Backrooms vs In Between
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.
In Between
Experience a psychological horror loop where a single room repeats daily. Identify anomalies, take medicine, and survive for 10 days to escape. Your decisions lead to multiple endings and uncover hidden secrets.
- Psychological horror gameplay
- Daily repeating room mechanic
- Anomaly discovery
- Multiple endings
- Survival elements
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A psychological horror loop game where the same room repeats every day. Find the anomalies, take the medicine, and survive for 10 days to escape. Your choices shape different endings. Discover every hidden anomaly and secret fate.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is rating: In Between at 5.0 against Backrooms's 4.4. In Between also leads on in-app purchases (none vs 2) and review sentiment (100% vs 70%). Backrooms's advantage is ratings volume (481 vs 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
Both are free to download. Backrooms sells 2 one-off in-app purchases. In Between asks for nothing beyond the download.
In Between holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 4.4. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Backrooms has 481 ratings behind it against 1, 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 100% of In Between's.
Backrooms ships an update weekly, In Between daily. Both last shipped on October 24, 2026.
| Parameter | Backrooms | In Between |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.4 (481 ratings) | 5.0 (1 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 70.2% of reviews | 100.0% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 481 — better | 1 |
| Update frequency | Weekly | Daily — better |
| Ads | Yes | Yes |
| In-app purchases | Yes | No — better |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases | Ad-supported — better |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod | iPhone, iPad, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 15.0 | 13.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 348 MB | 324 MB |
| Age rating | 12+ | 12+ |
| Developer | IndieFist SRL | Heechang Kim |
Customer experience
Backrooms
In Between
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
In Between
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
In-app purchases
Backrooms
- Remove Ads$2.99
- Unlock Mark$3.99
In Between
No in-app purchases
