Slender vs The Backrooms experience
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both games, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Slender
Experience a chilling survival horror game based on the Slender-Man urban legend. Navigate dark environments with only a flashlight and your wits to evade the terrifying entity. Collect hidden tapes to uncover the mystery before it's too late.
- Survival horror gameplay
- Slender-Man urban legend theme
- Flashlight navigation
- Collect hidden tapes
- Evade the Slender Man
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Slender-Man is the original survival horror game for mobile based upon the Slender-Man urban legend and "Der Großmann" myth. See how long you can survive before Slender Man gets you, with only your wits and a flashlight to aid you! Can you find all eight hidden tapes before Slenderman gets you?
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.
- Infinite maze exploration
- Entity avoidance and hiding
- Atmospheric horror sound design
- Multiple distinct stages
- Stealth mechanics
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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!
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Verdict
The clearest difference is update cadence: Slender at monthly against The Backrooms experience's every 16 months. Slender also leads on ratings volume (323 vs 72). The Backrooms experience's advantage is review sentiment (60% vs 33%). On price, rating, ads and in-app purchases 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. Slender sells 1 one-off in-app purchase and The Backrooms experience sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.
On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 3.8 for Slender against 3.8 for The Backrooms experience. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 323 and 72 respectively. Written reviews are what separate them: 33% of Slender's written reviews are positive against 60% of The Backrooms experience's.
Slender ships an update monthly, The Backrooms experience every 16 months. The most recent releases landed on October 29, 2026 and October 27, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Slender | The Backrooms experience |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 3.8 (323 ratings) | 3.8 (72 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 33.2% of reviews | 60.0% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 323 — better | 72 |
| Update frequency | Monthly — better | Every 16 months |
| Ads | Yes | Yes |
| In-app purchases | Yes | Yes |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases | Free with in-app purchases |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod | iPhone, iPad, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 12.0 | 11.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 110 MB | 492 MB |
| Age rating | 12+ | 9+ |
| Developer | Ammonite Design Studios Ltd | Milan Janssen |
Customer experience
Slender
The Backrooms experience
In-app purchases
Slender
- Remove Ads$6.99
The Backrooms experience
- Remove ads$0.99
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