Banana Smash vs Backrooms
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both games, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Banana Smash
A fun and challenging arcade game where players jump or punch to avoid obstacles. Earn extra lives by collecting power-ups and aim to complete the final track with limited lives.
- Jump and punch mechanics
- Obstacle avoidance
- Limited lives per track
- Earn extra lives
- Golden boxing glove power-up
- Challenging final track
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A fun Chicobanana-game with simple rules; just JUMP or PUNCH to avoid the obstacles, you have 3 lives for each track. You can earn an extra life if you catch the golden boxing glove. To win the whole game you must have the awesome skill to run the last track with only one life! Can you do it? Chicobanana whish you luck! :-D
Backrooms
Navigate an endless maze of empty rooms in this survival horror game inspired by a popular creepypasta. Avoid terrifying entities, use items to your advantage, and stealthily find your way back home from this nightmarish dimension.
- Endless maze exploration
- Scary levels with difficulties
- Creepy monsters and entities
- Survival horror gameplay
- Stealth mechanics
- Items to aid escape
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NEW: FORTUNE WHEEL Spin every day for prizes: characters, batteries, almond milk and the new royal jelly. 19 NEW CHARACTERS Only obtainable from the wheel. NEW MECHANICS · Smilers flee from light — hold your flashlight on them. · Crouch and the PartyGoers won't see you. · Find the notes scattered around: they tell you how to survive. ALSO · New elevator puzzle. · You can now hear your teammates' footsteps. · Improved enemy AI and stability fixes.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is price: Backrooms at Free against Banana Smash's $2.99. Backrooms also leads on update cadence (weekly vs every 33 months) and ratings volume (491 vs 2). Banana Smash's advantage is in-app purchases (none vs 2) and ads (none vs shown). On rating and device support 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
Backrooms is free to download; Banana Smash costs $2.99 up front. Backrooms sells 2 one-off in-app purchases. Banana Smash asks for nothing beyond the download.
On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 4.5 for Banana Smash against 4.4 for Backrooms. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Backrooms has 491 ratings behind it against 2, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews are what separate them: 50% of Banana Smash's written reviews are positive against 70% of Backrooms's.
Banana Smash ships an update every 33 months, Backrooms weekly. The most recent releases landed on November 1, 2026 and November 7, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Banana Smash | Backrooms |
|---|---|---|
| Price | $2.99 | Free — better |
| Rating | 4.5 (2 ratings) — better | 4.4 (491 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 50.0% of reviews | 70.2% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 2 | 491 — better |
| Update frequency | Every 33 months | Weekly — better |
| Ads | No — better | Yes |
| In-app purchases | No — better | Yes |
| Monetization | Paid | Free with in-app purchases — better |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod | iPhone, iPad, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 11 — better | 15.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 52 MB | 356 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 12+ |
| Developer | Svante Segelson | IndieFist SRL |
Customer experience
Banana Smash
Backrooms
Bugs and requests
Banana Smash
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
Backrooms
Reported bugs
4 issues- Can't get past the party level, game is rigged
- Can't use the flashlight, don't know where it is
- Can't enter codes correctly, door won't open
- Game restarts from the beginning when exiting
Requested features
5 requests- Add more levels, levels are too short
- Add a peaceful mode with no entities
- Improve audio and graphics
- Add more Backrooms monsters and entities
- Implement a save feature to continue progress
In-app purchases
Banana Smash
No in-app purchases
Backrooms
- Remove Ads$2.99
- Unlock Mark$3.99
Questions
Is Banana Smash free?
Is Backrooms free?
Which has better reviews, Banana Smash or Backrooms?
Do Banana Smash or Backrooms have ads?
Which is updated more often, Banana Smash or Backrooms?
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