Super Dark Deception Lite vs The Backrooms experience
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both games, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Super Dark Deception Lite
Experience a retro-style horror game where you navigate dark mazes filled with terrifying monsters. Your only options are to run or face certain death in this thrilling chase.
- Retro 2D graphics
- Nightmarish monster encounters
- Maze navigation
- Survival gameplay
- Run or die mechanics
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Super Dark Deception is a fun retro take on the hit horror game, Dark Deception! You are trapped in a dark realm full of mazes inhabited by nightmarish monsters and there's nowhere to hide. Run or die - the choice is yours!
The Backrooms experience
Navigate an infinite, terrifying maze filled with lurking entities and unsettling sounds. Your goal is to escape this nightmarish world by hiding from dangers and solving puzzles. Experience true horror as you try to find a way out of the endless, monotone environment.
- Infinite maze exploration
- Entity avoidance and hiding
- Atmospheric horror sound design
- Multiple distinct stages
- Stealth mechanics
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This infinite maze like world can make you insane and no one has ever been able to escape the Backrooms. Can a super average dude escape this maze what they call "The Backrooms". In The Backrooms Experience you go through the true horror people go through when they end up in The Backrooms and are desperate to find a way out! Hide from the so called "Smilers" and try to run from unknown entities that haven' t been discovered yet. Go through many different stages, from the endless maze, with the buzzing sound and yellow monotone colours, to Swimming pools where something is lurking in the water. If you hear anything lurking near you, you better don't make any sound or you will be as good as dead! The mono-yellow, endless background noise of fluorescent lights constantly buzzing, may drive you insane but always watch your back, you don't know what's wandering around!
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Verdict
The clearest difference is rating: Super Dark Deception Lite at 4.5 against The Backrooms experience's 3.8. Super Dark Deception Lite also leads on in-app purchases (none vs 1) and ads (none vs shown). On price, device support and iOS requirement there is nothing between them.
Scored on Price · Rating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings · Update frequency · Ads · In-app purchases · Monetization · Best chart rank · Devices · Requires iOS
Both are free to download. The Backrooms experience sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. Super Dark Deception Lite asks for nothing beyond the download.
Super Dark Deception Lite holds the better App Store score, 4.5 against 3.8. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Super Dark Deception Lite has 1.5K ratings behind it against 73, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 86% of Super Dark Deception Lite's written reviews are positive against 60% of The Backrooms experience's.
| Parameter | Super Dark Deception Lite | The Backrooms experience |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.5 (1.5K ratings) — better | 3.8 (73 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 85.7% of reviews — better | 60.0% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 1.5K — better | 73 |
| Update frequency | — | Every 16 months |
| Ads | No — better | Yes |
| In-app purchases | No — better | Yes |
| Monetization | Free — better | Free with in-app purchases |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod | iPhone, iPad, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 11.0 | 11.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 97 MB | 492 MB |
| Age rating | 9+ | 9+ |
| Developer | Glowstick Entertainment | Milan Janssen |
Customer experience
Super Dark Deception Lite
The Backrooms experience
User reviews
Super Dark Deception Lite
From 1.5K App Store ratingsWhat we love
- 🚀 Smooth gameplay
- 👍 Faithful recreation of the original game
- 💎 Impressive pixel art graphics
- 🎮 Enjoyable retro-style experience
Room to improve
- 🐛 Monkeys always know player's location
- 🔁 Repetitive gameplay due to limited content
- 🕹️ Clunky controls and movement
- 🤯 Extremely challenging and frustrating at times
The Backrooms experience
From 73 App Store ratingsWhat we love
- 👍 Good quality game
- 👍 Fun to play
- 👍 Good for beginners
- 👍 Oddly replayable
- 👍 Nice game
Room to improve
- 👎 Too short
- 👎 Bad graphics
- 👎 Hard to look around
- 👎 Not scary
- 👎 Too easy
Bugs and requests
Super Dark Deception Lite
Reported bugs
3 issues- Elevator glitch
- Replay menu not recording progress
- Audio issues when skipping cutscenes
Requested features
4 requests- More levels and chapters
- Difficulty options
- Improved controls and movement
- Ability to skip cutscenes
The Backrooms experience
Reported bugs
12 issues- Joystick for turning is bad
- Cannot turn around in some levels
- Smilers in level ! are in the ground
- Joystick on the right is super slow
- Joystick for turning is not sensitive enough
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- Codes not working in poolrooms
- Color code not working in poolrooms
- Entities make the same default sound
- Wallpaper on level 0 looks weird
- Level 0 leads to exit
- Joystick thing for turning
- Cannot get away from smilers when they are in front
Requested features
17 requests- Add more levels
- Add a story line
- Add more monsters
- Improve graphics
- Add a volume off button
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- Add a jump button
- Add randomization
- Make Level ! more challenging with smilers chasing
- Add more monsters in the backrooms
- Make monsters chase you
- Add more levels, like level 188
- Update the 'look around' feature
- Add a sensitivity slider
- Add more monster variety
- Make entities have unique sounds
- Make puzzles clearer (e.g., hospital level cubes)
- Add more variety to levels, avoid repeats
In-app purchases
Super Dark Deception Lite
No in-app purchases
The Backrooms experience
- Remove ads$0.99
Questions
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