Pixel Backrooms vs Backrooms Escape
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both games, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
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.
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.
- Procedurally generated levels
- Flashlight battery management
- Stealth-based survival
- Multiple unique entities
- Lore and secrets to uncover
- Varied level environments
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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?
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Verdict
The clearest difference is review sentiment: Pixel Backrooms at 100% against Backrooms Escape's 57%. Pixel Backrooms also leads on update cadence (weekly vs every 3 weeks) and ratings volume (20 vs 5). Backrooms Escape's advantage is in-app purchases (none vs 5) and rating (4.0 vs 3.6). On price, ads, monetization model and device support 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 Escape asks for nothing beyond the download.
Backrooms Escape holds the better App Store score, 4.0 against 3.6. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 20 and 5 respectively. Written reviews complicate that: 100% of Pixel Backrooms's written reviews are positive against 57% of Backrooms Escape's, so the app with the better star average is not the one people write more warmly about.
Pixel Backrooms ships an update weekly, Backrooms Escape every 3 weeks. The most recent releases landed on October 28, 2026 and October 24, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Pixel Backrooms | Backrooms Escape |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 3.6 (20 ratings) | 4.0 (5 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 100.0% of reviews — better | 57.1% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 20 — better | 5 |
| Update frequency | Weekly — better | Every 3 weeks |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | No — better |
| Monetization | Free | Free |
| Devices | iPhone | iPhone |
| Requires iOS | 16.6 — better | 17.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 29 MB | 411 MB |
| Age rating | 12+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Redesign the World LLC | 晓 郭 |
Customer experience
Pixel Backrooms
Backrooms Escape
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
Backrooms Escape
No in-app purchases
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