Backrooms vs Sky Gauntlet
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.
Sky Gauntlet
Engage in fast-paced aerial combat with one-touch controls. Dodge enemy fire, parry bullets back at foes, and battle through waves and massive bosses. Customize your bird and compete on leaderboards.
- One-touch flight controls
- Unique parry mechanic
- 20+ waves of combat
- 4+ massive bosses
- Campaign, Survival, and Boss Rush modes
- Bird customization
- Leaderboards and daily challenges
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Take flight in Sky Gauntlet — a fast-paced aerial combat game where every tap matters. Flap to fly. Shoot to kill. Parry to survive. Navigate your bird through neon-lit cityscapes, dodge enemy fire, and battle your way through 20+ waves of increasingly intense combat. When bullets fly your way, don't just dodge — parry them back at your enemies. GAMEPLAY • One-touch flight controls — tap to flap, hold to rise • Unique parry mechanic — time it right to deflect enemy bullets • Progressive difficulty across 4 themed stages BOSSES • 4+ massive bosses with multi-phase attack patterns • Interceptor, Carrier, and Dreadnought class enemies • Each boss requires different strategies to defeat GAME MODES • Campaign — 20+ waves across themed stages with boss encounters • Survival — endless waves, how long can you last? • Boss Rush — back-to-back boss fights with escalating difficulty CUSTOMIZE YOUR BIRD • Multiple birds with unique visual styles • Unlockable skins and cosmetics • Earn trophies for completing challenges in every mode SOUNDTRACK • Dynamic EDM soundtrack that reacts to gameplay • Optional premium music packs: Rock, Metal, Orchestral, Chill, Pop, and Country • Each pack features unique tracks for every stage theme POWERUPS & STRATEGY • Shields, rapid fire, spread shot, homing missiles, and more • Score multipliers for skilled play • Combo system rewards aggressive tactics COMPETE • Leaderboards to prove you're the best • Daily challenges with unique seeds — compete for the top spot • Track your stats and progress across all modes Built for mobile. Smooth 60fps gameplay optimized for touchscreens. Can you survive the gauntlet?
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Verdict
The clearest difference is rating: Sky Gauntlet at 5.0 against Backrooms's 4.4. Sky Gauntlet also leads on review sentiment (100% vs 70%). Backrooms's advantage is update cadence (weekly vs every 2 months) and ratings volume (491 vs 3). 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 Sky Gauntlet sells 7 one-off in-app purchases. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.
Sky Gauntlet holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 4.4. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Backrooms has 491 ratings behind it against 3, 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 Sky Gauntlet's.
Backrooms ships an update weekly, Sky Gauntlet every 2 months. The most recent releases landed on November 7, 2026 and October 31, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Backrooms | Sky Gauntlet |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.4 (491 ratings) | 5.0 (3 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 70.2% of reviews | 100.0% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 491 — better | 3 |
| Update frequency | Weekly — better | Every 2 months |
| Ads | Yes | Yes |
| In-app purchases | Yes | Yes |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases | Free with in-app purchases |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better | iPhone, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 15.0 | 15.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 356 MB | 162 MB |
| Age rating | 12+ | 4+ |
| Developer | IndieFist SRL | Shawn Puri |
Customer experience
Backrooms
Sky Gauntlet
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
Sky Gauntlet
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
In-app purchases
Backrooms
- Remove Ads$2.99
- Unlock Mark$3.99
Sky Gauntlet
- 100 eggs$0.99
- 550 eggs$3.99
- 1400 eggs$7.99
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- 3500 eggs$14.99
- 8000 eggs$29.99
- 18,000 eggs$49.99
- 50,000 eggs$99.99
Questions
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