Comparison

Retro Backrooms vs Backrooms

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

Head to head
About

Retro Backrooms

Navigate a maze of pixelated rooms, reminiscent of classic creepypastas. Fight monsters, find keys, and collect items to upgrade your character and escape the endless backrooms.

Highlights
  • Fight monsters with weapons
  • Find keys to unlock doors
  • Collect items for upgrades
  • Explore endless pixel rooms
  • Escape the backrooms
Features
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Based on a creepypasta, the Retro Backrooms brings a nostalgic feeling of being lost in endless piles of empty pixel rooms with fluorescent lights at full hum-buzz. You have to find your way out, but of course, some Monsters don't want you to leave. -Use weapons to fight enemies. -Find keys to open doors. -find items to upgrade your level. -Try to get outside the backrooms.

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

Retro Backrooms4 screens
Backrooms4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is review sentiment: Backrooms at 86% against Retro Backrooms's 50%. Backrooms also leads on in-app purchases (none vs 1). Retro Backrooms's advantage is ads (none vs shown) and rating (4.7 vs 4.3). On price, ratings volume, 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

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

Both are free to download. Retro Backrooms sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. Backrooms asks for nothing beyond the download.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

Retro Backrooms holds the better App Store score, 4.7 against 4.3. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 99 and 34 respectively. Written reviews complicate that: 50% of Retro Backrooms's written reviews are positive against 86% of Backrooms's, so the app with the better star average is not the one people write more warmly about.

Scorecard5 real differences · 4 level
Retro Backrooms versus Backrooms: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterRetro BackroomsBackrooms
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.7 (99 ratings) — better4.3 (34 ratings)
Positive reviews50.0% of reviews86.0% of reviews — better
Number of ratings99 — better34
AdsNo — betterYes
In-app purchasesYesNo — better
MonetizationFree with in-app purchasesAd-supported — better
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPodiPhone, iPad, iPod
Requires iOS11.0 — better12.0
Further details — not scored
Size89 MB337 MB
Age rating17+12+
DeveloperZeshaan HussainJEAN MICKAEL DARIE

Customer experience

Retro Backrooms

All ratings95 ratings
Positive93.7%
Neutral3.2%
Negative3.2%
Written reviews4 reviews
Positive50.0%
Neutral25.0%
Negative25.0%

Backrooms

All ratings33 ratings
Positive81.8%
Neutral0.0%
Negative18.2%
Written reviews43 reviews
Positive86.0%
Neutral7.0%
Negative7.0%

In-app purchases

1 purchases

Retro Backrooms

One-time1
  • Remove Ads$1.99
None

Backrooms

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Retro Backrooms free?
Retro 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, Retro Backrooms or Backrooms?
Retro Backrooms is rated higher. Retro Backrooms averages 4.7 out of 5 from 99 ratings, while Backrooms averages 4.3 from 34 ratings.
Do Retro Backrooms or Backrooms have ads?
Backrooms shows ads; Retro Backrooms does not.

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