Comparison

The Backrooms experience vs Backrooms

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

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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!

About

Backrooms

Navigate a treacherous party-themed level of the Backrooms. Collect hidden presents and evade relentless "Partygoers" to find the exit before becoming a permanent guest. Experience an eerie ambiance with high-quality graphics.

Highlights
  • Stealth gameplay to avoid enemies
  • Collect four hidden presents
  • Deliver presents to unlock exit
  • Eerie party ambiance
  • High-quality graphics
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Level Fun: A Deadly Celebration in the Backrooms Step into Level Fun, where party decorations and playful music mask lurking terrors! In this twisted section of the Backrooms, you must collect four hidden presents and drop them into a mysterious gift box to unlock the exit door. But beware: ruthless Partygoers patrol the festive halls, luring you in with bright balloons before striking when you least expect it. Can you escape before you’re trapped in eternal “fun”? - Avoid the Partygoers Stealth is your best friend! Dodge their patrols and use hiding spots to stay safe. One misstep could make you the next “guest of honor.” -Collect Presents Four special presents lie scattered across the level. Gather them all and deliver them to the gift box receptacle to unlock your only way out. -Eerie Ambiance Colorful, yet unsettling decorations fill each corridor. Experience a bizarre mix of cheerful lights, echoing party tunes, and an undercurrent of lurking dread. -High-Quality Graphics: Experience the Backrooms like never before with our high-quality graphics that bring this liminal space to life.

Screenshots

The Backrooms experience4 screens
Backrooms4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Backrooms at none against The Backrooms experience's 1. Backrooms also leads on rating (4.3 vs 3.8) and review sentiment (86% vs 60%). On price, ratings volume, 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

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, 4.3 against 3.8. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 72 and 34 respectively. Written reviews point the same way: 60% of The Backrooms experience's written reviews are positive against 86% of Backrooms's.

Scorecard4 real differences · 6 level
The Backrooms experience versus Backrooms: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterThe Backrooms experienceBackrooms
PriceFreeFree
Rating3.8 (72 ratings)4.3 (34 ratings) — better
Positive reviews60.0% of reviews86.0% of reviews — better
Number of ratings72 — better34
Update frequencyEvery 16 months—
AdsYesYes
In-app purchasesYesNo — better
MonetizationFree with in-app purchasesAd-supported — better
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPodiPhone, iPad, iPod
Requires iOS11.0 — better12.0
Further details — not scored
Size492 MB337 MB
Age rating9+12+
DeveloperMilan JanssenJEAN MICKAEL DARIE

Customer experience

The Backrooms experience

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

Backrooms

All ratings33 ratings
Positive81.8%
Neutral0.0%
Negative18.2%
Written reviews43 reviews
Positive86.0%
Neutral7.0%
Negative7.0%

In-app purchases

1 purchases

The Backrooms experience

One-time1
  • Remove ads$0.99
None

Backrooms

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is The Backrooms experience free?
The Backrooms experience is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Backrooms free?
Backrooms is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Which has better reviews, The Backrooms experience or Backrooms?
Backrooms is rated higher. The Backrooms experience averages 3.8 out of 5 from 72 ratings, while Backrooms averages 4.3 from 34 ratings.
Do The Backrooms experience or Backrooms have ads?
Both The Backrooms experience and Backrooms show ads.

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