Little Nightmares 3 The Backstage DLC Walkthrough

Here you can find a full Little Nightmares 3 The Backstage DLC Walkthrough for 100% Completion that includes all Collectible Locations and Trophies/Achievements. Backstage is the first DLC of Little Nightmares III. This DLC has only 1 Chapter and takes around 1 hour to complete.

Nothing is missable. After the story, you can use Chapter Select to still get everything.

The Backstage

After a little cutscene, head right into the next room, and here climb through the broken door window into the next room.

Painting 1:

Inside this room you entered, press  /  to reveal the painting. If you are solo and playing the character without the hat, press  /  and the AI will do it.

Now head into the next room, where you will find a closed door with a glowing eye above. To open it, press  /  . If you are solo and playing the character without the hat, press  /  and the AI will do it.

Inside the corridor, you will find another door with an eye above it. Open it and go through the door, pass the room, and head straight into the next room.

Here you will find a piece of cheese, pick it up, and go back into the last corridor. Head towards the screen and move forward until the end. Here you have to throw the cheese at the button on the upper left side to drop down a ladder.

Trophy “Clean Up Your Act” & Painting 2:

After climbing up the ladder, head through the opening on the right side to enter the shower. Your partner needs to go under the shower, in solo your partner should go there automatically, if not press  /  to get him there. Now jump onto the handle until the trophy pops. You can do this trophy a little later too, as you will come across this room through the story again.

Now leave the shower room and head upwards, go over the wooden plank near the door, here press  /  to reveal the painting. If you are solo and playing the character without the hat, press  /  and the AI will do it.

After getting the painting, head through the door into the next room, where you will see 4 lamps. You need to interact with them in the right order to open up a hidden path on the left side. Look at the picture below for the right order.

Head into the now open room and pick up the cheese, then go right and into the corridor again and drop the cheese into the hole below the handle. Then jump onto the handle or climb down the ladder to reach the corridor from earlier.

Here, pick up one cheese, your partner needs to pick up the other piece, head upwards, and go into the room on the right where you picked up the first cheese earlier. Now throw the cheese onto one button. Your partner needs to throw it at the second button to open up the gate on the right.

Head into the next room and pull out the box on the bottom left side to reveal a ladder, then climb it up.

After climbing up the ladder, go into the vent on the right and follow the path. After the vent, you will see another ladder, climb that up into another vent, and follow that path.

Painting 3:

After dropping out of the vent, you will be inside a corridor, head towards the screen and enter the first door on the right side. Here press  /  to reveal the painting. If you are solo and playing the character without the hat, press  /  and the AI will do it.

Get back into the corridor now and head towards the screen again, and enter the next door on the right side.

Here, pull the lever, then quickly jump down, get back into the corridor, and enter the room on the left side. Here go left and pass the water on the ground, then climb up the table. If you are not quick enough, you can die because the water will become electric again.

Now jump onto the boxes on the right side and climb up them. Then walk over the wooden plank to the left side of the room, and then jump onto the rope to drop down. Before you jump of the rope, make sure it’s above the table. If not you will drop onto the floor and you will die.

After dropping from the rope, enter the next room through the little opening. Inside the next room, grab the key from the wall and go into the next room.

Painting 4:

Before heading into the next room on the left, climb up the shelves. At the very top press  /  to reveal the painting. If you are solo and playing the character without the hat, press  /  and the AI will do it.

Now drop down and enter the next room on the left, and you will be in the shower room again. If you missed the trophy “Clean Up Your Act” earlier, you have to do it now, or you must restart the chapter. Leave the shower room through the left side and jump onto the handle to reach the corridor below.

Once you reach the corridor, open the door with the lock on the right side. You will be in a room with a door and a glowing eye above. Here, climb into the vent and follow the path. After the vent, open the little gate and follow the way further. A cutscene will start, and whoever does not have a hat will get one now.

Now head back through the vents into the room with the door and the eye above. Press  /  to reveal a second eye, your partner needs to press  /  now. If you play solo, AI will do it automatically. The door will open now and you will see an elevator. Use the elevator.

After the elevator ride, head towards the screen. You will see a door to the left and right. Open both doors, then go through the left door. You will see a ghost enemy. Kill it by stunning it by pressing  /  near it. Another enemy will appear, which you also need to kill. Then pick up a book, leave the room in the corridor, and enter the door to the right. Here, throw the book into the open compartment, then jump onto the rope and swing over and jump into the vent.

Open the compartment, pick up the book, and throw it against the button to open the door for your partner.

Painting 5:

After opening the door for your partner, head right, and you will find a cable car. Before you pull the lever, press  /  to reveal the painting inside the cable car.

Painting 6:

After the cable car ride, head right. You will see a corridor leading away from the screen.  Enter the corridor and walk to the end, then press  /  to reveal the painting.

Leave the corridor with the painting and head towards the screen. Now go right and through the room until you reach the door. Be aware that you will be attacked by some enemies while you walk through the room. Press  /  to stun the enemies when they are near you. Once you have killed all enemies, you can open the door by jumping onto the handle.

Pass the door into the corridor, head up, then go right into the next room. Here, get on the platform on the upper side of the room and jump with your partner a few times until you drop down.

Painting 7:

Once you drop down, head right. Go into the vent and head right further. You will see a ladder. Before you go up that ladder, go behind it and press  /  to reveal the painting. Then go up the ladder.

