Backrooms vs The Backrooms experience
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.
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: Backrooms at 4.4 against The Backrooms experience's 3.8. Backrooms also leads on update cadence (weekly vs every 16 months) and ratings volume (481 vs 72). The Backrooms experience's advantage is iOS requirement (11.0 vs 15.0). On price, ads, in-app purchases and monetization model 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 The Backrooms experience sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.
Backrooms holds the better App Store score, 4.4 against 3.8. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Backrooms has 481 ratings behind it against 72, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 70% of Backrooms's written reviews are positive against 60% of The Backrooms experience's.
Backrooms ships an update weekly, The Backrooms experience every 16 months. Both last shipped on October 24, 2026.
| Parameter | Backrooms | The Backrooms experience |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.4 (481 ratings) — better | 3.8 (72 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 70.2% of reviews — better | 60.0% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 481 — better | 72 |
| Update frequency | Weekly — better | Every 16 months |
| 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 | 11.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 348 MB | 492 MB |
| Age rating | 12+ | 9+ |
| Developer | IndieFist SRL | Milan Janssen |
Customer experience
Backrooms
The Backrooms experience
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
The Backrooms experience
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
In-app purchases
Backrooms
- Remove Ads$2.99
- Unlock Mark$3.99
The Backrooms experience
- Remove ads$0.99
Questions
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