Hello! Welcome to the Binding of Isaac facts account!
This is account dedicated to sharing facts about The Binding of Isaac series, from the spinoffs to the games itself!
Some facts may include mods, because they're cool too!
The narrator for the famous (or infamous) Little Baby's Ice Cream commercial is Matthias Bossi.
Matthias is the voice actor for Dad and also one of the composers for The Binding of Isaac: Repentance.
Edmund McMillen has confirmed Isaac to be genderfluid, Eden to be non-binary, and Rainmaker to be gay.
Happy pride month everyone, and please be safe as best as you can! We love you all.
Chests and Locked Chests have a 1% chance of containing another chest inside of it.
If you're fortunate, you can get a chest inside a chest inside a chest!
Here is a demonstration of said event using game modification.
In The Binding Of Isaac: Repentance, there exists a clock on the stage transition screen that races you to Boss Rush.
If you're ahead of the clock, that means you're in fast pace for Boss Rush. If the clock is ahead of you, that means you need to hurry up!
There are new achievements for the upcoming online multiplayer mode for The Binding of Isaac: Repentance coming soon.
This was shown off in a recent Twitch stream starring Tyrone Rodrigeuz and Edmund McMillen.
Online co-op for the PC version of the Binding of Isaac: Repentance is seemingly confirmed (Maybe?)
This happened during a Twitch stream done by game developer Tyrone Rodriguez where he passed by a seemingly unfinished "Press for Online Co-Op" button.
If you save and quit in Mother's room right after beating her, the boss door reappears.
You can use this to play the self-sacrifice room and go to the Dark Room, progressing your run further than Corpse II.
Kevan Brighting, known for voicing the Narrator in the Stanely Parable, voices the intro for The Binding of Isaac: Antibirth, the huge fanmade expansion which was turned into the Repentance DLC.
This didn't make it into Repentance, as Matthias Bossi narrates the intro instead.
Many bosses and enemies in The Binding of Isaac: Repentance are girls, including Baby Plum, Colostomia, Gurdy, Chub, and many more!
Happy Mother's Day!
The Mausoleum's Siren boss in The Binding of Isaac: Repentance can steal your 1-up! item if you defeat her at the right time.
She will never give it back.
This is intentional behavior.
You can skip Satan's second phase by using six bombs.
This bug exists because bombs do exactly 100 damage. Satan's health is 600, so six bombs can make his health reach exactly 0.
His second phase is coded to happen when his health reaches BELOW 0, leading to this bug.
If you 100% completed all three save files in The Binding of Isaac: Afterbirth+, you get to see a skeleton rocking out!
But, when you freshly install The Binding of Isaac: Repentance, you get to see behind the skeleton, as well as a tease for the final boss, The Beast.
A secret image was hidden in one of the blogposts leading up to the release of The Binding of Isaac: Repentance.
The image was of Gus, the worm inside of the Corpse boss Rotgut, looking like a crewmate from the Hit 2018 Game Among Us.
This is Sus.
THE WORST BINDING OF ISAAC: REPENTANCE ITEM POLL RESULTS ARE IN!
Thank you to ALL 9,147 people who voted on the poll!
Dataminer got
#1
, making it the WORST item in the game (VOTED BY FANS), and Jupiter was the
#1
voted item that was NOT on the poll.
I’d like to do another public vote on the top 10 worst Isaac items again for a possible future update. Are there any websites that make something like this easy anywhere ?
Brimstone is an all-class cosmetic promotional item from the game Team Fortress 2.
It references the item Brimstone from The Binding of Isaac.
It was given to players who purchased The Binding of Isaac: Rebirth on Steam before December 10, 2014.
In The Binding of Isaac: Repentance, if you beat the final boss Dogma, but perish to the hands of the Beast and the Ultra Horsemen, you get a unique graphic on your save file.
The Binding of Isaac: Rebirth item “Cricket’s Head” was originally called “Max’s Head" in the original flash version of the game.
The name was changed to better reflect Edmund McMillen’s real cat, Cricket, as Edmund himself never owned a pet dog named “Max.”
The Online Alpha for The Binding of Isaac: Repentance has now unfortunately concluded due to leaks, (unless things change).
The online co-op will be released in its full state later this year, according to Tyrone Rodriguez.
Picking up "Iron Bar" whilst holding a damaged "Notched Axe" will repair the active item.
This is a reference to how repairing works in Minecraft, where you can repair an Iron Pickaxe with an Iron Bar.
The Binding of Isaac: Repentance just released for IOS devices.
This hasn't been released on Android though, and it is unknown if it ever will or not.
