Backrooms vs A
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.
A
Navigate procedurally generated mazes in a first-person perspective. Encounter atmospheric environments, mysterious presences, and ambient soundscapes. The goal is to find the exit in each unique, challenging labyrinth.
- First-person maze navigation
- Procedurally generated levels
- Multiple maze sizes
- Built-in minimap
- Immersive ambient audio
- Mysterious presences
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Find your way out — if you can. A-Mazed is a first-person maze game wrapped in atmosphere. Every maze is procedurally generated, so no two are alike. Your only goal: find the exit. But you're not alone in there. FEATURES • First-person stone-walled corridors • Procedurally generated mazes — every game is unique • Multiple maze sizes, from a quick challenge to a sprawling labyrinth • Built-in minimap with directional marker • Immersive ambient audio with over 160 eerie sound files • Mysterious shadows and unseen presences that may find you first Free. No ads. No in-app purchases. Just the maze, the dark, and whatever else is in there with you.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is review sentiment: Backrooms at 70% against A's 0%. Backrooms also leads on rating (4.4 vs 3.0) and ratings volume (493 vs 1). A's advantage is in-app purchases (none vs 2) and ads (none vs shown). On price, device support and iOS requirement 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. A asks for nothing beyond the download.
Backrooms holds the better App Store score, 4.4 against 3.0. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Backrooms has 493 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 0% of A's.
| Parameter | Backrooms | A |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.4 (493 ratings) — better | 3.0 (1 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 70.2% of reviews — better | 0.0% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 493 — better | 1 |
| Update frequency | Weekly | — |
| Ads | Yes | No — better |
| In-app purchases | Yes | No — better |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases | Free — better |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better | iPhone, iPad |
| Requires iOS | 15.0 — better | 16.6 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 356 MB | 680 MB |
| Age rating | 12+ | 12+ |
| Developer | IndieFist SRL | Thomas Campbell |
Customer experience
Backrooms
A
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
A
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
In-app purchases
Backrooms
- Remove Ads$2.99
- Unlock Mark$3.99
A
No in-app purchases
