Comparison

Escape Level 0 vs Backrooms Escape

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

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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

Backrooms Escape

Navigate a procedurally generated maze filled with terrifying entities. Manage your flashlight, avoid making noise, and find the exit to survive. Uncover secrets of the Backrooms as you descend deeper into its dangerous levels.

Highlights
  • Procedurally generated levels
  • Flashlight battery management
  • Stealth-based survival
  • Multiple unique entities
  • Lore and secrets to uncover
  • Varied level environments
Features
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You woke up in the Backrooms — an endless maze of empty rooms, buzzing lights, and damp yellow wallpaper. You are not alone. Something lives here. Multiple things. And they can hear you. ESCAPE OR BE TAKEN Navigate procedurally generated levels, manage your flashlight battery, and find the exit before the entities find you. One wrong turn could be your last. 5 NIGHTMARES HUNT YOU - The Hound — fast, relentless, drawn to sound - The Smiler — waits in the dark, strikes when you look away - The Lurker — patrols the corridors, never sleeps - The Wretch — mimics human movement to lure you in - The Doppelganger — wears your face SURVIVAL MECHANICS - Flashlight with limited battery — darkness is deadly - Sprint to escape, but noise attracts hunters - Study the minimap. Memorize the layout. Find the exit. - Collect codex entries to uncover the Backrooms secrets MULTIPLE LEVELS Each level is different — flooded basements, industrial warehouses, endless office floors. The deeper you go, the more dangerous it gets. No weapons. No combat. Just you, the dark, and the things that live in it. How long can you survive?

Screenshots

Escape Level 04 screens
Backrooms Escape4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is ads: Backrooms Escape at none against Escape Level 0's shown. Backrooms Escape also leads on monetization model (free vs ad-supported). Escape Level 0's advantage is update cadence (every 2 days vs every 3 weeks) and review sentiment (86% vs 57%). On price and in-app purchases 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. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

Escape Level 0 holds the better App Store score, 4.4 against 4.0. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Escape Level 0 has 25 ratings behind it against 5, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 86% of Escape Level 0's written reviews are positive against 57% of Backrooms Escape's.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Escape Level 0 ships an update every 2 days, Backrooms Escape every 3 weeks. The most recent releases landed on October 31, 2026 and October 24, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard8 real differences · 2 level
Escape Level 0 versus Backrooms Escape: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterEscape Level 0Backrooms Escape
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.4 (25 ratings) — better4.0 (5 ratings)
Positive reviews86.0% of reviews — better57.1% of reviews
Number of ratings25 — better5
Update frequencyEvery 2 days — betterEvery 3 weeks
AdsYesNo — better
In-app purchasesNoNo
MonetizationAd-supportedFree — better
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPod — betteriPhone
Requires iOS13.0 — better17.0
Further details — not scored
Size438 MB411 MB
Age rating12+4+
DeveloperJEAN MICKAEL DARIE晓 郭

Customer experience

Escape Level 0

All ratings24 ratings
Positive87.5%
Neutral0.0%
Negative12.5%
Written reviews43 reviews
Positive86.0%
Neutral9.3%
Negative4.7%

Backrooms Escape

All ratings1 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%
Written reviews7 reviews
Positive57.1%
Neutral28.6%
Negative14.3%

In-app purchases

None

Escape Level 0

No in-app purchases

None

Backrooms Escape

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Escape Level 0 free?
Escape Level 0 is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is Backrooms Escape free?
Backrooms Escape is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Which has better reviews, Escape Level 0 or Backrooms Escape?
Escape Level 0 is rated higher. Escape Level 0 averages 4.4 out of 5 from 25 ratings, while Backrooms Escape averages 4.0 from 5 ratings.
Do Escape Level 0 or Backrooms Escape have ads?
Escape Level 0 shows ads; Backrooms Escape does not.
Which is updated more often, Escape Level 0 or Backrooms Escape?
Escape Level 0 ships an update every 2 days, and Backrooms Escape every 3 weeks. Most recently, Escape Level 0 was updated on October 31, 2026 and Backrooms Escape on October 24, 2026.

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