Retro Backrooms vs Backrooms
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both games, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
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.
- Fight monsters with weapons
- Find keys to unlock doors
- Collect items for upgrades
- Explore endless pixel rooms
- Escape the backrooms
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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.
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.
- 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.
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Verdict
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
Both are free to download. Retro Backrooms sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. Backrooms asks for nothing beyond the download.
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.
| Parameter | Retro Backrooms | Backrooms |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.7 (99 ratings) — better | 4.3 (34 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 50.0% of reviews | 86.0% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 99 — better | 34 |
| Ads | No — better | 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 | 11.0 — better | 12.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 89 MB | 337 MB |
| Age rating | 17+ | 12+ |
| Developer | Zeshaan Hussain | JEAN MICKAEL DARIE |
Customer experience
Retro Backrooms
Backrooms
In-app purchases
Retro Backrooms
- Remove Ads$1.99
Backrooms
No in-app purchases
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