect the necessary items - Added a key item so you can leave the backrooms (a piece of the soul) - Added several entities/creatures with different behaviors - Added a special system for some items that will t |