To download Repentance, download The Binding of Isaac: Rebirth and purchase the DLC addition from inside the application.
HELLO!
My friend travsaus and I have created a poll to rank the WORST items from the Binding of Isaac: Repentance!
This poll will last around 3 days, and you can select around 5 items to vote for.
If you want to participate, click the link below! ⬇️
Today is the 12th birthday of The Binding of Isaac!
It is also the 25th birthday of Pokemon Red and Blue in the United States as well.
I cannot thank the creators enough for what they created, I would not be here today if this game wasn't a thing!
You get a unique title screen if you have all three save files completed. Maybe you should stop playing?
You also get this cool art featuring an infinity logo if you have all three save files 100% completed as well!
The profanity list for The Binding of Isaac: Repentance's Co-op is lifted straight from Minecraft's profanity list, meaning you can't say certain items or terms that Isaac uses with the in-game text chat.
The active item "Sharp Key" has a chance to spawn the contents of a chest when enemies are hit by a key.
You can use this to your advantage in the Chest stage to get free items!
You can pick up the item "Cube Baby" with "Mom's Bracelet".
This interaction also gives Cube Baby creep when it moves and a nice ice-like particle effect!
Thoughts on throwing children?
If you exit the Larry Jr. boss room after defeating him and break his poops, you can get some consumables.
You can only get consumables from these poops if you leave this room and come back, so if you're min-maxer, now's your chance!
In The Binding of Isaac: Repentance, if you use the seed "TKMG 13C2" and head to the Dark Room floor, the secret room on this floor will spawn out of bounds.
Going to the secret room at the bottom will softlock you, as there is no way to get out.
The red champion variant of Little Horn damages himself very slightly when he spits out a bomb.
You can use this to your advantage if you're really really patient.
Is he stupid?
There is an unused sitting sprite for the enemy "Click Clack" in the files for The Binding of Isaac: Repentance.
Why are they sitting, so polite for no reason.
The character in the challenge "The Guardian" is an angelic version of Lilith.
She is called "nice lilith" in the files for The Binding of Isaac: Repentance.
They whitewashed her.
Despite having dark skin in game, Lilith's sprite when choosing her to play is white.
This is most likely a design choice, but probably inspired this mistake in the official Isaac coasters.
While fighting the final boss "Dogma" in The Binding of Isaac: Repentance, you can very faintly hear bible psalms being quoted.
The psalm being quoted is Psalm 23 from the King James Bible.
According to Not Your Sagittarius, the main artist for the Binding of Isaac: Repentance DLC, the Ultra Horsemen were heavily inspired by the Gigantamax forms of Pokemon from Pokemon Sword & Shield.
The unlock "Sticky Nickels", gotten from beating Boss Rush as The Keeper, is an overall bad unlock, and shouldn't be sought after.
Instead of replacing pennies with sticky nickels, this unlock replaces other nickels with sticky nickels.
Despite 12 new co-op babies being added in The Binding of Isaac: Repentance update version 1.7.9, you can't actually get them!
Due to a bug, you can't play with these co-op babies using the item "Buddy in the Box" or by using local multiplayer.
The co-op baby lovingly named "Cursed Pillow Baby" is a reference to pillow shading, an unappealing style of pixel art shading most commonly used by beginner artists.
They may be ugly, but we still love them.
In the newest beta online co-op update, there exists new blue and purple-colored completion sprites to indicate that you have beaten the game online.
The purple-colored completion sprites are unused at the moment, as you cannot play online co-op in hard mode right now.
If Isaac dies to a Grudge, he explodes into bits and pieces of meat.
This death animation is unique to Grudges, so if you want to see Isaac exploding without any mods, be my guest!
If you have the "Swallowed M80" trinket and use a Blood Donation Machine/Confessional, the machine does not explode and will still drop the corresponding loot.
You can use this feature to get more loot from these machines than intended!
The item "Spirit Sword" turns into a lightsaber when you pick up "Technology".
You also shoot a Technology laser when you use the weapon. It's a neat visual!
Dogma sprites are blue in the Binding of Isaac: Repentance files.
The static effect is rendered in-game, causing the blue color to be turned into static.
Certain Super Secret Rooms force a specific heart-type to spawn only.
For example, using The Hierophant in a room filled with Red Hearts turns the Soul Hearts into Red Hearts.
Using Queen of Hearts on a room filled with Soul Hearts turns them into Soul Hearts, same with others.
The modded Binding of Isaac: Repentance character Gomorrah can be spotted on the Binding of Isaac G-FUEL Brimstone Collector's Box.
