Level 78 is the 79th level of the backrooms. Do not enter this Level.
This is a photo of the "sun", the photographer is missing. According to wanderers, the "sun" is always staring at you.
It is strongly suggested not to enter Level 78, due to the various psychological hazards that can be found there. Level 78 is described as a strange and warped grassy planet suspended in an endless expanse of blue skies that is sparsely populated by individual suburban buildings, structures, and strange mushroom-like entities.
Contents
Description
Individuals who spawn in this level will be greeted by a bright sun with a smile emoji for a face. The spawn area of this Level will feel strangely familiar and have a resemblance to the hilly grasslands used as wallpapers by many old windows desktop computers. This area will be completely devoid of entities, besides the Smiling Sun, but will have an extremely isolating feeling that causes about 12% of Wanderers to begin running in an attempt to avoid the gaze of the ominous sun. When you leave the spawn section of the level, things will start to get even stranger.
Starting about 6 km from spawn, houses will begin to appear that will feel disturbingly fake and artificial, and the "sun" will begin to randomly disappear and reappear in the sky, though the Level will remain brightly lit throughout these events. Entering these houses will reveal them to be completely bare, save for a few photographs scattered on the floor and pinned to the walls. All the photographs found in these houses will be infected with Photo-Ocular Syneresis.
After a further 6 miles, Wanderers will begin to approach the end of this level. This area is at first the same as the first to, but as you proceed you will realize that the ground here moves in an undulating pattern with every step you take, causing enormous tidal waves to ripple across the grasslands of Level 78. This can be incredibly frightening and disorienting, and causes approximately 30% of those who reach this point to turn back in terror. Additionally, it is here where Eyes begin to manifest 'naturally', and will pursue Wanderers who have somehow managed to hold on to their sanity this far into the Level.
Photo-Ocular Syneresis
Photo-Ocular Syneresis is the name given to the anomalous photographic phenomena which occurs on Level 78. For unknown reasons, if you take photos of this level, some of the photos will have text on them. Eyes will also manifest on the photos after the text is read by a sentient entity. If these eyes are then looked at for more than 5 seconds, Eyes will also manifest physically within a radius of 2 meters from the photo. It is believed that this is how all Eyes in Level 78 are created, though these claims remain unconfirmed.
Photographs affected by Photo-Ocular Syneresis can be highly valuable outside this Level, though as also highly illegal in many areas of the Backrooms, as they can be used to summon Eyes on Levels outside of Level 78. These photographs are most often weaponized by clever Wanderers when under attack by hostile groups, both as a distraction and as a form of phycological warfare.
Examples
Entities
This is a depiction of the sun, this is not the actual entity.
The " Smile Sun" is the most noticeable entity of Level 78, as it lingers high in the sky, perpetually smiling. The "sun" seems to be oddly colored, almost like a jumbled mess of code with a smiling face overlaid on top.
This is a photo of the entity.
Shrooms are beings that can sprout from the ground at any moment in Level 78. Observing the creature for more than 30 seconds will cause the Shrooms to develop eyeballs, which if themselves are viewed for more than 30 seconds, result in the observer becoming intoxicated in a manner similar to the effect of psychedelic mushrooms. This can drastically decrease your levels of sanity, and induce a state of panic and paranoia in those under the influence of the Shrooms.
This is an attempted photo of The Smile Killer, the photographer is dead.
The Smile Killer is a towering humanoid figure (estimated to be 6ft 8 inches tall) that carries a huge knife in its hand. The Smile Killer is typically depicted as a person wearing a mask with a happy face on it. This entity will only appear whenever the Smiling Sun is missing from the sky, leading some to believe the two to be linked somehow.
The Eyes are entities that, oddly, solely attack mentally stable wanderers as opposed to those who are already disturbed. They will appear for only a fraction of a second before disappearing, seemingly 'blinking' in and out of existence; as a result, taking a picture of an Eye is nearly impossible.
These entities will only begin to appear as a wanderer nears the end of this level. According to a survivor "They will only stop attacking once you truly start to lose your sanity". Beyond this, there isn't a lot of information available concerning the eyes.
More Information about The Eyes
- If you try to attack an Eye, it will split into a swarm of dozens of eyes.
- Some instances possess "angel wings", though these are incredibly rare.
Colonies and Outposts
Making a colony or an outpost is impossible due to the fact that this level is highly difficult to survive in.
Entrances and Exits
This is a photo of someone going through the 1st tunnel in this level.
Entrances
- This is tough to describe, but you must sleep on any level and will remain on that level while dreaming. You will be exploring this level in your dream, and you will not be able to wake up until you depart; if you die in your dream, you will die in real life. When you wake up, you will be on the same level that you are intended to be on as well as when you leave this level when you are not dreaming.
- Entity 74 in Level Corrupt has a 21/79 chance of sending you to this level if you are killed by it.
- There is a potential that you may find two tunnels in the underground tunnel in Level •, and travelling down the first tunnel will always send you here. What happens to those that enter the second tunnel is unclear.
Exits
- The most typical route to escape this level is through the door at the level's end. This will take you to Level 2000.
- In other cases, entering the door will transport you to Level 45.
- Level 243 may be reached via opening a door to a mushroom-shaped dwelling.



