Backrooms vs Retro Backrooms
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both games, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Backrooms
Navigate an endless maze of empty rooms in this survival horror game inspired by a popular creepypasta. Avoid terrifying entities, use items to your advantage, and stealthily find your way back home from this nightmarish dimension.
- Endless maze exploration
- Scary levels with difficulties
- Creepy monsters and entities
- Survival horror gameplay
- Stealth mechanics
- Items to aid escape
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NEW: FORTUNE WHEEL Spin every day for prizes: characters, batteries, almond milk and the new royal jelly. 19 NEW CHARACTERS Only obtainable from the wheel. NEW MECHANICS · Smilers flee from light — hold your flashlight on them. · Crouch and the PartyGoers won't see you. · Find the notes scattered around: they tell you how to survive. ALSO · New elevator puzzle. · You can now hear your teammates' footsteps. · Improved enemy AI and stability fixes.
Retro Backrooms
Navigate a maze of pixelated rooms, reminiscent of classic creepypastas. Fight monsters, find keys, and collect items to upgrade your character and escape the endless backrooms.
- Fight monsters with weapons
- Find keys to unlock doors
- Collect items for upgrades
- Explore endless pixel rooms
- Escape the backrooms
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Based on a creepypasta, the Retro Backrooms brings a nostalgic feeling of being lost in endless piles of empty pixel rooms with fluorescent lights at full hum-buzz. You have to find your way out, but of course, some Monsters don't want you to leave. -Use weapons to fight enemies. -Find keys to open doors. -find items to upgrade your level. -Try to get outside the backrooms.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is ads: Retro Backrooms at none against Backrooms's shown. Retro Backrooms also leads on rating (4.7 vs 4.4) and iOS requirement (11.0 vs 15.0). Backrooms's advantage is review sentiment (70% vs 50%) and ratings volume (481 vs 99). On price, in-app purchases, monetization model and device support 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. Backrooms sells 2 one-off in-app purchases and Retro Backrooms sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.
Retro Backrooms holds the better App Store score, 4.7 against 4.4. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 481 and 99 respectively. Written reviews complicate that: 70% of Backrooms's written reviews are positive against 50% of Retro Backrooms's, so the app with the better star average is not the one people write more warmly about.
| Parameter | Backrooms | Retro Backrooms |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.4 (481 ratings) | 4.7 (99 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 70.2% of reviews — better | 50.0% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 481 — better | 99 |
| Update frequency | Weekly | — |
| Ads | Yes | No — better |
| In-app purchases | Yes | Yes |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases | Free with in-app purchases |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod | iPhone, iPad, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 15.0 | 11.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 348 MB | 89 MB |
| Age rating | 12+ | 17+ |
| Developer | IndieFist SRL | Zeshaan Hussain |
Customer experience
Backrooms
Retro Backrooms
Bugs and requests
Backrooms
Reported bugs
4 issues- Can't get past the party level, game is rigged
- Can't use the flashlight, don't know where it is
- Can't enter codes correctly, door won't open
- Game restarts from the beginning when exiting
Requested features
5 requests- Add more levels, levels are too short
- Add a peaceful mode with no entities
- Improve audio and graphics
- Add more Backrooms monsters and entities
- Implement a save feature to continue progress
Retro Backrooms
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
In-app purchases
Backrooms
- Remove Ads$2.99
- Unlock Mark$3.99
Retro Backrooms
- Remove Ads$1.99
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