Comparison

Cache vs NoClip

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

Head to head
About

Cache

Engage in a treasure hunt by connecting your digital wallet and locating hidden caches. Answer trivia questions related to brands or friends to unlock rewards. This game offers a unique blend of augmented reality and interactive challenges.

Highlights
  • Connect digital wallet
  • Locate hidden caches
  • Answer brand trivia
  • Redeem rewards
  • Augmented reality gameplay
Features
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Step 1: Connect your Wallet. Step 2: Select a Cache to hunt. Step 3: Get close to an item. Step 4: Answer trivia about the brand/friend Step 5: Redeem Rewards from brands/friends

About

NoClip

Explore the unsettling Backrooms in this AI-powered survival horror text adventure. Manage your stats, scavenge for supplies, and face terrifying entities. Permadeath means every choice matters, but meta-progression helps you learn and survive longer.

Highlights
  • AI-powered real-time narration
  • Survival stat management (HP, Sanity, Hunger, Thirst)
  • 18 levels across 6 difficulty tiers
  • Freeform text input for actions
  • Permadeath with meta-progression
  • Unlockable narrative voice modes
  • Shareable run summary cards
Features
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You noclipped out of reality. Now you're trapped in the Backrooms. Infinite halls of yellow wallpaper. Buzzing fluorescent lights. Damp carpet stretching in every direction. Something is watching. And the only way out is deeper. NoClip: Backrooms is an AI-powered survival horror text adventure. A real-time AI narrator generates every moment on the fly — no scripts, no branching paths. Every single run tells a completely different story. Play free every day. SURVIVE THE BACKROOMS Manage four survival stats — HP, Sanity, Hunger, and Thirst — as you explore hostile liminal spaces. Scavenge Almond Water, flashlights, and supplies to stay alive. When a stat hits zero, the consequences are permanent. 18 LEVELS ACROSS 6 DIFFICULTY TIERS Begin in Level 0: The Lobby. Descend through abandoned offices, pipe-filled tunnels, the eerily serene Poolrooms, a terror hotel, lightless voids, and worse. Each level features unique entities, atmosphere, and survival challenges drawn from authentic Backrooms wiki lore. TYPE ANYTHING Quick-action buttons keep things moving, but freeform text input lets you try whatever you can imagine. Barricade a door. Fashion a weapon. Reason with a Faceling. Scream into the void. The AI adapts to every choice. THE AI LIES TO YOU As Sanity drops, the narrator becomes unreliable. Hallucinated items appear in your inventory. The text distorts. The UI warps. At zero Sanity, you enter The Wretched Cycle — and there is no coming back. FACE THE ENTITIES Smilers lurk in darkness. Hounds stalk corridors. Skin-Stealers wear familiar faces. Every entity follows distinct behavioral rules. Learn their triggers, weaknesses, and survival tactics — or die trying. RED DOOR OR BLUE DOOR Survive long enough and two doors appear. Every door leads deeper. Choose wisely. PERMADEATH WITH META-PROGRESSION Death is permanent, but knowledge persists. Each run unlocks entries in your Wanderer's Journal, earns Survival Instincts that give you an edge on future runs, and leaves behind Found Notes for future explorers. Learn from each death. Get further. 5 NARRATIVE VOICE MODES Unlock new AI narrator styles as you progress: Standard, Field Report, Survivor's Journal, Found Footage, and The Archivist. Each transforms how your story is told. SHARE YOUR STORY When you fall, a shareable run card captures your journey — cause of death, levels visited, stats, and a memorable AI-generated quote. Show the world how far you made it. PLAY FREE — NO ADS 5 free turns every day. No ads, no energy timers. Want more? Grab a turn pack. Purchased turns never expire. Built on authentic Backrooms lore from the community wiki. Made for fans of liminal horror, text adventures, AI games, and survival stories. Terms of Use (EULA): https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula Privacy Policy: https://www.minnerlabs.com/privacy

Screenshots

Cache4 screens
NoClip4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is review sentiment: Cache at 100% against NoClip's 33%. Cache also leads on in-app purchases (none vs 5) and rating (4.9 vs 4.6). On price, ratings volume, update cadence and ads 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. NoClip sells 5 in-app purchases, starting at $4.99 per month. Cache asks for nothing beyond the download.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

Cache holds the better App Store score, 4.9 against 4.6. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 16 and 12 respectively. Written reviews point the same way: 100% of Cache's written reviews are positive against 33% of NoClip's.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Cache ships an update every 2 weeks, NoClip fortnightly. The most recent releases landed on October 24, 2026 and October 31, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard5 real differences · 5 level
Cache versus NoClip: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterCacheNoClip
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.9 (16 ratings) — better4.6 (12 ratings)
Positive reviews100.0% of reviews — better33.3% of reviews
Number of ratings16 — better12
Update frequencyEvery 2 weeksFortnightly — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNo — betterYes
MonetizationFree — betterFree with in-app purchases
DevicesiPhone, iPod — betteriPhone
Requires iOS12.0 — better18.6
Further details — not scored
Size188 MB14 MB
Age rating9+12+
DeveloperFreeEats LLCMinner Labs LLC

Customer experience

Cache

All ratings16 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%
Written reviews2 reviews
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

NoClip

All ratings12 ratings
Positive91.7%
Neutral0.0%
Negative8.3%
Written reviews3 reviews
Positive33.3%
Neutral33.3%
Negative33.3%

In-app purchases

None

Cache

No in-app purchases

5 purchases

NoClip

Subscriptions2
  • Premium Monthly$4.991 Month
  • Premium Annual7 Days trial$29.991 Year
One-time3
  • 10 Turn Pack$0.99
  • 50 Turn Pack$4.99
  • 120 Turn Pack$9.99

Questions

Is Cache free?
Cache is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is NoClip free?
NoClip is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Which has better reviews, Cache or NoClip?
Cache is rated higher. Cache averages 4.9 out of 5 from 16 ratings, while NoClip averages 4.6 from 12 ratings.
Do Cache or NoClip have ads?
Neither Cache nor NoClip shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Cache or NoClip?
Cache ships an update every 2 weeks, and NoClip fortnightly. Most recently, Cache was updated on October 24, 2026 and NoClip on October 31, 2026.

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