Comparison

Backrooms vs The Backrooms experience

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

Head to head
About

Backrooms

Navigate through mysterious, multi-level environments to find an escape route. Explore the infamous backrooms and test your survival skills.

Highlights
  • Explore multiple levels
  • Escape the backrooms
  • Survival gameplay
  • Mysterious environments
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You are lost in Backrooms. Will you find a way out? Explore multiple levels and try to escape the infamous backrooms.

About

The Backrooms experience

Navigate an infinite, terrifying maze filled with lurking entities and unsettling sounds. Your goal is to escape this nightmarish world by hiding from dangers and solving puzzles. Experience true horror as you try to find a way out of the endless, monotone environment.

Highlights
  • Infinite maze exploration
  • Entity avoidance and hiding
  • Atmospheric horror sound design
  • Multiple distinct stages
  • Stealth mechanics
Features
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This infinite maze like world can make you insane and no one has ever been able to escape the Backrooms. Can a super average dude escape this maze what they call "The Backrooms". In The Backrooms Experience you go through the true horror people go through when they end up in The Backrooms and are desperate to find a way out! Hide from the so called "Smilers" and try to run from unknown entities that haven' t been discovered yet. Go through many different stages, from the endless maze, with the buzzing sound and yellow monotone colours, to Swimming pools where something is lurking in the water. If you hear anything lurking near you, you better don't make any sound or you will be as good as dead! The mono-yellow, endless background noise of fluorescent lights constantly buzzing, may drive you insane but always watch your back, you don't know what's wandering around!

Screenshots

Backrooms1 screens
The Backrooms experience4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is rating: Backrooms at 4.7 against The Backrooms experience's 3.8. Backrooms also leads on review sentiment (100% vs 60%) and in-app purchases (none vs 1). The Backrooms experience's advantage is ratings volume (73 vs 10). 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

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

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

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

Backrooms holds the better App Store score, 4.7 against 3.8. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: The Backrooms experience has 73 ratings behind it against 10, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 100% of Backrooms's written reviews are positive against 60% of The Backrooms experience's.

Scorecard5 real differences · 5 level
Backrooms versus The Backrooms experience: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterBackroomsThe Backrooms experience
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.7 (10 ratings) — better3.8 (73 ratings)
Positive reviews100.0% of reviews — better60.0% of reviews
Number of ratings1073 — better
Update frequency—Every 16 months
Ads—Yes
In-app purchasesNo — betterYes
MonetizationFree — betterFree with in-app purchases
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPodiPhone, iPad, iPod
Requires iOS11.011.0
Further details — not scored
Size649 MB492 MB
Age rating12+9+
DeveloperPavel PrecekMilan Janssen

Customer experience

Backrooms

All ratings10 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%
Written reviews3 reviews
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

The Backrooms experience

All ratings49 ratings
Positive73.5%
Neutral14.3%
Negative12.2%
Written reviews40 reviews
Positive60.0%
Neutral22.5%
Negative17.5%

Bugs and requests

Backrooms

Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.

The Backrooms experience

Reported bugs

12 issues
  • Joystick for turning is bad
  • Cannot turn around in some levels
  • Smilers in level ! are in the ground
  • Joystick on the right is super slow
  • Joystick for turning is not sensitive enough
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  • Codes not working in poolrooms
  • Color code not working in poolrooms
  • Entities make the same default sound
  • Wallpaper on level 0 looks weird
  • Level 0 leads to exit
  • Joystick thing for turning
  • Cannot get away from smilers when they are in front

Requested features

17 requests
  • Add more levels
  • Add a story line
  • Add more monsters
  • Improve graphics
  • Add a volume off button
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  • Add a jump button
  • Add randomization
  • Make Level ! more challenging with smilers chasing
  • Add more monsters in the backrooms
  • Make monsters chase you
  • Add more levels, like level 188
  • Update the 'look around' feature
  • Add a sensitivity slider
  • Add more monster variety
  • Make entities have unique sounds
  • Make puzzles clearer (e.g., hospital level cubes)
  • Add more variety to levels, avoid repeats

In-app purchases

None

Backrooms

No in-app purchases

1 purchases

The Backrooms experience

One-time1
  • Remove ads$0.99

Questions

Is Backrooms free?
Backrooms is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is The Backrooms experience free?
The Backrooms experience is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Which has better reviews, Backrooms or The Backrooms experience?
Backrooms is rated higher. Backrooms averages 4.7 out of 5 from 10 ratings, while The Backrooms experience averages 3.8 from 73 ratings.

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