Comparison

Backrooms Evil Space vs Skarvik

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

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Backrooms Evil Space

Embark on a terrifying space horror adventure with up to 4 players. Explore a derelict spaceship, solve puzzles, and evade monstrous creatures to find the rescue capsule. Cooperation and stealth are key to survival in this chilling experience.

Highlights
  • 4-player online multiplayer
  • Puzzle solving
  • Stealth mechanics
  • Scary atmosphere
  • 3D graphics and sound
Features
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BES - Backrooms Evil Space - is a network space horror game that you can play with friends, up to 4 players. You will wake up after a long cryosleep on a space ship and discover that the entire crew has died as a result of an inexplicable and horrifying incident. The ship's security system has locked the doors to the compartments on all levels. These doors can be opened with security keys to reach the rescue capsule. On your way to the capsule, you will encounter various dangers in the form of aggressive monsters, which were likely once part of the ship's crew. Gameplay: Solve puzzles, search for keys to doors and safes, which can be found in lockers, on tables, or in other hidden places. In addition to keys, be sure to collect oxygen canisters and flashlight batteries to avoid a terrifying death in the darkness. If you hear growling or suspicious footsteps, make sure to hide in the nearest locker or dark corner behind a box, table, and so on. Try to attract as little attention from the monster as possible - don't shine the flashlight on it, don't catch its eye, stay still and don't move while hiding. Cooperate with the surviving crew members (friends online), they will help you find desired items faster, mark the monster, or distract it. By following all of the above, you will be able to reach the rescue capsule and escape from this ill-fated ship. Features: - 2, 3, or 4 player multiplayer - Scary atmosphere in the game - Multiple puzzles - Dangerous and scary monsters - Pleasant 3D graphics and sound effects Note: The game is currently in early development, so you may encounter errors and incomplete content. All errors will be fixed, and the game will continue to be filled with content. For all questions, please email gamedel@yandex.ru.

About

Skarvik

Engage in a narrative-driven detective game focused on meticulous document analysis and deduction. Piece together clues from various sources to solve a mysterious death in a remote Norwegian town. Progress through daily challenges and present irrefutable evidence to advance the investigation.

Highlights
  • Document analysis
  • Deduction board
  • Timed investigation
  • Character interactions
  • Puzzle solving
  • Multiple endings
Features
Currently charting
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Skarvik, northern Norway. Eighteen hundred people, a ferry five times a day, and a salmon farm that feeds them all. Saturday, six in the morning. A body at pile 14 in the harbor. Jonas Wik, fisherman. The one who swam across the fjord three times. The station chief will write "accident" before lunch, and the town will agree. You are in your first week on the job, with a case file, a board, and five days to read the papers more carefully than everyone else. A DETECTIVE GAME ABOUT READING No hidden-object hunts, no timers. You talk to people, collect reports, statements, receipts, logs, and notes into the case file, and read them as real documents: Norwegian police forms with the hero's handwritten translation, a bar's register tape, a tide table, the ferry terminal's camera log, pages from a notebook. The key line is never the first one. THE BOARD Highlight the lines that seem important, then set two documents against each other on the board. If the highlighted lines contradict each other, that's a deduction. Deductions can be shown to people, and conversations change. The board doesn't read for you: with nothing highlighted, it stays silent. FIVE DAYS, FIVE GATES Every day ends in a conversation with the station chief, and he has a real objection to every point you make. To close the day, you need deductions he can't argue away. Witnesses lie, but a lie is always caught by a document, never by pressure. PUZZLES Fifteen puzzles built from the documents: work out a blood alcohol level from a register tape and a memo, use the tide table to find where a man fell in, reconcile a farm's weekly reports, rebuild the night minute by minute from a camera log and a neighbor's statement. A hint after the first miss, a full explanation after the third. You can't skip them, and you can't get stuck. A TOWN THAT KNOWS EVERYTHING BY EVENING A station chief who has watched drunks fall off piers for thirty years. A sergeant married to the sister of the farm owner's wife. A bartender who takes keys away from drunks. An old fisherman with a tide table on his wall and a paper he'll only hand to the one who asks the right way. A neighbor who doesn't sleep at night. Forty-two jobs, and every one of them has a family. ALSO • Eleven locations, fifteen characters, forty-three documents. • A hiding place not everyone finds. • The accusation: with five deductions on the board, the chief asks "Who?", and a wrong name costs you composure. • A hundred-point rating and four ranks, from rookie fresh out of the academy to the one who asked the right way. A "what you missed" screen for a second playthrough. • English and Russian.

Screenshots

Backrooms Evil Space4 screens
Skarvik4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is ads: Skarvik at none against Backrooms Evil Space's shown. Skarvik also leads on chart position (#158 vs unranked). Backrooms Evil Space's advantage is device support (3 vs 1) and iOS requirement (13.0 vs 17.0). On price, review sentiment, in-app purchases and monetization model 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

Backrooms Evil Space costs $0.99 and Skarvik $0.39 up front. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.

Scorecard4 real differences · 7 level
Backrooms Evil Space versus Skarvik: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterBackrooms Evil SpaceSkarvik
Price$0.99$0.39 — better
Rating—5.0 (1 ratings) — better
Positive reviews100.0% of reviews100.0% of reviews
Number of ratings—1 — better
Update frequency—Every 6 days
AdsYesNo — better
In-app purchasesNoNo
MonetizationPaidPaid
Best chart rank—#158 — better
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPod — betteriPhone
Requires iOS13.0 — better17.0
Further details — not scored
Size846 MB16 MB
Age rating12+12+
DeveloperEvgeny VedernikovSunspear Software LLC

Customer experience

Backrooms Evil Space

Written reviews3 reviews
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

Skarvik

All ratings1 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%
Written reviews1 reviews
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

In-app purchases

None

Backrooms Evil Space

No in-app purchases

None

Skarvik

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Backrooms Evil Space free?
Backrooms Evil Space costs $0.99, with no in-app purchases.
Is Skarvik free?
Skarvik costs $0.39, with no in-app purchases.
Do Backrooms Evil Space or Skarvik have ads?
Backrooms Evil Space shows ads; Skarvik does not.

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