Just Gomorrah, though. The other character, Sodom, is nowhere to be seen. Sorry, Sodom.
Inside the files for the Binding of Isaac: Repentance, there is an unused animation of the Heretic doing a fat dab.
Unfortunately, this isn't present in the game.
We can't have nice things.
In the files for The Binding of Isaac: Antibirth, the mod which got ported to the official DLC Repentance, there is a picture of gravy.
This picture is essential.
But was not put in Repentance.
So what's even the point.
The Binding of Isaac: Repentance items "How to Jump" and "Panic Button" synergize very well!
You can completely avoid damage with this synergy due to the invulnerability both these items can give you.
You just have to jump at the right locations and you should be fine.
If you somehow get the “Glowing Hourglass” when you first spawn into Basement I, using it will teleport you to the Home floor.
One legitimate way of getting this to occur is if you miraculously get the "Glowing Hourglass" active item when starting as the Eden character.
In The Binding of Isaac: Repentance, there exists no item with the ID of 666.
When you use the "Spindown Dice" on item 667, "Strawman", it turns into "Guppy's Eye", item 665.
The Mother boss in The Binding of Isaac: Repentance always spawns exactly 34 Dead Isaacs.
This is a reference to the number of playable characters in the game, that being 34.
Cain and his Tainted counterpart have the same starting stats, but in the character selection menu, this says otherwise.
The developers failed to update the main menu when they made the two characters have the same starting stats in The Binding of Isaac: Repentance patch 1.7.9b.
The iconic “Trash Farm” meme comes from a now-deleted Twitter account.
The person behind the tweet got very angry at The Binding of Isaac, and made an unintelligible rant to Edmund McMillen while intoxicated.
This tweet became popular enough to be referenced in 4 Souls Requiem.
According to Edmund Mcmillen, the creator of The Binding of Isaac: Repentance, there are plans to add optional item descriptions into the base Isaac game.
This was stated on the latest Mewgenics Steam blogpost. Take this with a grain of salt though, as it may or may not happen.
There exist unused 5 and 8 charge bars in the files for The Binding of Isaac: Repentance.
These were never used in-game, but were added specifically for mod support.
The Blue Womb floor has a combat layer that is normally difficult to obtain (only by use of Blue Key and Red Key).
This layer was originally impossible to obtain before the Repentance DLC.
In the art for the Binding of Isaac: Isaac’s Tears White Grape Pineapple G-FUEL mix, the character Fiend from the Fiend Folio MOD appears.
The artist who made the amazing art for the mixture is a developer for the Fiend Folio MOD, so they snuck him in there as a neat easter egg.
The "BASE MENT" seed has a special message when you reach the 1000th and 1001th floor.
On the 1000th floor, the floor message says "BASEMENT M... PLEASE STOP.", and on the 1001th floor, the floor message says "BASEMENT MI SPIKES", a reference to the game 1001 Spikes.
Happy New Year!
You can celebrate with some fireworks by donating 999 coins to the Greed Donation Machine.
May this year be a year of healing and excitement! 🐲
Mr. Me is secretly one of the best items in the game!
It can open the Mega Satan door, Boss Challenge rooms, the Mausoleum entrance, and even blow up tinted rocks!
It can’t, however, open the door to the Ascent nor can it open the door to The Corpse.
Gigante Bean synergizes extremely well with Isaac's Heart, as it increases the knockback of the item's charged attack.
It also makes farting noises when it shoots.
(Important)
If you use "Sacrificial Altar" on the Big Fan spawned from the Pretty Fly horse pill, you get two fly orbitals.
This only works on the Big Fan spawned from the horse pill, it does not work for regular Big Fans.
Dogma's brimstone attack references "Brimsnapping" an old Flash Isaac bug that allowed Isaac's Brimstone beam to "snap" between directions.
In fact, most of Dogma's attacks are based on overpowered synergies/items from before repentance.
The Binding of Isaac: Rebirth fortune "I FEEL ASLEEP!!!" is an intentional misspelling.
It's also a reference to a typographical error from the first Metal Gear game on the NES.
Many other fortunes have neat tidbits and references, and these will be posted at a later date.
Losing as Jacob and Esau increases the death count by two instead of one.
Use this to grind the “Scissors” unlock if you’re too special to die regularly!
In The Binding of Isaac: Antibirth, the mod that was turned into the Repentance DLC, Jacob and Esau will turn into Lucy and Maddy using the "FART FACE" seed.
Lucy and Maddy are the OCs of Kilburn, the main developer of both the Antibirth mod and Repentance.
More info below! 🔽