Backrooms vs Pixel Backrooms
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both games, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
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.
- 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.
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.
- 2D pixel art exploration
- Endless liminal spaces
- Multiplayer mode
- Live in-game chat
- Discover anomalies and artifacts
- Atmospheric audiovisual horror
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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.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is rating: Pixel Backrooms at 5.0 against Backrooms's 4.4. Pixel Backrooms also leads on ads (none vs shown) and review sentiment (100% vs 85%). Backrooms's advantage is in-app purchases (none vs 5) and ratings volume (28 vs 2). On price 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. Pixel Backrooms sells 5 one-off in-app purchases. Backrooms asks for nothing beyond the download.
Pixel Backrooms holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 4.4. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Backrooms has 28 ratings behind it against 2, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 85% of Backrooms's written reviews are positive against 100% of Pixel Backrooms's.
| Parameter | Backrooms | Pixel Backrooms |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.4 (28 ratings) | 5.0 (2 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 85.4% of reviews | 100.0% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 28 — better | 2 |
| Update frequency | — | Weekly |
| Ads | Yes | No — better |
| In-app purchases | No — better | Yes |
| Monetization | Ad-supported | Free — better |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better | iPhone |
| Requires iOS | 12.0 — better | 16.6 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 337 MB | 29 MB |
| Age rating | 12+ | 12+ |
| Developer | JEAN MICKAEL DARIE | Redesign the World LLC |
Customer experience
Backrooms
Pixel Backrooms
In-app purchases
Backrooms
No in-app purchases
Pixel Backrooms
- Lime Hazmat$1.99
- Red Hazmat$1.99
- Blue Hazmat$1.99
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- Rainbow Hazmat$4.99
- Supporter Bundle$9.99
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