The Backrooms vs Strangers Here
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both games, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
The Backrooms
Embark on a surreal 2D point-and-click adventure through an endless, reality-defying space. Solve puzzles and discover hidden areas as you try to escape this eerie environment. Uncover lost media clips and find your way back to reality.
- Explore surreal Backrooms environments
- Solve challenging puzzles
- Play retro arcade mini-games
- Discover lost media clips
- Point-and-click adventure gameplay
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Have you ever found yourself wandering through a liminal space and thought, ‘Am I in the Backrooms?’. In this immersive 2D point-and-click adventure, you may have glitched your way into the Backrooms, a surreal, endless space that defies reality. Explore surreal, and sometimes eerie environments to find your way back out. Each step feels like you’re escaping – or sinking deeper – into the unknown. Glitch or not, you’re here now. Will you find your way out, or will you become lost in the Backrooms forever? Features: • Explore The Backrooms: Navigate surreal spaces in the Backrooms. • Challenging Puzzles: Engage in various puzzles and retro style arcade mini-games to uncover hidden areas within the Backrooms. • Lost Media: Discover and watch short clips of surreal Backrooms lost media.
Strangers Here
An atmospheric VHS horror game where you play as an FBI agent hunting creatures that mimic humans. Distinguish between real people and their copies, make critical decisions, and uncover the truth behind the "Strangers."
- VHS horror atmosphere
- Track human-imitating creatures
- Distinguish real people from copies
- Make life-altering decisions
- Six unique endings
- Customizable menu background
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Strangers Here — an atmospheric VHS horror about the "Strangers": unsettling creatures that mimic humans with terrifying precision. In the quiet family park of Willingstone, something has gone horribly wrong. People are vanishing, animals are falling ill, and inhuman screams echo from the forest at night. The special agency D.I.C. has been tracking incidents like these for a long time. Now it's your turn — learn to tell the real from the imitation, and uncover the true nature of these beings.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is rating: Strangers Here at 4.1 against The Backrooms's 2.5. Strangers Here also leads on in-app purchases (none vs 1) and review sentiment (71% vs 50%). On price, ads 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
Both are free to download. The Backrooms sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. Strangers Here asks for nothing beyond the download.
Strangers Here holds the better App Store score, 4.1 against 2.5. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Strangers Here has 178 ratings behind it against 21, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 50% of The Backrooms's written reviews are positive against 71% of Strangers Here's.
The Backrooms ships an update every 2 months, Strangers Here monthly. The most recent releases landed on October 23, 2026 and October 25, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | The Backrooms | Strangers Here |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 2.5 (21 ratings) | 4.1 (178 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 50.0% of reviews | 71.4% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 21 | 178 — better |
| Update frequency | Every 2 months | Monthly — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | No — better |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases — better | Paid |
| Devices | iPad, Mac | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better |
| Requires iOS | 16.5 | 13.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 1.0 GB | 252 MB |
| Age rating | 9+ | 9+ |
| Developer | Paul Femiak | Elmira Sevostyanova |
Customer experience
The Backrooms
Strangers Here
In-app purchases
The Backrooms
- Full Game$0.99
Strangers Here
No in-app purchases
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