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The Dark Room is one of five final levels in The Binding of Isaac: Rebirth, alongside the ChestChest, (in Afterbirth † and Repentance)The VoidThe Void, the (in Repentance)CorpseCorpse, and (in Repentance)HomeHome. The Dark Room is unlocked by defeating Boss Satan ingameSatan 5 times, after which it can be accessed by touching the chest dropped by Satan with Collectible The Negative iconThe Negative equipped. Entrance to the Dark Room can also be achieved via the I AM ERROR room in SheolSheol, even without Collectible The Negative iconThe Negative, as well as through the Black Market in Sheol, and through a trapdoor spawned by a button. After completing this level or the Chest for the first time, the Dark Room will always contain a large golden door in the first room, which can be unlocked with either the Key Pieces (combination of Collectible Key Piece 1 iconKey Piece 1 and Collectible Key Piece 2 iconKey Piece 2), Collectible Dad's Key iconDad's Key, (except in Rebirth)Get out of Jail Free CardGet out of Jail Free Card, or (in Afterbirth † and Repentance)Collectible Mr. ME! iconMr. ME!.

(except in Rebirth) The Dark Room can also be accessed by repeatedly using a Sacrifice Room. After using the spikes for the 12th time, continuing to use the Sacrifice Room will have a 50% chance to teleport Isaac directly to the Dark Room, regardless of what floor he was previously on.

(in Afterbirth † and Repentance) The Dark Room is home to the Grave Room, which will contain a Dirt Patch, which can be dug up using Collectible Mom's Shovel iconMom's Shovel. Doing so for the first time will unlock Character The Forgotten iconThe Forgotten. On subsequent runs, multiple Dirt Patches can be found, and digging them up using Collectible We Need to Go Deeper! iconWe Need to Go Deeper!, Rune of EhwazRune of Ehwaz, or Mom's Shovel will spawn a random type of chest.

Like SheolSheol before it, the Dark Room consists of only one floor. In the Dark Room, it is not possible to bomb doors open to skip rooms. The Dark Room's rooms usually devoid of Rocks and other obstacles but are mainly filled with bosses and mini-bosses. The boss of the floor is always Boss The Lamb ingameThe Lamb.

The first room the player spawn in will automatically contain 4 Red Chests that (except in Repentance) function normally or (in Repentance) contain random Devil Deals. Rerolling these items will produce new items that are from the Treasure Room item pool. As well, all other types of chests spawned in the Dark Room will always contain Treasure Room items. (except in Repentance)Destroying Slot MachineSlot Machines, Fortune Telling MachineFortune Telling Machines, and all types of BeggarBeggars with the exception of Shell GameShell Game will also spawn items.

Monsters[ | ]

