Entity Research Group

Entity Research Group is a mission-based game about researching high-risk entities in the Backrooms. You deploy into clusters, carry out assignments in areas where entities are active, gather and analyze evidence, and evacuate through an elevator to complete each mission.

Expeditions and objectives

Mission directives can ask you to collect samples, document evidence, restore life support systems, rescue lost personnel or interact with anomalies. Assignments range from photographing runes and symbols to operations to eliminate aggressive entities. Clusters are procedurally rebuilt for each expedition, changing their room layouts, objects and points of interest; random events include power outages, gas leaks, and acoustic and visual distortions.

Researching entities

Entity behavior and effects are unpredictable. Many variants are nearly impossible to distinguish by sight, but differ in behavior or in how they affect researchers. Entities are categorized as Humanoid, Beast or Ethereal, while some remain unclassified due to insufficient information. Their characteristics can include sensitivity to noise, light, scents or a researcher’s mental state; radiation discharges, toxins, electromagnetic disturbances or biological traces; and different attack patterns. Some stalk single targets, attack groups, favor mentally unstable subjects or select victims seemingly at random. Threat levels range from Low to Critical.

Tools and specializations

You use instruments, consumables, cameras and terminals to collect and analyze information. Specialized equipment is also available to find during missions, and each device has a practical role in the research process:

• Detection: Geiger counters and gas detectors help find anomalies.
• Evidence: UV cameras reveal hidden traces, while lab kits collect and store samples.
• Tactical control: traps, beacons and lures help manage threats.
• Support: sanity stabilizers, self-defense tools and auxiliary devices assist researchers.

Each operative receives a Researcher Terminal, a rank from S, A, B, C, D, E or F, and a specialization. Technicians repair and calibrate equipment; Biologists analyze samples and develop improvised solutions; Access Ops bypass security systems and decipher symbols; and Threat Response operatives contain threats and protect the team. Progression unlocks new tools, skills and functional capabilities, while increasing the difficulty of future contracts.