Comparison

Backrooms vs Climber Arcade

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

Head to head
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

Climber Arcade

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Pull down. Climb. Don't stop. Climber Arcade is a speed-climbing score attack built for the two minutes you actually have. Every point is dragged out of the screen with your thumb — nothing scores while you wait. HOW IT PLAYS Pull down to haul yourself up the wall. Swipe sideways to change lanes. That's the whole control scheme, and you'll have it in about four seconds. Pull with both thumbs at once and you dyno — double the ground in a single move. But both hands leave the wall, and for a moment you can't dodge anything. Speed always costs you control. TWO WAYS TO CLIMB Sprint — 25 seconds. A hard ceiling that makes recklessness the correct choice. Endless — the wall scrolls faster and faster and never stops. Keep up or fall behind. THE WALL FIGHTS BACK Barrier rocks punish climbing blind. Falling rocks punish standing still. Climb high enough and barriers start arriving in pairs, closing two of the three lanes and leaving exactly one line through. YOUR ONLY OPPONENT IS YOU Your best score sits on screen for the whole run. Beat it and you'll know immediately. Checkpoints every 50 pulls mark the climb. BUILT TO BE DECENT No ads. No in-app purchases. No accounts. No network connection at all — it works in a lift, on a plane, in a tunnel. Nothing you do in this game leaves your device. Reduce Motion is honoured, haptics can be switched off, and VoiceOver reads the score, timer and height.

Screenshots

Backrooms4 screens
Climber Arcade4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Climber Arcade at none against Backrooms's 2. Climber Arcade also leads on ads (none vs shown). Backrooms's advantage is device support (3 vs 1) and iOS requirement (15.0 vs 17.0). On price 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. Climber Arcade asks for nothing beyond the download.

Scorecard4 real differences · 6 level
Backrooms versus Climber Arcade: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterBackroomsClimber Arcade
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.4 (483 ratings) — better—
Positive reviews70.2% of reviews—
Number of ratings483 — better—
Update frequencyWeekly—
AdsYesNo — better
In-app purchasesYesNo — better
MonetizationFree with in-app purchases—
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPod — betteriPhone
Requires iOS15.0 — better17.0
Further details — not scored
Size356 MB1 MB
Age rating12+9+
DeveloperIndieFist SRLRiddim Software Corporation

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

Climber Arcade

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

Climber Arcade

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Backrooms free?
Backrooms is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Climber Arcade free?
Climber Arcade is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Do Backrooms or Climber Arcade have ads?
Backrooms shows ads; Climber Arcade does not.

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