# Escape the Backrooms Version 1.2 Now Live: Chinese New Year Update, Plus More Fixes - Product: Escape the Backrooms (https://whatsnew.fyi/product/escape-the-backrooms) - Vendor: Fancy Games - Date: 2026-02-12 - Original notes: https://store.steampowered.com/news/app/1943950/view/535499747044099151 - Permalink: https://whatsnew.fyi/product/escape-the-backrooms/releases/2026-02-12-version-1.2-now-live-chinese-new-year-update-plus What's New is an index, not a publisher: every entry below links to the vendor's own release notes, which are the authoritative source. Entries are labelled where they are hand-curated sample data, pre-releases, or drawn from a secondary source such as a developer blog. Reuse: the summaries, labels and curation here are © What's New. Quote freely with attribution and a link back; wholesale republication of the corpus is not permitted — terms: https://whatsnew.fyi/terms. The vendors' own release notes remain their publishers'. --- - **added** — Traditional Chinese, Polish, and Brazilian Portuguese languages are now available - **added** — New cosmetics for Wanderers for Chinese New Year - **added** — Error messages will now appear if a Room is Full or for a host of a lobby if they are offline during gameplay - **fixed** — Fixed overexposure lighting error that occurred when using low settings on Level 37.2 - **fixed** — Fixed an issue where the mic would cut out for players if they were on the boat in Thalassophobia - **fixed** — Fixed an issue where the cage animation was not triggering if you stood at the edge of the dock in Thalassophobia - **fixed** — Fixed an issue with an incorrect spawn point when entering Thalassophobia from Lights Out via the Hub - **fixed** — Fixed a softlock that could occur when using the green slide on Overgrowth if the slide is safe while other slides are unsafe - **fixed** — Fixed a softlock that can occur on Overgrowth when placing the last body in the Slide and instantly going into the Slide next to it - **fixed** — Fixed an issue that caused the night-time animatronics to not appear in the game world in Level 94 if there is another player on the server in the HUB co-op gamemode - **fixed** — Fixed a minor UI issue where the placeholder text for controller buttons was being pulled through when using Japanese, Simplified Chinese, or Korean languages - **fixed** — Fixed an issue that caused the graphics settings preset to automatically jump from Epic to Low - **fixed** — Fixed an issue in the Graphics settings menu where changing a preset from Low to Medium incorrectly switches to Epic - **fixed** — Fixed an issue where Splash Screens were not skippable if a player loses connection or is kicked - **fixed** — Fixed a crash that could occur when closing the title on Steam Deck - **fixed** — Fixed an issue that caused the game to launch in the wrong resolution on Steam Deck - **fixed** — Fixed an issue where the camera was unable to be moved in fullscreen view after loading into a level from the lobby on Steam Deck - **fixed** — Fixed an issue where players were unable to exit the Character Select menu via the back button on Steam Deck - **fixed** — Fixed an issue that prevented skins from being selected when using the controller buttons on Steam Deck - **fixed** — Fixed an issue that caused loss of functionality when using the Character Select menu on Steam Deck - **changed** — Made the highlight for settings more visible on Steam Deck Hello Wanderers! Happy Chinese New Year! Alongside some brand-new cosmetics for your Wanderers, we are releasing a new patch. Please see the 1.2 Patch Notes below: **(Please Note:** We're aware of a potential issue on Level 922 that could cause a softlock. We're investigating this.) ##### General: - Traditional Chinese, Polish, and Brazilian Portuguese languages are now available. - Error messages will now appear if a Room is Full or for a host of a lobby if they are offline during gameplay. ##### Level Fixes: - An overexposure lighting error that occurred when using low settings on Level 37.2 has been fixed. - An Issue has been fixed where the mic would cut out for players if they were on the boat in Thalassophobia. Now everyone can hear you scream. - Fixed an issue where the cage animation was not triggering if you stood at the edge of the dock in Thalassophobia. - Fixed an issue with an incorrect spawn point when entering Thalassophobia from Lights Out via the Hub. - Fixed a softlock that could occur when using the green slide on Overgrowth if the slide is safe while other slides are unsafe. - Fixed a softlock that can occur on Overgrowth when placing the last body in the Slide and instantly going into the Slide next to it. - Fixed an issue that caused the night-time animatronics to not appear in the game world in Level 94 if there is another player on the server in the HUB co-op gamemode. ##### UI: ## - Fixed a minor UI issue where the placeholder text for controller buttons was being pulled through when using Japanese, Simplified Chinese, or Korean languages. - Fixed an issue that caused the graphics settings preset to automatically jump from Epic to Low. - Fixed an issue in the Graphics settings menu, where changing a preset from Low to medium, the game incorrectly switches to Epic. - Fixed an issue where Splash Screens were not skippable if a player loses connection or is kicked. ##### Steam Deck: ## - Fixed a crash that could occur when closing the title on Steam Deck. - Fixed an issue that caused the game to launch in the wrong resolution. - Fixed an issue where the camera was unable to be moved in fullscreen view after loading into a level from the lobby. - Fixed an issue where players were unable to exit the Character Select menu via the back button from the console. - Fixed an issue that prevented skins from being selected when using the controller buttons. - Fixed an issue that caused loss of functionality when using the Character Select menu on the Steam Deck. - Made the highlight for settings is more visible on Steam Deck. - Fixed an issue with the splash screens on the when booting the game. Thank you to Wanderers for continuing to feed back to us on our updates, and [using Feature Upvote to submit any reports](https://steamcommunity.com/linkfilter/?u=https%3A%2F%2Fescapethebackrooms-feedback-aw27qjpn.featureupvote.com%2F). We appreciate it! A quick reminder to check if you have any game mods enabled, before you submit any reports.