Comparison

Backrooms vs Pixel Backrooms

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

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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.

About

Pixel Backrooms

Explore endless, unsettling liminal spaces in this 2D pixel art horror game. Venture alone or with friends, using live chat to strategize and survive against lurking enemies. Discover unique anomalies and artifacts in a procedurally generated, atmospheric experience.

Highlights
  • 2D pixel art exploration
  • Endless liminal spaces
  • Multiplayer mode
  • Live in-game chat
  • Discover anomalies and artifacts
  • Atmospheric audiovisual horror
Features
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When you noclip out of reality, you end up in the Backrooms. Pixel Backrooms is the first ever 2D pixel Backrooms exploration game, inspired by liminal spaces, analog horror, and the original internet phenomenon. Explore endless hallways, eerie rooms, and unsettling spaces hidden beneath reality. Enter alone, or play multiplayer and explore the Backrooms with friends. Stay together, split up, get lost, or find out what’s waiting in the dark. Use live chat to stay connected with your friends, call out what you see, and work together to eliminate enemies before they eliminate you. Discover rare anomalies, strange artifacts, mysterious rooms, and creepy phenomena that make every run scarier than the last. Built as an immersive audiovisual horror experience, Pixel Backrooms combines atmospheric sound, pixel art, and unsettling liminal horror inspired by the infamous Backrooms lore. The deeper you go, the stranger it becomes.

Screenshots

Backrooms4 screens
Pixel Backrooms4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is rating: Backrooms at 4.2 against Pixel Backrooms's 3.6. Backrooms also leads on in-app purchases (none vs 5) and device support (3 vs 1). Pixel Backrooms's advantage is ads (none vs shown) and review sentiment (100% vs 86%). On price and ratings volume 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. Pixel Backrooms sells 5 one-off in-app purchases. Backrooms asks for nothing beyond the download.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

Backrooms holds the better App Store score, 4.2 against 3.6. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 33 and 20 respectively. Written reviews complicate that: 86% of Backrooms's written reviews are positive against 100% of Pixel Backrooms's, so the app with the better star average is not the one people write more warmly about.

Scorecard7 real differences · 3 level
Backrooms versus Pixel Backrooms: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterBackroomsPixel Backrooms
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.2 (33 ratings) — better3.6 (20 ratings)
Positive reviews86.0% of reviews100.0% of reviews — better
Number of ratings33 — better20
Update frequency—Weekly
AdsYesNo — better
In-app purchasesNo — betterYes
MonetizationAd-supportedFree — better
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPod — betteriPhone
Requires iOS12.0 — better16.6
Further details — not scored
Size337 MB29 MB
Age rating12+12+
DeveloperJEAN MICKAEL DARIERedesign the World LLC

Customer experience

Backrooms

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

Pixel Backrooms

Written reviews1 reviews
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

In-app purchases

None

Backrooms

No in-app purchases

5 purchases

Pixel Backrooms

One-time5
  • Lime Hazmat$1.99
  • Red Hazmat$1.99
  • Blue Hazmat$1.99
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  • Rainbow Hazmat$4.99
  • Supporter Bundle$9.99

Questions

Is Backrooms free?
Backrooms is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is Pixel Backrooms free?
Pixel Backrooms is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Which has better reviews, Backrooms or Pixel Backrooms?
Backrooms is rated higher. Backrooms averages 4.2 out of 5 from 33 ratings, while Pixel Backrooms averages 3.6 from 20 ratings.
Do Backrooms or Pixel Backrooms have ads?
Backrooms shows ads; Pixel Backrooms does not.

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