Backrooms vs Nextbots Online
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.
Nextbots Online
Experience a thrilling chase game where you're hunted by terrifying monsters. Explore diverse maps, play solo or with friends in multiplayer, and even create your own levels in a sandbox mode.
- Multiplayer chase game
- Single player mode
- Custom map editor
- Voice and text chat
- Diverse maps (Backrooms, Construct)
- Community-created maps
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Nextbots Online is both a scary and fun game, Nextbot is a monster that will hunt you down. The game has many different modes and maps where you can play in single player mode or together with friends in multiplayer. There are such popular maps as Backrooms, Construct, as well as many custom maps created by the community. In "Map Editor" (Sandbox) you can create your own map and share it with your friends. This mode is similar to "Garry's Mod" (often abbreviated as "gmod"). You will be haunted by such Nextbots as: Obunga, Gigachad, Armstrong and many others. In multiplayer, there is voice and text chat for communication. Run away, survive, have fun, build, I'm sure you'll find something to do in this diverse game!
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Verdict
The clearest difference is update cadence: Backrooms at weekly against Nextbots Online's monthly. On price, rating, review sentiment and ratings volume 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 Nextbots Online sells 14 one-off in-app purchases. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.
On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 4.3 for Backrooms against 4.2 for Nextbots Online. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 478 and 773 respectively. Written reviews are what separate them: 70% of Backrooms's written reviews are positive against 75% of Nextbots Online's.
Backrooms ships an update weekly, Nextbots Online monthly. The most recent releases landed on October 19, 2026 and October 22, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Backrooms | Nextbots Online |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.3 (478 ratings) — better | 4.2 (773 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 70.2% of reviews | 74.9% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 478 | 773 — better |
| Update frequency | Weekly — better | Monthly |
| Ads | Yes | Yes |
| 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 | 15.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 348 MB | 636 MB |
| Age rating | 12+ | 9+ |
| Developer | IndieFist SRL | MAKSIM NAZARENKO |
Customer experience
Backrooms
Nextbots Online
User reviews
Backrooms
From 478 App Store ratingsWhat we love
- 👍 Very fun game
- 🚀 Nicely done, looks realistic
- 🚀 Great game, captures the feel of the Backrooms
Room to improve
- 🐛 Confusing, weird monster sounds
- 🐛 Multiplayer not working, no people to play with
- 🔋 Too many ads, ads every 15 seconds
- 🐛 Can't save progress, have to restart from beginning
- 🐛 Glitches, game freezes or crashes
Nextbots Online
From 773 App Store ratingsWhat we love
- 👍 Fun and entertaining game
- 🚀 Great multiplayer experience
- 💡 Ability to create custom Nextbots
- 👍 Good graphics and visuals
Room to improve
- 🐛 Bugs and glitches in the game
- 📢 Too many ads interrupting gameplay
- 🔧 Difficulty in uploading custom Nextbot audio
- 🚧 Limited map selection
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
Nextbots Online
Reported bugs
4 issues- Nextbots getting stuck in objects
- Inability to save custom Nextbot creations
- Multiplayer matchmaking issues and connection problems
- Game freezing or crashing during play
Requested features
5 requests- Add more Nextbot characters and skins
- Improve the map editor with more customization options
- Implement a way to share custom Nextbots with other players
- Add new game modes like survival or cooperative play
- Reduce the frequency of ads or allow players to disable them
In-app purchases
Backrooms
- Remove Ads$2.99
- Unlock Mark$3.99
Nextbots Online
- 1000 Gold$0.99
- 100 Gems$0.99
- VIP - 1 week$1.99
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- 5000 Gold$3.99
- 500 Gems$3.99
- VIP - 1 month$4.99
- Golden skin$4.99
- 10000 Gold$7.99
- 1000 Gems$7.99
- All items pack$9.99
- VIP$29.99
- 5000 Gems$34.99
- 50000 Gold$36.99
- 10000 Gems$59.99
Questions
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