Painting 8:

After climbing the ladder, you will see a staircase. Go up that staircase, at the top, head towards the screen. You will see a chair and a vent that you need to get into. Inside that next room, head to the middle and press  /  to reveal the painting.

Now head left and go through the vent, and you will drop into a room with a shadow enemy. Kill it and pick up the item he drops. Then go through the door on the left side.

You will be in front of a door and a glowing eye above. Press  /  to reveal an elevator, then use that elevator.

After the elevator ride,  you will be in a corridor. Enter the first door on the right and go through some rooms until you reach the staircase from earlier. Here, instead of going upstairs, go through the door on the right.

Head further to the right, and you will reach the puppetmaster. Here, turn off the torch with  /  , then crouch, and walk slowly to the right, and pull out the drawer. Then jump on it, climb up the cabinet, and go through the open crack in the wall.

In the next room, hide under the first table, then wait for the puppetmaster to look away, then hide behind the table in the middle. When she goes upwards in the room, head into the next room on the right side.

Head right into the next room, and put the battery from the table into the machine on the left. Then pull the lever and hide quickly under the table where you pulled the lever.

The puppetmaster will take the battery and go back to the first room, follow her, pick up the shoe from the previous room, then lure her with the shoe by throwing it near the elevator.

While she leaves the room, run up to the battery, grab it, and drop down. The puppetmaster will chase you during this process. Whenever you lose the battery, quickly press /  to stun the puppetmaster, then grab the battery again and head right. Place the battery near the elevator, quickly get into it, and pull the lever in the elevator.

After the elevator ride, quickly hide inside the left or right box and wait until the puppetmaster leaves the room.

Head right into the next room, hide behind the box. Wait for the puppetmaster to turn around once, after that, crouch-walk to the right and enter the next room.

Here, grab the key, then go left and through the room with the puppetmaster the same way as before. After that, use the key on the door on the left side.

Throw both cubes at the buttons, then head through the opening on the left side.

In this room, jump onto a hook and wait until you reach the next room before you drop down. Here, jump on the platform on the lower right side with your partner at the same time until you drop down.

In this room, quickly pick up the item from where you dropped down to the room, then hide under the table in the middle of the room from the puppetmaster.

After the puppetmaster leaves the room, follow her. Inside the next room, pick up the item near the elevator and throw it onto the button of the elevator, so the button changes from down to up. Then use the elevator.

Painting 9:

After the elevator ride, enter the room on the left side, go up to the counter, and press  /  to reveal the painting.

Trophy “Just the Ticket”:

After getting the painting 9, head left through two more rooms, and you will reach the ticket machine. Hang on the lever to activate the machine, and the trophy pops soon after.

Now head right back to the corridor with the elevator, this time, go through the door on the right side into a corridor, here move towards the screen and go through the vent on the left side.

You will reach a room where you have to climb up the ladder in the upper right corner, then spin the contraption to open a little puzzle below.

To solve this, you can only touch the 4 correct platforms. If you touch anything other than the four right ones, restart the checkpoint, or you will die. After jumping on all four correct platforms, you can go through the door on the right.

You will enter a corridor, move to the end, and get on the platform to reveal an item above you, then grab that item.

Trophy “Shadow Puppets”:

Right after you pick up the item, drop down and hide behind the big statue on the right side, and wait for the two enemies to come. But do NOT let them get too close to you. You need to press  /  to use your flashlight WITHOUT hitting the two enemies. Your partner then needs to use the same attack, but he actually has to hit them to stun them. If you hit them both with your stun ability, they will die, which you want to avoid.

Once they are stunned, run past them into the room where you solved the puzzle earlier. Here, stand in the middle and let them get close to you. This time, hit them with your stun ability, and they will die, which will unlock the trophy. It is possible to get the trophy without the two enemies that you stunned in the corridor, but it is harder this way to get 5 enemies around you. You will get attacked by a lot of enemies in this room, so be aware of that.

After killing all enemies, go through the door on the left side and use the elevator from earlier.

After that, get out of the elevator and throw the item in front of the elevator onto the button to change the arrow from up to down, then use the elevator again. Then head right until you reach a big contraption. Interact with it three times to proceed.

Go through the now open door and go through the vent on the right side into the next room. Here, climb up the ladder and go through another vent. Here, climb over the wall to the other side, on the right side, climb up the ladder into the vent.

Follow the way until you reach a room with the puppetmaster. After she leaves the room, hang onto the lever, and your partner needs to grab the person hanging from above. This triggers a little cutscene.

After the cutscene, your partner will get stunned by the puppetmaster, quickly stun the puppetmaster yourself by pressing /  then run and squeeze through the door on the right side.

Here, quickly jump onto the lever. The puppetmaster will arrive soon after, and you can not move from here on. The character you freed will grab a pipe and get stunned after. Now press /  to stun the puppetmaster, and the puppetmaster will get killed.

Trophy “Puppet Master”:

If you have not died until now, you will unlock the trophy now.

Painting 10 + Trophy “Puppet Master”:

After you killed the puppetmaster, enter the room on the right side, and press  /  to reveal the painting. If you got all 10 paintings, you will unlock the trophy.

Head further to the right, and a cutscene will start, which will end the chapter and the DLC. The trophy for finishing the DLC will unlock after the cutscene.