Entity ID Description
Bony
Bony
227.0 Wanders around the room and throws a bone at Isaac when he is in sight.
Death's Head
Death's Head
212.0 Invulnerable enemy that moves diagonally around the room, dealing contact damage. Dies when the room is cleared.
Embryo
Embryo
77.0 Aimlessly hops around the room, dealing contact damage.
Evil Twin
Evil Twin
53.1 Mirrors Isaac's movements and fires three spread blood shots at the same time as Isaac. Can fly over obstacles.
Nulls
Nulls
252.0 Walks towards Isaac, dealing contact damage. Upon getting near Isaac, it will open its eyes, though its speed doesn't change. Fades into and out of visibility.
Begotten
Begotten
251.0 Starts attached to the wall or an (in Afterbirth † and Repentance) obstacle. After a while, it detaches, firing 6 blood shots in all directions, turning the room dark, becoming invisible and chasing Isaac. Briefly becomes visible upon getting hit.
Gurgling
Gurgling
237.0 Charges towards Isaac when he lines up with them, leaving a trail of Red Creep and shooting 6 blood shots.
Bone Knight
Bone Knight
283.0 Moves erratically around the room, charges toward Isaac when in line of sight, and leaves behind a short-lasting trail of damaging Red Creep. Can only be damaged from behind.
Kamikaze Leech
Kamikaze Leech
55.1 Quickly charges towards Isaac when he gets in its line of sight. Explodes upon death.
Black Maw
Black Maw
225.0 When Isaac lines up with it horizontally, it charges in his direction and then doubles back, charging back to its original position. When Isaac is not horizontal to it, it spawns Leeches. Explodes when it dies.
Swarmer
Swarmer
91.0 Slowly floats around the room, spawning several Attack FlyAttack Flies. Spawns PooterPooters upon taking damage. Spawns a Boom FlyBoom Fly upon death.
Camillo Jr.
Camillo Jr.
230.0 Moves around the room diagonally, occasionally firing Technology lasers towards Isaac. Fires more often upon getting damaged.
Wizoob
Wizoob
219.0 Disappears, then appears near Isaac and spits a cluster of spectral tears at him.
Lil' Haunt
Lil' Haunt
260.0 Floats toward Isaac and occasionally fires a blood shot at him, predicting his movements.
Imp
Imp
(except in Rebirth)
259.0 Slowly drifts towards Isaac, frequently firing 5 blood shots in quick succession towards him. Tries to avoid Isaac's shots and occasionally teleports and reappears elsewhere.
Black Bony
Black Bony
(except in Rebirth)
277.0 Wanders around the room and throws three bones in a row at Isaac when he is in sight. Explodes upon death.
Black Globin
Black Globin
(except in Rebirth)
278.0 Chases Isaac, dealing a full heart of contact damage and launching SpiderSpiders towards Isaac whenever it takes damage. Spawns a Spider, a Black Globin's HeadBlack Globin's Head, and a Black Globin's BodyBlack Globin's Body upon death.
Dank Death's Head
Dank Death's Head
(except in Rebirth)
212.1 Moves diagonally around the room, dealing contact damage. Needs to be killed to complete the room.
Flesh Death's Head
Flesh Death's Head
(except in Rebirth)
286.0 Moves diagonally around the room, dealing contact damage. Releases 6 blood shots in all directions upon death. Can be killed, but also dies when the room is cleared.
Scarred Double Vis
Scarred Double Vis
(except in Rebirth)
39.3 Randomly wanders around the room. Pauses to charge and fire a Brimstone laser which fires from all four cardinal sides when Isaac gets in its line of sight.
Red Ghost
Red Ghost
(except in Rebirth)
285.0 Disappears, then reappears near Isaac and fires a brimstone laser.
Soul Sucker
Soul Sucker
(in Afterbirth † and Repentance)
61.2 Flies slowly towards Isaac. Spawns a vortex that fires four Collectible Brimstone iconBrimstone beams in the cardinal directions upon death.
Wrinkly Baby
Wrinkly Baby
(in Repentance)
38.3 Dashes towards Isaac at high speed and fires three blood shots in his direction once stopped.
Shady
Shady
(in Repentance)
888.0 Walks slowly toward Isaac, occasionally firing a shot that creates shots perpendicular to itself while traveling and splits into a ring of shots upon hitting a wall or obstacle. Also occasionally jumps, creating lines of explosions in the cardinal directions. One of the few enemies that utilize Damage Scaling.
Migraine
Migraine
(in Repentance)
869.0 Crawls around the room erratically, following Isaac and dealing contact damage. Can jump small distances. Releases multiple Troll BombTroll Bombs upon death.

Degraded Bosses:

Name ID Notes
The Adversary
The Adversary
268.0
Big Horn
Big Horn
(in Afterbirth † and Repentance)
411.0
Blastocyst
Blastocyst
74.0 Medium- and large-form only
Blighted Ovum
Blighted Ovum
79.2
The Bloat
The Bloat
68.1
Brownie
Brownie
(except in Rebirth)
402.0
The Cage
The Cage
265.0
Carrion Queen
Carrion Queen
28.2
Chub
Chub
28.0
Conquest
Conquest
65.1
Daddy Long Legs
Daddy Long Legs
101.0
Dark One
Dark One
267.0
Death
Death
66.0
The Fallen
The Fallen
81.0
Famine
Famine
63.0
The Forsaken
The Forsaken
(except in Rebirth)
403.0
The Gate
The Gate
263.0
Gish
Gish
43.1
Gluttony
Gluttony
49.0
Greed
Greed
50.0
Gurdy Jr.
Gurdy Jr.
99.0
The Haunt
The Haunt
260.0
The Headless Horseman
The Headless Horseman
82.0
The Hollow
The Hollow
19.1
The Husk
The Husk
67.1
Larry Jr.
Larry Jr.
19.0
Little Horn
Little Horn
(except in Rebirth)
404.0
Lust
Lust
47.0
Mask of Infamy
Mask of Infamy
97.0
Mega Fatty
Mega Fatty
264.0
Mega Maw
Mega Maw
262.0
Monstro
Monstro
20.0
Monstro II
Monstro II
43.0
Peep
Peep
68.0
The Pile
The Pile
(in Repentance)
269.1
Polycephalus
Polycephalus
269.0
Rag Man
Rag Man
(except in Rebirth)
405.0
Rag Mega
Rag Mega
(in Afterbirth † and Repentance)
409.0
Sisters Vis
Sisters Vis
(in Afterbirth † and Repentance)
410.0
Sloth
Sloth
46.0
The Stain
The Stain
(except in Rebirth)
401.0
Super Envy
Super Envy
51.1
Super Gluttony
Super Gluttony
49.1
Super Greed
Super Greed
50.1
Super Lust
Super Lust
47.1
Super Pride
Super Pride
52.1
Super Sloth
Super Sloth
46.1
Super Wrath
Super Wrath
48.1
Teratoma
Teratoma
71.1 Medium- and large-form only
War
War
65.0
Widow
Widow
100.0
Wrath
Wrath
48.0
The Wretched
The Wretched
100.1

