wtf is the dark room

[brainjarmen1004]

i understand that the sheol is hell and the cathedral is heaven but what is the darkroom is it worse than hell? why is it so purple? i dont understand is it purgatory? and the secret room doors look like portals can anybody shed some light onto this?

[watchingsoon]

So what it is
is a place in the binding of Isaac. Where there are enemies and a boss. Like every other area. i don't get what is so hard to understand about it.

[ploeppsel605]

Maybe it's a specific area in hell we're the worst of them live

[DizzyLizard]

Part of Darkroom's inspiration might be from literal darkrooms, as in "A dark place you hang Polaroid photos to develop them"

After all, you can only access it when carrying the negative, an undeveloped photograph.

[JudasofBelial]

What the person above me said, the name is inspired by the rooms used to develop photographs. But Edmund also said after the release of Repentance that the Dark Room is actually meant to be Isaac's twisted imaginary view on the dark closet Mom locks him in during the Mother ending.

Which makes it fit better as a parallel to the chest, both real life things Isaac has been locked in warped into dungeons in his mind. One the place where he is currently dying, the other the place Mom used to punish him.

[BloodyKingu]

room with no lights

[F IAaP n]

Edmund says it's a closet Isaac's locked in. Make of it what you will.

[Mastema]

It's where twitch streamers and tiktok influencers go after death

[The Renderer]

You make it sound like Isaac is depicting something real and therefore somehow has to make sense with what things are called.

[Spook]

Originally posted by The Renderer:

You make it sound like Isaac is depicting something real and therefore somehow has to make sense with what things are called.

Nothing wrong with wanting a little lore tho, eh?

[raymaK]

Originally posted by brainjarmen1004:

i understand that the sheol is hell and the cathedral is heaven but what is the darkroom is it worse than hell? why is it so purple? i dont understand is it purgatory? and the secret room doors look like portals can anybody shed some light onto this?

actually there is a real hell, youll fight the true final boss there