Comparison

Escape Level 0 vs Pixel Backrooms

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

Head to head
About

Escape Level 0

Navigate an endless, unsettling labyrinth of yellow rooms and humming lights. Survive roaming monsters or explore in peace, solving puzzles to find your way out of this liminal space.

Highlights
  • Endless maze exploration
  • Survival mode with monsters
  • Exploration mode without monsters
  • Liminal space atmosphere
  • Challenging puzzles
  • High-quality graphics
  • Atmospheric soundtrack
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Enter the Level 0, an endless, fluorescent labyrinth of yellow rooms, damp carpet, and humming lights. Explore the liminal maze, manage your survival, and search for a way out. Every corridor feels familiar… and wrong. Choose your mode: - Survival Mode: Avoid roaming monsters. If they catch you, it’s game over. - Exploration Mode: No monsters, focus on atmosphere and exploration. Try to survive long enough to find the exit in Level 0. ------------------------- Features: - Exploration + Survival: Navigate the maze, stay alive, and keep moving. - Liminal Space Atmosphere: Unsettling silence, buzzing lights, and uncanny rooms. - Immersive Horror Tension: Psychological dread where every turn could be the worst one. - Escape the Maze: Learn the layout, track your route, and hunt for an exit. - Challenging Puzzles: Activate buttons to unlock doors and find your way to the exit. - Amazing Graphics: Enjoy high-quality visuals that enhance the immersive experience. - Atmospheric Soundtrack: The ambient soundscape adds to the sense of mystery and suspense. --

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

Escape Level 04 screens
Pixel Backrooms4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is rating: Pixel Backrooms at 5.0 against Escape Level 0's 4.4. Pixel Backrooms also leads on ads (none vs shown) and review sentiment (100% vs 89%). Escape Level 0's advantage is in-app purchases (none vs 5) and update cadence (every 2 days vs weekly). 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

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

Both are free to download. Pixel Backrooms sells 5 one-off in-app purchases. Escape Level 0 asks for nothing beyond the download.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

Pixel Backrooms holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 4.4. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Escape Level 0 has 20 ratings behind it against 2, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 89% of Escape Level 0's written reviews are positive against 100% of Pixel Backrooms's.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Escape Level 0 ships an update every 2 days, Pixel Backrooms weekly. The most recent releases landed on September 25, 2026 and September 11, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard9 real differences · 1 level
Escape Level 0 versus Pixel Backrooms: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterEscape Level 0Pixel Backrooms
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.4 (20 ratings)5.0 (2 ratings) — better
Positive reviews89.5% of reviews100.0% of reviews — better
Number of ratings20 — better2
Update frequencyEvery 2 days — betterWeekly
AdsYesNo — better
In-app purchasesNo — betterYes
MonetizationAd-supportedFree — better
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPod — betteriPhone
Requires iOS13.0 — better16.6
Further details — not scored
Size438 MB29 MB
Age rating12+12+
DeveloperJEAN MICKAEL DARIERedesign the World LLC

Customer experience

Escape Level 0

All ratings20 ratings
Positive90.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative10.0%
Written reviews38 reviews
Positive89.5%
Neutral7.9%
Negative2.6%

Pixel Backrooms

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

In-app purchases

None

Escape Level 0

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 Escape Level 0 free?
Escape Level 0 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, Escape Level 0 or Pixel Backrooms?
Pixel Backrooms is rated higher. Escape Level 0 averages 4.4 out of 5 from 20 ratings, while Pixel Backrooms averages 5.0 from 2 ratings.
Do Escape Level 0 or Pixel Backrooms have ads?
Escape Level 0 shows ads; Pixel Backrooms does not.
Which is updated more often, Escape Level 0 or Pixel Backrooms?
Escape Level 0 ships an update every 2 days, and Pixel Backrooms weekly. Most recently, Escape Level 0 was updated on September 25, 2026 and Pixel Backrooms on September 11, 2026.

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