By default, all rooms are private. If you want your room to be publicly accessible for all TryHackMe users, it must first undergo a review process. To learn more about how your room is evaluated, please refer to the Room Testing process.

Please submit only community challenge content (CTF) for public release, as walkthrough rooms are currently not being reviewed for public publishing. However, you are more than welcome to continue creating and experimenting with walkthrough rooms for personal use and share them privately with friends or colleagues.

Additionally, we reserve the right to remove the awarding of Blood Points based on the number of users who have accessed the room before it was submitted for testing.

Your room will be marked as Not Submitted. To change this setting, go to Access and toggle the Publicly accessible option.​

Do not forget to save the changes by approving them with the Update room button at the bottom of the General tab.

Your room will be marked as Submitted, and the Access option will be disabled. This serves as confirmation that your room is in the queue but has not yet been assigned to a member of our QA staff. 

This phase can take several weeks or even months, as many rooms are in the queue for testing. We appreciate your patience during this process.

Once your room has been picked up by our QA team, its status will update to Evaluating, as shown in the screenshot below.

You can review the elements our QA team considers during testing by referring to the General Guidelines. If your room meets the required standards and is approved, its status will change to Ready (for release).

QA will reject your room if it does not meet the standards outlined in the creation notes, among other criteria. If this happens, the status of your room will reflect the following changes:

Our QA team will provide feedback via Discord, Intercom, or email. Please address the issues highlighted in the feedback and resubmit your room once the necessary changes have been made. The feedback will be available on the bottom of the General tab.

However, if your room meets the standards, it will be approved and marked as Ready like below:

Please note that once your room is approved, it will enter the final stage before publication. At this point, it will be placed in a separate queue with other Approved rooms and released according to the publication schedule.

For the final update, once your room has been successfully published on TryHackMe, it will be marked as Accepted and officially announced in the community Discord.