Backrooms: It Followed You

Escape the maze. Bring the nightmare home.

You step into a maze of yellow wallpaper, wet carpet, and buzzing fluorescent lights.

Then a message pops up:

“Try to escape!”

And then… footsteps.

Now you’ve got to find your way out while Bacteria stalks the halls. Follow the green trails on the floor. Listen. Keep looking around. If you sprint, you make noise—and noise makes the thing chase you faster.

Getting out isn’t the end, though.

It follows you home.

Once you escape, Bacteria can show up near you in the Overworld. It’ll hunt you during the day or night. You might hear breathing behind you, footsteps that don’t belong to you, or a heartbeat getting closer. Kill the stalker and it backs off for a while—but the hunt can come back.

Features

• First time you load a save with the mod, you get pulled into the Backrooms automatically.

• Seed-based 85 × 85 maze, inspired by Level 0.

• Yellow wallpaper, damp carpet, fluorescent lights, and distance fog.

• Animated Bacteria monster with idle, walking, running, and head-snap animations.

• The monster actually follows the maze—it uses connected corridors and corners instead of just beelining.

• 25 horror sounds included: whispers, breathing, scratching, footsteps, monster noises, etc.

• Brief darkness, local light outages, and scare messages.

• Green floor trails, plus an optional hint command if you’re lost.

• Overworld stalking continues after you escape.

• Options to tone down effects and control personal stalking.

Commands

These don’t need cheats:

• /backrooms hint — shows more of the path toward the exit.

• /backrooms scares off — lowers ambient volume and turns off your darkness/scare-title effects.

• /backrooms scares on — puts the full horror effects back on.

• /backrooms stalking off — turns off your Overworld stalker.

• /backrooms stalking on — turns post-escape stalking back on.

Requirements

• Minecraft Java Edition 1.20.1

• Forge 47.4.0 or a newer compatible Forge 47.4.x build

• Java 17

• No GeckoLib or extra library mods needed.

For multiplayer, the server and every client need the same version.

Before you play

For the full experience, play Survival or Adventure on Easy, Normal, or Hard. Peaceful disables monsters, and Creative/Spectator stop normal hostile targeting.

Use a fresh world, or back up your save before installing. This mod adds its own Backrooms dimension—it doesn’t replace Overworld generation.

The maze is finite. Terrain and closed doors can block the Overworld stalker. It won’t destroy your house or mess with Overworld terrain.

Content warning: horror sounds, sudden scare messages, brief darkness, and temporary light outages. There are reduced-effects controls if you need them.