Backrooms vs NextBot Multiplayer
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.
NextBot Multiplayer
Experience a thrilling chase in this mobile game where you must outrun agile and fast NextBots. Upgrade your character's abilities to escape, or unlock and control your own NextBots. Communicate with other players via voice or text chat and enjoy interactive maps and in-game events.
- Run and escape from fast-moving NextBots
- Upgrade physical abilities like double jump and speed
- Unlock and summon your own NextBots
- Voice and text chat for multiplayer communication
- Interactive maps and in-game events
- Player interaction through punching and pushing
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NextBot Multiplayer is a mobile game that features NextBots, based on Nico's NextBots. The objective of the game is to constantly run to avoid being caught by the NextBots chasing you. These NextBots are agile and fast, and can jump and climb as well. Players can upgrade their physical abilities to escape the NextBots, such as unlocking the double jump or increasing their running speed for a limited time. In addition to playing as a human, players can also unlock and summon NextBots to add to the game's entertainment value. Voice chat and text chat are available for communication with other players. The game also features events such as summoning Senator Armstrong or Blackout, which temporarily blackens the screen. Players in NextBot Multiplayer can also interact with each other by punching or pushing each other, which adds to the game's fun and entertainment value. The game currently has four maps: Residential, Office, Parking, Flat, de_dust2, cs_office, gm_flat and Streets, with more maps planned for future updates. Be sure to join the Discord server and subscribe to the YouTube channel for updates, polls, and live streams.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is rating: Backrooms at 4.3 against NextBot Multiplayer's 3.7. Backrooms also leads on review sentiment (70% vs 49%) and update cadence (weekly vs every 2 weeks). NextBot Multiplayer's advantage is iOS requirement (11.0 vs 15.0). On price, ratings volume, ads and in-app purchases 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 NextBot Multiplayer sells 2 one-off in-app purchases. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.
Backrooms holds the better App Store score, 4.3 against 3.7. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 478 and 179 respectively. Written reviews point the same way: 70% of Backrooms's written reviews are positive against 49% of NextBot Multiplayer's.
Backrooms ships an update weekly, NextBot Multiplayer every 2 weeks. The most recent releases landed on October 12, 2026 and October 7, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Backrooms | NextBot Multiplayer |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.3 (478 ratings) — better | 3.7 (179 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 70.2% of reviews — better | 48.7% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 478 — better | 179 |
| Update frequency | Weekly — better | Every 2 weeks |
| 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 | 588 MB |
| Age rating | 12+ | 17+ |
| Developer | IndieFist SRL | Aidyn Ilyas |
Customer experience
Backrooms
NextBot Multiplayer
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
NextBot Multiplayer
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
In-app purchases
Backrooms
- Remove Ads$2.99
- Unlock Mark$3.99
NextBot Multiplayer
- 50k coins$1.99
- 250k coins$4.99
Questions
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