Backrooms vs Retro Tower Defense
Retro Tower Defense currently leads with 6,085 concurrent players against 5,212. On all-time peak the record belongs to Retro Tower Defense at 6,313 concurrent players, versus 6,107. Momentum favours Retro Tower Defense: +87.8% week over week versus +23.7% for Backrooms. Lifetime, Backrooms has more visits (176.6M vs 121.4M). Full side-by-side history for Backrooms and Retro Tower Defense is charted above.
Backrooms
5,212
playing now
5,352 24h peak · 176.6M visits
VS
Retro Tower Defense
6,085
playing now
6,313 24h peak · 121.4M visits
Player count history
BackroomsRetro Tower Defense
Head to head
| Metric | Backrooms | Retro Tower Defense | Difference |
|---|---|---|---|
| Playing now | 5,212 | 6,085 | 873 |
| 24h peak | 5,352 | 6,313 | 961 |
| 24h average | 4,252 | 4,771 | 519 |
| 7-day peak | 6,107 | 6,313 | 206 |
| 7-day average | 3,993 | 2,533 | 1,460 (1.6×) |
| 30-day peak | 6,107 | 6,313 | 206 |
| All-time peak | 6,107 | 6,313 | 206 |
| 24h change | ▲ 13.4% | ▲ 43.4% | — |
| 7d change | ▲ 23.7% | ▲ 87.8% | — |
| Total visits | 176.6M | 121.4M | 55.2M |
| Visits (24h) | 531.8K | 538.5K | 6.7K |
| Visits (7d) | 4.3M | 2.2M | 2.1M (2.0×) |
| Favorites | 3.2M | 124.5K | 3.1M (25.8×) |
| Rating | 81.3% | 92.2% | — |
| Global rank (players) | #365 | #309 | of 7,381 |
| Trending score | 23.4 | 321.9 | — |
| Created | Apr 3, 2022 | May 20, 2025 | — |
| Genre | Survival | Strategy | — |
Other comparisons
Both games are sampled on the same schedule and plotted on a shared time axis, so the comparison is like for like. Peaks, averages and growth come from RoVitals's own recorded history — 11 days for Backrooms, 11 for Retro Tower Defense.