Comparison

Backrooms vs Horror Hide

Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both games, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.

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About

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.

Highlights
  • Endless maze exploration
  • Scary levels with difficulties
  • Creepy monsters and entities
  • Survival horror gameplay
  • Stealth mechanics
  • Items to aid escape
Features
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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.

About

Horror Hide

Experience a thrilling hide-and-seek game set in a terrifying labyrinth of yellow walls. Play as a monster to hunt down survivors or as a human to evade capture within a 45-second time limit. Survive the horror and escape the backrooms.

Highlights
  • Hide and seek gameplay
  • Horror survival theme
  • Play as monster or human
  • Unique monster abilities
  • Human evasion tactics
  • 45-second time limit per level
Features
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Horror Hide - Backrooms Escape is a game of hide and seek with a horror theme. You must survive in the scary backstage rooms of a large labyrinth. There is nothing but terrible yellow walls and there is no way out. Are you ready for horror survival experience. The player can choose to play as either a monster or a human, with different abilities and objectives depending on their role. If the player chooses to play as a monster, their goal is to find and catch all the human players before the time runs out. They have various abilities and tools at their disposal to aid them in their search, such as the ability to walk through walls or run faster. If the player chooses to play as a human, their objective is to survive for a set amount of time while avoiding the monster. They can collect bonuses throughout the levels to help them, such as the ability to turn invisible or run faster to evade the monster. The game has a time limit of 45 seconds per level, adding an element of urgency and tension to the gameplay. Overall, Horror Hide - Backrooms Escape is a thrilling and suspenseful mobile game that may appeal to fans of horror and survival games.

Screenshots

Backrooms4 screens
Horror Hide4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Horror Hide at none against Backrooms's 2. Horror Hide also leads on iOS requirement (11.0 vs 15.0). Backrooms's advantage is ratings volume (488 vs 12) and rating (4.4 vs 4.1). On price, ads 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

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

Both are free to download. Backrooms sells 2 one-off in-app purchases. Horror Hide asks for nothing beyond the download.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

Backrooms holds the better App Store score, 4.4 against 4.1. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Backrooms has 488 ratings behind it against 12, so its average is the more settled of the two.

Scorecard5 real differences · 5 level
Backrooms versus Horror Hide: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterBackroomsHorror Hide
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.4 (488 ratings) — better4.1 (12 ratings)
Positive reviews70.2% of reviews—
Number of ratings488 — better12
Update frequencyWeekly—
AdsYesYes
In-app purchasesYesNo — better
MonetizationFree with in-app purchasesAd-supported — better
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPodiPhone, iPad, iPod
Requires iOS15.011.0 — better
Further details — not scored
Size356 MB343 MB
Age rating12+12+
DeveloperIndieFist SRLAvirise

Customer experience

Backrooms

All ratings483 ratings
Positive82.6%
Neutral6.6%
Negative10.8%
Written reviews104 reviews
Positive70.2%
Neutral12.5%
Negative17.3%

Horror Hide

All ratings11 ratings
Positive81.8%
Neutral0.0%
Negative18.2%

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

Horror Hide

Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.

In-app purchases

2 purchases

Backrooms

One-time2
  • Remove Ads$2.99
  • Unlock Mark$3.99
None

Horror Hide

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Backrooms free?
Backrooms is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Horror Hide free?
Horror Hide is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Which has better reviews, Backrooms or Horror Hide?
Backrooms is rated higher. Backrooms averages 4.4 out of 5 from 488 ratings, while Horror Hide averages 4.1 from 12 ratings.
Do Backrooms or Horror Hide have ads?
Both Backrooms and Horror Hide show ads.

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