Level 188
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Updated July 20, 2026 · Verified for v1.3.2
The striking 'beautiful Backrooms' level: a grey hotel modeled on the real Heathrow Holiday Inn, wrapped around a courtyard of 114 windows. It's also one of the only levels in the game with a fixed numeric code, which makes it a favorite to look up.
Level 188 code
The Level 188 elevator code is 415314 and it's the same every run. It's meant to be read off the lit-window pattern across the courtyard, but the value itself is fixed, so you can enter it directly. Watch for electric puddles in the elevator.
How to escape Level 188
You reach Level 188 from Level 0.11, which opens into the hotel courtyard. Cross the bridge and read the pattern of lit windows in the buildings across the courtyard. That pattern is the elevator code. Find the three TVs labeled A, B and C in the hotel rooms and push each into the elevator (mind the electric puddles), then place them on the matching indicators below the courtyard windows. That opens the metal door, and you cross by dropping down the hole.
Clear it and you move on to Dark Poolrooms.
Level 188 step by step
- Arrive from Level 0.11 into the hotel courtyardThe 0.11 stairwell opens onto the courtyard of windows.
- Cross the bridge and read the lit-window patternThe pattern across the courtyard is what the code is meant to encode.
- Enter 415314 on the elevator keypadThe value is fixed every run, so you can type it directly.
- Find the three TVs labelled A, B and CThey're in the hotel rooms. Push each into the elevator, minding the electric puddles.
- Place the TVs on the matching indicators, then drop down the holeThat opens the metal door out to the Dark Poolrooms.
Entities on this level
A fast, skull-headed spider that drops out of the vents in the hotel courtyard level. It's quicker than you are in the open.
Survive: Don't try to outrun it down a straight hallway. Duck into a corner room and break its sightline. It tends to trigger if you take the side door, so stick to the main route through the courtyard.
Figures that stand on the far side of a window, watching. They don't roam. The threat is getting too close to one, at which point it shatters the glass and drags you in.
Survive: Keep your distance from any window that hasn't been blacked out. Don't walk right up to the glass to look, and route around the ones flanking a hallway instead of between them.
A pale, faceless thing that copies other survivors to get close. In co-op it'll wear a teammate's face and voice, so the real danger is trusting the wrong 'friend'.
Survive: Go by how it acts, not how it looks. A Skin-Stealer moves wrong, repeats voice lines, and won't do the stuff a real player does. Keep everyone in sight, call your positions out loud, and don't follow a 'teammate' who's leading you off alone.
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