Comparison

Backrooms vs Backrooms

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

Backrooms

Navigate a treacherous party-themed level of the Backrooms. Collect hidden presents and evade relentless "Partygoers" to find the exit before becoming a permanent guest. Experience an eerie ambiance with high-quality graphics.

Highlights
  • Stealth gameplay to avoid enemies
  • Collect four hidden presents
  • Deliver presents to unlock exit
  • Eerie party ambiance
  • High-quality graphics
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Level Fun: A Deadly Celebration in the Backrooms Step into Level Fun, where party decorations and playful music mask lurking terrors! In this twisted section of the Backrooms, you must collect four hidden presents and drop them into a mysterious gift box to unlock the exit door. But beware: ruthless Partygoers patrol the festive halls, luring you in with bright balloons before striking when you least expect it. Can you escape before you’re trapped in eternal “fun”? - Avoid the Partygoers Stealth is your best friend! Dodge their patrols and use hiding spots to stay safe. One misstep could make you the next “guest of honor.” -Collect Presents Four special presents lie scattered across the level. Gather them all and deliver them to the gift box receptacle to unlock your only way out. -Eerie Ambiance Colorful, yet unsettling decorations fill each corridor. Experience a bizarre mix of cheerful lights, echoing party tunes, and an undercurrent of lurking dread. -High-Quality Graphics: Experience the Backrooms like never before with our high-quality graphics that bring this liminal space to life.

Screenshots

Backrooms4 screens
Backrooms4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Backrooms at none against Backrooms's 2. Backrooms also leads on review sentiment (85% vs 70%) and iOS requirement (12.0 vs 15.0). Backrooms's advantage is ratings volume (478 vs 28). On price, rating, 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. Backrooms asks for nothing beyond the download.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 4.3 for Backrooms against 4.4 for Backrooms. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Backrooms has 478 ratings behind it against 28, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews are what separate them: 70% of Backrooms's written reviews are positive against 85% of Backrooms's.

Scorecard5 real differences · 5 level
Backrooms versus Backrooms: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterBackroomsBackrooms
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.3 (478 ratings)4.4 (28 ratings) — better
Positive reviews70.2% of reviews85.4% of reviews — better
Number of ratings478 — better28
Update frequencyWeekly—
AdsYesYes
In-app purchasesYesNo — better
MonetizationFree with in-app purchasesAd-supported — better
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPodiPhone, iPad, iPod
Requires iOS15.012.0 — better
Further details — not scored
Size348 MB337 MB
Age rating12+12+
DeveloperIndieFist SRLJEAN MICKAEL DARIE

Customer experience

Backrooms

All ratings478 ratings
Positive82.6%
Neutral6.3%
Negative11.1%
Written reviews104 reviews
Positive70.2%
Neutral12.5%
Negative17.3%

Backrooms

All ratings28 ratings
Positive85.7%
Neutral0.0%
Negative14.3%
Written reviews41 reviews
Positive85.4%
Neutral7.3%
Negative7.3%

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

Backrooms

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

Backrooms

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Backrooms free?
Backrooms is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Backrooms free?
Backrooms is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Which has better reviews, Backrooms or Backrooms?
Backrooms is rated higher. Backrooms averages 4.3 out of 5 from 478 ratings, while Backrooms averages 4.4 from 28 ratings.
Do Backrooms or Backrooms have ads?
Both Backrooms and Backrooms show ads.

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