Bosses[ | ]

Boss The Lamb
Boss Mega Satan
The Lamb Mega Satan

Notes[ | ]

  • If Isaac gets Collectible Key Piece 1 iconKey Piece 1 and Collectible Key Piece 2 iconKey Piece 2, the key will open the golden gate to fight Mega Satan Head ingameMega Satan, but if Isaac uses Collectible Forget Me Now iconForget Me Now, the floor will reset and Isaac won't get both Key Pieces back, making it so that the golden gate won't open again.
  • (in Repentance) When playing as Character The Lost iconThe Lost or Character Tainted Lost iconTainted Lost, it is advised to open all the devil deal chests in the starting room, as only one of the four items can be taken and all the other chests will disappear.
  • (in Repentance) If Jera is used in the initial room with the devil deal chests, the newly spawned chests will contain four additional and distinct devil deals.
  • (except in Rebirth) The I AM ERROR room cannot be reached by any method in ChestChest and the Dark Room.
    • (in Repentance) The I AM ERROR room can be reached by leaving a Crawl Space through an unintended direction or by using Collectible Red Key iconRed Key to get out of the 13x13 boundaries of the map. The room will always contain a portal leading to The VoidThe Void.

Unlockable Achievements[ | ]

  • Dead Boy
    Dead Boy - Complete Chapter 6 without taking damage.

Trivia[ | ]

  • The Dark Room is the only floor in the game which is original to the initial release of Rebirth. All the other floors included in Rebirth at its launch were from the original The Binding of Isaac and its DLC Wrath of the Lamb.
  • The Dark Room is also the name of a room which, like its name suggests, is plunged into complete darkness, for the notable purpose of processing photos. The fact that access to this floor is granted by touching the chest in SheolSheol while holding Collectible The Negative iconThe Negative, which is the name given to a photo that has not been processed yet and whose colors and hues are inverted, might be a nod to this.
  • The layout to The Chest and the Dark Room are identical for a given seed.
  • One of the Super Secret Room layouts is of the Dark Room and a Black Heart. The sprite for the door is a portal rather than a gray door, however, since bombed-out entrances in the Dark Room appear as portals.
    • This secret room appears floating in a black void on most floors, but in the Dark Room, it appears in a purple misty void instead, just like all the other rooms.
  • One possible room in the Dark Room contains only a BonyBony and a Lil' HauntLil' Haunt. These possibly represent Character The Forgotten iconThe Forgotten and Character The Soul (Character) iconThe Soul.
  • On the 6/2/2021 Kickstarter livestream, Edmund McMillen confirmed that the Dark Room represents the closet that Isaac was locked inside in Ending 21.
  • The theme of Dark Room (Devoid), is noticeably shorter than other floor themed soundtracks. This is because a floor theme is comprised of 2 parts. the 1st part is the normal theme, and the 2nd part is for the more intense version of the track when an enemy room with a combined high health count is entered. There is no "Intense" theme for when a high health room in Dark Room is entered. The CathedralCathedral's theme (Everlasting Hymn) is also shorter than other tracks, but does have a barely noticeable secondary intense part of the track.

Music[ | ]

  • The music for the Dark Room is titled Devoid, which means "empty".[1]

References[ | ]


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